Worst hipster bands ever (2 Viewers)

[nlgbbbblth]

Some shit bands on this list.

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

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Aren't all Thumpsters a little bit hipster?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

The majority would be.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

No offence ha

 

[ann post]

'worst ...(insert anything).. ever'
hipster isn't an awful genre in that you can do an awful lot stylistically and really just need to dress like your parents used to and you get to be a hipster. i like about 4 of those bands.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I wish I was more hipster.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I like some of those bands.

Others I do not.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Why does nobody like Jack White?

 

[washingcattle]

It seems incredible to me that neither Animal Collective or Joanna Newsome made the list.

Also throw in Yuck and anything that even mentions surf ever and the list is complete.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Is the idea that these bands are actually shit but have notoriety because hipsters like them?

 

[washingcattle]

The idea is that they are fucking shit and liked by cunts I think.

 

[Deadmanposting]

20. The Black Keys
The guitar-and-drums "blues" punk combo thing wasn't very good even when The White Stripes did it. Still, that hasn't stopped legions of bearded, be-flanneled ersatz blues men from bringing great shame upon their ancestors. The Black Keys stand at the very vanguard of posh cracker blues rock, displaying a lack of authenticity that would make John Fogerty blush. Further, whereas Jack White can actually play, Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach is more concerned with beard grooming and disheveling his hair. -Nicholas Pell

19. TV On The Radio
Sure, TV on the Radio concocted an original aesthetic, but it was so hideous we should be glad no one thought of it before. The supposed "soul"-indie fusion of their early work is walled up by rigor mortis drum machines, off-the-grid falsettos and drab, moaning textures. This wasn't helped by their look-at-us Pixies cover or calling their first record OK Calculator. Band member-producer David Sitek has even managed to make Scarlett Johanssen sound ugly. -Dan Weiss


18. Sleigh Bells
Remember in 2010, when we all lost our collective minds over these guys, with their iPod beats, garage-metal guitars and schoolyard-chant vocals? It was, like, the most original sound ever! Then the second album came out and everyone was more like, "Huh. Actually, this kinda sounds like shit." Also, Alexis Krauss started wearing her own band merch at shows, which you're really only allowed to do if you're Morrissey. -Andy Hermann

17. Fun.
One could argue that fun. is not a hipster band; that the sincerity behind songs like "We Are Young" by default bars them from the title. We argue that having punctuation in their name earns this distinction by default. The stylization is bad enough, but their music rides the very worn coattails of Arcade Fire and Edward Sharpe, the kind of overblown romanticizing of youth and self-destruction that at this point sounds more cliche than "carpe diem." -Andrea Domanick


MGMT
16. MGMT
Exploiting LOLcat culture and synthy, psychedoodling indie-dance for pop crossover was such a good idea, apparently, that MGMT made it all their own. They tried to be meta about it on their big 2008 breakthrough single "Time to Pretend," which is about rocking 'til you die with "models for wives." And a follow-up hit was not to come; the hookless prog meanderings of their difficult second album (2010's Congratulations) made it clear they weren't in on the joke after all. -Dan Weiss

15. Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is the grandfather of crappy hipster bands. Singer and songwriter Ben Gibbard delivers sickly-sweet lyrics in a nerdy, nasally voice; he's overtly "sensitive" while employing nauseatingly twee titles like You Can Play These Songs with Chords. (First released on cassette, of course.) Musically, the songs are flat, resting in an "easy listening" register. Death Cab sounds like what would happen if you stripped Weezer of their power chords and sense of humor. -Linda Leseman

14. Wavves
Wavves sound like a high school outfit exclusively influenced by "ironic" rock bands. Perhaps this is how they've become the darling of the hipster Gestapo at Pitchfork, The Onion AV Club and Spin. (And even, we admit, us.) An early cassette release showed they weren't afraid to use obsolete recording formats, and they've since taken the whole lo-fi "punk" with whining, atonal vocals to levels a million Z-grade Strokes copycats hitherto only dreamt of. Throw in guest appearances from Best Coast and Fucked Up members and you've got a band that are trying way too hard to be off-beat. -Nicholas Pell

13. The Decemberists
The real Decembrists protested Nicholas I assuming the imperialist Russian throne. If you think adding an 'e' (like this band) is an ingenious play on words, you're cordially invited by Colin Meloy's cult for a "free stress test." It includes: 1. Fans who think he's literary 2. Fans who think listening to him makes them literary and 3. Folk-rocking 40-somethings who made the Decemberists certified chart-toppers after Peter Buck and Gillian Welch helped them safely cross over to NPR. Meloy's endlessly nasal prog-folk operas deserve them all. -Dan Weiss



12. Pomplamoose
If you experienced the worst Christmas of your entire life in 2010, it was either because you were too broke to buy gifts, or you encountered one of three Hyundai commercials featuring the Bay Area duo Pomplamoose covering Christmas carols like "Up on the Housetop" and "Deck the Halls." These encounters grew ever more frequent as the holiday season wore on: This compelled some viewers to become infatuated with Pomplamoose, while greater numbers ventured into the streets looking for Hyundais to smash into. Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte, the real-life couple who make up Pomplamoose, seemed to epitomize everything about too-ironic, too-precious, too-self-conscious indie pop. If creating cutesy YouTube videos of club staples like Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and Lady Gaga's "Telephone" made the band an Internet sensation, it also betrayed an annoying propensity for holding the wink a little too long, musical talent notwithstanding. -Mike Seely

I am tired of copying and pasting

 

[Jill Hives]

'worst ...(insert anything).. ever'
hipster isn't an awful genre in that you can do an awful lot stylistically and really just need to dress like your parents used to and you get to be a hipster. i like about 4 of those bands.

I think there are at least 7 solid bands on that list. I like what I like. I really hate the Decemberists though. I have from the first time I heard a song. Fans dressing like pirates and what not circa 2003. After they put out that semi shanty album. Worst shit ever. Stop singing, Colin. Please.

 

[rettucs]

I like about 5 bands on there.

And I am a hipster

and FUCK you all, especially that closet Joanna Newsom lover washingcattle ;

 

[Jerry Twig]

I don't like any of those bands, with the exception maybe of some TV on the Radio, but that's awfully fucking snide journalism. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was hipsterish.

 

[parx]

the early tv on the radio stuff is fucking excellent. check out the album version of the "wrong way" :

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It's savage. rest of the list, yeah, pretty much

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Here's the list:

20. The Black Keys (I only know the tunes from the radio, I like those)
19. TV On The Radio (can't say I listened to them)
18. Sleigh Bells (Who)
17. Fun. (What)
16. MGMT (1st album was really good, got a bit over exposed)
15. Death Cab For Cutie (no thanks)
14. Wavves (names familar)
13. The Decemberists (again I know the name, but not the music)
12. Pomplamoose (???)
11. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (?????)
10. White Rabbits (??????)
9. Beach House (I love the bloom album & want to hear more)
8. The Airborne Toxic Event (good name, don't know em though)
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (Before today is probably my favourite album from the last 2 years. He is very hispter though)
6. Beirut (again I know the name, but not the music)
5. Grizzly Bear (ditto)
4. Bright Eyes (love the song take it easy (love nothing) but don't know much else)
3. Arcade Fire (like a few tunes)
2. tUne-yArDs (????)
1. Bon Iver (haven't listened to him)

I have to investigate some of these if I want to be more of a hipster.

 

[Unicron]

Crystal Castles are not on that list, so that list is wrong.

 

[Cormcolash]

Perfect timing for this thread, just saw this earlier:

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[Cormcolash]

Perfect timing for this thread, just saw this earlier:

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