aiyeeeeeeeeeeeee1111111!!!!
okay harvey danger was the 90s still right?
― could it be that it was all so shipley? (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that was '98.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
good lord.
I was hoping to see that song by that asshole about banging your piano all night long until you like express something maaaaan here, but I'm not sure it lives up to these standards.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
OH SNAP HE TOTALLY TOOK DOWN DYNAMITE HACK
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
So much for the billions and billions of dollars Dynamite Hack is pulling in these days, career = OVER.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
This one more than most does kind of seem like shooting fish in the barrel.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
But the Dane Cook/Richard Pryor thing at the end is spot on.
Yeah but sometimes those fish are evil and need shooting.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Quite honestly, if a list of the worst songs from a decade wasn't largely comprised of obvious shooting-fish-in-a-barrel choices (and I think at least 3 of the 5 presented so far are in that category), it wouldn't come across to me as "worst songs" as much as "songs we have INTERESTING OPINIONS about".
Having said that, I'd kind of love to participate in an ongoing rundown of, say, Pitchfork's or Rolling Stones' top of the decade list and explain why every choice is terrible.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
If it were a note, it would be the final note in the Price Is Right “sad trombone” tune. Also it would not be played by a trombonist, but literally farted out of the sphincter of a just-hanged Saddam Hussein, the morose poot representing his twitching body’s last involuntary movement.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
A bunch of people also genuinely like brokeNCYDE (of course those people are "the dudes in "brokeNCYDE")
I like brokencyde! stone me with stones!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess you're right. A "worst songs" list really should be objective and not subjective. xxxxp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:36 PM
Sorry, I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
or hey you could just not have a list of the worst songs from a decade
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
time and energy wasted on bad music is time and energy you're not spending on discovering dope new music imo, though i suppose lists like these have their appeal too.
― access flap (omar little), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
You could also not have a list of the best songs from a decade; in fact, no one really needs to write anything about music.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
discovering dope new music is overrated anyways
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/73616873_6d4a340c2f.jpg?v=0
this is dope new music for me
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it's true! I can't watch their videos but the album is funny + absurd + well produced.
xp to johnny fever
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
post music
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
or pictures of it
okay, i guess? xxxxpost ¯\(°_o)/¯
― access flap (omar little), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
there's something about songs being presented as "LOL THE WORST" that makes me end up liking them in a weird way. as if preexisting knowledge that something will be bad just sets you up for backward-dissapointment, "oh c'mon this isn't so bad."
^ I don't know how much of this thought process played into me liking brokencyde, but I'm like, really? you're getting apoplectic over this?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I get being contrary but come on now.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm the contrariest
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I did a lot of heartfelt soulsearching trying to figure out if my enjoyment of brokencyde was bound up in lol irony, but in the end I concluded that I really truly enjoy listening to that album
if your emotional maturity is > 16 YMMV tho
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is helpful though, I feel like I'm working through my issues of guilt and shame
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
in re: brokencyde
wow, it's like this thread is defenseless without whiney around
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
post whatever you want guys, black is white, freedom is slavery, brokencyde are great
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooool
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i hear that fucking Dynamite Hack song on the radio at least once a week but wow never saw the video. didn't realize they beat Vampire Weekend to the exact same "lol check out how we look and then listen to the lyrics" punch almost a decade earlier.
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Vampire Weekend at least seem reverent toward the cultural musics from which they borrow, though. Dynamite Hack comes across as "Hey d00ds, wouldn't be totes hilarious if we covered Eazy-E with acoustic guitars? LOL we've never even seen crack cocaine except on Dateline, so the levels of irony will be off the chain!"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
awful song, wtf @ ppl defending it in the comments.
― i got nothin (deej), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I have been driven to distraction lately because the local pop station plays "Party In The USA" and "Battlefield" incessantly but I don't think I could deal with Dynamite Hack exposure once a week.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Important question: how did you feel when Travis Morrison of beloved indie rockers The Dismemberment Plan covered a Ludacris song with an acoustic guitar?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard it!
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
45!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I have, and it's just as bad if not even worse. Travis should know better.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahaha that writeup is awesome
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
(02:29:34 AM) Whiney: can you post in the F2K thread for me(02:29:39 AM) HOOS: yep(02:33:18 AM) Whiney: to Johnny F and n/a: We tried to make it a fair balance of barrel-fish, challops and personal grudges. Anything that leans too far to classic targets is just Digg-style "Fergie is terrible LOL isn't Insane Clown PUSSIES for idiotz ROFL?" Anything that leans to far to challops is "Look at my CAHRAZAY opinions! Here's my book on why the Beatles are the worst band ever!" Striking a good balance fulfills your role as both reporter AND a critic with a unique voice. That being said, I don't remember Dynamite Hack being some incredibly hated on group, just some sad novelty blip that came and went.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The Travis Morrison cover was awful, but mostly because it was just plain bad. I was more interested in knowing if the same "rules" as to irony and slumming apply to him as they do for Dynamite Hack.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned seems to be enjoying all this a bit too much, methinks.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Are there any acoustic covers of rap records that aren't awful?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The Sesame Street appearance is rofflesome.
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
forget brokencyde
fight the real enemy ie james blunt imo
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hearya.com/2007/05/25/top-10-indie-covers-of-rap-songs/
ummm, signs are pointing to "no"
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
okay except the "Baby Got Back" cover is hysterical
― the blackest thing ever seen (HI DERE), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i think whiney was making an under-considered criticism in the dynamite hack post & i think lists of bad songs are funny.
― i got nothin (deej), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link