loveless
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Post by loveless on Oct 10, 2023 12:17:31 GMT
It's funny how consensus completely breaks down here. Celtic Frost....Bob Dylan....Hot Chip. It's a bitter pill to swallow, and I'm mighty loathe to admit it, but we've gone through several years now in the earlier part of this century where my actual favorite records of the time, the things I most played and praised and proclaimed...in my own eyes, they've aged horribly. I've duly gone back and reviewed each and every one of them, and they've all got some overriding failing that - in short - makes them something far less than evergreen in my current estimation. I'm not forced to revise my feelings about, say, "Everyday People" (if anything, it somehow keeps getting mightier), but...as the canon goes, I'm well into the era where I'm thankful not to have gotten the tattoo, so to speak.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 10, 2023 12:29:43 GMT
It's funny how consensus completely breaks down here. Celtic Frost....Bob Dylan....Hot Chip. It's a bitter pill to swallow, and I'm mighty loathe to admit it, but we've gone through several years now in the earlier part of this century where my actual favorite records of the time, the things I most played and praised and proclaimed...in my own eyes, they've aged horribly. I've duly gone back and reviewed each and every one of them, and they've all got some overriding failing that - in short - makes them something far less than evergreen in my current estimation. I'm not forced to revise my feelings about, say, "Everyday People" (if anything, it somehow keeps getting mightier), but...as the canon goes, I'm well into the era where I'm thankful not to have gotten the tattoo, so to speak. I'm convinced there's support groups of late 30+ plus music fans gathering in rooms across America right now earnestly retelling the follies of their listening habits in the early 2000s. - "Hi, I'm Brian, I'm a former Rilo Kiley fan....." - "Thanks for that Brian. You're with friends now..."
- "Hi, I'm Michael. Jeez, this is touch, where do I begin? I guess it all started with a Pitchfork review of Fiery Furnaces where they gave their new album 8.8...." - "Thanks for that Michael. I'm pretty sure everyone here can relate to what you just said. Please don't hold back anyone. Let it all come out..."
- "Neon Bible man. That fucking thing SUCKED". - *loud cheers*
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 10, 2023 12:33:44 GMT
"Devendra Banhart dude....I told an ex girlfriend he was a genius! The new Donovan! I can't believe I was ever that stupid..." *breaks down in tears*
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loveless
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Post by loveless on Oct 10, 2023 12:36:51 GMT
"I was caning it A LOT and had access to a really ace nightclub P.A. I'm beginning to think some of those record makers saw me coming a mile away."
*(accepts cup of coffee from complete stranger)*
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 10, 2023 12:38:45 GMT
"I maintain the first two Kings of Leon albums were really good and still stand up. I believe that but, God, I still can't get over what happened next. I even copied the lead singers moustache for a while. What the HELL was I thinking?"
"We were all young once my brother..."
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 10, 2023 12:41:45 GMT
"I once told a close friend The Hold Steady were OUR generations E-Street Band. I know, I know. God it feels good to get this shit off my chest...."
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 10, 2023 15:05:49 GMT
There are a handful of LPs I dug from that year, but no real standout tunes - or at least ones that I'd suggest as 'canon'. Flaming Lips Vein Of Stars, Bonnie Prince Billy's Strange Form Of Life, and goatboy's faves The Tragically Hip's In View are all favourites, but I think Neko Case's Hold On, Hold On makes the cut for '06.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 11, 2023 9:29:34 GMT
I was still young and hip in 2006 and a dandy about town. Hence why I was listening to Hot Chip in indie discos. It's a number of things but one factor is sadly the quality of the records. That Gnarls Barkley tune had some consensus because it's a strong record. i would've picked the Gnarls Barklay tune if I'd remembered.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 11, 2023 9:33:10 GMT
It's a bitter pill to swallow, and I'm mighty loathe to admit it, but we've gone through several years now in the earlier part of this century where my actual favorite records of the time, the things I most played and praised and proclaimed...in my own eyes, they've aged horribly. I've duly gone back and reviewed each and every one of them, and they've all got some overriding failing that - in short - makes them something far less than evergreen in my current estimation. I'm not forced to revise my feelings about, say, "Everyday People" (if anything, it somehow keeps getting mightier), but...as the canon goes, I'm well into the era where I'm thankful not to have gotten the tattoo, so to speak. I'm convinced there's support groups of late 30+ plus music fans gathering in rooms across America right now earnestly retelling the follies of their listening habits in the early 2000s. - "Hi, I'm Brian, I'm a former Rilo Kiley fan....." - "Thanks for that Brian. You're with friends now..."
- "Hi, I'm Michael. Jeez, this is touch, where do I begin? I guess it all started with a Pitchfork review of Fiery Furnaces where they gave their new album 8.8...." - "Thanks for that Michael. I'm pretty sure everyone here can relate to what you just said. Please don't hold back anyone. Let it all come out..."
- "Neon Bible man. That fucking thing SUCKED". - *loud cheers*I bought a whole pile of stuff around then, that I barely listened to at the time, let alone now. That's why I stopped.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 11, 2023 13:08:08 GMT
Yeah, I mean, I call these "the Pitchfork years". Not much has endured sadly and the long term consequences of this is that it turned me making the effort with new music because the returns were not matching the effort.
Still, it's nice to remember a period of my relative youth.
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Oct 11, 2023 13:38:20 GMT
Yeah, I mean, I call these "the Pitchfork years". Not much has endured sadly and the long term consequences of this is that it turned me making the effort with new music because the returns were not matching the effort. Still, it's nice to remember a period of my relative youth. Somehow I managed to omit the entirety of your artfully chosen rogue's gallery of "Pitchfork rock" from my own post mortem on the other thread, but...to your larger point about how getting repeatedly burned eventually closes us off, I'm assuredly singing from the same hymnal.
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Post by davey on Oct 11, 2023 14:55:30 GMT
So you’re saying I didn’t miss much by not participating in the Pitchforkery?
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 14, 2023 8:17:41 GMT
I could've picked anything from Ys, but plumped for the one without the string section embellishments.
I can't believe anyone prefers Donovan to Banhart, either.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 14, 2023 8:26:40 GMT
Donovan's great, just listen to the sound of his records which had the cream of UK session players of the time. Banhart sounds like the kind of bloke who would open an organic coffee shop in Bath or something, there's just no romance there, nothing to get your teeth into.
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 14, 2023 8:54:13 GMT
The cream of UK session players? Be still my beating heart, I'm SOLD!
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