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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Post by dexteroni on Sept 18, 2012 17:36:58 GMT -5
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.
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.)