Isn't it basically
40+: "Document is the best R.E.M. album"30-40: "Automatic for the People is the best R.E.M. album"20-30: "This Lil Pump video is ICONIC"
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 16 December 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I am in the 30-40 age range basically. I didn't know so many people were dying to voluntarily listen to Star Me Kitten... or Everybody Hurts for the 1000th time.
― Yerac, Saturday, 16 December 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Now I have to look up Lil Pump.
― Yerac, Saturday, 16 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
I just read the below comment about Star Me Kitten on youtube and now maybe now it's my favorite song.
"So he got a new car now he wants his cat to f*ck him? and this isn't Japanese?"
― Yerac, Saturday, 16 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
I am 32, and REM is a full house joke to me
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
(And that one music video)
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:47 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
amazing post whiney
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
I occasionally enjoy Ed Byrne and didn't realise people particularly dislike him.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
Whitney otm
Huge part of automatics appeal for the millenials is we grew up with this record. I had the cd as a teen, it's nostalgia fodder
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
i had the cd as a teen tooand somehow i am not nostalgic for it at all, nor am i in the correct age bracket per whiney's post or per Ross's millennial "we"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
i think it's also that R.E.M. had broken out huge w/Out of Time and this was the subsequent album, which didn't disappoint anyone who hopped onboard w/OOT and i think the old school fans enjoyed it too. and it fit perfectly in w/radio at that time, both alt rock and mainstream and also adult contemporary a bit iirc. it sold something like 4 million copies. it was released at the right time in terms of the record industry, media exposure, and their career arc.
― omar little, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
thread has turned into ILM Lite
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Lol lechera, can't believe I so hastilyIdentified with millenials, must be tired :)
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
I haven't really posted since maybe 2005 and I just really needed to vent on this total madness. All the AFTP wowsers (the ones I know personally) are over 40. I have never met a person who said Document was their favorite REM record.
― Yerac, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
All the AFTP R.E.M. wowsers I know personally are over 40
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
I miss bros and hipsters. The male cultural archetypes jave merged somehow. Finance dudes have those severe Hitlerian haircuts you used to only see from guys in indie bands. People you would once call hipsters are fully plugged into the zeitgeist. The culture is too constraining to be a contrarian and besides there is no such thing as obscurity in the age of youtube and spotify.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
I mean, there is, but all anyone talks about is Trump anyway.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
olds like murmur i think. i mean so do i.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
finally bought Automatic used on CD about 6 months ago for a road trip... and then sold it back about 2 months later. Green was the last thing they did that i care to sit through.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
so maybe my 'controversial op' is that Green is pretty damn solid, even if i p much always hated "Stand"
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Document is MY favorite REM album, but everybody I know likes Murmur best, or claims to.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
For "favorite" read "the only one I ever made it all the way through."
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
treeship, hipsters are still there, they just quit facebook 7 years ago and don't post on social media, which means they're practically invisible.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
What ~do~ they do nowadays?
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
All downhill from Chronic Town.
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:08 PM
I've been hearing people say things like this a lot and I don't know if they mean they literally haven't listened to a whole album or that they just don't tend to? I cant imagine just switching albums off so easily.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
I don't agree that "hipsters" as they were 10 years ago or thru the 00s exist anymore. I think treeship is right, although I don't particularly miss them or bros. Everyone is plugged into the same thing, everything orbiting Trump is sadly otm, even if it's like "i don't give a shit." writing an anti-Trump song or make a statement is the most predictable and boring thing an artist could do. totally different than the GWB years, when Lightning Bolt wrote "what the worlds needs is another dead cowboy" and Kanye West said "George Bush doesn't care about black people" on national tv. the Dixie Chicks were pilloried by the media and their fans and Clear Channel.
the hipster subculture/counterculture of the 00s that spawned all the new weird america bands and noise bands and wham city and fort thunder, that collapsed because of the decline of CD-R's and the corporate vinyl boom, which has made DIY touring so much harder for independent bands. indie bands with only a demo (if that) now hire managers, agents, lawyers, and booking agents really early, and those bands get written about.
anyway, bros and hipsters were v toxic and misogynistic. bros are obvious, and one needs only to look at old posts on ILX to see the typical hipster mindset/pose. I lament the loss of musical subculture and underground, and that brief period in the 00s when artists like Dan Deacon and Animal Collective could license their songs to Crayola without having to make some indie apologia. now everyone is doing car commercials and all the rock bands are incredibly boring. girlpool being an exception.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, December 16, 2017 3:39 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I meant to write Murmur!
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
We were making fun of hipsters on ILX in the 00s. At least the NY fappers were. I don't remember the misogyny at all.
I would take Stand over the Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight all day long. Olds like Murmur or Life's Rich Pageant.
― Yerac, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
Oh! I was like, Document??? Ok...
― Yerac, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
I don't like hipster obscurity for it's own sake but it sounds pretty refreshing now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
I don't either, but shallow obscurity =/= subcultural depth. what fort thunder and wham city did was real and powerful, free of corporate sponsorship, but most importantly, it spawned a lot of really great innovative music and art. it was also very integrated musically - now scenes based on genre (punk v. wispy indie rock v. electronic music v. avant garde v. hip hop) are very isolated from each other.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
"=/="
Equals? Doesn't equal?
I still haven't heard Fort Thunder music but I know the artwork. Just seemed like they were having fun to me, though I'm sure some of the fans were into the obscurity aspect most.
I think I only saw hipsters once at a Boredoms gig though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
does not equal
fort thunder and wham city and all the bands listed in that poll whiney made a few years ago, the excitement and power of them was they were able to sustain themselves by touring and selling CDRs and limited run vinyl. some of the work was pretty out there but a lot of it was rooted in rock/pop traditions. sure, CDR punishers existed, but what made that era special was the freedom and how wide the horizon seemed. now artists in similar positions at similar levels of visibility get "people" much earlier in their careers. which isn't inherently a problem, but it feels constrained, safe, calculated. that 00s cottage industry of experimental and fringe artists had a lot in common with 80s hardcore/punk/alternative, all the bands written about in Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
controversial opinion: != > =/=
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
i live in portland. hipsters still exist.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
Sometimes it seems like social justice kids only want Disney films and pop singers, but if I injected them with the blood of hipsters it might balance out nicely.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
Take it to ILM ppl
― .oO (silby), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
con·tro·ver·sialˌkäntrəˈvərSHəl,ˌkäntrəˈvərsēəladjectivegiving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement.
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
whereas most of yr posts are just douchey
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
^truth
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
≠ > != > =/= > <> > not(equal(a b))
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
not(equal(a b))
idk, the drum machine's a surprisingly good fit on this one
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
40+ and hip: Reckoning is better than Murmur30-40 and hip: New Adventures In Hi-Fi is better than AFTP20-30 and hip: *deletes all Lil Pump songs that don't feature Yachty*
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 17 December 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
I must be 40 and hip. I'm at least one of those.
This is a weird-ass detour for this thread, but I've been thinking lately every time REM pops up that, after a generation that has seemingly completely overlooked them, their time might be coming around again. Kids gonna be looking for more of that earnest, sincere, rootsy REM sound as the world is collapsing around their ears.
― Ooey Gooey Fresh and Frothy (Old Lunch), Sunday, 17 December 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
actually the only hip and truly controp is that rem has 5 tracks at best and none of their records are classics
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
I'd argue that's more a challenging rather than controversial opinion.
― Ooey Gooey Fresh and Frothy (Old Lunch), Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
What's controversial is anyone under 30 caring about R.E.M.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
REM should be killed
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
Xan on the Moon
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link