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Belle & Sebastian
Fiery Furnaces
Mercury Rev

cos they're great.

That's about it, really. Why make it more complex than that? They write songs, people enjoy listening to them. If you don't, right on, go listen to something you do.

Quite a lot of these are late 90s/early 00s so I spent my mid to late teens growing up on some of them.

I'm not that excited about the genre anymore either, but instead of listing a bunch of bands you don't like, maybe try using that energy to list some music we should be listening to instead?

idk, do what you want, just tired of these "bands you h8" threads every week.

smith, mercury rev and neutral milk hotel are spot on. the rest I find a bit stodgy. and ash are so vanilla. otherwise i agree - lets get positive.

Just a more indie version of Coldplay.

but lay off Magnetic Fields yeah?

Can you tell me these bands that are similar but much better so I can listen to them plz?

if you'd listed a smaller number, let's say 3, maybe this wouldn't be a useless thread.

you've not really made any kind of point, it's just a list of bands you don't like.

big deal. i don't like pompous 'experimental' bands with nothing to say, however unlike you i dont really expect anyone to care.

lols

meh
yes, complete shite
meh
meh
wrong
wrong
right
yes, absolutely
not even close
you're mental
get the fuck outta here
dems fightin' words!
are you emotionally dead inside?
and, meh.

*worst thread ever*

Kool and the Gang
Disco Tex and the Sex O-Lettes
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Midnight Oil
Steely Dan
Howlin' Willie Cunt
Another Level
The Flying Pickets
Crowded House
S-Express
Doop
Bumsnogger
Christian Death
George Michaels
Cliff Richards
INXS

Surely these bands are just bland and irrelevant/disgustingly twee/really irritating/plain rubbish? Right?

Is anyone here interested in music and willing to engage with the original question?

There is a debate to be had here but everyone's initial response appears to be: 'Oh noes! Someone I don't know on da internetz doesn't like loadz of my fave bands!!! :(((('

I'd just be interested to know if you feel the same way about any other bands that you just don't 'get', who lots of people seem to adore.

They are all fairly similar (in a very broad sense) so maybe you just don't like that sort of music.

Your getting annoyed that people aren't entering a debate but you haven't started one. You just said that they are ''bland and irrelevant/disgustingly twee/really irritating/plain rubbish?'' which is obviously not the case, you just don't like them and I'm guessing any of that kind of indie/pop/folk/rock bands. There is a difference.

With regards to bands I don't like that are very popular here: things like animal collective, wild beasts, dirty projectors, tame implala all that psycadelic/chillwave stuff (that what it's called?) But that doesn't mean I think they're rubbish and I can't understand why people like them.

Your mistake was listing a bunch of excellent/acclaimed bands. If you'd listed some stuff entirly without merit and asked why people liked tham you'd have got a different response.

tl,dr

you've come across as a massive troll and people are responding accordingly.

Death Cab are fucking balls.

Mercury Rev - i was listening to chasing yerself is steam and lego my ego back in the early 90's - at that time those albums were breaking new ground bringing in an indie rambshakle slightly trippy aesthetic that even pre dates pavement, 'chasing a bee' will always remain one of my favourite tracks of my teenage days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztKNzjgshfY

deserters songs also broke new ground and brought the band a much wider audience, cant say i've listened to anything of theirs since then, perhaps because they ventured from the ramshackle youthful vibe and it became to poppy and no longer broke new ground, or beacuse they matured i either still havent or have matured in a different way.

the same feelings can be applied to Deathcab and Weezer, i started listening to deathcab when we have the facts... came out, and they were taking the pavement vibe of there first album and adding electronic elements in a different way to much of the other guitar music of the period and they could hold a slow beat, again i loved photo album and transatlanticism but from then on i've felt that there music became a little more bland/twee and i havent listened to the last 3 as much but that doesnt mean they are not a solid band

weezer blue was massive back in 94, it came out of nowhere and took elements from everywhere and made them there own, pinkerton wasn't bad either.

plus he seems like a cool guy, so yeah....

the rest I don't get either. I don't think there is any rational explanation