totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,520
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I'll check them out.
totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic double-posted this 15 years ago, 39 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,521
You know, I'm not really a fan of Irish jug band music but if I was that Mumford band wouldn't be horrible.
hamfist !!H5dpJbHDI (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,523
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They're one leap backwards for folk music
totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 57 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,524
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Why is that? Also, tell me of some quality folk music.
hamfist !!H5dpJbHDI (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 13 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,539
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They're dumbing it down. Normally I would just ignore them, but they're getting popular and getting nominated for so many awards that they're basically paving the way for a bunch of even more shitty "folk" bands. People eat that shit up and think it's deep when they're missing out on so much great stuff. The only review site that calls them out is Pitchfork, but of course they don't "count" because everyone thinks they're the obtuse "hipster" site. Basically, they're sending a message: "Hey kids, you don't actually have to be intellectual to make folk music, you just need to add a banjo player and quote Shakespeare and people will think you're hot shit!"
As for quality folk, check out Nick Drake, Skip James (if you're into 30's stuff), Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg (he spawned a subgenre called folk-punk which is more of an acquired taste), early Beck (before Stereopathetic Soulmanure, albums like One Foot In the Grave and Don't Get Bent Out of Shape), some Sufjan Stevens, and Neutral Milk Hotel (their first album is acid-folk/fuzz-folk, but In the Aeroplane Over the Sea has a much tamer sound)
totoforhire !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,543
ninjj replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,547
> As for quality folk, check out Nick Drake, Skip James (if you're into 30's stuff), Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg (he spawned a subgenre called folk-punk which is more of an acquired taste), early Beck (before Stereopathetic Soulmanure, albums like One Foot In the Grave and Don't Get Bent Out of Shape),
--some Sufjan Stevens, and Neutral Milk Hotel (their first album is acid-folk/fuzz-folk, but In the Aeroplane Over the Sea has a much tamer sound)--
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ninjj double-posted this 15 years ago, 39 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,548
also don't forget WOODY GUTHRIE LOL
hamfist !!H5dpJbHDI (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,554
ninjj replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,556
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wdym
i just got way tired of neutral milk hotel
so tired of it
so so tired
they're as bad as mumford and sons in my head
they are so big with the faux-hipster group it's not even funny
hamfist !!H5dpJbHDI (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#83,560
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I'm tired of ITAOTS
but not On Avery Island
I think they took more gambles with OAI
and I like their crazy side better