Why did this never become /mu/core?

only room for one shedcore

>>126886980 (OP)
Hard to say, but Happy is one of those great songs in this genre. Did you hear this one? It seems obvious that the song Fade was originally meant to be on the next Wrens album. Just about lives up.

The Meadowlands is something you get when you're a bit older. It doesn't reflect the teenage/college experience at all, and that's the age range that established /mu/core back then.

>>126887237
Exact opposite for me, loved it in college and grew out of it.

>>126886980 (OP)
What are you talking about? It was mucore. Just wasn't memed

>>126886980 (OP)
/mu/ has horrible taste and was busy knobslobbing radiohead

They could’ve been so mich bigger if Charles wasn’t an autist retard

Best 03 record probably and one of the best 00's record in general
answering your question most of mu core is second rate
>>126887040
Pretty good record.
Best: queens
runner up: better love, hope

The Meadowlands [Absolutely Kosher, 2003]
I keep waiting for the moment when I need to put this away for a while, and it keeps not coming. Instead, four years of takes and tweaks build and cohere--pealing and shifting, wafting and pounding, sinking into babble and soaring into, to choose my very favorite, the bright intro, garbled vocal, and guardedly exultant chorus of "This Boy Is Exhausted." The theme is failure, take it or leave it--not just failure to get rich and famous, which does rankle, but failure to love. But their labors imbue both aging-alt whines with excitement and dignity. Anybody who can create a record like this deserves more than 13 thou a year. And anybody capable of "13 Months in Six Minutes" deserves another shot at a woman too good to take for granted. A

bump

>>126891793
christgau shited on anco and lcd soundsystem. time prove him right

>>126887237
Failing to live up to lofty ideals you had as an idealistic 20 year old - the album.

I also get that vibe from Codeine - D

>>126886980 (OP)
Man, what could of been after this masterpiece

>>126891793
The House That Guilt Built into Happy is one of the best album openings of all time, it gets me every time.

>>126895786
Yeah that hits, hard, so hard
For me it's Faster Gun
And that brilliant transition from Ex-Girl to Per Second to that static fringe of Everyone Chooses Sides, always gets me going. Love this album

>>126886980 (OP)
best: faster gun
runner up: she sends kisses, happy

>For mysterious reasons, Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher, 2003) was surrounded by hype only comparable to Radiohead's. Their "emo-pop" had suddenly become fashionable. By reducing the worst excesses of lo-fi pop (read Guided By Voices and Pavement) and the most trivial aspects of neo-pop (read Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control), and by finding a middle way between the Pixies and the Kinks, they had reinvented punk-pop for the new generation (This Boy Is Exhausted, Faster Gun, and the most Kinks-ian of them all, Such A Pretty Lie). They sometimes settle for mildly aggressive power-pop ditties such as Hopeless and Everyone Choose Sides, and occasionally sink in the molasse of yawn-inspiring ballads (Thirteen Grand). The bombastic Happy and the lengthy 13 Months in 6 Minutes are good examples of how tedious their emo-muzak can get; while Per Second Second is a tense rubber band of a song that weaves a surreal tribal dance a` la Pere Ubu with verve a` la Beach Boys. Boys You Won't Remember shows how they could best spend their energies: imitating the anthemic country-rock of Neil Young. Not a complete disaster, but certainly the most over-rated album of the year.

>>126896364
Insufferable
And yet keeps the thread moving along so
https://youtu.be/pgCAYXJvYS4?list=RDpgCAYXJvYS4

>>126896737
How about try refuting anything he said lol

>>126897153
Yeah I'm not reading any of that. The first 14 words were trivial enough plus that picrel, nah no fucking way

Any other anons see The Wrens live? I saw them in Denton, TX around 2007. Also saw Charles when he toured with Okkervil River not long after that. What a time to be alive

>>126897174
fantano is the other way round

>>126896364
He can go fuck off and listen to Lil Peep

>>126897174
>>126897424
Seething

>>126887237
This was my exact experience. Listened to it as a teenager and thought it had a couple great tracks but didn't love it. Relistened to it in my late 20s and it hit like a ton of bricks. A top 3 indie record for me.

>>126897153
>refuting
>Dude I disagree with your opinion lol

>>126887237
>>126895470
certified burnout music. anyone got more?

>i'm way past college
>no ways out
>no back doors
>not anymore