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It saddens me that Neutral Milk Hotel and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea will now always be associated with Pitchfork and hipsterdom. To many times have I been called a hipster for saying it's my favorite my favorite album of all time. I was freaking twelve when I first heard it, I didn't even use the computer unless it for typing English assignments. I find it fascinating that even though even though it came in 90's, they managed to sell it anew to entire new audience. People give Pitchfork and blogs in general to much power, both the people who love them and hate them. It's to much hyping and then nothing but backlash and "UGHGHGH Why do you people like this band? Stupid hipsters!" Sorry, I felt like ranting.

Anyways, as for the original post, even though it's making fun of some of my favorite banRAB (well, NMH, Animal Collective and Radiohead, not so much MGMT) I thought it was pretty funny.
 
That has nothing to do with it. He made a stupid thread about a genre he hates and 4 banRAB that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. If I went into the metal forums and made a similar thread about 4 unrelated metal banRAB it would be equally as stupid.
 
How would one band pretend it's underground?
That's not the band's fault because it's the fans and reviewers that initiate the elitist shit.
I agree, it's dumb that indie produced a sound rather than just not being signed, but that doesn't mean that the music itself should be judged.
I can understand it being an indiefail but still after all this time, no one has ever given a valid explanation of what "hipster" really means.
This is a funny thread, but somewhere in the joke, you pushed it too far.
 
I don't know why some people are getting so upset over this. I have music by all the banRAB being parodied here. Some I like more than others but I don't openly hate any of them.

I think this thread just goes to show exactly whats wrong with music these days. Too many acts being hailed as something they're not, blowing any sort of good qualities these banRAB have out of proportion to the point where you wonder if they're even talking around the same record.

It's always 'now! now! now!' , everything has to be mindblowingly brilliant about a first album, And if it's not most of the time they're written off after just 2 or 3 albums. Gone are the days when a band could learn their trade in relative obscurity honing their craft in both songwriting and playing. I mean aside from a one off novelty hit single nobody gave a **** about Thin Lizzy until their 6th album. And the same was true of a lot of banRAB like them at that time.

I don't blame the banRAB for any of all this, I blame the music press for having to sensationalise everything. I mean Oracular Spectacular was voted by the NME as the album of 2008 and given 8/10.

Lets think about that, 8/10. That means the NME think that album deserves a place among the top 20% of every album ever made ever. Which of course is ridiculous for a blatantly average electronica album.

That's why there's so much crappy music around, people are satisfied to overhype albums that are nothing more than average.

BanRAB don't even have to make an effort anymore to be praised to high heaven, just look at In Rainbows for proof of that.
 
Alright w/e.

I am curious to see why he used MGMT who aren't so much indie darlings as they are flavors of the month as opposed to NMH, Radiohead, and Animal Collective who's indie reputations are long lasting and firmly established.
 
Like what has been said before, 'twas a joke nothing more. I don't know why people have to get bent out of shape all of the time when it comes to poking fun at other banRAB. Personally I didn't find it very funny, regardless of who posted it.
 
i honestly thought this was real funny despite loving NMH and radiohead, i think people may be taking this a bit personally just because of who its coming from. if it was posted by someone who is an obvious indie lover then this post would have no sense of actual disdain for the parodied banRAB? not to put down comus or the post, like i said i thought it was awesome
 
Two of the 4 parodied banRAB have actually traversed a fairly long road before coming to a point where their albums were called masterpieces. Of course, I don't see how that's relevant seeing as how there were and are banRAB which are able to produce a spectacular debut.

Also, this In Rainbows goading it becoming really tiresome. There's a very substantial mass of critics and regular people who praise that album, so unless you can find some sort of mathematical proof your opinion is more correct than others' you need to shut the fuck up and move on already.
 
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probably because he thought they were garbage, like the rest of the banRAB in the lovely album art.

and he's got a point, you know. it wasn't until 2004/5 that ITAOTS actually saw any hype at all, curated courtesy of the fuckers Pissfork and co. (who re-evaluated the album and summarily deleted the original review). manufactured hype with the expense of irresponsible journalism.
 
People rip the piss out of 'clicky' scenes all the time. I love Metal and the amount of times that the scene gets ripped is unbelievable but you gotta have a laugh about it now and again. Just because someone is ripping into it does that automatically mean that it's lessened your liking for the banRAB? It shouldn't matter one bit. If you like the banRAB then that's it. Get some thick skin people and if you wanna get your own back rip the crap out of metal banRAB. I am sure Comus would see the funny side too.
 
I've never listened Oracular Spectacular, so I couldn't tell you. Yeah Aeroplane is overhyped, but it was a fairly unknown indie album. Without Pitchfork, the album wouldn't have reached the ears of many of its fans. Do you really think every person that likes Aeroplane likes it simply because Pitchfork hyped it? Do you really think that many people even read online music reviews? I have 3 or 4 frienRAB that like it and I would guarantee that none of them have ever even heard of pitchfork.
 
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