http://stereogum.com/703062/alex-winston-sister-wife-video/mp3s/

12/7/2011 1:12:09 PM

The Antlers cover of VCR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIcpYE_7ptg

12/7/2011 1:14:02 PM

Just commenting on my selection here, because I do think it's probably the worst song of 2011 that has garnered any attention whatsoever. For this thread, I'm excluding local acts, such at Lilac Shadows (who just use some sort of echo-box and could basically be saying anything in front of a bunch of tired chord progressions and mediocre guitar playing, whilst using a bunch of effects pedals and shit that nobody's impressed by. It's laughable how many bands this one lead singer dude has been through in probably less than a year's time).

Alex Winston appears to be so fraudulently obsessed with 'the scene' that she basically seems to have been inspired by the shithole apartment she moved into somewhere in Brooklyn after her parents footed the bill behind "her inspiration." That video has the reading level of a 14 year-old. It's as if the entire song wasn't annoying enough with its prissy, catty (no reference to the cat in the video), girly self-backup vocals. No, we have to sit here and watch some lady she pulled off the streets of New York City do meaningless things under the false pretenses of "being in a famous music video," while this Alex Winston bitch tries to sing her way out of a trip back to Michigan and failure.

By the way, I've never been to Michigan, but that entire place screams failure. A failed car industry, a failed job market, Michael Moore, Eminem, the fucking Insane Clown Posse? After laying such a big, annoying egg of a song, it's honestly no surprise that Alex Winston is from there...

12/8/2011 12:27:05 AM

I don't know who Alex Winston is, so I'm going to assume she's some sort of cut-rate Lana Del Rey.

And that's saying something.

12/8/2011 1:45:10 AM

So are you hating on the song because it's bad or hating on the song because you don't like the artist?

12/8/2011 7:02:05 AM

Every song on the Bon Iver album

amirite?

12/8/2011 7:05:48 AM

Wow, Scrumples, that song is AWFUL.

It's every bit as devoid of artistic merit as Rebecca Black's Friday, both lyrically and stylistically, yet takes itself completely serious. Meaning, this isn't some 8th grader at a 3rd rate production studio, this is actually someone who considers themselves a "professional."

Ugh.

That gets my vote.

Honestly it sounds like an unreleased throw-away filler b-side to Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors."

12/8/2011 7:32:12 AM

I actually like "locomotive". It takes a while to get past her voice though. Definitely a guilty pleasure.

12/8/2011 8:21:03 AM

Figured the first post would be "all of them"

Since all you do is

12/8/2011 8:52:43 AM

for real

i see a scrumples post about music and i feel like i need to prepare a "hey guy, hey :-/ " to lighten the load

12/8/2011 8:59:15 AM

^^ i was expecting the same when clicking this thread.

even still i'm surprised he restrained his hate to just one song....that must have been hard. i guess he gets to let that hate out in pretty much every other music thread in Entertainment though, so perhaps it's no huge accomplishment.

12/8/2011 9:31:43 AM

I HATE EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING
-Mr Scrumples

[Edited on December 8, 2011 at 9:32 AM. Reason : .]

12/8/2011 9:32:46 AM

But I love all you guys.

With this thread, you should've known what you're getting into by the title, is all I'm sayin'.

[Edited on December 8, 2011 at 9:37 AM. Reason : l]

12/8/2011 9:35:13 AM

Worst Albums of 2011 nomination:

the Mountain Goats - Al...fuck, I don't know what it's called. Something about squares, I feel like. It's terrible, though. More terrible songs from a terrible, terrible band.

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM. Reason : k]

12/21/2011 10:18:50 AM

All Eternals Deck. Which is very fitting, considering that dude's songs run together lyrically like someone with an intense combination of ADHD and Tourettes wrote them. I really think the only people that listen to this band do so just to be contrarian assholes. The dude can't play guitar (just bangs on it the whole time and for every song), he can't write songs (as mentioned above), nor can he sing (I would only assume the band name is making fun of how he sings, but how does that even matter?). I think those are pretty important requisites for the business, but what the hell do I know...

Also, decided to keep my negative ranting to one thread. You're welcome.

[Edited on December 27, 2011 at 11:42 AM. Reason : k]

12/27/2011 11:31:47 AM

more like all eternals dick am i right

12/27/2011 1:08:19 PM

For my Facebook friends, I just made a Top 10 worst albums of 2011 that have garnered any attention. They are as follows:

10. Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
9. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
8. Radiohead - King of Limbs
7. Megafaun - Megafaun (really just don't like that band, nor the people in it. Sorry.)
6. V/A - Rave On: Buddy Holly
5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4. Childish Gambino - CAMP
3. Drake - Take Care
2. James Blake - James Blake
1. you already know.

12/27/2011 1:26:48 PM

hahahaha how did you hate rave on buddy holly?

12/27/2011 1:47:01 PM

Cee Lo fir starters. The Paul McCartney track doesn't help much, either...

12/27/2011 1:50:57 PM

You are a miserable dude

12/27/2011 1:57:03 PM

well as far as tributes album go, it was a hell of a lot better than the muppets one

12/27/2011 1:58:38 PM

i wish i could name the worst albums of 2011, but i don't go out of my way to listen to albums that i don't like. and i'm not a music journalist, so i'm not paid to listen to much i don't like. and surely there are worse albums that garnered more attention. check billboard.

12/27/2011 1:59:30 PM

ie: i'm a scrumples fanboy

12/27/2011 2:00:09 PM

Quote :

"i wish i could name the worst albums of 2011, but i don't go out of my way to listen to albums that i don't like"

12/27/2011 2:11:38 PM

I wish I were in some fucking garage psych band (how original) from Raleigh that plays Slim's and King's every other weekend, but we can't always get what we want.

Pretty sure you don't know if you'll like something until you listen to it. And of course there's more albums that have gotten attention from Billboard or whatever, but I already know I don't like Kelly Clarkson et al.

12/27/2011 2:43:16 PM

Since U Been Mad

12/27/2011 2:50:18 PM

lol^

BEST ALBUMS OF 2011 YALL

12/27/2011 2:54:04 PM

would you like to join our band? shoot me a message and we can talk.

also, i posted my favorite records of the year in the thread about it.

12/27/2011 3:10:41 PM

anything by that monotone drake

12/27/2011 3:13:51 PM

rich, do you like a single album in my top worst of the year? if not, i don't see why it matters that I think they're shitty.

12/27/2011 3:16:53 PM

no, i only like the oh sees and psych garage (real original).

12/27/2011 3:22:00 PM

You don't like Ty Segall?

12/27/2011 3:25:26 PM

saw them once and thought it was okay. got strong mudhoney vibes. it didn't sound very garagey or psychedelic to me at all so i didn't bother with it too much.

12/27/2011 3:29:18 PM

Quote :

"Pretty sure you don't know if you'll like something until you listen to it. And of course there's more albums that have gotten attention from Billboard or whatever, but I already know I don't like Kelly Clarkson et al."

I know when I YouTube a couple of their songs and they sound like garbage. If they sound cool, then I listen to the album.

12/27/2011 4:07:45 PM

I guess this has turned into bashing me because I give new music a fair shot...

12/27/2011 4:37:49 PM

you're a dickhead

12/27/2011 4:49:42 PM

I'm probably the nicest person ever.

12/27/2011 5:17:56 PM

Not bashing, I'm saying that I don't torture myself for the sake of being cutting edge or open-minded. I know within 5-10 minutes of hearing a band if I want to continue listening. Different strokes for different folks. Some people thought the Bon Iver album was the best of the year. I think Bon Iver is boring.

Music is not that different from movies, clothes, art, or even women. You know what you like within a few minutes of encountering it. No one gives a shit what you think, and I know that no one gives a shit what I think. My opinion is the only one that matters.

12/27/2011 5:34:39 PM

This thread is awesome.

I'll go with anything Ed Schrader or his music beat released this year.

12/27/2011 6:38:11 PM

i really hate this trent reznor/karen o cover of "immigrant song"

12/27/2011 6:44:38 PM

Quote :

"Not bashing, I'm saying that I don't torture myself for the sake of being cutting edge or open-minded. I know within 5-10 minutes of hearing a band if I want to continue listening. Different strokes for different folks. Some people thought the Bon Iver album was the best of the year. I think Bon Iver is boring. Music is not that different from movies, clothes, art, or even women. You know what you like within a few minutes of encountering it. No one gives a shit what you think, and I know that no one gives a shit what I think. My opinion is the only one that matters."

You really don't have to sit there with this patronizing paragraph on how my opinions won't influence people. It's pretty eyerollable if you think I'm doing this to try to sway somebody off of something they like to listen to...

12/27/2011 7:13:47 PM

the head of a dick

12/27/2011 10:23:41 PM

Quote :

"You know what you like within a few minutes of encountering it."

I have to disagree. For example, I had initially written off a number of songs from the Girls album Father, Son, Holy Ghost; however, I now consider that album one of my favorites of the year.

After numerous listens, those same songs that I had dismissed have become songs that I endear.

12/28/2011 12:31:06 AM

you lie. it's impossible not to love james blake

12/28/2011 1:18:11 AM

Also, many people have reversed their opinions of Wu Lyf's Go Tell Fire to the Mountain after listening to it for the first time.

12/28/2011 1:53:38 AM

Quote :

" I HATE EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING -Mr Scrumples "

agree

12/28/2011 9:15:00 AM

Quote :

"Also, many people have reversed their opinions of Wu Lyf's Go Tell Fire to the Mountain after listening to it for the first time."

true that

WTF on my first listen and it's probably my most listened to album of the year

12/28/2011 9:31:40 AM

This is a thread I created. It's fun to imagine how easily trollable some of you folks are, but...alas, I'm not imagining...

Apparently the phallus goo in anybody's ears that is the voice of John Darnielle is what started this trollfest, though.

[Edited on December 28, 2011 at 11:08 PM. Reason : h]

12/28/2011 11:00:24 PM

copout, dickmeister.

12/29/2011 3:55:59 PM

bich

12/29/2011 6:28:00 PM