The 20 Worst Hipster Bands

[symple19]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php?page=20

[DeadlyDynasty]

1. Bon Iver
2. tUnE-yArDs
3. Arcade Fire
4. Bright Eyes
5. Grizzly Bear
6. Beirut
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
8. The Airborne Toxic Event
9. Beach House
10. White Rabbits
11. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
12. Pomplamoose
13. The Decemberists
14. Wavves
15. Death Cab for Cutie
16. MGMT
17. Fun
18. Sleigh Bells
19. TV on the Radio
20. Black Keys

Blue = Never heard of.
Red = Dont have any of their on my iPod or computer
Green = Used to like, but haven't listened to in a few years
Black = Guilty as charged, still love some of them (TVotR, BH).

[CuckingFunt]

I'd have thought The Black Keys too mainstream to be hipster.

In any case, they, Beirut, Sleigh Bells, and Edward Sharpe are still in heavy rotation on my iPod.

[ColinB]

1. Joy Division.

[ginobili's bald spot]

1. Bon Iver
2. tUnE-yArDs
3. Arcade Fire
4. Bright Eyes
5. Grizzly Bear
6. Beirut
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
8. The Airborne Toxic Event
9. Beach House
10. White Rabbits
11. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
12. Pomplamoose
13. The Decemberists
14. Wavves
15. Death Cab for Cutie
16. MGMT
17. Fun
18. Sleigh Bells
19. TV on the Radio
20. Black Keys

Blue = Never heard of.
Red = Dont have any of their on my iPod or computer
Green = Used to like, but haven't listened to in a few years
Black = Guilty as charged, still love some of them (TVotR, BH).

Beirut is pretty good, scro

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Worst? Hipster?
A little redundant, ay?

[CuckingFunt]

Hipster is such a stupid/misused term, anyway. I maintain hipsterism has more to do with why you like or don't like things than it does with what you like or don't like.

[leemajors]

1. Joy Division.

They were a proto-goth band before they were hipster darlings.

[monosylab1k]

Fun is a hipster band? I thought they were one of those universally reviled, "everybody hates them but somehow they dominate the radio" type of band in the vein of Nickelback (not in music style, just in universal hatred)

[DeadlyDynasty]

Beirut is pretty good, scro

I'll spotify them tonight

[CuckingFunt]

I'll spotify them tonight

[DeadlyDynasty]

^Pretty good...working my way down to there from the Rip Tide album tbh. I recognize a couple of their songs already but just never knew who the artist was.

[redzero]

I've heard of all of them, but I never listened to White Rabbits, Pompaloose (outside of the commercials), tune yards, and Edward Sharpe. Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, and TV on the Radio have earned my respect. Arcade Fire gets a lot of love, but they have some great songs and some ty songs, too. That's why I can never get behind them. Half their songs are great, and the other half are annoying.

[Spurminator]

I'm still not sure how we're defining these as hipster bands. Is it because they're supposedly made up of hipsters, or because hipsters supposedly like them?

I like half of these bands. One they should have included was Of Monsters and Men. I've never seen them, but if any band's music sounds like it was recorded by people trying to sound literary while also playing their instruments on unicycles, it's them.

[Drachen]

Woo-hoo 33 and not a bit hipster. I don't recognize any of these bands.
But then again, I like relaxed fit men's jeans, so this should come as no surprise

[CuckingFunt]

I'm still not sure how we're defining these as hipster bands. Is it because they're supposedly made up of hipsters, or because hipsters supposedly like them?

In the article, "hipster" seems to be synonymous with "annoys the LA Weekly writing staff for various and sundry reasons."

[redzero]

It's not like "hipster" has any meaning anymore. People basically define it as "something I don't like, never heard of or both".

[CuckingFunt]

Not sure "hipster" ever had any meaning beyond that.

[Spurminator]

I was calling people hipsters before the term got so mainstream and vague.

[-21-]

I listen to 4 of those bands...

[ChumpDumper]

I was calling people hipsters before the term got so mainstream and vague.

[resistanze]

Arcade Fire is 'hipster'? Maybe because I'm Canadian but they've always felt kinda mainstream.

[ChumpDumper]

Not an exclusive definition but any band with over five members, male and female, all white with beards and sundresses who yell "Hey!" a lot during their songs = hipster.

[exstatic]

Where the are The Shins on that list?

[resistanze]

Not an exclusive definition but any band with over five members, male and female, all white with beards and sundresses who yell "Hey!" a lot during their songs = hipster.