the_raytownian wrote:
hots_towel wrote:
nearly everything on modern rock radio. and i guess a better term would have been hipster rock, or hipster music in general. I used to work with a guy who played that trash all the time (though he was a really cool guy, i just hated his music). bands like silversun pickups, starfucker, los campesinos, atlas, that band that was in one of the samsung commercials. i know this will probably be met with "those arent hipster alt/indie rock bands" but regardless of what you label them, i cant stand that noise or just about anything like it
Though I can't name a single song from any of the artists you listed, or even say I know I've heard them before, your description gave me a pretty good understanding of just what kind of music you're talking about... Well, I'll tell you this: I don't care what you call it, because I don't like it either.
It's not just the sound of it I hate, though. It's the cultural aspect that I find truly pathetic. What you've described to me is that shitty sunshine music for all the well-to-do, self-pitying and "nostalgic" yuppies of my generation. The ones who just wish it could be "summer 4 ever" after finding out how unsatisfied and empty they feel with being cool and slumming in the big city for a living, because "it was better" (easier, and less meaningless) for them to play the part of their parents' whiny pet poodles. It's just a lot of misplaced sappiness and nostalgic longing suited only for spoiled brats. Gross.
Jesus Christ, am I ever bitter! But that is the way I feel about it.
thats more or less exactly what this junk is.
now personally, im from CA, so it's summer 8 months out of the year anyways. i think summer can go sit on a nail.
and yes, that entire scene of music is something i generally avoid as well. i picture the target audience college aged social/arts majors who do their homework at starbucks. to some degree, i can relate to teh Jeff Hanneman said when it comes to music.
"I hate happy music. I hate music where all they sing about is good things, like love and optimism."
im really not a generally angry person (not anymore at least), but that statement hits the alt/indie beatles wanna bands directly