Fake folk hate thread

[Lune]

Originally Posted by HeyNomad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't have much to add to your list and I don't particularly mind Nirvana, but there are no words for how much I hate Fleet Foxes. This review comes pretty close though: "fucking canoeing music...fake-rustic rootsiness...hey-nonny-nonny" bullshit.

So tired of sensitive white guys sensitively strumming and crooning.

If you don't like a given piece of music because of the image the musicians present, you don't understand music and probably aren't even capable of thinking or feeling at a higher level. The reviewer basically bashes Robin Pecknold & pals for their idiosyncrasies. At no point in the review does he actually criticize the music itself-- until near the end when he actually half-praises it.

I like the music itself. I don't know anything about the band, I had to be reminded what the lead singer's name was, and I'm pretty sure I'd despise whatever archetype their fans usually are, the review probably got that right. And I didn't like helplessness blues at all. But they did make good music. They helped modernize braindead hillbilly folk and make it palatable to young people who grew up in the suburbs, and San Francisco yuppies who put on their flannel shirt and go hike Mount Tamalpais once every 9 months and them claim they are outdoorsy. Who cares? Michael Jackson was a kid-diddler transracial weirdo but he changed music.

[Cecily]

It genuinely confuses me as to how people could dislike Nirvana. But if doesn't move your miserable, blackened, and doomed to burn in hell for eternity deviant soul, Japan, who I am to judge? Good music isn't for everyone.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fleet Foxes is prob my 2nd or 3rd least favorite band, First Aid Kit is horrible too.

Similar groups (other than the most obvious ones)

Local Natives
Grizzly Bear (<3 Ready, Able)
16 Horsepower - Heel on the Shovel
Agincourt (Vaguely)

Okkervil River is another terrible one, vaguely folksy but really nothing like Fleet Foxes

Well shit, I think all of those are ok except the Grizzly Bear. I actually like the Agincourt one. ' Course, wouldn't listen to any of it on my own /shrug

Searched some Fleet Foxes and don't really care for it or First Aid Kit. One of the Fleet Foxes pv (just the video, not the music) reminded me of something, so thought I would share.....


Entirely unrelated, but this is both fantastic music and neat concept ^^"

Wintergatan

[Nihilist_santa]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It genuinely confuses me as to how people could dislike Nirvana. But if doesn't move your miserable, blackened, and doomed to burn in hell for eternity deviant soul, Japan, who I am to judge? Good music isn't for everyone.

I hate Nirvana and any of the sub pop bands for the most part. Grunge was fucking garbage. GARBAGE. Grunge was the product of failed hippy parenting and passing on hippie drug habits to their kids. So glad most of the peddlers of this shit subculture died of self loathing. Fuck you Layne Stayley. Fuck you Cobain. Fuck you Shannon Hoon. Fuck you Andrew Wood. Im sure there are others.

[maskedmelon]

I just don't like Nirvana because they do not stimulate me emotionally. They make me neither happy nor sad and I don't feel much of anything when I listen to them. No inspiration, no release, nothing.

[Cecily]

Grunge saved us from 80s hair bands. If it wasn't for Kurt Cobain, you'd still be listening to Van Halen like it's cool. Well, you probably do.

[Hasbinbad]

"nirvana r bad" is the new "the beatles r bad"

basic trolls trying to seem edgy by insulting a thing that everyone likes

[Hasbinbad]

like i dont like the beatles really, but their impact on people and music was profound, and their technical skill and creative drive was evident in the studio and during stage performances.

the exact same critique could be made of nirvana while also not sounding like a jackass, but that's not the sort of thing that is expressed by op.

[barrettdc1]

First Aid Kit is great, despite Sweden being a cesspool. They're great vocalists, their lyrics are thoughtful and the music is good. If you think they are trash, that's fine. I still dig em :P

I've been a musician for the last 15 years(not saying that as an elitist type thing, people like what they like) and have been around and enjoyed lots of different music. To me, if its good its good. Don't have to be a cousin fucker from alabama to be qualified to play "folk" music. It doesn't work that way.

[Hasbinbad]

u r so ed-G jpn