thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

I don't like it, don't understand the hype. I mean, it's fine, but not what I'm looking for and nothing special imo.

I'm listening to the new Martyn album and it is stunning, likewise the new Beta Librae album also makes a lot of similar moves, but neither of them are getting anything like the acclaim this is

ski mask with nardwuar made me think he's a chill dude.

i really like this, don't care what anyone thinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9KXM60l4U

i'm more into andrea & stenny when it comes to Ilian Tape stuff

ski mask with nardwuar made me think he's a chill dude.

different dude (unless that's the joke in which case the joke is on me)

ilx has such a shit taste in indie. not sorry

ok fine let's give Rolling Search Engine Optimisation Fever another go

this opening track is 10000 minutes of the same boring riff

I don't really get it either, but I'm trying to assume something like "it's not you, it's me"...

it's definitely imago

i'm also not feeling Let's Bore G'ma

...bore huh

mood: strategising an ogmor-on-Mary-Lattimore on Parquet Courts

m8 I successfully navigate life and art without giving one second's thought to most shit du jour, try it! It's liberating!

Like why are you even engaging if it's dross. I assume it's dross. So I don't check it out.

i guess 'the discourse' is an overrated thing. i shall hereby tidy the house instead

Let a billion discourses bloom

listening to the beths. not bad! it's like...decent, formulaic indie with fair-to-good hooks we've all heard before. so it puzzles me why ilxors good and true are hyping it to the skies, feels like they're almost patronising it, forcing it to be their 'album of the year' as it's a cool look or w/e. i mean sure like it and write about it but there's massive cognitive dissonance between the album you're all talking about and the album i'm hearing

tldr: listen to the trust fund album as well pls

forcing it to be their 'album of the year' as it's a cool look or w/e

lj, i hate it when you do this, please stop

like i haven't heard the beths record but what if it were my album of the year? personally i'd say fuck you!

btw listen to the new low album

and you'd be right to! but given what else has come out this year i flatly refuse to believe this would be even close to your aoty. but i've been wrong before. i just don't understand the greatness of this album. i'm listening and i can't hear it

and yeah ok haha

It's a very narcissistic look to not only think you have the best taste (that's normal enough), but to actually doubt that other people are sincere in their own enjoyment of things outside of that

fine well i wish i just understood people better then

also, the album picks up at the end at least

it's a delicate thing to get right but I am not universally against ppl casting aspersions on my proclaimed love for certain things, sometimes there's some truth to it

sure, consider the posting history of rtc

btw i feel bad about getting mad at you lj so i've decided to finally listen to this trust fund album, will report back

It's a very narcissistic look to not only think you have the best taste (that's normal enough), but to actually doubt that other people are sincere in their own enjoyment of things outside of that

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, September 6, 2018 10:11 AM (thirty-four minutes ago)

this is all some people have. nothing worse than a music critic who thinks/speaks of their opinions as fact.

credit to imago, though, i thought this:

i mean sure like it and write about it but there's massive cognitive dissonance between the album you're all talking about and the album i'm hearing

was gonna be this:

"i mean sure like it and write about it but there's massive cognitive dissonance between the album you're all talking about and the album it actually is"

big difference there that i appreciate

fine well i wish i just understood people better then

no you dont

(sorry)

if people can't talk about records they don't get in the "talk about records you don't get" thread where the fuck can they

(I haven't heard the full album; the tracks I heard were nice but not necessarily outstanding for me)

Fair enough I guess this should be a safe space for hating and strawperson-ing

yeah ilx really needed one of those

anyway i wasn't railing against the thread idea itself just the particular way lj did it so i'm confused

this thread should be burned to the ground

People can hate on what they want, but questioning other listeners' underlying motivations is a technically very difficult power-move to execute without looking small-minded and intellectually lazy, so in most cases it's a rhetorical manoeuvre best avoided or at least saved for real "in emergency break glass" situations, which is probably not "why do people enjoy this perfectly pleasant power-pop album".

Nah.

In the anachronistic spirit of this thread, I'll try to contribute to it once my to-listen list finally hits 2018, so if all goes well, some time next year.

xp

Without questioning anyone's motivations (for anything), I'm also a little surprised at the passionate reception for the Beths (it's fine, but I thought I'd like it more, based on descriptions).

But I've felt the same way about other stuff here recently that folks have gone gaga over. I wish I could hear more stuff with the same ears, I'd rather love stuff than not love it!

But I've felt the same way about other stuff here recently that folks have gone gaga over. I wish I could hear more stuff with the same ears, I'd rather love stuff than not love it!

― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Thursday, September 6, 2018 2:33 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is largely where I am with music in general right now. I love stuff but it is generally not the stuff others love, to the point where I've wondered if this is some kind of defense mechanism

Eh, you're overthinking it. As long as you're willing to give everything a fair shake, like whatever you like and stick with it. I stopped looking for a community of like-minded listeners a long time ago, and that's ok.

Tim otm. If one can't see the difference between "i don't get this thing everyone seems to love" and "i don't get this thing everyone seems to love, probably because it's a cool look" then *shrug*

more to my point, same goes for "hmm, to each his own" vs "actually no the album is bad" in response to ppl talking about something they love.

I'm never really mystified about why others like what they like, but I often make the mistake of thinking the stuff that I like is more popular or appealing than it is.

I generally try to append something like "IMO" or "to my ears" when I express a negative opinion up in here (even tho I think that should be implied), just to avoid making those kind of declarative statements. (I guess I could try not posting anything negative at all, but...)

There's a difference between a negative opinion and specifically attributing ulterior motives to people who have positive opinions

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to do that... who knows why those freakin' weirdos like the crazy shit they like, they must all be high (lol)

anyway the Beths album didn't come out in 2017 so technically it's ineligible for this thread :D

this trust fund album is badass, i've been sleeping, thanks lj

some good came of this then :D