Can’t believe it’s already been a decade. I’m trying to think about the person I used 2 be back in 1999. I wonder how familiar I am with that bro, or how much I respect him. Theoretically, I have grown up and become a more ‘cultured’ person with a developed+refined taste in all aspects of life, including my favourite music.
Piecing together ‘The Best Albums/Artists/Songs/Bands of the Decade’ seems tricky, like some sort of existential reflection of urself. I feel like most websites that focus on music create ‘best of year/decade’ lists that assume ‘indie music is the best music on the planet (+ a few African American Artists).’ We have evolved into a modern high-level, conceptual aesthetic that we must value, but we can also recognize important eras that ‘helped us get to where we are.’ It seems like that sort of neglects the impact of mainstream artists on mainstream fans. Just want 2 create a list that opens up a dialogue for the clash between ‘mainstream’ and ‘alt’ in this decade.
Do ‘album sales’ matter?
Do ‘online web critics’ opinions’ really matter?
If ur song is used in an NBA area/NFL football game/TV commercial, r u more successful than 90% of other artists?
How do gender roles+racial issues change our perception of music?
Are musicians just ‘entertainers’, and I am allowed to be entertained as I watch some1’s life fall apart?
Does ‘talent’ really matter?
Is ‘timeliness’ the most important element of a band’s formula 4 success?
I will attempt to group some of the most relevant artists of the decade into tiers, creating a multi-dimensional list.
These are 30 different tiers of artists. Each tier represents an artist/group of artists/movement/trend. I attempt to rank each tier, working towards the most relevant artist of the decade in Tier 1. The tiers are sometimes interchangeable, depending on your class/social background/ethnicity/gender/income level/ other demographic factors that make you YOU.
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Tier 30: Bros Who Ruined Their Careers in the Past Decade
‘If u got girl problems I feel bad 4 u son. I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch aint 1.’ -Jay Z on managing ur life
Chris Brown
Chris Brown ‘beating the shit out of Rihanna’ is a story about a bro surrendering his opportunity to make mad bank for the next 20+ years. Remember when he was the next Michael Jackson/Usher/OJ Simpson?
Phil Spector
miss u. Can’t believe this bro produced the Beatles AND murdered some1.
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tl;dr
carles 4 ‘hipster of the decade’
go carles!
http://gawker.com/5431331/who-is-the-hipster-of-the-decade?skyline=true&s=i
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//////////Reply by AveyTareCat
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
@anonymous, Not really replying to this douche just wanted this comment to be seen without having to scroll all the way down. Carles I’m mad that you copped out at the last second. Why do you have to be such a little bitch? What are you so cared of, can’t you just have a genuine opinion of who the best band was? Why couldn’t you just tell the truth and speak your mind and say Animal Collective was the best band of the decade. Carles, ‘No More Runnin’
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//////////Reply by Ham
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:29 pm
@AveyTareCat, because the post wasn’t supposed to be serious. kind of obvs
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//////////Reply by KIDNAP
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
@Ham, Bro that comment isn’t serious.
//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
@anonymous, so, uh, i dunno…
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 3:14 am
@anonymous, great post carles, would read again, A+++
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//////////Reply by dr.
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 am
@anonymous, i hope yall realise that this is carles ‘mangum opus’. (reference to jeff mangum – in the aeroplane over the sea)
and his last post (for real).
goodbye carles…
you had a good run.
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//////////Reply by lastnightsfartie
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 am
CRLS, I just fukin blew my load!
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//////////Reply by rrrrrrrrrose
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Carles can’t commit! alts don’t commit to anything
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 2:17 am
@anonymous, i never looked at john mayer in that way. thanks for showing me the other side, crls.
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second
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//////////Reply by Your_not_punk
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2010 at 6:52 pm
@DrTunaMD, youve gotta be kidding me i read through that whole fucking thing for john mayer, john mayer. i thought steve aoki was hipster jesus. carles you owe me blow, and it better be good blow none of that cheap methy shit.
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epic, crls
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damn
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I’m def going 2 read this whole post…. just not right now, thanks in advance blogger
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wildly incoherent
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that was a hooooot
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THIS SHIT TOOK A DECADE TO LOAD……….HIOHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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Holy cow! What a long post!
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DICK
IS
GROWING
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DAMN so true. Now ima go listen to some john mayer :) GREAt effin post carles. yey.
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so epic
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Fantastic.
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WHOLE LOTTA TALK ABOUT MUSIC AND SHIT HERE CARLES. COULDA USED SOME MORE TWEENS/AZNS/TITS BUT OVERALL AN ENTERTAINING POST. WILL PROBABLY RE-READ LIKE 2-4 TIMES SO I CAN FORMULATE AN OPINION BUT JUST GRATEFUL TO GET ~8th POST.
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//////////Reply by yo nig
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 7:26 pm
@DAT ASS, calm the fuck down.
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
@DAT ASS, kate perry’s mega cleavage was good enough to last the entire post
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This will probably take me “actual hours” to read. Can’t imagine how long it took to write.
Happy “end-of-the-decade” Carles!
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carles has won now
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‘this is great’ [via avatar]
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//////////Reply by Dan
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 6:42 pm
@elle, could’ve been better in RealD
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 am
@elle, ‘Didn’t see it.’
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//////////Reply by Elle
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 1:31 am
@elle, You stole my name biatch
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you win this round
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will take me hours to process this but from what i read, i like this post.
why didn’t u write abt dubstep? italo disco? uffie?
feel like u missed so much important alt info in favor of highlighting mnstrmrs
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//////////Reply by gaudi
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
@chilisfan,
well dubstep, italo disco, and uffie, however good they may be(particularly dubstep), just arent ‘good/appealing to the masses enough’ to be put on giant ‘best of’ lists.
or because carles is making fun of us/music/the world.
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EPIC!!!
BTW, I am a post-hipster individual and I love the Jonases, perhaps for the very celebreality reasons you mention…but….can’t one of them be both a freespirited homosexual AND a crazy evangelical? You know who I mean. He’s the one I am rooting for in the next decade.
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just wild n outted to this
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I’m like, kinda moved to tears. This is beautiful. Best HRO post so far, IMO.
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idk my bff carles
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double amnesia approves this post
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<3
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“2 mnstrm”
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What horrible music; John Mayer’s music does not enhance my (or anyone else’s, for the matter) personal brand. Did Mikebro, Jeffbro, and Becca write this?
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//////////Reply by piddle
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
article of the decade
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If I could kill one person on earth and get away with it, it would be Thom Yorke. Cruelly and unusually.
John Mayer forever…
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//////////Reply by suicide fan
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
@Bebe, ur a sad follower bebe. someday ull graduate high school and have an informed opinion that i will respect.
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//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 am
@suicide fan, What gives you the idea that I’m uninformed? I’ve listened to every single Radiohead album in existence and was unimpressed with every one. The only respectable song they’ve composed is 15 Step, for the sole reason that it ACTUALLY has a tune. For the most part, moaning into a microphone at varying frequencies and calling it falsetto isn’t music to me. Its noise. The ‘conceptual melodies’ in the background all sound like something one would make up as they went along. Whether I’m in high school, college, or graduated completely is absolutely irrelevant. The Gods of ‘Getting Radiohead’ aren’t going to spontaneously bless me the moment a high school diploma is in my hand.
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//////////Reply by Elie
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:33 am
@Bebe, I don’t have a huge boner for radiohead either, but i would also nominate ‘just’ as a respectable song along with 15, though it is from the 90’s
and If I could kill one person on earth and get away with it, it would be tiger woods. Not because I hate him or anything, I just think it would be awesome to capitalize on all the residual tabloid exposure.
//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 am
@Bebe, ‘Just’ is a great song; I only wish I knew what the man in the video says at the end… :((((
I think ‘Elin’ is already planning to ‘do in’ TigBro…
//////////Reply by chrysler5thavenue
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 am
@Bebe, umm, hello, “Creep”…?
//////////Reply by ThatsNotAltBro
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
@Bebe,
I never got Radiohead either but that doesn’t change the fact that John Mayer still blows.
P.S. is Bebe representative of other tweens? I always thought John Mayer fans were perpetually made up of Outback Steakhouse managers & people who buy CDs by American Idol contestants. Is there gonna be an unironic wave of neo white douche-bluesy dad rock in 2016?
//////////Reply by suicide fan
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@Bebe, lmao sorry bebe, was honestly just trollin’ u a lil… didn’t mean 2 any1’s feelings/make rude jokes about high schoolers. seriously, i apologize.
although, i am seriously doubting everyone’s alt cred who doesn’t like radiohead. && don’t give me the “there’s no tune” argument. there are tons of radiohead songs that have strong hooky melodies and follow an accesible verse-chorus form while still being sonically experimental and challenging.
karma police? climbing up the walls? just? no suprises? house of cards? national anthem? et cetera.
&& i’m not really sure how anyone could dislike idioteque…
ya’ll are making me question everything.
sigh.
//////////Reply by kill yoself
//////////Posted February 8th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
@Bebe, You’re a fucking idiot.. 15 step is the only good song? So you’ve only listened to the new album. You’re obviously in high school because you ended your comment with getting a diploma in your hand and you’re too young to remember creep, their first popular track which was in their garage band days and is much more simple and accessible. Just listen to their most popular songs and you’ll realize you’re wrong. I think mostly you wont understand radiohead because you’re a girl, but receiving your diploma might actually help you appreciate them more. Some things actually do take time ot grow into. Your ears aren’t ready yet. Actually just kill yourself.
//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
@Bebe, jk I love you Thom Yorke
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//////////Reply by Ham
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
@Bebe,
i am bebe’s sister
bebe lied
she has not listened to all the radiohead albums
srsly bebe, listen to the bends plz
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//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
@”Bebe”, QUIT TROLLIN!!!!!!
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//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
@Bebe,
Keep trolling.
//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
@Ham, You are not my sister.
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//////////Reply by Baybay's sista
//////////Posted December 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@Bebe,
but i iz.
srsly bebe, plz lstn.
//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 25th, 2009 at 11:24 am
@Bebe, Haha jk, you are my sister, I was trolling all of youise guise.
why you running yo mouth about Cat Power carles? she is in a completely separate (and much higher league) than everyone else you mentioned in the b-rate female section.
also,
Cat Power > Feist.
The only reason Feist has had more success is because shes been sucking the creative juices out of Kevin Drew’s dick. Nuff said.
CAT POWAH POWAH 4 LYF.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 am
@sugary, ‘Word.’
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//////////Reply by AstroCandy
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 am
@sugary, haha you’re one of the females that carles predicted would get ‘defensive’ about that part of the post.
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pretty accurate, missed an intelligent post like this one.
i’ve never heard a damien rice/john mayer/other bros like that songs.
not sure if i’m out the loop or more authentic than everyone who has.
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heck yah teh microphones
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I ‘get it*’ now crls.
memorable post.
*(you)
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fapfapfap
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//////////Reply by Ham
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:30 pm
@kitty, i know. the nickelback guy is so hawt
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//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 am
@Ham, HAHAHA OMG I saw that and thought “lol that person is really clever”.
Then I realized… IT WAS SHOOG
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//////////Reply by Ham
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 am
@Bebe, glad we’re sisters, bebe matthew zeva
I still think Lil Jon impressions are hilarious.
Great post Carles. The most comprehensive decade list I have seen anywhere!
Merry Christmas!
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i cant finish this book
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//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:03 pm
@walker,
“elie” has some sparknotes down there.
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Memorable post.
Vote 4 Carles @ Gawker.com.
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Luv Radiohead.
but what about WAVVES?!!?!?!?!??!
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forgot Crystal Castles / Chillwave / M.I.A. / Dubstep / My Bloody Valentine reunion / Nu Rave / television shows
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//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:32 am
@art@design.com, MIA is in there…felt like there should have been a tier for bands that whose popularity was resurrected by music blogs in the 2K0’s like MBV and Neutral Milk
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This decade cap post was either the most honest reflection of a decade or one of the finest pieces of consumer demographic analyses i have ever read. It proves how easy it is to define a group of people via accommodation and exclusion – and shows how predictable and taxonomic our tastes really are – to a scary extent (if this is what some ahole blogger has on you – imagine what the cia can rack up on you). Unlike many other decade caps this list does not assume that we were all 22 years old for the past 10 years and accounts for maturing and refining of tastes realistically
- just because someone like yo la tengo may have released some badass album in 2000 does not mean that we really gave a shit then (or do now) – Best part about this post was how important/cool it makes self-awareness. It is the only real way to grow.
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
@Elie, ‘damn’
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
@Elie, u made a good comment. i agree with most of this.
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//////////Reply by paul kemp
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 11:55 pm
@Elie, agreed. And if it’s a straight up consumer demo analysis, then I have been had. My iTunes has thousands of songs and albums by artists you’d normally hear about on HRO, and then a bunch of John Mayer- it’s eerie. I feel… exposed
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//////////Reply by Elie
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 am
@paul kemp, ya it is a really uncomfortable process, like getting naked at the doctor. sometimes i feel that way when i smoke pot – like i suddenly see through my own bullshit (other times i just feel like eatin’ snacks and watching the simpsons…but thats another story).
I think it is funny to try to imagine what we will be like in 20 – 30 years when we are middle aged – and what will become of our favourite artists who don’t die or fade away. Wouldn’t it be a total trip if Panda bear decided to make adult contemporary like Sting or Costello. Or picture yourself after a long day of work down at the old soylent green factory, you pick the kids up from space soccer practice then take the Mrs. out to see an evening of Justin Vernon singing crooner songs at the casino…
i know i need a girlfriend… but the girls in my hood don’t appreciate irony
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//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:49 am
@Elie, h8 that ’see through your own bullshit’ bud. You need some medi-pot, bro.
//////////Reply by monster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
@Elie, That is why I recently stopped smoking weed…unlesss Im drunk or need to come down after a night of blow.
//////////Reply by jig
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 10:07 am
@Elie, this analysis ’sounds good’ but LIKE carles is not the CI&A and shit. for instance: take the song “ATLAS” by BTTLS (which wasn’t mentioned here)… I totes feel that song in such a meaningful way… my iTunes has XX,XXX songs on it… and NO Johnny Mayer (although I appreciate JM: The Brand/public figure)… my iTunes DOES have a lullaby album by Kathy Lee Gifford on it called Goodnight, Angel (yes, it really has a fake parental advisory sticker on it saying smthng like ‘warning: your kid will totes fall asleep 2 this shit’)… my pt is: my point is I work effing hard so that the carleseses and the government agencies of the world/USofA ‘got nothing on me’ [via king kong and the movie 'training day']… even though I realize that ‘doing this’ is an indictment in and of itself of my consumer sensibilites, and my place w/in some sort of weird/possibly unreal social demo/construct (but anyway in the end whathaveyou, if we’re all ’stealin music anyhowz, & not gettin caught’ what does ‘any of it’ even matter??? I think I would drink 1.5-20% more Mountain Dew if they used AnCo in a Do the Dew ad campaign… but honestly I ‘ve lost the tracks here w/ this reply// I just dont want the obamagov ninjaz on my ass, is that what u were implying[?]–I didnt get that ref….)
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//////////Reply by Elie
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@jig, I’m not sure what to make of that reply, but I guess I was just saying that after reading such an apt cataloguing of the decade I am maybe just a little bit more inclined to sleep wearing a tinfoil hat. But thats just me jig.
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//////////Reply by jig
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
@Elie, I feel the same way abt the tinfoil sleepy hat… but perhaps for different reasons is all. anyhow, I liked ur comment ELiE–stayy chill
//////////Reply by gaudi
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
@jig, <3 battles.
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dang, probably should have ‘worked’ today…
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can['t] believe i just spent an hour reading this.
great post though, pretty representative of what mainstream music that alt peeps say is underground looks like. glad to be a metalhead. i like the knife too i guess.
think i agree with mayer as #1 even though his music makes me want to kill myself.
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damn.
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This post “crashed” my “browser.”
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wanna dedicate my comment to someone, ya’ll.
i was at this rave with two e pills in my system, dancing the night away.
i bumped into a cute alt girl.
we started dancing.
started kissing.
all very spontaneous.
it was awesome.
anyway the point of the story is i later found out she read HipsterRunoff.
you think people who read Carles only exist on the internet? THINK AGAIN.
thanks carles, for keeping alt glued 2gether.
<3U.
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//////////Reply by keutbangz
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
@Friend, can i go ravin’ with u ?
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
@Friend, When I was playing volleyball at an Amish wedding “reception” this summer, I joked to my teammate, “Nice spike, bro” and he responded, “Do you read hipster runoff!?”
“Hell YES I DO!”
We lol’d irl and spent the next 24 hours getting crunk irl and loling abt HRO.
The wedding was second generation hippie offspring. The hippie parents started their own commune and eventually developed their own religion loosely based around Amish Christianity. So the wedding was a 20 minute sermon, 5 minutes of vows, and 30+ hour celebration of life, love, friends, and family.
HRO, a community of alts
living
loving
getting vulnerable
growing
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//////////Reply by lolita
//////////Posted December 24th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
@Friend,
took a lot of e @ a socal rave, just being my cute-alt-girl-self.
bumped into a cute alt boy while i was running away from a mainstrm bro.
we started dancing.
there was sum kissing.
it felt so good-so free to be you/me/ya’ll
found out he reads HRO.
think Carles can’t “help a (alt)bro(ther) out”?
THINK AGAIN.
if ya’ll can only h8/luv/miss then:
h8 hangovers
luv XTC
miss my Friend
thnx Carles ;)
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MAYER AND NELLY BABY!
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thanks for not spoiling the #1 spot with the real best of 2k9 (hint: electronic)
would feel uncomfortable sharing with the ’self- aware’/analytic/academic hro contingent who sour things by association…
(its radiohead; but the jonas bros are closing in, who will win 2k10? anyone’s guess).
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
@engl, tiesto?
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//////////Reply by Kenny G
//////////Posted December 25th, 2009 at 4:17 am
@chong,
lol
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i started involuntarily applauding at the end of tht post. it was amazing.
thank u CRLS, U R MY ARTIST OF THE DECADE <3<3<3
(ps tht took me like 1.5 hrs 2 read)
(pps I rlly like Kanye West despite all he is/done)
(ppps I will need 2 read this a few more times before i can have my own opinions)
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kinda lost ur ‘authentic-ness’ with how much u knew bout mainstreamer-ness. post was like whatever. john mayer is a pimp, but theres like a million other peeps that play that same style of music. mostly 40yr olds. now i just think carles is old. writes like 20% less bout alt ginas.
def surprised u didnt suck ancos cock like u usually do, and put them as no.1.
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I feel most qualified to comment on Black Eyed Peas, because I am actually in high school, and it is played at all the pep rallies.
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//////////Reply by tommydee
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 10:44 pm
@Michael Richards, ‘that is terrible’.
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JOHN MAYER FOR THE FUCKING WIN
yall, it’s ironic, but it’s kinda/sorta/definitely true.
most ‘followed’ musician on the tweeters, check.
had sex with a bunch of ’sweet titties’ (via jess simpson, jennifer love hewwy, janiston) check.
did coke with the bro who wrote ‘while my guitar gently weeps’ check.
did a song with kanye, and taylor swift. check.
got a badass ’sleeve tatty’. check.
only white bro at MJ’s funeral, check.
JM. we love yall
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//////////Reply by swagga
//////////Posted December 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
@Brandon Ulrich, JM 4EVR
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IVE NVR AGREED W/ANYTHING MORE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
I WANT THIS POST 2 B THE CONSTITUTION FOR 2K10S
AHHHHHHH JUST SITTIN HERE IN MONTREAL “STUDYING” FOR MY “MEDIA AND FEMINIST STUDIES” EXAM TOMORROW BECAUSE IM AN ALT-CANADAGOOSECORE-MCGILL STUDENT AND THIS POST WILL MAKES ME NOT EVEN WANT TO GRADUATE BECAUSE CARLES HAS DONE MY LIFES WORK IN THIS POST
LOVE U CARLES
SRSLY
- Elliebro(a)
(p.s. srsly, everyone go through the PAIN the sheer PAIN of downloading the “Battle Studies” “iTunes” “LP” to see the excluse interviewy with John…..its too much)
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//////////Reply by PharmacyAlt
//////////Posted December 21st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
@Ellie,
Ease up on the Adderol girl, one helps w/ studying, but too many can be bad.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:21 am
@Ellie, s0000 happy to see a McGillian.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
@Ellie, Bixi ftw! My dad took me there for a genetics conference this fall the same weekend as the international freeski film festival. I asked random hipsters where I could safely buy weed on the street outside the Imposs(Muzion), Rahzel feat DJ JS-1 and Dj Premier show. The hipsters were chill bros and baguettes who smoked me up for free. It was super chill of them. The Dj Premier show was lame. I didn’t know where to find electronic dance music though. Who are The Twelves/Daft Punk/LCD Soundsystem of Montreal? (Unfortunately I didn’t know about Think About Life at that time in my life)
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this was kinda long to read, but eventually forged through it. lol’d/was entertained. fun times.
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i can imagine this being the last post ever on hro
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amazing post!
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well done sir, but you know you fucked up with doing The Microphones as a ‘one hit wonder’… you know you fucked up right?
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//////////Reply by smarterthanu?
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
@d00dz, so werd that was what ‘incensed’ me most microphones see in2 my soul
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//////////Reply by d00dz
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
@smarterthanu?, true true, damn shame about “mt. eerie” though, can’t really feel Phil Elverum n e more.
feel like he ‘grew out’ of his good songwriting self
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//////////Reply by jahc
//////////Posted December 25th, 2009 at 12:37 am
@d00dz, word, not the same phil anymore :(
The true #1 human of the 2k decade can be measured easily. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has shown us that highest point of human existence is self actualization. The only individual who has reached this point in our decade is clearly Gucci Mane. Gucci is a man who has reverted to the basest forms of human desire, effectively toppling the pyramid. His self actualization is ironically going back to the very bottom echelon. All Gucci wants to do is get money, fuck bitches, and smoke trees. His personal brand can be identified with the Ache Tribe of South America, in that proximity to nature and base desires truly make an individual moral. It is this that causes an individual to cease surviving, and begin to live.
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//////////Reply by AstroCandy
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 am
@Michael Richards, agreed. I’ve been getting really into Gucci lately. feel like he’s the ‘future.’
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This was soooo good! Hella nostalgic awesome post mang- I personally remember like 2k3 when The Rapture, !!!, and Lcd Soundsystem were breaking out- That NYC dance shit was and still is the best of the decade. YEAH!, WHAT? OK!!
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weak post crls.
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CRLS, this is probably the best HRO post ever FTW. It alone would probably qualify you to teach / guest lecture some sort of cultural studies / pop culture university-level class should you decide to expand your personal brand to the academic world. kudos.
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//////////Reply by Elie
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
@dan-onymous, I had a prof who used to bang out to Justice and lcd soundsystem in class… it was kinda like he would “play that stuff in a class full of innercity minority kids, and then experience them making fun of him for listening to it.”
good times.
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//////////Reply by Laurbails
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 12:35 am
@dan-onymous, Probs will b hard 2 bring Carles’ brand 2 the academic world bc the profs/ppl in charge of bringing speakers 2 schools/kids who got 2400 on their SATs/etc won’t ‘get’ the HRO prose style [via the MLA]. Ivy League bros are bros who established their personal brands not by cultural association/disassociation, but rather by ‘fulfilling’ more ‘requirements’ than other bros [via 5.0s and varsity sports]. IvyBros can’t possibly ‘get’ the ‘meta’ of Carles’ first-person style bc the concept of self-identifying via culture is foreign to them (+/- mnstrm fashion). IvyBros are self-motivated, self-fulfilling bros who know what they want and don’t need to question the implications of the bullshit they use to get to ‘the top’ and therefore don’t need ‘culture’ to self-identify and self-brand. They just need carnal fulfillment.
does Carles lose his authenticity if he ‘breaks it down’ [via demo_analysis] so that 40+-y-o ProfBros can ‘get it’?
does Carles face a more scrupulous and therefore more formidable and less gratifying audience if he re-markets to IvyBros?
isn’t Carles a pessimistic hipster w/ low self esteem just like the rest of us, and risks losing the demo he so lovingly analyzes if he starts to ‘unpack’ it for the mnstrm IvyBros?
did Carles go to Wharton/Stern/LSE/etc?
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//////////Reply by Laurbails
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 am
@Laurbails, maybe john mayer is the only bro to truly ‘get’ carles [via 'no such thing']
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//////////Reply by bob loblaw
//////////Posted December 25th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@Laurbails, im an Ivy-Bro (I go to Penn but I’m in the School of Arts & Sciences, not Wharton). Any other Ivy Bros/Baguettes out there?
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 28th, 2009 at 6:27 am
@bob loblaw, Crimson, represent. Almost did ‘Huntsman’ at Penn, though. <3 u, Penn kids.
Anyone wanna come over and eat apricots?
P.S.
http://gawker.com/5431331/who-is-the-hipster-of-the-decade?skyline=true&s=i
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I thought that was pretty interesting on the whole. I am not sure that everyone wants to be American but whatever. Odd that for half of this time the whole of the UK were obsessed with The Libertines and Babyshambles and the U.S.A. I imagine have no idea who they are. Especially as they were top exponents of the ‘we hate Coldplay’ movement across the pond. Fuck it, I still like Radiohead and The Strokes; I don’t listen to them much now but, if someone asked, I’d say I liked them.
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Cat Power is def less marketable than The Feists, but way more ‘meaningful.’
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//////////Reply by grant golland
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 am
@Bipster, agree. stage fright is ultra authentic.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 am
@grant golland, Word. Crying for no reason+staring at the ground+hiding behind thick bangs = not marketable. But ‘endearing as hell.’ Miss u, < 2k3 Chan.
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this was better than Avatar.
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didnt even finish reading on the road, just pretented to tell people that because i knew the end(in my subconsious), i think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can v v think i can i think i can i think i can i think i can
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//////////Reply by gaudi
//////////Posted December 27th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
@Perth Australia,
on the road = overrated book
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@Perth Australia, man you Australians are post-pretentious already
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My favorite ban of the decade is Brian Jonestown Massacre.
I win.
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I will admit that I watched the following videos:
1. Death Cab – “Photobooth” – reminds me of this girl from college I still sometimes tug it 2
2. Kanye – that old song – kinda miss the chunky yet hungry [via idealism] Kanye West of old
3. Tweens – Soulja Boy Crank Dat, pretty weak
4. John Mayer – guitar hero
Miss u 2k0s…
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I LUV u Carles! U r teh most relevant blogger of 2k9 via HRO.
VIVA LA CARLES!
CARLES 4eva!
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Carles is a genius.
On a side note, always hated Mayer, definetly feel like crls hit the nail on the head about Cut Copy and AnCo/Dirty Projectors, I am always surprised at how many plays my Cut Copy collection racks up and I definetly do listen to bands like AnCo/Dirty Projectors because its something different, something unpredictable, most music is too easy to predict.
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I can’t believe I just read+listened to everything in that post. s000 exhausted.
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“Room for Squares” is such a trippy album title to be #1 of the first decade of the millenium.
DO YOU THINK THATS WHAT IT IS?
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epic post is epic thk u crls
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kinda ‘walked down meme lane’
in muh urr furce wunss – sup wit it, nell?
luv u carles, make me yr mrs.
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//////////Reply by Elie
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
@uhuh, I <3 Chocolate rain
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Does Leslie Feist have the perfect alt breasts?
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Interesting perspective Carles.
I look forward to reading your posts of the 2k10s.
Best of luck on winning ‘hipster of the decade’.
Last I checked you were in 3rd place with less than
50 votes behind Am Appy bro.
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Ariel Pink bit was fucking hilarious
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oh, the unbearable lightness of being…
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 am
@dookie shoot, Kundera is s000 ‘entry lev.’
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//////////Reply by silverstar
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
@Bipster, lolz, reminds me of senior year of high school
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all the small things came out in 1999 you asshole
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this post probs took u ages lol.
anyway s00 glad u mentioned cap’n jazz even tho thats the 90s
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//////////Reply by Kenny G
//////////Posted December 25th, 2009 at 4:09 am
@hehe xoxo,
yeah most authentic reference for sure
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I voted for you for “hipster of the decade” before reading this post. I really wish I can take back my vote now. I now realize HRO is pretty much the “Rolling Stone Magazine” of blogs.
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EPIC!
seriously…make this into a book for the carlesmart. i’d buy it.
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turn the dial tryin 2 catch a break and then i hear babyface, i only think of u and it;s breakin my heart, i’m tryna keep it together but i’m fallin apart
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Awww fukin “young folks” so ghey with the whistlin, but the beat makes me want to breakdance……. So confusing
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let’s pull a 4chan. Quick! somebody make carles win and spell out a message with the names of the other hipsters to let the world know who we are!
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
@Stu,
ಠ_ಠ
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted December 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
@anonymous,
is not ur personal army
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OMG ! Love Radiohead!
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//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
@Bebe, oh my god who are you already
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u crash’d my browser with this post.
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I stopped at the Cap’n Jazz/Owls/KinsellaBro vid and then I just started listening to Cap’n Jazz on my computor mp3 portable machine and I guess I will finish reading this post later.
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do yall remember dashboard confessional? <3 u chris
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Relevant.
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intense post. s0 many levels. reminds me of the inferno [via college literature classes].
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What about martha stewart
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great post, but wut about…
the decemberists?
hopesfall? (miss u sat years)
minus the bear?
mf doom?
moby?
feel like merrill garbus (tune-yards) is a “supremely talented human”
lol @ only one white kid in “vote however u like” vid
r.kelly is by far ur worst pick
but…<3 q and not u
should of had tao lin proofread this bitch
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I voted for Dov. sorry carls.
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john mayer? are you fucking shitting me?
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//////////Reply by grizzlycunt
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 2:12 am
@andrew, its so true tho, andrew. think about it.
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cryin a lil bit. realize none of us r rly ‘unique’ or ‘special in any way.’ worried this might b the end of hro 4 real. don’t want to ‘move along’ 2 the next section of my life [post-ironic/post-hro/post-alt/post-post-irony/choose.ur.own.response]. think maybe it’s just time to ‘grow up/get married’ + forget about what it rly means 2 build a personal brand. nothing ‘personal’ anymore abt a brand. time 2 face it: ultimately, ‘alt is dead.’
thx 4 the eye-opening post, crls. <3 u 4 ‘bein real’ [via being sarcastic/earnest/indiscriminately alternating be’tween’ the 2.]
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omg..john mayer..so spot on carles! Im so proud of yr work here, the time and effort going into this post makes me wanna cry and listen 2/watch garden state. ’00s </3
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carles how come you hate on successful females so much.
i think you forget shania was in the existential comedy i heart huckabees.
lol @ your fear of women w/muscles
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it will take me the next decade to read all of this.
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way to steal the best week ever gimmick
but that john mayer thing is fucking brilliant. CARLES, YOU RULE!!
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wack post.
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Just sat here for a while reading this. I have to say, I don’t agree completely with everything here, but I really appreciate the objective writing. It’s hard to ‘consume’ so much and not be swayed one way or the other. To stand far back and comment on the ’scene’ as a whole with such clarity is remarkable. I don’t see how you could actually listen to music and enjoy it though, seeing as everything must fit into a niche. Great article though.
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//////////Reply by walls`
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
@Chris, It’s hard to ‘consume’ so much and not be swayed one way or the other.
good point
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Carles doesn’t believe in females.
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yall rememe the Lady Sovereigns?
LuV m3 or h4te meH, iz st!Ll an 0bSe$$ioN
lUv mE r H@+e Me ThAt s d4 Que$tioN.
cant tell if these ‘lyrics’ r meaningfulcore
cant tell if i ‘hate’ her, or ‘love’ her, or if itz an ‘obsession’
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//////////Reply by Elie
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
@uhuh, Anyone remember the Klaxons? i used to fiend that shit
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hmm this post really made me think. i feel like you kinda just made fun of everything we know about music. like everything we thought we knew, we really dont. i love how you can warp my opinions like that. epic post carles.
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jst used this to ‘procrastinate’ on doing other ’shit’. s000 tired frm reading this. should I just take some pills to fall asleep?
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waste of time..
but i “get” it.
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//////////Reply by rrrrrrrrrose
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
@marisol, i lol and bleakly agree.
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wow 300 gigs of music and only 90% of the bands listed here :O
gotta delete that shit and start anew next decade…
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tl;;;dr
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‘I CAN’T BELIEVE I READ THE WHOLE THING.’
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what you said about dirty proj i feel is exactly true. too much music, is it genius/shitty. this is your magnum opus where are you goin after this
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Not enough respect to rap/hiphop, too much disrespect to female recording artists/misogyny. No Electroclash. Too American. A little too centered in the experiences of Carles age group (post college/mid 20’s). Too much/Not Enough 90’s. Other than that, blog post of the decade.
Parting thought; it’s amazing in hindsight how much of this stuff was not authentic/alt at all but completely corporate/market driven/mainstream/predictable.
Conclusion: We are all Entry Level.
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is this your last post carles now tha he decade is over and life is over?
pls lead us into the new era
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Bravo!
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you forgot hottest girls (Alice Glass) tier.
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sad u didn’t talk more about that whole early 20ks post-mainstream rapmetal / “saviors of rock” movement (via mtv /spinmag/mainstream media) related to the strokes like the hives/the vines/other bands that seemed really relevent when i was in 7th grade…
also wondering if my noise movement (lightning bolt/arab on radar) could have made this post or is it not popular enough? does anyone else here prefer black dice/soft circle 1000x more than grizzly bear?
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//////////Reply by fffffffff
//////////Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
lol the ‘my’ in front of ‘noise movement’ is definitely a typo, not that full of shit (might have started to write, ‘my favorite movement and decided it was too lame too write)
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feel like crles is slowly co-ordinating his brand to attract mainstreamers whilst maintaining elements of post-ironic, ‘alt-titude’ to educate them.
surprised on the lack of girl talk/aoki – bros who brought the ‘partay’ to the entry-lvl ‘good-time bro/ho’
2k10 – the year when is crles is funded by starbucks/ generic multi-national corporation with pretensions of hipsterness to plug lifestyle products
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k this decade was fun, let’s all get day jobs now & be pregnant 2gether & watch tweens make fun of us 4 trying 2 stay relevant
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This pretty much confirms my suspicion that for all the posing, the majority of this blogs readership are tweens from nowhere towns all across the country, who are culturally clueless, musically mainstream and have really never seen/met hipsters anywhere outside party photography. Back to the warped tour all of yall
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//////////Reply by goodgirl
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 am
@fauxhipster,
Iknw I’m late on this, but I had lolz right now and just wanted to say I agee 100pc.
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Best Blog Post I think I Have Ever Read. A++++ pure gold would read again.
Thank You Carles.
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Too much scrolling.
Glad we can move into the post-retrospective era.
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wow carles, this is lyke the best post evr. Feel lyke you posted all my favorite songs of the past years. Ur brilliant. Ur so funny. This post took my slow computer 4ever to load. Feel lyke I should get a faster more mnstrm interweb connection. U make me feel brand new. <3 U
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really suprised Carles didnt mention the fact that the Tenniebaum/Rushmore/Darj. Ltd. bro is in Phantom Planet. Regardless, best blog post of the decade.
Hope that this decade i can extend my personal brand via innovation.
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never make a post this long again. goddamn carles. crash my computer.
good post nonetheless bro.
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Amazing post. I’m nit picking here but no Deceptacon? technically it came out in 99 but I couldn’t go to an alt dance night back in the early 00s w/out hearing this. feel like this was the entry level anthem or at least part of it’s mix cdr.
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cool, ppl just commented on how long it was.
feel uncomfortable with how many sentences just stopped in the middle. hope crls is OK.
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best book ive read all year
<3/h8/miss u carles forever.
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This post just confirms it. Carles really knows nothing about music that he didn’t learn from a tweeny boppers blog.
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Hey ya’ll! Gotta congratulate whoever programmed the IP generating voting-bot and put it to work on the “Hipster of the decade” in favor of Carles! Good job ya’ll!
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wtf crls, s0 tired of u talking about capn jazz kinsella bros and q and not u, more neon indian pls
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so complete. yet so incomplete.
so many questions remain unanswered.
will anyone ever find the perf alt breasts? did anyone save authentic SPARKS, just to drink it in front of uninformed inauthentic [decaffeinated] SPARKS consumers after the fact? what is the future of the altosphere? will m.i.a.’s bb be alt or mainstream? when will the Am Appy Empire finally collapse?
kinda feel like irony was more marketable in 2k00-2k10 than SPARKS, Am Appy, GG and the Girl Talkers and john mayer combined…
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what a post, pretty revealing. based from it i think i could guess carles’ gender, age, race, region, car, and fav food.
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When I first read HRO, I was an ‘entry level alt’. By reading through mostly all of the memorable posts, Carles revealed to me the depth of the ‘indiesphere’ with regards to everything from tastemaking and how the indie scene ‘works’ to blogspeak. When you really do think about it, someone uninvolved in this music scene would not ‘get’ anything happening on HRO, which is such hilariously disgusting irony. And as I saw that, I realized that everything in the ‘indie’ scene is driven and governed and fueled by pretensions. To ‘tastemake’ essentially is just to ‘be pretentious’. That’s when I vowed to never advance past ‘entry level’. In my short time of listening to the music and consuming the memes of the scene, I was already heavily influenced by pretensions. I still am to a degree. It’s so hard to rid oneself of such things. But I don’t want to be controlled by them.
Lose your pretensions with me. Wake up and smell the bullshit. I think it’s the only way to fully enjoy music on all levels of ‘enjoy’-listening, making, learning.
I also realized truly how shitty our generation is. And how much I envy The Greatest Generation. They’re the shit. And I never say ‘the shit’.
Damn, didn’t want to be the essay commenter.
“”don’t h8 me, yall”"
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//////////Reply by skim reader.
//////////Posted December 26th, 2009 at 10:19 am
@Name,
i like to think of myself as “pretentious 4 life”
but you, name are so pretentious that you transcended normal alt levels to a state where your own pretentiousness is so great it cannot even recognised,
i salute you, comrade, your altdom is truly a sight to behold
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//////////Reply by Name
//////////Posted December 26th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
@skim reader.,
I’d like to think that’s not true.
I am not alt.
I was raised Southern Baptist (and still believe it, except for some minor theological differences. but i still identify with ‘Baptist’. and i feel like i need to say this due to the rep Baptists have….I love you, whoever you are reading this. i really do.)
I am conservative with some libertarian views. Hands off me, gov.
I only sort of dress like it.
I go to Texas A&M, one of the most conservative universities in the world (which surprised me with how many people that are ‘in’ with this music).
etc.
etc.
This music scene changed how I listen to and view music, and I absolutely love my new perspective.
So call me ‘transcended’ or not. I just don’t want to have gotten there through pretentiousness. I’m trying to say all this with humility, not pretensions.
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//////////Reply by women's studies 101
//////////Posted December 31st, 2009 at 5:15 pm
@Name, AND IN THAT MOMENT I SWEAR WE WERE INFINITE~*~*~*
tl;dr
//////////Reply by fffffffff
//////////Posted December 28th, 2009 at 1:03 am
@Name, this is the most pretentious comment i have read
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r u giving up again carles
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carles wheres the new content? me and matt have been refreshing this page like everyday. brooklyns no fun anymore since we got this record deal, and have this massive condo in greenpoint. we’re not new york anymore. we need something else to do since we aint gotta struggle with our billz n e more.
p.s. when is matt gonna marry me.
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great postage, required reading for all AnR chippies, publicists/brand managers and shamans. pre-occupation with ‘authenticity’ and ‘altness’ is whacked but ‘may or may not be’ necessary in order to fist the mainstream non-bro.
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where r u i miss u
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carles, your current state of anonymity/’alt as a celebrity’ cant last forever
maybe its best if you make like john lennon to preserve what we have here, i mean seriously, what other option do you have if you plan on following your ‘100% right minded’ approach through life
are you afraid of the next decade?
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted December 30th, 2009 at 3:12 am
@†®åπP,
I made a reply here earlier saying who Carles really is but he deleted it, or somebody did. What is Carles hiding? Why can’t we know who Carles is? Why does Carles refuse to attach a human being, a self, a narrative, a soul to the words he lets dissipate into emptiness?
What will Carles do if his cell phone number, date of birth, last name and so forth shows up here? Why would he fear that so much? We are good people on this blog. Does Carles know himself? Does Carles love himself? Does Carles know love?
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted December 31st, 2009 at 10:14 pm
@D, i mean.. its great that he’s anonymous, im just saying that he’s sort of dug himself into a pretty deep hole here and i’m curious as to his escape plan
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uhhhhh wow carles so musically illiterate broham whattabout remixes of rave classics aka “nu rave” “electro house” aka trance version 2.0 america’s “electroclash” – peaches, fischerspooner, felix da housecat, ladytron etc aka lamest electronic music for hipsters only or LEMFHO- “french house” aka “french dudes with weird gimmicks” justice daft punk mr. oizo etc. “pissed off punk rockers” remember how many rock against bush albums there were and bands like anti-flag….your notable electronic producers are missing paul van dyk and armin van burren who are arguably the most popular in the world, routinely filling stadiums with 30,000, selling out in every city they play. you say its eurotrash but its some global shit and ur an ignant stooge. one microtrend you missed was the merge of brazillian samba with drum and bass music, which led to some pretty incredible variations of liquid funk 2006-2007……………….
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//////////Reply by ughzzzzz
//////////Posted December 28th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
@D, you my sir are poorly mistaken…daft punk and justice actually make brilliant original sounding music…paul van dyke and armin van burren are TRANCE (cookie cutter trance) not house music so i wouldn’t compare them.
trance sucks first of all because it all sounds the same and is SOOO predicable. and the reason so many people like it is because most people have poor taste when it comes to music…oh am i being pretentious…whoops…forgivez me y’alllllllllll
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted December 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
@ughzzzzz,
unforgiven, eat a dick, thomas bangalter is generic as fuck and was making terrible music that nobody liked for 20 years before his robot suit made him popular. every emo emasculated dude with a guitar sounds the same to me so now im being pretentious and telling you the world would be better without you
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//////////Reply by wtf
//////////Posted December 31st, 2009 at 4:38 pm
@D, LOLEZZERRRZZZZSDFasdfjaskjfasl
this just shows how little you know about music/DP/electo. nobody out there remotely sounds like daft punk (besides jewstice and they are way different if you listen). if you actually listened to their music it’s not made with guitars, you fuck. god the stupidity these days…at least learn something about a genre first. you need to DIE if you think Tiesto has talent. bahahaha. Thomas and Guy on the other hand are brilliant. SOOO good.
i know. you’re just mad your guido trance artists mainstream shit didn’t get recognized on the list.
//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted December 29th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
@D, ti-es-to
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Brilliant post, can’t agree with you more! This one is definitely on my “blog post of the decade” list, along with this one:
http://melodysblog.tumblr.com/post/269690553/9-words-women-use
Thank you, fellow JM fan!
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WAY TO GO CARLES!!! SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED FIONA APPLE. GIRL WAS ANGRY.
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Kid Rock? Limp Bizkit? Korn?
^^^These^^^ are relevant acts 4 the 2k0 decade u missed them, meyb they were tier 31?????
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//////////Reply by wtf
//////////Posted December 28th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
@Franz Kafka, HAHAAHa good one!
Bad taste: OMGEEE Kid Rock rules!
Good taste: Kid Rock should die.
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crls ur a genius. u tots summed up how i feel abt the 2ks but could never rlly express. <3 u
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When kids 20-30 years from now ask me what the 2ks were like, I’m referring them to this.
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Great article!!!!!
I just downloaded a new app called Riff Raters.
check it out
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Great post! I feel you were right on with a lot of stuff (although I don’t think I can agree about John Mayer). Makes me want to go listen to some Reggie and the Full Effect or Cursive or something. Maybe Belle & Sebastian?
Only thing is that the Blink 182 song came out in 1999, not 2001! I definitely owned that CD when I was still in high school.
Cheers.
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Sunn O)))
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//////////Reply by wtf
//////////Posted December 31st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
@fffffffff, YESSSS :)
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wow. I remember when I was 14 and John Mayer was all shiny and new, and liking this new guy. Moved to Philly when 18 and ran with my little alt self, but still dug Mayer. He knows what he’s doing. Good list.
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<3 OK Go & "Hey Ya"
also this post made my computer fuck slow
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so glad pink and justin guarini made it in they are from my home town… feel so relevent
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Brilliant.
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CRLS THIS IS THE GREATEST POST OF ALL TIME.
Spent a whole 30 minutes reading it.
<3 U S0 MUCH
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