the complete fall to irrelevance of The Black Keys needs to be studied
>>129013652They were never relevant, what are you about?
>>129013652>needs to be studiedthe hell needs to be studied about that?fame comes and goes away, it's naturalthat's not science
>>129013652chud phenotype
>>129013807they look more like söyboyschuds are more off-putting
>>129013652Their only good album was Brothers.
The only song anyone knows from them is Lonely Boy
>>129013652I can't name one song or album by themI don't know one person who can name a song or album by themI am not some basic chud who lives under a rock and neither is anyone I knowI can only remember briefly trying to get into them in the summer of 2012 because I suspected a girl I liked might be into them, but it was mostly unmemorable slop and I don't remember a single track.Somehow they were at one point an arena-level band. I have no idea how that happens or who was going to these concerts. Anyone who does this shit long enough eventually realizes bands are businesses ans 80% of band problems are business problems. The kinds of problems The Black Keys had ate the kinds of problems businesses have when they try to expand too quickly, default on some payments, lose certain lines of credit, fuck their shit up, and end up worse off than they were as a small business
I dunno. My mom still likes them.
>>129013652No?They had some four great albums of them just playing the blues. Then they "sold out" by making music with Danger Mouse, but which was still good and catchy. Eventually they became unable to do catchy music and went back into irrelevance, pretty normal.Unfortunately, they decided not to return to their original sound, and so they just got what they deserved. In any case, amd this should be stressed on /mu/ because many people do not seem to understand this: their shitty music and perfomances do not erase their good music they made twenty-fifteen years ago.
>>129013652They're just a rip-off of previous blues rock bands. They deserve no sympathy.
>>129013652Don't they make that weird Ford truck commercial over produced stock music kinda shit?
Imagine getting beat up by your wife
>>129013652They make good music, relevant or not
American indie bands always disappear quick. Two Door Cinema Club, for example , they are still around and everyone loves WhatYouKnow , because they are british.
Boomer here, never bothered with them really but the first couple of albums are solid 3 star background music. Once you're a bit into blues music you go directly to the source anyway, after you listen to Junior Kimbrough or Fred McDowell and then come back to this, this is just bland normie shit.They make Jack White seethe so that's good.
But if anything they've been around for a long time and consistently been in the mainstream since 2002, until a couple of years ago, so it's the opposite.
>>129016281nah i don't care for music recorded on a potato just because is from a black guy from new orleans
Lonely Boy is a good song. Watch them have a resurgence in a few years with the rest of the millenialcore shit.
>>129016585>gets filtered>is proud about itgood for you
They stink. Just listen to Pat Travers
>>129013652I stand by them as fellow Akron boys, even though their recent stuff isn't that good.
they are the kings of car commercial music
>>129015467yeah, people act like every even remotely successful band or musician is entitled to a multi-decade run of success. Having a few good years before churning out mediocrity -if they even continue at all- is pretty much best case scenario for everyone except the handful of genuine legends.
>>129016703>filtered by a black man yapping about cotton on a potato recordingok grandpa
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>>129017004catch aids please
>>129013652One hit wonder It's all they've ever been
>>129017501Three hit wonder>Tighten Up>Howling for You>Lonely Boy
>>129017329He already has.
>>129017329I accept your concession.
And I accept that you're a faggot, by all means go be a faggot somewhere else.
lol, lmao even, gonna cry?
>>129013652it happens to all musicians and film makers, I don't know why. writers and painters, on the other hand, only get better with age and time
The War On Drugs are next
>>129017010It's really no wonder that rock and guitar music died. All of the rock and folk and indie bands on this poster are fucking garbage. The switch to pop and hip hop genuinely was not a major drop from this era.
>>129022417That's the stuff critics wanted people to like
>>129016585its not about the race of the performer, its about the music in itself that's great >>129017329lol>>129022417this, people around here act like it was a good era. i mean shit ilike anco, fleet foxes, arcade fire
>>129023403same shit mu are whining about for nostalgia
>>129013652They fucked up cause the record after El Camino fucking sucked. It was all their own fault
>>129013652should have kept making 2000s alt-emo music to appeal to aging xillennials foreverNow they both look like The Raped
the most blatant copycat act of all time
>>129013652Car commercial core
>>129013652I always thought of them as a gayer, worse version of Death From Above 1979
>>129017010I feel old looking at this and thinking "Fuck yeah, real music."
>>129023905>fat Zorro that listened to Billy Childish oncehackest of hacks
>>129017010>calvin harris that smallcoachella eternally doing artists dirty with their choice of font size. https://youtu.be/VYwMmDkRCEo
>>129013857> A middle-aged fucking white man>Not a chud
>>129024096They sound more like White Stripes
>>129013652My brother is a fan but after a brief foray into electronic music he's down bad with the blues these days just like dad, but digging ever deeper into more and more obscure guitarists. I suspect when he's 60 and I'm 70 he's gonna be listening to someone like Blind Lemon Jefferson or some shit.
>>129016281Yeah that's kind of what my brother did.
>>129016757I'm from Youngstown myself.
>>129017010leeeel what year is this? kendrick in tiny text at the bottom of day one is unreal
>>129024751Black keys vaxx status???
Dan was always the talented one, should've dropped Pat completely and continue to go solo and with his other bands but guess he needed some help so he's a good friend to him and sacrificed all that
>>129013652The Black Keys were the shit in 2012.
>>129024700Who tf is eating after a rave?
>>129025381Canton reporting in
>>129017010our culture used to be really messed up. used to love m83 tho
>>129027111>our culture>fag shitlol
>>129023433It was a good era for /mu/ in spite of pitchfork indie slop. Hipster culture encouraged people to seek out and share interesting and obscure music as opposed to /mu/ post-2015 which became endless conversations about the same handful of artists.
>>129017004>>129017875You dont have a single intelligent thing to say about the subject so why should anyone take you seriously? You've already made it clear youre a retard without a single thing going on between your ears
>>129028192yup, he's crying
>catch aids>you're a retard>you're a faggot>you're filteredyup, this is the intelligent average blues enjoyer, really high IQ lmao
>>129013652The music industry was keeping rock on life support at that time, the talent pool had pretty much dried up and they had little to work with. Then with the advent of the internet and easy access to whatever you want, the bottom fell out and rock died completely. These guys were around the tail end of all of that
>>129029164I think they were just successful because they were an unabashedly loud and fun blues rock band that sang about getting laid in an era when sexless nerdy indie music dominated the rock universe.
>>129013652deep rooted anti-semitism is at the heart of it
>>129013807they look like they work at Buzzfeed making videos about convenience store snacks and the one in the blue shirt is FTM
>>129013807Their last album and tour bombed so hard that they accepted a gig at a republican crypto bro superpac event to recoup the losses.
Nothing wrong with the Black Keys. Nothing wrong with the era they're from. Nothing wrong that jinglewriters for car companies ripped off that fuzzy yet Velveeta-smooth, boombapboomboom sound for Chevy commercials. I wasn't even a fan of the Black Keys and still don't listen to their stuff, but this is America and we support regional rock acts.
>>129029011how about you refer to my original post you dumb cuntps and catch aids you fucking retard
>>129013652why? it's been 15 years since their peakit's completely expected
>>129030521>catch aids x2>you're a retard x2>you're a faggot>you're filtered>you're a dumb cuntso this is the power of blues, uh? so intelligent, so brave, so mature, you sure convinced me ;)
>>129013652The Nigger Locks
>>129030106>this is America and we support regional rock actsNE Ohio pretty much looks and feels exactly like the Black Keys sound
>>129030521You sound insand and retard bro, stop posting and kill yourself asap, you're literally cancer, for some reason you're obsessed with aids, I hope you catch it and die, your whole family as well, faggot.
>>129013652>the gimmick wore offWhat more is there to study? Yeah their music could be catchy and fun to listen to at parties or over the PA at sporting events, but ultimately it was just one giant white boy blues cliche that never evolved or went anywhere. There’s only so many ways to play I — bIII — IV with a slide and some distortion without it starting to sound like the same song after awhile. They were strictly a more one-dimensional White Stripes and never escaped that pigeonhole. It’s hard to think of a band with less range than the black keys.
>>129029164>The music industry was keeping rock on life support at that time, the talent pool had pretty much dried upas to why that is nobody knows for sure
>>129017010So they headlined a nobody fest? I recognize like 4 of these names
>>129027037Rusted out steel towns, man....
>>129031476VGH...my home
>>129013652Guy on the left looks so fucking jewish lol
>>129014072Gold on the ceiling
>>129013652“needs to be studied” is one of my least favorite expressions. 100% certain it was first used by a fat black girl or gay. Anyways, I’m not a big fan of the Black Keys but there rise and decline is typical and in no way “needs to be studied”.
>>129013652>83 repliesdamn, opstudy that.
>>129013652they were trash buttrock for beer commercials. maybe they were cool for like 5 minutes in 2003 with rubber factory but nobody cares anymore
>>129013927Shit sucks. Their only good album is Thickfreakness.
>>129013927Could've been their best with a little trimming. As it stands Thickfreakness is their best from the potato era and El Camino is their best from the danger mouse era.
The Big Come Up [Alive, 2002]not Jimi yet, but fast approaching Stevie Ray ("She Said, She Said," "I'll Be Your Man") ***
>>129013652Stupid millennial hipster shit>t. 1988 Millennial
>>129013652Meanwhile the WS just got inducted into Rock N Roll Hall of Fame
>>129036728jack white fanboys will never stop seething about the black keys lmao
>>129017010It almost makes me cry thinking of seeing Kendrick Lamar to like 500 people and Death Grips to like 1000 tops the Honus Wagner rookie card of experiences fuck. I do believe this is Mazzy Stars top five all time shows too.If I had to point out a really annoying band on this list it would be Tuneyards. What a stupid annoying millennial rock band that killed rock.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbkMPHW67xMSunday is one of the best days of all time.>>129030705Shut up anon that guy has the blues what do you expect he just needs to be happy.
Divorce is a bitch
>>129016757>>129027037Do either of you want to hang out some time?
>>129013652You've captured the zeitgeist in one image.
Boring slop is boring.
>>129013793It's a zoomer meme.
>>129039813ok I kek’d
>>129013652>the complete fall to irrelevance of The Black Keys needs to be studiedWhy single them out specifically? The whole "indie" era seemingly fell into irrelevance.>>129016597>Watch them have a resurgence in a few years with the rest of the millenialcore shit.Yes, please. I wouldn't even mind if all of that indie shit came back. Anything. Just enough with rap and all this 'get yo opps and get money' talk.
>>129024700This was when Calvin Harris was doing cool music instead of club bangers.
