Here's the thread where we mercilessly cut bands we are hating right now to ribbons

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My beef is with this fucking shitty band Akron, on Young God Records. Don't know what Gira's thinking. I've always loved / respected Gira, but maybe after the whole Devendra Banhart thing, he's kinda throwing shit to the wall and seeing what sticks. Man, what a piece of shit record. I got the impression early on that they were maybe trying too hard when I saw the ad for this album, describing the band as "Brooklyn's young eccentric avant-rock mystic folk electric fire swallowing hermetic heartthrob hirsute savants" - give me a fucking break. I hadn't even heard it yet and I was already totally suspicious.

Well, surprise surprise, it sounds like generic post-rock crapola, sure as shit. At it's VERY best it sounds like second-rate Microphones, at it's absolute worst it reminds me of Beta Band trying to jump on the 'free folk' bandwagon, but somehow worse. But the sound of it - the songs, production, everything - is so unmistakably OF THIS TIME and so fucking CORNY INDIE FUXOR it makes me want to vomit.

― loggedoff@loggedoff.com, Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

~~mercilessly~~ anonymously

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah man, acorns suck. Fuckin' squirrels.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

My local modern rock radio station is playing teh new WEEZER single right now. SUCK CITY. I have hated this band since their first single, though.

Watched some MTV2 in the early AM when they actually play videos and stuff like My Chemical Romance and the Used was on. OMGWTF SUXXXXORZ!!!111oneone!! I had no idea the kids were listening to overwrought crap that was this bad. Now, when I was a teenager a good 85% of my record collection was severely overwrought, but it was NOT THIS BAD.

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 9 April 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I like it :(

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 9 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm not so much for the NME these days, but I always enjoyed their reviews of Barenaked Ladies albums:

http://www.nme.com/reviews/5867.htm
http://www.nme.com/reviews/2137.htm

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Saturday, 9 April 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

is that 1st BNL review swells? why can't the gddamned nme manage to credit people on reviews these days? i remember that review, and it screams of swells...not quite as good as his review of the second Spacehog album..also got a zero..but the kiss off was amazing...doesnt seem to be on the site

the akron's have yet to be well recorded. their record and the AOL record entirely fail to show what that band actually does.

and finally. i don't buy annie. attall. so very, very thin i dont think i could further slice it.

― b b, Monday, 11 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

OK, Friends: razor sharp script, dead funny and all that, but deep down it sucks, right? Why?
Well, for a start, whenever Ross bangs on about dinosaurs the rest of the cast make jokes about how boring he is. No way! Dinosaurs are both ace and infinitely interesting. And then there's that episode where Rachel persuades a lass to shave her gurly hair so that Ross won't find her attractive any more.
Duh, that's so straight! Total 'comedy-of-conformity' bullshit. And then there's that excruciatingly embarrassing scene where our chums get terrifically excited when they score tickets for a - wait for it! - Hootie And The Blowfish concert!!!! The bastards are actually as ridiculously, tastelessly square as the hero of American Psycho - except that in Friends this squareness is presented without any irony whatsoever. Uh, so why are we talking about Friends rather than the Barenaked Ladies, dude? Because they are SO FUCKING BORING! OK, here's some track titles - 'Too Little Too Late', 'Never Do Anything', 'Pinch Me' - and, guess what, THEY ALL FUCKING SUCK! Not just Weller, Ashcroft or Belle & Sebastian sucky but Mike & The Mechanics, Tin Machine and, yes, Hootie And The Blowfish sucky.

So how does 'Maroon' compare to previous BNL albums? Who knows? Who cares? Nobody with a smidgen of soul has EVER listened to one all the way through and this poor bastard hopes he never has to ever again. EVER!
ZERO

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

thats pretty otm, actually.

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah i thinik the akron family cd was a bit of a dissapointment but I think it has it's moments. for me I just cannot stand the fiery furnaces, but that's a pretty usual gripe on this site. just as much as they are praised on this site. their faux whimsical lyrics and flat vocals make me cringe. I'll never understand why people love them so much. That said I do think they are talented. go figure. hah

― breezy, Monday, 11 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

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