Reply With Quote
Not hip. Hip indie . There's a difference.That makes people hip?
You're on a roll.
If indie isn't a genre to begin with, how can they be into post indie?
Not hip. Hip indie . There's a difference.That makes people hip?
You're on a roll.
You mean like the Air Force One soundtrack?
But indie is a genre.
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.
Grunge has more credibility in being called a genre than indie does.
I personally enjoy some Explosions in the Sky, but I didn't consult a message board or indie website to tell me what I like and don't like, so you might not want to go with my view on it.
I'm fine with this thread, as long as no one s on the Beatles. If that happens I'll have to pop a glock in their mouth and make a brain slushy.
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.
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"
Seriously who give a . Post-rock is loosely defined and mostly just used to group contemporary sounding peers.
tbh did I just criticize the musical taste measuring contest going on but then right afterwards throw my own shriveled vienna sausage out onto the table? me.
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."
I'll like them regardless, but I'm just curious if they're considered lame by the music fan elite.
Can we just all agree right now that ennui sucks and call it a day?
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.
Hipsters find it cool to on the Beatles, especially their teen-pop (which is great music), pre-Revolver period.
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."
From the Field Guide to North American Hipsters: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your...rth.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 bull 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).
Those bands are well liked and respected by many people, so no. Try finding some music no one knows about bro
It also helps if they blow ass
mono won this thread imho.
tbh, whatever happened to that band called TV On The Radio? Weren't they pretty hi up on the indie hipster totem pole?
That reminds me of this annoying got 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 ing 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.Those bands are well liked and respected by many people, so no. Try finding some music no one knows about bro
It also helps if they blow ass
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
