debaserr

i was just a bit annoyed with his quip about how they should suck him off for not making music he likes. i dont care past that.

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I think this is a bit of a cop out of an argument.

I dislike things because I dislike them, not because they are popular.

Music changes all the time and so does the stuff that gets hyped by the media. It just so happens at the moment I hate probably 99% of the albums hyped by the mainstream indie media. Is it my fault they're hyping music I have no particular affinity for?

I don't see how it can be. A few years ago things might have been different, but if you think i'm going to endlessly listen to albums I find dull to justify having an opinion then think again. I've not heard the whole of the Grizzly Bear album, but I heard their last one and i've heard a few songs off this one and to be honest there was nothing in that stuff that suggested to me I was listening to anything mind blowingly amazing or original or even that great. I think that's enough to form an opinion on it without subjecting myself to the rest of it.

I just like what I like. I don't care how many other people listen to something. It matters not to me if one other person likes an album or 1 million other people like an album.

Life is far too short to waste time listening to something over & over again to please someone elses opinion of something.

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Beach House "Teen Dream"

Yes I know, "Teen Dream" is really an album that is supposed to be released next month but, so what?

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That's how it should be but unfortunately some people are the latter.

I never stated you have to like what's being hyped, simply listen to it before dismissing for the reason that it's hyped.

I'd agree that is enough to form an opinion on however, if you don't listen to it at all, that opinion is pretty worthless.

Good, I never said it should be any other way.


Why would listening to something force you to form the opinion as anyone but yourself?

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Urban Hat€monger ?

Why? Do they suddenly become as original as Can, The Velvet Underground or Kraftwerk in the handful of songs I didn't hear?

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I didn't say 'listen to it all', I said 'listen to it at all'.

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Alfred

Oh please, that's not even what I meant. Read the post again.

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what am i missing

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Wow, this thread kinda went flying off the rails, it seems...

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Alfred

You seem to think that I'm hating on these albums. But, if you take that statement in the context of the rest of my post (as you should), you would discover that I have not listened to them yet.

And before you say "well that's just close-minded and you're not giving them a fair chance", I fell into the trap of listening to the most hyped indie albums last year, and there's a good few hours of my life that I will never get back. And that is why when a band like Grizzly Bear comes along and gets all of this sudden praise I can only shrug.

Indie is not something I feel obligated to listen to anymore. I'll listen to albums that interest me and frankly Veckitamest and Merriweather Post Pavillion don't do that (and looking back, neither do Vampire Weekend's self-titled or Microcastle).

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