Gus's Top 100 Bootlickin' Nonce Anthems

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While we are still in this transitional period of my listening, I will also give an honorable nod to Green Day's "21 Guns," which I got mercilessly made fun of for listening to in my AP US History class sophomore year. I guess it was leaking out of my Apple earbuds. No part of me is sentimental for this song, or feels any desire to listen to it ever again, and I'm not sure what drew me at the time, but it was a go-to guilty pleasure for about a week. I think it's probably that same combination of happy/sad/epic thing I was talking about earlier with Arcade Fire. Transcendence of the comedy-tragedy binary. Lift your skinny arms to heaven / let yourself by immersed in the all-too-muchness of the world that is being a teenager.

 
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bandz ahoy
Their artwork is absolutely foul, isn't it, forgive me for saying so but seems particularly 00s american in its ugly vulgarity

The song is terrible too but not in the aggressively tasteless way I'd be forgiven for expecting from such absolutely foul philistine vulgarity
 
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the album art for green days 'dookie' is a classic
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Corpsey

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bandz ahoy
My cousin liverpudlian, four or five years older than me, was into green day when I was too young to know about cool music, I remember feeling curious about it and the 'definitely maybe' poster on her bedroom wall

A threshold to a scary exciting world wherein alchopops and fags were imbibed and you might get a nose piercing
 
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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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One of the (many) things I love about this video is the way they go from this tight, closed womb-like space of the elevator out into this vast, cavernous, collisseum-style theater. The family unit incubated and then released into the wild. And how when they enter that dark, open, seemingly endless, you're not sure where it begins or ends—it's just a sea of black, little cellphone lights and camera flashes. A wallpaper of eyes—organic, machinic—in a dark forest. Every once in a while a flash lights up the space and you see it bounce off the walls, like cosmic microwave background radiation imaging. The way the audience parts like an ocean.
 
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Arcade Fire on the other hand, they play brass instruments! String instruments! They wear suspenders! Good respectable Americana by way of Montreal. They aren't doing meth under bridges, they're dancing to Haitian jazz music in their apartment drinking bourbon cocktails
 
Corpsey

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bandz ahoy
One of the peak moments of my life

At Glastonbury festival
At the time very very into dubstep and grime and in particular
Boy Better Know
Joked to my friends 'imagine if Skepta and JME were on somewhere'
Dragged to see Lily Allen in the mud, despair
Took a load of ketamine
Trudging across the muddy fields to see 'Arcade Fire', whoever they are
And suddenly
I faintly hear
Can it be?
It can't be
And see
Can it be?
It can't be!
I run, in wellies, on ket, at full speed towards a tiny stage where, unbilled
Skepta and JME are performing
 
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suspended said:
Arcade Fire on the other hand, they play brass instruments! String instruments! They wear suspenders! Good respectable Americana by way of Montreal. They aren't doing meth under bridges, they're dancing to Haitian jazz music in their apartment drinking bourbon cocktails
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Yes exactly. It's hideous. Totally gone though now, this stuff (like all the good stuff) only lasts for a.moment in time. Some new cultural form that emerges, changes the ground and then collapses
 
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bandz ahoy
Perhaps you'd have to be from suburban nowheresville to understand, Luka

I, for example, was much taken with this song at an impressionable age



Living in a village, such a frigging drag
 
shakahislop

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I could never match the prospect of green day with the reality. It all sounded so exciting in theory but the albums seemed so vacant. But then it was a distant echo of the california punk thing, so of course it was those traces in the DNA which drew the attraction
 
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