Best Band of 2017

THE ARCACA

THE ARCANA'S ANAL ARC

that's actually a different band shakey, you unrepentant piece of shit. I believe THE ARCANA was formed in 2015!

don't you hate it when you try to start a conversation with someone who clearly knows nothing about music? I asked like 20 kids at school today if they'd ever heard of The Arcana and half of them just gave me blank stares...the other half thought I was talking about the English proto-shoegaze duo AR Kane and went off on these ignorant tangents about 'Pump Up the Volume and plunderphonics and The Avalanches. bunch of plebs, right? surely the folks on the I LOVE MUSIC have more refined taste in MUSIC, surely they can appreciate The Arcana's crisp chiming guitars and Beatlesque melodicism and soul-searching philosophical lyrics, right? WRONG! the best they can come up with is scat jokes and sarcasm and lazy puns. some people they were born in the wrong generation but I was obviously born into the wrong species, fml http://i.imgur.com/K8Z5C2F.gif

sorry but I think we're a ways off from incorporating bestiality into our THE ARCANA listening habits

Farmer Jones put on a THE ARCANA side, and before you could say 'everywhere a duck duck', the barnyard was fairly humming with cross-species copulation and copious coprophagia.

Let me get this straight...

A bunch of adults are using this thread to "optimize" associations between THE ARCANA and deviant sexual practices. Some random dared enter your precious safe space, so now you're going to make sure a struggling young band comes up in searches for urethra stuffing, right? Ha ha, so funny I forgot to laugh. You have no idea who THE ARCANA are or what they represent. From what I can tell, you haven't even given their music a chance.

But that's okay. THE ARCANA don't belong to you. They belong to the piss and scat fetish community. That's where they come from and who they made TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY for. A song like "Something's Coming Down" speaks directly and profoundly to the lived experience of every lonely teen who thinks she has to hide her laptop's brown folder from the world. Its truth will be heard no matter what a bunch of jaded, would-be internet critics do to drown it out.

Stop trying to make this about genital mutilation or emetophilia or whatever. You're just embarrassing yourselves.

There are so many good bands here, so it is difficult to say which one is the best in 2017. No doubt there will be more releases from all the bands in the coming months - so good, some not so good. Many of the bands may already have reached their peaks or even started to come down the other side of the hill. I'm not suggesting any band in particular fits this bill - it is all rather subjective. For example, I don't believe that The Beatles produced anything like the quality of material after 1968. Also, Pink Floyd did nothing before or after Dark Side of The Moon. These are all contentious statements and purely subjective.

My feeling is that the bands that are considered as popular over the last few years will continue to be so regardless of the quality of the material they release. People are very reluctant to embrace anything new without media affirmation, and it is quite true to say that the majority of the general public find it difficult to make choices and require steering by the media in a direction dictated by the media. Many (not all) of the individuals writing on this thread are effectively victims of this malady, sadly.

It is very interesting to observe people's reactions when confronted with something new. Fear and or mockery seems to be the course that they pursue. It is not necessarily their fault, but a consequence of the society the feel at home within. In any case, it is important to stand for what you believe in and as we still live in a country that has freedom of speech everyone is entitled to their opinions. I nevertheless, follow the ethos of one of our countries greatest humourists Groucho Marx: 'I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member'.

I'm pretty sure there are like 3 levels of irony i'm not getting here, but that post about "Destroy My Sweater" is one of the funnier things I've ever read on this site

There are a lot great bands on this list but in my opinion the best band on this list is WEEZER. If you've never heard Weezer, songs like "Destroy My Sweater" and "Buddy Holly" are hilarious and totally random but at the same time they still ROCK. Another great song of theirs is "Darling Don't You Go and Cut Your Hair." Now I know what you're saying, these songs sound goofy, but guess what? The lead singer went to Harvard, so there actually smart.

If you want to learn more, go to a (real) record store. Or another thing you could do, is pick up a copy of SPIN magazine, which has a lot of articles about bands like this. Check them out and remember to vote WEEZER!!!

― it me, Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:53 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is very interesting to observe people's reactions when confronted with something new.

dead

Beautiful thread, I nailed my dick to a board and voted for The Arcana

Many (not all) of the individuals writing on this thread are effectively victims of this malady, sadly.

super dead, like actually beyond dead

No doubt there will be more releases from all the bands in the coming months -

you guys wanna hear about the most romantic/sensual experience of my life

it's when i got my dick sucked by all 3 to 5 members of THE ARCANA

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Also, Pink Floyd did nothing before or after Dark Side of The Moon. These are all contentious statements and purely subjective.

No, the fact that Pink Floyd only released one album is objective fact.

I couldn't have said it better than martyfalling's last post, really. I was saying basically the exact same thing to my freshman adviser the other day as Tubgirl-ed one another while THE ARCANA's TOMORROW IS A DAY THAT IS NOT TODAY AND THAT IS ALSO NOT YESTERDAY AND YESTERDAY IS NOT TODAY EITHER BECAUSE TODAY IS JUST TODAY ONLY.

If you think that post was missing some words and was barely coherent, I think you just need to open your mind and learn how to think differently through your mind about the world in which we live in.

Um, how can this be Arctic Monkeys, seeing as how they have done nowt this year? (Or last year?)

Oh sorry, Artic Monkeys, the lorry-based tribute act, right?

No doubt there will be more releases from them in the coming months - so good, some not so good.

It makes me feel very sad to see so much hatred and ridicule in the world. This thread seems to exemplify this. But let us face the facts: why are we even contributing to this thread? Simply, because we are all sad losers, including myself, with nothing better to do with our lives. No doubt everyone here is skipping school or college because they are seen by their peers as outcasts and misfits - why else are we here? Nevertheless, life goes on even if all of us here feel like giving it up. I don't much like Weezer.

because we are all sad losers, including myself,

Sing it sister.

No doubt everyone here is skipping school or college

demographic nailed

it's all been downhill since 1977#ROADRUNNER#EMI

The negativity in this thread is sad, but it's understandable. We're all lost and confused, trying to figure out how to navigate fifteen credit hours every semester while getting zero credit for our hours of pain. There's no quad big enough to contain my pain, no frisbee ultimate enough to quell my sorrow. I watch people line up at the credit card sign-up, eager for their free t-shirt emblazoned with 'FUTURE CONSUMER' in foot-high letters. This computer lab is a den of shame, true, where I sit in an eternally-frozen moment and contemplate the gravity of 'like'-ing the Facebook picture Tina Wolczyk from that party where losers like me could've never dared crash...but this lab is also a cocoon, where I can feel myself changing and growing while I listen to my optimally-sequenced fan edit of the album TOMORROW'S YESTERDAYS ARE TODAY'S TODAYS by THE ARNANCA on an endless loop, growing and changing and one day emerging as a fully-formed perma-temp with a degree I'll never use and student loans that I'll never pay off. And even if that glorious day never arrives, I will always have memories of my ACARNA-woven chrysalis, and of that time in 10th grade when Helen O'Malley let me touch her boob (overshirt, but still).

see now i feel bad because up until this point i've assumed that dear marty is a member of this band or, god forbid, an independent contractor being paid actual money to go on this ill-fated word of mouth quest on the worst possible choice of message board

now i'm thinking what if he's a personal friend or family member of THE ARCANA ?

like this poor brother-in-law really doesn't need to hear every detail of my world famous piss and scat fetish parties

While we make our scat jokes, martyfalling is marshalling an army of unjaded new registered users to vote in this poll and enshrine The ARCANA as the best band of 2017 for all eternity

the RYM migration was bad enough

the best band of 2017 should be We Are Scientists but I guess THE ARCANA is the next best thing

Let's face it: there's some people posting in this thread who are CLOSE-minded. It's easy to fall into routine habits. I even do it myself sometimes!

And there's a time and a place for that. For example, if you don't like a band (for example, Weezer) there are many places that opinion can be shared. Believe me, there is PLENTY of room for competing fans/fandoms on the Internet. I'm not arguing there isn't.

But what I don't get is, why you would come to this specific board, to share these opinions. When what you could be doing is LISTENING to the bands on this list and figuring out which ones you LIKE. Instead of making CLOSE-MINDED JUDGMENT STATEMENTS about stuff you're not even trying to understand.

As for calling everyone on the board losers... Well guess what! Not everyone posting here is some guy in mom's basement with a toy collection. Some of us have graduated college and are pursuing diverse careers. Some of us are even entrepreneurs! (Try googling "blockchain".)

The funny thing about all of this is that I'm not even mad. I just think it's funny how some people behave. My point is let's keep the board focused on the MUSIC.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

do you think Haim is pronounced like Cory's last name (ie. Feld-man)

― President Keyes, Thursday, June 1, 2017 9:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quality lol, previously undiscovered

Can't wait for the poll results!

If The Arcana don't win this poll then I'll eat my own scat

shoobedoo be bop om nom nom

Fuck Despacito. These r real bands that make real music.

So hard this poll. I can’t vote just for one. I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs because the music from these bands get me high.

Dear children,

This is music. Learn it. Love it. Pass it on.

listen to these artists, they will change your life.

yr dads p cool

I called and told him you said this for Christmas

This list is missing Rammstein tbh.

is martyfalling a high concept sock? was "the arcana" invented purely for the purpose of this troll? how much money went into this?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Voted jawbox but should’ve voted for Arcana.

Write in for the Beatles

kewl band

It makes me feel very sad to see so much hatred and ridicule in the world. This thread seems to exemplify this. But let us face the facts: why are we even contributing to this thread? Simply, because we are all sad losers, including myself, with nothing better to do with our lives. No doubt everyone here is skipping school or college because they are seen by their peers as outcasts and misfits - why else are we here? Nevertheless, life goes on even if all of us here feel like giving it up. I don't much like Weezer.

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