The 40 Greatest Blog Rock Albums

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

the genre we call blog rock

Only works if literally anyone else calls it that too.

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

Log Brock

“Of all time”, 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.

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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Will read in full later but completely, utterly done at the Watford regen artist name “Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos”

It’s like the “Bands no one has thought about for ages” thread has become self aware and tried to write about itself.

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The Scene That Calligraphs Itself

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if no.1 isn’t CYHSY, so help me

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heard of 23
like 14

Beirut as blog rock is one of the wildest opinions I’ve read in at least 3 days

CYHSY woz robbed

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Funny as I was well into so much music then, playing and going to gigs, buying records stupidly and I’ve heard of about three of these. Dunno what my point is. There’s lots of music maybe

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So if I’m understanding this right GADPY stands for Grizzly Bear Animal Collective Dirty Projectors Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Good lord.

Yeah this just sounds like peak Pitchforkcore.

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