Am I a hipster?

[Deleted]

At least with regard to my taste in music?

Most recently played artists on my current Pandora station:
Violent Femmes
Black Keys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cake
Beck
Weezer

Just wondering! LOL

[smock]

Yes. Go get yourself a pair of black rimmed glasses, a fedora, and some bright red skinny jeans. You're a hipster.

[catbus]

Nope.
I tease my H about his "hipster" music taste: Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and a bunch of bands I've seriously never heard of.
Your band choices actually lean toward a classic rock sound, IMO.

[Deleted]

I think that just makes you old

Plus, no self-respecting hipster would listen to a band that she couldn't say she discovered before anyone else did.

[h]

I listened to most of the above list circa 1995, and I am certain that I was decidedly unhip at the time.

[Deleted]

If it was 1993, then maybe.

In 2012- hahahaha.

[Deleted]

A hipster would not be caught dead listening to RHCP.

NEVER.

[Deleted]

I have heard of all of those bands (and listen to many).

Therefore, you are not a hipster. If you were hip, it was a few years back.

[catbus]

Sept 18, 2012 16:07:39 GMT -5 @iheartcosmos said:

If it was 1993, then maybe.

In 2012- hahahaha.

I almost said the same thing! Well, except for The Black Keys, who weren't around quite yet. 1993 listening to Weezer, Cake, or Beck? Super hipster. 1993 listening to RHCP or Violent Femmes? Very mainstream.

[zombiemuse]

Sept 18, 2012 16:01:37 GMT -5 catbus said:

Nope.
I tease my H about his "hipster" music taste: Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and a bunch of bands I've seriously never heard of.
Your band choices actually lean toward a classic rock sound, IMO.

This. I listen to these bands (love Fleet Foxes) and think your list is more classic rock.

Although, when I first read your list I saw "Black Eyed Peas" and not "Black Keys" and wondered when they became hipster.

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Sept 18, 2012 16:09:28 GMT -5 catbus said:

Sept 18, 2012 16:07:39 GMT -5 @iheartcosmos said:

If it was 1993, then maybe.

In 2012- hahahaha.

I almost said the same thing! Well, except for The Black Keys, who weren't around quite yet. 1993 listening to Weezer, Cake, or Beck? Super hipster. 1993 listening to RHCP or Violent Femmes? Very mainstream.

Hipsters didn't exist in 1993! It was a different scene back then.

[casmgn]

Definitely not. Hipsters only like bands no one but other hipsters have heard of. Once bands become even semi-mainstream, they are no longer hipster-approved.

[iheartbanjos]

If it's bands that people have heard of (which the ones you've listed are) then nope.

You can put your pack of camels, can of PBR, and wayfarers away.

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Sept 18, 2012 16:11:09 GMT -5 zombiemuse said:

Sept 18, 2012 16:01:37 GMT -5 catbus said:

Nope.
I tease my H about his "hipster" music taste: Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and a bunch of bands I've seriously never heard of.
Your band choices actually lean toward a classic rock sound, IMO.

This. I listen to these bands (love Fleet Foxes) and think your list is more classic rock.

Although, when I first read your list I saw "Black Eyed Peas" and not "Black Keys" and wondered when they became hipster.

Black Eyed Peas were actually kind of alternative when they started out.

[catbus]

Sept 18, 2012 16:11:19 GMT -5 v said:

Sept 18, 2012 16:09:28 GMT -5 catbus said:

I almost said the same thing! Well, except for The Black Keys, who weren't around quite yet. 1993 listening to Weezer, Cake, or Beck? Super hipster. 1993 listening to RHCP or Violent Femmes? Very mainstream.

Hipsters didn't exist in 1993! It was a different scene back then.

I know, I know! Believe me, the anachronism of that statement bothered me. By 2012 standards, a person listening to those bands in 1993 would be a "hipster."

[h]

Sept 18, 2012 16:14:37 GMT -5 catbus said:

Sept 18, 2012 16:11:19 GMT -5 v said:

Hipsters didn't exist in 1993! It was a different scene back then.

I know, I know! Believe me, the anachronism of that statement bothered me. By 2012 standards, a person listening to those bands in 1993 would be a "hipster."

Or a really dorky 16 year old kid at debate camp with semi-decent taste in music.

[phunluvin82]

Sept 18, 2012 16:05:49 GMT -5 v said:

I think that just makes you old

Plus, no self-respecting hipster would listen to a band that she couldn't say she discovered before anyone else did.

LMAO...exactly this. If we've heard of any of the bands, then, no, not hipster.

[ejpint]

Sorry, if you're going to try for hipster, you need weird shit that, like, NO ONE else has even heard of. The only way a hipster could get away with listening to something mainstream would be if they were being, you know, IRONIC.

I think with that playlist, you're just a thirtysomething listening to Sirius XM 90s on 9.

[zombiemuse]

Sept 18, 2012 16:14:17 GMT -5 v said:

Sept 18, 2012 16:11:09 GMT -5 zombiemuse said:

This. I listen to these bands (love Fleet Foxes) and think your list is more classic rock.

Although, when I first read your list I saw "Black Eyed Peas" and not "Black Keys" and wondered when they became hipster.

Black Eyed Peas were actually kind of alternative when they started out.

True, but I still wouldn't go as far to consider them hipster.

[Deleted]

No.

[SJ]

No

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Sept 18, 2012 16:13:00 GMT -5 casmgn said:

Definitely not. Hipsters only like bands no one but other hipsters have heard of. Once bands become even semi-mainstream, they are no longer hipster-approved.

Touche. I guess hipsters don't listen to Pandora. Or is there hipster indie music on Pandora?

Funny thing is, I've considered purchasing both black rimmed glasses and bright red skinny jeans. Never a fedora, though.

[Deleted]

Not even close.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Sept 18, 2012 16:11:19 GMT -5 v said:

Sept 18, 2012 16:09:28 GMT -5 catbus said:

I almost said the same thing! Well, except for The Black Keys, who weren't around quite yet. 1993 listening to Weezer, Cake, or Beck? Super hipster. 1993 listening to RHCP or Violent Femmes? Very mainstream.

Hipsters didn't exist in 1993! It was a different scene back then.

They totally did, but they were just called nerds then.

[Deleted]

Just because the term didn't exist in 1993 doesn't mean the people didn't.

[Deleted]

You fail hipster. Go paint a bird on something & try again...

[atouchofklasse]

Sept 18, 2012 17:17:43 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

You fail hipster. Go paint a bird on something & try again...

Omg. Lol. I'm not laughing at the OP but at this comment.

Btw we moved to a new town without hipsters and we have no good coffee shops. Sad face.

[zombiemuse]

Hipster music can be found on Pandora. That's how I discover a lot of my "hipster" bands.

I own red skinny jeans AND a fedora. Does this make me a hipster?

[dexteroni]

Ha! No. You're "alternative," which is what it was called when those bands were first on the scene. If you were a hipster you would be listening to bands that haven't even been released yet. And when someone posted "what are you listening to now?" you would reply "you haven't heard of them." But honestly? If you were a real hipster, you wouldn't be on GBCN. lol.

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Sept 18, 2012 17:15:14 GMT -5 @iheartcosmos said:

Just because the term didn't exist in 1993 doesn't mean the people didn't.

But the "alternative" people back then were different, right? I like to think (maybe because I was young and sort of kind of one of them) far less godawful?

Or it could just be that I've gotten old enough that I have no tolerance for this shit.

But at any rate, every time I go to Williamsburg I want to do violent things to others and to myself in a way that the idea of going back to 1993 and hanging out with those people doesn't conjure up.

(And sadly, two of my closest friends now live in Williamsburg so I think the day on which I finally snap can't be that far behind.)