After falling in love with āBitte Orcaā by Dirty Projectors around this time last year, I realized I love Pitchfork-era music. These old year-end lists introduce me to so many forgotten indie rock gems. I donāt think Gen Z remembers how tapped in Pitchfork used to be. This list in particular introduced me to āDear Scienceā by TV on the Radio, an energetic and eclectic record that I knew nothing about.
Dec 29, 2024
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I revisited Towkioās .WAV theory mixtape and realized that, unfortunately, Pitchfork really did mould who I am today.
Feb 25, 2024
such a tender and fun time... could just be looped in with that era of indie rock but there was something so distinct about it (twee? sparkly? childlike? maybe that's my own perception of its influence on me at the time?) someone still loves you boris yeltsin, freelance whales, clap your hands say yeah, midlake, islands, rogue wave, throw me the statue ETC!!!! i feel like i'm puking at homecoming bc my ex bf is grinding with my best friend and i am going home to burn a CD about it!!!!!
Dec 4, 2024
I was blessed to come of age at a time in which both physical media and streaming were prevalent. One of my friends/neighbors got sent away to a boarding school run by monks in alaska and gave me his crate of CDās for safekeeping. this led to a lot of classic hipster /mu albums like in the aeroplane over the sea, oracular spectacular, hospice, gorillaz/demon days/plastic beach (i got rise of the ogre from the library and asked my mom what cunt meant bc it was in the book), the suburbs, the reminder, and bands like TMBG, james blake, eels, sleighbells, etc. I also was one of the only people in my school who loved lana del ray, even after her SNL performance. I had a good friend who i bonded with over born to die and after her death, i further deepened my relationship with lanaās music. She also really liked WHY? and alopecia was a big grief album for me.
I also listened to a lot of rap like the first odd future album, XXX, down from the 36 chambers, ex military (found takyon on youtube and it changed something in me) and most of all good kid MAAD city which i had on CD and blasted in the minivan on the drive to school daily.
The most cringe aspects were my deep love of ska punk and folk punk like defiance ohio, AJJ, reel big fish, but especially streetlight manifesto, who I quoted in my senior yearbook. I donāt listen to ska anymore so thatās why I consider it cringe, itās so far from who I am now, but if i hear a streetlight song iāll still know all the words.
Mix CDās also had a huge impact on my music taste. The cool older hipster kids (these are all people who were unimaginably tumblr famous, especially being from a small town) who got together and created the Royal Mixtape Society. It only happened once, but we all created a mix CD and got a copy of everyone elseās in return. This lead to a lot of incredible discoveries, most of all the āButtsā mixtape which has been the soundtrack to core memories of me and my best friends.
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