Lol @..

[dirk4mvp]

Honestly, I think he's more into post-indy music.

If indie isn't a genre to begin with, how can they be into post indie?

[monosylab1k]

That makes people hip? :lol

You're on a roll.

Not hip. Hip indiefag. There's a difference.

[monosylab1k]

Honestly, I think he's more into post-indy music.

You mean like the Air Force One soundtrack?

[redzero]

If indie isn't a genre to begin with, how can they be into post indie?

But indie is a genre.

[monosylab1k]

But indie is a genre.

crofl

[Veterinarian]

If indie isn't a genre to begin with, how can they be into post indie?

It was meant as a sarcastic joke.

Is Explosions in the Sky considered cool or not btw? I'm not kidding/trolling with this question. I like a bunch of their songs.

[dirk4mvp]

But indie is a genre.
Grunge has more credibility in being called a genre than indie does.

[monosylab1k]

It was meant as a sarcastic joke.

Is Explosions in the Sky considered cool or not btw? I'm not kidding/trolling with this question. I like a bunch of their songs.

I personally enjoy some Explosions in the Sky, but I didn't consult a message board or indiefag website to tell me what I like and don't like, so you might not want to go with my view on it.

[Zelophehad]

I'm fine with this thread, as long as no one shits on the Beatles. If that happens I'll have to pop a glock in their mouth and make a brain slushy.

[midnightpulp]

Yeah Austin is cool but those faggots are pretty vomit-inducing. What I love most are how every indie hipster douche store out there has a wall dedicated to "Quentin Tarantino Sucks!" t-shirts to show how nonconformist you are.

Which is funny because Tarantino was a hipster god when Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction came out.

That's what disgusts me about hipsters. First of all, they don't know as much as they think do, and second of all, they spend 90% of their energy blathering about how their idols should enjoy the same mainstream success as a Spielberg, or a U2, then when it finally does happen, they accuse said idols of "selling out" and find some new obscure name to christen as their savior.

[21_Blessings]

Well, I never hear of these meaningless classifications until I look up some band up on Wikipedia or read a thread like this. Not really that into music so it happens maybe twice a year. Honestly though, I think this thread may have been the first time I heard of post-rock. The funniest part of all this was when Explosions in the Sky called themselves a rock band and said they wanted to be called a rock band, but everyone ignored them and classified them something else. Can't remember/don't care what it was. But that was a great moment in music fan pretentiousness.

Oh hey we use a guitar. Let's it call it rock n roll! Next thing you know bands are going to start labeling themselves as "math rock" :lol

Seriously who give a fuck. Post-rock is loosely defined and mostly just used to group contemporary sounding peers.

[monosylab1k]

tbh did I just criticize the musical taste dick measuring contest going on but then right afterwards throw my own shriveled vienna sausage out onto the table? fuck me.

[SomeCallMeTim]

I'm fine with this thread, as long as no one shits on the Beatles. If that happens I'll have to pop a glock in their mouth and make a brain slushy.

Given enough time, someone always passionately craps on the Beatles. There are no sacred cows on the internet.

But I'm always kinda glad when someone does that. It's like when someone blurts out something totally racist... it warns you "watch out for that guy."

[Veterinarian]

I personally enjoy some Explosions in the Sky, but I didn't consult a message board or indiefag website to tell me what I like and don't like, so you might not want to go with my view on it.

I'll like them regardless, but I'm just curious if they're considered lame by the music fan elite.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Which is funny because Tarantino was a hipster god when Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction came out.

That's what disgusts me about hipsters. First of all, they don't know as much as they think do, and second of all, they spend 90% of their energy blathering about how their idols should enjoy the same mainstream success as a Spielberg, or a U2, then when it finally does happen, they accuse said idols of "selling out" and find some new obscure name to christen as their savior.

Can we just all agree right now that ennui sucks and call it a day? :lol

[Booharv]

The Post prefix is the most annoying part. It's a couple of people basically announcing that one genre is over and then the new genre is often barely different in most respects and/or nothing groundbreaking to jerk off about.

[midnightpulp]

I'm fine with this thread, as long as no one shits on the Beatles. If that happens I'll have to pop a glock in their mouth and make a brain slushy.

Hipsters find it cool to shit on the Beatles, especially their teen-pop (which is great music), pre-Revolver period.

[SomeCallMeTim]

The Post prefix is the most annoying part. It's a couple of people basically announcing that one genre is over and then the new genre is often barely different in most respects and/or nothing groundbreaking to jerk off about.

I don't know if "post" connotes that a genre is over. Just that it followed it. I think musicians generally try way too hard to come up with unique labels for their "art" but I don't blame them... it's really hard to sum up a band's or movement's sound in a few words. It's like that old Thelonious Monk quote, "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

[midnightpulp]

I don't know if "post" connotes that a genre is over. Just that it followed it. I think musicians generally try way too hard to come up with unique labels for their "art" but I don't blame them... it's really hard to sum up a band's or movement's sound in a few words. It's like that old Thelonious Monk quote, "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

Or what Duke Ellington once said, "There are only two kinds of music. Good and bad."

[midnightpulp]

From the Field Guide to North American Hipsters: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/field-guide-north.php?page=2

The Pop Nerd

Pop Nerds have an abiding love of everything canonically agreed upon as great by their peers, none of whom they respect. Their own taste is unimpeachable, and everyone else’s is dead wrong. They know more about bands they hate than you know about your favorite band. They know what label Jesus was on. They are torn between hating Rob Sheffield and secretly wanting to be him. They read books about books about music. Pop nerds are much more likely to be male than female, because boys have a far greater tendency toward wasting their lives in the pursuit of meaningless trivia. They fancy themselves as John Cusack from High Fidelity, but really they’re a perfect mixture of Jack Black and the effeminate bald guy. They can be tough to spot in the wild, because they never leave their houses. The most effective way to identify a pop nerd, should you encounter one in the wild, is to ask him if he’s heard of a made-up band. While any non-liar with nothing to prove would simply say “no,” any nerd worth his salt would try to bullshit their way out of it (as I have expertly detailed in my “How to Fake It” article).
Musical Taste: They all like The Velvet Underground, unless you accuse them of liking the Velvet Underground, in which case they bust out their contingency plan about what a pathetic poseur Lou Reed was.

How to Tame a Pop Nerd: Say something bad about a specific rock critic. Walk up to a pop nerd at the vinyl bin of your local ultra-hip record store and say “Greil Marcus is an idiot.” The pop nerd will take it as a cue to explain why he himself knows a million times more about everything than Greil Marcus ever will.

Benefits of Friendship: Access to record collections that often border on obscenely decadent.

Drawbacks of Friendship: Never, ever mention anything about music to them, unless you’re agreeing with them or intentionally setting them up to win an argument and boost their ego. In the rare instances in which a pop nerd becomes interested in a girl, he will ultimately fail in the pursuit and you’ll have to hear about it. He’ll make you listen to heinous crap that he has tricked himself into considering great, like Scritti Politti and Einsturzende Neubauten (which he can spell without looking it up).

[badfish22]

I like Explosions in the Sky, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pearl Jam, and RATM. So, am I cool or not?
Those bands are well liked and respected by many people, so no. Try finding some music no one knows about bro :tu
It also helps if they blow ass :tu

[badfish22]

lol @ thinking your musical taste is "deep" because you know how to download the free single of the week.
:lmao mono won this thread imho.

[Zelophehad]

From the Field Guide to North American Hipsters: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/field-guide-north.php?page=2

The Pop Nerd

Pop Nerds have an abiding love of everything canonically agreed upon as great by their peers, none of whom they respect. Their own taste is unimpeachable, and everyone else’s is dead wrong. They know more about bands they hate than you know about your favorite band. They know what label Jesus was on. They are torn between hating Rob Sheffield and secretly wanting to be him. They read books about books about music. Pop nerds are much more likely to be male than female, because boys have a far greater tendency toward wasting their lives in the pursuit of meaningless trivia. They fancy themselves as John Cusack from High Fidelity, but really they’re a perfect mixture of Jack Black and the effeminate bald guy. They can be tough to spot in the wild, because they never leave their houses. The most effective way to identify a pop nerd, should you encounter one in the wild, is to ask him if he’s heard of a made-up band. While any non-liar with nothing to prove would simply say “no,” any nerd worth his salt would try to bullshit their way out of it (as I have expertly detailed in my “How to Fake It” article).
Musical Taste: They all like The Velvet Underground, unless you accuse them of liking the Velvet Underground, in which case they bust out their contingency plan about what a pathetic poseur Lou Reed was.

How to Tame a Pop Nerd: Say something bad about a specific rock critic. Walk up to a pop nerd at the vinyl bin of your local ultra-hip record store and say “Greil Marcus is an idiot.” The pop nerd will take it as a cue to explain why he himself knows a million times more about everything than Greil Marcus ever will.

Benefits of Friendship: Access to record collections that often border on obscenely decadent.

Drawbacks of Friendship: Never, ever mention anything about music to them, unless you’re agreeing with them or intentionally setting them up to win an argument and boost their ego. In the rare instances in which a pop nerd becomes interested in a girl, he will ultimately fail in the pursuit and you’ll have to hear about it. He’ll make you listen to heinous crap that he has tricked himself into considering great, like Scritti Politti and Einsturzende Neubauten (which he can spell without looking it up).

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[dirk4mvp]

tbh, whatever happened to that band called TV On The Radio? Weren't they pretty hi up on the indie hipster totem pole?

[Zelophehad]

Those bands are well liked and respected by many people, so no. Try finding some music no one knows about bro :tu
It also helps if they blow ass :tu
That reminds me of this annoying faggot on rotten tomatoes who always comments on reviews and those celebrity five favorite films lists who calls himself "TheStunner" and uses a smug picture of himself in sunglasses as an avatar. He always rags on celebrities for being unoriginal whenever the pick one of the first two Godfather movies. There's a reason people pick those movies--they fucking dominate. So I'm supposed to pick some movie no one heard of instead a famous better movie so I can be original and score indy/hipster points. Ya, okay.

[midnightpulp]

tbh, whatever happened to that band called TV On The Radio? Weren't they pretty hi up on the indie hipster totem pole?

Yeah. But then the lead singer landed a role in the film "Rachel Getting Married" with Anne Hathaway. I assume that killed some of his "indie" cred, even though the film is very, very good.

[midnightpulp]

That reminds me of this annoying faggot on rotten tomatoes who always comments on reviews and those celebrity five favorite films lists who calls himself "TheStunner" and uses a smug picture of himself in sunglasses as an avatar. He always rags on celebrities for being unoriginal whenever the pick one of the first two Godfather movies. There's a reason people pick those movies--they fucking dominate. So I'm supposed to pick some movie no one heard of instead a famous better movie so I can be original and score indy/hipster points. Ya, okay.

I always find myself defending Spielberg against these poser Cinephiles. Not War of the Worlds Spielberg, mind you, but Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark Spielberg. Those films, even though they're mainstream blockbusters, are among some of the best films of all time, and have just as much artistic merit as any Bergman, Kurosawa, or Fellini film.

[jag]

I'll like them regardless, but I'm just curious if they're considered lame by the music fan elite.

They're good at what they do, but I'm not gonna bump that shit in my car.

[jag]

I lol at you if you think indie is a legit music genre, and not just a faggy way to dress and act.

:lol

[The Gemini Method]

EITS was awesome live at Coachella...Red Sparrowes and Pelican are a couple of my personal faves. TV on the Radio is a high energy thrill and I'm also a huge electronica fan. I'm not pretentious or snooty about music. I don't drink PBR though it is worth hundreds of dollars in China (Pabst Blue Ribbon 1884). Enjoy whomever you like to hear, or what inspires you. Mayer Hawthorne FTMFW!

[4>0rings]

I'm fine with this thread, as long as no one shits on the Beatles. If that happens I'll have to pop a glock in their mouth and make a brain slushy.
co-sign

[IronMexican]

I'm gonna start dressing like a hipster.

[redzero]

I'm fine with this thread, as long as no one shits on the Beatles. If that happens I'll have to pop a glock in their mouth and make a brain slushy.

Anybody who insults the Beatles dun goofed hard and deserves a permaban.

[IronMexican]

I think I dun Beatle'd myself out when I was a youngin'.

[redzero]

I Floyd'd myself out when I was younger.

[IronMexican]

But you haven't listened to Animals?


>mon visage

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[redzero]

I'll get to it later. Honest.

[atxbuttknocker]

Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy, the 80s are back!!! This is almost as awesome as The Wire and Heroes!!

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:elephant :elephant

[SomeCallMeTim]

Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy, the 80s are back!!! This is almost as awesome as The Wire and Heroes!!

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:elephant :elephant

David Bowie looking good these days.

[atxbuttknocker]

Among 80s songs by a female electronic band I'll take this next one any day. Compared to the song I just linked the lyrics are almost as useless, the images just as random and meaningless (lol postmodernism aka weird for weirdness sake), and, even though I didn't think it was possible, it actually beats the chorus to death even worse than that La Roux song. Plus the chick is actually decent looking. Somewhat.

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I'm just so glad the 80s are back!!

:elephant :elephant

[dirk4mvp]

rofl good usage of that troll, Darrell.

[atxbuttknocker]

not Darell tbh.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Among 80s songs by a female electronic band I'll take this next one any day. Compared to the song I just linked the lyrics are almost as useless, the images just as random and meaningless (lol postmodernism aka weird for weirdness sake), and, even though I didn't think it was possible, it actually beats the chorus to death even worse than that La Roux song. Plus the chick is actually decent looking. Somewhat.

qeMFqkcPYcg

I'm just so glad the 80s are back!!

:elephant :elephant

Eurythmics/Annie Lennox FTW.

Good stuff.

[Veterinarian]

That Bulletproof song is insanely catchy.

[IronMexican]

Decided to listen to Lift yr skinyfists. That shit sucked so hard.


/mu/ finally gave me a bad recommendation.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Hopefully I'm not the only one who digs Stone Sour around here.

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[Zelophehad]

I dun Beatle'd myself out

Impossible.

[IronMexican]

>listens to movie music
>says I listen to weird music

[redzero]

You should probably listen to F♯A♯∞ instead.

[IronMexican]

wat

[The Gemini Method]

Hey IM...have you heard the Radiodread compilation?

[IronMexican]

Yeah. Pretty good stuff.


The Dub Side of the Moon is good, too.

[The Gemini Method]

yeah I heard the Exit Music track on my way home the other night and I was enjoying it.

[IronMexican]

>implying I only listen to that

My rotation is King Crimson and Floyd heavy.

[The Gemini Method]

Movie music? Are we talking scores? Or soundtracks? Or both?

[redzero]

F♯A♯∞ is Godspeed You! Black Emperor's first album.

[koriwhat]

the beatles became tolerable once they started to hit the hard drugs... before that it was just mushy girl music.

btw, where's that terrorist at? harlemho!

[IronMexican]

Agreed. The sappy love music by the Beatles is unbearable.

[The Gemini Method]

I agree. The Beatles sober weren't my cup o' tea. Once they started seeing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds--I was more of a fan.

[koriwhat]

i was never a beatles fan. more of a sid barret/floyd, creedence, blue oyster cult, etc fan. i'm not much for sappy shit except radiohead, whatup IM!

anything from slayer to reggae to spanish music, that's my preferences. i listen to a ton of different music.

[quentin_compson]

the beatles became tolerable once they started to hit the hard drugs... before that it was just mushy girl music.


Not really:

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[Zelophehad]

Agreed. The sappy love music by the Beatles is unbearable.

You'll burn in hell for what you just did faggot.


I agree. The Beatles sober weren't my cup o' tea. Once they started seeing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds--I was more of a fan.

Any true Beatles fan/historian knows that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds being an LSD reference is one of the most retarded urban legends out there.

[redzero]

I am the eggman
they are the eggman
I am the walrus
COO COO CA CHOO

[IronMexican]

I am the eggman
they are the eggman
I am the walrus
COO COO CA CHOO

I don't understand how people can't get tired of that.


>impying opinions

[The Gemini Method]

Any true Beatles fan/historian knows that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds being an LSD reference is one of the most retarded urban legends out there.

I'm not a Beatles expert and I know that Lennon denied that the song had anything to do with LSD per se, but as music's most important role--it becomes defined by the people who are witness to it. The lyrics and ethereal feeling coupled with the time in which the song was released could be mere coincidence, but the fact that it can be associated with acid usage is undeniable.

[monosylab1k]

:lol it's now become indiefag approved to hate on the Beatles.

It was that damn video game, wasn't it?

[monosylab1k]

tbh if there was ever a Guitar Hero: Radiohead the entire indiefag community might all kill themselves.

Somebody send that info to Activision and tell them to hurry the fuck up.

[IronMexican]

I'd be so fucking happy if there was a Radiohead music game.


And redhipster loves the beatles.

[redzero]

tbh if there was ever a Guitar Hero: Radiohead the entire indiefag community might all kill themselves.

Somebody send that info to Activision and tell them to hurry the fuck up.

Well, if Green Day got a Rock Band, then... wait, that's a horrible idea.

[IronMexican]

And Guitar hero is 2mainstream4me. I play Rock Band. I also have Rock Band Beatles.

[Muser]

And Guitar hero is 2mainstream4me. I play Rock Band. I also have Rock Band Beatles.

Agreed, Rock band shits on GH with it's DLC as opposed to making a new game every 2 months.

[IronMexican]

Shit yeah. Even though before that CCR pack a couple weeks back, there was just mountains and mountains of shit for DLC from Harmonix.

[IronMexican]

>Radiohead
>hipster music

http://www.last.fm/charts

>My face when Radiohead is #4 on last.fm without having released anything more than a single since 2007
>laughing.jpg

[Greg Oden]

The Beatles are great, but Stones > Beatles.

[J.T.]

I am the eggman
they are the eggman
I am the walrus
COO COO CA CHOO

You're doing it wrong.


Any true Beatles fan/historian knows that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds being an LSD reference is one of the most retarded urban legends out there.

The official story out of Beatles Corporate is that the song is about a picture Lennon's son drew of a classmate and then explained it to his dad as being "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" but just listen to Sgt. Pepper on acid once (I listened to it on repeat the whole night the first time I took acid, ps I took like 20 hits the first time) and you'll never fool yourself as hard as you have in this thread for the rest of your life.

[J.T.]

Also, none of the shit any of you have brought up in this thread has anything on Katrina and the Waves

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[Darrin]

Somebody waiting for troll approval on HarlemHo37..just calling it out before the troll starts posting..hopefully it lives up to hype..

Worse than the actual trolls is feeding the trolls. Stop it with these threads about the trolls!

[Zelophehad]

The official story out of Beatles Corporate is that the song is about a picture Lennon's son drew of a classmate and then explained it to his dad as being "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" but just listen to Sgt. Pepper on acid once (I listened to it on repeat the whole night the first time I took acid, ps I took like 20 hits the first time) and you'll never fool yourself as hard as you have in this thread for the rest of your life.

She (the actual Lucy) died last year.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/29/beatles.lucy.in.the.sky.with.diamonds/index.html

His son has also talked about the picture and the story. And John Lennon himself stated ad nauseam that the song had nothing to do with drugs. He's even said flat out "it's not an acid song."

If you want to believe he's lying that's cool.

[J.T.]

If you want to believe he's lying that's cool.

Everyone knows musicians do drugs. If you think "Lucy in the Sky" is some masterpiece brewed from sobriety, then you, friend, are wrong.

[Zelophehad]

Everyone knows musicians do drugs. If you think "Lucy in the Sky" is some masterpiece brewed from sobriety, then you, friend, are wrong.

If you don't believe the story that's cool, I was more pissed at the people shitting on pre-drugs Beatles music honestly. Drugs are cool. I would take more of them but I can't afford to. Mostly just like $50 a month in weed is all I can do.

[J.T.]

If you don't believe the story that's cool, I was more pissed at the people shitting on pre-drugs Beatles music honestly. Drugs are cool. I would take more of them but I can't afford to. Mostly just like $50 a month in weed is all I can do.

That's not a whole lot of weed bro. Even if you're smoking some brick ass swag, I'd blow thru $50 worth in like five or six days.

[Zelophehad]

That's not a whole lot of weed bro. Even if you're smoking some brick ass swag, I'd blow thru $50 worth in like five or six days.

When I had a better job I was going like $250-300 a month, which cost me $50 on top of that since I got it from a friend at work who got great shit. He wasn't a dealer so I told him I would pay him extra to get me the shit. I thought it was only right since he was taking a risk and doing me a favor. I would get high on first break at work and that would make the day way better. Plus it wore off by the time I had to drive home. I was blazed probably 80% of my waking hours then. Good times.

[Veterinarian]

Led Zeppelin's thievery is old news but this includes a lot of interesting extra info.

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[Veterinarian]

Embarrassing as hell imo.

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