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Post by Jay Carroll on Dec 4, 2009 19:02:05 GMT -5
Mini-rant coming.... I FRIGGING HATE, HATE, HAAAAAAAAAAATTTTE Jazon Mraz! He makes the most boring, simplistic, craptastic pop music I've heard in such a long time. You know your **** is too simplistic when Sears (the same place that berates people with another boring ass guy named John Mayer) won't play your crap inside their stores. He's so horrendous to me, he made Colbie Caillat boring along with him. Every time I see/hear this gorgeous woman, who managed to make an East Coaster who NEVER smiles wish he was a West Coast beach bum... *pauses to show picture* ![](http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens2036423module10065222photo_1213846717ColbieCaillat.jpg) sing alongside his boring ass, I cringe, then my mind begins to melt into an angry mush. As a matter of fact, if Jason Mraz went hiking one day, was hit on the head, and inexplicably lost the ability to sing or play guitar, I would rejoice like Cartman when he cut up Scott Tenermen's parents and fed them to him. End rant. I'm ok... I swear.
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Post by Tarik Dee on Dec 4, 2009 19:37:03 GMT -5
In fact SEVEN!!! awards, they are amazing, and here is the video of they playing Walking On A Dream on the awards: this is some of the absolute WORST garbage i have ever heard in my life. many of the bands being bashed in here are head and shoulders above this ridiculous s***. I just want to say, there´s different tastes, maybe you dont like it, but in my opinion they are amazing and one of my favourite bands, i can´t wait to hear them all over the radio, thats´s all.
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Post by Kruton on Dec 4, 2009 20:00:10 GMT -5
8 pages... and no mention of I mean, I enjoy the Foo Fighters from time to time, but I think this crosses into Nickleback territory. I'm also a little disappointed by 3 Inches of Blood's new album, from what I've listened to it sounds like a classic rock album. Definitely not the ridiculous over the top metal I've been used to. Weezer's new album is pretty ehhhhh. The Dethalbum II gets a pass, but it did not live up to the prequel. Eminem's new accent is annoying. As for the good pile, I'd like to throw in some unmentioned stuff: Absence by Paper Route (Pretty awesome indie rock electronica synth rock) Heart On-Eagles of Death Metal Felt 3 by Felt (MURS and Slug with Aesop Rock heading up Production ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ) And So I Watch You From Afar-And So I Watch You From Afar f***ing Awesome post-guitar rock. I liked the new Atmosphere album The Beatles remasters if those count. Mariachi El Bronx (The punk band The Bronx in mariachi form) Slaughterhouse on the Prairie-Buckethead (Epic guitar virtuoso-ocity) Winter Hours-Deep Dark Woods (Canadian Alt. Country) Fake Shark-Real Zombie-Meeting People is Terrible (Crazy dance punk. I like it) Japandroids Whenever Lupe Fiasco's Lasers comes out, that. Mos Def-The Ecstatic Nirvana-Live at Reading Patton Oswalt-My Weakness is Terrible Slayer-World Painted Blood
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Post by nickcave on Dec 4, 2009 20:46:52 GMT -5
Dave Grohl said that was their attempt at doing a Tom Petty style song, I see it as a failed experiment I hope they don't pursue further.
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Post by ddt on Dec 4, 2009 21:35:59 GMT -5
Worst music of 2009? Anything in the genres of hip-hop/rap, pop diva crap, synthetic Justin Timberlake-type trash, and computerized techno-vomit.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 5, 2009 0:58:51 GMT -5
Worst music of 2009? Anything in the genres of hip-hop/rap, pop diva crap, synthetic Justin Timberlake-type trash, and computerized techno-vomit. All hip-hop and rap? Really? An entire genre of music was the worst, despite a whole f***ton of it not being similar to other parts of it in any way at all? Okay then. ...let's just say I more or less disagree with all of this. But I just don't tend to enjoy generalizing, so whatever.
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Post by Sarsaparilla on Dec 5, 2009 1:01:57 GMT -5
Anything hip hop is dead since Tupac. Eminem and Dre are kind of in a league of their own and I like them though, so I don't count them.
Empire of the Sun is really bad, like a bad version of MGMT.
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Post by Jay Carroll on Dec 5, 2009 1:14:18 GMT -5
Weezer's new album is pretty ehhhhh. True fact: I got wished well in my future endeavors from the site I used to work for because the review I submitted for the new Weezer album was so lackluster. My mental response? If my editor had listened to the album, he would have slopped together a review and been done with it as well. My final words (and verdict) on the album: This album is for those who have to have every Weezer album, and those people only. There is only one good song out of ten on the regular release, and if you insist on buying this album make sure it's a deluxe copy so you can justify the price with the "limited edition" songs. And I actually spent $4 bucks on that steaming pile of ****. I can't decide which song was worse: or Oh, and if you are looking for the one good song I mentioned:
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 5, 2009 1:24:50 GMT -5
Anything hip hop is dead since Tupac. Eminem and Dre are kind of in a league of their own and I like them though, so I don't count them. Empire of the Sun is really bad, like a bad version of MGMT. ...yeah, I respectfully disagree. Tupac was great and all, but as far as I'm concerned he wasn't anywhere near the be-all end-all of hip-hop. Neither was Biggie. It's still alive and kicking, my friend. Weezer's new album is pretty ehhhhh. True fact: I got wished well in my future endeavors from the site I used to work for because the review I submitted for the new Weezer album was so lackluster. My mental response? If my editor had listened to the album, he would have slopped together a review and been done with it as well. My final words (and verdict) on the album: This album is for those who have to have every Weezer album, and those people only. There is only one good song out of ten on the regular release, and if you insist on buying this album make sure it's a deluxe copy so you can justify the price with the "limited edition" songs. And I actually spent $4 bucks on that steaming pile of ****. I can't decide which song was worse: or Oh, and if you are looking for the one good song I mentioned: ...sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who liked Raditude. A lot. I think it's awesome.
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Post by Sarsaparilla on Dec 5, 2009 1:28:29 GMT -5
Hip hop that's relatively easily found? No way. The worst part about it is is that it at least was more about rebellion and being in the hood and all that happy horsecrap, meanwhile it's about being rich, famous, getting as much publicity as possible and has nothing to do with personal struggles. It's weak and forgettable.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 5, 2009 1:32:20 GMT -5
Hip hop that's relatively easily found? No way. The worst part about it is is that it at least was more about rebellion and being in the hood and all that happy horsecrap, meanwhile it's about being rich, famous, getting as much publicity as possible and has nothing to do with personal struggles. It's weak and forgettable. Meh, I'm not really worried about the super popular stuff. Yeah, a good 80%-90% of it is throwaway pop garbage...but the genre itself is still VERY alive. Yes, you do have to dig a little to find the really good stuff...but that never hurt anyone.
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Post by Sarsaparilla on Dec 5, 2009 1:35:00 GMT -5
But that could be said for every genre. The hip hop that gets played is trite and terrible. When country, rock, whatever gets mainstream, if it's bad there's relatively little of it, hip hop-based stuff is everywhere and it's repulsive.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 5, 2009 1:42:52 GMT -5
P.O.S. put out a fantastic hip hop record this year as did a lot of underground stuff. The genre is more alive with awesome than it has ever been as far as I am concerned.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 5, 2009 1:47:16 GMT -5
That can indeed be said of every genre...and I do feel that way about a lot of it. And I guess I'm totally underexposed to everything, because even the stuff that's "everywhere", I don't really hear. Either way, I'm definitely a fan of digging beneath the surface to find the really good stuff no matter what genre we're discussing...so that's me. I don't think any genre is really "dead". P.O.S. put out a fantastic hip hop record this year as did a lot of underground stuff. The genre is more alive with awesome than it has ever been as far as I am concerned. f*** yes. Never Better is easily one of the best records released all year. So damn good.
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Post by Young Game on Dec 5, 2009 1:51:36 GMT -5
Hip hop that's relatively easily found? No way. The worst part about it is is that it at least was more about rebellion and being in the hood and all that happy horsecrap, meanwhile it's about being rich, famous, getting as much publicity as possible and has nothing to do with personal struggles. It's weak and forgettable. I can agree with this. Tupac, B.I.G., Public Enemy....they at least had SOMETHING to say. Be it the class struggle, political change, respect toward females (i.e. 2Pac's "Keep Ya Head Up"), morality tales based on the hazards of one wrong decision. Now it seems hip-hop has lost that. There just seems to be this void, this huge gaping, wound in rap/hip-hop. You can't heal that with a band-aid, and that's what seems to be offered up now. A band-aid.
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Post by Sarsaparilla on Dec 5, 2009 2:10:39 GMT -5
Exactly, Player. Spot on.
And yes, there are genres that are definitely dead. Rock and roll is dead, disco is dead and metal is dead. For instance, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thingy. Wasn't it supposed to be about counter-culture and rebellion? How can they be in a HOF, and how come bands like Metallica are still the young guys? Concerning Metallica, they're really the last big metal band that's important (sub genres of metal don't count, only the big ones as this is what the thread's about), and even though their last album was good it's certainly not a representation of the genre.
I can speak more to rock and metal than I can to hip hop, but I still know a lot about it, and Tupac and the older guys that are just gone now are the last champions for the genre. That means to me that if every artist of hip hop since then have not even come close to capturing the ideals and, for lack of a better word, goodness of the music, it really is a bad genre. The underground can be good like for other music, but it's put in the same category as bad music too.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 5, 2009 2:21:00 GMT -5
Hip hop that's relatively easily found? No way. The worst part about it is is that it at least was more about rebellion and being in the hood and all that happy horsecrap, meanwhile it's about being rich, famous, getting as much publicity as possible and has nothing to do with personal struggles. It's weak and forgettable. I can agree with this. Tupac, B.I.G., Public Enemy....they at least had SOMETHING to say. Be it the class struggle, political change, respect toward females (i.e. 2Pac's "Keep Ya Head Up"), morality tales based on the hazards of one wrong decision. Now it seems hip-hop has lost that. There just seems to be this void, this huge gaping, wound in rap/hip-hop. You can't heal that with a band-aid, and that's what seems to be offered up now. A band-aid. Those groups exits, again P.O.S., Flobots are heavily political and actually broke mainstream. You aren't hearing these things because you aren't listening. It exists, just not in your scope of experience. Expand your horizons.
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Post by Young Game on Dec 5, 2009 2:43:35 GMT -5
Those groups exits, again P.O.S., Flobots are heavily political and actually broke mainstream. You aren't hearing these things because you aren't listening. It exists, just not in your scope of experience. Expand your horizons. My horizons are far expanded. My 3rd Eye is squeegeed clean. If you really think about it....how can you, someone I've never met, really know what I listen to? I own the Flobots album and have heard P.O.S., and while I can respect what they are doing, and I wish them all the best, they really have yet to make that impact on me. I will not just dismiss them, but rather give them a while and see if they have the staying power and significance of those that came before them.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 5, 2009 2:59:24 GMT -5
Those groups exits, again P.O.S., Flobots are heavily political and actually broke mainstream. You aren't hearing these things because you aren't listening. It exists, just not in your scope of experience. Expand your horizons. My horizons are far expanded. My 3rd Eye is squeegeed clean. If you really think about it....how can you, someone I've never met, really know what I listen to? I own the Flobots album and have heard P.O.S., and while I can respect what they are doing, and I wish them all the best, they really have yet to make that impact on me. I will not just dismiss them, but rather give them a while and see if they have the staying power and significance of those that came before them. I can make that statement due to your comments and the fact that I highly doubt you have listened to every hip hop record put out over the past few years.
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Dec 5, 2009 3:05:12 GMT -5
Exactly, Player. Spot on. And yes, there are genres that are definitely dead. Rock and roll is dead, disco is dead and metal is dead. For instance, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thingy. Wasn't it supposed to be about counter-culture and rebellion? How can they be in a HOF, and how come bands like Metallica are still the young guys? Concerning Metallica, they're really the last big metal band that's important (sub genres of metal don't count, only the big ones as this is what the thread's about), and even though their last album was good it's certainly not a representation of the genre. Mastodon would like a word with you.
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