McGwire Bracket: TGantz vs Theosqua

[CardsofSTL]

TGantz' Hipster 4th of July BBQ

vs

TheoSqua's 36-Year-Old-Divorced-Dad-Anthem

[TGantz]

Houndmouth-Sedona: Great band from Indiana that I'm just now finding. Honey Slider is another great song of theirs. Great lead singer, great harmonies, and feel good music.

Peter Bjorn and John-Young Folks: Basically the "Free Bird" of hipster music. One of those songs that everyone has heard but may not know where they heard it.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes-Home: If "Young Folks" is "Free Bird", "Home" is the "Hotel California" of hipster music. A true classic with a crowd of people on stage reaching their final hipster form.

Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real-Find Yourself: You might feel like you recognize his voice. That is the son of the iconic Willie Nelson. A groovy reggae vibe to get any hipster BBQ going.

Saint Motel-My Type: Vintage music video and catchy lyrics what else do you need? A fun song combining shallow hipster love with brass instruments. Sure to seal any deals as your 4th of July crescendos into pure bliss.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Well [expletive], Theo. Good luck out there. Last Resort is undeniable. The others… I can deny pretty easily. I am happy Limp Bizkit has been one of the groups getting a bit of a reappraisal over the last few years. Mostly because I’m a recovering snob.

Wishing you the best but voting for Gantz here. Never saw the video for My Type before. Really cool. I mean, exactly on brand for the whole indie/hipster thing (dammit, relapse) —but really fun.

[Jocephus]

divorced dad certainly hits an era but i just cant with a few of those bands.

i wasn't really feeling the hipster list either but the last song saved it for me enough to pick that list.

[heyzeus]

I know it's too late, so no voting, but here's my Divorced Hipster Dad BBQ playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mbQo ... fd75984eeb

[Smith Corks One]

I know it's too late, so no voting, but here's my Divorced Hipster Dad BBQ playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mbQo ... fd75984eeb

Too [expletive] bad, because this happily married BBQ-lovin' dad would be voting for that playlist all goddamn day long.

[TGantz]

Theosqua, and especially heyzeus, the playlists in this thread could have been my own as well. Heyzeus that is almost song for song all of the ones I considered. Great options. Good luck!

I wish I would have remembered to add Nathaniel Ratliffe and the Nightsweats and Phantogram over Young folks and Home.

[heyzeus]

Theosqua, and especially heyzeus, the playlists in this thread could have been my own as well. Heyzeus that is almost song for song all of the ones I considered. Great options. Good luck!

I wish I would have remembered to add Nathaniel Ratliffe and the Nightsweats and Phantogram over Young folks and Home.

Young Folks and Home were well nigh inescapable in the Austin indie hipsterpalooza of the 2000s. I saw Peter Bjorn and John at South By Southwest! It was good. Those songs are perfectly representative of that era. They're good.

[Radbird]

Voting hipster here. I’m half a lifetime away from 36 and not divorced so not feeling the angst.

[Kincaid]

It feels wild to me that the era of music in TheoSqua's list is coming back around to some degree, but of course it's happened repeatedly with genres that go out of fashion, and the experience of hearing people make fun of particular bands for most of your life and then them eventually not being uncool anymore is a natural part of aging.

It's kind of funny that "Young Folks" appeared in two separate lists already. I guess the song was everywhere among a certain niche, but I somehow missed being exposed to that at the time. The first time I actually heard it was at a yo-yo contest probably a year after it was released, and I remember taking note of some of the lyrics so I could look up what it was later.