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I never understood why bands like "Arcade Fire" were popular
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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:39 PM Author: internet-worthy glittery hell main people I was really put off by their look and their fans & I always just assumed you had to be a low testosterone liberal to enjoy them. All my friends were pretty much normie Chad jock dudes & none of them listened to this music
I thought maybe that was unfair so I'm listening to them on spotify now and it's really dull & gay
A lot of indie music in this era was soy cuckcore & it ushered in an era of rap dominance |
Date: September 9th, 2025 6:41 PM Author: dark 180 marketing idea soy cuckcore was the whole hipster zeitgeist. it completely vanished overnight, just like grunge and cock rock before it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248478) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:42 PM Author: internet-worthy glittery hell main people Where did these guys come from. How did we go from nu metal to this? It has to be birth control in the water in big cities (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248482) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:53 PM Author: dark 180 marketing idea it was educated middle class soyboys and feminists who moved to urban areas around 2000, particularly brooklyn. they leaned on irony (trucker hats, tattoos, facial hair) to cover their lack of masculinity and repurposed new wave androgyny (no make up, tattoos, casual clothing) to cover for their lack of femininity. they weren't angry enough for grunge and weren't scummy enough for nu-metal. they just wanted to do drugs and dance (LCD soundsystem et al). as early internet adopters, they controlled the online-cultural-industrial-complex until the iphone came out and gave the power back to normies and their pop slop fuck music. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248509) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:05 PM Author: Bronze Voyeur a lot of those groups seemed to be taking pavement-style slacker/'indie' rock and merging it with sincere bruce springsteen-style anthemic overtones. it does sound really dated these days. it doesn't correspond to any sort of relevant cultural mood or attitude anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248546) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:10 PM Author: dark 180 marketing idea i'd agree pavement is the source material, with their ironic detachment that only trust funders can afford. there weren't any angry scumbagtypes in the brooklyn scene, nor were there many activist political or philosophical poet types. it was just "who cares let's party" with a sprinkling of "MY feelings." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248572) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 8:58 AM Author: Yellow cerebral halford den yeah but who cares lets party is 180. "political" nonsense is for LOW IQ mos and ruins everything (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249861) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:08 PM Author: Jet-lagged pontificating trailer park persian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248562) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:09 PM Author: silver abusive nursing home goal in life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248568) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:23 PM Author: Mint free-loading box office wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249150) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:53 PM Author: Flickering orchid hairy legs wow, i think i always had them confused with a different band but i am going through some of their songs right now and it's all completely unlistenable. i can't believe how bad it is. they're like the gay millenial transed version of smashing pumpkins (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248507) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:55 PM Author: internet-worthy glittery hell main people Yeah it's sad cause arcades and fire are both pretty cool things but wow the music sucks shit. And I guess the lead singer got "cancelled" by his lib tribe for being straight & having sex with women so he's done here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248515) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:05 PM Author: Flickering orchid hairy legs yeah they have a cool name but i clearly confused them with someone else. i thought they sounded sort of like evanescence or soft metalcore. what they actually sound like is LOL and explains a lot about millenials (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248548) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Floppy burgundy digit ratio All the “indie rock” music from that era sucked and is completely unlistenable now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248532) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: House-broken coffee pot As an urban planning major they were the first band to speak to my people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248541) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:05 PM Author: Thriller unhinged chapel newt I don't really care what normie Chad jocks think. I wouldn't have been friends with them even if I listened to Nickelback and The Calling and Remember the Name by Fort Minor. The Dubya era was really drab in terms of music, it's like the mainstream media decided that no fun was allowed after 9/11. I thank the indie labels for trying to be creative and different. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49248545) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 9:53 AM Author: Galvanic topaz death wish hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249940) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:19 PM Author: Doobsian Bull Headed Rigor IDC what you think, their first 3 albums were great.
I regret not seeing them in 2004. They played a bar down the street shortly after Pitchfork gave Funeral a very high score. It would have been my best opportunity to see a big band in a small room. |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:39 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate I lived in Williamsburg Brooklyn circa 2006-2012. Right near the Bedford L stop. Craigslist roommates. You kind of had to be there to get it. I did drugs and sometimes hooked up with mousy 5.5-6s. You had to be there to get it. Arcade Fire, LCD Sound System, the Antlers, Fleet Foxes, Phoenix, Passion Pit, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, MGMT, Interpol, all of it. Late nights. Missing work hungover. It was a scene.
The world is worse off without the hipsters. I want to go back.
OP sounds like the kind of bro who liked to hang out at Dorian’s and Rathbones. |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:46 PM Author: dark 180 marketing idea i bet it was awesome, that neighborhood was the center of the universe for a few years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249006) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:55 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate Great times man. I miss NY badly but in my 40s now and would’ve been impossible to have a family there. Maybe I just miss being young rather than NY itself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249030) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:06 PM Author: dark 180 marketing idea assuming you're a lawyer, i wouldn't be surprised if we have mutual friends who left for that reason. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249110) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:56 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate I was in-house. The free time and cushy job enabled me to fully enjoy late aughts billyburg but made it impossible to strive for much more than paying rent in NYC for shitty but well located apartments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249231) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:45 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry cr. except ive spent quite a few nights at dorians as well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249197) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:52 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate My buddy got thrown out and banned after doing coke in the bathroom there and getting thrown out and then sneaking in and getting caught doing coke in the same bathroom again.
He’s in AA now and less fun. Glad for him though. Saved his life. |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:53 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry he sounds like he was more fun before tbh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249220) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:54 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate I still remember yelling at the bouncer defending my friend and then my other friend telling me that [Jimmy] was clearly guilty and we needed to go somewhere else. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249223) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:55 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry 18000000000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249225) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:01 PM Author: electric amethyst stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249252) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:03 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Rilo Kiley, Titus Andronicus, My Morning Jacket, MGMT the early and later years not the commercial stuff, The National, M83 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249255) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:10 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate Oh man M83. How could I forget… (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249271) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:11 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin The Naked and Famous - Young Blood.mp3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249277) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:12 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Metric - Help I'm Alive.mp3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249281) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:14 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate I saw metric at Terminal 5. Fantasies was a great album. Lead singer had legs that went on for days and wore a micro skirt. I still think about it sometimes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249286) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:17 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Agreed 100%.
I went on some OK Cupid date with some chick who had downloaded their album from some random website and thought their band name was something completely different like it was someone who just changed the name to some other band name and we spent the entire date arguing about this while I tried to prove to her that it was actually a band called Metric. She was in Marketing and we had sex. |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:19 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate OMG. OKCupid was 180. It was such a thing back then. Mousy hipster girls everywhere looking to meet dudes.
Thanks GC for replacing it with TTTinder |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:20 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry okcupid was 180 trillion all the girls were dtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249310) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin 99% of chicks on there unironically liked the song Teardrop by Massive Attack (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249314) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249317) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 8:55 AM Author: Mint free-loading box office it's a great song (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249854) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:20 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Ratatat - Loud Pipes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249311) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry i saw ratatat at my college doing a makeshift show in a classroom putting up images with an oldschool overhead projector. great time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249316) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:22 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Welcome to Tufts, my friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249319) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:26 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry close but no cigar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249336) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:28 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249353) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:13 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin BLOODBUZZ OHIO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249282) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:14 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249289) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:19 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate Love the Pickups. The next album Swoon was great too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249308) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Panic Switch, Substitution, Royal We (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249315) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:23 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate Cmon dude. I’m about to go to bed and am thinking about Royal We and Panic Swotch now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249324) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:24 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin The drummer was some flip or something who once worked at Disneyland and dressed up as Mowgli for a job (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249329) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:26 PM Author: sadistic tantric mother headpube Graveyard Girl is 180. The 2 LPs before that are 175 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249337) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:14 PM Author: Hateful preventive strike Union Pool smoking patio was amazing from like 2006-2009. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249288) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:20 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle home associate I want to go back. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249312) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 6:03 AM Author: violet abode I really enjoyed this book: https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-Bathroom-Rebirth-2001-2011/dp/0062233092
But even at the time it felt like it was a hollow shell compared to the 60s/70s.
Were you ever photographed on Blue States Lose? That was one of my highlights of 2005. |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:28 PM Author: irradiated heaven legend 180 book (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250315) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 9:22 AM Author: electric amethyst stead The singer from CSS did heavy flirting with me at a concert (they were opening for Ladytron and she got off the stage and walked through the audience). It was awkward. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249897) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 9:46 AM Author: violet abode She did that at every show (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249927) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:05 AM Author: electric amethyst stead No I was special (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249965) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: supple pearl dragon pistol they were one of the best bands of the past 20 years lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249060) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:16 PM Author: vibrant point place of business it's a band for whites, browns like OP wouldn't understand (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249130) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:04 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin 'A Band for Whites: The Story of Arcade Fire' would be a sick rockumentary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249257) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:04 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249258) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:05 PM Author: electric amethyst stead Skrewdriver, Prussian Blue, Arcade Fire, basically whatever we want (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249261) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 6:06 AM Author: violet abode Unfortunately this phrase was trademarked by the Dave Matthews Band. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249682) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:46 PM Author: internet-worthy glittery hell main people Wow the low testosterone males really got riled up ITT maybe you'll be able to get an erection this week (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249408) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:19 AM Author: Flickering orchid hairy legs BAH GAWD THAT MAN HAS A FAMILY!!!
lmao j/k, no he doesn't. go as hard as you want on that little rootless cosmopolitan training twink |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:26 PM Author: Bateful magical shrine In the case of Arcade Fire, they were really good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249343) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:27 PM Author: arousing haunting faggotry cr, power out is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249346) |
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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:29 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Rate the Father John Misty cover of The Suburbs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249356) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 9:51 AM Author: histrionic love of her life locale 30 Seconds to Mars was bizarre. Leto made his own little religion centered on himself, wearing makeup, screaming into cameras. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249936) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 9:54 AM Author: stirring center I admit I was listening to indie then but wtf were my options really? Scumbags completely jumped the shark and were doing awful shit like "Shinedown" iirc. it wasn't like the heyday of Korn when they were cultivating a pretty cool and edgy gothic trailer park aesthetic. it was just really fucking lame, like a Monster Energy Drink ad or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49249944) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: Jet-lagged pontificating trailer park persian In 15 years you’ll be grudgingly owning up to having *played* indie titles just like you are today with indie music imho. After all, what was there? AAA is to Shinedown…. The State of Music.
Also idk what you’re taking about when Vertical Horizon, Finger 11, and Tool were cranking out bangers, all with Bald frontmen.
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:27 AM Author: stirring center Tool were always apart from the nu-metal dreck and sort of the artistic elder statesmen of metal at the time...I think Maynard was literally ten years older than most other frontmen at the time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250015) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:41 AM Author: Brilliant cumskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250054) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:01 AM Author: Jet-lagged pontificating trailer park persian He’s an economist iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250115) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 3:34 PM Author: electric amethyst stead vintner, actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49251000) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:44 AM Author: internet-worthy glittery hell main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250069) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:46 AM Author: dark 180 marketing idea the biggest bullshit "band" of this era was animal collective. total garbage "music" that critics completely fawned over like they had reinvented the art form. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250072) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:49 AM Author: Scarlet dead base incel i didn't like animal collective either but they were innovative and generally known for pushing the envelope in the genres that they worked with they were definitely talented. so were arcade fire, for that matter. you don't have to personally like it to appreciate the genius at work |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:59 AM Author: Brilliant cumskin AC was chill and unique. They could have had more big singles. They eschewed making commercial rock hits. This endeared them to Pitchfork types. They only had one really big radio single I can think of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250113) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:01 AM Author: Scarlet dead base incel this thread is full of the particular type of moral disease that causes one to think that artists make art for them, as another demand-driven consumptive good, instead of for themselves and for the good of their own creative genius this particular sort of thinking is also why we have aesthetically repulsive AI slop everywhere now btw |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:04 AM Author: stirring center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250119) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:06 AM Author: Brilliant cumskin (Pitchfork editor hyperventilating at the thought of Solange dropping another album) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250125) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:24 AM Author: violet abode lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250173) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:27 AM Author: Scarlet dead base incel *bangs table* ME WANT FOOD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250183) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:25 PM Author: dark 180 marketing idea they can make whatever they want, i'm all for it. i don't understand why the critics and ultra hipsters fawned over it like it was the second coming. it was just noisy shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250305) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 3:08 PM Author: Brilliant cumskin Exactly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250817) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 3:36 PM Author: Scarlet dead base incel i'd have to listen to it again but as i recall their stuff was sonically rich with excellent layering. lot of overlap with the "kid a is the best radiohead album" crowd the lyricist was also pretty talented, but i have no examples to draw on as i didn't love it either |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:52 AM Author: dun codepig national the top tier of indie rock from Wilco, the National, and Bon Iver to Grizzly Bear and Spoon filled concert halls and music clubs with joy-- nowadays, there's nothing to celebrate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250251) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:57 AM Author: internet-worthy glittery hell main people Don't post chatgpt slop you shitty gook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250260) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 11:58 AM Author: dun codepig national you're the self hating dink basement dweller, go fuck urself and quit pretending to be cool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250263) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:31 PM Author: magenta party of the first part I remember they had one song I liked but forget the name. Comparing that era to now, it wasn’t so bad. What’s today’s version of that band/type of music? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2#49250320) |