All that stompy handclappy alternative radio shit. Of Monsters and Men. Imagine Dragons. This godawful fucking thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4306i99LMXo
What is this crap and why is it so prevalent? It all seems explicitly crafted to appeal to people with beards who drink microbrews and camp.
― akm, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
Set fire to all of it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
(Except I kind of like "Home," and don't really consider it hard offender, so whatever.)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
It all seems explicitly crafted to appeal to people with beards who drink microbrews and camp.
yeah, fuck those people, and their beards, and their camping!
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D91B6ind6U
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
i thought this aesthetic had been on its way out.
― That's when I fired off my 2 Tweets to Dr. Phil (crüt), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
i have a beard, drink microbrews and occasionally camp, but this stuff is the fucking worst. i think where I live (Colorado) is the center of it all.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
It has painfully long legs, though Milford going big rock on their last record was a pretty big signal that it's trending down.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
"i thought this aesthetic had been on its way out."
you would think so, yet, turn on the radio and there it is, again
― akm, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
"(Except I kind of like "Home," and don't really consider it hard offender, so whatever.)"
you are wrong
― akm, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
ha yeah, that song makes me want to throw up
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
I ain't gonna go to the mat for it, but I don't not enjoy it when I hear it.
Now ask me about The Lumineers and Mumford (which I called Milford 4x posts ago, because wgaf what their name is).
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
feel like this music is for the same demographic that liked, say, Dropkick Murphys and 3rd wave ska bands in the 90s.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
aka Hey-Ho music
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
part of me wants to write the most contrived, hey-ho stompy piece of shit ever and release it and see if I get rich and another part of me wants to kill myself, dunno
― akm, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
be sure to wear suspenders
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Any excuse to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJ6LplEb08
― everything, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
don't these people listen to stuff like lamb of god though
the stuff (i think) you're talking about sounds like it's for children
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
did anybody add "It all seems explicitly crafted to appeal to people with beards who drink microbrews and camp." to the effete liberal munching thread?
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
More of a nose ring, pulled-pork benny crowd I think.
― everything, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Non-Australians presumably have not had to endure the eternal omnipresence of Vance Joy tho:
https://youtu.be/zKmWd8DPrEc
― Tim F, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
He's known abroad, but not an omnipresent scourge.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link
i don't camp on purpose, i was just born with a lisp
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
holy fucking lolllll
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
No way sleeve no way at least that stuff was kinda fun
― Spottie, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
haha OK, so maybe this is like 3rd wave ska crossed with emo-folk?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
vance joy torments us in the US with his ukelele all the time on commercial radio. does he also stomp his foot? I'm sure he does. fucker
― akm, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
There's a show on the ABC here (basically our BBC) all about obscure Australian country towns which uses "Fire and the Flood" as the credits music, and I can't think of a more comprehensive example of "city people romanticizing a myth of rural life".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link
yeah, vance joy is 100% a part of this on american radio, ime.http://www.billboard.com/artist/5824666/vance-joy/chart?f=377
― circles, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 06:29 (seven years ago) link
Other than Mumford and Sons, I think the UK only weathered minor gales when this was a big thing, and now it's been more-or-less relegated to twee TV adverts and Radio X
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:16 (seven years ago) link
Not that we don't have our own monstrosities to deal with...
Ha, I was teaching guitar lessons to teenagers between 2013 and 2015 so developed a higher tolerance for this stuff than most ilxors. (I don't really associate either this kind of music or Lamb of God with microbrew-drinking campers. I mostly associate this music with middle-class teenagers, esp girls. I mostly associate Lamb of God with like music students in less-fashionable cities? And also my drunken neighbours in Windsor.) I will defend "Riptide" and "Hey Ho" as decent classicist pop-rock singles and have a soft spot for "Home" bc Community.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
Bon Iver/FJM/My Morning Jacket are the slightly hipper versions of this stuff and would be listened to by your latte-sipping, microbrew, etc
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, Bon Iver is for latte sippers.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
This stuff needs to fuck off
― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
these songs are IPA jingles
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
<i>I don't really associate either this kind of music or Lamb of God with microbrew-drinking campers. I mostly associate this music with middle-class teenagers, esp girls.</i>
otm, although s/teenagers/college students for me
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
it's perfect for festival audiences who might not know the band playing, but who can easily figure out when to telegraph emotion alongside the people around them
― maura, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
aka Hey-Ho music― how's life, Tuesday, November 29, 2016 8:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Tuesday, November 29, 2016 8:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I will defend "Riptide" and "Hey Ho" as decent classicist pop-rock singles and have a soft spot for "Home" bc Community.― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 7:09 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 7:09 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ok, lol. I didn't realize that there was actually a song called Hey Ho in this movement.
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
yeah i have a beard and drink microbrews and go camping and i certainly can't reconcile the phoniness of this stuff with the realness of nature and can't imagine other ppl doing so either. it's more of a suburban thing I'd guess
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, this is suburban backyard barbecue music.
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
no that's the chronic
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
how does this thread not have judah and the lion yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AigOUsOEhSY
― circles, Friday, 15 September 2017 04:42 (six years ago) link
ugh, i heard them on the radio the other day. no bueno
― maura, Friday, 15 September 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link