1. Pleased to Meet Me 2. Let It Be 3. Tim 4. Hootenanny 5-7. (The rest) Seeing the 'Mats in '14 was an absolute pleasure. Was disappointed to see in the Mehr biography that the show I went to they considered an utter disaster :(
The new Pvris album is great. Lynn Gunn's voice and songwriting is amazing. They're going to be huge sooner than later. My favorite song from their previous album.
Nah, just the Beatles for anyone who is in here to talk about stuff other than Starbucks background noise that book, Trouble Boys, is fantastic. Couldnt put it down.
I saw them only twice on that tour, the first show in Toronto and Detroit. Enjoyed both but was pretty tuned up and giddy both times. They could've played sixteen blue on butt kazoo and I still would've clapped.
Let me tell a story to calm some nerves. Neighbors son is a really good dude. Hard worker will help out with anything at any time, do anything for us. Great kid, hard worker, good human in general. Imagine my disappointment when he told me a few weeks ago when him and his friends were going to see nickelback, and he was excited. I never regarded him as retarded in any way shape or form prior to that discussion and I choose to ignore it as best I can. It's a cruel world our there guys. Let's be friends.
And I'm fine with that. Bon Iver is the new Dave Matthews. Insipid "music" for kids to show their sensitive side so they can appropriate a culture that they clearly do not come close to understanding in the hopes that someone will confuse them for intellectuals.
I have a seed box that I put all files on. If it's music, I use an ftp client to download off of that so nothing looks like I'm downloading Torrance bc there is no seeding involved on my network, that only takes place on the seedbox which is hosted in Europe I believe.
What specific culture is one appropriating?Can you not explain how all those big words tie your whole point together? If not, I am disappointed that I am not dealing with the real deal here. I yearn for authenticity.
The newest Mumford from 2015 isn't as soulful as their earlier works. Much harder rocking. That's the main issue.
Did it hurt your feelings when I listed Bon Iver albums as a joke because you can't handle other people enjoying music that you aren't into?
One man's Starbucks background noise is another's profound art. The key is how many people already like it, and how many of those are those people
Sorry, I'll try to dumb it down for you next time. Basically, Conde Nast has replaced Rolling Stone as the taste makers for millenials and there has been significant creep of pop culture into the indie/punk subcultures. The bands, ethics, and vision described in Our Band Could Be Your Life (and numerous other works) have been diluted or entirely forgotten as more and more people walk around saying, "hey I like indie rock" and wearing flannel because Conde Nast led then to think it was different listening to Mumford vs Kesha. If I've done nothing else but piss people off here, I hope at least someone who hasn't heard them already will give bands like the replacements, minutemen, the gories, etc. a chance. There IS still amazing music being produced today. But there's also a lot of bullshit parading around as something it isn't.
1. What is Condé Nast? 2. What is our band could be your life? 3. What makes a band "parading bullshit" or not? Besides your feelings about the quality of the sound or their increasing popularity of course.
Paul Westerdawg used to have the greatest uga blog ever, but he has a dyslexic heart, and can't pull it off anymore. Only a real music fan will understand these references.
1 - a luxury travel magazine which turned into a lifestyle company. Parent of pitchfork media. 2 - a non- fiction book which chronicles a decade of the indie movement. Probably the quintessential work on it. 3 - until you read #2 it's probably not worth engaging you on this, but what i mean with that comment is some bands build up their own following from the ground up. Some bands are pushed by corporate backers through pitchfork into our laps as part of the commercialization of this music.
Do they own food and wine magazine? Maybe thats why so many love brick oven neopolitan pizza. It can't possibly be because it tastes good. Just prepackaged bull shot. The food described in "this food could be in your fridge" has been diluted.
Someone has a sweet tin foil hat. Heard they are so underground punk (unlike fucking flannel) and only real indie folks wear them. Point is, music either sounds good or it doesn't. What a magazine says doesn't have a big impact on the quality on a personal level. If many enjoy a band, It doesnt necessarily prove that music itself lacks authenticity or they didn't work their asses off to gain a large following.
You're arguing that pitchfork doesn't influence the response? How many heard that first Bon Iver record before reading a review?
If pitchfork awarded a tape of two goats fucking with me reading the ingredients lists of sugary cereals over the top of it 10.0 it would sell 20k copies.
Replace pitchfork with whatever source you did hear about it from. Your mind was made up before you hit play.
maybe its just me, but I dont really feel like pitchfork has been a tastemaker in several years. they are mostly just a 'edgy' version of rolling stone as a music aggregator
The first post in the original indie thread on here was by hipsterjoe . It was Skinny Love. That's when I first heard about Bon Iver. So.... wrong.
Revered By some. Only the real deal pizza fans celebrated it. The rest ate dominos. The rise of neapolitan only recently exploded on the scene. Now everyone revers it, and all credit should be given to the magazines telling us to like it Rather than the quality of the product.