The 40 Greatest Blog Rock Albums

Pure concentrated nostalgia for anyone who came of age musically in the end of the aughts:

Think I have about a quarter of these albums.
Another quarter I actively dislike.
And about half I’ve never heard (of?).
A list of contrasts.

Might listen to ā€˜The Loon’ later.

the genre we call blog rock

Only works if literally anyone else calls it that too.

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Patiently waits for either mao or jordan to make a ā€œ40 Greatest Bog Rock Albumsā€ thread

Someone’s been going through my CD collection

I just think of most of these through the lense of Pitchfork, tbh

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Yeah I’m not really familiar with the name either but I think the writer defines it well enough in the intro. I certainly get the vibe they’re summing up.

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Think of Oracular Spectacular or Manners or Hospice or Girls’ Album or Everything All The Time – these are either prime candidates for the No. 1 spot or they don’t belong here at all. I won’t go into what disqualified all of the aforementioned, so let’s just chalk it up to ā€œvibes.ā€

Fuck sake

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Oh yeah I know exactly what they’re on about I was simply being deliberately obtuse for the bantz.

Log Brock

Brock Logsner

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*40 greatest Bob Rock albums.

ā€œOf all timeā€, by which we mean the five or six years that Cokemachineglow existed.

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**40 greatest Bob Loblaw albums

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But what years they were

Vibes are all that matter. Not just in blog rock, in all areas of life.

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At least he acknowledges them.

nice to see that they couldn’t meet the criteria of 40 so had to make up 30 fake band names to fill out the article.

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Blog Rock-in’ beats

Will read in full later but completely, utterly done at the Watford regen artist name ā€œMargot and the Nuclear So and Sosā€