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I never understood why bands like "Arcade Fire" were popular

I was really put off by their look and their fans & I al...
daniel gay luis
  09/09/25
soy cuckcore was the whole hipster zeitgeist. it completely ...
UhOh
  09/09/25
Where did these guys come from. How did we go from nu metal ...
daniel gay luis
  09/09/25
it was educated middle class soyboys and feminists who moved...
UhOh
  09/09/25
a lot of those groups seemed to be taking pavement-style sla...
,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,.
  09/09/25
i'd agree pavement is the source material, with their ironic...
UhOh
  09/09/25
...
cowshit
  09/09/25
...
i won
  09/09/25
wow
Patrick Mahomes
  09/09/25
wow, i think i always had them confused with a different ban...
Diamond Dallas Trump
  09/09/25
Yeah it's sad cause arcades and fire are both pretty cool th...
daniel gay luis
  09/09/25
yeah they have a cool name but i clearly confused them with ...
Diamond Dallas Trump
  09/09/25
All the “indie rock” music from that era sucked ...
.,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,......,;:.,.:..:.,:,::,.
  09/09/25
As an urban planning major they were the first band to speak...
gibberish (?)
  09/09/25
I don't really care what normie Chad jocks think. I wouldn'...
JunkoEnoshima
  09/09/25
IDC what you think, their first 3 albums were great. I re...
bloomington
  09/09/25
I lived in Williamsburg Brooklyn circa 2006-2012. Right nea...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
i bet it was awesome, that neighborhood was the center of th...
UhOh
  09/09/25
Great times man. I miss NY badly but in my 40s now and woul...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
assuming you're a lawyer, i wouldn't be surprised if we have...
UhOh
  09/09/25
I was in-house. The free time and cushy job enabled me to f...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
cr. except ive spent quite a few nights at dorians as well
richard clock
  09/09/25
My buddy got thrown out and banned after doing coke in the b...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
he sounds like he was more fun before tbh
richard clock
  09/09/25
I still remember yelling at the bouncer defending my friend ...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
18000000000
richard clock
  09/09/25
...
ruinous phenotype
  09/09/25
Rilo Kiley, Titus Andronicus, My Morning Jacket, MGMT the ea...
surprise attack
  09/09/25
Oh man M83. How could I forget…
titus chicken
  09/09/25
The Naked and Famous - Young Blood.mp3
surprise attack
  09/09/25
Metric - Help I'm Alive.mp3
surprise attack
  09/09/25
I saw metric at Terminal 5. Fantasies was a great album. L...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
Agreed 100%. I went on some OK Cupid date with some chick...
surprise attack
  09/09/25
OMG. OKCupid was 180. It was such a thing back then. Mous...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
okcupid was 180 trillion all the girls were dtf
richard clock
  09/09/25
99% of chicks on there unironically liked the song Teardrop ...
surprise attack
  09/09/25
...
richard clock
  09/09/25
Ratatat - Loud Pipes
surprise attack
  09/09/25
i saw ratatat at my college doing a makeshift show in a cla...
richard clock
  09/09/25
Welcome to Tufts, my friend
surprise attack
  09/09/25
close but no cigar
richard clock
  09/09/25
Prob Wesleyan or something. Somewhere in the back of my brai...
surprise attack
  09/09/25
BLOODBUZZ OHIO
surprise attack
  09/09/25
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
surprise attack
  09/09/25
Love the Pickups. The next album Swoon was great too.
titus chicken
  09/09/25
Panic Switch, Substitution, Royal We
surprise attack
  09/09/25
Cmon dude. I’m about to go to bed and am thinking abo...
titus chicken
  09/09/25
The drummer was some flip or something who once worked at Di...
surprise attack
  09/09/25
Graveyard Girl is 180. The 2 LPs before that are 175
AI_concubine
  09/09/25
Union Pool smoking patio was amazing from like 2006-2009.
.,..,..,.,,..,..,,,,,,,,..,...,.,.,.,
  09/09/25
I want to go back.
titus chicken
  09/09/25
they were one of the best bands of the past 20 years lol
Bob Rooney
  09/09/25
it's a band for whites, browns like OP wouldn't understand
Sir Nick of Siggers
  09/09/25
'A Band for Whites: The Story of Arcade Fire' would be a sic...
surprise attack
  09/09/25
...
richard clock
  09/09/25
Skrewdriver, Prussian Blue, Arcade Fire, basically whatever ...
ruinous phenotype
  09/09/25
In the case of Arcade Fire, they were really good.
Candy Ride
  09/09/25
cr, power out is 180
richard clock
  09/09/25
Rate the Father John Misty cover of The Suburbs
surprise attack
  09/09/25


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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: daniel gay luis

I was really put off by their look and their fans & I always just assumed you had to be a low testosterone liberal to enjoy them. All my friends were pretty much normie Chad jock dudes & none of them listened to this music

I thought maybe that was unfair so I'm listening to them on spotify now and it's really dull & gay

A lot of indie music in this era was soy cuckcore & it ushered in an era of rap dominance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248476)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:41 PM
Author: UhOh

soy cuckcore was the whole hipster zeitgeist. it completely vanished overnight, just like grunge and cock rock before it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248478)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:42 PM
Author: daniel gay luis

Where did these guys come from. How did we go from nu metal to this? It has to be birth control in the water in big cities

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248482)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:53 PM
Author: UhOh

it was educated middle class soyboys and feminists who moved to urban areas around 2000, particularly brooklyn. they leaned on irony (trucker hats, tattoos, facial hair) to cover their lack of masculinity and repurposed new wave androgyny (no make up, tattoos, casual clothing) to cover for their lack of femininity. they weren't angry enough for grunge and weren't scummy enough for nu-metal. they just wanted to do drugs and dance (LCD soundsystem et al). as early internet adopters, they controlled the online-cultural-industrial-complex until the iphone came out and gave the power back to normies and their pop slop fuck music.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248509)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:05 PM
Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,.


a lot of those groups seemed to be taking pavement-style slacker/'indie' rock and merging it with sincere bruce springsteen-style anthemic overtones. it does sound really dated these days. it doesn't correspond to any sort of relevant cultural mood or attitude anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248546)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: UhOh

i'd agree pavement is the source material, with their ironic detachment that only trust funders can afford. there weren't any angry scumbagtypes in the brooklyn scene, nor were there many activist political or philosophical poet types. it was just "who cares let's party" with a sprinkling of "MY feelings."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248572)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:08 PM
Author: cowshit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248562)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:09 PM
Author: i won



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248568)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Patrick Mahomes

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249150)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:53 PM
Author: Diamond Dallas Trump

wow, i think i always had them confused with a different band but i am going through some of their songs right now and it's all completely unlistenable. i can't believe how bad it is. they're like the gay millenial transed version of smashing pumpkins

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248507)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 6:55 PM
Author: daniel gay luis

Yeah it's sad cause arcades and fire are both pretty cool things but wow the music sucks shit. And I guess the lead singer got "cancelled" by his lib tribe for being straight & having sex with women so he's done here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248515)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:05 PM
Author: Diamond Dallas Trump

yeah they have a cool name but i clearly confused them with someone else. i thought they sounded sort of like evanescence or soft metalcore. what they actually sound like is LOL and explains a lot about millenials

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248548)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:00 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,......,;:.,.:..:.,:,::,.


All the “indie rock” music from that era sucked and is completely unlistenable now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248532)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: gibberish (?)

As an urban planning major they were the first band to speak to my people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248541)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 7:05 PM
Author: JunkoEnoshima

I don't really care what normie Chad jocks think. I wouldn't have been friends with them even if I listened to Nickelback and The Calling and Remember the Name by Fort Minor. The Dubya era was really drab in terms of music, it's like the mainstream media decided that no fun was allowed after 9/11. I thank the indie labels for trying to be creative and different.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248545)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:19 PM
Author: bloomington (🦬)

IDC what you think, their first 3 albums were great.

I regret not seeing them in 2004. They played a bar down the street shortly after Pitchfork gave Funeral a very high score. It would have been my best opportunity to see a big band in a small room.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248930)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: titus chicken

I lived in Williamsburg Brooklyn circa 2006-2012. Right near the Bedford L stop. Craigslist roommates. You kind of had to be there to get it. I did drugs and sometimes hooked up with mousy 5.5-6s. You had to be there to get it. Arcade Fire, LCD Sound System, the Antlers, Fleet Foxes, Phoenix, Passion Pit, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, MGMT, Interpol, all of it. Late nights. Missing work hungover. It was a scene.

The world is worse off without the hipsters. I want to go back.

OP sounds like the kind of bro who liked to hang out at Dorian’s and Rathbones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49248990)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:46 PM
Author: UhOh

i bet it was awesome, that neighborhood was the center of the universe for a few years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249006)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 9:55 PM
Author: titus chicken

Great times man. I miss NY badly but in my 40s now and would’ve been impossible to have a family there. Maybe I just miss being young rather than NY itself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249030)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:06 PM
Author: UhOh

assuming you're a lawyer, i wouldn't be surprised if we have mutual friends who left for that reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249110)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:56 PM
Author: titus chicken

I was in-house. The free time and cushy job enabled me to fully enjoy late aughts billyburg but made it impossible to strive for much more than paying rent in NYC for shitty but well located apartments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249231)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:45 PM
Author: richard clock

cr. except ive spent quite a few nights at dorians as well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249197)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:52 PM
Author: titus chicken

My buddy got thrown out and banned after doing coke in the bathroom there and getting thrown out and then sneaking in and getting caught doing coke in the same bathroom again.

He’s in AA now and less fun. Glad for him though. Saved his life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249216)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:53 PM
Author: richard clock

he sounds like he was more fun before tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249220)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:54 PM
Author: titus chicken

I still remember yelling at the bouncer defending my friend and then my other friend telling me that [Jimmy] was clearly guilty and we needed to go somewhere else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249223)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: richard clock

18000000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249225)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: ruinous phenotype



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249252)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: surprise attack

Rilo Kiley, Titus Andronicus, My Morning Jacket, MGMT the early and later years not the commercial stuff, The National, M83

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249255)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:10 PM
Author: titus chicken

Oh man M83. How could I forget…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249271)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:11 PM
Author: surprise attack

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood.mp3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249277)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:12 PM
Author: surprise attack

Metric - Help I'm Alive.mp3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249281)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:14 PM
Author: titus chicken

I saw metric at Terminal 5. Fantasies was a great album. Lead singer had legs that went on for days and wore a micro skirt. I still think about it sometimes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249286)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:17 PM
Author: surprise attack

Agreed 100%.

I went on some OK Cupid date with some chick who had downloaded their album from some random website and thought their band name was something completely different like it was someone who just changed the name to some other band name and we spent the entire date arguing about this while I tried to prove to her that it was actually a band called Metric. She was in Marketing and we had sex.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249297)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:19 PM
Author: titus chicken

OMG. OKCupid was 180. It was such a thing back then. Mousy hipster girls everywhere looking to meet dudes.

Thanks GC for replacing it with TTTinder

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249306)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: richard clock

okcupid was 180 trillion all the girls were dtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249310)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: surprise attack

99% of chicks on there unironically liked the song Teardrop by Massive Attack

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249314)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: richard clock



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249317)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: surprise attack

Ratatat - Loud Pipes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249311)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: richard clock

i saw ratatat at my college doing a makeshift show in a classroom putting up images with an oldschool overhead projector. great time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249316)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:22 PM
Author: surprise attack

Welcome to Tufts, my friend

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249319)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:26 PM
Author: richard clock

close but no cigar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249336)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: surprise attack

Prob Wesleyan or something. Somewhere in the back of my brain I am sure I can remember exactly where this was. I used to read every scrap of news that ever came out about them. I used to know everything humanly possible about Evan and Mike not flame. I remember they played the Guggenheim. And they were on Letterman with Kid Cudi. I know this info is in my mental archive somewhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249353)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:13 PM
Author: surprise attack

BLOODBUZZ OHIO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249282)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:14 PM
Author: surprise attack

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249289)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:19 PM
Author: titus chicken

Love the Pickups. The next album Swoon was great too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249308)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: surprise attack

Panic Switch, Substitution, Royal We

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249315)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:23 PM
Author: titus chicken

Cmon dude. I’m about to go to bed and am thinking about Royal We and Panic Swotch now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249324)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:24 PM
Author: surprise attack

The drummer was some flip or something who once worked at Disneyland and dressed up as Mowgli for a job

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249329)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:26 PM
Author: AI_concubine

Graveyard Girl is 180. The 2 LPs before that are 175

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249337)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:14 PM
Author: .,..,..,.,,..,..,,,,,,,,..,...,.,.,.,


Union Pool smoking patio was amazing from like 2006-2009.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249288)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: titus chicken

I want to go back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249312)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:00 PM
Author: Bob Rooney

they were one of the best bands of the past 20 years lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249060)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: Sir Nick of Siggers

it's a band for whites, browns like OP wouldn't understand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249130)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:04 PM
Author: surprise attack

'A Band for Whites: The Story of Arcade Fire' would be a sick rockumentary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249257)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:04 PM
Author: richard clock



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249258)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:05 PM
Author: ruinous phenotype

Skrewdriver, Prussian Blue, Arcade Fire, basically whatever we want

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249261)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:26 PM
Author: Candy Ride

In the case of Arcade Fire, they were really good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249343)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: richard clock

cr, power out is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249346)



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Date: September 9th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: surprise attack

Rate the Father John Misty cover of The Suburbs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771453&forum_id=2Elisa#49249356)