10 Haikus About 2007’s Most Overhyped Albums
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam
Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip
At arcade in New Jersey
Let Panda roam solo.
Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
Right now in heaven
Toole Composes Lengthy Indictment
Against Neon Bible.
Arctic Monkeys-Favourite Worst Nightmare
Least favourite nightmare
Listening to this on repeat
For Infinity.
Battles-Mirrored
Battles are Jam Band
For Smart Kids, Pass the Atlas
To the left hand side.
Blitzen Trapper-Wild Mountain Nation
Dead and Pavement Mix
Worse than tie dye and flannel.
Pick one. Weed or whine?
Bloc Party-A Weekend in the City
The Weekend Goes Bad
Cocaine Is Had Kele Gets Sad
Repeat thirteen times
Dan Deacon-Spiderman of the Rings
“My Generation”
As written by a neon elf
People try to put us down?
Lil Wayne-Da Drought 3
Stop the mad lib rhymes
Release Carter III already
Quit with the syrup.
M.I.A.-Kala
Rip off New Order
Combat Rock and Bollywood
Too much for hipsters.
Patrick Wolf-The Magic Position
Dandy carousel
But the magic position
is the off switch.
If you aren’t a fan of film title quizzes and you’d be more interested in finding a quiz that is more about the music you’d find in movies or other places then going online to find such a quiz isn’t a bad idea. You could even find some art quizzes if you’re not too into music or movies.
Stumble It!
December 13th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Hahaha. Wow. That was the perfect way to end the evening.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Wow. Harsh. Until reading this and your top 25 songs I never realized how much our tastes differ. (Which, of course, means that you’re wrong.)
December 13th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Your hater haikus are so much better than mine. Teach me, great master…
December 13th, 2007 at 10:49 am
like it, but must disagree on MIA and Arcade Fire.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Assassinating The Arcade Fire, Battles, and MIA in the same blog post is like taking out the 2007 Hipster’s Lincoln, FDR, and Kennedy in the same car bomb attack.
Hilarious and inspired.
(but I still love Neon Bible *cry*)
December 13th, 2007 at 11:24 am
not to defend weezy fucking bay bay or being Captain Save-A-Haiku, but the syllable count for da drought 3 is off.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Syllable for many of these are off.
And Animal Collective are untouchable in my books.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
jeffrey’s words cut deep
but not as deep as deserved
craig finn: record soon
December 13th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Bloc Party & M.I.A…..
But…
I loved those CDs!
YOU ARE DEAD TO ME NOW SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
YOU DICK. agreed on most. i do like the arcade fire and don’t hate the bloc party. i was thinking about skipping my top 10 overrated hipster cred albums this year, but you seemed to have so much fun with it, i might have to reconsider.
December 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
God, I hate MIA. Jeff is there any link you can send me with people trashing her? Also, how did she rip off New Order?
December 13th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Thanks for the kind words guys. Duke, a year isn’t complete with your overrated hipster cred list.
And for those who pointed out that yes, I can’t write a haiku, this is why I’d like to point out why I don’t do haikus for a living.
Lick-The melody for “Paper Planes” is practically identical to “Blue Monday.”
December 13th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Sorry, I meant “20 Dollar.”
December 13th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I kept asking myself, “Why am I supposed to ‘love’ this crap?” Thanks for answering for me and not giving in to the hype.
These bands aren’t all that bad - I do like some of their songs - but on the other hand, they’re just not that great.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Jeff,
I very much need your help. You see I am a hige fan of Wu Tang, I pretty much own all their stuff, but I am having trouble with Only Built For Cuban Linx. I am having trouble deciphering some of the slang. I am very much digging the album, I would just like to be able to understand every line ya know? So please give me your Wu-Philosophy when it comes to listening to this album if you have a chance. You’re the expert, so I figured I’d ask you.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Read the Wu-Tang manual. It’s like the Game Genie.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Great list but WHERE THE HELL IS DEERHUNTER?
December 14th, 2007 at 9:35 am
interesting that many of these would also qualify for the top ten worst album covers of 2007.
(i swear that strawberry jam picture came out of my roommate’s med school book).
December 14th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I love you, man.
That Animal Collective album is fucking great, though.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
The greatest hipster crime is acting like you’re above the very hipsterness you wallow in. The only difference between M.I.A. and Broken West (other than she’s awesome and they’re who again?) is that one got hyped to death while the other was ignored. I mean, playing the contrarian is fun, but it’s also…overrated!
Sucka!
December 14th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
PS: just because M.I.A. samples the Clash and New Order she’s lame? Um, hello? Anyone with the smarts to sample “Straight to Hell” for a track should be lauded. Oh wait, it was! I forgot–you’re playing the villain in this one. And the last one. And the one before that. Someone’s getting predictable!
December 14th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Jordan Catalano, first of all stop acting like Brian Krakow.
Second of all, relax. I like the MIA songs I mentioned. Why? Because obviously I like The Clash and New Order (or did you not notice the Joe Strummer picture in the banner). Did I find her album as good as those tracks? Not really. Although “Jimmy” is kind of the jam.
That’s why the post is called “overhyped.” I didn’t think it was as good as everyone made it out to be. Taste is subjective. Deal.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
i like to imagine that in the mythical second season of “My So-Called Life” that Brian Krakow date-raped Angela Chase and got Rayanne preggers before skipping town on an MIT scholarship.
Relax? Like Frankie said, I don’t do it. Must antagonize the antagonist! We all need a hypocrite to point out the hypocrisy of others. I think I’m just bored and bummed that the only band I can get excited about anymore is a bunch of old-ass Brits singing about vikings and shit. I mean, I wish I could get jazzed about a bunch of moaning bores like the National, but I was born without the “indie” (i.e. wuss) gene. Huzzah!
December 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Still waiting to see what’s so great about Dan Deacon. He and that tour mate of his. Greg Gillirl Talk or something (?) I don’t know.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:26 am
the bad part? all of this is spot-on. even the albums i liked.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
bad acid trips are fucking awesome, i want to go to new jersey now.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
oh and yeah, strawberry jam did steal a lot of person pitch’s thunder, i remember when it came out ALBUM OF THE YEAR ALBUM OF THE YEAR! but as soon as the jam came along i don’t even know that anyone remembers panda bear.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
No LCD Soundsystem?? I’m pretty sure the only person who actually liked Strawberry Jam was me, though. Even Pitchfork went back to rocking Person Pitch after their little 9.3 surprised no one.
December 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
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