Looking back, what's the biggest bullshit, musically speaking, that everyone -BUT- you fell for in the 00s

I'm goin' with every "SAVIORS OF ROCK!!!" narrative that cropped up throughout the decade, whether it was The Strokes or The White Stripes or The Arctic Monkeys or w/e

(and yes this thread is obviously gonna be even more obnoxious and self-important than the other one -- haters gon' hate, the rest of us can just roll with it)

obviously

Joanna Newsome, Devandra Banhardt (sp?) and the whole back to the beards folk schtick + Animal Collective.

Although, I've lately been wondering if I should try and listen to some AnCo pre MWP, seeing as how they're oft cited as precurors of glophy/chillwave; however, I maintain Russian Futurists as being way ahead of the glo-fi curve, 'cept very few know/care about him.

I listened to an MIA record once.

coldplay? don't think i've ever met another person whose known animal collective to exist.

the number of times something new came out last decade that everyone fell for, only for me to shrug off with a "meh, i don't see how this is any good", only for me to 180 a month or two later... i find myself getting increasingly wary about dismissing things too soon. with stuff like dubstep, i was sceptical up until only maybe two years ago. i suppose it might have been because the early stuff wasn't as ebullient as more recent stuff, or a number of other factors, but i proved myself wrong and ended up really liking it.

there's been a huge knee-jerk backlash against Animal Collective; largely from people who only really listened to MWPP and didn't "get it" immediately. Those who've followed the band from their early-to-middle period can place this album contextually within their catalogue as a branch and extension of a sound. Comparing it to something like Sung Tongs (well worth a listen, even for naysayers), and while they are related, the sound is very different.

The Darkness. that was some desperate stuff you idiots.

ok this thread-title

xxpost: I mean I've done 180s too, but hearing something like The White Stripes for the first time, it was pretty easy to tell that we weren't 6 months away from collectively evolving into some kind of Stonesian boomer-rock paradise, regardless of how cute Jack and Meg's outfits are

This question doesn't work as well as the other one because there aren't really things that "everyone" "falls for" - if by everyone you just mean your immediate circle of friends or lots of ppl on a messageboard or w/e, then maybe, but if you take even a couple of steps back from some currently-hyped entity it tends to be obvious that there are vast swathes of the listening public that don't even slightly give a shit

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also this thread encourages the worst sorts of ILM posting

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/brian-sewell-500x347.jpg

LJ you live in england, I am sure you can think of at least ten thousand examples of people around you getting super worked-up about mediocre music if you put your mind to it

It's the 'everyone BUT you' bit that's annoying to me. There have been some highly irritating buzz bands, but none of them have been universally loved, and I don't want it to seem like I'm a shining beacon for sacred truth. My first instinct on seeing this title was 'lol LCD Soundsystem' but then I was thinking of ILX rather than everyone, also really not everyone on ILX loves them, also it's really freaking annoying for everyone else when I bang on about how I can't stand James Murphy

MIA, Justice.

The Darkness. that was some desperate stuff you idiots.

― aztec gamera (zappi), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:48 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah you got me... But there are still glimpses of half-decent songs on that first album. A big problem with lot of bands in the 00s is that they not only had songs, but schtick to go with it. "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" was an amusing and fun pop-rock anthem until Justin Cabbagefillings started believing he really was a proper rock star. But yeah, the Darkness were the Kula Shaker of the '00s.

I mean, sorry for hating on this thread, but it's a reaction against an inner instinct (which MUST be suppressed) to go full ham on any number of moderately-hyped bands I've perceived as selling mundane trash to the people

one day there'll be a thread on ILX where 80% of replies aren't made up of the semantic picking apart of the original poster's question.

yeah, it's phrased pretty innocuously tbf

It's not so much a semantic issue as a personal longstanding aggravation at seeing stuff talked about as if it's captured the national imagination when it's quite obviously not the case

I don't really care if it's 'objectively true', just wanna know 'how it felt'

Doesn't a thread full of people going "yeah I also felt superior to that brief-lived genre/NME catchphrase" give the lie to "everyone - BUT - you"??

Early 00s mainstream R&B pop. Just as manufactured and plastic as boy/girl bands, and with a lack of tunes in addition.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/1825888726_f5b8cc4919.jpg

clap your hands say yeah, spoom

Daft Punk

Fuck me if I didn't end up downloading "Discovery" in 2010 tho'

gonna be a fun thread

Muse. I really hate them.

Only person I know who liked Muse is LJ. Never met anyone irl who does.

are you sure about that

The New Concise Larousse Gastronomique describes spoom as: "A type of frothy sorbet, which used to be a great favourite in England, made with a lighter syrup than that required for a true sorbet. As it begins to set, it is mixed with half its volume of Italian meringue."

i like muse.

must be a J thang

actually it's a kinda 'two out of three people aged between 15 and 35 in Britain, especially females, are completely mad for them' thing

I still dont know anyone irl who likes them

I no longer associate myself with anyone irl who likes them

The National.

Seriously -- how did these guys become the fucking saviours of indie rock?? Pfork posts a news item every time a new track leaks or is played live from their album. No doubt the blogs follow suit. What gives?

Also, every band in this thread: creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

fucking muse.

and yeah i have still never heard an animal collective album and have no intention of ever doing so

Feels & Strawberry Jam are dope, MPP is solid too but less so possibly

my answers for this would def be arcade fire and polyphonic spree

i dunno mpp wz my first & only Ac album & I realy dug it...

xpost

feels silly now, but when Ys came out, I felt like I was the only person around here who hated Joanna Newsom. of course, she's now basically a punchline.

this is a pretty obnoxious thread concept even for me and i agree with dj mencap, it requires a lack of perspective to get upset about shit and wander into the woods alone screaming about idolatry like the monk in 'andrei rublyov'

eg mordy if i was around then i would have completely shared yr disdain for j newsom but then holding any opinion at all about her was probably a pretty recherche thing outside the internet goldfish bowl

Arcade Fire, Fiery Furnaces, Trail of the Dead

Basic Channel

Spoon

I can honestly say I never liked Ryan Adams that much.

I did kinda feel bad for him regarding the "Bryan Adams" thing, until I found out Ryan Adams isn't his real name anyway.

Radiohead.

Mark, didn't even realize it isn't his real name.

I was going to add Radiohead but I know plenty who dislike Radiohead. Maybe their hatred isn't as big as mine though.

Ah, just checked wikip, maybe I'm being unfair...

His 'real' name is David Ryan Adams, so I guess he's one of those people who went by his second name.

OK, fair enough.

Lil wayne

everybody believes what they're told to
everybody believes what they read in the nme
everybody but me
everybody but me
everybody but me

Basic Channel

― Siegbran, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:28 (Yesterday)

real talk. glad you didn't say basement jaxx.

Basement Jaxx. One or two kinda good tunes. Definitely nowhere as good as Daft Punk though.

Surely you don't mean 'Scion - Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks'?

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falling for using the term "fell for" instead of "like". insecure folks, take some shrooms, go KO a teenager, be yourself, life is big