Music you liked more before it was cool to like it.

I'm very guilty of this.

Sometimes, I'll get very attached to a band or an artist that nobody really knows, then when they blow up or get a lot of recognition, I tend to like them less. I'm not saying I'm proud.

Post yours.

aphex twin

  On 4/3/2012 at 7:29 PM, logakght said:

aphex twin

Lucky for you, he's still not that cool to listen to.

it's just a matter of time... skirllax skrillax, steinvord

  On 4/3/2012 at 7:36 PM, jefferoo said:

  On 4/3/2012 at 7:29 PM, logakght said:

aphex twin

 

Lucky for you, he's still not that cool to listen to.

If that's the case, then basically everything I listen to is in the same category.

VHS Head, OPN, Actress, Daytime Television, etc.

I'm with you jefferoo!!! I was terrible for it.

To many too mention I'm afraid (but Metallica, switching to the Black album was a massive fuck you!!) but this was more when I was younger, when you really identify music as being a label of your personality. Nowaday's I don't care.

What you are talking about is the era when you are at school/college/university, that's when it matters. And perhaps when working in your 20's. Since I have immersed myself in my own music universe nowadays I don't really now what the outside world is listening too anyway.

It's just me, my soundsystem, my internet and WATMM

First ones to come to mind...

Flying Lotus - thanks to a blog called "BoardsofElectronica" I was obsessed with Flylo long before he blew up, played the fuck out of the 1983 EP

Dam-Funk - heard on Stones Throw comp back when he was at only 200 listens on last,fm - I thought it was a band at the time, it was hard to find more info...

I saw St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond play at SXSW at free, near empty gigs when they were just unknown artists among the thousands in Austin during the festival, very happy to see both become more popular

Explosions In The Sky - super overrated imo, knew of them in Austin way before they we on the Friday Night Lights Ghostland Observatory - was a dance-punk band that almost hit it big - even played on Conan O'Brien. I kinda liked them then really got annoyed by their hype and later output...all of this was followed by a dismal pitchfork review that called them "Daft Punk for frat boys"

I had friends who watched emo go from underground following with bands like Get Up Kids, Texas Is The Reason, pre-major Jimmy Eat World, Sunny Day Real Estate Appleseed Cast and bands from Deep_Elm_Records, etc into the screamo-lead meme it became in the mid-2000s. Friend dragged me to see Taking Back Sunday and I saw a shitty unknown band called Fall Out Boy play a crap set. I found their rise to popularity hilarious. Felt such frustration myself with dubstep (listened to it from 2006 on...) as did many other WATMMers I'm sure.

LOL @ this thread

So in this thread it's ok to be an elitist hipster cunt, basically?

Bloom my fellow hipsters, bloom...

Coil & Throbbing Gristle. I seriously feel like every hipster in town is now a huge Coil and TG fan all of the sudden. Nothing wrong with it perse, but i feel like most of these 'new' fans don't have any appreciation for the eras of TG and Coil that i love. Yeah its elitsts cunty ill admit but i mean what the fuck why hasn't Journey Through a Body been reissued? Why don't more coil fans heap praise on one of the best ambient albums ever made by a human, Worship the Glitch? IT seems like every single album Pre 'Musik' besides LSD has been completely forgotten.

It's all this more novelty stuff like 20 jazz funk greats instead of 2nd annual report, im fuckin sick of it!

I got WAY into The Pixies around the time they broke up and Frank Black put out his first LP. For years, I was the only person I knew that liked them. Itmademe feel like they were my secret, special, favorite band.

After Fight Club, it seemed like, all of a sudden, everyone knew who they were. Afterward, every time someone said The Pixies were their favorite band or asked me if I ever heard them, I'd get super irritated. The funny thing is, they probably broke up before I ever got into them (although, the first time I heard them was on the Pump Up The Volume soundtrack, which I bought because of their song on it. They were probably still together then), so I was kind of a poser in the first place.

They are still one of my top 3 favorite bands but I don't ever really tell people, because I never want to sound to other people how other people sound to me. That shit runs deep.

There are several other bands like that for me.

ceephax music used to be mysterious and bizarre, now it's more of a superstar DJ in a sweater type of music made only for clubbing

he was an acid butterfly then he metamorphosed into pete tong with a 1970s BBC presenter's beard

James Blake, obviously!

I liked Death From Above 1979 before anyone knew who the fuck they were, it seems most fans these days didn't hear them until after they broke up... Also the Black Keys, I've been listening to them since their first album, now every hipster and their brother owns a copy of "Brothers" and maybe "Attack and Release" while claiming "OMGILUVTHEBLACKKEYS!!!" .... There's a shitton more I'm sure but those two really come to mind, and I don't feel like being a big enough hipster cunt to sit and dwell on it

  On 4/3/2012 at 10:24 PM, Enter a new display name said:

James Blake, obviously!

Ye him. But I think it was more his album that was shitty that turned me off him.

  On 4/3/2012 at 7:56 PM, beerwolf said:

(but Metallica, switching to the Black album was a massive fuck you!!)

I just listened to that for the first time in a long time, and I think it holds up pretty well. I was maybe 10 when it was released, and just getting into music, so for me it was an introduction to lots of cool metal shit rather than a piss in the face of something that was dear to me. I really don't hear anything particularly cringey about it listening back today. It might lack the complexity/rawness of former albums, but the vibe's still there, still dark and heavy. Load's where it started getting iffy for me, but I still kind of enjoy it.

I'm always happy when artists I like get recognition, it gives me hope.

All the music I've ever enjoyed was cool to me the instant I liked it.

Black Eyed Peas

  On 4/3/2012 at 10:42 PM, chassis said:

  On 4/3/2012 at 10:24 PM, Enter a new display name said:

James Blake, obviously!

 

Ye him. But I think it was more his album that was shitty that turned me off him.

Exactly, but he tried really hard to become cool by becoming a sellout.

honestly nothing really.

I used to read Pitchfork and I picked up on the "good" artists long before they grew into staples of the indie genre...

Cryptograms era Deerhunter (still a good album), Sung Tongs and Here Comes the Indian era Animal Collective, EPB/C era Battles, Yellow House era Grizzly Bear, Self titled / "Yeah (crass version) era LCD Soundsystem, Coming on Strong era Hot Chip, Beach House self titled, and so on and so forth

Now that I think about it, it really is a common theme for a groups early records to seem better during the P4K age... the attention seems to corrupt.

Ah yes, floating on top of my parrot dojo I speak with a rash tongue towards the many hipsters who came after me. And I stopped liking all these bands, actually I only really stopped liking Deerhunter.

it seems like the idea of an artist progressively exploring more artistic/abstract realms [beatles, miles davis, etc] kind of fell off during this time. all of the bands I mentioned just got progressively more accessible.

  On 4/3/2012 at 9:16 PM, Awepittance said:

Why don't more coil fans heap praise on one of the best ambient albums ever made by a human, Worship the Glitch? I

it's ok BUT WHERE'S THE BUTTSEX

I, like many other kids whose parents wouldn't buy them Oakley's, wore these in elementary and middle school. Now I bet some of the assholes who gave me shit back then are sporting these because it's suddenly cool.

In other words...CHILLWAVE

  On 4/3/2012 at 10:57 PM, vamos scorcho said:

I used to read Pitchfork and I picked up on the "good" artists long before they grew into staples of the indie genre...

 

Cryptograms era Deerhunter (still a good album), Sung Tongs and Here Comes the Indian era Animal Collective, EPB/C era Battles, Yellow House era Grizzly Bear, Self titled / "Yeah (crass version) era LCD Soundsystem, Coming on Strong era Hot Chip, Beach House self titled, and so on and so forth

 

Ah yes, floating on top of my parrot dojo I speak with a rash tongue towards the many hipsters who came after me. And I stopped liking all these bands, actually I only really stopped liking Deerhunter.

Ditto. Along with Deerhunter I remember following The Field early on too, listening to "Spring Hall Convert" and "Over The Ice" on repeat respectively (thanks free mp3s! ) I feel like I've broken that habit now.

  On 4/3/2012 at 9:27 PM, jefferoo said:

I was the only person I knew that liked them. Itmademe feel like they were my secret, special, favorite band.

I've had this feeling many times, it was a buzz getting into music that not many people knew about, more so pre-internet days. In fact in todays internet age, it's almost impossible.

Those of you throwing the hipster tags at us? Clearly don't have a fucking clue what we mean or what we are talking about. It's got nothing to do with being a hipster you morons.

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