Jun 302010
Jesus. If I have to sit around and listen to my friends rave about how good Uncle Tupelo or any of i’s offshoots are one more time I am gonna have to find a new bar to drink at.
Do I like a few Uncle Tupelo songs? Sure. Do I like an Uncle Tupelo album? Not even the greatest hits comps.
So ther you go. That’s your theme for this Top 5. Top 5 that everyone loves but you just can’t get on board with…..
Here are mine:
- The Avette Brothers (too polished)
- The National (everytime I hear them I think, Crash Test Dummies)
- Uncle Tupelo (yawn yawn yawn)
- Jay-Z (really? If this is the best modern hiphop has to offer I’ll live in the past)
- The Beatles (IMO, just a boy band and yet another thing that generation has blown up to be bigger than it deserves…)
Autopsy IV
Part time blogger. Full time hater.
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. Fuck Bruce Springsteen
5.Enough Said
1. Phish
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Lucero (I feel like I am sinning when I say that because I am from Little Rock and the people here worship Ben Nichols like he is a god)
4. The Hold Steady (I’m am really trying to get into them but I just don’t get it!)
5. The Doors
You don’t like Uncle Tupelo, but rave about Two Cow Garage? That’s really really strange. Every time I listen to The Wall Against Our Back I think how TCG must’ve been really digging Still Feel Gone during recording. And the Beatles are a boy band? Come on, that’s just nutty. Revolver and Rubber Soul are probably two of the greatest Rock n’ Roll albums ever recorded, ask Micah!
Back in my ol’ Spotucky Radio days we called what you guy are talkin’ about here “Hillbilly Pretension”. And we were damn proud to be full of it. We’d have exchange’s like this with listeners-
Lestener: Why don’t you play Wilco?
Me: Fuck Wilco, yuppies listen to Wilco in there renovated downtown lofts.
L: What about the Avett Brothers?
M: The only thing they could do to get some cred would be to put out a sex tape with them and 10 girls on stage at the Grand Ol’ Opry.
L: I don’t get The Hold Steady and that guys voice sucks? We’ll I don’t get martyrdom but I don’t go around telling Muslims that Mohamed was a lousy poet.
Notice that my responses have nothing to do with how the band sounds. We just liked being snobby suburban kids form the Northwest full of Hillbilly Pretension.
@Turd Ferguson – I consider them a guilty pleasure really. I’m not proud of it, but I enjoy them none the less.
1) Red Hot Chili Peppers
2) Wilco
3) The Beatles
4) Led Zeppelin (the most godawful act ever)
5) The Dead
d61: Can we be best friends?
1. Jack Johnson.
2. Wilco.
3. Sonic Youth.
4. Zeppelin.
5. All bluegrass music.
Someone please explain to me why Jack Johnson is any different from the guy singing in every other coffee shop down the street.
I don;t know that I’ve ever heard a Jack Johnson song.
What’s been even worse: people (even friends!) turned to me and said: you’d love this guy! wtf? Not only have I been familiar with Jack Johnson for years before they ever ordered their frappuccino while JJ was on the coffee shop’s stereo, I also came to the conclusion that he’s a Satan’s spawn here to lower the standards of the art of songwriting. I hate this guy. I’d put him in the same category as Ben Harper, but I seem to be alone there.