And when is Justin going to pick up the tempo in his music, enough of this slow shit. I can only take so much of it before it all starts to sound like a stream of yawning.
Usually the majority opinion in the Stereogum comments is in the right, but I'm going with him on this one. It sounds like a lazy b-side. I'm sorry, but I agree.
Just goes to show you that white hipsters stay losing ignoring authentic music made by black artists. But they'll bend over backwards for Bon iver or dancing-monkey acts like Tyler the Creator.
Um, can we wait for the year to end first? How arrogant and self-obsessed have alternative music publications become? And btw, this list totally sucks.
Que annoying whiny hipsters.....
Um, it's a safe song. It's nothing extraordinary, but it isn't bad either. It's decent. And decent is ok. If anything you guys should know that, you always go go gay for mediocre indie bands, now don't you?
This doesn't even make sense. There is no way on God green's earth they'll be able to have an identical lineup two weekends in a row. How do they expect people to believe this? And how are they going to start selling tickets a year early? Horrible idea.
I don't even care much about the disconnect between members of the band and the strenuous recording process. I'm just happy it doesn't sound like Is This It. The Strokes actually sound... INTERESTING. There's a ridiculously pathetic pretentious Catch 22 with indie music fans in which you aren't allowed to switch up your sound and style, yet you aren't able to put out music that sounds exactly the same from album to album either. Do one or the other criticism ensues.
LOL. Why did you guys vote this comment down? How are you going to sink your feet into music journalism and have excessive typos?
As an English major, i approve of this criticism.
Hipsters: Give us the same shit you did 10 years ago
The Strokes: Oh we don't want you guys to treat like you did Kings of Leon, ok. We'll regurgitate the same uninspired sound.
Hipsters: It's kinda cool, but your first two albums will always be better
His argument doesn't have much merit. Besides the hypocrisy factor here, I find it highly questionable that some indie music reviewers ride HARD for these boring generic unoriginal uninspiring bland indie folk bands, but then want to tear something down on the basis of universal praise. Just because something is underground does not mean it is phenomenal- some of these people need to wake the hell up. I'm not buying his rebuttal. I'm especially suspicious of people without talent who don't create music being this critical, because it just reinforces the age-old saying that opinions are all like an anal cavity- we all have one.
Such a hipster cliche. Please save your opinion for someone who cares, because many of us don't. Extremely predictable: "Oh, we were too hard on MAYA, maybe it WAS a great album. Oh and we wrong about Kanye, MBDTF is overrated."
Fuck out of here. If your reviewing is this inconsistent and unreliable, no one will take you serious in the future.
That album was so boring. Even for some of her most hardcore fans. I think Have One on Me is the perfect example of being overly-ambitious and taking things so far over the top, that instead of being genius, it falls flat.
I'm an individual and I always thought for myself and don't let any publication or subculture think for me. On my Top 20 of the year, this album ranked at #6. I played the hell out of the leaked version, shitty quality and all. And after I purchased it, I played it even more. I never needed convincing, because I knew that it was something special when i first heard it. Love at first listen.
One of my few problems with music ranking is that sometimes fans that make their own list only rank by their favorite bands and not by the strength of the album from a musical standpoint. When I made my list, I omitted a lot of my favorite artists because the albums as a cohesive project, wasn't strong. I break down the elements of musical composition, song-writing, structure, innovation.. all of those components come into play.- for inclusion and ranking. And just because I like a certain band or because it is the flavor of the month doesn't mean it's going to make my list. And on the flip-side, artists who I might not necessarily like or listen to that much are going to be included if they produced a strong quality album. For example, I'm not a big R. Kelly fan, but he produced one of his best albums in years- and guess what- it made it on my list. Because it was raw talent, strong song-writing- and not cheap gimmicks, an aesthetic cool, or a flavor of the month. Just good ole fashion quality music.
I like the inclusions, but the ranking is all wrong. There's no way in the hell The Dream's a;bum is better than Big Boi's and Janelle Monae's. Those 2 albums alone are the best made in the last 20 years, let alone just 2010. Avey tare's album was a decent debut, but to say it ranks higher than the ArchAndroid isn't only ludicrous but just insulting. Local Native's released an album better than half the stuff on this list and it isn't mentioned. Good effort though.
Isn't it incredibly juvenile to dismiss something just because it has a mainstream audience? Good music is good music. Indie sure in the hell doesn't equate to good.
Decent list, but Pitchfork left out Local Natives. And the ArchAndroid is a masterpiece. Easily should be in the top 3 at least.
My list is better: http://swagexpress.com/2010/12/17/top-20-albums-of-2010/
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