I’d give anything to go back to the days when music was allowed to be meaningful.
I’d give anything to go back to the days when music was meant to inspire medium-sized clubs of people.
I’d give anything to go back to the days when I ‘just wanted a moderately cute+indie GF’, even if she was the ‘a little bit too chubby’ type who ‘coloured her hair’ and ‘took her trivial position at a college radio station seriously.’
I’d give anything to go back to the pre-Blog era and really just take a moment to ‘appreciate it.’ Back before there was ‘hipster’, and blog centuries before the ‘alts.’ We were just ourselves, searching for a way to represent our complex outlook on life.
I’d give anything to go back in time, and appreciate chorus-driven indie rock. The collective voices were the sound of my angsty soul that was unsure of my alternative future. They were calling out for a little bit of direction in an uncertain time. Would we ever find the authenticity that we were looking for?
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you can have those times again Carly, you just have to renounce your evil bloghouse ways.
meaningful indie rock, not bloops and bleeps. that is the path to righteousness and a sweet haircut.
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//////////Reply by Anounymouse
//////////Posted October 27th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
@ozroller,
I think the electrosphere has given the world much better haircuts.
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i agr33
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this post made me cry.
Irony/cynicism is the worst thing in the world.
Michel Gondry said it best: “I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don’t like cynical people. I don’t like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don’t have to justify it. You don’t have to fight for it.”
let’s all be heart-on-our-sleeves earnest in 2k9 k?
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The meme economy blackened my heart. Churchill said it about being under 30/over 40. Maybe we’re 40 in blog years.
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its not tyme 2 make a chnge
js relax take it ez
ur still yung dats ur fault
thres s0 much u hav 2 kno
find a gurl settl dwn
if u want, u cn mary
luk @ me im old but im hapi
ALL DA TYMES DAT I CRYED
KEEPN ALL DA TINGS I KNU INSYD
ITS HRD BUT ITS HRDER 2 IGNORE IT
IF DEY WER RITE ID AGREE
BUT ITS DEM U KNO NOT ME
NOW DERES A WAY ND I KNO
DAT I HAV 2 GO A WAY
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//////////Reply by yuuusuf izzlam
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 1:04 am
@REMBRANDT FON RIJN,
this is the best comment
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//////////Reply by neednotapply
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
@yuuusuf izzlam, 2nd that emotion. Mr. ‘old but hapi’=sooo sincere.
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mebbe we should ‘paint it black’ n unite with our minimalist roots.
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//////////Reply by the manny
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 12:38 am
@littlesparrow, i saw we all have peeing contests to see who can pee, furthest.
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You’re a piece of shit.
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So basically you’re just determined to be superficial at all times and you belittle anything that anyone might value just to defend your own uselessness. A friend of mine told me to come here and read your retarded little poser blog. I think I’m going to stop talking to her from now on.
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//////////Reply by spad
//////////Posted October 25th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
@Fuck You
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//////////Reply by the manny
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
@Fuck You, pull up your huggies.
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//////////Reply by meg
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 2:33 am
@Fuck You,
lol, did you srslyy just use the word poser?
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//////////Reply by linus
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 2:52 am
@Fuck You, you make no sense. dbags never make sense b/c they are always busy defending themselves.
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//////////Reply by neednotapply
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
@linus, poser=retro
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//////////Reply by linus
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
@neednotapply, thanks for the tip. although poser actually means nothing anymore b/c its extinct.
the arcade fire didn’t change the way we think about music.
you’re forgetting how wrong it was when you’d have all these triumphant indie rock bands pouncing through the most ecstatic over-emotionalized motions on stage with a crowd of people kind of nodding their heads a little, i don’t know, the disconnect between the band on stage and the audience was ridiculous.
ponytail from baltimore is pretty ecstatic, triumphant, meaningful, but it doesn’t come with the apocalyptic bullshit baggage that the 30-piece indie bands came with. the world is not ending, and we don’t have to constantly feel like it is for something to be meaningful.
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//////////Reply by SPARKZ89
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 5:17 am
@weekends, Ponytail is why blogs suck… MOAR competent mediocrity form midsize cities w/”authenticity” cuz of teh WireZ please!!! srsly, tuggable shreiky girl plus spazzcore lite isn’t same as “goodmeaningfulcore” kthxbai! Apocalypse4life!
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//////////Reply by weekends
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
@SPARKZ89, we have to forget authenticity. it doesn’t exist and fetishizing it is disgusting. so i guess i agree with you.
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//////////Reply by Hot N' BODY'D
//////////Posted October 27th, 2008 at 1:16 am
@SPARKZ89, R.I.P. The Y’re.
I want tugz from the BLK-LEZBIEN-CHK.
No, not Snoop! Im tlkng about the BLK-LEZBIEN-COP-CHK.
Tammit! Now I want 2 go watch Seezin 3 or 4…Gess I’ll B-UPAWLNITE.
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Lol at everyone taking HRO so srly.
I do miss the days of pre-hipster with all of my cutsie heart.
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ill NVR4GT where i was the first time i heard the arcade fire, dancing in a darkened bedroom with all the hipsters i worked at a bookstore with.
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this reminds me of the first time i stopped
liking panic! the disco & liking them again.
“..with great blogging power
come great blogging responsiblities.”
that’s a completely original quote.
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some pals once seen them in a small alt club, double+ jealous 4life
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crles u r responsible for alotta these things. before, us alts could go about our business mostly undetected by the anti-hipster radar but nw we r ashamed to wear our grey ash am appy hoody or sz 28 ksubis. So0 much money wasted on shoes colour coordinated for outfits we had in mind, or finding the perfect hue of our 2xl vnecks – have to stick to our plain blacks to keep it anony and as un alt as we can
xx all alts out der
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I wish I’d been more serious about fucking chubby chix who took their radio shit seriously back when I was in college. Problem is, I am a a dude who weighs like 125 and doesn’t consider girls who aren’t also wiry and psychotic compatible with my personal brand. Still, I’ve heard good things about fat chick lips on Teh dixorz, so there was definiteley something that could have been fun there. (If I hadn’t had to be all authenticXcore about trying to get with more girls I was actually attracted to.) Yeah, I should’ve waited til 2k6 and used prior knowledge of the arcadefirez to get tugz from entry level alts who could appreciate the mystery inherent in my spazzcore dude/budding RyanAdamsAltbag personal brand. Problem is, that wouldn’t have been authentic… I just wanna be loved/tugged off for being me, ya’ll!
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the question remains: who is carles?
Does he just try to enforce his personal brand by establishing him as a hipster who is “on top of it”?
Was Carles serious about this post?
Or was it again a comment on semi-alt-bags who never really got out of their closet?
Is it bad to think in terms of personal brands?
Is personal brand the same as personality?
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//////////Reply by neednotapply
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
@paul bocuse, It matters more who YOU think this “carles” is.
Arcade Fire sounds like someone gave Radiohead a fist full of Paxil; they are negligible, but apparently quintessential to Alt-dom. The band is either a fixed point of nostalgia for the author or the butt of a joke. Either way, thinking in terms of personal brands=cutting to the chase.
Having a personality v. a personal brand? Depends on how many conscious decisions you’re able to make. Personal brands are a result of meticulously manipulating your self-image. Personality is the stupid shit you happen to say while getting tuggz on top of some newspapers under an overpass or the way your signature looks when you sign your alimony checks.
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you need to blog more! plz?
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nah i never liked that shit. didnt it come out like only 2 years ago anyways?
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i live in kentucky. most ppl are still like that.
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i m happi the revolUshun t0wards blog-dom haz happened. as i wuz an entry level aLt 3 yrs ago, it wuz intimidating 2 herr all this arcade fyre stuff n every1 wuz so sErius. but @ least now therrr is hipster backlash n ppl like Crls who can laugh @ wut the aLt world haz Bcum.
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anyone wanna take a trip down okkervil river, yall?
heard they had a new album, or something.
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We have perhaps all been guilty of elevating arcade fire beyond what should be reasonably expected of a band. They are a great band but they are NOT the only band. It’s quite serendipitous indeed when the alt community suddenly rallies around one band in massive force. Now it seems people are waiting around always hoping for the next big thing but never actually trying to find it. At a certain point the difference between a good band and a good band that is successful is the amount of work a band puts into it…. are you meeting these bands half way? Are you on the myspace constantly listening to your local musicians? Are you going to shows and SUPPORTING good bands by buying a CD or maybe just a beer? Are you recommending bands you believe in? There are great bands everywhere but it seems 95% of people going to shows just don’t give a shit. Why is that? Try giving a shit… at least thank the musicians and shake their hands if you see a good show. It doesn’t all happen in a vacuum. This is a unique time we live in… don’t take music for granted.
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miss tunnels = (
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arcade GAYER more like
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i totally get where carles is coming from though. i really dont know what the fuck happened between 2k6 and 2k8 but everything is so cynical/pessimistic now. it doesnt even matter what music i get now, nothing sounds meaningful. M83 almost got it again with saturday=youth, but jeez.
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//////////Reply by neednotapply
//////////Posted October 26th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
@Anonymous, amen on the “nothing sounds meaningful”.
Trick Daddy’s “Tuck yo Ice” was the last song to make me feel anything.
…but rly…it’s not that everything is terrible, it’s just that everything sounds so redundant.
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the 1’st tYme I heard Arcade Fire was when I was still pretty NTRYLVL back in woah-5. they came 2 the YAYAREA 2 open 4 Moddist Mowse. Toe2ly stole the show(a given since Moddist Mowse is known for sucking live)!
after I bought Funeral, I decided that evry alt btwn 17&24 shld lstn 2 it. The albm was all about what I call ” The ERGNCi of youth” at 18 yrs old it made me really xitd and scayrd 2b young.
maybe thats y theyre cawled “Arcade Fire”????????? GITIT?
I do miss mnngfl music though…why no mnngfl-electro?
call it ELECTRO-CARE.
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Ass.
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stroke bros post made me rlly miss when CRLS wrote meaningfulcore HRO ‘event’ posts that ‘got linked on vulture’ (via the meme economy). hope matt perpetua/uncle grambo/tumblrbros blog when Carles ‘gets vulns’ about _________.
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