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Fuck the 1975. Go back to 1975 and figure out how to make good music and then come back, dumbasses. As for Tropical Monkeys, they aren't Oasis so who cares.
This makes me think of when Grimes commented on that Dead Girlfriends' feed on this here Stereogum a few weeks ago...I was so proud to be in on that Internet fight :')
Fuck no...Matchbox 20, though!
Hey, I actually LIKE the Black Keys! Cuz they're not "psychedelic." I mean, they're "bluesy," which is annoying, but they actually ROCK so it's fine. No one rocks anymore. Indie rock used to be subversive, it used to be IN YOUR FACE and rockin, and now it's bullshit used for fucking car commercials. I'm sick of it. And then Daniel Blumberg goes and leaves Yuck. OKAY, DANIEL. GUESS YOU WANNA MAKE SHITTY RECORDS THAT DON'T ROCK AND CALL YOURSELF HEBRONIX. I mean, come ON. And of course I still love all the indie the blogs tell me to love, I love Lana and Phoenix and Vampy Weeks and Arcade Fire and LCD but STILL. Something's gotta change here. I mean, pretty soon we're gonna have some hot hipster chick doing nothing but Danzig covers on a fucking fiddle and kazoo and getting a 9.5 from Ian "I Love Pop-Punk But Green Day Sucks" Cohen. (I actually messaged a P4k reviewer on FB once and yelled at her about her fucking 8.5 for a Blur live album. I mean, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? For a LIVE ALBUM? I love Blur, but Oasis is my favorite band, so I guarantee Oasis makes a live album, P4k goes, "Liam's voice sounds horrible and Noel seems disinterested," but as soooooooon as Damon Albarn does something cool, P4k is about as premature as a high schooler on prom night.) So yeah, watching MGMT makes me angry because I'm a musician and if I got a chance to be on fucking Letterman you're sure as hell not gonna see me acting like a fucktard wearing idiot 60's clothes and banging a fucking massive cowbell and then bitching about my fame and how "I make records I wanna make" and blah blah blah. "Congratulations," MGMT. You suck. Go "smoke grass." I don't even care that all my shit got downvoted, I'm fucking right. Post-collegiate malaise, baby!
See, then I read articles like this that still make me believe in indie music. This album is absolutely fantastic. People should just write about Modest Mouse every day and never mention MGMT again.
Honest to God, I have no idea why these dipshits still have a career. The first five songs on their debut are excellent...and that's it. They epitomize the hipster bullshit fucking shit that I despise, and as you can tell by this performance, they clearly think that they're living in some 60's Munchkin paradise where they sit around and "smoke grass" and fuck girls that look like Oompa Loompas and then write dumbass "deep" songs about it. "Your Life is a Lie." Hmm...someone's mad that they wrote catchy, synth-pop songs that people actually LIKED, you know? "Ohhh we're really a progressive, 60's band that writes songs that no one in their right mind would want to hear if they're not 'smoking grass.'" Shut up. I'm so fucking sick of the 60's, dudes. I'm so sick of this psychedelic bullshit. Like, look at what they're wearing! Who do they think they are?! Brian Jonestown Massacre?!?!?!!!!!! There's a REASON dumbass hippies don't do anything for society, MGMT. Cuz they're dumbass hippies. "Smoking grass," or, excuse me, "dropping acid," hasn't done much to make MGMT's music better, now has it? "60's psychedelia, maaaaaaaaan." The indie blogs have tricked us into thinking psychedelia is cool. it is NOT. "Satanic Majesties" is vastly overrated, "Sgt. Pepper" is too far up it's own ass sometimes, fucking what else was psychedelic? Steppenwolf? The breakdown in "Magic Carpet Ride"? You'll never see some fucking indie blog going on about "the importance of 'MAGIC FUCKING CARPET RIDE' to 60's psychedelia" now will you? CUZ STEPPENWOLF DIDN'T WEAR CARDIGANS. AND NO ONE CLAPPED. THE AUDIENCE BARELY CLAPPED UNTIL LETTERMAN SAID SOMETHING. If I want to hear music that's this far up its own ass, I'll just throw on some fucking 60's Floyd record or something, because at least "See Emily Play" was good. Give me a break. They couldn't be more pretentious if Natalie Portman introduced them wearing a "Save the Trees" t-shirt while blasting the fucking Shins out of a boombox. GIVE ME A BREAK.
Also, I don't know if she saw it, but I apologize to Grimes and James for my indie-trolling. "Is This On Me?" is my JAM. That song kicks major ass. Indieness nowadays just makes me super angry. Keep making music, you guys. If you're getting a reaction it means someone's paying attention.
.................is there anyone else out there that is sitting there like, kind of amazed that Grimes AND James just commented on this? And subsequently realizing they spend way, way, way, way, too much time on the Internet? Hi, Grimes!
Am I the only one who feels like these things are only meant to garner more attention for your band? I mean, of COURSE he's gonna call it "Dead Girlfriends" and put out a song that may/may not be about violence towards women or whatever. It's calculated! I love Elite Gymnastics, I have not listened to Dead Girlfriends because when I went to buy the EP it's friggin 8 bucks for 4 songs, I mean COME ON, anyway...the way the indie blogosphere works, you do something maybe/kinda/probably controversial, then you watch the blogs slobber over it, writing provocative "think-pieces," when really, dude's getting what he wants: more publicity for his band, more hits on his page, more people listening to his maybe/kinda/probably controversial song, IT'S ALL A PART OF THE INDIE BLOG MACHINE THAT INDIE ROCK NEEDS TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF TO SURVIVE. Then all the intellectuals jump on the comment feed and start talking about other "issues" and how "we need to fix those, maaaaan" when really, it's a song that some dude wrote where he's like, "OOHHHHHHHHHH SHIT THE BLOGS ARE GONNA GO NUTS ABOUT THIS ONE" and maybe he'll get to headline some fucking festival in like 5 years or something. CALCULATED. This is the state of rock n' roll nowadays, kiddies. Hipsters stroking their own egos, praising themselves for their intellectual music taste and grasp of major "issues." You know, people wouldn't hate intellectuals so much if we weren't so goddamn smug about our intelligence. Put it this way: if Green Day had written this exact same song, same words, EVERYTHING, I guarantee the tone of this piece goes from "Wow, I'm a hipster talking about issues" to "Wow, Green Day sure are male chauvinist pigs." It's all about context and what's cool RIGHT NOW and the fucking blogs are killing music, man. Try to form a band with no Internet presence. Do that. Impossible. That being said...fuck every single motherfucker that has ever raped/assaulted/molested a woman. We don't need some fuckhead from Minneapolis that I actually like vaguely referencing these things, we need to fucking do something about it in SOCIETY, not just write a little "think-piece" on a blog and forget about it a week later. The nature of the beast is that the beast is fucking devouring us from the inside out. Anyway, anyone else like the new AlunaGeorge record?
"Silver Age" above "Zen Arcade"???!?!????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love em both, but that's just a big Husker Don't.
Would it not have been hilarious if the Drill EP was #1?
There is no doubt that all these are classics, but COME ON. GIGANTIC? RIVER EUPHRATES? Black Francis can sing about hermaphrodite sex all he wants and that's awesome, but the best Pixies song is a Kim song, and I say this without being Kim-obsessive.
Well, this is the second straight Stereogum "Worst to Best" countdown where the 2 they said are the worst are my favorite ones. Sigh. I love "Rock N' Roll." Oh yeah, and I love rock n' roll, too.