Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community

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Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!

Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...

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[+] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m actually not cool with isolating lyrics and laughing at them - they don’t own any context outside of the song and shouldn’t be judged outside of them.

That said, I agree the album (and band) is vastly overrated outside the first three tracks which deserve their place in New York rock history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a huge fan of the album and it was immensely influential in turning me into a life long lover of post punk. One of the hosts loves the album dearly as well.

The concept of the podcast, Kitschfork, is for the millennial hosts to reexamine favs from the Pitchfork era without the lens of hype or nostalgia.

The podcast episode goes over the album in song order and plays a snippet of each song. The lyrics are made fun of in the context of the album's concept, and Paul Banks being very pretentious about his writing process and intentionally cultivating a seedy party boy persona for the band that he can't live up to. They also discuss what makes the album good sonically from a musician's POV.

Daniel and Sam seem really chill but Paul and Carlos' interview responses have not aged very well. I'm perfectly fine with the idea of roasting some bad lyrics from 20 years ago when the work is appreciated in its entirety, good and bad.