What do you love/hate about music right now?
 

Not your own (unless you put anything out). You start, I haven't finished eating my baguette.

I'm enjoying plenty of foreign music at the moment. I think the language barrier lets me listen more to the melodies, and they are good melodies.

I hate how everyone and their grandma has a fucking band right now. I love how paying for music has become, for the most part, optional.

I love that there are so many great drone releases coming out in the meantime since it's that genre that I fancy the most nowadays.

I hate the fact that there's no way I could keep up with all the releases put out by bands I like.

Love - the sheer variety and creativity of some of the better music out there at the moment. The greatness of some writing within the blogosphere.

Hate - The ever-increasing tabloidisation of music coverage in the UK, and the continuing pointless existence of the NME - once a genuinely entertaining and iconoclastic read, now reduced to whoring themselves to the major record labels to get "exclusive" access to the likes of the worthless Coldplay and the vacuous Kylie. Also: Noel "I'm a stupid, bigoted cunt" Gallagher and Jo "yah, I'm so indie OK, I was just saying this to my girlfriend Mary J Blige at the nail salon in Soho" Whiley.

love- tonnes of great music that suprise you when you come accross it

hate- tonnes of shite shite music that pisses you off when you come accross it.

I love to discover new bands thanks to this board.
I hate the "music" on the radio.

love - blues/garage/etc revival
love - what the NME would call "new weird america"

hate - the fact that everything good is relatively obscure to the mainstream public and not getting the exposure it deserves

is that different to what the wire calls new weird america?

is what wire calls new weird america like devendra banhart and ariel pink and shit like that? they all live in LA and take DMT.

i don't know, i don't read any music magazines, i find them all to be pretty shit and very boring

love - there's no restriction on music anymore. Anyone can make it -- which obviously spawns lots of bad shit, but it also means there's tons of amazing shit we'll actually hear thanks to myspace, soulseek, etc. Anyone with a computer can easily record albums now. It's nice. Also, plenty of great labels (Tzadik, Ipecac, Web of Mimicry) still release plenty of innovative records. Never to be taken for granted.

hate - The wrong bands (No Age, Be Your Own Pet, HEALTH, Deerhunter, etc.) usually get all the attention. Not that all those bands are necassarily awful, but there are plenty more amazing bands doing plenty more amazing things that never get the exposure they deserve. It's always been like that, though, and I guess in this age -- when any band is a soulseek/myspace/youtube/last.fm away -- I figured it wouldn't totally 100% be like that.

Also, when I think of new weird america, I try to just focus on cerberus shoal and six organs of admittance and sun city girls. You know, the good stuff that gets lumped in that supposed "genre".

love - I love how younger bands have realized that putting out a vinyl release with a CD-R of the record inside, or a coupon for a free download of the album allows their fans to blast forth their music in any way they so choose, but still get a sweet piece of art in the vinyl.

hate - as always, bleep bloop electronic repetetive music made by some dipshit on his apple computer.

love: there is a higher volume of incredible underground and extreme bands in america now than there ever has been.

hate: there is a higher volume of absolute bullshit bands in america than there ever has been.

the reason those bands are gettin more exposure is because, though theyre so called 'underground', theyre still a helluva lot more accesible than say, rat bastard. i generally think of there being an 'underground', with bands like no age and deerhunter and liars, and then a 'sub underground', where the really wild shit goes down. i mean, i like no age, they make nice enthemic sing alongs, and deerhunter is pretty good, and liars used to be sorta allright, but none of those bands are anything fascinating, and are all pretty easy to grasp. thats why they get all the exposure. its always been like that. in the 80s, you could read a hundred articles about the replacements and rem every week, but prolly would have to break your neck to find something about hanatarash or borbetomagus. underground and sub-underground.

I honestly think LIARS kinda suck ass. Drum's Not Dead is cool but having recently went back and listened to their entire recorded output... wow. Like I've always said, they're awful songwriters (and actually kinda shitty musicians), and the only really talented members left after the first album. They get a lot of credit for "changin their sound" every album -- but tons of bands do that and with a lot more interesting results than LIARS. Also, the singer for that band is just completely awful; he uses the same "chanting nonsense through a distortion pedal" effect on every song. I heard bands like HEALTH called "Liars-like" now. What the fuck does that even mean? LIARS do have some cool songs scattered throughout their catalogue, but their EP's especially are filled with shit. Yet somehow... SOMEHOW... I still have an urge to listen to them, hoping they'll do something amazing. Drum's Not Dead is pretty awesome beginning to end, but I love drums in general and I mainly like that album for the way the drums sound.

Okay, sorry to derail the thread, back on topic...

'drums not dead' was a very cool record. trippy, good to get stoned too, etc.. 's/t' was shit, which ive said many times. 'they were wrong so we drowned' was like 5th rate nowave/noise rock, fuck it. 'they us all in a trench' was cool.

drum's not dead, to me, sounds like they were trying to do a "dark-indie" vision creation newsun (which itself was a more psychadelic "future days"), but it is good.

they were wrong so we drowned, I've always hated that album, there is one song on it that is absolutely genius though... that "I'll take care of you" song..

After I saw Liars live 2 months ago, I can honestly say they're one of the best current live bands around. The show was infernal.