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The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List

nyodeneD [Edit] [Delete] 56 replies 13:41, 26 August '12

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php

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  • ahaha that's so shit

    happypenguin | 26 Aug '12, 13:44 | X
    this'd this
  • list

    fiddygent | 26 Aug '12, 13:45 | X
  • Poor article

    poor choices, surely they should've looked for the bands with the most ridiculous hipster qualities (style, name & sound) as opposed to bands embraced by Hipsters... that'd be a fun article. As it is it's just a list debunking lots of obscure guitar bands.

    Yesiamaduck | 26 Aug '12, 13:51 | X
  • *shrugs*

    shucks | 26 Aug '12, 13:58 | X
  • Hmmm

    Some of those bands are ace - Grizzly Bear, Interpol and Bright Eyes.

    Also you have some strange choices - Stone Roses ?? Reverend and the Makers ??? The Enemy ?!?!

    I agree with Aerial Pink's BUT you should have included The Dirty Projectors..........

    portoman | 26 Aug '12, 13:58 | X
    • the whole thing is just a fucking troll

      to generate views. most of the bands they are slagging they admit to praising elsewhere on their site.

      japes @portoman | 26 Aug '12, 14:02 | X
      this'd this
  • I'm starting to wonder if the backlash against hipsters

    is our generation's disco sucks sort of movement.

    Not that I don't find the fashiony hipsters completely ridiculous but dunno if it's that far away from lager swilling fratboys who listen to brostep sneering at music they deem more effeminate.

    Also obvious troll is obvious, though the MGMT attack did annoy me cos not a target really anymore and that second album is way better than the ultimately pretty shallow first album

    Tiresias42 | 26 Aug '12, 14:20 | X
    • I can see truth in this

      Also the fact that the word, along with "pretentious", seems now to used largely to refer derisively to people who happen to like things.

      mute-branches @Tiresias42 | 27 Aug '12, 23:32 | X
  • this was a lot less funny that i thought it might be

    beautiful_balloon | 26 Aug '12, 14:26 | X
    japes and AGardenOfShit this'd this
  • So weak, every one of those bands are way too big to be considered hipster

    ThingsThatFly | 26 Aug '12, 14:32 | X
  • I always thought The Airborne Toxic Event were named after farts

    Icarus-Smicarus | 26 Aug '12, 15:16 | X
    AfraidOfOwls this'd this
  • you can't say someone has good taste merely by what they piss on

    furio @Pigfoot | 26 Aug '12, 17:17 | X
    • Haha

      Twerp

      wonton @Pigfoot | 27 Aug '12, 11:34 | X
      • Some of those bands I really like

        Some of those bands I really don't like
        Some idiot is trying to think he's funny
        Other idiots are getting too worked up over it
        The world spins

        Annoying_person | 26 Aug '12, 16:51 | X
        • bait!

          traffic generating bollox

          bombshop | 26 Aug '12, 17:04 | X
        • I'm actually quite impressed by this

          Quite a lot of bland indie sacred-cows killed in this list. Writer tries a bit too hard, but a lot of good shots there.

          kostenurky | 26 Aug '12, 17:07 | X
          • http://i.imgur.com/5Zq0o.gif

            CrispinAlexander @kostenurky | 26 Aug '12, 17:15 | X
            furio, rainmaker, and Dinohead86 this'd this
          • yeah but they are all just big indie bands, unless hipster now just means any indie band then they have massively missed the mark, surely if hipster is going to be used as a criticism it should be applied to stuff that has little merit and is just championed for obscurity/newness

            ThingsThatFly @kostenurky | 26 Aug '12, 17:53 | X
            furio this'd this
        • The Airborne Toxic Event

          good tagging.

          yeah, I'm not even going to read this. I mean, I will, but officially I'm going to disregard it totally.

          incandenza_ | 26 Aug '12, 19:38 | X
          • oh right, they're on the list

            I just thought...the guy's username...nevermind.

            incandenza_ @incandenza_ | 26 Aug '12, 19:46 | X
        • This is really badly written

          It offers nothing, you don't even define what you mean by hipster. It isn't funny or interesting, it doesn't offer any insight or point of view. I can't believe how many people it took to write this, and how many comments it attracted. All those bands have infinite more value than you

          beautiful_balloon | 26 Aug '12, 20:23 | X
          mute-branches this'd this
        • The girl in Beach House looks a bit like icwar.

          DaddyorChips | 26 Aug '12, 20:49 | X
          • * fiiiiine

            mute-branches @DaddyorChips | 27 Aug '12, 13:07 | X
            DaddyorChips this'd this
        • from what i understand hipster to mean

          yeah i'd say they pretty much got all the bands that i'd consider hipster in there. Except polica. They needed to include polica.

          still_here | 26 Aug '12, 22:40 | X
        • They've got it all wrong

          The most hipster band is The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

          in_limbo | 27 Aug '12, 03:37 | X
          this'd this
        • Dumb list, but glad they included Pomplamoose

          Those fuckers are worse than the Holocaust

          blisters | 27 Aug '12, 05:22 | X
          wonton this'd this
          • Whoa, didnt mean to this this

            Holocaust reference, classy.

            wonton @blisters | 27 Aug '12, 11:45 | X
            • Oh please

              blisters @wonton | 27 Aug '12, 12:33 | X
              • You don't even need to be offended by it

                It's just a very poor/overused insult.

                wonton @blisters | 27 Aug '12, 18:10 | X
            • ^

              Too soon.

              Zapsta @wonton | 27 Aug '12, 21:16 | X
        • Isn't it just 20 writers

          wonton | 27 Aug '12, 11:48 | X
          • ...

            writing about the 'emperor's new colthes' bands they dislike? Why does that justify a whole article?

            wonton @wonton | 27 Aug '12, 11:50 | X
        • yeah

          hatred for those multiclick list bullshit articles.

          justanothersheeldz | 27 Aug '12, 13:07 | X
          japes, andyvine, and ithica this'd this
        • Mummy, what's a hipster?

          sean | 27 Aug '12, 13:15 | X
        • 7 pages?!

          PAGINATION MUST DIE!

          sean | 27 Aug '12, 13:16 | X
          • have you ever tried to browse photos on this site?

            fuck_this_band @sean | 27 Aug '12, 14:22 | X
            justanothersheeldz, Zapsta, CrispinAlexander, and ma0sm this'd this
        • A lot of these are just mainstream indie bands.

          How is that hipster? The Black Keys headlined Coachella for fucks sake.

          aactv | 27 Aug '12, 13:57 | X
        • Beach Trip-Hop

          A wash of down-tuned Baltimore neo-soul, it's trip-hop for people who never knew Massive Attack and post-rock for those who missed Stereolab; in other words, derivative electro mush. The band's moniker is also misleading. As Linda Richman might say, they're neither about beaches nor house music.

          cronenberg | 27 Aug '12, 15:31 | X
          • http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php?page=4

            cronenberg @cronenberg | 27 Aug '12, 15:31 | X
        • Wow.

          A list of 20 bands most of which no self discerning (haha) Hipster would be caught dead listening to on his vintage 1986 Walkman. Death Cab for Cutie?! Arcade Fire?! Bon Fucking Iver?!
          Quick Hint: if it's won a Grammy, it ain't Hipster.

          These people have no fucking idea what they're writing about. I don't even know why the article exists. I don't even...

          Yvash | 27 Aug '12, 20:10 | X
          • calm down, hipster

            milkyalmond @Yvash | 28 Aug '12, 15:17 | X
            • oh-HOH

              I see what you did there.

              Yvash @milkyalmond | 28 Aug '12, 17:14 | X
        • bit of a try hard article

          soapy | 27 Aug '12, 21:02 | X
          • Did anyone check out their 20 Worst Bands article?

            thedamnedear | 20 Oct '12, 10:55 | X
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