Album Rating: 3.5
valuable review
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Album Rating: 2.5
Just peeped the review catalog, fairly based reviewer tbh.
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foul loaf of an album/band agreed
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Album Rating: 3.5
Lmao imagine calling the Strokes poser shit while gassing up Green Day and the fucking offspring
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Album Rating: 3.5
Back in my day we listened to REAL punk rock like "Pretty Fly for a White Guy"
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GIVE IT TO ME BABY
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Album Rating: 2.0
Shit album agreed
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Album Rating: 3.0
"Barely Legal"
"I like the connotation and imagery"
ngl I remorsefully chuckled a little at this (presumed) joke - the only time I did tbh, the album is for sure overrated but better than this review, even when taking into account it's 'shitpost status'
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lol yeah the Green Day and Offspring comment threw me too, easily two of the most unabashedly commercial "punk" bands to ever exist. The Strokes were literally a group of rich kids and still have more musical credibility
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Album Rating: 3.5
I do remember this band coming out, think I was at the Reading festival when I first heard about them, and a couple of my friends were really pushing to watch them - it seemed like this instantaneous artificial buzz that had a stronger than usual whiff of media push.
'have you listened to them much?'
'I heard one song - they're going to be big'
'righto then'
Very 'pushed by the NME' in the UK. Was never totally convinced - I'd say the second album felt a little more natural and was more interesting too.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I didn't realise they were privileged, time to drop my rating even further
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Album Rating: 4.0
These, Arctic Monkeys and to a lesser extent the Libertines were the last of the truly hyped bands.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I do wonder if the youth of today experienced similar things with idk The 1975 or something, or if that no longer happens?
I guess word of mouth is a less powerful tool now music is so accessible, or diluted at least. Everyone finding their own path. Maybe it does essentially, just in digital form. I'm out of touch here
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Album Rating: 2.0
QOTSA, white stripes, the hives, the vines, and believe it or not i remember magazines talking about how JET was gonna save rock n roll
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Album Rating: 2.0
white people are just into hip-hop and EDM shit nowadays but i think tame impala, 1975, king gizzoid have reached almost-normie status at this point
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Album Rating: 3.5
‘and believe it or not i remember magazines talking about how JET was gonna save rock n roll’
Yes, this more than anything proved it was the end of an era - that hype must have fizzled quicker than a sparkler in a power shower
In the UK at least they tried to push Royal Blood but they only had two thirds of an album of material to sustain a career and have now as good as disappeared
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Album Rating: 3.5
‘white people are just into hip-hop and EDM shit nowadays’
My brother and everyone he knows wouldn’t listen to guitar music much if at all now - only two and a half years younger than me but that’s really the Gen X vs Millennial divide
I sometimes call it the ‘Instagram divide’ - no one older than me does instagram, near enough everyone younger does.
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Album Rating: 3.5
'In the UK at least they tried to push Royal Blood but they only had two thirds of an album of material to sustain a career and have now as good as disappeared'
that band was so fucking shit and lazy
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Album Rating: 3.5
again very transparent hype
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don’t wanna level too much at the strokes for being victims of the hype machine because of all the similar bands they’re probably the best
Fontaines DC I think have managed to avoid it but between albums 2 and 3 I was getting a bit twitchy
IDLES I think are probably the most recent certainly from a UK perspective
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