Sometimes I read blogs that post ‘relevant stories’ that were generated by magazines. I am not sure if music magazines will still be alive in _ years, but I think that their last opportunities to ‘get people to visit their websites’ means making ‘huge lists’ where they list a bunch of blogworthy/noteworthy people, then get ‘the entire internet’ to react to it, as if their ‘editorial staff’ is a group of people who are ‘way more qualified’ than a ‘bro who started a blogspot.’
I think that ‘NME Magazine’ is something that exists in the United Kingdom. From what I understand, lots of artists try to ‘get buzz’ in the UK or something, then they try to ‘make it cool in the USA.’ Kinda like the Spice Girls. Sometimes it catches on, but sometimes it doesn’t [via David Beckham/The Office]. I think that life is different in the United Kingdom, and they are into different aesthetics, so I feel ‘pissed’ when Americans want to ’seem more european’ so they’ll pretend 2 like British stuff. Feel like it is kewler to ‘like’ French + scandinavian stuff [via IKEA]. Possibly Japan.
America is #1, and I feel like the USA is the kewlest country in the world. h8 the british buzz gimmick.
N e ways… NME made this list of ‘artists who are going 2 change music/art/everything’ in the future. Here is the ‘deep blurbe’ that NME ‘wrote’ abt the list:
In times of economic uncertainty everyone always yawns on about people hankering for familiarity and hiding in nostalgia. But that just doesn’t seem to make much sense. Surely it’s more reassuring to know that things are progressing and developing rather than lying stagnant?
After watching the 2009 Future 50 take shape, it is now our firmly-held belief that no matter what happens to us – come further financial meltdown, come raining sulphur or plagues of locusts, come the new Twang album, even – everything will fall into place. One day it will all make sense.
Here is NME’s ‘future 50′ list, with HRO’s ‘criticism’/'analysis:
50. Gaggle – not sure who/what this is. Remember 1 time I ‘invented’ tuggles of AZNs.
49. Xenomania -seems like a ‘Peter Jackson’ movie
48. Invasion - Not sure what this is.
47. Yo Gabba Gabba! – just a gimmick 4 kids + parents to buy ‘kewl street clothes with zany creatures’ + ‘collab with relevant artists
46. Diesel:U:Music Radio - think that the Diesel brand probs ‘paid’ for this somehow [via advertising]. Seems like a ‘widget’ or something.
45. Cooly G - seems like a ‘mashup’ of Coolio and Warren G
44. Star And Shadow Cinema - Might be a movie theatre with ’stadium seating.’
43. Sonar Festival – are all music festivals ‘the same’
42. Blackout Crew – Seems like a group of frat bros who ‘date rape’ bitches and came up with a sweet facebook group
41. 3OH!3 – music 4 kidz who r trapped in suburbia / fggts
40. Stephen McGregor – Must be Ewan MacGregor’s son ‘gravy training’ off his dad’s fame.
39. Opera - I think this is some sort of ‘internet browser’
38. Aldene Johnson and Hannah Marshall - Sounds like 2 girls who look keut and make mediocre music
37. Project Natal - Probably something about ‘abortion’
36. Lady GaGa - hope she ‘has a meltdown’ somehow.
35. Rostam Batmanglij - Think this is the Vampy Weekend keyboardist bro.
34. Hyperdub – sounds like a ‘ghey ass’ genre of music
33. Seb Chew – sounds like an azn genre of music, like ‘eating noodles with a lot of bass’
32. Sweden – not sure if this is ‘the country’ or a pop star
31. Greg Kurstin – wish it was Greg Kinnear [via Lil Miss Sunshine]. Sad that Joel McHale will never be the actor that Greg Kinnear is [via Talk The Soup]
30. Beck - via the year 19k90
29. Sonic Boom – This was a ‘move’ by Guile, a character in streetfighter. Was a ’sweet move’ but I think ‘Hadouken’ is already a band name.
28. Take That’s stage show – I remember ‘Take That’ sang this sweet song about wanting u back 4 good.
27. Bandstocks.com/Patrick Wolf – seems like some sort of product placement. Not sure if Patty Wolf is ’still a band’ or just some brand that is co-marketed with magazines+websites.
26. Micachu - I think this is a jewish rapper who ppl think is ‘kewl’. might be band, or possibly a guitar bro.
25. Salem - I think that they are ‘buzzworthy’ and will probably accidentally see them within the next 2 years.
24. Gigbaby – Seems like an octomom meme (R.I.P.)
23. The Dream – I think this is a ‘producer turned artist’ black guy. Seems like they had to put ‘a black person’ on this list.
22. Ray Tintori – sounds like ‘Ray Liotta’
21. Platform – sound like ‘pavement’
20. The Big Pink - I have heard that they are ‘overhyped by the UK media’. Seems like I won’t listen to them for a year or two, then when I hear them, they will make me feel the same way that the dirtieprojjies do
19. Twitter - Seems ‘relevant.’ Heard that u can use it to tell people where ur chilling and meetup to share pictures or something.
18. Popjustice – Think this is Justice’s sideproject
17. Mike Sniper - I think this is the bro who ’shot up people’ from the top of the tower at the University of Texas in Austin
16. Nick Zinner - seems like a guy whose name showed up on your caller ID when caller ID was first invented
15. Norwich - Think this is a ‘city’
14. Bradford Cox - It is important 4 magazines to ‘hype up’ artists that are ‘obviously going to be successful’ just so that they can feel like ‘they did it.’
13. Mattias Arrelid - confused
12. Dan The Automator – sounds like a ‘fat person’s nickname’
11. Blocks Recording Club – Confused
10. La Roux – I am still trying to understand if this is a band/girl/bro or something. Seems to have an overwhelming marketing reach.
9. Little Boots – Not sure if she is still ‘relevant.’ Think she just had an album that was ‘huge’ in the UK.
8. VBS.TV – Have never watched it. Think they make stuff that is ‘too serious’. Just want to ‘look at those fucking hipsters.’ I think they make ‘mad ad revenue’ though or something.
7. Jack White – Feel like I am waiting for this bro to do something ‘legitimately crazy.’ Like ‘taking a poop’ on Conan O’brien’s desk, or ‘beating some1 until they almost die and settling out of court’, or something.
6. The XX - They will be ’solid’ and ‘heavily relied upon’ for putting meaningful songs on a mix CD 4 a girl.
5. Omar Souleyman - seems like a ’souley’ bro
4. Dizzee Rascal – I think he was ‘indie’ in 2k4 [via 'hipster hop']
3. Trent Reznor – Still don’t ‘get’ the obsession with legacy artists who say ‘obvious things’ but are ‘glorified’ for being ‘fucking geniuses about the modern music industry.’ Seems like he is ‘respectable’ but don’t understand why ‘indie outlets’ need 2 ‘cover him.’
2. The Knife - Remember when they were ‘relevant’ in 2k_. Maybe they have a new album coming out. Seems weird that they ‘totally sat out’ the bloghouse era. I think that they will make some sort of ‘really good album’ that I will resent. Wonder if they will make new ‘cock nose’ masks.
1. Animal Collective – ’s00000 0bvious.’ Christ. The should at least do something stupid, like write out the ‘real name’ of a band member. Like write out ‘Noah Lennox is #1.’ or possibly ‘Noah Lennox’s twitter feed is #1.’
Feel pretty ______ about this ‘list.’ Feel happy/sad that magazines are dying. Seriously feel ’sad’ for a bro who doesn’t read the internet, and only reads NME magazine, and thinks this list is ‘cutting edge.’ Worried that if I go blind, I won’t be able to consume the internet, and I would just have to listen to radio.
What do yall think of NME’s list?
Is it ‘relevant’?
Will all of these people/bands/websites ‘change the world/art/music’ or something?
Do British people ‘know what the fuck they are talking about’?
If u were a magazine, what would u do to ‘utilize ur brand’ to ‘get blog + twitter chatter’ going?
Is Animal Collective reall going 2 ‘change the world’?
Is Twitter really more important than Lady Gaga?
Who would be on ur list for ‘bros who are gonna shatter society’s norms’?
Remember the time that NME ‘made a list’ of the Top 25 indie American bands?
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/08/1-list-of-25-bands-that-kind-of-hurts-americas-image.html
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this list is no more relevant than my aunt tilly’s kidney stone.
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//////////Reply by $$$$die$$$$
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
the Fuck, dude.
ain’t nobody trying to hear about your nasty ass aunt.
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//////////Reply by 555
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
quit trying to fucking sound like Carles, bro
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this is worse than the best djs list.
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//////////Reply by great
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
this blog is worst than this list…psh
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//////////Reply by draculas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
this this is this this this this
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//////////Reply by great
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
that
//////////Reply by asdfjk
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
this dog is worst than this wrist
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//////////Reply by jeniroquai
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
genus
//////////Reply by asdfjk
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
penus
guess that makes me FIRST?
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//////////Reply by anoon
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
*first [reply to first person who didn't refresh in time]
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I just wish Carles would post more good blogs instead of rehashing other peoples crappy articles with little to no effort towards actually commenting on them. C’mon carles, this blog SHOULD be better than this…
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
this blog is better than u kno. u rly think this post is ‘just’ about nme?
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//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
might not be, but im pretty sure your life is just about stupid shit like this blog. Dckmuncher.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
yall is b ing mean 2 eachother.
‘1 love yall’ – the bob marleys
//////////Reply by cobones
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
“Dckmuncher” what word is this
//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Stop stealing my post name and stop using dumb-ass put downs like dckmuncher…….and btw this blog is not better than I know, as I have been reading this blog for years. Sometimes carles just posts this crap because he feels like he has to blog something….lest the natives get restless. This post is pure crap compared to the gems he is capable of. This post munches “dck” as my doppleganger would say!
//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
@Wildwood “Stop stealing my post name and stop using dumb-ass put downs like dckmuncher…….and btw this blog is not better than I know, as I have been reading this blog for years. Sometimes carles just posts this crap because he feels like he has to blog something….lest the natives get restless. This post is pure crap compared to the gems he is capable of. This post munches “dck” as my doppleganger would say!”
//////////Reply by huh
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 6:29 am
years?
like all 2.5 of them?
Wow, you are so troo.
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//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Your penis, my mouth, NOW.
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//////////Reply by BlipsterCambridge
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Carles, you live in Austin Texas, and go to UT. I know this.
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this is a horrible list. was this list from 2k6 ? if so then i guess it might seem cutting edge / relevant. Just don’t understand how a popular artist that has already made several albums (AnCo, teh beckies, bradford skinny) can like change everything we know about music…. since we already know their stuff. It would be like, they have to create new instruments or something. Heard good things about tree music. Sorta worried Ant Music is already dead.
Think I feel happy that mags are dying.
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Once i read lady gaga it made me cringe.
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//////////Reply by Faisal
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
oh yeah, and the list is bullshite
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U
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U
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
just want 2 get a chill ass confederate flag tatty sum where on my body.
feel like sum ppl might ‘take it the wrong way’ tho…
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//////////Reply by jvac
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
me 2 me 2. get it in alt colors instead of the regular red & blue. ppl will think you are “artsy” instead of “racist.”
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
may b get it in neon colors. ppl will thnk im a lil electro and a lil ‘grounded in the past’…
//////////Reply by xxxxxxxx
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
i love to take it the wrong way.
c/m 4 good time
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
a/s/l/pics? plz
//////////Reply by abdul
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
pls, don’t take this is as us. we’re more than that. we’ve got so much going on, really. really.
signed
a brit
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Carles, do u ever feel ‘pressure’ now to be 1/50th more innovative than Lady GaGa (via rostam batforlashes’ twitter)?
wonder if rosbro ever ‘feels pressure’ to be 1/50 more wittie/socially ‘aware’/memeworthy than ezra (via show choir face)
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C’mon you guys, it’s the 90s. anything goes.
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to hell with this list…..when i saw lady gaga i srsly ‘laughed out loud’ and ‘gagged’ at the same time. FUCK. the pplz want more DAFT PUNK plz. they HAVE and WILL continue to alter music. fucking amazing.
SHUTUP ‘NME’. nobody cares.
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gaawwwwd this blog gets lamer by the minute.
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gaaawwwd this blog gets lamer by the minute…
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the world doesnt revolve around america, carles.
and the nme is just a posh snobby incrowd of self-affirming hypesters.
but apart from certain festivals, american music is verry mediocre at the moment, its either purely commercial, or just simple and bland.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
seems like i shuld feel ‘fucking offended’ by the ‘antiamerican sentiment’ in this cmmnt. feel like i need 2 go sum where 2 b alone and ’support the troops’ 4 a lil bit.
h8 u iraq war 4 making evrybody h8 on amrca.
proud 2 b american yall. gOtTa GeT tHoSe YeLlOw RiBbOnS / sUpPoRt ThE tRoOpLeS!!!11
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//////////Reply by savvy
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
seems like you should stfu
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
prolly. just using my time effectively, yall…
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
ps. hope sum 1 close 2 u dies/died in iraq
//////////Reply by savvy
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
my cousin did you fkking asshol.
gawd the people on this blog are ridiculously stupid and ignorant.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
was hoping…
//////////Reply by redboneslim
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
people hated america b4 operation kill the browns IV
gulf war.
cold war kids war.
warld wars I.II.
the contra thing in honduras/costa rica.
thanksgiving.
wacking day.
and the soon to be…
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
4 got abt the devastation caused by the cold war kids war…
feel a lil conflicted [via thinking now i might h8 amrca]
//////////Reply by abdul
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
ppl hate america because it’s too tight-ass and random
//////////Reply by E1W
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 9:42 am
dont hate ‘america’,
just ‘american-centrisim’.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 10:42 am
thnx 4 clarifying…
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//////////Reply by xxxxxxxx
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 11:32 am
how do you feel about ‘jews’
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‘Nick Zinner – seems like a guy whose name showed up on your caller ID when caller ID was first invented’
s0 random. seems so specific, yet vaguely familiar. I just ‘had to laugh’ bro.
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//////////Reply by ff
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
uh, not funny
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//////////Reply by cobones
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
“uh” what word is this?
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oh& la roux’s tigerlilly is the best pop song of the decade.
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My band,
which does not yet exist,
is not on that list,
ergo,
that list is a piece of shit.
Think I’ll write a song about how NME is a piece of shit.
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//////////Reply by Altaltalt
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 3:51 am
cool story bro
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“Popjustice – Think this is Justice’s sideproject”
bahahahaha
Also, lol@Renzor still making these types of lists. what, no Green Day?
Oh, and Cooly G is Schooly D’s great-grandson.
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it’s not whether or not british ppl ‘kno wtf they r talking abt’, it’s that when they do talk it’s in sum ‘fucking krazie’ accent or sum thing that i can’t interpret/penetrate. h8 u accents. h8 u ppl from ‘other countries’ + the south [via alabammy]
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//////////Reply by cool
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
what the phq are you even talking about? Just stop. You sound really pathetic.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
just ‘answering the question’ yall!
r u telling me u like ppl with accents?! seems inauthentic 2 admit that.
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//////////Reply by cool
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
stop trying to sound like carles. get a life.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
@cool, stop making me feel vulnerable in my sanctuary. just want 2 ‘chill’ and post sum zany comments + ’sound like carles’. h8 u 4 ‘cheapening the discourse’ of the cmmnt section of sum blog by b ing a ‘total dick’. don’t kno if i’ll evr comment again after b ing ‘put in my place’ like this.
//////////Reply by cool
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
good, ud be doing us a favor. If you are carles, you should stop blogging too, seriously.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
uh oh. cant stop cmmntng…
wont let me… oh well.
and i am carles. aren’t we all?
//////////Reply by xxxxxxxx
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
can you be Jake again now?
he was funny
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
but was he relentless?
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//////////Reply by xxxxxxxx
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
god i bet you’re great in bed.
don’t ever change.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
im ok
//////////Reply by NONO
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@ne pas, ur little tumblr blog is shitty.
SHITTY! my 5 year old nephew could stir something up more interesting than that…anal kween. :) <3 ur sry attempts to be hip + funny.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 7:16 am
@nonobro, feel like sum of it is ‘ok’. feel like ur may b just trying 2 hard 2 insult ppl? not sure. feel like if i keep posting ’shitty stories’ a certain percentage might attain relevancy sum day. at least 2 sum 1 other than sum fggt like u. not sure tho. not rlly trying 2 b hip/relevant/funny. think i feel ‘angry’ because of ur krazie insults like ‘anal kween’, but think i also like ur zany irreverence. not sure whether 2 chill with u or hunt u down [via ip address] and kill ur family/friends.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
might have to change my ‘handle’ so ppls stop h8ing on me. might b anonymous from now on [via making myself less vulnerable 2 attack(s)]
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I UNDERSTAND YOU NE PAS AND I LOVE YOU
YOU ARE MY BRO
I UNDERSTAND UR EMOTIONS AND UR DRIVE TO EMULATE CARLES
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ///////////////////
IF WE MET IN REAL LIFE WE WOULD ‘CHILL’
<3 u <3 u <3 U <3 U
//////////Reply by NONO
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
ne pas = anal kween!
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 7:06 am
@vdieselfor20, feel like u ‘get me’ and my kwest 4 authenticity [via emulating/co-opting sum 1 else's internet persona].
wuld prolly take you up on that chill sesh. mayb smk a lil herbz?
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 7:08 am
@nonobro, true dat!
list FAIL
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shouldnt it be 1k990?
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//////////Reply by anonyt
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
or 1.99k_
decimal points big in 2.01k0
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OMG ‘MY GIRLS’ IS REVOLUTIONARY
think anco’s relevant period ended with ‘felt’ or ’song tongues’ or whatever
i don’t know
remember days when my bloody valentine made lists like these, even post dissolution
is conceptualxcore the new shoegaze in terms of genres that could have changed the world but didn’t
feel like cxc’s heyday was like 2006
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the knife is one of my favorite bands so I’m pleased that they are number 2. I hope they come out with another album. Animal Collective is amazing as well. Lady Gaga though? wtf? come on? seriously? fuck that.
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calres bloowwzzzzz
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//////////Reply by larry
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
yeah
fuck calories
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//////////Reply by blowz
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
yeah fuck you too. what now. pig.
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america should be number 1.
this list is a pack of lies
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I miss the days before the internet where if you wanted to learn about new good music, you had to find a place that sold NME or Melody Maker, read articles, track records down that you “read” were supposed to sound like this other band you like.
But they also got to choose who got more coverage, so it wasn’t as democratic as the internet.
I like the NME website but they are more of a TMZ for alts, and I like pitchfork because they have comprehensive coverage of just about everything that gets released, but I h8 that they refuse to allow comments on their cruel record reviews. If you check out the ‘contact’ section of pitchfork, they don’t have a single address to mail questions, comments, or feedback.
As far as these lists…. I had seen that chick LaRue on the NME website several times and finally happened to catch one of her videos and she is just another chick trying to sound 80s, but she takes a good picture, and therefore deserves to sell more records. That’s not quite revolutionary.
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//////////Reply by TL;DR
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
omg this isn’t your fucking diary okay.
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//////////Reply by RJC
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
it’s not?
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//////////Reply by TL;DR
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
just kidding!!!! it is.
//////////Reply by RJC
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
must improve my irony detection skills.
//////////Reply by xxxxxxxx
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
you are totally the guy who write the HRO exegesis page i hate so much. good to see ya. don’t you have like some lame ebay auction to attend to?
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//////////Reply by RJC
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I have no clue what an exegesis page is. I just found out about this site a few days ago.
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//////////Reply by fuck
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
nice gimmick, bub
quit trying to ‘fucking sound like the HRO exegesis bro’, bro
//////////Reply by RJC
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
How can I try to sound like someone I’ve never heard of?
If I want to reminisce about the NME, then I will… bro.
You guys are really lost in your misdirected hipness. Try to be more ‘authentic’.
//////////Reply by fuck
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
‘welcome to hipster runoff’
//////////Reply by b
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Even P4k is extremely limited and culls everything to meet its ‘alt’ audience… Its pretty f%ck1ng predictable.
Supplement P4K with the WIRE magazien and Resident Advisor to get a better view on really innovative / interesting stuff.
B
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//////////Reply by b
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Actually do any HRO fans even look at stuff like WIRE, Wax Poetics or RA? Feel like they are ‘all searching for the next authentic / revolutionary’ music but are really just blindly following P4K rankings.
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second that, this def. NOT a relevant blog
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They left off the greatest record label of all time, rapidshare
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ps this list needs more MILF
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La roux is horrible. why cant music just be about sound, instead of aesthetic.
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this list is like NME. still boring and far away from cutting edge. they mostly discover things when they are spread accross the net etc. NME is still good for tabloid stuff, but to discover new artists, it is the false place.
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//////////Reply by 555
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
quit trying to ‘fucking sound like Carles’
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am
seconded!
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why there is no teat cru in that list?
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//////////Reply by sleepy koala
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
They also spelled Passion Pit “T-h-e K-n-i-f-e” for some reason. England people are weird.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 2:17 am
actually lold
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srsly this list is lay-z as fuk n e 1 can say “oh ya lady gaga n anco are gonna be big”
ur teeterin on losing ur authenticity, nme magazine.
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//////////Reply by eh
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
too bad HRO alrdy lost it
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lady gaga is absolute garbage imo, but every1 in my ‘authentic city’ loves her b/c she put on a ’stellar’ performance at our shitty music awards show.
Now she’s ‘blowing up’ and i don’t know if i can handle it. Might have to go ‘In for the Kill’[via the la rouxes] next time she stops in town.
Would this act be considered:
a. Man 1 [indeterminate sentence]
b. Skany broad w/ obv. self-esteem issues-slaughter [comm service at most]
c. not very alt [5 - 10 max]
Jacks McCoy if ur reading this, plz clarify
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CARLES, MAKE A POST ABOUT FAGGOTS TRYING TO SOUND LIKE CARLES
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Bandstocks.com/Patrick Wolf?
hate you NME.
thought they were meant to have irrelevant artists like the arctic monkeyz.
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HRO FAILS.
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this isn’t ‘culturally relevant’ who cares what the NME says? be serious.
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Ok that does it, this site fails more then failblog…and what i hate more is that 90% of the comments on this site are all like “lyke tryin 2b authentic yall, luk @ m3 i typ3 lyke crls yall, i’m hella relevant lyke 2k7 bro”…wtf is wrong with you people…this site gives a bad name to Williamsburg(like you guys even know where that is), and probably more the half of you wanna be “hipsters” on this site are no older then 16yo….man “carls” and all of his little followers go get a fucking life….dammit
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//////////Reply by blowz
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
word up
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//////////Reply by |-+-|
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
nah but if you imagine George Will reciting that it sounds pretty funny
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//////////Reply by jacksfork
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 3:14 am
chill, broham. don’t read the blog if you it makes you this angry. if i ever see you in williamsburg i’m going to beat you with my u lock
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am
plus i don’t think n e 1 ‘wants 2 b a hipster’…
kinda just 4 got how 2 spell ‘to’, ‘too’, and ‘two’
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animal collective will not change the world. animal collective IS better than lady gaga. nme is right about something. …& my bf likes that want you back song :(
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The Limey music rags have been propagating this line of bullshit for at least 20 years and probably a lot longer.
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oh btw i read you every morning before work along with the local newspaper ONLINE….thank you for usually making me laugh
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//////////Reply by eh
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
lame plug
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//////////Reply by jeniroquai
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
what?
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more funnie ~ less angry
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//////////Reply by eh
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
less carles yo…
less hro
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//////////Reply by more
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
why did ramesses write all his jokes on papyrus ?
so the egyptian people could *reed* more things they didn’t enjoy ..
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Dear Carles,
You are a retarded person right?
Or just an uneducated american hick(hip)fuck.
I’m guessing the latter, so fuck you.
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
mark as spam~~`
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h8 brittain. so swarthy.
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the animal collective are on that list, so it can’t be any good.
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bummed every1 is hating every1, chill the FUCK out
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feel like the ‘animal collectivists’ should be higher on this list. ’sillie’ 2 have them so low.
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nme is lame
dont think it is the actual list from nme
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NME is garbage. i’ve never met a single person who “likes” them. But at the same time, i have to give them props for even being a music magazine. They have better tastes then then clear channel FM radio, and that’s a + for society IMO.
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Carles or whatever u pretend your name is your blog flirts with the idea of having substance but like most of you dumb ass yanks its a mostly rubbish or garbage as you like to say! The UK culture is way ahead of you, but unfortunatley the majority of the US is to narrow minded to see past the stars and stripes! Go cover urselfs in confedrate flags and chase people who aren’t middle class wht american! Now step up ur game!
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//////////Reply by xoxo
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
sorry, we don’t speak spanish in america.
i’m gonna try to babelfish this, tho.
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Haha cool that my country “Sweden” is on that list, I wonder what they mean??
And I did not know u thinks it cool to buy stuff at IKEA.. ;D
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Fuck this, I am moving to Austin.
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