Comments on: Buddyhead Sticks A Pitchfork In It

By: BoomSwaggerBoom

BoomSwaggerBoom — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:12:48 +0000

The concept of “hipster” was invented by the indie kids in an attempt to cover their/our intense self-loathing.

By: Weezy F Baby

Weezy F Baby — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:07:53 +0000

@BradNelson: Brad Nelson, you are my second favorite Nevada native (me being #1, duh)

By: Maura

Maura — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:55:43 +0000

Bruno The Fishing Dog is OTM.

So much of the anti-”hipster” humor I see is just so weak! I, of all people, would love for someone awesome to rise up and write a really funny and scathing critique of this particular culture, but so often it’s either rooted in stereotypes that are years and years old, or it’s so obviously written from a personal “everyone but me sucks” perspective that it becomes completely incoherent, thanks to “I’m cool but wait you’re not” rhetoric like the examples pulled out by other commenters. Does that mean it’s impossible since it’s so sprawling? Maybe!

(also willhackney is otm but shh, everyone likes arguing)

By: Bruno the Fishing Dog

Bruno the Fishing Dog — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:44:47 +0000

@willhackney: don't say that! it makes us look as silly as we actually are!

By: willhackney

willhackney — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:18:32 +0000

It seems obvious to me that, like most music lists, this one was created from the compiled lists of many writers. It was not a single editor’s opinion. This explains very clearly why there are a lot of mainstream hits (everyone is familiar with them, so they’re more likely to appear on individual lists) and artists that have historically been covered by Pitchfork a lot. So what is everyone so angry about? At best, you are disagreeing with a very loosely associated conglomeration of music writers from all over the US. There is no entity. ‘Pitchfork’ has no opinion. In fact, you can find countless instances of Pitchfork writers having totally opposite opinions of the same band.

By: krisskraft

krisskraft — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:53:54 +0000

@slowburn: I don't think they are, which is why I used the word "supposed"...hipster. (that's for you @BradNelson)

By: Kate Richardson

Kate Richardson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:37:30 +0000

I’m ok with bland if Bat for Lashes and Charlotte Hatherley are “ultra-bland.”

By: cassidy2099

cassidy2099 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:18:18 +0000

The most telling section in the Buddyhead article is this:

“Are we meant to believe that the cultural import for the last ten years of music should be found best in homecoming dances and THE MIX one-oh-whatever radio stations? A trip to the goddamn prom? Is that where hip independent music is finding its zenith? Does that mean overly-saturated, obnoxious, retarded-shade-wearing, major label, unit-moving, HIT MAKERS are the new indie? I’m not sure if that’s more legitimate than the old indie or not, but it’s definitely as wack as your Kid A review.”

So this guy hates popular music, LCD Soundsystem, AND Radiohead? His anger over major labels, hit makers and other strawmen peg him as the kind of guy who breaks into tears when subscription inserts fall out of a magazine.

By: NeverEnough

NeverEnough — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:13:00 +0000

I love R. Kelly whole-heartedly and unironically. And Buddyhead rules for describing Limp Bizkit’s entire catalog as being “rape anthems”. HA!

By: BradNelson

BradNelson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:31:28 +0000

@krisskraft: Also, your opinions regarding R. Kelly contain warmed-over, banal, lowest common denominator bullshit. No other explanation. I'll be over here, enjoying my life and stepping in the name of love.