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I’ve heard songs by most of them and other than Zola Jesus (I’m a sucker for shrieky, female fronted goth) they do nothing for me. Just a lot of mediocre bands who layer too much reverb on top of their music. Most of these bands before the internet and mp3’s and the ease of recording would have never gotten outside of their parents garages.
I’ve never heard of any of them.
I’ve only heard of maybe half, so I’m pumped to check out a bunch of these.
fuck i’ve only heard of 1. guess my new year’s resolution didn’t last the whole year.
You guys are atrocious. When a 40 year old father of 2 has heard more of these then a batch of 20something hipster variants, that’s pretty bad.
Of course the fact that I think most of these are horrible probably negates that.
First of all, let me just say that I hate lists that aren’t ordered by importance.
Best Coast is not as good as these music blogs say, but they’re okay. Easy-going female vocals with simple fuzzy guitar.
I fucking love the Tame Impala album. Definitely got the psych-rock thing happening. They have a few tracks with very steady, head-bopping drums. And then they have tracks with Pink Floyd guitar solos. They key with this band is that the vocals are in no way the most important part.
I really love this band. You know I really love a band when I don’t really tell anyone about them.
I haven’t listened to anything else on that list. And most of the bands I’ve never even heard of.
Kevin said:You guys are atrocious. When a 40 year old father of 2 has heard more of these then a batch of 20something hipster variants, that’s pretty bad.
It’s true, but really, look at what you said about them. Now do I want to catch up to you anyway?
Nowadays, I just read a blog here or there, and mostly listen to suggestions from The Scrabbled. About two years ago or so, I became okay with the fact that I’ll probably miss out on some solid bands for the sake of not having to scour hundreds.
Admittedly I hear a lot more than I normally would on the Sirius XMU channel which is where I heard probably half to three quarters of the bands on that list.
Yeah, my main method of hearing new music is to read about it and go download the album. So it ends up being more quality over quantity. Plus, I’ve been on a huuuuuuuuge noise kick this year. Really, since I started working from home. Sorta changed what I enjoy listening to all day now that I can blast it on nice speakers.
I have listened to exactly two bands on that list: Best Coast and Zola Jesus.
I think they may have made the rest of them up.
John said:Yeah, my main method of hearing new music is to read about it and go download the album. So it ends up being more quality over quantity.
Only if you assume other people’s opinions are better than your own.
heheheheh, yeah, that’s a fair assumption. I just got overwhelmed by radio. I end up tuning it out. It’s a wash of faceless, nameless tunes. I understand that, in theory, removing all information but the notes should make me more unbiased, but it never seems to work that way. I just end up disliking all of it when I don’t have some sort of context or introduction.