Hipster Bands

PTH2009

listening too some hipster bands like Hamsandwich, Arcade Fire, Florance and the machine etc but just cant get into them. It sounds so dull and can just get the image of drunken rich hipster kids dancing around too it

your opinions

Chips Lovell

I think you should listen to music you like.

Boom_Bap

There are some bands and solo artists that I do not like also.

topper75

Agreed. Music peaked with ACDC and GnR.
Hipsters need to understand that.

The_Valeyard

Pretty sure Arcade Fire were around and popular before the hipster subversion

Winterlong

I would not be too worried about the image of the band when it is the sound of the music that is important.

Ubbquittious

The genre known as pussy rock.

LowOdour

PTH2009 wrote: »

your opinions

Really into this new Albanian band who mix Prog Rock with Disco and albanian fiddle...

everlast75

PTH2009 wrote: »

listening too some hipster bands like Hamsandwich, Arcade Fire, Florance and the machine etc but just cant get into them. It sounds so dull and can just get the image of drunken rich hipster kids dancing around too it

your opinions

nothing massively wrong with any of the 3 bands you've listed IMHO, and I am definitely no hipster

miece16

how about this new ginger lad called ed sheeran

riffmongous

There used to be a great instrumental loop of No Cars Go used by RTE on sports programs, (Soccer Republic maybe?) during the roundup sections where they'd show all the goals, I could have listened to that forever

Arcade_Tryer

Arcade Fire are first and foremost an indie rock band.

Their music also happens to transcend genres and attract cross generational listenership.

Atoms for Peace

"Problem is, I suppose friends, that when everyone wants to be alternative, then no one is alternative... and when everyone is original in exactly the same way, then no one is very original..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHNQZwCkd8

endacl

I only like bands I haven't heard of yet. I love bands that haven't formed yet. If anybody else has heard of a band, they're crap.

Rothko

How would any of them be considered a "hipster band"?

heebusjeebus

AF are scientifically not hipster.



http://gawker.com/these-are-the-most-hipster-bands-according-to-scienc-1537004860

biko

That's the great thing about music, there's something for everyone.

Omackeral

endacl wrote: »

I only like bands I haven't heard of yet. I love bands that haven't formed yet. If anybody else has heard of a band, they're crap.

If you've heard of them, they've sold out.

Omackeral

Oh I much prefer Fuck Buttons earlier work.

Dramatik

PTH2009 wrote: »

listening too some hipster bands like Hamsandwich, Arcade Fire, Florance and the machine etc but just cant get into them. It sounds so dull and can just get the image of drunken rich hipster kids dancing around too it

your opinions

Did you try growing a mustache first and then listening to them? If that doesn't work maybe try ignoring the music altogether and just go around telling all your mates that they're great even though you've never actually listened to the whole album through. That's what most people seem to do these days anyway.

blastman

Change Seattle Grunge to hipster...nailed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxSMIN3-WI

seachto7

LCD Soundsystem. Rathmines will be empty for the 3 nights they're playing in Dublin.

endacl

Omackeral wrote: »

If you've heard of them, they've sold out.

If they've heard of themselves, they've sold out.

WoollyRedHat

LowOdour wrote: »

Really into this new Albanian band who mix Prog Rock with Disco and albanian fiddle...

I'm currently listening to this experimental new wave krystorock band from Madagascar.

They're totally mind bending, theyve only releasead a demo cassette and they create their sounds by blowing shells, knocking rocks, riffing on algae and playing bovine sounds double looped over whale noises in the background to give it that edge. I'm probably their No. 1 fan.

Roger Hassenforder

heebusjeebus wrote: »

AF are scientifically not hipster.



http://gawker.com/these-are-the-most-hipster-bands-according-to-scienc-1537004860

Vampire weekend are kiddygirl Rock!

I can genuinely say with regard to one band, I much prefer their early stuff, their latest stuff is sh1te.
Radiohead.

Does this make me a hipster? I don't even like quinoa...

endacl

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Does this make me a hipster? I don't even like quinoa...

I don't like it either. Not since everybody started saying it the new way.

YFlyer

Robert Plant weared hipster pants.

Roger Hassenforder

endacl wrote: »

I don't like it either. Not since everybody started saying it the new way.

There's an old way?

NewbridgeIR

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Pretty sure Arcade Fire were around and popular before the hipster subversion

There were hipsters around when I first started buying records in the early 1980s. It's not a new phenomenon.

Roger Hassenforder

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

There were hipsters around when I first started buying records in the early 1980s. It's not a new phenomenon.

80s you say? hmmm?

Biggest lickspittle on boardz

Mumford and Sons.


That is all.

The_Valeyard

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

80s you say? hmmm?

Epic beard

frag420

My fave music is the sound of a hipster scratching his beard while his cordoroy trousers provide some backing zeeeeep noises as he walks to the local cafe to show of the crap music he made on his macbook...

mfceiling

PTH2009 wrote: »

listening too some hipster bands like Hamsandwich, Arcade Fire, Florance and the machine etc but just cant get into them. It sounds so dull and can just get the image of drunken rich hipster kids dancing around too it

your opinions

Sorry PTH but these bands are as far from hipster as you can get. They are played on 2fm fr gods sake.

Listen to some of the more obscure online radio stations or some of the archived txfm radio shows and that'll be where you hear some of the hipster stuff.

Roger Hassenforder

frag420 wrote: »

My fave music is the sound of a hipster scratching his beard while his cordoroy trousers provide some backing zeeeeep noises as he walks to the local cafe to show of the crap music he made on his macbook...

would a hipster walk or have a wooden fixie unicycle?

buried

Hipsters don't listen to music anymore. It's all folklore & occult field recordings that are the f**king scene now man

mloc123

Omackeral wrote: »

Oh I much prefer Fuck Buttons earlier work.

F*ck Buttons early stuff is good but pretty tough to listen to a full album. I did not realise they were Hipster tho

Biggest lickspittle on boardz

On the subject of hipsters and their 'who-can-take-it-the-furthest-back-to-the-past' obsession, I'm surprised some pretentious knobhead hasn't started wandering around the hipster areas of New York, London, or Paris dressed like this:

Roger Hassenforder

mloc123 wrote: »

F*ck Buttons early stuff is good but pretty tough to listen to a full album. I did not realise they were Hipster tho

I just youtubed them.
my god. it just random crap electronic noise.
pure hipster!




I had to purge with some Rammstein.

buried

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

On the subject of hipsters and their 'who-can-take-it-the-furthest-back-to-the-past' obsession, I'm surprised some pretentious knobhead hasn't started wandering around the hipster areas of New York, London, or Paris dressed like this:

'Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia' ripped the p!ss out of that look so probably won't ever happen.

I'm convinced Daniel Day Lewis's character from 'Gangs of New York' is what started that pasto,moustache/beardy/greasy look off for these lads

mloc123

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

I just youtubed them.
my god. it just random crap electronic noise.
pure hipster!




I had to purge with some Rammstein.

Rammstein are utter ****e tho... listen to some proper metal

Conor Bourke

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

Mumford and Sons.


That is all.

The least hip, most basic band around.

Archeron

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

There's an old way?

Kinnoa. Like if Kia Ora had a sister.

Ipso

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

80s you say? hmmm?

Speaking of the 80's; you know how everyone (those outside of Leitrim at least) laughs at mullets now, most likely in a few years hipster beards will be the same.

frag420

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

would a hipster walk or have a wooden fixie unicycle?

A swift walk fuelled on avocado juice and cronuts...

Ipso

frag420 wrote: »

A swift walk fuelled on avocado juice and cronuts...

Swift is too mainstream, brisk isn't( for the time being).

frag420

Ipso wrote: »

Swift is too mainstream, brisk isn't( for the time being).

They get slower all the time...next year they will be rocking the chilled stroll...

Roger Hassenforder

mloc123 wrote: »

Rammstein are utter ****e tho... listen to some proper metal

says your man that liked that fcukbutton lot!
:P

you
outside..now.

Anesthetize

PTH2009 wrote: »

listening too some hipster bands like Hamsandwich, Arcade Fire, Florance and the machine etc but just cant get into them. It sounds so dull and can just get the image of drunken rich hipster kids dancing around too it

your opinions

Arghus

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

I just youtubed them.
my god. it just random crap electronic noise.
pure hipster!




I had to purge with some Rammstein.

Ah here. Fuck Buttons have never done any harm to anybody. I wouldn't just call them random crap electronic noise either. This is a beautiful piece of music - takes a while to get going but it's wonderous and epic. Honestly there's something wrong with your ears if you can't appreciate something about this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Zx23MpDrM

Sure couldn't we just say that Rammstein is a lad shouting in German? Not that I'd agree with that, I really like Rammstein too.

Irish Guitarist