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TheMadcapLaughs 09.09.2009 03:42 PM

i just recently watched the doc. DIG! yesterday and i must say the dandy warhols are pretty fucking boring.

Derek 09.09.2009 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TheFoxBen
Most post-rock bands are fucking boring (except Godspeed You! Black Emperor... and Mogwai maybe).

Godspeed are the worst offenders.

SYRFox 09.09.2009 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
wouldn't it all be basically a rip of Slint/Godspeed?

Mogwai were influenced by Slint for sure, I wouldn't call them a rip though. And yeah a lot of post-rock bands are also influenced a lot by GY!BE, but I think overall Mogwai has influenced post-rock more than GY!BE; maybe because Godspeed have this more uncommon instrumentation, I don't know.

One another boring band: A Silver Mt Zion nowadays. A shame seeing how good their two first albums were ...

SYRFox 09.09.2009 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Derek
Godspeed are the worst offenders.

Wrong

Rob Instigator 09.09.2009 04:17 PM

silver mt zion's 1st two are great stuff.

Derek 09.09.2009 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SYRFox
Wrong

They have a habit of noodling around way too much. I just can't enjoy them.

Saying that though, I listen to bands like Kayo Dot who noodle around just as much. Preference I guess.

dirty bunny 09.09.2009 04:32 PM

I'd really have to try really hard to think of other bands that I find boring. I find almost anything I listen to has some intrinsic value. I thought that was how most people felt about music. I just find so much to like, love, or at least respect about music.

And that's not so say I don't hate some bands. But just because I hate them doesn't mean I don't think they're valid, and if I hate them I certainly don't find them boring.

Savage Clone 09.09.2009 05:24 PM

Sigur Ros are a pretty major snooze-fest.

Antagon 09.09.2009 05:58 PM

Franz Ferdinand
The White Stripes
Green Day nowadays
Foo Fighters nowadays
Kaiser Chiefs

Satan 09.09.2009 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Antagon
The White Stripes


thank you

i used to really like them but they bore the shit out of me these days

atsonicpark 09.09.2009 07:27 PM

Godspeed rule. First 2 White Stripes albums are good.

Most bands are boring, really. Even bands I like. I enjoy Tortoise, for example.. well, some of their stuff.. but they're so fucking boring. I love King Crimson, but some of their shit is boring. And so on and so on.

...Radiohead are just awful. I can't make it through most of their albums because they're so boring. IN RAINBOWS is nearly unlistenable to me.

I haven't mentioned them in a while so I think it's safe for me to say that Markers are one of the most boring bands, if not the most boring, I've ever heard. Their music is so monotonous. For "noise", "freak-out", "psychadelic", "whoa man" stuff, like their early stuff, there's no variations, no changes, and you can fast-forward to any part of any song and it's the same shitty guitar with a competent drummer and a girl going "Ya ya." Just awful. On their newer stuff, where they write 2-chord songs they can barely play, they're probably even more boring. Simply atrocious.

Conrad 09.09.2009 07:39 PM

I'm not going to list anything, cause it would go on forever.

Pretty much, anything I don't listen to is something I find boring.

Plain and fucking simple.

infinitemusic 09.09.2009 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by notyourfiend
exactly.

their song "Our Time" was my fucking theme song way back when.

but they had to buy into the hipster masses, of course


I hate all of their music, but that's just me.

I really love Mazzy Star though!

atsonicpark 09.09.2009 07:42 PM

syrfox, it looked like you were listening to ruben studdard when I first looked.

jerf 09.09.2009 07:59 PM

Dave matthews band.
Nickelback.
Flogging Molly.
Yo La Tengo. I love them, but unless I'm in the mood to chill out and listen to them, they can be kinda boring.

SYRFox 09.10.2009 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
syrfox, it looked like you were listening to ruben studdard when I first looked.

ahah no
rubin steiner is almighty

atsonicpark 09.10.2009 05:59 AM

here's my real contribution to this thread:

<atsonicpark>

Every band is kinda boring, aside from Captain Beefheart.

</atsonicpark>

deflinus 09.11.2009 02:52 PM

cursive
mogwai

i went to these shows with my ex, and i was so bored all i could think about was going home and fucking her

notyourfiend 09.11.2009 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by infinitemusic
I hate all of their music, but that's just me.

I really love Mazzy Star though!


me too, i don't understand satan on this one.

demonrail666 09.11.2009 03:01 PM

clutch

Rob Instigator 09.11.2009 03:05 PM

clutch!! I did not know people still listened to that boring claptrap!

demonrail666 09.11.2009 03:07 PM

A friend (from America) who's a massive fan once tried to get me into them. I even went to see them. I really couldn't see the point at all.

SuperCreep 09.11.2009 03:12 PM

Bright Eyes
Godspeed/EITS and all their boring ass clones
Pearl Jam
Porcupine Tree
The Shins

notyourfiend 09.11.2009 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperCreep
Pearl Jam



ugh

Newfoundland 09.11.2009 03:37 PM

Yo La Tengo
Wilco (at least nowadays)
Brightblack Morninglight
Belle & Sebastian

chicka 09.11.2009 03:42 PM

2 chords - five albums - U2

king_buzzo 09.11.2009 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Newfoundland
Wilco (at least nowadays)


no.

Satan 09.11.2009 04:15 PM

polvo

kierkegaarden 09.11.2009 04:21 PM

pink fucking reason

Newfoundland 09.11.2009 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by king_buzzo
no.



well i really liked a ghost is born. But after that..... (dont have to agree of course..)

lizzarddd 09.11.2009 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Satan
polvo


thanks now im not the only one i got bitched out at a party once for not liking them, and wilco, and elliot smith can shut the fuck up sometimes too,

Rob Instigator 09.11.2009 11:47 PM

fuck wilco and needle in the smith but polvo is god

Sonic Youth Gossip 09.12.2009 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Derek
Godspeed are the worst offenders.

I agree. I really try not to label anything as boring, because bands I think are boring I usually find are quite good later on.

But with godspeed...I got yanqui UXO on vinyl like two years ago, listened once and felt no need to listen to it again (subsequent listens resulted in the same feeling). I simply do not have the time for songs averaging 15 minutes that consist mostly of the same thing. I understand they have better albums, but I don't really feel compelled to rush out and buy them after listening to this one.

loubarret 09.12.2009 05:59 AM

I am a gaint Smith fan, still yeah...it's quit winey music and I can get why it doesn't grab you.

Torn Curtain 09.12.2009 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Satan
polvo


I agree. I don't get the appeal, I think it's just music that goes nowhere for the sake of it.

Torn Curtain 09.12.2009 08:36 AM

I second Wilco.

Torn Curtain 09.12.2009 08:37 AM

Placebo (at least from the third album on).

Sonic Youth Gossip 09.12.2009 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
I agree. I don't get the appeal, I think it's just music that goes nowhere for the sake of it.

shocked and appalled
you must be listening to shapes

Satan 09.12.2009 08:41 AM

as much as i like them, the grateful dead


the smiths

Torn Curtain 09.12.2009 08:52 AM

The Clash.


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