the fact that anyone ever liked it boggles my mind. it's not unlistenable earrape or anything, but i genuinely felt embarrassed listening to it when it came out. the record is overly sentimental in a way that makes me pity it. like i'm supposed to feel hyped or nostalgic or whatever while all i feel is boredom. really a shame as i expected to love it.
gotta be soundtracks for the blind. i love a lot of swans, pre and post hiatus, but if that album got released as a "b-sides and oddities" collection i don't think I would have noticed the difference
I liked them in Highschoop bu5 the appeal runs thin after a while.
Tool, Rage Against the Machine, and Radiohead.
Tool were like the worst Nu Prog Band and Nu Prog was already kinda both unnecessary and prettymuch entirely bad so thats quite the statement. Definitely right about that.
pretentiousness is GOOD in rock music. take the best rock album of all time, DSOTM by Pink Floyd, for instance. if it wasn't pretentious it would suck. rock as an art form is inherently pretentious. if it's not pretentious, I don't wanna hear it, it probably fucking sucks
Yeah, I think it's this. The poem concept is contrived and I hate it more year after year and the fact that it ends in a circlejerk interview with tupac is incredibly pretentious.
1950s rock n roll: the most genuinely unpretentious music of the past century. Find one song with any pretence. you can't. Every single song exists to create a knee-slapping good time.
Imagine complaining about “pretentiousness” in music in current year… What better way to make yourself look like a gentrified Brooklynite with a mustache and fixed gear bicycle complaining about the most recent Band of Horses album in 2008? Complete homosexualry.
If you can’t enjoy music unless it’s inclusive, accessible, inoffensive, and not too white, then you’re on the wrong board and should go get a job at Condé Nast and join their DEI committee. Pretentiousness and elitism are increasingly rare in music, and should be preserved as a buffer against Globohomo.
Everything regularly posted here
Talk Talk is probably the most collectively overjerked artist on the board
Yeah 80's Newwave is so pretentious and avant-garde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_Talk
fuck u bitch
they are okay but definitely are pretentious with their overdramatic sound
yeah, their original pop hit is better than the post rock stuff
does not insist upon itself, although I will say their songwriting is a little overrated
yes
NO!!! one of the best metal bands
they songs are a lot cooler than those of anyone that tries to emulate their style, but yes
With Death Grips it doesn't feel like it's pretentious music, but it's the reaction to the music that is pretentious.
Nearly everything under prog and whatever it influenced (indie, postrock etc.)
I honestly almost never hear anyone on this board talk about Talk Talk
literally all post-rock.
literally all sample-heavy ""midwest"" emo.
that Avalanches album that came out a few years back.
WWALY gets shat on more than any other avalanches album
the fact that anyone ever liked it boggles my mind. it's not unlistenable earrape or anything, but i genuinely felt embarrassed listening to it when it came out. the record is overly sentimental in a way that makes me pity it. like i'm supposed to feel hyped or nostalgic or whatever while all i feel is boredom. really a shame as i expected to love it.
Yea its a shame. I really liked wildflower too, one of the last albums i feel that has a hopeful aura around it
gotta be soundtracks for the blind. i love a lot of swans, pre and post hiatus, but if that album got released as a "b-sides and oddities" collection i don't think I would have noticed the difference
I was pretty dissapponted by The Bands first album.
tool
nothingface by voivod is the worst shit i have ever heard in my life
Listen to Die Kreuzen
Yeah, they're worse
Death Grips
I liked them in Highschoop bu5 the appeal runs thin after a while.
Tool were like the worst Nu Prog Band and Nu Prog was already kinda both unnecessary and prettymuch entirely bad so thats quite the statement. Definitely right about that.
>I liked them in Highschoop
underage b&
The avalanches since I left you
This honestly
It's not bad but it's really nothing spectacular either
STOP PHONEPOSTING
AND STOP POSTING FUCKING METACRITIC FOR MUSIC
Literally not an argument.
STOP POSTING TWITnaggerS
Slit- Spiderman
pretentiousness is GOOD in rock music. take the best rock album of all time, DSOTM by Pink Floyd, for instance. if it wasn't pretentious it would suck. rock as an art form is inherently pretentious. if it's not pretentious, I don't wanna hear it, it probably fucking sucks
Anything you have to listen 7 times to for you to “finally get” is actually just giving you musical Stockholm syndrome.
Yeah, I think it's this. The poem concept is contrived and I hate it more year after year and the fact that it ends in a circlejerk interview with tupac is incredibly pretentious.
I love him but mf doom is the literal definition of insisting upon oneself
The fact he raps about food and wears an anime mask makes it super apparent why his main demographic is beta male whites
Dr Doom is from an American villain
Can is really boring. Don't know what everyone's hearing that's making them lose their mind
Tool, Rage Against the Machine, and Radiohead.
1950s rock n roll: the most genuinely unpretentious music of the past century. Find one song with any pretence. you can't. Every single song exists to create a knee-slapping good time.
Is Craig pretentious?
Tool. Their lyrics are 15-year-old-"i just read my first philosophy ya'll" tier
Darn it seems like people already mentioned Slint and Talk Talk
Imagine complaining about “pretentiousness” in music in current year… What better way to make yourself look like a gentrified Brooklynite with a mustache and fixed gear bicycle complaining about the most recent Band of Horses album in 2008? Complete homosexualry.
If you can’t enjoy music unless it’s inclusive, accessible, inoffensive, and not too white, then you’re on the wrong board and should go get a job at Condé Nast and join their DEI committee. Pretentiousness and elitism are increasingly rare in music, and should be preserved as a buffer against Globohomo.