question about the Swans
 

trust me, fits here.


i am in total meh; someone told me that swans is totally hipster's taste band.
his friend told me that he was surprised and disappointed that i like the swans.

i dont care about that.
but seriously? am i missing smth?

No, those guys are idiots and probably don't know what hipsters are our what swans are like.

Who were these fools?

Hippies aren't the same as hipsters

You probably get some hipsters who attend their gigs so they can write about how loud they were the next day on their Facebook status and post instagramed pictures of Michael Gira sweating, but Swans are definitely not a hipster band. Beach House, Zola Jesus and that sort of crap are what I'd immediately think hipsters like, even though I can't say I am 100% sure.

This is what hipsters like
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=bHoJL...DbHo JLtUjGUI

and i have been loling.




some friends and they are in their early 30s.
the guy who said that -he is not so close to me, his friend is- well i was in his car one night and the stuff he played..well they sounded like hipster stuff to me.

i mean just like what deathie says here.



ah and he said that swans are like archive whats that band's name, in terms of hipster music.
LOL?
i asked 2 times; perhaps there is some other band under similar name and he is confusing our swans with smth else.

bored to click.

i mean, i am just bored.

i clicked -of course.

i like M.I.A.
dunno the other bands in top of that list.

Not MIA, link came out wrong cause I did it from my phone, meant to be this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?client=...GUI&nomobile=1

Sounds like this guy doesn't have a clue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHES9YAGGkU

What is the archive thing?

I have my own office now!

Think for yourself, you'll be better for it. Why do you give a fuck what someone[s friend think so ofy ou?

I liked them better when Jarboe was with them.

Hipster - poser using the latest fashion and music fads to try to present himself as HIP.

Hippie - hates water

True, my girlfriend is a hippy and she only washes twice/week

You know that linguists and the like cannot figure out the origin to the word Hip/Hep? No one really knows where it all began. hep cats, hip cats, according to Malcolm X's autobiography, were dudes who you knew smoked reefer, or could get a reefer from... but the word was in use for decades before.

"Y'all hip to Easter Island?" - P-Funk

I had an aging hipster (one of the rich boy types you mention) tell me that it is "SWANS", not "THE SWANS" when I posted on the book o' face that I was deeply immersed in Soundtracks For The Blind

nitpicky hipsters.

^^Indeed. First place I remember seeing it used contemporaneously, rather than as a jazz/beat throwback thing, was the liner notes of Belle & Sebastian sleeves in the nid/late 90's, which talked about Glasgow hipsters lazing around in coffee shop, but not in a pejorative sense, just as a quaint term for 'fey indie kid'. As you say, it was the post-millennial Strokes/NYC/Pitchfork-thing that redefined it.
Mind, these days, it says a lot more about the person using it that it does the subject.

Ha. I agree on that one. And it's 'Pixies' too. :)