A disgusting elitist rates your music

[kearn1tm]

This thread, entirely aped from Chipdip, will provide you the opportunity to have one of those nororiously awful and pretentious music elitists (DIRTY!) from the board tear apart (or praise or mock or take out for dinner) your top ten favorite bands. Yeah. Let's do it.

[Troggy]

oh, i would have to change my top 10 list a lot to please you, you disgusting elitist

[kwsqd]

why don't you just critique all of the lists in the other thread instead?

[bard]

only bands on your favorite bands listing i like is arcade fire, so i guess you'd give me a 1.0

oh well, who cares

[kwsqd]

I want some troggy points.

[TheOtherAndrew]

Pitchfork: the thread

[kearn1tm]

only bands on your favorite bands listing i like is arcade fire, so i guess you'd give me a 1.0

oh well, who cares

I like your spunk, kid. You've got moxy. 23/10

[Troggy]

I want some troggy points.

lol'd

[bard]

lol i love that word moxy

i'm trying to get it back into regular vocab

[kearn1tm]

Pitchfork: the thread

I've not heard this band. Therefor, I can only assume they're obscure and accompanied by a fair amount of mystique and cred.

10 and a blow job/10

[kearn1tm]

why don't you just critique all of the lists in the other thread instead?

I'm an attention whore and don't want to step on Chippers shoes.

What score would you give this thread?!

[kwsqd]

I'm an attention whore and don't want to step on Chippers shoes.

What score would you give this thread?!
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6.

[kearn1tm]

lol i love that word moxy

i'm trying to get it back into regular vocab

You're the cats pajamas.

This has been swell.

[kearn1tm]

6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6.

Add that up and it equals 42.

You gave it a 42/10.

Fuck you, other threads. I've received a 42/10. That fraction has a carry over.

[TheOtherAndrew]

I've not heard this band. Therefor, I can only assume they're obscure and accompanied by a fair amount of mystique and cred.

10 and a blow job/10
Will only accept the blow job if it comes on vinyl purchased from a non-chain record store.

[kwsqd]

Add that up and it equals 42.

You gave it a 42/10.

Fuck you, other threads. I've received a 42/10. That fraction has a carry over.
this thread is like when Kobe raped that girl and got away with it :highfive:

[kearn1tm]

Will only accept the blow job if it comes on vinyl purchased from a non-chain record store.

Pitchfork claims the blow job shows promise, but ultimately failed in its endeavor to be subversive in its approach. Though challenging the archetype of blowjobs everywhere (the act of placing a penis in one's mouth and massaging with a tongue) is a feat to be lauded, it devolved into a self-indulgent conceptual piece of foreplay that barely resembled the original act. Sticking a chihuahua in a blender is apparently not a successful allegory for the sexless nature of contemporary blow jobs. 5.5/10

Sorry, man.

[TheOtherAndrew]

Pitchfork claims the blow job shows promise, but ultimately failed in its endeavor to be subversive in its approach. Though challenging the archetype of blowjobs everywhere (the act of placing a penis in one's mouth and massaging with a tongue) is a feat to be lauded, it devolved into a self-indulgent conceptual piece of foreplay that barely resembled the original act. 5.5/10

Sorry, man.
FUCK YOU MAN I NEVER CARED ABOUT YOUR OPINION ANYWAY GO BACK TO SUNONMYGOOCH.NET AND SUCK THOM YORKE'S WANG OKAY??!?!?!?!

[sweepthenation]

Will only accept the blow job if it comes on vinyl purchased from a non-chain record store.

:-d

[kearn1tm]

this thread is like when Kobe raped that girl and got away with it :highfive:

Are you threatening me or coming on to me?

Anyone else feeling sexy? My sexy level: %$#@)_+ / obnoxious key strokes

[kearn1tm]

FUCK YOU MAN I NEVER CARED ABOUT YOUR OPINION ANYWAY GO BACK TO SUNONMYGOOCH.NET AND SUCK THOM YORKE'S WANG OKAY??!?!?!?!

Did he...did he say he was interested in me?

*swoon*

("gooch" is a disgusting sounding euphemism for the penis and testicles)

[kwsqd]

Are you threatening me or coming on to me?

Anyone else feeling sexy? My sexy level: %$#@)_+ / obnoxious key strokes
If I threatened you and came onto you at the same time... how would that make you feel?

[AllenLee]

I've not heard this band. Therefor, I can only assume they're obscure and accompanied by a fair amount of mystique and cred.

10 and a blow job/10

YOU GOT A BLOWJOB! must be your lucky day.

[TheOtherAndrew]

Did he...did he say he was interested in me?

*swoon*

("gooch" is a disgusting sounding euphemism for the penis and testicles)
Showing sexal interest in anything that is not Zooey Deschannel or a GS!YBE box set is not elitist. 1.5/10.

[AllenLee]

I'm an attention whore and don't want to step on Chippers shoes.

What score would you give this thread?!

This thread isn't quite epic yet, but it's getting there lol

[kearn1tm]

If I threatened you and came onto you at the same time... how would that make you feel?

How would my back door feel? I need to know for context.


Showing sexal interest in anything that is not Zooey Deschannel or a GS!YBE box set is not elitist. 1.5/10.

Clearly, you've never been in a coffeeshop. Being attracted to clean blender used only for soy/organic drinks is in fact counter-culture.

This thread isn't quite epic yet, but it's getting there lol

SUBJECTIVE opinion!!!!!!!!!!!Music critique.

[TheOtherAndrew]

Clearly, you've never been in a coffeeshop. Being attracted to clean blender used only for soy/organic drinks is in fact counter-culture.
Fair point, however with Bush out of office, admitting that you made a mistake is no longer counter-culture. My opinion stands.

[theguy77]

hahaha this should be fun.

1. Radiohead
2. Death Cab For Cutie
3. Brand New
4. The Flaming Lips
5. Sufjan Stevens
6. Elliott Smith
7. The Beatles
8. Kevin Devine
9. William Doyle
10. Bright Eyes
11. American Analog Set
12. Bon Iver
13. Brendan Canning
14. Iron And Wine
15. The Decemberists
16. Beck
17. Nick Drake
18. Pedro the Lion
19. The Weakerthans
20. Fleet Foxes

[theguy77]

Fair point, however with Bush out of office, admitting that you made a mistake is no longer counter-culture. My opinion stands.

fucking :lol:

andrew have my babies.

[TheOtherAndrew]

hahaha this should be fun.

1. Radiohead
2. Death Cab For Cutie
3. Brand New
4. The Flaming Lips
5. Sufjan Stevens
6. Elliott Smith
7. The Beatles
8. Kevin Devine
9. William Doyle
10. Bright Eyes
11. American Analog Set
12. Bon Iver
13. Brendan Canning
14. Iron And Wine
15. The Decemberists
16. Beck
17. Nick Drake
18. Pedro the Lion
19. The Weakerthans
20. Fleet Foxes
FUCKING HOW CAN YOU LIKE THAT FUCKING BULLSHIT ONLY REAS0N PEOPLE LIKE HIM IS CAUSE HE RECORDED IN A LOG CABNI JESUS STOP ONLY LIKING THINGS THAT ARE FASHIONABLE

[TheOtherAndrew]

fucking :lol:

andrew have my babies.
Are babies back in now?

[theguy77]

Pitchfork: the thread

HAHAHAHA i wonder how much it'd piss jason tate off if we made Pitchfork (Official Thread)

[x togepi x]

i'd post about the pre-drive like jehu band in it.

[theguy77]

Are babies back in now?

yes, when you have my baby im going to tell the doctor "okay push him back in now"

[theguy77]

FUCKING HOW CAN YOU LIKE THAT FUCKING BULLSHIT ONLY REAS0N PEOPLE LIKE HIM IS CAUSE HE RECORDED IN A LOG CABNI JESUS STOP ONLY LIKING THINGS THAT ARE FASHIONABLE

GO BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY YOU WHINEY FUCKING CRUNX-NUGGET

[TheOtherAndrew]

HAHAHAHA i wonder how much it'd piss jason tate off if we made Pitchfork (Official Thread)
I'd suggest Punknews (Official Thread) but ya know (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=480941)
yes, when you have my baby im going to tell the doctor "okay push him back in now"
hehehhehehheh

[TheOtherAndrew]

GO BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY YOU WHINEY FUCKING CRUNX-NUGGET
SORRY I COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF SOME 16 YEAR OLD FROM MARYLAND COVERING PLAY CRACK THE SKY ON YOUTUBE

[shit stroll]

you can rate the last 10 albums i've listened to if you want

hot water music - fuel for the hate game
hot water music - no division
hot water music - forever and counting
small brown bike - dead reckoning
bruce springsteen - nebraska
jesus and the mary chain - psychocandy
drive like jehu - yank crime
coliseum - no salvation
dillinger four - midwestern songs of the americas
the lawrence arms - the greatest story ever told

[weownthestreets]

Hrm, this should be hilarious. This is going my top listened bands in last.fm, which, due to iPod sync issues (i.e. it doesn't work for me), is not especially accurate in terms of the numbers of hours of listenting. (Well, it's accurate at least for the top few.)

1. Brand New
2. The Early November
3. 65daysofstatic
4. Explosions in the Sky
5. Something Corporate
6. All Time Low
7. Hidden in Plain View
8. Eluvium
9. Owen
10. El Ten Eleven
11. Hellogoodbye
12. Dashboard Confessional
13. The New Amsterdams
14. Digitalism
15. Jack's Mannequin
16. Hit the Lights
17. JamisonParker
18. Cobra Starship
19. Straylight Run
20. Olafur Arnalds
EDIT: 21. Forever the Sickest Kids (added to complete a hilarious juxtaposition, for those of you who know Olafur Arnald's music. el oh el.)


And, yes, I'm aware that my musical tastes might seem somewhat incoherent. This is in part because they are, in part because of the iPod thing, and in part also because I switched last.fm accounts a while ago.

[kearn1tm]

hahaha this should be fun.

1. Radiohead
2. Death Cab For Cutie
3. Brand New
4. The Flaming Lips
5. Sufjan Stevens
6. Elliott Smith
7. The Beatles
8. Kevin Devine
9. William Doyle
10. Bright Eyes


I'm not going to indulge your "Top 20" list, asshole. Play by the rules. We're eliminating the last half, and therefor, cutting off your cred cock waving party. So:

Ryan, you're 18. That fabricated sense of perpetual angst Oberst is lauded for is appropriate. It's a shame the guy's had two good albums and then gained a little ambitious, which lead to things like shitty electro "experimentation." However, he's cute and I want to do things to that man. Lover you don't have to love, indeed, Conor. Don't die before I meet you!!!

The Beatles? Really? What do you think about air, Ryan? Do you enjoy food? I'm hearing great things about water and also, shelter. Shelter's rad.

Elliot Smith stabbed himself in the heart twice. What a histronic attention whore. He should have been mature about it and overdosed on Aspirin like an adult. Smith is cool until you discover Damien Jurado and Dan Bejar. They do his shtick much better.

William Doyle's album title is a pun. Edgy.

Death Cab. That's adorable.

The Flaming Lips are fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that they can be included among your favorites after hearing them for a day and a half...but they're wonderful. I got nothing. I'm listening to Race for the Prize as we speak.

Brand New killed my dog and raped my mother. They turned the event into a concept album about Jesus...or Morrissey or something.

Radiohead? Ben can't pat you on the head right now. Put Brand New at the top, you know you wanna.

All things considered, you sicken me and I hope you die of lukemia...but only after I get a liner notes shout and scene ass: 5.5/10

[theguy77]

SORRY I COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF SOME 16 YEAR OLD FROM MARYLAND COVERING PLAY CRACK THE SKY ON YOUTUBE

THIS STORY'S OLD BUT IT GOES ON AND ON UNTIL YOU DISAPPEAR, SO GO SAY FUCK IN FRONT OF YOUR MOM WHILE I FINISH THAT SONG.

working in lyrics in my retorts = more hip than a pelvis

[kearn1tm]

Are babies back in now?

Um no. It's pro-choice these days. Duh!

[kearn1tm]

you can't rate the last 10 albums i've listened to if you want

hot water music - fuel for the hate game
hot water music - no division
hot water music - forever and counting
small brown bike - dead reckoning
bruce springsteen - nebraska
jesus and the mary chain - psychocandy
drive like jehu - yank crime
coliseum - no salvation
dillinger four - midwestern songs of the americas
the lawrence arms - the greatest story ever told

Fine.

[TheOtherAndrew]

I'm not going to indulge your "Top 20" list, asshole. Play by the rules. We're eliminating the last half, and therefor, cutting off your cred cock waving party. So:

Ryan, you're 18. That fabricated sense of perpetual angst Oberst is lauded for is appropriate. It's a shame the guy's had two good albums and then gained a little ambitious, which lead to things like shitty electro "experimentation." However, he's cute and I want to do things to that man. Lover you don't have to love, indeed, Conor. Don't die before I meet you!!!

The Beatles? Really? What do you think about air, Ryan? Do you enjoy food? I'm hearing great things about water and also, shelter. Shelter's rad.

Elliot Smith stabbed himself in the heart twice. What a histronic attention whore. He should have been mature about it and overdosed on Aspirin like an adult. Smith is cool until you discover Damien Jurado and Dan Bejar. They do his shtick much better.

William Doyle's album title is a pun. Edgy.

Death Cab. That's adorable.

The Flaming Lips are fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that they can be included among your favorites after hearing them for a day and a half...but they're wonderful. I got nothing. I'm listening to Race for the Prize as we speak.

Brand New killed my dog and raped my mother. They turned the event into a concept album about Jesus...or Morrissey or something.

Radiohead? Ben can't pat you on the head right now. Put Brand New at the top, you know you wanna.

All things considered, you sicken me and I hope you die of lukemia...but only after I get a liner notes shout and scene ass: 5.5/10
Cancel the awards, thread of the year.

[shit stroll]

Fine.
haha whoops. X-) :hitself:

[kearn1tm]

Cancel the awards, thread of the year.

Not until we mention Manchester Orchestra no less than twelve times and whatever obscure halmark of '80s underground Topegi talks about, which invariably leads to every kid into the Gaslight Anthem to immediately list them as their favorite band.

[theguy77]

I'm not going to indulge your "Top 20" list, asshole. Play by the rules. We're eliminating the last half, and therefor, cutting off your cred cock waving party. So:

Ryan, you're 18. That fabricated sense of perpetual angst Oberst is lauded for is appropriate. It's a shame the guy's had two good albums and then gained a little ambitious, which lead to things like shitty electro "experimentation." However, he's cute and I want to do things to that man. Lover you don't have to love, indeed, Conor. Don't die before I meet you!!!

The Beatles? Really? What do you think about air, Ryan? Do you enjoy food? I'm hearing great things about water and also, shelter. Shelter's rad.

Elliot Smith stabbed himself in the heart twice. What a histronic attention whore. He should have been mature about it and overdosed on Aspirin like an adult. Smith is cool until you discover Damien Jurado and Dan Bejar. They do his shtick much better.

William Doyle's album title is a pun. Edgy.

Death Cab. That's adorable.

The Flaming Lips are fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that they can be included among your favorites after hearing them for a day and a half...but they're wonderful. I got nothing. I'm listening to Race for the Prize as we speak.

Brand New killed my dog and raped my mother. They turned the event into a concept album about Jesus...or Morrissey or something.

Radiohead? Ben can't pat you on the head right now. Put Brand New at the top, you know you wanna.

All things considered, you sicken me and I hope you die of lukemia...but only after I get a liner notes shout and scene ass: 5.5/10

hahahahaha this couldnt have been more perfect

[TheOtherAndrew]

1) The Lawrence Arms
2) Bomb the Music Industry
3) Bright Eyes
4) The Weakerthans
5) Air, breathing, shelter
6) The Clash
7) The Ergs!
8) Bad Astronaut
9) Tom Waits
10) Bruce Springsteen

shit on my taste NOW NOW NOW

[shit stroll]

negative 10 for having the lawrence arms number one. fuck that band.

[kwsqd]

How would my back door feel? I need to know for context.
It would feel like I'm home.

[TheOtherAndrew]

negative 10 for having the lawrence arms number one. fuck that band.
Not negative enough, suck my balls/10

[theguy77]

I like your spunk, kid. You've got moxy. 23/10

MOXIE*

THE HIPSTER WAS INCORRECT

[weownthestreets]

THE HIPSTER WAS INCORRECT

Surprise, surprise.

But being incorrect will be re-appropriated, re-branded, and sold at urban outfitters.

[kearn1tm]

Hrm, this should be hilarious. This is going my top listened bands in last.fm, which, due to iPod sync issues (i.e. it doesn't work for me), is not especially accurate in terms of the numbers of hours of listenting. (Well, it's accurate at least for the top few.)

1. Brand New
2. The Early November
3. 65daysofstatic
4. Explosions in the Sky
5. Something Corporate
6. All Time Low
7. Hidden in Plain View
8. Eluvium
9. Owen
10. El Ten Eleven
11. Hellogoodbye
12. Dashboard Confessional
13. The New Amsterdams
14. Digitalism
15. Jack's Mannequin
16. Hit the Lights
17. JamisonParker
18. Cobra Starship
19. Straylight Run
20. Olafur Arnalds
EDIT: 21. Forever the Sickest Kids (added to complete a hilarious juxtaposition, for those of you who know Olafur Arnald's music. el oh el.)

What, you expect this to be "hilarious?" I'm a clown now? I'm supposed to make with the funny? Why, because I'm Jewish? Do you hate me because I'm different, man?

Well, not as different as loving Brand New and Early November.

Brand New: I can't wait until they emerge from the underground.

TEN: Making a triple album is the musical equivalent of buying a sports car. They have pumps and creams for that sort of thing. The internet tells me it works.

65daysofexplosion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Stock You're welcome.

Explosions in the Sky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderland You're welcome.

All Time Low: here's the rub. I love much of that "luminary elitist shit" right? I also have a strong affinity for those Fall Out Boy muppets because, well, I love simplistic, shitty, saccharine-sweet, pun-laden powerpop on occasion. It's fun. Super super fun. Then, you get five songs into any given album and you've had your fill, because you can only eat a few pieces of candy at a time before the refine sugar makes you bloated while not satisfying your most rudemetary nutritional needs. However, if you consume junk food too often, to the point that it's among the top ten most preferred and eaten foods, you're going to get fat.

All Time Low is making you fat, and how will you slip into those sixe 4 diesels if you're fat?

SoCo: You're the asshole who brings an acoustic guitar to a party and serades another guy's girl/guy, aren't you? No one likes you. Seriously.

El Ten Eleven: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(album) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_%28album%29) You're welcome.

Owen...Kinsella's okay. Kinsella doing Dashboard is not okay.

I have nothing particularly negative or humorous to say abut Eluvium. I enjoy them...because Pitchfork gave one of their albums a 7.9. It then became clear to me I could enjoy Ambient music.

The rest is negated. Play by the rules. Jamisonparker are cute. Both of them. Especially the gothy kid.

Apparently, you enjoy Post-Rock, but only contemporary, blog-buzzed Post-Rock. I'm surprised you didn't try to shoehorn Battles on here.

I'll give your list 4 wiki entries for the subgenre of Post-Rock/ 10

[Troggy]

1. Converge
2. Incubus
3. The Black Keys
4. Opeth
5. David Crowder Band
6. Iron and Wine
7. Agalloch
8. New Found Glory
9. Nickel Creek
10a. Hanson
10b. Radiohead

[theguy77]

I have nothing particularly negative or humorous to say abut Eluvium. I enjoy them...because Pitchfork gave one of their albums a 7.9. It then became clear to me I could enjoy Ambient music.

hahahaha ben still hasnt caught up with this one. he called "treefingers" boring! (as little as they actually indulged what true ambient music encompasses)

[weownthestreets]

...

I'll give your list 4 wiki entries for the subgenre of Post-Rock/ 10

Aha, this is golden.

Unfortunately, my other favourite "post-rock" bands aren't listed. Caspian, This Is Your Captain Speaking, miaou, Tristeza, The Album Leaf, etc.

Though, to be fair, my favourite "pitchfork friendly" groups aren't either. Ratatat or Junior Boys aren't even on my top 20 in last.fm, which is kinda fucked, considering how much I've listened to them. Daft Punk, too.

In any case, your link to Spiderland is politely rejected. Ain't my style. lawl.

I have nothing particularly negative or humorous to say abut Eluvium. I enjoy them...because Pitchfork gave one of their albums a 7.9. It then became clear to me I could enjoy Ambient music

On a serious note, I've gotta say, Eluvium's best stuff isn't only the ambient stuff. Check out An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death. It's beautiful, and depressing.

[x togepi x]

pitchfork isn't really all that obscure.

[Getup and Dance]

1. Dipset
2. Cam'ron
3. Juelz Santana
4. Jim Jones
5. 40 Cal
6. Dipset
7. Hell Rell
8. J.R. Writer
9. Freekey Zekey
10. Dipset

[theguy77]

pitchfork isn't really all that obscure.

yeah people think it is but they blow their top over really poppy music a lot of the time, and if they give a really good review the artist stands a good chance at getting huge.

[weownthestreets]

pitchfork isn't really all that obscure.

They're not obscure; they're arbitrary, and they're smug.

[kearn1tm]

hahahahaha this couldnt have been more perfect

I'll bump it up a point if I can scream "The Future is Yesterday around Five!!!" in the background of a Northbrook track.

You know what, fuck it. Make me producer.

1) The Lawrence Arms
2) Bomb the Music Industry
3) Bright Eyes
4) The Weakerthans
5) Air, breathing, shelter
6) The Clash
7) The Ergs!
8) Bad Astronaut
9) Tom Waits
10) Bruce Springsteen

shit on my taste NOW NOW NOW

Is it possible for any of you fucks to like Tom Waits and not Springsteen or vice versa?

I have a Clash t-shirt too.

The Weakerthans: I get it. Samson's rad. Propaghandi was righteous. Unfortunately, these dudes sound like any number of contrived Indie Powerpop bands. "Hey dude, they're Folk Punk! It says so on their wiki." They were on the Wedding Crashers soundtrack. That made me chuckle. Fucking sellouts.

Bright Eyes: You're sensitive. You're angsty. You wash away sorrows with the booze and the handshake drugs. You get laid. Swell.

#5: Do they have hits, dude? I can't be bothered unless there's some hits. I don't want to waste my time on a "arty" band trying to make it. Hit the mainstream. Get Timberland or Danger Mouse to produce. Make a hit or I don't care. I could die tomorrow. I'd only have heard your shitty low-fi "DIY" making it days. Give me the payoff (The Beatles are like, so overrated!!)!

The Ergs!: You don't even know, kid. That shit ain't Pop Punk. It's powerpop, it's sugar. It's sweetener in my coffee. Pop Punk is still being made. [I]REAL Pop Punk! Fucking kids [/in response to kid listing All Time Low and co. as his favorite recent Pop Punk bands]

The Lawrence Arms: Films about Jesus! Punx! I like Richard Hell & the Voidoids and Modern Lovers. Fuck off!

Bomb: They're an obnoxious novelty band. See: Andrew Jackson Jihad (clever band names though, right? Right?!)

Bad Astronaut: Who?

I give this 6 Baby Punx and London Calling t's with strategically placed slashs/10.



negative 10 for having the lawrence arms number one. fuck that band.

Hey, hey. This is my thread! There will be no negatives, you fucking debbie downer. This about positivity.

[x togepi x]

guys, i'm talking about the band pitchfork. not pitchfork media.

[theguy77]

guys, i'm talking about the band pitchfork. not pitchfork media.

hahahahaha

[kearn1tm]

hahahaha ben still hasnt caught up with this one. he called "treefingers" boring! (as little as they actually indulged what true ambient music encompasses)

It is boring. Most Ambient music is inherently boring. This doesn't mean I can't enjoy it.

[kearn1tm]

guys, i'm talking about the band pitchfork. not pitchfork media.

This band will now be the favorites of twenty other posters, right after Archers of Loaf and Mission of Burma.

[x togepi x]

or 65dos.

[theguy77]

I'll bump it up a point if I can scream "The Future is Yesterday around Five!!!" in the background of a Northbrook track.

You know what, fuck it. Make me producer.

ahhaha i would actually love if you did that, it'd be the obligatory "our music is for 14 year olds so lets shout something random at the end of a song and consciously record ourselves laughing at it contextually", as suggested byt he edgy guy in the band who probably plays bass, wears tattoo sleeves, and uses way too much california surfer slang, i.e.: "DUDE NO, THAT SOUNDS SICK, BROSEPH! LEAVE IT ON THE RECORD!"

unforuntately your second request would have to go to togepi first. hahaha

[kearn1tm]

1. Converge
2. Incubus
3. The Black Keys
4. Opeth
5. David Crowder Band
6. Iron and Wine
7. Agalloch
8. New Found Glory
9. Nickel Creek
10a. Hanson
10b. Radiohead

10a: .

If it's sincere, then let me just say, that 2000 comeback album almost entirely sped up my hitting puberty.

10b: No one [I]really likes Radiohead. No, I know, Kid A was super important.

3: I mildly enjoy The Black Keys, but having Danger Mouse produce their record wasn't an inspired move.

5: Underoath love god and they scream (this is code for "I've never listened to this band beyond one song a friend played).

4: I bet you know the proper pronunciations for all of those assholes, too. I enjoy them.

6: Uh, I'm obligated to say "I love Sam Beam."

4/6: I once heard an awkward (but oddly complimenting) mash-up of Cinder and Smoke and Hope Leaves. It was wonderful.

7: Portland is home to affected Folk and Indie Rock. What the fuck is this?!

9: I mildly enjoy them. Krauss isn't an exceptionally gifted producer though.

1: Bannon is not the possessor of the best scream in the last twenty years, but damn if they aren't good.

2: Respect is given for unabashedly listing them, then retracted because of a song in which a car is used as an allegory for taking control of one's life.

8: They have been included on two respective editions of Now That's What I Call Music. So has Coldplay! They're, like, just like Coldplay!

Beam, Opeth, Converge and to a lesser extent, The Black Keys are solid, but there's no diversity (no, Incubus and Nickel Creek isn't much of a range) and faux-pop punk is fattening. 3 Mmmbop's out of 10.

[kearn1tm]

1. Dipset
2. Cam'ron
3. Juelz Santana
4. Jim Jones
5. 40 Cal
6. Dipset
7. Hell Rell
8. J.R. Writer
9. Freekey Zekey
10. Dipset

If you abuse sarcasm, I'll take it away from you.

[fly_guy]

Right now, my top 10 bands consist of:

1. The Early November
2. New Found Glory
3. Taking Back Sunday
4. Valencia
5. Bomb The Music Industry
6. Socratic
7. Saves The Day
8. Ace Enders And A Million Different People
9. Hidden In Plain View
10. The Starting Line


Go for it

[Getup and Dance]

If you abuse sarcasm, I'll take it away from you.

1-10. DMX

[funkel]

I look forward to this:

1. 65daysofstatic
2. The Beatles
3. Iron & Wine
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
5. Sigur Ros
6. Neutral Milk Hotel
7. American Football
8. The Samuel Jackson Five
9. Andrew Jackson Jihad
10. Steve Reich

[Rawrr]

Current favorite artists, mixed with "favorites".

1. Modest Mouse
Sun Araw
Slint
Cap'n Jazz
Nation Of Ulysses
Mogwai
No Age
American Football
Husker Du
Braid

[kearn1tm]

Right now, my top 10 bands consist of:

1. The Early November
2. New Found Glory
3. Taking Back Sunday
4. Valencia
5. Bomb The Music Industry
6. Socratic
7. Saves The Day
8. Ace Enders And A Million Different People
9. Hidden In Plain View
10. The Starting Line


Go for it

1: Ace Enders has a stupid name and, apparently, a small package. See above.

2: Coldplay. See above.

3: Girls are going to be mean to you throughout your life. Don't do this to yourself. Oh, and yeah man, they totally sold out with WYWTB.

4: This band. This band that every staff member jocks like the reanimated corpse of John Lennon was on production duties. Apparently, they're not big; a fact I've gathered from hearing every kid to claim they love Pop Punk on this board constantly shout "dude, Valencia should be, like, huge. They're sooooo much better than fucking Fall Out Boy." No, they are Fall Out Boy. They are.

5: Novelty band.

6: Silly scene band that doesn't think it's a silly scene band.

7: Through with being cool? You fucks were the embodiment of cool for high school kids of my generation. In fact, you assholes were the reason I started my first shitty Powerpop band. Because of you, I gave two ex's blackmail fodder in the form of having said shitty band play Junior year prom, which was recorded by the school for the "end of the year retrospective." Fuck off! I'm 21. That shit isn't cool anymore. I can't show that to some cute guy at the coffee shop talking about his incredibly pretentious Folk band and say "yeah? Me too! Let's make out."

8: A million other people couldn't make him sound like an adequate songwriter (I know, it was an easy joke).

9: Who?

10: The lead singer with the Italian sounding last name's favorite band is Radiohead. I know this because he mentioned it on a podcast that I, as being in my twenties, have no right listening to. He doesn't like Radiohead. No one does. However, they "inspired" parts of TSL's last album. You know who else likes Radiohead? Mylie Cyrus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NsIFxE5KQ&e

I give this .5 So, you enjoy Coldplay, Mylie Cyrus and fuck my ex Dan! Give me back that tapes/10

[c_rob2700]

David Crowder Band

Oh, wow. I think that's the first time I've ever seen them mentioned on here

[Troggy]

This band will now be the favorites of twenty other posters, right after Archers of Loaf and Mission of Burma.

haahahaha I bought mission of burma vs. with the money i got from trading in some other cds, i hadn't heard it before but i ended up liking it. i'm not trying to get ap cred here but damn it's good.

10a: .

If it's sincere, then let me just say, that 2000 comeback album almost entirely sped up my hitting puberty.

10b: No one [I]really likes Radiohead. No, I know, Kid A was super important.

3: I mildly enjoy The Black Keys, but having Danger Mouse produce their record wasn't an inspired move.

5: Underoath love god and they scream (this is code for "I've never listened to this band beyond one song a friend played).

4: I bet you know the proper pronunciations for all of those assholes, too. I enjoy them.

6: Uh, I'm obligated to say "I love Sam Beam."

4/6: I once heard an awkward (but oddly complimenting) mash-up of Cinder and Smoke and Hope Leaves. It was wonderful.

7: Portland is home to affected Folk and Indie Rock. What the fuck is this?!

9: I mildly enjoy them. Krauss isn't an exceptionally gifted producer though.

1: Bannon is not the possessor of the best scream in the last twenty years, but damn if they aren't good.

2: Respect is given for unabashedly listing them, then retracted because of a song in which a car is used as an allegory for taking control of one's life.

8: They have been included on two respective editions of Now That's What I Call Music. So has Coldplay! They're, like, just like Coldplay!

Beam, Opeth, Converge and to a lesser extent, The Black Keys are solid, but there's no diversity (no, Incubus and Nickel Creek isn't much of a range) and faux-pop punk is fattening. 3 Mmmbop's out of 10.

haha ILU, this was very enjoyable to read. yes i am really serious about hanson, i think they are great...actually out of all their albums the second one (the comeback you speak of) is my least favorite. stuff like where's the love, something goin round, penny and me, those are my jams!

i don't really like kid a that much so i think i am allowed to like radiohead.

totally agree about danger mouse, it's so obvious...dan auerbach's new solo record features songs from the same time, no danger mouse, and surprise, it's better than attack and release. i don't know if the black keys will ever be as good as thickfreakness & rubber factory again, but i can hope.

bannon drives me nuts because he doesn't even attempt to pronounce words most of the time, so i would agree that it's not the best scream, but they are a great band.

i know incubus doesn't get a lot of respect, but i have loved them for too long.

i could have used a couple more mmmbops...think about how many times they say it in the song, at least 20+

[kearn1tm]

Back in a few to keep this alive.

[11:11]

In no particular order:

1) Cursive
2) Moving Mountains
3) Something Corporate
4) Manchester Orchestra
5) Mike Hale
6) Incubus
7) Third Eye Blind
8) Gatsby's American Dream
9) John Mayer
10) Acceptance

Shit on Mayer all you want, I stand by my choice.

[fly_guy]

1: Ace Enders has a stupid name and, apparently, a small package. See above.

2: Coldplay. See above.

3: Girls are going to be mean to you throughout your life. Don't do this to yourself. Oh, and yeah man, they totally sold out with WYWTB.

4: This band. This band that every staff member jocks like the reanimated corpse of John Lennon was on production duties. Apparently, they're not big; a fact I've gathered from hearing every kid to claim they love Pop Punk on this board constantly shout "dude, Valencia should be, like, huge. They're sooooo much better than fucking Fall Out Boy." No, they are Fall Out Boy. They are.

5: Novelty band.

6: Silly scene band that doesn't think it's a silly scene band.

7: Through with being cool? You fucks were the embodiment of cool for high school kids of my generation. In fact, you assholes were the reason I started my first shitty Powerpop band. Because of you, I gave two ex's blackmail fodder in the form of having said shitty band play Junior year prom, which was recorded by the school for the "end of the year retrospective." Fuck off! I'm 21. That shit isn't cool anymore. I can't show that to some cute guy at the coffee shop talking about his incredibly pretentious Folk band and say "yeah? Me too! Let's make out."

8: A million other people couldn't make him sound like an adequate songwriter (I know, it was an easy joke).

9: Who?

10: The lead singer with the Italian sounding last name's favorite band is Radiohead. I know this because he mentioned it on a podcast that I, as being in my twenties, have no right listening to. He doesn't like Radiohead. No one does. However, they "inspired" parts of TSL's last album. You know who else likes Radiohead? Mylie Cyrus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NsIFxE5KQ&e

I give this .5 So, you enjoy Coldplay, Mylie Cyrus and fuck my ex Dan! Give me back that tapes/10

Pretty good breakdown of what I like. The sad thing is, is that I agree with it

[Troggy]

Oh, wow. I think that's the first time I've ever seen them mentioned on here

haha i mention them every time i do a top 5 or top 10 bands list...also occasionally they crop up elsewhere. such a great band.

[c_rob2700]

haha i mention them every time i do a top 5 or top 10 bands list...also occasionally they crop up elsewhere. such a great band.

The only worship band that I can generally enjoy. My dad took me to a Delirious?/DCB concert when I was like 12.

[chipdip18]

This thread, entirely aped from Chipdip, will provide you the opportunity to have one of those nororiously awful and pretentious music elitists (DIRTY!) from the board tear apart (or praise or mock or take out for dinner) your top ten favorite bands. Yeah. Let's do it.

Like essentially everything in art or literature, the idea i had was stolen from Ben and mht before about a year + ago.

Take me out to dinner you elitist prick:

1.) Bright Eyes
2.) Neutral Milk Hotel
3.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4.) Iron & Wine
5.) The National
6.) Radiohead
7.) A Tribe Called Quest
8.) Simon & Garfunkel
9.) Pink Floyd
10.) The Beatles

[Troggy]

In no particular order:

1) Cursive
2) Moving Mountains
3) Something Corporate
4) Manchester Orchestra
5) Mike Hale
6) Incubus
7) Third Eye Blind
8) Gatsby's American Dream
9) John Mayer
10) Acceptance

Shit on Mayer all you want, I stand by my choice.

haha dude, if i had to pick one of those i would make fun of it wouldn't be john mayer, john mayer is a much better choice than soco, manorc, acceptance, i don't know who moving mountains or mike hale is but he's probably better than them too.

The only worship band that I can generally enjoy. My dad took me to a Delirious?/DCB concert when I was like 12.

haha dude that's sweet, i have one delirious record too that i got when i was about that age...not nearly as good, but 's okay once in a long while.

[11:11]

haha dude, if i had to pick one of those i would make fun of it wouldn't be john mayer, john mayer is a much better choice than soco, manorc, acceptance, i don't know who moving mountains or mike hale is but he's probably better than them too.



haha dude that's sweet, i have one delirious record too that i got when i was about that age...not nearly as good, but 's okay once in a long while.
Still attatched to some bands from my pop punk stage, haha.

[TheOtherAndrew]

Is it possible for any of you fucks to like Tom Waits and not Springsteen or vice versa?

I have a Clash t-shirt too.

The Weakerthans: I get it. Samson's rad. Propaghandi was righteous. Unfortunately, these dudes sound like any number of contrived Indie Powerpop bands. "Hey dude, they're Folk Punk! It says so on their wiki." They were on the Wedding Crashers soundtrack. That made me chuckle. Fucking sellouts.

Bright Eyes: You're sensitive. You're angsty. You wash away sorrows with the booze and the handshake drugs. You get laid. Swell.

#5: Do they have hits, dude? I can't be bothered unless there's some hits. I don't want to waste my time on a "arty" band trying to make it. Hit the mainstream. Get Timberland or Danger Mouse to produce. Make a hit or I don't care. I could die tomorrow. I'd only have heard your shitty low-fi "DIY" making it days. Give me the payoff (The Beatles are like, so overrated!!)!

The Ergs!: You don't even know, kid. That shit ain't Pop Punk. It's powerpop, it's sugar. It's sweetener in my coffee. Pop Punk is still being made. [I]REAL Pop Punk! Fucking kids [/in response to kid listing All Time Low and co. as his favorite recent Pop Punk bands]

The Lawrence Arms: Films about Jesus! Punx! I like Richard Hell & the Voidoids and Modern Lovers. Fuck off!

Bomb: They're an obnoxious novelty band. See: Andrew Jackson Jihad (clever band names though, right? Right?!)

Bad Astronaut: Who?

I give this 6 Baby Punx and London Calling t's with strategically placed slashs/10.
Excellent. Keep it up and soon you'll be an album reviewer for your college's local "ALTERNATIVE" newspaper. And I will love it.

[TheSkyline]

In no particular order:

1) Cursive
2) Moving Mountains
3) Something Corporate
4) Manchester Orchestra
5) Mike Hale
6) Incubus
7) Third Eye Blind
8) Gatsby's American Dream
9) John Mayer
10) Acceptance

Shit on Mayer all you want, I stand by my choice.

High five for Mayer love!

[Troggy]

Still attatched to some bands from my pop punk stage, haha.

haha so am i, but i wouldn't pick those two near my favorites...actually neither are even eligible for my favorite artists list since they don't have 3 albums that i like by them, since they have only released 2 each...but i digress...they aren't nearly as good as john mayer, who is now eligible for my list ;D

[Nevuk]

I'm tempted towards the pie tonic rendition of.

[Nevuk]

1. Anthony Braxton
2. Portraits of Past
3. Public Enemy
4. My Bloody Valentine
5. Slint
6. Husker Du
7. Minor Threat
8. Rites of Spring
9. Orchid
10. Pg. 99
11. Bill Dixon

[Cuddleworthy]

65daysofexplosion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Stock You're welcome.

the majority of 65dos sounds nothing like laughing stock

[mybreakingpoint]

1. Limbeck
2. Jimmy Eat World
3. Schatzi
4. Fountains of Wayne
5. RX Bandits
6. At The Drive-In
7. Elliott
8. Refused
9. Garrison
10. The Get Up ids

[myplanforescape]

1. The Jesus and Mary Chain
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Spacemen 3
4. Spiritualized
5. I Would Set Myself On Fire for You
6. I Hate Myself
7. The Stooges
8. James Chance & the Contortions
9. Joy Division
10. Mazzy Star

[shit stroll]

1. Limbeck
2. Jimmy Eat World
3. Schatzi
4. Fountains of Wayne
5. RX Bandits
6. At The Drive-In
7. Elliott
8. Refused
9. Garrison
10. The Get Up ids
is the holy hounds album done yet?

[oddwithoutend]

my list changes frequently, no quoting the one from chipdip's thread.

the microphones
iron and wine
the decemberists
brand new
bedouin soundclash
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Devendra Banhart
Pinback
Elliott Smith
attack in black

I'm excited. Oh and thanks for the reccs (particularly Slint and Mono), they'll likely be taking the place of GY!BE before long.

[kearn1tm]

I look forward to this:

1. 65daysofstatic
2. The Beatles
3. Iron & Wine
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
5. Sigur Ros
6. Neutral Milk Hotel
7. American Football
8. The Samuel Jackson Five
9. Andrew Jackson Jihad
10. Steve Reich

1: Atrocious choice of band name on their part. 65dos is, essentially, Baby's First Post-Rock band. They're tolerable at best, boring and self-indulgent at worse. Again, I refer you to Laughing Stock. Buy that album. You're welcome.

2: Okay, enough with the Beatles people. Here's the position you melons (I'm trying it out in lieu of "douche." That word is no longer an effective or usable pejorative) have put me in: The Beatles, during their Eastern influence/drug era, produced fantastic Pop Music that left an indelible mark on mainstream music. I appreciate their contributions. I also find myself unable to enjoy most of their catalog on a purely subjective level. Now, I can chide anyone who lists them for the nearly-obligatory placement in a top ten list, I can go the route of "overrated," but doing so is, in fact, a cliche. I'm stuck. How do I keep addressing this?

Oh, here's how: No one cares that you love the Beatles. Listing them is the safest, most innocuous choice of an artist.

List your favorite brand of pop from this point forth in place of The Beatles, and I'll critique that.

...

Fucking Beatles.

3: Um, well, you should have Beam on your list?

4: Safest Post-Rock pick this side of Talk Talk.

5: Lovely but ultimately boring. See: Beach House.

6: You're the reason Mangum has gone into a self-imposed musical exile. Thanks, asshole.

7: Kinsella's rad when he's not crying into an acoustic guitar or, well, making the lamest, diluted psuedo-Math Rock album ever. You picked the wrong Kinsella project...but the fact that you didn't go with Owenboard Confessional lends your list some merit.

8: Is there anyone who believes this band name is clever? If the answer is "yes," are you over the age of 12? If the answer was "yes," please refrain from voting for anything other than American Idol. Also, don't procreate.

Oh, right, as for the actual music...I've never listened to them. I do enjoy Samuel Jackson though.

Another new rule: if any of you plan on listing this band, instead, list your favorite movie featuring SJ, save for Deep Blue Sea. Campy perfection.

9: They stink of "novelty band."

10: Oh. Listing Reich, Glass, Branca, Eno, etc. is becoming nouveau on AP. Requisite "AP-obscure composer" quota met. I prefer Glass, myself.

I give this list 7 diet Mountain Dews/10

[BJW7191]

1. American Football
2. The Appleseed Cast
3. Bear vs. Shark
4. Death Cab
5. Joan of Arc
6. Brand New
7. As Tall As Lions
8. Cap'n Jazz
9. The Thermals
10. Say Hi (To Your Mom)

[kearn1tm]

Current favorite artists, mixed with "favorites".

1. Modest Mouse
Sun Araw
Slint
Cap'n Jazz
Nation Of Ulysses
Mogwai
No Age
American Football
Husker Du
Braid

1: Brock writes introspective self-loathing lyrics well. Brock, when not tactlessly shouting it, offers some insightful anti-religious commentary. Beyond this, Brock is a useless songwriter. Modest Mouse is one of the most over-hyped bands to emerge from the late '90s indie scene. Their last two albums were mediocre. Johnny Marr deserves better.

2: Are people actually listening to Cameron Stallone? Were people listening to Magic Lantern? If you are, great, now go listen go Spacemen 3.

3: He gets it. He's also 16. He may not get it.

4: One of the few '90s Emo bands that merit the amount of praise they receive. Good pick.

5: Are you listing real Post-Hardcore?

6: The perfect example of how to make Shoegaze and Post-Rock boring, but boy are they beloved by critics and cred-starved fans alike.

7: This band is unequivocally the most overrated indie darling of the last decade or so. However, by playing it loudly on your MP3 player by your locker before class, that girl two lockers down that kinda looks like Jenny Lewis may be convinced to look at your naked body and not cringe so, do what you must. I won't hold it against you.

8: Poor Kinsella.

9: Good band. I got nothing.

10: I wonder what decade/sound is more disingenuously praised on this board: '60s-mid '70s Folk or '90s Post-Hardcore/Midwestern Emo. Yeah yeah, fuck those kids listening to Oh, Sleeper. That shit ain't Post-Hardcore.

It's a decent, if uninspired list. Your appreciation of Slint and Hüsker Dü helps the list. The fact that you're 16 hinders it. Now is not the time to make a bid for cred, man. Listen to Tell All Your Friends and swear by The Movielife now, while it's appropriate to do so (and may potentially help your quest for teen ass). 7/10.

[kearn1tm]

the majority of 65dos sounds nothing like laughing stock

Yes. Talk Talk is actually an example of good Post-Rock.

[funkel]

1: Atrocious choice of band name on their part. 65dos is, essentially, Baby's First Post-Rock band. They're tolerable at best, boring and self-indulgent at worse. Again, I refer you to Laughing Stock. Buy that album. You're welcome.

2: Okay, enough with the Beatles people. Here's the position you melons (I'm trying it out in lieu of "douche." That word is no longer an effective or usable pejorative) have put me in: The Beatles, during their Eastern influence/drug era, produced fantastic Pop Music that left an indelible mark on mainstream music. I appreciate their contributions. I also find myself unable to enjoy most of their catalog on a purely subjective level. Now, I can chide anyone who lists them for the nearly-obligatory placement in a top ten list, I can go the route of "overrated," but doing so is, in fact, a cliche. I'm stuck. How do I keep addressing this?

Oh, here's how: No one cares that you love the Beatles. Listing them is the safest, most innocuous choice of an artist.

List your favorite brand of pop from this point forth in place of The Beatles, and I'll critique that.

...

Fucking Beatles.

3: Um, well, you should have Beam on your list?

4: Safest Post-Rock pick this side of Talk Talk.

5: Lovely but ultimately boring. See: Beach House.

6: You're the reason Mangum has gone into a self-imposed musical exile. Thanks, asshole.

7: Kinsella's rad when he's not crying into an acoustic guitar or, well, making the lamest, diluted psuedo-Math Rock album ever. You picked the wrong Kinsella project...but the fact that you didn't go with Owenboard Confessional lends your list some merit.

8: Is there anyone who believes this band name is clever? If the answer is "yes," are you over the age of 12? If the answer was "yes," please refrain from voting for anything other than American Idol. Also, don't procreate.

Oh, right, as for the actual music...I've never listened to them. I do enjoy Samuel Jackson though.

Another new rule: if any of you plan on listing this band, instead, list your favorite movie featuring SJ, save for Deep Blue Sea. Campy perfection.

9: They stink of "novelty band."

10: Oh. Listing Reich, Glass, Branca, Eno, etc. is becoming nouveau on AP. Requisite "AP-obscure composer" quota met. I prefer Glass, myself.

I give this list 7 diet Mountain Dews/10
I quite enjoy Laughing Stock.
Diet Mountain Dews with the new or old logo?

[kearn1tm]

Excellent. Keep it up and soon you'll be an album reviewer for your college's local "ALTERNATIVE" newspaper. And I will love it.

I already am! COUNTER-CONFORMIST CULTURE! Make out time.

[kearn1tm]

I quite enjoy Laughing Stock.

Internet high-five? I think it's in order. I don't do it in real life. A high-five killed my father.

Diet Mountain Dews with the new or old logo?
Diet MNT DEW is lame and too busy.

Now the minimalist Pepsi design is fantastic. 15 artificial sweeteners will give me cancer/cancer only effects old people.

[weownthestreets]

I'd take the risk of aspartame over being fat and diabetic, personally.

[Cuddleworthy]

Yes. Talk Talk is actually an example of good Post-Rock.

Laughing Stock is great, I agree. Does Laughing Stock sound anything like 65daysofstatic? No.

[Jumpoff]

Propagandhi
Tom Waits
Neutral Milk Hotel
Andrew Jackson Jihad
The Wailers
The Slackers
Against Me!
Off with their Heads
Descendents
Dead Kennedys

[Cuddleworthy]

Propagandhi
Tom Waits
Neutral Milk Hotel
Andrew Jackson Jihad
The Wailers
The Slackers
Against Me!
Off with their Heads
Descendents
Dead Kennedys
http://armoredsquirrel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/PunkMohawk.jpg

[kearn1tm]

Laughing Stock is great, I agree. Does Laughing Stock sound anything like 65daysofstatic? No.

In part.

[shit stroll]

http://armoredsquirrel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/PunkMohawk.jpg
you're an idiot if you think any of those bands are fashion punks.

[Jumpoff]

http://armoredsquirrel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/PunkMohawk.jpg

I've seen that picture numerous times oddly enough.

:shrug:

[murrich]

1. Tom Waits
2. Simon and Garfunkel
3. The Beatles
4. Neil Young
5. The Beach Boys
6. Bob Dylan
7. John Coltrane
8. Boards of Canada
9. My Bloody Valentine
10. Woven Hand

[GuitarR0cker1]

not in order:
Fall Out Boy
Radiohead
Death Cab For Cutie
Weezer
Brand New
Cursive
Jawbreaker
Saves The Day
Modest Mouse
Neutral Milk Hotel

[Cuddleworthy]

you're an idiot if you think any of those bands are fashion punks.

srs punker over here

[theguy77]

7: Kinsella's rad when he's not crying into an acoustic guitar or, well, making the lamest, diluted psuedo-Math Rock album ever.

i know this is an overly harsh satire as a whole hence why i didnt nitpick your response to mine but i really dont feel like they were trying to make a diluted form of math rock haha, i think they were just trying to make midwestmo/pocket-journal indie-rock that was a little bit different but retained all those simple emotion appeals. and it really shows that they were still trying to keep a strong focus on the midwestmo sound hahaha.

[c_rob2700]

MAX BEMIS SAID IT WAS A MEDIOCRE MATH-ROCK RECORD THEREFORE IT IS


x

[shit stroll]

srs punker over here
haha

[theguy77]

hahaha well he got the mediocre part right. when you get down to technicalities, the blend of moving clean electric guitar parts and playing with different time signatures is nice. but ultimately the overall tone of the sound produced is still walking in a pair of chuck taylors to art class in some upstate new york high school, generic black-watermark design "composition book" filled with contrite and scatterbrained attempts at prose in hand. but im a hypocrite for making that criticism considering when i make my next album there will be 10 people who perceive it that way for every 1 who perceives american football that way. haha

/another awful attempt at vaguely dry-humored and imagery-based criticism. oh, the laughs i'd receive if i could master it like todd.

[Rawrr]

The fact that you're 16 hinders it. Now is not the time to make a bid for cred, man. Listen to Tell All Your Friends and swear by The Movielife now, while it's appropriate to do so (and may potentially help your quest for teen ass). 7/10.
Everything was spot on, then you got here, then I cringed.

[c_rob2700]

Here goes Ryan again, namedropping Northbrok in every fucking thread. "WAHH WAHHH I DONT WANNA PLAY POP PUNK ANYMORE, MY WRITTING ABILITY IS MUCH BETTER, MY DRUMMER IS GONNA LEAVE ME" Dude, we fucking get it, your an elitist douce now. Go read snowintheforest, it's the new Pitchfork




jk

[theguy77]

Here goes Ryan again, namedropping Northbrok in every fucking thread. "WAHH WAHHH I DONT WANNA PLAY POP PUNK ANYMORE, MY WRITTING ABILITY IS MUCH BETTER, MY DRUMMER IS GONNA LEAVE ME" Dude, we fucking get it, your an elitist douce now. Go read snowintheforest, it's the new Pitchfork




jk

hahaha i wish i felt like my writing ability was better than pop-punk. at this point it doesnt look good as im consistently failing to write proper indie-rock. hahaha

HEY IM TRYING TO BE AN HONEST/DOWN-TO-EARTH MUSICIAN AND SHOW POEPLE THAT JUST BECAUSE I CRITICIZE BANDS DOESNT MEAN I THINK IM BETTER THAN THEM GO RAIN ON THE MACY'S PARADE INSTEAD OF MINE. :-d

[GuitarR0cker1]

Here goes Ryan again, namedropping Northbrok in every fucking thread. "WAHH WAHHH I DONT WANNA PLAY POP PUNK ANYMORE, MY WRITTING ABILITY IS MUCH BETTER, MY DRUMMER IS GONNA LEAVE ME" Dude, we fucking get it, your an elitist douce now. Go read snowintheforest, it's the new Pitchfork




jk
pwned hard

[c_rob2700]

You're probably failing because your'e trying. If that makes sense. Also, I mispelled Northbrook and douche

[circatbs]

hockeyguitar99 would be good at this.

go into my profile if you guys wanna tear me apart haha

[theguy77]

You're probably failing because your trying. If that makes sense. Also, I mispelled Northbrook and douche

get your own "respect me" strategy poser, i already took the self-degradation/admittance/concession strategy.

haha im not really trying to do anything that doesnt naturally come out, its not like i go and say fhjdksfhsk this song needs a 19/8 time signature just so i'll get diversity cred haha, i mean i legit dont want to write in the old style anymore and the new one definitley makes far less use of power chords and chord climaxes in general, and focuses more on bass lines, tasteful/low-key drumming, guitar harmonies and atmosphere. but idk i cant help feeling like it just sounds really watered down and still manifests some scene habits at this point.

[Rawrr]

7: This band is unequivocally the most overrated indie darling of the last decade or so. However, by playing it loudly on your MP3 player by your locker before class, that girl two lockers down that kinda looks like Jenny Lewis may be convinced to look at your naked body and not cringe so, do what you must. I won't hold it against you.
.
I wish this could happen, but alas, no lockers, no Jenny Lewis look-alikes..

[GuitarR0cker1]

get your own "respect me" strategy poser, i already took the self-degradation/admittance/concession strategy.

haha im not really trying to do anything that doesnt naturally come out, its not like i go and say fhjdksfhsk this song needs a 19/8 time signature just so i'll get diversity cred haha, i mean i legit dont want to write in the old style anymore and the new one definitley makes far less use of power chords and chord climaxes in general, and focuses more on bass lines, tasteful/low-key drumming, guitar harmonies and atmosphere. but idk i cant help feeling like it just sounds really watered down and still manifests some scene habits at this point.
Stop being so insecure mang, there is nothing wrong with some good ol' pop punk and if it really does have atmosphere + some sweet ass harmonies everyone will be pleased. The avant garde, fusion-jazz album can be done in the future m'kay?

[theguy77]

Stop being so insecure mang, there is nothing wrong with some good ol' pop punk and if it really does have atmosphere + some sweet ass harmonies everyone will be pleased. The avant garde, fusion-jazz album can be done in the future m'kay?

yeah thats what everyone tells me im just worried that the longer my music stays "in the scene" the less chance i stand at being taken seriously outside the scene when i start to get better at writing alternative styles, i mean the only band i know of that was able to manage pulling themselves out of that pigeonhole while remaining the same band is brand new.

but i will never intentionally forge my music to be different than what writing comes out of me naturally. i just cant be passionate about writing pop-punk anymore, so im in a kind of writers block, not the kind where you cant write anything but the kind where you're not really all that satisfied with anything you write haha.

[c_rob2700]

get your own "respect me" strategy poser, i already took the self-degradation/admittance/concession strategy.

haha im not really trying to do anything that doesnt naturally come out, its not like i go and say fhjdksfhsk this song needs a 19/8 time signature just so i'll get diversity cred haha, i mean i legit dont want to write in the old style anymore and the new one definitley makes far less use of power chords and chord climaxes in general, and focuses more on bass lines, tasteful/low-key drumming, guitar harmonies and atmosphere. but idk i cant help feeling like it just sounds really watered down and still manifests some scene habits at this point.

I really can relate to this but in a different way. I write my own stuff and I always try and push myself lyrically beyond the "All i can write about is girls phase" but somehow, even if i'm trying to write about a completely different issue, it always comes back to it. Part of it is being in high school I suppose, but I try and think outside the box as much as possible. I don't want to write "(empty metaphor) is like an (empty metaphor)" but I also don't want to write in a straightforward style. It's just hard to find that balance

[theguy77]

I really can relate to this but in a different way. I write my own stuff and I always try and push myself lyrically beyond the "All i can write about is girls phase" but somehow, even if i'm trying to write about a completely different issue, it always comes back to it. Part of it is being in high school I suppose, but I try and think outside the box as much as possible. I don't want to write "(empty metaphor) is like an (empty metaphor)" but I also don't want to write in a straightforward style. It's just hard to find that balance

haha yeah i could see that, although im having a lot more luck improving my lyrics given the feedback ive received from ben and vinh on more recent writing samples. but the music right now, i just dont know. but hey i'll just have to keep writing and recording and try to pick out the best of my work and just let it be what it is when i feel ready to release something else.

[c_rob2700]

haha yeah i could see that, although im having a lot more luck improving my lyrics given the feedback ive received from ben and vinh on more recent writing samples. but the music right now, i just dont know. but hey i'll just have to keep writing and recording and try to pick out the best of my work and just let it be what it is when i feel ready to release something else.
Miles ahead of me there. I don't have any friends who play/are even into music. If i'm going to do this music thing, I have to do it all on my own. Not to use the terribly cliche "I'm an OCD/perfectionist with my music" but I really would never start seriously recording until I've figured out where i'm going

[theguy77]

Miles ahead of me there. I don't have any friends who play/are even into music. If i'm going to do this music thing, I have to do it all on my own. Not to use the terribly cliche "I'm an OCD/perfectionist with my music" but I really would never start seriously recording until I've figured out where i'm going

haha well actually my band really is just me at the moment. my drummer doesnt know it yet but its really not working out with him lately (he is entirely bored by anything that isnt either hard rock made for the radio or sugarxcore powerpop) and we havent practiced in a year and my mom's moving closer to my college and further away from where he lives, so i wont have a house down there, and it will be hard to get down there for practice in the future...so yeah. i just havent had the heart to kind of kick him out of the band cause he and i worked for a year writing the drum parts to this album, and it'll just feel like i only used him for the album and didnt actually want him to get any benefits. and well the bassist has proven hes just not dedicated for one, he only learned like 4 of the songs by the time we went into the studio, i had to do all the rest, hes a lot more focused on his other band (its a grindcore band.... HAHAHAHAHA). so yeah... ive got a prospect for a drummer at my school, he LOVES most the music im into lately and wants to make "ambient-ass shit" as we like to call it haha, but we havent been able to jam yet so its just me for now.

but yeah i started recording because i DID think i figured out where i was going. but what ive learned is that musicians rarely ever figure it out where they actually want to go when they do their first album, they always want to change directions immediately afterward. see: radiohead (pablo honey), brand new (YFW), etc.

[GuitarR0cker1]

yeah thats what everyone tells me im just worried that the longer my music stays "in the scene" the less chance i stand at being taken seriously outside the scene when i start to get better at writing alternative styles, i mean the only band i know of that was able to manage pulling themselves out of that pigeonhole while remaining the same band is brand new.

but i will never intentionally forge my music to be different than what writing comes out of me naturally. i just cant be passionate about writing pop-punk anymore, so im in a kind of writers block, not the kind where you cant write anything but the kind where you're not really all that satisfied with anything you write haha.
I understand what you are saying. Whenever I try to write lyrics that I don't really mean they always seem to have much less quality so intentionally forging a sound would not be good. The new song that is up on your band's myspace is great though for what it is. I am sure when it is mastered it will be even better.

I think I have an opposite problem than you do with writing, I suck at writing music. I can never write anything organized and coherent, I always end up trailing off with my songs. If I try to keep it simple and then add to it later, I always end up fucking it up. It probably has something to do with the fact I never learned how to play guitar right though.

[theguy77]

I understand what you are saying. Whenever I try to write lyrics that I don't really mean they always seem to have much less quality so intentionally forging a sound would not be good. The new song that is up on your band's myspace is great though for what it is. I am sure when it is mastered it will be even better.

i am incredibly glad you think so cause idk im also worried that this album might not even be professional "for what it is" and if thats the case then the 6000 dollars i spent is going to feel like a total waste hahaha.

I think I have an opposite problem than you do with writing, I suck at writing music. I can never write anything organized and coherent, I always end up trailing off with my songs. If I try to keep it simple and then add to it later, I always end up fucking it up. It probably has something to do with the fact I never learned how to play guitar right though.

haha i didnt learn how to play guitar right either, i know my theory from learning classical piano but i didnt apply it to guitar, because i really didnt want to become a virtuoso i just wanted to be able to write songs, and writing songs is a lot more fun when it's more about noodling around and exploring chords/riffs until you find something that sounds good, than when you have it broken down into a science. really it takes practice to write a coherent and complete song though, i feel you there. it is hard to be creative while remaining cohesive and not sounding ambiguous, you really just have to find that balance between "the formula" and your ambitions that works best for you. my problem right now is the old balance i had got old to me and now im having to establish a new one.

[c_rob2700]

haha well actually my band really is just me at the moment. my drummer doesnt know it yet but its really not working out with him lately (he is entirely bored by anything that isnt either hard rock made for the radio or sugarxcore powerpop) and we havent practiced in a year and my mom's moving closer to my college and further away from where he lives, so i wont have a house down there, and it will be hard to get down there for practice in the future...so yeah. i just havent had the heart to kind of kick him out of the band cause he and i worked for a year writing the drum parts to this album, and it'll just feel like i only used him for the album and didnt actually want him to get any benefits. and well the bassist has proven hes just not dedicated for one, he only learned like 4 of the songs by the time we went into the studio, i had to do all the rest, hes a lot more focused on his other band (its a grindcore band.... HAHAHAHAHA). so yeah... ive got a prospect for a drummer at my school, he LOVES most the music im into lately and wants to make "ambient-ass shit" as we like to call it haha, but we havent been able to jam yet so its just me for now.

but yeah i started recording because i DID think i figured out where i was going. but what ive learned is that musicians rarely ever figure it out where they actually want to go when they do their first album, they always want to change directions immediately afterward. see: radiohead (pablo honey), brand new (YFW), etc.

I kind of got sick of trying to find people to play with. Like I said already, I know absoultely no one who listens to the music I do here. It's either shitty hip-hop/Top 40, scenec0re, "I'm s000 indie, I listen to Dave Matthews Band AND Death Cab for Cutie!!!" (When they really only have a couple of songs from both). Would I love to be in a band? Absolutely. It's just I haven't found that opportunity yet which is why i've had to take initiative and teach myself a ton of stuff

As far as style/genre goes, I haven't thought that through yet. I figure that when I actually start getting down to buisness everything will unfold. Who knows, I still have a ton of work to do

[theguy77]

I kind of got sick of trying to find people to play with. Like I said already, I know absoultely no one who listens to the music I do here. It's either shitty hip-hop/Top 40, scenec0re, "I'm s000 indie, I listen to Dave Matthews Band AND Death Cab for Cutie!!!" (When they really only have a couple of songs from both). Would I love to be in a band? Absolutely. It's just I haven't found that opportunity yet which is why i've had to take initiative and teach myself a ton of stuff

yeah, im guessing you live in a small town haha it was definitely like that in southern maryland. of course you had to add in the group of "hey girls look at me i play guitar and act dumber than i am" musicians who do live covers of every green day and nirvana single ever but couldnt play a barre chord to save their lives...

just do solo shit for now mang, you'll find it REALLY rewarding if you can figure out how to visualize and concoct entire full-band songs by yourself before you've even fully written them, i remember the summer of '07 when i started making intense observations of the drums and bass on the albums i was listening to, just really trying to teach myself how those instruments are utilized in which contexts so i COULD write a full-on song by myself underneath my guitar/vocals ideas. i couldnt have done my album without indulging in that sort of research and its great to hear you're at that stage as well.

[c_rob2700]

yeah, im guessing you live in a small town haha it was definitely like that in southern maryland. of course you had to add in the group of "hey girls look at me i play guitar and act dumber than i am" musicians who do live covers of every green day and nirvana single ever but couldnt play a barre chord to save their lives...

just do solo shit for now mang, you'll find it REALLY rewarding if you can figure out how to visualize and concoct entire full-band songs by yourself before you've even fully written them, i remember the summer of '07 when i started making intense observations of the drums and bass on the albums i was listening to, just really trying to teach myself how those instruments are utilized in which contexts so i COULD write a full-on song by myself underneath my guitar/vocals ideas. i couldnt have done my album without indulging in that sort of research and its great to hear you're at that stage as well.

Grew up in a small town actually, but naw, Bloomington is big. It's where IU is located so the downtown scene is pretty prevalent. But not growing up here, I have little to no connections to the people downtown. I was more commenting on my highschool where the only kids who play music are the make-up obsessesd Slipknot fans or some good looking guy just trying to get some. I am truely alone as far as music taste/discussion goes.

That's exactly the conclusion i've come to. I'm sure if I keep chugging and learning all that I can, sooner or later I'll meet someone who is interested in the same thing I am. But for now, I'm content with crafting myself/music

[Kaleidoscope]

GO BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY YOU WHINEY FUCKING CRUNX-NUGGET

L-O-L

[theguy77]

Grew up in a small town actually, but naw, Bloomington is big. It's where IU is located so the downtown scene is pretty prevalent. But not growing up here, I have little to no connections to the people downtown. I was more commenting on my highschool where the only kids who play music are the make-up obsessesd Slipknot fans or some good looking guy just trying to get some. I am truely alone as far as music taste/discussion goes.

That's exactly the conclusion i've come to. I'm sure if I keep chugging and learning all that I can, sooner or later I'll meet someone who is interested in the same thing I am. But for now, I'm content with crafting myself/music

haha i am generally alone even at college, that drummer i told you about is the ONLY one who is (ostensibly at least) as passionate about music as i am, as well as being that one in a million guy who wants to make sounds like i want to make, i.e. early 00s slowcore-influenced indie-rock (circa pedro the lion, amanset, death cab, etc.), with some of the same textures and production patterns as william doyle uses on his own music (hence why im trying to fly out to england and have him produce my next record).

[c_rob2700]

haha i am generally alone even at college, that drummer i told you about is the ONLY one who is (ostensibly at least) as passionate about music as i am, as well as being that one in a million guy who wants to make sounds like i want to make, i.e. early 00s slowcore-influenced indie-rock (circa pedro the lion, amanset, death cab, etc.), with some of the same textures and production patterns as william doyle uses on his own music (hence why im trying to fly out to england and have him produce my next record).
Well if you visit England than you'll have to meet lunchforthysky!

[TheOtherAndrew]

Bomb: They're an obnoxious novelty band. See: Andrew Jackson Jihad (clever band names though, right? Right?!)
5: Novelty band.
9: They stink of "novelty band."
lol

[Cuddleworthy]

haha

[HangsLikeHeaven]

1. Ray LaMontagne
2. Radiohead
3. Rilo Kiley
4. The Beatles
5. Iron & Wine
6. Rx Bandits
7. The National
8. Cursive
9. Jeff Buckley
10. J. Tillman

[kearn1tm]

lol

I was right...cubed!

"You know what's better than shitty Harvey Danger-esque Pop Punk? Throwing Ska in there!"

Ugh.

[kearn1tm]

1. Tom Waits
2. Simon and Garfunkel
3. The Beatles
4. Neil Young
5. The Beach Boys
6. Bob Dylan
7. John Coltrane
8. Boards of Canada
9. My Bloody Valentine
10. Woven Hand

I'm skipping a few of your lists to address this one because it's superior to any other and deserves your attention.

1: One of you monkeys finally listed Waits without Springsteen. Astonishing.

2: Fantastic!

3: Diet Sunkist is pretty rad.

4: Fantastic! I'm going to play Harvest now as a tribute to this list.

5: Can't go wrong.

6: Only Hipsters and old people like Dylan.

7: My love for this list is supreme...it wasn't funny in my head, either.

8: Music Has the Right to Children is in my Top 10 favorite albums lists. IDMing it, guy. Let's make out.

9: My Bloody Valentine is better than Slowdive, contrary to popular(?) belief, damn it!

10: YES! You and I seem to be the only Woven Hand fans on the board. In fact, 16 Horsepower is equally amazing (especially Folklore). David Eugene Edwards is a criminally overlooked songwriter. I think we should fuck.

The Beatles, Dylan and The Beach Boys are by definition "safe choices," but, you know, they're fantastic. Your appreciation of David Eugene Edwards floored me. I loves me some Simunkel. Boards of Canada, Johnny Coltrane, Neil Young. This is an undeniably good list. 9/10

[fadedmemories]

Pitchfork: the thread
win

[bowl of oranges]

1. Modest Mouse
2. Iron & Wine
3. Animal Collective
4. Sigur Ros
5. David Bowie
6. mewithoutYou
7. Radiohead
8. Bob Dylan
9. The Postal Service
10. M. Ward

[chipdip18]

Can't wait for my judgment.

[murrich]

\

10: YES! You and I seem to be the only Woven Hand fans on the board. In fact, 16 Horsepower is equally amazing (especially Folklore). David Eugene Edwards is a criminally overlooked songwriter. I think we should fuck.


Yeah, he is an awesome songwriter, it's a shame no one here likes music that hasn't been recommended by Iwasacamera or lunchforthesky.

[theguy77]

Yeah, he is an awesome songwriter, it's a shame no one here likes music that hasn't been recommended by Iwasacamera or lunchforthesky.

haha hence why some bands that get lots of attention in other "indie circles" (i.e. american analog set, broken social scene, etc.) arent talked about at all here, cause they arent rec'd/are uninteresting to the "big guys".

[fly_guy]

lalala

[chipdip18]

Yeah, he is an awesome songwriter, it's a shame no one here likes music that hasn't been recommended by Iwasacamera or lunchforthesky.

Link me then.

[kearn1tm]

In no particular order:

1) Cursive
2) Moving Mountains
3) Something Corporate
4) Manchester Orchestra
5) Mike Hale
6) Incubus
7) Third Eye Blind
8) Gatsby's American Dream
9) John Mayer
10) Acceptance

Shit on Mayer all you want, I stand by my choice.

1: I'm a Kasher whore. This man is every 3-dimensional, earnest songwriter to transcribe his own mediocre love life and somehow turn it into a riveting narrative. You and I are swell at the moment...

2:...who?

3: Billy Joel's The Stranger. It's fantastic. Pick it up. Also, Billy Joel will be around in another ten years. Not having lukemia of the gingivitis of the inflammed bladder does wonders for a prolonged music career.

4: Hey, 75% of my shitty band has beards. We also wrote an excessively cryptic song about monotheism being the bane of contemporary Western organized religion. The song was absolutely awful, laden with empty literary devices and other goobledeygook. Our singer whispered for a while, then he went all Pixies on everyone, to which the intellectually challenged scene kids that came to see us play on campus started screaming in approval. We boast a sound that vaguely resembles Built to Spill. We're called "Baby Belle Must Die" (I was 17 when I formed it...I know, I know). No one knows us because we're awful. We will now be your number four selection. We hope to add gratuitious organ parts to our arrangements by next year.

5: A brief look at his Myspace suggests that this cat A.) is in the vain of Ragan and Turner insofar as being an Acoustic act with a raspy-ish voice/Punk-esque lyrics and B.) looks like he has a deep-seeded fear of water and, more accurately, bathing.

6: Hey, Incubus was also featured on a Now That's What I Call Music compilation; an accomplishment they share with such luminary artists as New Foundplay Coldinton. Mystikal's profound anthem about respecting the rights of women while trying to portray the gender as something that transcends sexual objects in Hip Hop, 2000's Shake Ya Ass, was on the same Now that Incubus' Drive was. In fact, let's mash it up: "I let the fear take the wheel and steer 'cause I know the bitch rode a dick like she makin' a baby!" Incukal gets you no buys here. In fact, stop being so damn sincere and insert Dylan anywhere you need a little cred. Incukal will not get you a coffeeshop blowjob, but it may, in fact, get you a handjob from that disease-infested tranny sporting a Who Let the Dogs Out t-shirt that hangs out by the gas station by the highway.

7: Nostalgia clouds even the best of us. I watched the full-lenght Power Ranger movie from 1995 a few months ago. I was 7 the summer of its release. At the time, the nonsensical plot and shiny fetish gear outfits (along with an ooze man antagonist that clearly used "ooze" as a symbolic nod to baby batter) appealed to my adolscent and undeveloped mind. A few months ago? Same fucking thing! I didn't love it from a campy ironic perspective. No, this was a pure, childish affinity. What's worse, I had now developed the ability to descipher between "good" and "bad" within media (or most other things). I wasn't oblivious to the film's sucking, and yet, I was cheering when they became Ninja Rangers after loosing their powers.

Third Eye Blind: The Power Rangers movie of my generation. Take control, guy. Be stronger than I am with the Rangers. They suck. We know it. Take back your iPod. Do it for all of us in our early '20s (caveat: if you're under the age of 19, there's no nostalgia tainting your judgment. Please, drink a bottle of turpentine).

8: I heard one of their songs. It sounded like a Pop Punk band that heard a Prog album and decided to do that...only thirty times worse and without any of the non-linnear complexity of Prog...so, essentially it was a Pop Punk that used more than three-chord power riffs. It sucked.

9: Mayer fosters in an overwhelming sense of ambivalence within me. He's adorable and actually has a finely tuned sense of humor (see: his standup, his VH1 appearances, Chappelle Show, showing up on a cruise in a thong, etc.), he's a capable guitarist and his live album with John Mayer Trio was listenable. Conversely, Mayer feels compelled to perpetually be the guy your late '30s mother listens to after realizing she's developed a muffin top and the last man she went out with stopped calling her because she "just wasn't 'doing it' for him anymore [this is where he may insert 'emotionally' so as not to sound completely transparent or mask his shallowness]." Mayer's content with writing pathos-raping songs that frat boys buy a Wal-Mart acoustic guitar for the sole purpose of learning one Mayer song to play at a party for some poon.

The bad outweighs the good. Fuck off with your shitty guitar, guy.

10: who?

You like Cursive. So do I. It's as if we share one...no, no I'm not going to complete that sarcastic remark. We're not alike. I, for one, want to nail Mayer. You're trying to use his songs to nail girls. See?

.5 Wal-Mart brand acoustic guitars/10

[mybreakingpoint]

this is one of the most entertaining threads i've read all the way through in a very long time. i hope i get a chance to be ripped to shreds. i'm counting on a 1/10 rating.

[kearn1tm]

this is one of the most entertaining threads i've read all the way through in a very long time. i hope i get a chance to be ripped to shreds. i'm counting on a 1/10 rating.

I'm getting there. To tide yourself over, check out MHT's superior thread .

[oddwithoutend]

this is one of the most entertaining threads i've read all the way through in a very long time. i hope i get a chance to be ripped to shreds. i'm counting on a 1/10 rating.

Yup. Best/most hilarious thread I've seen. Can't wait to get bashed.

[mybreakingpoint]

I'm getting there. To tide yourself over, check out MHT's superior thread .

haha can't wait. and i did, i gave him my 10 all-time favorites, as well as my 10 current favorites, in hopes of getting some solid recs.

and you live in Mt. Pleasant? my band's working on getting a show out there, and i'd invite you out, but going by what you say in here about bands in our vein of music, i don't think you'd enjoy us much. but maybe if we figure something out for that area & you're bored, you'll come out heh. we've got a lot friends out at Central hoping we can play.

Yup. Best/most hilarious thread I've seen. Can't wait to get bashed.

me neither. i'm stoked to be told how worthless my taste in music is haha

[Charles777]

1. Any album by Taking Back Sunday
2. On Letting Go - Circa Survive
3. Avalon - Anthony Green
4. With Love and Squalor - We Are Scientists
5. Pretty. Odd. - Panic At The Disco
6. Take This To Your Grave - Fall Out Boy
7. S/T - Blink 182
8. Drunk Like Bible Times - Dear and The Headlights
9. In Love and Death - The Used
10. Bend to Break - The Color Fred

[kearn1tm]

Like essentially everything in art or literature, the idea i had was stolen from Ben and mht before about a year + ago.

Take me out to dinner you elitist prick:

1.) Bright Eyes
2.) Neutral Milk Hotel
3.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4.) Iron & Wine
5.) The National
6.) Radiohead
7.) A Tribe Called Quest
8.) Simon & Garfunkel
9.) Pink Floyd
10.) The Beatles

1: "I like ample amounts of melodrama with my ass."

2: "How did you know I have the Top 100 Albums of the '90s Pitchfork list bookmarked?!"

3: Good, but boring.

4: My gosh?! Did you watch Twilight too? Boy, what an ending.

5: One of my preferred "non-Pitchfork" sites, Unsounded, recently wrote a feature story on the supposed trends of "Indie Music" (under the prefix that this obviously a blanket term to discuss bands of a certain aesthetic). One of the things the staff writer pointed out (a sentiment Pitchfork themselves actually co-opted for one of their reviews) that the Post-Punk Revivalist sound that had dominated Indie music for the first five/six years of the '00s has given way to Americana and Folk being the most prevalent genre/influence. The National has to be one of those acts that helped inspire this. They're phenomenal, and not entirely oversaturated in the AP.net hipsterista community (but will be soon enough...who cares?! They're great).

6: No one really likes Radiohead. We say we do, but we don't.

7: [obligatory pre-West/East Coast rivalry mid-'90s Hip Hop artist name drop to create illusion of diversity] God, I love Q-Tip.

8: Don't steal the 16 year old kid's shtick.

9: Floyd is among the most overrated and utterly insipid of the early "Prog" bands. Ugh.

10: I'm really fond of Fanta.

Beam, The National, Mangum's sorely missed ass, Simunkle and Q-Tip and co. are all high spots, but (and this will sound ironic/hypocritical coming from me), really, it appears as though you essentially copied and pasted all the bands that received "Top 10 of the [insert any year in the last fifteen years]" list of any given music blog/periodical. Technically, it's solid, but there's no diversity and it's such a boring list.

I give you 6.5 "which one was the fat one? 2-Pac or Puff Daddy"/ 10

[kearn1tm]

haha can't wait. and i did, i gave him my 10 all-time favorites, as well as my 10 current favorites, in hopes of getting some solid recs.

and you live in Mt. Pleasant? my band's working on getting a show out there, and i'd invite you out, but going by what you say in here about bands in our vein of music, i don't think you'd enjoy us much. but maybe if we figure something out for that area & you're bored, you'll come out heh. we've got a lot friends out at Central hoping we can play.

Fun fact: Facebook is frightening. Out of curiosity, I generally click on a poster's photo option under their avatar. I recognized you because you came up on my facebook wall feed asking Densmore to be included in the music festival. Yeah. Fun.

Yes, we play around Mount Pleasant, but generally at Rubbles, The Cabin or at frat parties. We're shitty. Incredibly, incredibly shitty. We started out as an awful Pop Punk band and, instead of evolving as artists, we decided we merely wanted to do it for fun (we're all going to CMU to be music journalists...if you can't do [well], judge). Ultimately, we're still a contrived Pop Punk band, but a self-aware one.

Yeah, if you guys ever play up here, hit me up. We're always looking for people to play with.

Oh, and sorry about Adrian. Poor, poor Adrian.

[chipdip18]

1: "I like ample amounts of melodrama with my ass."

2: "How did you know I have the Top 100 Albums of the '90s Pitchfork list bookmarked?!"

3: Good, but boring.

4: My gosh?! Did you watch Twilight too? Boy, what an ending.

5: One of my preferred "non-Pitchfork" sites, Unsounded, recently wrote a feature story on the supposed trends of "Indie Music" (under the prefix that this obviously a blanket term to discuss bands of a certain aesthetic). One of the things the staff writer pointed out (a sentiment Pitchfork themselves actually co-opted for one of their reviews) that the Post-Punk Revivalist sound that had dominated Indie music for the first five/six years of the '00s has given way to Americana and Folk being the most prevalent genre/influence. The National has to be one of those acts that helped inspire this. They're phenomenal, and not entirely oversaturated in the AP.net hipsterista community (but will be soon enough...who cares?! They're great).

6: No one really likes Radiohead. We say we do, but we don't.

7: [obligatory pre-West/East Coast rivalry mid-'90s Hip Hop artist name drop to create illusion of diversity] God, I love Q-Tip.

8: Don't steal the 16 year old kid's shtick.

9: Floyd is among the most overrated and utterly insipid of the early "Prog" bands. Ugh.

10: I'm really fond of Fanta.

Beam, The National, Mangum's sorely missed ass, Simunkle and Q-Tip and co. are all high spots, but (and this will sound ironic/hypocritical coming from me), really, it appears as though you essentially copied and pasted all the bands that received "Top 10 of the [insert any year in the last fifteen years]" list of any given music blog/periodical. Technically, it's solid, but there's no diversity and it's such a boring list.

I give you 6.5 "which one was the fat one? 2-Pac or Puff Daddy"/ 10

It is a typical list, but i'd rather be honest than trying to sound overly hip. You and mht rate me quite similarly.

[kearn1tm]

1. Anthony Braxton
2. Portraits of Past
3. Public Enemy
4. My Bloody Valentine
5. Slint
6. Husker Du
7. Minor Threat
8. Rites of Spring
9. Orchid
10. Pg. 99
11. Bill Dixon

UP THE PUXXXX!!!

So, firstly, you've broken the format of this thread, forcing me to remove your number eleven pick: a gratuitous attempt to add diversity and merit to your list with the obligatory "lesser known composer" addition. Well, it was transparent anyway, so it's out.

1: Fantastic. The non-Jazz Jazz artist who's music was generally too experimental for the formalists. "That shit ain't Jazz!" You're a man after my own heart. Seeing him play with Wynton Marsalis last year was inspiring. Wynton practically wept while introducing one of his heroes. It was truly touching.

2: Funeral Diner > PoP

3: White, middle-class kids love chanting "fight the power" unironically.

4: There's been a fair amount of MBV love here. There was a time when Belle and Sebastian were the only band even remotely associated with Shoebaze that received attention here, and they're much more Chamber Pop in nature. Now, MBV, Slowdive and the like are blown constantly. What happened? Moreover, why? WHERE'S THE FUCKING HOOKS, DUDER!

5: Spiderland always gets me misty. Such a fantastic narrative.

6: While underground artists were starting to make a name for themselves in the '80s, these fucks sold out to Warner Brothers!!!! Where's your fucking REBEL YELL (see what I did there? I capitalized "rebel yell" to give it a visual appearance of being screamed. I'm clever)?

7/8: Yeah, yeah. I read Our Band Could Be Your Life too.

9/10: Yeah, yeah. I read Togepi's posts too.

You're the AP rebel. You listen to the scramz and wave it in the faces of the kids who just found out about Saetia's existence and the Tooth and Nail croud. You list an Avant-Jazzer in a forum that blows Coltrane and Davis ad nauseum. You're counter-culture, man. I bet you even take the crust off your PB&J before you eat it!

Well let me tell you something, you fucking punk: Smuckers offers an edible item called "uncrustables." Microwavable PB&Js that come with the crust pre-removed...and they're offered at EVERY major grocery chain. NOT SO FUCKING PUNK NOW?!

6 grilled cheeses are more punk than peanut butter and jelly anyway / 10

[mybreakingpoint]

Fun fact: Facebook is frightening. Out of curiosity, I generally click on a poster's photo option under their avatar. I recognized you because you came up on my facebook wall feed asking Densmore to be included in the music festival. Yeah. Fun.

Yes, we play around Mount Pleasant, but generally at Rubbles, The Cabin or at frat parties. We're shitty. Incredibly, incredibly shitty. We started out as an awful Pop Punk band and, instead of evolving as artists, we decided we merely wanted to do it for fun (we're all going to CMU to be music journalists...if you can't do [well], judge). Ultimately, we're still a contrived Pop Punk band, but a self-aware one.

Yeah, if you guys ever play up here, hit me up. We're always looking for people to play with.

Oh, and sorry about Adrian. Poor, poor Adrian.

haha really? i was wondering if you were friends with him when i saw you were from Mt. Pleasant. small world.

i didn't know you were in a band, link? regardless of what you sound like, we should put a show together sometime; we really want to play out in that part of the state; it's the only major college-town besides K-zoo we haven't hit yet.

and yes Adrian...is...well, i don't really know what to say about it. i just want out of here ASAP haha

[kearn1tm]

It is a typical list, but i'd rather be honest than trying to sound overly hip. You and mht rate me quite similarly.

That's the whole point, in my opinion. To crack jokes and be funny. Who wants me to say "golly, I love Simunkle too! I love Will Oldham too! 10/10." That's boring.

[Praetor]

UP THE PUXXXX!!!

So, firstly, you've broken the format of this thread, forcing me to remove your number eleven pick: a gratuitous attempt to add diversity and merit to your list with the obligatory "lesser known composer" addition. Well, it was transparent anyway, so it's out.

1: Fantastic. The non-Jazz Jazz artist who's music was generally too experimental for the formalists. "That shit ain't Jazz!" You're a man after my own heart. Seeing him play with Wynton Marsalis last year was inspiring. Wynton practically wept while introducing one of his heroes. It was truly touching.

2: Funeral Diner > PoP

3: White, middle-class kids love chanting "fight the power" unironically.

4: There's been a fair amount of MBV love here. There was a time when Belle and Sebastian were the only band even remotely associated with Shoebaze that received attention here, and they're much more Chamber Pop in nature. Now, MBV, Slowdive and the like are blown constantly. What happened? Moreover, why? WHERE'S THE FUCKING HOOKS, DUDER!

5: Spiderland always gets me misty. Such a fantastic narrative.

6: While underground artists were starting to make a name for themselves in the '80s, these fucks sold out to Warner Brothers!!!! Where's your fucking REBEL YELL (see what I did there? I capitalized "rebel yell" to give it a visual appearance of being screamed. I'm clever)?

7/8: Yeah, yeah. I read Our Band Could Be Your Life too.

9/10: Yeah, yeah. I read Togepi's posts too.

You're the AP rebel. You listen to the scramz and wave it in the faces of the kids who just found out about Saetia's existence and the Tooth and Nail croud. You list an Avant-Jazzer in a forum that blows Coltrane and Davis ad nauseum. You're counter-culture, man. I bet you even take the crust off your PB&J before you eat it!

Well let me tell you something, you fucking punk: Smuckers offers an edible item called "uncrustables." Microwavable PB&Js that come with the crust pre-removed...and they're offered at EVERY major grocery chain. NOT SO FUCKING PUNK NOW?!

6 grilled cheeses are more punk than peanut butter and jelly anyway / 10
Best review yet.

[kearn1tm]

haha really? i was wondering if you were friends with him when i saw you were from Mt. Pleasant. small world.

i didn't know you were in a band, link? regardless of what you sound like, we should put a show together sometime; we really want to play out in that part of the state; it's the only major college-town besides K-zoo we haven't hit yet.

and yes Adrian...is...well, i don't really know what to say about it. i just want out of here ASAP haha

We've been together for four years and we don't even have a myspace page. We only do it for fun, but if you ever coordinate something with us, we'll send some of our stuff.

Throw me a myspace/pure volume link. I'll check your band out. Regardless of what you sound like, we'll play with anyone. It's purely about fun and acting like assholes on stage for us.

Yeah, I have an ex who lives near Adrian. During Christmas break, we spent some time at his house and I was so utterly bored. There's a shopping mall and fast food. That's it. I hope you get out soon.

[chipdip18]

That's the whole point, in my opinion. To crack jokes and be funny. Who wants me to say "golly, I love Simunkle too! I love Will Oldham too! 10/10." That's boring.

Exactly. It's all fun. And when you're writing out responses (though mine are clearly not as good as yours or Mike's) it's fun to say weird stuff to people anxiously awaiting their scores.

[brandnizzle2419]

Dear kearn1tm,
Your psuedo-sardonic criticism of these increasingly desperate posts (in regards to their attempt to both please you and validate their super scene creditos) is a tired, flaccid exercise in internet humor. Granted, your witty retorts are sufficiently more chuckle-worthy than collegehumor.com, but they fall flat when compared to the more conventional parodies produced by The Onion. We could all sit here today, as you are, and systematically dissemble each incoming list, digest it for a few minutes, and then regurgitate it with a healthy dose of dry humor back into the interweb like a mother bird to her needy, needy chicks. So what sets you apart? I challenge that it is your love of bland, boring music (i've never cried so much from boredom than I have during The National's Boxer; and Talk Talk, really?) that sets you apart from all of us down here below your illustrious cyber-pedestal as we listen to interesting music. For it is only when your palate is completely devoid of all gripping, tasteful music can you truly become a critic of music, and see past all the bullshit, i guess.

And besides, the detail you look over through all of this is that Pitchfork is the mother of all parodies: they don't mean a word! Nobody in their right mind would give Animal Collective's Meriweather Post Pavilion a 9.6/10 when literally 3 months before hand, School of Seven Bell's Alpinisms (basically the same thing but more a more daring exploration of AC's techno-cum-indie sound with better vocal melodies) garnered an 8.0/10. It's all apart of an elaborate hoax that gave Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted a perfect 10/10 even though it is obviously the shit at the very middle of the shit-pile that is Pavement's library outside of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and chose to give Jimmy Eat World's legendary opus Clarity a 3.5/10.

in it's honor, i give your reviews a 3.5 "lolz, this IS fun" 's/10.

[mybreakingpoint]

We've been together for four years and we don't even have a myspace page. We only do it for fun, but if you ever coordinate something with us, we'll send some of our stuff.

Throw me a myspace/pure volume link. I'll check your band out. Regardless of what you sound like, we'll play with anyone. It's purely about fun and acting like assholes on stage for us.

Yeah, I have an ex who lives near Adrian. During Christmas break, we spent some time at his house and I was so utterly bored. There's a shopping mall and fast food. That's it. I hope you get out soon.

I gotcha, that's cool. You can hear my band here: http://myspace.com/theinjuredlist . We're in the midst of recording our new album, which is a lot more rock and a lot less pop than the last album/songs we have up now.

Where near Adrian was your ex from? I actually live in a shithole town called Onsted about 15 minutes outside of Adrian.

[Nevuk]

UP THE PUXXXX!!!

So, firstly, you've broken the format of this thread, forcing me to remove your number eleven pick: a gratuitous attempt to add diversity and merit to your list with the obligatory "lesser known composer" addition. Well, it was transparent anyway, so it's out.

1: Fantastic. The non-Jazz Jazz artist who's music was generally too experimental for the formalists. "That shit ain't Jazz!" You're a man after my own heart. Seeing him play with Wynton Marsalis last year was inspiring. Wynton practically wept while introducing one of his heroes. It was truly touching.

2: Funeral Diner > PoP

3: White, middle-class kids love chanting "fight the power" unironically.

4: There's been a fair amount of MBV love here. There was a time when Belle and Sebastian were the only band even remotely associated with Shoebaze that received attention here, and they're much more Chamber Pop in nature. Now, MBV, Slowdive and the like are blown constantly. What happened? Moreover, why? WHERE'S THE FUCKING HOOKS, DUDER!

5: Spiderland always gets me misty. Such a fantastic narrative.

6: While underground artists were starting to make a name for themselves in the '80s, these fucks sold out to Warner Brothers!!!! Where's your fucking REBEL YELL (see what I did there? I capitalized "rebel yell" to give it a visual appearance of being screamed. I'm clever)?

7/8: Yeah, yeah. I read Our Band Could Be Your Life too.

9/10: Yeah, yeah. I read Togepi's posts too.

You're the AP rebel. You listen to the scramz and wave it in the faces of the kids who just found out about Saetia's existence and the Tooth and Nail croud. You list an Avant-Jazzer in a forum that blows Coltrane and Davis ad nauseum. You're counter-culture, man. I bet you even take the crust off your PB&J before you eat it!

Well let me tell you something, you fucking punk: Smuckers offers an edible item called "uncrustables." Microwavable PB&Js that come with the crust pre-removed...and they're offered at EVERY major grocery chain. NOT SO FUCKING PUNK NOW?!

6 grilled cheeses are more punk than peanut butter and jelly anyway / 10
I hate peanut butter and jelly...
edit : I actually prefer Bill Dixon to Husker Du, but I did that to annoy people with their ten list mania. I have issues listening to Bill Dixon more than rarely. And also because one free jazz artist usually bothers people enough.

[x togepi x]

Dear kearn1tm,
Your psuedo-sardonic criticism of these increasingly desperate posts (in regards to their attempt to both please you and validate their super scene creditos) is a tired, flaccid exercise in internet humor. Granted, your witty retorts are sufficiently more chuckle-worthy than collegehumor.com, but they fall flat when compared to the more conventional parodies produced by The Onion. We could all sit here today, as you are, and systematically dissemble each incoming list, digest it for a few minutes, and then regurgitate it with a healthy dose of dry humor back into the interweb like a mother bird to her needy, needy chicks. So what sets you apart? I challenge that it is your love of bland, boring music (i've never cried so much from boredom than I have during The National's Boxer; and Talk Talk, really?) that sets you apart from all of us down here below your illustrious cyber-pedestal as we listen to interesting music. For it is only when your palate is completely devoid of all gripping, tasteful music can you truly become a critic of music, and see past all the bullshit, i guess.

And besides, the detail you look over through all of this is that Pitchfork is the mother of all parodies: they don't mean a word! Nobody in their right mind would give Animal Collective's Meriweather Post Pavilion a 9.6/10 when literally 3 months before hand, School of Seven Bell's Alpinisms (basically the same thing but more a more daring exploration of AC's techno-cum-indie sound with better vocal melodies) garnered an 8.0/10. It's all apart of an elaborate hoax that gave Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted a perfect 10/10 even though it is obviously the shit at the very middle of the shit-pile that is Pavement's library outside of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and chose to give Jimmy Eat World's legendary opus Clarity a 3.5/10.

in it's honor, i give your reviews a 3.5 "lolz, this IS fun" 's/10.


hey look guys, the person with a brand new name and saves the day avatar thinks we care what they think about music! but seriously, you're just pissed because you can't do this thread better.

[kearn1tm]

1. Limbeck
2. Jimmy Eat World
3. Schatzi
4. Fountains of Wayne
5. RX Bandits
6. At The Drive-In
7. Elliott
8. Refused
9. Garrison
10. The Get Up ids

I'll preface the review process by stating this: you're from Michigan. You're inherently awful. I'm sorry. I can't take this or anything you'll ever contribute to this board or anything else seriously.

1: Dear 1990s: Though you gave us such fantastic Alt Country acts as Uncle Tupelo, 16 Horsepower, Old '97s, whatever Will Oldham decided on recording on any given day, The Handsome Family, etc., it also spawned a fad around 1999ish that lead to such contrived acts as Limbeck. I retract that statements. Fuck bands like the Mekons and The Gun Club for pioneering this subgenre.

2/10: It's always fascinating for me to see kids my age get so misty-eyed for the Midwest Emo scene that we were all too young to catch. You know what we were listening to when Static Prevails and Four Minute Mile were released? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgKUAMHM3A

We were listening to the fucking Cardigans! Why? We were 8. We didn't care about mid '20something college dropouts whinning about the maturation process.

Oh, and this site's fetishization of the midwester emo (all because Pete Wentz once mentioned tGUKs in an interview) is hilarious.

That said, JEW did a Heatmiser cover and those Get Up fucks knew how to make a hook that became mental herpes. You just couldn't rid the hook from your head.

3: Sounds German. I'm Jewish. That's very insensitive of you.

4: They're actually solid (I know, all of you were expecting a "Stacy's Mom" joke. I'm a rebel. I eat Grilled Cheese) and surprisingly tolerable powerpop that will forever be associated with an awful single.

5: Who put their Ska in my Punk? Who put light Prog in my Ska Punk? Which one of you can't learn to keep your genres out of same cupboard? Otherwise, they create a detestible synthesis of suck.

6: It's like, you post on AP or something.

7: Elliot who?

8: I got nothing other than The Shape of Punk to Come is pretty bragadocious.

9: I don't have time for bands jocking 7"ers. I could die tomorrow. I want the hits.

You have the taste of every other smalltown kid who's in what I imagine is either a Pop Punk or Post-Hardcore band (or something in between). Your anti-semitism is not apprecated guy.

4 Love me, love me, say that you love me's / 10

[kearn1tm]

I listen to Say Anything and found a thesaurus.

I'd like the cliffnotes version...no I wouldn't.

2 'Fuck those pretentious elitists' / 10

[kearn1tm]

I hate peanut butter and jelly...
edit : I actually prefer Bill Dixon to Husker Du, but I did that to annoy people with their ten list mania. I have issues listening to Bill Dixon more than rarely. And also because one free jazz artist usually bothers people enough.

It bothers people?

[Nevuk]

It bothers people?
Along the lines of "ARGH FREE JAZZ IS HATED RIGHTEOUSLY BY FELINES! WHY TWO!"

[Rawrr]

8: Don't steal the 16 year old kid's shtick.


Huh.

[kearn1tm]

I gotcha, that's cool. You can hear my band here: http://myspace.com/theinjuredlist . We're in the midst of recording our new album, which is a lot more rock and a lot less pop than the last album/songs we have up now.

Where near Adrian was your ex from? I actually live in a shithole town called Onsted about 15 minutes outside of Adrian.

Jasper. I knew some people who went to Onsted's high school though.

[brandnizzle2419]

hey look guys, the person with a brand new name and saves the day avatar thinks we care what they think about music! but seriously, you're just pissed because you can't do this thread better.

yeah, i thought the combo was a nice touch given the general concensus of the thread, too.
you, sir, you get a 4.5/10 and a ticket for the busted sarcasm-detector-light on your front-right bumper.

[kearn1tm]

Along the lines of "ARGH FREE JAZZ IS HATED RIGHTEOUSLY BY FELINES! WHY TWO!"

Ha. That's silly.

Huh.

It's a joke. You're alright, slugger.

[oddwithoutend]

Dear kearn1tm,
Your psuedo-sardonic criticism of these increasingly desperate posts (in regards to their attempt to both please you and validate their super scene creditos) is a tired, flaccid exercise in internet humor. Granted, your witty retorts are sufficiently more chuckle-worthy than collegehumor.com, but they fall flat when compared to the more conventional parodies produced by The Onion. We could all sit here today, as you are, and systematically dissemble each incoming list, digest it for a few minutes, and then regurgitate it with a healthy dose of dry humor back into the interweb like a mother bird to her needy, needy chicks. So what sets you apart? I challenge that it is your love of bland, boring music (i've never cried so much from boredom than I have during The National's Boxer; and Talk Talk, really?) that sets you apart from all of us down here below your illustrious cyber-pedestal as we listen to interesting music. For it is only when your palate is completely devoid of all gripping, tasteful music can you truly become a critic of music, and see past all the bullshit, i guess.

And besides, the detail you look over through all of this is that Pitchfork is the mother of all parodies: they don't mean a word! Nobody in their right mind would give Animal Collective's Meriweather Post Pavilion a 9.6/10 when literally 3 months before hand, School of Seven Bell's Alpinisms (basically the same thing but more a more daring exploration of AC's techno-cum-indie sound with better vocal melodies) garnered an 8.0/10. It's all apart of an elaborate hoax that gave Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted a perfect 10/10 even though it is obviously the shit at the very middle of the shit-pile that is Pavement's library outside of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and chose to give Jimmy Eat World's legendary opus Clarity a 3.5/10.

in it's honor, i give your reviews a 3.5 "lolz, this IS fun" 's/10.

You're either jealous or an exhibitionist. Let people be entertained.

[Rawrr]

love ya.

[x togepi x]

yeah, i thought the combo was a nice touch given the general concensus of the thread, too.
you, sir, you get a 4.5/10 and a ticket for the busted sarcasm-detector-light on your front-right bumper.

no, i didn't care whether you were using sarcasm. i just thought it was cute that you were trying to emulate the big boys.

[mybreakingpoint]

I'll preface the review process by stating this: you're from Michigan. You're inherently awful. I'm sorry. I can't take this or anything you'll ever contribute to this board or anything else seriously.

1: Dear 1990s: Though you gave us such fantastic Alt Country acts as Uncle Tupelo, 16 Horsepower, Old '97s, whatever Will Oldham decided on recording on any given day, The Handsome Family, etc., it also spawned a fad around 1999ish that lead to such contrived acts as Limbeck. I retract that statements. Fuck bands like the Mekons and The Gun Club for pioneering this subgenre.

2/10: It's always fascinating for me to see kids my age get so misty-eyed for the Midwest Emo scene that we were all too young to catch. You know what we were listening to when Static Prevails and Four Minute Mile were released? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgKUAMHM3A

We were listening to the fucking Cardigans! Why? We were 8. We didn't care about mid '20something college dropouts whinning about the maturation process.

Oh, and this site's fetishization of the midwester emo (all because Pete Wentz once mentioned tGUKs in an interview) is hilarious.

That said, JEW did a Heatmiser cover and those Get Up fucks knew how to make a hook that became mental herpes. You just couldn't rid the hook from your head.

3: Sounds German. I'm Jewish. That's very insensitive of you.

4: They're actually solid (I know, all of you were expecting a "Stacy's Mom" joke. I'm a rebel. I eat Grilled Cheese) and surprisingly tolerable powerpop that will forever be associated with an awful single.

5: Who put their Ska in my Punk? Who put light Prog in my Ska Punk? Which one of you can't learn to keep your genres out of same cupboard? Otherwise, they create a detestible synthesis of suck.

6: It's like, you post on AP or something.

7: Elliot who?

8: I got nothing other than The Shape of Punk to Come is pretty bragadocious.

9: I don't have time for bands jocking 7"ers. I could die tomorrow. I want the hits.

You have the taste of every other smalltown kid who's in what I imagine is either a Pop Punk or Post-Hardcore band (or something in between). Your anti-semitism is not apprecated guy.

4 Love me, love me, say that you love me's / 10

hahaha My best friend & one of my ex-girlfriends are German, too. Guess I'm more anti-Semitic than I thought.

This was just as awesome as I was hoping it'd be, thank you. But for the record, Garrison only released one 7" in their career (which I do own, ironically enough), and luckily, my band is neither pop-punk nor post-hardcore haha. Pretty much everything else was dead-on though. I'm glad you appreciate FoW; I hate that everyone only associates them with "Stacy's Mom." Schlesinger also wrote the song "That Thing You DO!" for Tom Hanks' movie, that's got to count for something, right?

Jasper. I knew some people who went to Onsted's high school though.

I know one kid from Jasper, and I can say with the utmost certainty that he would be your least favorite person ever. And I graduated from Onsted in 2007, who do you know?

[kearn1tm]

hahaha My best friend & one of my ex-girlfriends are German, too. Guess I'm more anti-Semitic than I thought.

This was just as awesome as I was hoping it'd be, thank you. But for the record, Garrison only released one 7" in their career (which I do own, ironically enough), and luckily, my band is neither pop-punk nor post-hardcore haha. Pretty much everything else was dead-on though. I'm glad you appreciate FoW; I hate that everyone only associates them with "Stacy's Mom." Schlesinger also wrote the song "That Thing You DO!" for Tom Hanks' movie, that's got to count for something, right?



I know one kid from Jasper, and I can say with the utmost certainty that he would be your least favorite person ever. And I graduated from Onsted in 2007, who do you know?

Did you know a Tiffany Adams?

[x togepi x]

my band is vaguely post hardcore.


fight me.

[mybreakingpoint]

Did you know a Tiffany Adams?

i don't. i just facebook searched her, and we don't have any mutual friends either heh. the name sounds vagely familiar, but idk. i only moved to Onsted in 2004.

[brandnizzle2419]

no, i didn't care whether you were using sarcasm. i just thought it was cute that you were trying to emulate the big boys.

emulation is the highest form of flattery. wait, no that's imitation, isn't it?

and big boys?

[x togepi x]

emulation is the highest form of flattery. wait, no that's imitation, isn't it?

and big boys?

and....my post went completely over your head.

[kearn1tm]

i don't. i just facebook searched her, and we don't have any mutual friends either heh. the name sounds vagely familiar, but idk. i only moved to Onsted in 2004.

She was a "beard" girlfriend (pre-coming out). My neice also went to Onstead (Danielle Goodrow).

[theguy77]

It is a typical list, but i'd rather be honest than trying to sound overly hip. You and mht rate me quite similarly.

haha yeah my list is so typical for someone like me i think

[kearn1tm]

my band is vaguely post hardcore.


fight me.

Do me a favor and use your genre esp to tell Ian MacKaye to blow me.

Oh snap, I'm edgy...pun intended!

[x togepi x]

Do me a favor and use your genre esp to tell Ian MacKaye to blow me.

Oh snap, I'm edgy...pun intended!

you would like that.

[brandnizzle2419]

and....my post went completely over your head.


oh well.

[kearn1tm]

you would like that.

Possibly. It's a fine art.

[theguy77]

hahahahah page 12 was the best yet in this thread, the whole thing.

[x togepi x]

Possibly. It's a fine art.

oh fuck you. you know you would.

[kearn1tm]

oh fuck you. you know you would.

He's not aged well. Piciotto though, that man's a fine wine.

[Rawrr]

Too bad Piciotto likes the riot grrrrls.

[funkel]

I'm glad you appreciate FoW; I hate that everyone only associates them with "Stacy's Mom." Schlesinger also wrote the song "That Thing You DO!" for Tom Hanks' movie, that's got to count for something, right?
He was killed in a cellular phone explosion
They scattered his ashes across the ocean
The water was used to make baby lotion
The wheels of promotion were set into motion

[tfar06]

(this week)

1.Mew
2.Baroness
3.Raein
4.Bear vs. Shark
5.Constants
6.New Found Glory
7.Goes Cube
8.Felix da housecat
9.Yuksek
10.Queens of the stone age

[hockeyguitar99]

Grizzly Bear
Manchester Orchestra
Broken Social Scene
Pomegranates
Animal Collective
Deerhunter
Girl Talk
The Gaslight Anthem
Beastie Boys
The Replacements

[11:11]

1: I'm a Kasher whore. This man is every 3-dimensional, earnest songwriter to transcribe his own mediocre love life and somehow turn it into a riveting narrative. You and I are swell at the moment...

2:...who?

3: Billy Joel's The Stranger. It's fantastic. Pick it up. Also, Billy Joel will be around in another ten years. Not having lukemia of the gingivitis of the inflammed bladder does wonders for a prolonged music career.

4: Hey, 75% of my shitty band has beards. We also wrote an excessively cryptic song about monotheism being the bane of contemporary Western organized religion. The song was absolutely awful, laden with empty literary devices and other goobledeygook. Our singer whispered for a while, then he went all Pixies on everyone, to which the intellectually challenged scene kids that came to see us play on campus started screaming in approval. We boast a sound that vaguely resembles Built to Spill. We're called "Baby Belle Must Die" (I was 17 when I formed it...I know, I know). No one knows us because we're awful. We will now be your number four selection. We hope to add gratuitious organ parts to our arrangements by next year.

5: A brief look at his Myspace suggests that this cat A.) is in the vain of Ragan and Turner insofar as being an Acoustic act with a raspy-ish voice/Punk-esque lyrics and B.) looks like he has a deep-seeded fear of water and, more accurately, bathing.

6: Hey, Incubus was also featured on a Now That's What I Call Music compilation; an accomplishment they share with such luminary artists as New Foundplay Coldinton. Mystikal's profound anthem about respecting the rights of women while trying to portray the gender as something that transcends sexual objects in Hip Hop, 2000's Shake Ya Ass, was on the same Now that Incubus' Drive was. In fact, let's mash it up: "I let the fear take the wheel and steer 'cause I know the bitch rode a dick like she makin' a baby!" Incukal gets you no buys here. In fact, stop being so damn sincere and insert Dylan anywhere you need a little cred. Incukal will not get you a coffeeshop blowjob, but it may, in fact, get you a handjob from that disease-infested tranny sporting a Who Let the Dogs Out t-shirt that hangs out by the gas station by the highway.

7: Nostalgia clouds even the best of us. I watched the full-lenght Power Ranger movie from 1995 a few months ago. I was 7 the summer of its release. At the time, the nonsensical plot and shiny fetish gear outfits (along with an ooze man antagonist that clearly used "ooze" as a symbolic nod to baby batter) appealed to my adolscent and undeveloped mind. A few months ago? Same fucking thing! I didn't love it from a campy ironic perspective. No, this was a pure, childish affinity. What's worse, I had now developed the ability to descipher between "good" and "bad" within media (or most other things). I wasn't oblivious to the film's sucking, and yet, I was cheering when they became Ninja Rangers after loosing their powers.

Third Eye Blind: The Power Rangers movie of my generation. Take control, guy. Be stronger than I am with the Rangers. They suck. We know it. Take back your iPod. Do it for all of us in our early '20s (caveat: if you're under the age of 19, there's no nostalgia tainting your judgment. Please, drink a bottle of turpentine).

8: I heard one of their songs. It sounded like a Pop Punk band that heard a Prog album and decided to do that...only thirty times worse and without any of the non-linnear complexity of Prog...so, essentially it was a Pop Punk that used more than three-chord power riffs. It sucked.

9: Mayer fosters in an overwhelming sense of ambivalence within me. He's adorable and actually has a finely tuned sense of humor (see: his standup, his VH1 appearances, Chappelle Show, showing up on a cruise in a thong, etc.), he's a capable guitarist and his live album with John Mayer Trio was listenable. Conversely, Mayer feels compelled to perpetually be the guy your late '30s mother listens to after realizing she's developed a muffin top and the last man she went out with stopped calling her because she "just wasn't 'doing it' for him anymore [this is where he may insert 'emotionally' so as not to sound completely transparent or mask his shallowness]." Mayer's content with writing pathos-raping songs that frat boys buy a Wal-Mart acoustic guitar for the sole purpose of learning one Mayer song to play at a party for some poon.

The bad outweighs the good. Fuck off with your shitty guitar, guy.

10: who?

You like Cursive. So do I. It's as if we share one...no, no I'm not going to complete that sarcastic remark. We're not alike. I, for one, want to nail Mayer. You're trying to use his songs to nail girls. See?

.5 Wal-Mart brand acoustic guitars/10
Hahahaha, this was a very entertaining read. You nailed almost all of it. The only thing I disagree with is the last bit of the Mayer section, because I'm partial to his more bluesy stuff. I don't use my guitar skills to get into a girls pants. Well, not yet.

And I think you should listen to a different song by Gatsby's. A lot of their songs tend to be very eclectic and have riffs other than just three simple power chords. See "A Mind of Metal and Wheels" off of Volcano. You still might not like them, but you'll at least have a different opinion.

[Charles777]

UP THE PUXXXX!!!

So, firstly, you've broken the format of this thread, forcing me to remove your number eleven pick: a gratuitous attempt to add diversity and merit to your list with the obligatory "lesser known composer" addition. Well, it was transparent anyway, so it's out.

1: Fantastic. The non-Jazz Jazz artist who's music was generally too experimental for the formalists. "That shit ain't Jazz!" You're a man after my own heart. Seeing him play with Wynton Marsalis last year was inspiring. Wynton practically wept while introducing one of his heroes. It was truly touching.

2: Funeral Diner > PoP

3: White, middle-class kids love chanting "fight the power" unironically.

4: There's been a fair amount of MBV love here. There was a time when Belle and Sebastian were the only band even remotely associated with Shoebaze that received attention here, and they're much more Chamber Pop in nature. Now, MBV, Slowdive and the like are blown constantly. What happened? Moreover, why? WHERE'S THE FUCKING HOOKS, DUDER!

5: Spiderland always gets me misty. Such a fantastic narrative.

6: While underground artists were starting to make a name for themselves in the '80s, these fucks sold out to Warner Brothers!!!! Where's your fucking REBEL YELL (see what I did there? I capitalized "rebel yell" to give it a visual appearance of being screamed. I'm clever)?

7/8: Yeah, yeah. I read Our Band Could Be Your Life too.

9/10: Yeah, yeah. I read Togepi's posts too.

You're the AP rebel. You listen to the scramz and wave it in the faces of the kids who just found out about Saetia's existence and the Tooth and Nail croud. You list an Avant-Jazzer in a forum that blows Coltrane and Davis ad nauseum. You're counter-culture, man. I bet you even take the crust off your PB&J before you eat it!

Well let me tell you something, you fucking punk: Smuckers offers an edible item called "uncrustables." Microwavable PB&Js that come with the crust pre-removed...and they're offered at EVERY major grocery chain. NOT SO FUCKING PUNK NOW?!

6 grilled cheeses are more punk than peanut butter and jelly anyway / 10
God dammit. Now I want some Uncrustables

[Hey Kevin]

according to Last.fm
1 Deerhoof
2 Portishead
3 Defiance, Ohio
4 Animal Collective
5 KMD
6 Andrew Jackson Jihad
7 Weekend Nachos
8 Infest
9 PRE
10 No Age

[kearn1tm]

I'm headed to work in an hour, in which I'll be confined to a computed with virtually nothing to do. Lists will get addressed.

However, a word to the wise: for those saying "here's my problem with your response," I don't care. Honestly, your qualms with my rants will invariably fall on deaf ears. These tirades are (mostly) in jest and use much hyperbole. Don't ruin the fun. Don't attempt to "defend" your list. No one cares. Don't get indignant. Maintain a flippant attitude.

[CellarGhosts]

Tom Waits
The Lawrence Arms
The Replacements
Alkaline Trio
Jimmy Eat World
Lagwagon
Bruce Springsteen
The Rolling Stones
The Pogues
Ryan Adams

I know, I know...Springsteen and Waits on the same list.

[TheOtherAndrew]

People putting good music on their lists? Intolerable!

[Nevuk]

In honor of this thread, I'm making a peanut butter sandwich. I actually like the crust on toast.

[kearn1tm]

1. The Jesus and Mary Chain
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Spacemen 3
4. Spiritualized
5. I Would Set Myself On Fire for You
6. I Hate Myself
7. The Stooges
8. James Chance & the Contortions
9. Joy Division
10. Mazzy Star

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you our archetypal AP counter-culture representative. He likes:

1: The Post-Punk, No Wave/Protopunk-inspired J&MC - fairly well-known by anyone who's read a "Best of the '80s" list from any number of music enthusiast press/blogs, but oddly neglected by most of AP save for the discussion and occasional namedrop by guys like myself or Vinh. On AP, this band is "obscure."

2: One of the most masturbatory acts to attempt "psychedelic rock" while adding to it the most boring facets of Shoegaze.

3: The sort of Spacey Acid Rock that only smarmy, pretentious monkeys listen to in an attempt to condone the constant name dropping in groups of friends that have undoubtedly never heard of them. Unfortunately, there's a reason they've never heard of them. Spacemen 3 sucks, and their Mudhoney cover was awful.

4: I'd never heard of them, but after brief wiki research and a quick listen, I've concluded the following:

-they formed from the ashes of good ol' Spacemen 3. Ugh.

-Space Rock is an obnoxious faux-subgenre.

-NME awarded one of their albums the "best of the year" honor. NME also has a tendancy to apply hyperbolic praise to any British band to throw out angular guitar hooks, insufferably accentuate their (what we Yanks perceive as a) accent for novelty appeal to the US crowd, and acheive a modicum of success in America (they have a proclivity to self-congradulate themselves for "helping American fans find [band]." Nationalism is fine, this is just vulgar).

Needless to say, I'm not a fan.

5: Since when did adding a string, woodwind or brass instrument to Scramz make it "experimental?"

6: Wait, so, with the Pop Punk kids, we see the natural progression of taste flow from contemporary, post-1999 scene fare to the '90s midwest Emo scene to, eventually, contemporary Pitchfork-ian Indie.

So, is this what happens when you worship Tooth and Nail bands? There's a trace from them, to, say, semi-obscure Scramz to the '80s No Wave/Shoegaze/Post-Punk stuff? Is Spacemen 3 to Thursday in the way that Sam Beam is to Say Anything? Have I uncovered the pattern? Will Darren Aronofsky write a screenplay/direct a black and white film about this?

7: There's a distinct pattern here. The Stooges are among the most influential (and, well, awesome) Protopunk bands. Acts like The Velvet Underground, Iggy and the boys, MC5, etc. had a profound effect on that Post-Punk/No Wave/Noise Rock movement in the '80s underground scene. You're clearly a fan of that sound, and it's easy to trace the progression. The Stooges are great. I'm a fan. No snark here.

8: Awesome! James Chance had his finger in various pies in the late '70s. The Contortionists was my favorite, before No Wave became a novelty. Cred man. Tons. Tons and tons and tons. Cred in the same way I get for name dropping Swans or Suicide. Let's give ourselves "obscure New York music movement handjobs." I'm really good at it.

9: The difference between Ian Curtis and Morrissey is that Morrissey knew how to turn "it" into a joke and an aura. Curtis was much more sincere and just looking for catharsis. One man got a shtick, the other got a premature death.

10: Boring, and not boring in the way Beach House is boring. They ape Mazzy, but do so in a way that makes you feel like a soft breeze is tickling your neck and you could just fall asleep. Mazzy's boring without creating any false sensations. How the hell did Fade Into You become a hit?

You know why they call it Dream Pop? It makes you want to sleep. BA-ZING!

So, here's the rub. Your list is incredibly linnear: A influenced B influenced C and here's D. It's very compartmentalized. Admittedly, most of these lists are, but it's much more apparent here when grandfather band is above father band is above son band. There's some good stuff, some "look at me, you have no idea who I like" stuff and then there's Spacemen 3. Do you really like Spacemen 3? Really? I dated a guy who "liked" Spacemen 3. He had one album. He'd listened to it twice. However, anytime you asked him for a rec or discussed anything (and I mean even the most banal shit, like "hey, that Madonna/JT song's kinda catchy") music related, he somehow found a way to slip this band into conversation.

Look guy, No Wave died. It was transgressive and loud. We had good times. Well, not "we," 'cause "we" weren't born yet, but Kim Gordon had good times. She made a band as a result. We liked it. You know what I like? That Madonna and Justin Timberlake song. That track's banging (he says unironically). It's good, but production on contemporary pop tracks have somehow devo..."blah blah blah Spacemen 3 blah blah No Wave blah."

You've only got 7 minutes to save the world / 10
-

[GuitarR0cker1]

not in order:
Fall Out Boy
Radiohead
Death Cab For Cutie
Weezer
Brand New
Cursive
Jawbreaker
Saves The Day
Modest Mouse
Neutral Milk Hotel
I WANT MY RATING

x

[kearn1tm]

I WANT MY RATING

x

Okay:

Stop pretending to give a shit about Jeff Mangum and stick with your awful Power pop.

1 kids will be kids / 10

[x togepi x]

don't worry dude, spiritualized do fucking suck

[GuitarR0cker1]

Okay:

Stop pretending to give a shit about Jeff Mangum and stick with your awful Power pop.

1 kids will be kids / 10
I was hoping for a more awesome lambasting of my shitty music tastes but this works too.

[circatbs]

According to last.fm:

blink-182
From First To Last
Dance Gavin Dance
The Get Up Kids
Brand New
Circa Survive
Holding Onto Hope
Death Cab For Cutie
Underoath
Mineral

Go.

[kearn1tm]

I was hoping for a more awesome lambasting of my shitty music tastes but this works too.

Patience is fantastic...unless you're seven and pretend to give a shit about an music journalist-approved and dense indie band from the mid '90s so you can lord it over fellow seven years old who listen to blessthefall and could give a shit about what blog says In the Aeroplane... was the best record of the '90s or the fact that you keep regurgitating that sentiment.

Advice: stop alienating your peers. No girl's going to want to touch you because you like Kid A.

[Praetor]

Patience is fantastic...unless you're seven and pretend to give a shit about an music journalist-approved and dense indie band from the mid '90s so you can lord it over fellow seven years old who listen to blessthefall and could give a shit about what blog says In the Aeroplane... was the best record of the '90s or the fact that you keep regurgitating that sentiment.

Advice: stop alienating your peers. No girl's going to want to touch you because you like Kid A.
Holy shit. This is perfection. I don't have a top ten list of favorite bands but could you rip me apart anyway?

[kearn1tm]

the microphones
iron and wine
the decemberists
brand new
bedouin soundclash
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Devendra Banhart
Pinback
Elliott Smith
attack in black


It's like we're the same person. The same as me in that "my v-neck was bought from a thrift shop. Yeah, I know it has an Old Navy tag, but, I mean, you can find Old Navy clothes while thrifting, man. I swear I got it for two bucks" kind of way.

1: Mount Eerie does nothing for me, but any band with a "the" in front of one word that's usually an inanimate object sounds indie chic.

2: Beam has a hobo beard, dresses unkempt and sings about man's inherent need to connect with nature. Of course he's great. I mean, he has a hobo beard?! I have to like him...but I certainly wouldn't fuck him. Gross, fella.

3: I love The Decemberists...wait for it...pre-lavish, production heavy, Baroque arrangements of The Crane Wife. I liked the stripped down acoustics with theatrical flourishes of Picaresque, Cutouts and Castaways and Her Magesty... Loved it. I loved Colin Meloy singing as a man out of time, of a soldier in Spain, of an establishment-sympathizer during The French Revolution, or a scorned son telling the longwinded story of revenge against a man who scorned his mother while they sit in the belly of a whale, a fickle member of royalty falling in love with a pessant. That's the Decemberists I loved. It seemed lost on The Crane Wife.

Regardless, those three albums are among my favorites of the decade. I love this band. I love that they give me the chance to say "well, I like 'em, but their early work was much better." I love that this line has the potential to get me laid at coffeeshops.

4: You satellite? You tiny boat with oars? Empty fucking metaphors.

5: Who?

6: ... Do you fucks realize that it's not 'edgy' nor does it make you individualistic to list this band? Hopefully, the fact that eighty of you have included them in your list will show you that "hey, I don't have to spend the two hours it takes to type their name and pretend to give a shit about them because it's not cool to drop Godhatesyour?africankingbecausehesa natheist."

Oh, and arbitrary punctuation in band titles is...AWESOME! When will Panic! play a show with Jesusdiedforyou.tomasturbate? Sell out crowd of greatness.

7: I like Banhart. Then again, I also bought that 500 songs book of Pitchfork's. You're disgusting. You're dirty. You look down on Valencia. Admit it!

8: Sunny Day Real Estate is not dead.

9: Elliot Smith is.

Oh, and, look, suicidal tendancies must truly distort your judgment, but if you stab yourself in the heart once and you aren't immediately killed, shouldn't the pain be enough to deter you from doing it again? No, I know. We're all looking at you, Smith. Such a drama queen. I wish he'd just go and kill hims...oh, oh yeah.

(Elliot Smith is a good songwriter, not a great songwriter with a very uneven body of work. The fact that he's blown so frequently boggles my mind)

10: Rhyming in a band name is the n!ew random punctuation. Sunny Bunny.?!Honey, Love Me, Love Me. Yeah.

So, how did you like the Pitchfork book? Wasn't it funny when they made fun of that Lisa Loeb song? Pssh. Mainstream '90s Pop, amirite? Pssh. Making fun of it is, like, so funny.

5 Elliot Smith will pull a Biggie...isn't he the one who's only kinda dead?/10

[Praetor]

It's like we're the same person. The same as me in that "my v-neck was bought from a thrift shop. Yeah, I know it has an Old Navy tag, but, I mean, you can find Old Navy clothes while thrifting, man. I swear I got it for two bucks" kind of way.

8: Sunny Day Real Estate is not dead.

9: Elliot Smith is.

5 Elliot Smith will pull a Biggie...isn't he the one who's only kinda dead?/10
:lol:

[mht]

pinback and sunny day real estate sound nothing alike, you need to at least be accurate with your lame attempts at jokes

[kearn1tm]

Holy shit. This is perfection. I don't have a top ten list of favorite bands but could you rip me apart anyway?

I refuse to go to jail for statutory rape. I most likely misspelled statutory.

[Praetor]

haha

[kearn1tm]

pinback and sunny day real estate sound nothing alike, you need to at least be accurate with your lame attempts at jokes

Yeah, yeah they do. "Emotionally confused and stunted songwriter" shtick.

I mean, it's not nearly as funny as "what? Slipnots and Lydia? Mindblown" jokes, but...no, no it's better.

[oddwithoutend]

It's like we're the same person. The same as me in that "my v-neck was bought from a thrift shop. Yeah, I know it has an Old Navy tag, but, I mean, you can find Old Navy clothes while thrifting, man. I swear I got it for two bucks" kind of way.

1: Mount Eerie does nothing for me, but any band with a "the" in front of one word that's usually an inanimate object sounds indie chic.

2: Beam has a hobo beard, dresses unkempt and sings about man's inherent need to connect with nature. Of course he's great. I mean, he has a hobo beard?! I have to like him...but I certainly wouldn't fuck him. Gross, fella.

3: I love The Decemberists...wait for it...pre-lavish, production heavy, Baroque arrangements of The Crane Wife. I liked the stripped down acoustics with theatrical flourishes of Picaresque, Cutouts and Castaways and Her Magesty... Loved it. I loved Colin Meloy singing as a man out of time, of a soldier in Spain, of an establishment-sympathizer during The French Revolution, or a scorned son telling the longwinded story of revenge against a man who scorned his mother while they sit in the belly of a whale, a fickle member of royalty falling in love with a pessant. That's the Decemberists I loved. It seemed lost on The Crane Wife.

Regardless, those three albums are among my favorites of the decade. I love this band. I love that they give me the chance to say "well, I like 'em, but their early work was much better." I love that this line has the potential to get me laid at coffeeshops.

4: You satellite? You tiny boat with oars? Empty fucking metaphors.

5: Who?

6: ... Do you fucks realize that it's not 'edgy' nor does it make you individualistic to list this band? Hopefully, the fact that eighty of you have included them in your list will show you that "hey, I don't have to spend the two hours it takes to type their name and pretend to give a shit about them because it's not cool to drop Godhatesyour?africankingbecausehesa natheist."

Oh, and arbitrary punctuation in band titles is...AWESOME! When will Panic! play a show with Jesusdiedforyou.tomasturbate? Sell out crowd of greatness.

7: I like Banhart. Then again, I also bought that 500 songs book of Pitchfork's. You're disgusting. You're dirty. You look down on Valencia. Admit it!

8: Sunny Day Real Estate is not dead.

9: Elliot Smith is.

Oh, and, look, suicidal tendancies must truly distort your judgment, but if you stab yourself in the heart once and you aren't immediately killed, shouldn't the pain be enough to deter you from doing it again? No, I know. We're all looking at you, Smith. Such a drama queen. I wish he'd just go and kill hims...oh, oh yeah.

(Elliot Smith is a good songwriter, not a great songwriter with a very uneven body of work. The fact that he's blown so frequently boggles my mind)

10: Rhyming in a band name is the n!ew random punctuation. Sunny Bunny.?!Honey, Love Me, Love Me. Yeah.

So, how did you like the Pitchfork book? Wasn't it funny when they made fun of that Lisa Loeb song? Pssh. Mainstream '90s Pop, amirite? Pssh. Making fun of it is, like, so funny.

5 Elliot Smith will pull a Biggie...isn't he the one who's only kinda dead?/10

Amazing. Been looking forward to this for quite some time. If you honestly haven't heard of Bedouin Soundclash I'd give them a listen. Reggea. Just sayin.

[mht]

Yeah, yeah they do. "Emotionally confused and stunted songwriter" shtick.

I mean, it's not nearly as funny as "what? Slipnots and Lydia? Mindblown" jokes, but...no, no it's better.



not even fucking close you need to open your ears and educate yourself on music before you make the stupid claims you do

[theguy77]

3: I love The Decemberists...wait for it...pre-lavish, production heavy, Baroque arrangements of The Crane Wife. I liked the stripped down acoustics with theatrical flourishes of Picaresque, Cutouts and Castaways and Her Magesty... Loved it. I loved Colin Meloy singing as a man out of time, of a soldier in Spain, of an establishment-sympathizer during The French Revolution, or a scorned son telling the longwinded story of revenge against a man who scorned his mother while they sit in the belly of a whale, a fickle member of royalty falling in love with a pessant. That's the Decemberists I loved. It seemed lost on The Crane Wife.

Regardless, those three albums are among my favorites of the decade. I love this band. I love that they give me the chance to say "well, I like 'em, but their early work was much better." I love that this line has the potential to get me laid at coffeeshops.

fuck, we agree entirely on something, even given the context of this thread. that's amazing.

4: You satellite? You tiny boat with oars? Empty fucking metaphors.

hahahaha you really must feel strongly against that writing style, it's always that song too.

[kearn1tm]

not even fucking close you need to open your ears and educate yourself on music before you make the stupid claims you do

hey man where do you get the right oh look theres a fake scramz band over there some kids creaming themselves over you should go and scold him

[kearn1tm]

fuck, we agree entirely on something, even given the context of this thread. that's amazing.

Now I disagree. Thanks for fucking that up for me, Ryan.

[Burn That Shit]

:popcorn:

[oddwithoutend]

pinback and sunny day real estate sound nothing alike, you need to at least be accurate with your lame attempts at jokes

I've never listened to sunny day real estate. Pinback is actually one of a few bands on that list that was put on just to see what he thinks of them.

I had a friend introduce me to Elliot Smith, Pinback, and Devendra Banhart a couple weeks ago. Does that mean she's likely into Pitchfork?

[mht]

I've never listened to sunny day real estate. Pinback is actually one of a few bands on that list that was put on just to see what he thinks of them.

I had a friend introduce me to Elliot Smith, Pinback, and Devendra Banhart a couple weeks ago. Does that mean she's likely into Pitchfork?


Pinback has been a two piece band longer than this dude comparing them to Sunny Day has been sucking on his mothers teets and shitting his diapers at age twenty something. Pinback is not a Pitchfork band, they didn't just fucking over night appear, they have been a rock band before things like myspace and hipsters and trends, their music has never changed for a certain appeal. Rob Crowe does not write cliche metaphors or lyrics, they are not even in the same genre as Sunny Day and I am pretty sure I own every Pinback album and have never heard a scream/voice strain once. So this idiot in this thread can't even make fun of bands correctly when trying to say who ripped of who, it is quite sad. Learn your music idiot

[theguy77]

Now I disagree. Thanks for fucking that up for me, Ryan.

im going to pretend i get paid $50 every time someone tells me they prefer crane wife, and that that was my intention.

[kearn1tm]

I've never listened to sunny day real estate. Pinback is actually one of a few bands on that list that was put on just to see what he thinks of them.

If Sunny Day, Modest Mouse and, say, Sea and Cake fucked, Pinback would be the result.

[quoteI had a friend introduce me to Elliot Smith, Pinback, and Devendra Banhart a couple weeks ago. Does that mean she's likely into Pitchfork?[/quote]

What's Pitchfork?

[theguy77]

pitchfork rated elliott smith highly?

[mht]

you have never listened to a Pinback song in your life because those 3 bands sound nothing like them.

[mht]

please go on youtube and find me a Sunny Day song a Modest Mouse song and a Pinback song and show me anything close musically.

[Burn That Shit]

:popcorn:

Agreed.

[kearn1tm]

Pinback has been a two piece band longer than this dude comparing them to Sunny Day has been sucking on his mothers teets and shitting his diapers at age twenty something. Pinback is not a Pitchfork band, they didn't just fucking over night appear, they have been a rock band before things like myspace and hipsters and trends, their music has never changed for a certain appeal. Rob Crowe does not write cliche metaphors or lyrics, they are not even in the same genre as Sunny Day and I am pretty sure I own every Pinback album and have never heard a scream/voice strain once. So this idiot in this thread can't even make fun of bands correctly when trying to say who ripped of who, it is quite sad. Learn your music idiot

I don't care about the history of Pinback, guy. I've listened to the four full lengths and they're bland, hooky Indie Rock. Singing about death and pushing babies down stares are riddled with trite literary tools. Fuck most of the songs off Autumn of the Seraph sound like any number of Indie Rock acts.

[Yes. And?]

I'm lazy, can I just post my last f.m. or something. :shrug:

[Nevuk]

I'm lazy, can I just post my last f.m. or something. :shrug:
I didn't think you still posted on here...

[Yes. And?]

I didn't think you still posted on here...
I post less often but I'm still around...more or less.

[kearn1tm]

More to come. Good times will be had by all.

[theguy77]

can i post my 11-20 and you rate that?

[kearn1tm]

can i post my 11-20 and you rate that?

Why not?

[theguy77]

11. American Analog Set
12. Bon Iver
13. Brendan Canning
14. Iron And Wine
15. The Decemberists
16. Beck
17. Nick Drake
18. Pedro the Lion
19. The Weakerthans
20. Fleet Foxes

[theguy77]

lololol @ there being like 5 pitchfork folk bands in that list ahahah

[Yes. And?]

My last f.m. says:

1. Liz Phair (http://www.last.fm/music/Liz+Phair) (pretty much all Exile In Guyville)

2. The Smashing Pumpkins (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Smashing+Pumpkins)

3. Hole (http://www.last.fm/music/Hole)

4. Nirvana (http://www.last.fm/music/Nirvana)

5. My Chemical Romance (http://www.last.fm/music/My+Chemical+Romance)

6. Santogold vs. Diplo (http://www.last.fm/music/Santogold+vs.+Diplo) (some mixtape)

7. Thursday (http://www.last.fm/music/Thursday)

8. PJ Harvey (http://www.last.fm/music/PJ+Harvey)

9. Glassjaw (http://www.last.fm/music/Glassjaw)

10. Deftones (http://www.last.fm/music/Deftones)

lol

[theguy77]

damn my chem dropped to 5? cah-razy

[Yes. And?]

damn my chem dropped to 5? cah-razy
They have not been #1 for quite some time. :shrug:

[theguy77]

They have not been #1 for quite some time. :shrug:

if you didnt start neglecting us i wouldnt have been astonished. :-(

[Yes. And?]

Sorry. I just feel kind of..detached from this site now. Flaming people on lj is so much more satisfying.

[Nevuk]

Sorry. I just feel kind of..detached from this site now. Flaming people on lj is so much more satisfying.
I started doing it face to face, found that pretty satisfying. Then I tried to stop, then I realized that I was usually justified. I only post on AP when several factors come together, the first being that I start hating the majority of the people that I know, the second being a kind of ennui, and the third a somewhat desperate loneliness that hasn't been exhausted by reading tons. And then I realize that I hate everyone anyways and the cycle resets.

[Yes. And?]

I started doing it face to face, found that pretty satisfying. Then I tried to stop, then I realized that I was usually justified. I only post on AP when several factors come together, the first being that I start hating the majority of the people that I know, the second being a kind of ennui, and the third a somewhat desperate loneliness that hasn't been exhausted by reading tons. And then I realize that I hate everyone anyways and the cycle resets.
Good times. Is it wrong I am waiting for the right time to flame someone in real life? I've never really done it before and I sometimes find myself daydreaming about ripping some idiot a new one. One of these days, man.