✦ 00s Indie Pop ✦ & ✖ 00s Indie Rock ✖ Rates | ✖ Indie Rock Rate Finale! ✖
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Since you mentioned them, You Can't Fool Me Dennis would have been a great addition to the rate
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#17
#46
Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear
7.673
10 (3) @Trouble in Paradise @Untouchable Ace @elektroxx | 9.5 (2) @Oleander @ohnostalgia
4 @daninternational | 5 (2) @Phonetics Girl @dontkillmyvibe
Host's score: 7
Time to eliminate yet another indie pop song, and honestly... there aren't really any interesting stats to post about this one, so let's just move on to the second paragraph dd
Grizzly Bear are a band from New York who have released five albums between 2004 and 2017, and Two Weeks is taken from their breakthrough third album Veckatimest (named after the island of the same name). Two Weeks is by far the band's biggest song, and it features backing vocals by Victoria Legrand, the lead singer of Beach House, another act that would probably fit the rate quite well. Two Weeks is another song with a viral music video playing a good part in its popularity, and what an interesting music video it is. Let's just say it's not as bad as the Evil one at least. Anyway, sorry to the fans, but this was easily my least favourite song in the indie pop rate and I definitely didn't expect it to do as well as it did, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy to see it finally being eliminated. Below are Ready, Able, also taken from Veckatimest, and Mourning Sound, the lead single from their most recent album Painted Ruins.
@daninternational (4) “It's no FKA twigs. Not a fan of the vocals” Not even close.
@DJHazey (6) “I don’t know if they were going for it, but this sounds very much like a Beach Boys throwback. As a song, it's very much on the positive side of ‘ just there’ to me, but I just wanted to point that out.”
@Sprockrooster (6.5) “Great melody, beautiful melody”
@berserkboi (7) “I enjoy the “Alright” quality of this but it just makes me want to listen to Supergrass”
@Maki (7.5) “Don't know if the music video made me think this, but the song carries some unnerving feel. It's pretty good overall.”
@BubblegumBoy (8) “Why does this remind me of a Christmas song at the intro and end ddd”
@Filippa (8) “Lovely chorus!”
@DominoDancing (9) “That music video is hilarious.”
@slaybellz (9) “This song used to play all the time in the grocery store I worked at in college. It's what got me through the day dd”
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#17
#46
Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear
7.673
10 (3) @Trouble in Paradise @Untouchable Ace @elektroxx | 9.5 (2) @Oleander @ohnostalgia
4 @daninternational | 5 (2) @Phonetics Girl @dontkillmyvibe
Host's score: 7
Time to eliminate yet another indie pop song, and honestly... there aren't really any interesting stats to post about this one, so let's just move on to the second paragraph dd
Grizzly Bear are a band from New York who have released five albums between 2004 and 2017, and Two Weeks is taken from their breakthrough third album Veckatimest (named after the island of the same name). Two Weeks is by far the band's biggest song, and it features backing vocals by Victoria Legrand, the lead singer of Beach House, another act that would probably fit the rate quite well. Two Weeks is another song with a viral music video playing a good part in its popularity, and what an interesting music video it is. Let's just say it's not as bad as the Evil one at least. Anyway, sorry to the fans, but this was easily my least favourite song in the indie pop rate and I definitely didn't expect it to do as well as it did, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy to see it finally being eliminated. Below are Ready, Able, also taken from Veckatimest, and Mourning Sound, the lead single from their most recent album Painted Ruins.
@daninternational (4) “It's no FKA twigs. Not a fan of the vocals” Not even close.
@DJHazey (6) “I don’t know if they were going for it, but this sounds very much like a Beach Boys throwback. As a song, it's very much on the positive side of ‘ just there’ to me, but I just wanted to point that out.”
@Sprockrooster (6.5) “Great melody, beautiful melody”
@berserkboi (7) “I enjoy the “Alright” quality of this but it just makes me want to listen to Supergrass”
@Maki (7.5) “Don't know if the music video made me think this, but the song carries some unnerving feel. It's pretty good overall.”
@BubblegumBoy (8) “Why does this remind me of a Christmas song at the intro and end ddd”
@Filippa (8) “Lovely chorus!”
@DominoDancing (9) “That music video is hilarious.”
@slaybellz (9) “This song used to play all the time in the grocery store I worked at in college. It's what got me through the day dd”
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Commentary Guessing Game
Two Weeks
@slaybellz, @Phonetics Girl & @Maki:Two Weeks
15. “Don't know if the music video made me think this, but the song carries some unnerving feel. It's pretty good overall.” ✔
@daninternational:
2. “Reminds me of those boring songs that Max would play in the first Life Is Strange game and I’d always wonder “do I actually have to listen to this whole thing before advancing or what?””
@klow:
6. “The singers sound like they were exposed to math classes for an extensive period of time before singing this. Ultimately makes the song rather monotonous, despite being fine. The music video is pretty cool, I'll give them that. ”
@Untouchable Ace:
10. “Oh we're going medieval”
@slaybellz and @Phonetics Girl guess correctly (and @Maki too even if it was his own commentary), and we now have a three-way tie at #1.
@slaybellz 3 (+1)
@klow 3
@Phonetics Girl 3
@MilesAngel 2
@Maki 1 (+2)
@Untouchable Ace 1
@daninternational 1
@Attis 0 (+1)
I mean, the rate is comprised almost entirely of songs I really like, and I would never include anything I thought was straight-up bad, so my lowest scores being songs I think are just pretty good, ie 7s, isn't that surprising.
Dddddnooooo!
I didn't know this song before the rate (despite it being surprisingly popular as it turns out), and it's easily the one that has continued to grow most since rating it, to the point where I now regret not giving it the full 10.
Oh well.
I didn't know this song before the rate (despite it being surprisingly popular as it turns out), and it's easily the one that has continued to grow most since rating it, to the point where I now regret not giving it the full 10.
Oh well.
He/Him
Okay, Laura Marling followed by Grizzly Bear is a rough back to back. I saw Grizzly Bear open for Feist when I was an angsty teen who was just getting into music thanks to my much cooler indie rock brother. I remember making so many dumb jokes about their band name but when they played it was like nothing I'd ever heard! I've seen them twice since, one opening for Florence and another time solo (with serpentwithfeet opening, which was another discovery for me via live music!) I wouldn't be @Trouble in Paradise without mentioning that one of their lead singers, Ed Droste, is openly gay and has been out since the band more or less started. That was such a bright spot for me given how many straight white men I was hearing from my older brothers. He's also supposedly left the band in 2020 to become a therapist according to his wikipedia page!? He's also a known anti-Swiftie dd
Ok maybe I really should have given Two Weeks a lower score.
I know I say this all the time, but this song was my second choice for that commentary. I was at a quiz night the other week and the same thing was happening then. It's a fatal flaw. Still I'm sure I've got others right!
Maybe I should have given Two Weeks a higher score.
No but seriously this shouldn't be out so early!
He/Him
Bruises left already?
Regina or Lykke or Feist?
Grizzly Bear are another band I was besotted with briefly, particularly in 2009 but I also liked their follow-up, Shields, and many find their 2006 album Yellow House their best.
The peppy bounce of “Two Weeks” is probably their most commercial moment and gives me iPod advertisement / Lily Allen “Fuck You”, instrumentally. I’m more into their sweeping-sounding tracks, like:
As for the “shocking result”, this rollout has already been full of violence and chaos, but if my 11 is going there will be blood!
The peppy bounce of “Two Weeks” is probably their most commercial moment and gives me iPod advertisement / Lily Allen “Fuck You”, instrumentally. I’m more into their sweeping-sounding tracks, like:
As for the “shocking result”, this rollout has already been full of violence and chaos, but if my 11 is going there will be blood!
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