This week we published our second annual list of the 40 Best New Bands of the past 12 months. Everyone agreed it was flawless: thanks for the unanimous feedback! Elsewhere we dissected new singles from Coldplay, Justice, Wavves. Ryan Adams, James Blake, Florence & The Machine and Thom Yorke (THE Thom Yorke). Finally, given that this week’s sexiest nontroversy goes to Lana Del Rey Gate, it’s only appropriate that today’s Shut Up, Dude doubles as a goodbye party to rabble-rouser theduchessofthomyorke.
THIS WEEK’S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS
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Coj | Sep 13th | Score:14 |
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That was actually a re-release. THIS is the much anticipated, and inevitably disappointing, second comment. |
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djfreshie | Sep 9th | Score:14 |
| Posted in: Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments | |||
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Tucker Cotter | Sep 9th | Score:14 |
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IF YOU LIKE DAS RACIST SO MUCH, WHY DON’T YOU MARRY THEM????? |
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| Posted in: Das Racist Relax Premature Evaluation | |||
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Jason Martinez | Sep 9th | Score:16 |
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I’m on the internet ’cause I’m an internet thug. |
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MikeyObviously | Sep 9th | Score:18 |
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djfreshie | Sep 13th | Score:19 |
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I liked you better on your first comment. The second was kind of derivative. |
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Pine Straw | Sep 13th | Score:19 |
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40 New Bands?!?? Dang it, I’m still trying to get into the Big Pink. |
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| Posted in: Stereogum’s 40 Best New Bands of 2011 | |||
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Jon Gier | Sep 12th | Score:19 |
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Lupe Fiasco’s going to be rapping over this in a few months, guaranteed. |
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| Posted in: Coldplay – “Paradise” | |||
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memoryboy | Sep 9th | Score:22 |
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shut up, dude. |
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| Posted in: Das Racist Relax Premature Evaluation | |||
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Michael Robenalt | Sep 9th | Score:34 |
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“I don’t like Carter 4 because I think it was unsatisfactory as a piece of music” - everyone who doesn’t like Tha Carter IV |
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THIS WEEK’S 5 LOWEST RATED COMMENTS
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theduchessofthomyorke | Sep 12th | Score:-16 |
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Judging by your pic and the fact all your posts are about rap and r&b, I think you mean “wiggered hipster drivel.” |
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| Posted in: The Blueprint Turns 10 | |||
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theduchessofthomyorke | Sep 9th | Score:-17 |
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(j/k I haven’t even heard the album lol) |
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| Posted in: Das Racist Relax Premature Evaluation | |||
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theduchessofthomyorke | Sep 12th | Score:-22 |
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“The game needed him then more than it needs him now, but The Blueprint opened a door. Luckily, many others and I walked through into previously-unexplored music terrain and never looked back.” Really? If you ask me, the game never needed him, I sure as hell don’t need him now and I wish the door stayed closed. Take yourself and others on your exploratory terrain walk and go get lost. |
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theduchessofthomyorke | Sep 12th | Score:-23 |
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Also, I gotta get this off my chest: Stereogum has become too rap and hip-hop heavy. My guess is that it’s better for the site’s traffic and revenue so you ditched covering the good music and have opted for the obligatory wussified hipster dribble on top of it. What it needs is for someone who has the balls the size of Brandon’s to come back and get things back on track. We don’t need metal coverage, but seriously, ‘Gum, grow a pair or else this site will just be about Drake, Lana Del Botox and a random hyped up shoegaze pop band. |
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| Posted in: The Blueprint Turns 10 | |||
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ddogdunit | Sep 9th | Score:-23 |
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“n his spare time, Himanshu Suri, who is genuinely one of the nicest, funniest, smartest dudes I’ve known since I’ve been in New York, supplied one of Stroked‘s most memorable cuts. (Disclosure: he’s a friend of the site, and has contributed eloquently).” gross. if they’re your friends, we don’t want to hear about it, and on top of that, it makes it seem unprofessional. you also seem like you’re gloating that you’re friends with “celebrities”. keep it to yourself next time, it colors the entire thing poorly. |
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| Posted in: Das Racist Relax Premature Evaluation | |||
EDITOR’S CHOICE (SCOTT)
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donnytilla | Sep 15th | Score:3 | |
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This could have been good. “Im Kim Kardashian but today I’m supposed to be princess leah” *shrug* *brain dead* |
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| Posted in: Watch Part Of Kanye’s Cancelled Hip-Hop Puppet TV Show | |||
EDITOR’S CHOICE (AMRIT)
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Michael_ | Sep 14th | Score:1 | |
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Alright, you’re invited to come over now. I think this is a good step for us both, Amrit. I’ll retire the duchess act and maybe I’ll get an extra visit or two on my site. Thanks for the “positive reinforcement”! |
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| Posted in: Stream Jens Lekman An Argument With Myself EP | |||
[Editor's Note: It is truly poetic that theduchessofthomyorke became Michael_ on a post titled 'An Argument With Myself.']
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Wait…so trolling is cool now? Not sure if I can get behind that…
Yeah they hugged it out and it was a real tear jerker. Wait for the reality special coming to TLC any day now.
tr00000llled
The internet told me that that’s called love. *-*
and when this comment is on next weeks you would have to say “They always come back to me”
I think Duchess is getting way too much hate on here, especially considering I agree with most of his anti-rap/hip hop arguments. Not that I agree with attacking other people’s tastes for stuff like Drake or Das, but come on, at least he’s getting some discussion going
It’s Friday!
.GIF PARTY!
MARRY ME!
I sure hope that’s an Arrested Development reference…
Everyone who comments and writes here is facking queeah and their taste in music is terrible. LOOK AT ME!! [Tugs on editor's pigtails] GUUUUUUUYS Pay attention to me!
hahahahaha gotcha. Now check out my music blog that is totally unique because I am intellectually superior to you. Are you into the Spanish DarkChill scene? You’re not? I’m sure you guys will be into it when GvB, BV, and Pitchfork fist it into your 10th-day-of-the-cleanse hipster rectums, you sheeple. I’ve already soured on it but I decided to make a website celebrating that bitterness. Check it out: http://www.limonparty.org
That link was not safe for work.
All those pictures you see are song titles. If you click on them or click play, it will show my thoughts. The Spanish DarkChill scene is more authentic because it realizes that writing things is just selling out to your brain and societal expectations. Images are the purest medium of communication and therefore I must use the language of the (now played out) scene while other music blogs wallow in the muck of written language.
Those pictures of song titles were not safe for work.
one letter away from trolling greatness
Thank you thank you, you’re far too kind
I appreciate the shout out, which I don’t think I really deserved but that’s pretty cool. Stereogum was and probably still is my favorite music blog site out there and has been since I started visiting it in 2002 / 2003ish. Just like the “second wave of emo” or how a band like No Age is derivative of Sonic Youth, AwkwardSound is kind of derivative of Stereogum. Who knew one day we’d reach a point in the blogosphere where new blogs were citing others as major influences?
‘Lana Del Botox’ is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read on this blog.
theduchessofthomyorke will forever live on in our hearts…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WH8mHJnhM
DAS CONTROVERSIAL!
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I’m actually going to miss Stereogum’s semi-resident troller…
Jeezzzz, that dutchessofthomyorke just scored the first spot in Hall of Shame….. Alright, I guess I’m not gonna challenge this with you though!!! LMAO
The dutchess has Blink 182′s new album in their heavy rotation on “Awkward Sound.” So….no sympathy from this guy.
The “regularotation” area is actually just a way to let readers know which albums have made their onto the Internet and I’m giving a fair chance to. It doesn’t mean I will inevitably like the albums that are located there. That being said, the new blink-182 peaked my interest only because I used to listen to them when I was 15 and recently some “hip” bands have given them props to boost their credibility. Despite all that, it isn’t very good. It sounds like all three members are trying to pull their sound in a different direction. I also don’t think I’m enjoying this new Twin Sister album either even though I gave them early praise and named them a BUZZSound several months back. They went from Beach House-y to Deerhoof-y. Sometimes I post content that I don’t like but can’t avoid and a lot of others will enjoy (i.e. the latest Florence and the Machine track.)
It’s really all about the Best of list at year’s end where you can read which albums, songs and bands actually left an impression on me. Some positive reviews I’ve written have fallen out of favor with me (EMA) while others have the chance of growing (GIRLS.) Some albums or bands I really liked I haven’t even talked about. I’ll even give props to the worst of the year (and as it stands right now, Ms. Lana Del Botox and CULTS are duking it out for most overhyped new artist.) For what it’s worth, I’m not doing this for a living or to make something out of this page, but rather as a hobby, for the five friends of mine who don’t have time to discover music on their own, a pedestrian interest in music and I might as well throw it on my resume while I’m at it, too.
Your blog sucks lol
this thread reminds me of fight club
Did you think Fight Club was somehow obnoxious yet dreadfully boring?
I completely fucking agree about Twin Sister, they disappoint me. I just wanted a house :( Lana and CULTS are pretty horrid, but I think people kind of understand how bad CULTS are now. Florence + the Machine aren’t so bad but I don’t understand why they get as much praise as they do, put on repeat in coffeehouses and the lot.
Yes, I just made a stereogum account because you seemed like a genuinely neat person with similar interests to myself.
Really, the ending was that the troll was a dbag by day and a “nice” blogger by night?
Check please. I think I’d prefer an “It was all a dream!” ending. (Or even an “It was all a Teenage Dream!” ending…)
Or at least the Scubby Doo ending…
Guys, we all know the answer is the “Scrubs Rocky III Freeze Frame ending”
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Why is this guy encouraged? He was still an asshole.
shit…this dude stole my idea of being an annoying troll with the hope of this blog plugging mine. oh no wait…that wasn’t my idea because i was too busy enjoying the real job i have and the fun i have when i’m not working to come up with a pathetic idea like that.
To clarify, that’s not at all true. I actually contacted the Stereogum staff and asked them to remove the plug to my blog 1) because I didn’t want or ask for it and 2) because I knew readers such as yourself would mistake it like that and 3) I’m well aware that when it comes to music news world domination, sites like Stereogum, Pitchfork and onethirtybpm have it covered. If anyone thinks that there were any ulterior motives this entire time, I hate to break it to you but I simply decided that contributing something useful here would be better and funner. For what it’s worth, this profile was created a few years ago to do just that.
Can you please ask me to go to the prom with you?