Whether or not you think it is ‘good’ or is inclusive of ‘tact’ or ‘finesse’, whatever those things mean, you are still here, moved enough to post comments on how much tact and finesse Xiu Xiu are lacking. Which, I can only imagine, is some overt nod to music I would rather not have anything to do with, but probably do, of my own volition or otherwise-although I won’t remember.

Something tells me you won’t forget this one.

This shit is so boring. What are you even supposed to do while listening to this? Drive around in a car on a sunny day? Buy jeans? Aren’t there enough Belle & Sebastian records to buy clothes to?

I like Xiu Xiu/Jamie Stewart for his ongoing attempt at shocking people, and creating reactions like the aforementioned. There are a lot of people who HATE Xiu Xiu, but at least in that, he has succeeded in creating a reaction better than the blithe once-overs that most music creates.

All of these comments seem to suggest that you have to be a “good person” to create art, or that putting out records and being an OK person are inextricably linked. Traditionally, only in the world of e! celebrity news and late night TMZ gossip do the personal lives of people who allegedly ‘do things’ matter. This is punk rock, motherfuckers!

This list is whack. The Coke Machine list reads a lot better, though. Like a 4-k list might once have read.

“their” existence.

so i guess that makes it an official ‘fued’ then, between beck and the ff.

more like the most overrated indie band ever. didn’t ‘get’ the fascination of the first or second album, and then inexplicably watched them for five minutes at ATp between sets, and it was a verified snoozefest.

oh, and not in the complimentary way that bh songs are sometimes snoozers :p

so here we have a blog-like comment’s section retort manifested in song form. too bad the music beck makes lost all cultural relevance after midnight vultures, and this invocation of the FF is paltry at best. for more examples of beck’s current grasping-at-straws approach to songwriting check out anything in the cover’s series.

this whole argument is a total snorefest: if I like a band’s music, I do not care what the singer of the Fiery Furnaces has to say about Radiohead. Although, admittedly, it is pretty funny.

Radiohead have the potential to be totally pretentious goons, who quote Chomsky in their liner notes. I think it’s quite OK that people level criticism against them.

I do not think that the co-option of Brooklyn is akin to the packaging of the northwest in the nineteen-nineties in content, but it is glaring in intent, which probably signals the death of this whole, uh, pseudo-movement, or however you say.

Not positive if it was NY Magazine, but I seem to remember Liars being on the cover of one of these publications, around 02 or ’03, with the whole explication of ‘Williamsburg Rock’, or ‘Generation Gentrification’ or whatever they were calling it then. Which is another band they left off, along with Rapture, Black Dice, etc.

did anyone see Broadcast, and were they good? have wanted to see them since Tender Buttons, but they’re elusive.

yes, please.