Gus's Top 100 Bootlickin' Nonce Anthems

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suspended said:
A lot of these indie/alt type songs—e.g. "Chasing Cars"—are about a teenage boy & girl who create & live in their own lil world. They exit from &. promptly forget the adult world; they promise one another they'll never grow up, never become normies like their parents, etc. "Us against the world." Except that the newfound autonomy—the separation from parents and the responsibility for world-making, world-keeping, world-gardening that comes with it—turns the children into adults.
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Very astute observation.
 
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suspended said:
This is what they looked like, this was the vibe

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yeah. i always hated the aesthetic personally. there's something about it that makes me think of the kind of people who played in the school bands, whose parents paid for them to learn the trombone, somehow taking up the reins of the 90s US indie cool thing. it's not totally dissimilar to the way that skrillex and the gang took up and perverted everything that had been accumulated in the term 'dubstep'. a slight of hand almost. not that i'm saying they did this deliberately or individually, you can see the workings of both uncontrollable cultural shifts and the agglomeration of record label professionals and the media behind the scenes ('no that will be good go and stand in a barn and we'll take photos of you there' 'maybe get a girl or two involved, maybe get that violin player you did that song with to be in the band full-time'). i liked the people making music to look less meek, look more weird, less put together, more of a mess and less normal all said.
 
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shakahislop said:
yeah dead on. i was never into arcade fire. but i do get that there was a load of people who found them relaly exciting at the start. people on the internet still go on about those tiny shows they did in london when the first album came out. people believed in them. it didn't resonate with me but i thought at the time a lot of people loved that thing of this mixed group of quirky not very cool boys and girls swapping instruments and that there were loads of them, totally filling up the stage like some kind of gang. there was a fake community thing to it, they were the community though, the audience was just an audience, but it looked like the promise that you could be part of something like that coz they seemed pretty normal, they didn't seem like lou reed or that remote rock star thing. a couple of mates loved all of that.
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The Libertines' thing was a bit like this with the audience more involved, stories of fans crammed into Pete and Carl's flat, sat on the floor, etc. while they played for them.
 
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I also had an arcade fire phase in highschool. Theyre from the suburbs of houston, which is where I lived at the time, meaning that their album The Suburbs was specifically about me which was pretty cool. I imagine thats how guys from south central LA felt about gangster rap
 
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Snow Patrol are some of the dreariest music of all time. Always hated that vein of stuff. Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Athlete, Doves, Keane. That sort of thing.
 
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linebaugh said:


you get pyschopath vibes from him when he kicks that guy out of the elevator at 1:35
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was going to make a crack at gus saying you can really see the blueprint layed out for him here but hes already linked this same video upthread!
 
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Corpsey

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I feel like this sort of music will appear somewhere on guspended's musical trajectory

Takes him back to doing jello shots on spring break 2014, hot damn what a rush

 
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Corpsey said:
I feel like this sort of music will appear somewhere on guspended's musical trajectory

Takes him back to doing jello shots on spring break 2014, hot damn what a rush
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I did in fact have a very brief interest in Coldplay early in my teens, but it was always the acoustic stuff. "Viva La Vida" was all over the radio at that time, and then there was the whole copyright controversy with Joe Satriani. "Scientist" was my go-to jam, although I could listen to "Yellow" or the rest of Parachutes if I was in the right mood. Chris Martin has a really beautiful voice; you give him half-decent lyrics, a good melody, and then get out of the way—keep it simple, stupid; none of the fireworks bombast—you can't mess it up.

 
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I've probably confessed my infatuation with their second album in here before.

I kept looking for hilarious 'clocks' remixes just now but kept getting waylaid by how much I actually like that song, I kept trying to sneer and instead a sob throbbed in my gob
 
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