Are they a real band or just actors? They remind me of the "hipsters" that McDonald's would like us to believe patronize their blubber factories.
Oh, apologies if the couple in question post on this board!
― henry s, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
?
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh god those fucking ads. every time it's on i just keep telling myself "it's a week after christmas, they have to be stopping soon"
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
these are fucking awful
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplamoose?!
― henry s, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
enjoying the comments on their youtube page
SusanCollins4Senator (16 minutes ago) SpamI hate these commercials so much I may never buy another hyundai.
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
After a couple of 18-game seasons, we won't complain too much when they're announced as the Super Bowl halftime act.
― Kip Squashbeef (pixel farmer), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh god those fucking ads. every time it's on i just keep telling myself "it's a week after christmas, they have to be stopping soon"― hann am0n tana (some dude)
― hann am0n tana (some dude)
I'm starting to think that advertisers and networks have broken down and decided to make it Christmas year 'round. Hallmark Channel and ABC Family are still broadcasting Christmas movies as well.
― Rotating & Blunders (MintIce), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
no way are their commercials as annoying as this
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
serious question: at what point do ppl realize 'preciousness' is a really bland affect
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I say ILX pulls it resources together and releases a charity single called "Don't They Know It's Not Christmas Any More"
"Well tonight thank God it's that hipster, and not youuu"
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
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Poor Earth, Wind And Fire. What has been done to their song...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
MOTHERFUCK
― my little pony prophecy (will), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
weve covered this in depth on ilnfl btw
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
twee aesthetic has been barely held back from the mainstream for a long time. xmas 2k10 was the dam breaking. there's no turning back now.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
link xp
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
thread needs whiney
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
what i don't get is how this kind of fuzzy defanged hipster caricature has become representative of 'creative ppl' in general — like wasn't the point that everyone hated hipsters because they made weird offputting music instead of, y'know, covering traditional xmas songs??
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I suddenly feel like wearing flannel, scarves and knit hats. If I drove a Hyundai, this would mean something.
― Rotating & Blunders (MintIce), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
we've invected against this at ilh too
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
the girl is kinda cute but 'preciousness' is a really bland affect otm. okay yeah u got pretty eyes, but that don't mean you gotta stare into the camera like a deer caught in the high-powered halogen headlights of a brand-new hyundai sonata
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
last thing thread needs
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
was hoping for a poll of which one is more annoying b/c I honestly can't decide
― i have been otm (bnw), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
what is it that even explicitly signals them as "hipsters" or "indie" though? they're just a couple of youngish folks and one of them has a BEARD omg
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
fey instrumentation, muted singing, chintzy sets
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
like i definitely hate the "i heard Cat Power and i think i'm just gonna kinda ride that out instead of ever trying to really sing" type singing and it is kind of indie but it's funny how people watch a couple wearing christmas sweaters and singing jingle bells and go "ugh HIPSTERS"
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
post-AnCo attitude of wide-eyed [literally!] naivete
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
the guy pops out of the trunk and blows snow everywhere --> everyone knows you're not supposed to shut yourself inside a trunk! silly hipsters!!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
The female half of the moose is more annoying why because because she never moves her head she just moves her eyeballs.
― Kip Squashbeef (pixel farmer), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Behind every guy in a noiseband is just a dude who wants to cover "Christmas Time is Here" using a xylophone and ukulele, buy adobe slabs etc
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
santa hats that u can tell they're wearing 'ironically' — like some poor lil bro from wardrobe brought them out and they went "oh yeah, this'll be just perfect"
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I tried to lsiten to "September" but once they got to the chorus i had to shut it off so i could quickly compose a will before DYING
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's that thread from two or three years ago about how before a currently trendy genre dies it needs to have a band become popular who is almost a satire of it? e.g. before garage rock revivalism died we needed Jet.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
hi guys
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
hi! i can't possibly imagine what your opinion on this will be!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
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i think they're horrible people!
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy)
I thought that Owl City invading the tweens' bedrooms a year earlier had been that.
Why doesn't anybody really sing anymore instead of just kind of croaking a melody?
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ ilx buried my heyyoukidsgetoffmylawn.jpg punchline there.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like this band. here is a song of theirs i enjoy:
tbf i haven't listened to/seen the hyundai commercial because christmas songs generally fill me with rage.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe they actually hate hipsters, like i've heard that people who dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations are often the sorts who spend 24/7 railing against hipsters.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
they wont admit that in a commercial tho cuz it wont help sell hyundais
or would it?
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean, whatever it's not shocking that since "indie rock" is big-business/cultural movement now that the think most marketable to middle america is the safe/tame/cuteypoo parts and not Pissed Jeans.
i mean if Garden State/Juno/Arcade Fire was "modern indie's" "nirvana moment" on whatever microcosmic level which means SNL and car commercials 6 years later, we're already at the nickelback/creed stage of thangs.
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dunno this seems p twee to me
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean these people are hipsters like nickelback are grunge-rockers, which is basically just proof of what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
more accurately:
these people are "hipsters" like stone temple pilots was "alternative"
Toy pianos and xylophones add to tweeness.
― Rotating & Blunders (MintIce), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012
this is what we have carles for
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm sure the oppressive irony/sarcasm of the 70s/80s babies
grown into Gawker-readind snarko A-dults caused this backlash of SUPER SINCERE peter pan adobe slab nostLOLgiawave like Neon Cassette Teen Beach bands AND ALSO this cuet twee ellen page burgerphone music from kids young enough to see Max Keeble make his Big Moves.
so honestly we have no one to blame but oursleves
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
So is this girl's Cat Power-style singing the female version of Wayne Coyne/Jonathan Donahue/Daniel Johnston guy-with-cracked-voice singing?
And this whole debate is sort of funny because it's another case of ILX-types thinking a trend was dead or dying years ago (in this case the twee aesthetic et al) and now seeing that it's far from it.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:30 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― dayo, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes actually more on ilh but both places - sports fans for whatever reason have been non stop tortured w/these fucks for the last 60 days - girl is p hot tho
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
And whiney: I thought you were exaggerating or really scraping the bottom of the barrel last year for those post-anco band names, but then as the year continued I would hear people talk about "Universal Studios, FL." Seeing Pwin Teaks on a music site was the turning point.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw they have been youtube sensations for at least a couple years
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whiney do you ever get out of Brooklyn
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
last time i checked these guys were on national TV ads and not Brooklyn so?
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is the worst shit btw enjoy
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
pom*plop*moose
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
their name is pomplamoose? oh.
i thought they were the arcade fire.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 January 2011 03:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
we can take consolation in the fact that the girl is obviously suffering from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku
we should feel sorry for her
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
"pomplamoose" reminds me of this
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread is making me think about why i like this band so here are my reasons.
1. they remind me pleasantly of some friends i have in portland, only these people are rich because their youtube glories propelled them to car commerical fame, while my friends are rich because they have rich parents.
2. i like the sound of cat power's voice only i have heard all the cat power songs.
3. there's a lack of pretty female harmonies in the other music i listen to and this is fulfilling that urge.
also i've never paid much attention to animal collective/arcade fire etc. so maybe this segement of indie-hood has some novelty value for me.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
pamplemousse = grapefruit
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
On April 11, 2010, the band was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Conte discussed the "glitz-free" manner in which they record:
"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture, it just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
America should help n korea bomb the south for letting hyundai run those commercials past the 25th― infinity rebounding stats (m bison)
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp lol delusions
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
t/s these commercials vs. the honda vampy weekend ones
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
both of which are FOR SOME REASON STILL RUNNING
I can't even do this
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
hillfigger vampire weekend is fairly embarrassing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've never been to Brooklyn, btw
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
The people in this ad seem to me like they live in Chicago, for some reason
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw they're talking about the way their videos play out: like the kutiman "thru you" thing, all the images on the screen correspond to sounds being produced in the song. so like if there's four-part harmony they shove in four shots of the girl singing all the different parts, etc.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess they imagine a world where no one understands multi-track recording
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean you gotta sing it four times, right. like that actually happens in reality, for your four-part harmony you gotta sing four times.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
this girl is really ANNOYING amirite fellas
(no, she really is)
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
the reason i actually hate these guys is the proliferation of non-band recording acts so fuck their multi-tracking imo
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
the girls tuneless voice and lameo affectation is maybe the most grating part, she just really has no feel for singing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
the real question is whether the "images on the screen [that] correspond to sounds being produced in the song" were actually recorded at the same time as the sounds — because if not then that is some bullshit
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
insulting to grapefruit :(
― teledyldonix, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahaaaa
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wld disagree that she has "no feel for singing" — it's more that she has perfected a brand of singing which i have no desire to hear, like yodelling or black metal growls
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah no kidding vin de pamplemousse is some bomb-ass drinking fun, like white sangria but better.
xxp
― sleeve, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmm imo not only is the style of singing shes chosen unappealing shes also horrible at it
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
you know, when I listen to music, the first thing I always think is "wouldn't it be awesome if I could see the musicians in the studio playing all the parts at the same time" and then I found pamplamoose and now I am happy
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
also the fact that she spells her name 'nataly' is somehow infuriating
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
hardly a cogent criticism of pomplamoose, you'll need to take that up with pomplamom
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
they are so pdx it's painful.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
every time i see that commercial i'm glad i left.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
really, these commercials barely even register on my bloodboil-ometer, but that EW&F raping upthread is simply beyond the pale
― my little pony prophecy (will), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread horrifies me
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:42 PM (1 hour ago)
This type of indie singing is really annoying because it reminds me of the nose-holding chewbacca thing that happened in the 90s with Jewel, etc. Its not really hipster, but they aren't too much of any one thing because they are trying to appeal to and identify with youtube watching vaguely indie-minded young people. The whole thing is like this safe quirkiness and its blatant marketing intentions make it more annoying than most other stupid slightly less blatant commercials. I'm sure this isn't news to anybody but this commercial has been bugging the shit out of me for awhile and I'm glad a thread for it exists to vent on.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
my dark twisted pomplamoose
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am halfway through the EWF video and I can't even watch it, I need to keep it in another browser tab and look at it, because
we need to destroy humanity, start again, we have fouled this earth, blessed are the dead...
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 04:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
so they're a cover band?
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 January 2011 04:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
dayo, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ best post of 2011
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
evan I thought you were referencing a GYBE song and then I googled it and it's even worse
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 05:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
you turned the mirror on us!
but 4 srs, pretty much everyone watching football today was bitching about them on twitter, hardly limited to ilx hipster crit circles.
― i have been otm (bnw), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh wait, i get it... they made videos for a shitload of covers with intentions of going viral.
that's like a band who only releases covers for their singles. like what smash mouth did.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 January 2011 05:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dayo, Monday, January 3, 2011 12:24 AM (1 hour ago)
Haha!
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 06:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
eugh the ewf cover makes me want to shoot myself
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Monday, 3 January 2011 06:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think an unforseen downside to the shuttering/employment cutbacks of places like Borders and Kinkos/Fed Ex Starship is it's giving all their ex-clerks more time to create this shit.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
what clerk makes the worst bedroom musician
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh i knew as soon as i saw these ads that there would be an ilx thread about the incredible awfulness of this pair.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like I def 100% understand Hyundai wanting to hop on the "indie" bandwagon and all; but i don't get why they would use it to aggressively market to football fans
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha otm
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
The movie Juno was definitely ground zero for this kind of shit.I think i agree with whiney that we're at the nickelback stage of things, but what I don't understand is: as incredibly massive nickelback still are, i can go months and months without hearing them or anyone else with that "approach" to music...i don't have to go out of my way to avoid that stuff while i go about my daily routine among the general population...yet this pamplemoose kind of stuff seems UNAVOIDABLE. Will twee be bigger than nickelback? (and wont it be something if twee music eventually replaces the now obligatory nickelback/satriani-type music that ALWAYS accompanies sports highlights.)
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kinda wondered the same thing about Cisco placing the Ellen Page ads during games.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
def some insufferable indie types on ilnfl
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Will twee be bigger than nickelback?
ha i wanna post a chart of the college degree vs non-college unemployment rate as response to this. but i dunno if that would really be right, as an argument
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
in the twee to nickelback continuum there is also a chart to be made based on how far forward or how far back "band person" tilts their head when they are photographed, while still maintaining eye contact with camera...
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you're Belle and Sebastian or Camera Obscura are you a bit :-/ that you arrived on the scene too early, or are you happy for being the forerunner?
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 09:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Been waiting for this thread to happen.
― That's life in the world of shadows, Garkun. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 January 2011 09:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have noticed this trend with a lot of commercials lately. The Progressive ones with Flo have been running for a couple years now and they seem designed to piss off everybody. I think everyone has that one where she keeps yelling "discount!" over and over completely memorized against their will. Other ones include the Geico commercials with like, the pig or the woodchucks, just completely obnoxious and unfunny, or like the State Farm one with the hipster teenagers with the blank faces who summon Bob Barker. The Miller Lite "man up" commercials are the worst, yes people wear stupid clothes in public but the characters in those ads do not act like any actual person that anybody has ever met. Like it's the bartenders job to point out that Miller Lite has more flavor than "Light Beer", and then insult the customers. There's one where the guy who wears sunglasses cannot 'see' the difference between the regular bottle of beer and the vortex bottle, as if there actually exists a bar that serves both. Oh yeah, and the guy is so lame that he loves the song "sunglasses at night" even though he won't admit it. Just like a real person. You have to wonder if these commercials actually appeal to anybody or if they're just supposed to stick in your craw. I admit they do a pretty good job of that. I think these ones are kind of the same. Her delivery is so monotone and emotionless, yet I have no doubt that they're the kind of group that will hold a contest where they literally come to your house dressed in sweaters to sing Christmas songs and eat cookies.
― frogbs, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
why u so mad?
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think i agree with whiney that we're at the nickelback stage of things, but what I don't understand is: as incredibly massive nickelback still are, i can go months and months without hearing them or anyone else with that "approach" to music...i don't have to go out of my way to avoid that stuff while i go about my daily routine among the general population...
Dude, i live in ALL CAPS OMG HIPSTER BROOKLYN as sarahel and Owen P will point out forever, and I still occassionally hear the barrell-scrapings of the post-Nickelback universe—whether it be an electronics store playing a Daughtry song, or the theme to Sarah Palin's TV show, or the commercial to like any action movie made in the last five years
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jesus that thing she does with her eyes. She probably can't give a blowjob without being twee.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
*waits for that to be posted to o_O*
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah it does seem to be like the first thing u thought of
― zvookster, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
fucking hate this commercial
― but it could have happened when i was playing tesla (chrisv2010), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
who can you blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice? not just kimya dawson. though she has a lot to answer for.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
some people can make it work i guess. kinda like the female version of the horrible john mayer-esque voice that i hate though. all those dudes wearing snazzy hats on america's got talent.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Would like to see a parody or retort where these guys get crushed by 280 lb. linebackers just as they go for a xylophone solo
― calstars, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
that snazzy hat white dude voice has to die. really die. forever. even that dancey dude with the big hit has that voice. um, i can't think of his name. he was on the big t.v. new years show. hate that song.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
cooler than me! gah, i hate that thing. backing track is actually half okay. wasted on that guy though. ick.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
The girl is really] cute but the guy has serious problems. I think she is his slave
― kkvgz, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
whatever cuteness the girl has is obliterated by her inability to blink or show any other expression than "distressed ingenue bravely soldiers on"
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
reminds me of spy magazine's classic "faux-naif" article from the 80's. that was brilliant.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I tried to lsiten to "September" but once they got to the chorusput a fucking Muppet on the kickdrum pedal in the very first shot i had to shut it off so i could quickly compose a will before DYING
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Threads like this make me really miss Alex in NYC. Only he can truly muster the necessary levels of vitriol.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dan Peterson OTM.
I've never seen such joyless "humor"
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
the commercial would be better if he bent her over the sonata.
― but it could have happened when i was playing tesla (chrisv2010), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Monday, January 3, 2011 9:02 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark
ms pomplamoose does something to her vowels to signify "old timey". i don't know anything pre-rock pop vocal stuff, who is she imitating? with the close harmonies and all. ("why would you do this" being the next question)
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
guys she is just doing the blandest zooey deschanel impression the entire time. big doey limpid drownable eyes and 'old-timey' vocals
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i was thinking PDX or s mpls, tbh
who to blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice?what's her face from those first Belle and Sebastian cds, maybe...
(i also completely overlooked upthread that i do hear nickelback type sounds whenever i watch hockey highlights on tv)
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
i hate the guy in this duo a lot more than the girl now
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
wiki says "Origin: Corte Madera, California"
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyway this stuff always makes me vaguely embarrassed because i know and like some ppl that are really into this whole....aesthetic? like specifically the "twee boy-girl duo playing pawnshop instruments in an attic" aesthetic.
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait...it's that VU song! the "i'm sticking with you" Moe Tucker thing! That's DEFINITELY to blame.
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
(xpost) Close harmonies (Andrews/Boswell Sisters etc.) isn't really what seems to be the main feature here. (I have slightly more use for something like The Puppinis than this.) And it's not the Squirrel Nut Zippers type of Billie Holiday-aping, either. There's a deadpan artlessness of the vocals here that do remind me (as Scott mentioned) of Kimya Dawson, but I don't know how prevalent it was before that. Maybe it IS Moe Tucker!
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
this chick has adopted, like, the timbre and tone of, say, cat power (kinda warm and croony) but missed the dynamics altogether. like, she has a "pretty" voice, for singing in the shower or quietly in the kitchen or on a walk or w/e, but not a good one.
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
who to blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice?
Cat Power then Feist made it more mainstream?
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
compare and contrast: twee hyundai commercial vs. truvia commercial, which i think is performed by a twee version of "cathy":
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
What is more irritating this or the Dawson's Creek "I don't want to wait" 90s chewbacca trend?
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
how did chewbacca get roped into this? is this some crimes of lucas thing?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Cat Power stuff I'm familiar with always seemed to going more for dark and tortured than fey and wacky.
Yeah, that Truvia conmmercial is totally this:
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whenever they used to sing out an "R" sound it reminded me of chewbacca. Think Jewel. They were all doing that back then.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow that is so fucking twee.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
actual serious question: does backing music like this indicate "product is being marketed to women?" (plainly the case for truvia, wondering if this is also hyundai's aim)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow @ that video
― ullr saves (gbx), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sanford, Monday, January 3, 2011 10:51 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark
OTM. I was about to say Georgia Hubley, but yeah, it's Tucker.
― Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
So why do I love Moe Tucker and hate this?
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, some things are good and some things are bad, even if they share sonic features! You think you hate the sonic features but you just hate misuse of the sonic features. E.G. I like Garfunkel and Oates and I cannot lie.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Moe sounds intimate and this sounds highly over-produced?
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah its funny cuz i DO like plenty of twee stuff. whatsherface from the pastels used to do a total moe tucker rip, but i really liked it. guess it just depends.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's cos twee is fine in the privacy of your own home but kinda shameful in the public arena of shilling for car manufacturers
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
like what could be less twee than advertising - therefore you get false twee consciousness
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Research indicates the Truvia singer is Rebecca Zapen, this video is really similar to the Pomplamoose one, and all sorts of twee, and yet I kinda like it. Some of her other stuff sounds like The Roches, whom I love.
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd much prefer terrible music used to shill cars than music that has any value to me, like say weird al yankovic.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
So why do I love Moe Tucker and hate this?You should hate them both
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplamoose opened for the Dresden Dolls on NYE here in SF at the Warfield. I somehow negelected to attend.
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
i just started a thread about twee girls! but i like this for some reason. maybe cuz they live in spain? and don't sing in english? and i don't even hate their twee waking up in their apartment video.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
would actually make a really good car commercial ditty too.
twee girls are fine, twee indie is generally pretty stellar ime, this car commercial isn't twee but rather a feist knockoff doing christmas jingles and nothing more. twee is something else entirely i think.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
would you want tullycraft shilling for nissan leaf though?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
'the punks are driving EV cars whoa-OH!'
yeah you are right. i am a twee fan. calling it insufferable indie is the way to go.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like there is twee the specific musical subgenre and there is twee the ever expanding cutesy culture, these fools fit into the latter if not the former
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
What particularly irritates me about them is their seeming lack of enthusiasm for their own schtick. They remind me of when 60s/70s pop or country singers would phone in half-hearted psych tunes to stay relevant.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
its more like they think being nbd is a virtue, jus having a lil fun u know, virally marketing ourselves
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
What particularly irritates me about them is their seeming lack of enthusiasm for their own schtick. They remind me of when 60s/70s pop or country singers would phone in half-hearted psych tunes to stay relevant.He's too enthusiastic, and she's so concerned with maintaining that deer-in-headlights money shot look that she APPEARS to be phoning it in (she's really working overtime to keep her head perched on her shoulders "just so"...)
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
rhde
― Kip Squashbeef (pixel farmer), Monday, 3 January 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 17:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
And another thing! Why do young people want "comb overs" so bad? You're not going bald! You can have a normal haircut!
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Watching the original commercial is even funnier after reading the thread.
And the dude in the commercial is engaging in another indie trope that's long in the tooth at this point: ironic wackiness and self-conscious overacting
And that kimya dawson video is reason #34 Diablo Cody needed to be put in the stocks for a month back in 2008.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
guess nabisco really is gone, 500 mentions of the word "twee" itt not enough to bring him back.
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost -- that's what I meant about "phoned in"; it's like the guy isn't even sincere in his irony.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
the way she harmonizes with herself is strange. traditionally when singers multitrack their own voices, they're trying to make their music sound fuller, more polished, more professional, etc., and this goes as far back as Les Paul & Mary Ford wowing space age audiences with fancy new magnetic tape technology, or Skeeter Davis masking her rather thin-sounding voice. but with Pomplamoose, her harmonies are so amateurish that they only increase the awkwardly precious, off-kilter feel of the music, to the point where I wonder if she's failing at sounding pretty or succeeding at sounding ugly ( their 'Sound of Music' cover is as good an example as any). I guess it isn't so strange, though, once you realize sounding pretty in an ugly way is one of dominant aesthetics of old-school twee.
I wonder though, is elaborate self-harmonizing a common feature in indie-pop, either in 2011 or 1995? it seems like the kind of trick that indie pop kids shy away from because it breaks the illusion of a down-to-earth band laying everything down in one take. this song (or, rather, the Carousel's entire discography) from 1991 comes to mind...
but aside from the lo-fi sound quality, this is quite polished and professional, and it shows an ex Talulah Gosh member's attempt to distance herself from that band's reputation for shambling incompetence. it's basically the opposite of what Pomplamoose achieve.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wouldn't consider Pomplamoose insincere though. they're extremely self-conscious and image-obsessed, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're bored with it all. well I'm not sure about the bearded guy, but the singer seems like she must've watched the Vivian Girls' "Tell the World" video a thousand times and was like, "oh squeee, I want to be them!" and she got so good at aping that deadpan look and delivery that she never breaks character during the songs. when a musician's schtick is feigned unenthusiasm, it's hard to tell if they're genuinely unenthusiastic when the music stops, but judging by some of the banter tacked onto the end of some of their videos, they seems totally perky and into what they're doing, even if they come off as creepy and garish to me and a lot of other people in this thread.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
(btw I'm no Pomplamoose apologist. most of what I've heard from them is utterly meh, although I kinda like their Lady Gaga cover)
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
"their Lady Gaga cover"
Oh god, it was just inevitable that this would exist, wasn't it.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
but judging by some of the banter tacked onto the end of some of their videos
Wow, you made it to the end?
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
More than once?
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
with liberal use of the fast forward feature, yes. I don't have a will of iron, y'know.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm curious what youtube stars people would find less irritating to see on a commercial?i was not so much irritated but saddened a little to find keyboard cat shilling pistachios with "snookie"
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
but with Pomplamoose, her harmonies are so amateurish that they only increase the awkwardly precious, off-kilter feel of the music
isn't that on purpose? they're going for a lite(white?;-))-jazz sound. apparently the guy's dad was a jazz pianist
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would actually like these people better if they'd take the logical step of adding a bandmate or two and becoming the New Monkees.
― Kip Squashbeef (pixel farmer), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplam0n
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm curious what youtube stars people would find less irritating to see on a commercial?
Literally every single one.
― abcfsk, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tay Zonday's shilling for Dr. Pepper just made him cuter, really.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
ftr i find kutiman wholly enjoyable
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomplamoose
Genres: Indie Jazz, Alternative, Indie rock
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
So far, Pomplamoose is still somewhat obscure but has procured a small, yet intense fan base of fellow YouTubers. All it will take is the acknowledgement and approval of the Converse-wearing set and their fame catapult them into ubiquity.
Converse-wearing set
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys would rather see autotune news dudes + jonathan coulton covering joy division?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whatever. I'm (good lord) 42 and I still wear them. I wear a lot of other things too, but I still wear my Chucks. Sue me.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, April 5, 2010 3:01 PM
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
the singer's mannerisms don't really bother me much tbqf, but the dude's are pretty annoying.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, I can hear some of that (but how u kno so much about insufferable indie guy's family?) in the "Deck the Halls" clip, which is pretty darn slick and normal by their standards. but based on some of their more off-key fuckups, I can't tell if they're shambling indie ingenues or, like, classically-trained professionals playing the part of shambling indie ingenues.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't particularly care either way tho. just boredly ilx'ing to myself at the moment.
I wonder though, is elaborate self-harmonizing a common feature in indie-pop, either in 2011 or 1995? it seems like the kind of trick that indie pop kids shy away from because it breaks the illusion of a down-to-earth band laying everything down in one take.
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
(but how u kno so much about insufferable indie guy's family?)
i went to their website and saw this videohttp://s293116852.onlinehome.us/about/
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― naus, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
'when does the sex tape drop' i think is what we are all really wondering
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw I find her beauty mark gross
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
BTW, these jackasses are from SF, not Portland.
― Darin, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude its a mark of beauty xp
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
hyundai sex tape
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
have been hating these commercials all xmas break, tho actually just watched the (seemingly unwatchable) beyonce cover video, and they changed the music enough to where I'm wondering if I'd hate them so much had the commercial just been that cover. I don't know enough about twee to hate it in any articulate way, but I do know I hate that weird look this girl is always giving the camera, and that vibrato style. Obviously she can hold a tune, but it's like she's trying to *not* project, to sound frail or something.
The guy, I didn't much have an opinion on -- to be honest, he seemed really enthusiastic, so I wasn't for sure this was a real band, or just actors.
― Dominique, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
is it also hyundai that's doing those kind of subtle mashups between pop songs and xmas tunes? like they'll include the riff but won't put in the chorus which would be the normal mode of doing things. (like if you paid for the rights, you'd probably want to hammer it to the audience to get your money's worth, but they didn't do that here)
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
ooh which chain had those ads with christmas tunes over the "bust a move" beat? those worked surprisingly well
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah that might be it! I want to say target, but maybe it didn't work well at all if i can't remember if the gimmick was for target or hyundai.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
And while we're talking about other annoying Christmas commercials w/ songs: this Jingle Bells/Our House mash-up was on every other commercial and was driving me crazy.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
What happened to the good old days of commercials during football games being about slightly funny Paul Ruddish bros, and buxom friendly girls, selling us pizza and bear through kinda funny jokes?
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
the one i'm thinking of might have been part of that campaign
xp
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
*beer
Although the bear era was wonderful too
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
they sell bears in the States? you disgusting savages
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
ah too late
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
In this thread I found out that you pronounce Hyundai different over there. We say Hi-Und-Eye.
― sonofstan, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
jag you are
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're right, verizon is the culprit. sorry for blaming hyundai and target, and sorry for remembering it being subtle.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
chick is prolific
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Natalie Dawn Knutsen, performing under the name Nataly Dawn
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
h8 stupid youtubes w/like 1m cuts cause people cant get it together to speak intelligibly at the camera for more than 2 seconds at a time
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
cute girl, looks like my sister minus the cigs and plus some moles.
i feel bad for her being with the gay jewish guy. Other than that, pretty good stuff.
ichbineintoober 1 day ago
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
good dn imo
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
love that the new vanguard of "independent music" is basically trying to be a glorified lolcat
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
shillcat
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
i must confess i liked the lolcat version of the white stripes much more than the actual white stripes.(who were also appropriated by quiznos for shilling)
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
get in on the ground floor with pomplamoose make $$
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
make those pomplabucks
― kkvgz, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
'i actually thought it would be a woman but it wasnt *shrug*' is a p funny joke, besides that fuck these repulsive corporate whores
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
2010: The Year Corny Indie Broke
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's hard out here for a pomplamoose
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
'MUSICIANS WANTED' is such a bullshit deceptive title like pamplmoose wants to jam w/u but no theyre just shilling for utube, dreams crushed 4ever
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
is this the same gal??
http://www.jknutsen.com/about_us.htm
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
OMFG
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
j/k knutsen
nice find
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
SCOOP
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thank you for your heart for Europeans!
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
2005: Following graduation from a French high school, Natalie is currently in her senior year at a US university.
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nataly Dawn is the lead vocalist of Pomplamoose, an independent band recognized for their upbeat and whimsical "videosongs", a medium invented by Nataly's band mate, Jack Conte.
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
so is nataly dawn dawn or natalie
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
does it matter, pomplamoose invented steampunk and music videos, also the internet
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
is this gonna end up being jesus shit just like icp, i dont think i can go through that again
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
'dawn' is the mom 'natalie dawn' aka 'nataly' is the daughter
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
looking for love in all the rong places
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuckin magnets, how cuet!
Xp
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ice cr?m, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
well, as has been pointed out, she did end up with a gay jewish guy (not jesus)
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuck what if he is jesus tho
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
*thinks abt it*
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION MUSICIANS WANTED
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
this shit goes deep
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
OMGNFW!
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Who are the insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai ads indeed.
There are literally thousands of cities with no evangelical witness and even more cities without a Spirit-filled church.
i can't even decide which nerdy history joke to make here
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Jim, Dawn and Natalie Knutsen began ministering in Europe in 1996"
So wait, did Dawn and Natalie fuse?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
do u think natty is tryina con vert the gay jew to str8 xtianity??
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol poor Europe and their stark lack of churches!
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
i am sensing a gawker exclusive approaching
xp lack of spirit filled churches. whore of babylon does not count.
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
max why is gawker so behind on this story
lol xp
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol, i was gonna say, "max, this one's for u"
; )
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol @ all this
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey wheres max he should post something about this
ilx is the new julian assange
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Shilling In the Name Of
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
this family is knuts
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION BUY A HYUNDAI
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
ANATION
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
HYUNDAI'D ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
gold
Nataly Dawn’s Education
* Stanford University
MA , French Literature , 2007 — 2009
BA , Art Practice , 2005 — 2009
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
secret world of beards
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
lmao nicole
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
half-bored interest in harvesting souls
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whiney, thx for new screen name.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
more like sanctified lolcat, it seems
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
im imagining the pomplmoose guy happening across that herzog macro chuckling slightly to himself and rubbing his hands together while checking his youtube partner account balance
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
glad this thread actually lived up to title
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
"videosongs"?
― the bear in the bumper car (rip van wanko), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
#euroboost
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol http://twitter.com/#!/search/pomplamoose this shit is a hot topic right now
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
From that feed:
1000TimesYes Re: Pomplamoose RT @ichlugebullets Imagine if you'd told someone in 2002 that Moldy Peaches would be 300x more influential than The Strokes
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
rip big man
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol multiple ilxors up in the pomplamoose tweets
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
pom plassantinoose
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
MattHelgesonjust to join the choir, yes that Pomplamoose band from the hyundai commercial should be executed 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
is someone gonna break buzza's scoop or what hurry up ffs
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
aghaahahaha lmao @ice cr?m
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
is this worse or better?
― Dominique, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, January 3, 2011 4:15 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
;)
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
ws mom tbh
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
no shoutout, icey bro??
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
why o why is ppl who are not whiney locked
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
fake frowns
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Late to thread but: I bet they knit their own stage lighting and send concert announcements with bags of seeds and their t-shirts have public domain children's book illustrations on them and OMFG I HATE THEM SO MUCH.
Corte Madera? Ugh. Of course. Wrote her first poem looking across the bay at San Quentin wondering what the butterflies who fly over the prison feel like.
(explodes with rage)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/v/Q3_DENeBHWA&feature=related&fs=1&hl=en
― Cunga, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that one was dope imo
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, January 2, 2011 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the ads w/ the vampire weekend song irritate me and make me wonder why anyone would ever choose to sing like that slightly more than the pomplamoose one
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ok, the thread has hit the point where I ask someone to post the famous Burt_Stanton hipster breakdown post because I can't find it.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
pomplacircumstance
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg burt! I was thinking about that dude in my sweater the other day.
― Captain Ostensibyl Shepherd (kkvgz), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
burt was in your sweater?
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Swagger Wagon is Jody Hill, director of Foot/Fist Way, Eastbound&Down, Observe/Report.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Monday, January 3, 2011 4:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sry man that was wrong my bad
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
rectified btw
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 22:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/Buzza/status/14276861
gj buzza
― zvookster, Monday, 3 January 2011 22:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
In case you’re wondering if they are or aren’t a couple, they are. They live together in southern Sonoma County (they won’t say where.) They make their videos using Pro Tools and Final Cut in their garage. Hyundai came to their garage for the Christmas commercial spots. It’s fairly certain that their music flies off Myspace at high bitrates; no need for shelves.
With their recent success, they’ve been able to quit their days jobs and devote full time to music. They had great jobs, too. Conte was a composer for Google’s in-house corporate videos. Nataly Dawn was a hotel marketer.
For their recent New Year’s Eve show in San Francisco, they had to hire three backing musicians. It seems like they’d rather be making videos and recording. Who can blame them. Said Conte, “We have a very opposite business model of most musicians. Most bands and musicians don’t make money on recordings, and they only make money on live shows. We are precisely the opposite. We lose money on live shows and make our living on recordings.”
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
"We're also awful people," added Dawn before peeling the head off a squirming kitten and sloppily guzzling blood from its tiny neckhole.
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
With their recent success, they’ve been able to quit their days jobs and devote full time to music. They had great jobs, too
^^take it to the braggin thread imo
We lose money on live shows and make our living on recordings.”
how do you lose money on live shows??
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION DRINK THE BLOOD OF KITTENS
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/gershy
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
sexy photoes
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lose money on live shows = club owners kill them with hammers every time they walk in to set up
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kind of want to e-mail them a link to this thread just to see what happens.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
So these two are basically a cynical version of The Bird & The Bee, right? But without the songwriting abilities?
― Darin, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like Captain and Tennille with actual muskrats
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
like a couple fucks in a car comercial
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Her mugging for the camera is so gross
― Darin, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
would watch this version of the commercial
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
wd prefer that to pamplemousse
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
if the Hyundai's a rockin'...
― Darin, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
id b friends w/ these dudes
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
SB
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Only if you become friends w/ them long enough to talk them out of any sort of music career and that they should go back to their really amazing day jobs they gave up to annoy the shit out of us.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^ this
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Convince them Corte Madera really needs their baristas back.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:10 PM Bookmark
Presumably the backup musicians they hired plus transport plus gear plus maybe their own soundman or whatever else cost more than they make on the show.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
knitted animals on stage
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
cupcakes for the whole audience
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
security
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
lols
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahah hurting
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
I meant lols at ice cr?m, not that they paid ringers to lol at their shows, although I would believe that too
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha yeah hurting yr prolly right...god that sucks for them..if only there was some other way to play shows...huh, just a crazy dream i had
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've lost money on shows, but when I say "lost money" I mean like $5-10 because we were playing somewhere that took a lot of gas to get to and then not many people showed up.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
"We're not like popular musicians, we don't care about tacky things like money and 'costs of things'."
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
theez kids dont seem any more egregious than like most of ilx or w/e theyre just on tv or youtube wearing sweaters eyefucking the camera who cares they probably at least bring wine when u ask them over for dinner hear abt there cats and shit idk
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
lamp is quite right
do yall never think of some comment of faux-hyperbolic rage at a cultural product or signifier that is not to your liking and then think better of it?
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
nope
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 3 January 2011 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
cf: innocuous things that make you irrationally angry
ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post (xpost)
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
boredom. don't forget boredom.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
and lols
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/01/03/annoying-youtube-indie-fuxxorscar-shills-also-evangelical-christians
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I hope this brings on the tweemageddon where all bearded hipsters and frumpy knitwear obsessed girls are called upon and transported to a heaven filled with accordion lessons and ironic Americana.
remember, the guys just have beards but the girls are "frumpy"
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
damn, buzza blew this case wide open. bravo!
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
ironic that ilx's own thread revivalist would get the scoop on this couple being revivalists
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post
okay this has to be made into a board description somehow
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Buzza's People
― harlan, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:59 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not able to parse this
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
translation: do you ever hate fun
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
i just wonder if people ever essay some scornful thought/reply to these sort of threads, and then think...'oh forget it' and go and do something more enlightened
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
never seen these ads. this thread befuddles me.
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm pretty sure i was mad about chillwave but then realized i'd never heard any
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you are truly enlightened then you know that nothing you ever do will ever matter. so have at these hyundai dweebs! you're all just gonna die anyway.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^twee zen
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
cuz i was sort of going to add to the scorn...noting the way the lyrics are strung along with the melody in a totally haphazard way*, but my lack of music-theory knowledge caught up with me cuz it's kinda difficult to explain further and then i thought 'oh forget it'
that said i oughtn't to have been devoting my thoughts to this stupid song anyway
*i think this vaguely reminds me of 'the microphones' but again 2000s indie isn't a specialism of mine
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
not for the first time scott seward sums up my life view in a nice sentence.
― estela, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
twee zen koan otm. Scott Seward ILX dalai lama :)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
these 2 clowns are on my list
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
such a tbomb
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 7:32 PM
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think a fun thread would be imagining the straw men that are actually Pamplempeooese fans
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just sayin'.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
they also produced another insufferable youtube personality's album according to wiki
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Do tell
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, this thread - oh, this band - I wish I could unsee and unhear it all.
If I get deeply into pigfuck and funeral doom will it erase the kutesy-pootsey-poo-painey-pain? Or am I destined to forever burn?
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/user/jaaaaaaa
has been popular on youtube for a couple years or so
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Why is there so much of this pukey, little girl with wet marbles in her mouth, singing? Feist, this chick, and the other day some band someone sent me called Twin Sister who were rather nice until she opened her mouth.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I made it 49 seconds in. Cute attack rrrrrraaaaaagh
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Liz Fraser needs to get back in the game and show these wet blankets how it is DONE.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Kill them with knives IMO
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wendy O Williams carves them U's with chainsaws and smokes their hair bows
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
U's? Up
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Coincidence? Manufacturer of automobiles in a nation known for, ahem, *enthusiastic* christers hires Natz + Jesus II for car commercial.
― UndoneTone, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Number None, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha, pretty good
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
:)
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wasn't into this type of "hyper-twee" before, but now i hate it.
this band makes me want to kill belle. and sebastian.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:50 (2 hours ago)
http://www.123rf.com/photo_3129776_sexy-young-adult-brunette-woman-in-black-lingerie-eating-a-grapefruit-for-breakfast-in-her-kitchen.html
u do the honours
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-25163794/stock-photo-young-beautiful-woman-eating-grapefruit-over-abstract-background.html
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hallmark has only been airing Call Me Mrs. Miracle so often as it's their highest grossing film of yet, mostly due in fact to Jewel Staite's role on this. I'm not as pathetic as I sound, I just happen to follow the former Firefly actress on her twitter.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Seriously? I had no idea there were enough Firefly fans to generate those type of ratings.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 05:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
holla!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 05:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Er, ok, scuse me, I had to double check - she says "all year", not all time. Still, I think the correlation remains... Jewel Staite was only in one feature the whole year, despite Xmas associations.
It is a bit depressing to read her status updates time to time. She seems to be essentially retired, constantly tweeting about what she just ate to..what she just ate. But in between she'll reminisce about her Firefly days, absolutely morosely, like it was the peak of her life and she's never been able to reclaim any semblance of her former days since. Which is pretty much the truth.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 05:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
the straw men that are actually Pamplempeooese fans
― Captain Ostensibyl Shepherd (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jewel Staite is such a cutie pie that, were she not married, I would follow her not only on twitter but to the very ends of the earth.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oddly enough I have direct access to her Facebook account. Well, the "Add Jewel as a Friend" portion of it anyway.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^see what I mean.
Would start a tweepop band and sell hyundais with that.
xpost go for it bro
― Cunga, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I need an introductory and obvious "I'm just a fan, but not just ANY FAN" message to follow up with the friend request. I'm afraid if I just did it randomly, that even she accepted I wouldn't be around for the time period in which she realizes I'm just yet another stalker and she decides to delete her. It's gotta be witty enough, the message, for me to remain on her friends list for at least 2 hours.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
*delete me
thread got weird
― gr8080, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
congrats on creeping this thread up
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
also the pamplemeposse shreds video is the first one posted to this thread that I got all the way through w/o stopping
― gr8080, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
as bozelka suggested, orig. disco pamplemousse is awesome
― peacocks, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 06:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
fucking insane that this thread has four hundred posts in like a day. but yes, this shit is painful. so painful that i was doubly pained to find i that half liked the (equally intolerable) "real" pomplamoose song someone linked yesterday. but why? why do i find this cheerful, childlike, wildly inoffensive plinkety-plonk so face-smashingly hideous? why has "hipsters" become shorthand for "indie-liking white people," most of them cuddly-faced, suburbs-bound, would-be-baby-making non-hipsters?
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I actually think the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.
But I'm a pretty corny fuck, and actually I truly don't wish harm on these people at all.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
...the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.
thing is, i'm totally cool with that. i don't think there's anything wrong with the suburbs-bound baby-makers, and i don't want them to be any other than what they are. more power to them. but they are not hipsters. they are the opposite of hipsters. fact that the word "hipsters" has come to signify these people (well-adjusted, beard-sporting white dudes and the ladies that love them) is mind-boggling to me.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
^right. the more mature I get, the more I realize there's a lot to be said for not apologizing for who you are.
but yeah, def. not hipsters. Nerds.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
it takes guts to be gentle and kind.
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
NO NOT NERDS EITHER.
I want a new classification. "Lamesters"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
thought Corny Indie Fuxxxors was a perfectly serviceable label tbh
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
@T3mp3Tr0y Pomplamoose (sp?) has lost all hipster cred with those ads. So they're paying the ultimate price. 7:44 PM Jan 2nd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to T3mp3Tr0y
k1mho1combK1m Ho1comb
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
THE ULTIMATE PRICE
what is the ultimate price?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
spaying and neutering your pets?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cosign upthread, the pomplemousse shred vid is lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
this might be the worst thing in the history of things http://spinningplatters.com/2011/01/01/show-review-the-dresden-dolls-with-pomplamoose-at-the-warfield-12312010/#
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
the biggest slap in the face being starting the setlist with a trex cover and ending with a sabbath cover THATS OUR MUSIC STAY AWAY CORNY INDIE FUXX
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
"15. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Beastie Boys cover with Jason Webley, Zoe Boekbinder, Whitney Moses, and Pomplamoose)"
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
the more i look the more things i find offensive about this picture
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Forget what you thought you knew about how to celebrate for the beginning of a new year. Forget what you thought could happen with two Bostonians, a collective of YouTube musicians, a pile of balloons, two cannons of confetti, and two thousand lovers of punk cabaret. If you were not one of the aforementioned fans that filled San Francisco’s Warfield Theater to nigh-overflowing to see the triumphant Bay Area return of the Dresden Dolls, you missed one of the greatest shows in the band’s career, and one of the best shows of 2010, and, quite likely, 2011 as well.
u_u
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost: UNLAWFUL DISPLAY OF METAL HORNS.
YELLOW CARD.
YELLOW FUCKING CARD.
chillaxin beer bro challenges your call
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
who's the bloke in the bra playing drums?
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
think it's Amanda Palmer ???
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
also wtf @ tall dude with red puffy ski jacket and pyjama pants/1990 happy pants
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
but yes, mysterious pyjamaman is mysterious
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
This review pretty much sums up my experience with the concert. It omits some of the more entertaining small bits of the night (like the improvisation after 3 keyboard malfunctions or Amanda, while in the balcony telling a mother of someone that "this is no time to be taking pictures," and to "touch my vagina") though…
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
TOUCH MY VAGINA
words to live by
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
heard it was one of the best shows of 2010, in all honesty, and comma quite likely comma 2011 as well
comma UGH comma
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
comma coma comma comma argh
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:20 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
no way dude. horns get earned. 5th graders can chug makers
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
fifth grader chugging makers and paying digital tribute to our southern lord = dude
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
^truth
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok, true. get that dude up there in place of these squares tho imo
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like the c86 version of "twee" a lot -- somehow it's preferable with a dose of UK gloom/sarcasm and loud/distorted guitars. the 2010 iteration of "twee" (especially as done by shiny happy kids from the u.s. and canada) is just infantilism. i'm not a class warrior but i look at nataly dawn and think "white, christian, nordic surname, has 'good' (straight, blondish) hair that isn't a wisp out of place, her contented face signifying that nothing bad has ever happened to her other than the painless death of a pet goldfish." Basically, congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby. Goo goo ga ga. Ka-ching.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
...damn
― dayo, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 09:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)
though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 09:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Do pompalmoose choose to perform "single ladies" because they see it as cute irony, or is something more insidious? (a celebration of that whole Christian "virginity pledge" nonsense, perhaps?)Maybe i should also apologize for bumping this up to the top o the board...
― Sanford, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby.
lawl
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure they chose "Single Ladies" because of some stupid shit Beyonce said a dozen years ago, yes.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
is all of this ultimately laid at the feet of calvin johnson?
like there's something gratingly childish and infantile about this that seems to stem from beat happening, right?
like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit and then dorks that were "activities people" in high school thought it would look good for their college transcripts to have a band or something ended up turning it into this corporatized dreck?
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
and like ugh i'm challopsing but this shit makes it really hard not to get in a henry rollins mindset you know?
you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry but mad lols @ "these people are not true hipsters" upthread
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
the only time ive ever thought something along those lines was when i saw that 'teen hearts' video where a bunch of late 20s label dudes appear to be dressing up like 17 yr old emo fans. but this?? cmon guys. narc of small diff for sure. give or take a hyundai spot
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
look at these fucking hipsters
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
so THIS is what became of new wave, a fucking hyundai ad
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxpost, seriously
at least when most ppl had their GREEN DAY IS NOT PUNK tantrums they were like 15 not adults posting on messsage boards
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
amazing thread--may it indicate good things for ilx in 2k11
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
I almost want to get into it over this post, but instead I'll just recommend that you head out to your back deck and take a nice long look out at the community park. That's what I do when I want to calm down.
― Captain Ostensibyl Shepherd (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:27 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this breakdown isnt really any more defensible, but as an extremely characteristic post ill allow it
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
low level hipster in the pomplamoose crime family
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
the ben folds connection makes total sense
at some point pomplamoose will record the soundtrack to a dreamworks animation film scripted by the pitchfork reviews reviews guy and ilx will collapse in a supernova of apoplexy
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
you can blame the original true grit for this
― 2and2is5, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
picture not working but here is the link
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3288434432/tt0065126
― 2and2is5, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
pomplamoose was a hero to most
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― da croupier, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:12 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i have the worst habit of watching shit on DVR and then forgetting i can fast forward, drives me crazy
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost lollllll
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
isn't Amanda Palmer the lady that made a mint doing a 'pay what you want' album of playing Radiohead covers on ukelele? she and Pomplamoose deserve each other.
― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
who does neil gaiman deserve?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
Good call; I'd forgotten about that whole K scene.
The secret link exposed: wiki touts BH's "pivotal role in the International Pop Underground Festival, which brought anti-corporate rock its earliest mainstream acceptance." Cue crushingly cute waves of irony.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
We've sure put a lot of energy into this thread and I'm still not sure why. I'd love to hate Pomplamoose (firstly for mispelling a fruit I'm rather fond of and secondly for being from Corte Madera just on principle) but I find I don't have the energy.
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
my only contribution to this thread is that I assumed it was Feist appearing with some random bearded dude I didn't know
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's an advert!
So, what about that one that's "That's just me" about the Godfather 3, while picking a vintage Gretsch off the wall of a junk store, about? Hmm?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
...and don't even get me started on the Honda Odyssey / Judas Priest commercial. But that's a whole other topic.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Or the Toyota one where AC/DC is singing "Tundra-Struck!" That one split my mind open.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeh that dating one is weird, they are two kind of cuddly alt looking ppl too
i like old movieslike godfather 3
ok godfather 3 is not really an old movie in a medium with like a 120 year history
it's not considered the best one
it is in fact considered a travesty ruining the legacy of two of the finest american films of their decade
but that's just me
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
yep, that's just you...
oh sorry, you directed it? fair enough....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure there's only about 4 people on this thread who are incandescent with rage and the rest of us just love a pile-on
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
That Godfather 3 ad did lead to my family wrestling a hammer out of my hands tho.
sophia coppolol :-(
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's a new ad for godfather 3?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nah it's an ad for an online dating agency. I don't even hate Godfather 3 with any intensity it's just that fucking advert.
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
WHERE'S YOUR SO-CALLED PAMPLIMOOS NOW, AMERICANSES???
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
accents alone can induce stabbage at several hundred yards
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ah, (penny drops) so if you are the person that wants a vintage gretsch cheap, and a doe-eyed girl in a cardy who also has only seen the third Godfather film, then you had better sign up to an online dating agency, as you will not meet her in a stylised junk shop!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh and re 'why don't you fast forward on your DVR' - only reason I ever saw the Pamplemoose commercial in its entirety ad-nauseum was bc I don't DVR football games, and for some ridiculous reason football fans are Pompdepomp's target audience. Hence my irrational anger (though if you go to the irrational anger thread you know that not much goes by without some daily IA from me, lol)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:58 (8 hours ago)
see if yr going to hate on crap but innocuous popkult drivel, do it like that
a+
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
since I don't watch sports, if I ever see a grating or treasured-song/movie/memory-raping ad I figure it's my fault for bothering to witness the fucker
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^ irl lol at that cartoon..
I actually liked the match.com spot. (But that's just meeee...)
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost dacroupier not even the direst Rams vs game would ever make me feel like I deserved to be assaulted in such a way. But that's just meeeee
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
oops hatcat lol. Sea-hawks.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
yes
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Match.com more like challops.com amirite
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
twee beardos in between bike punks and ironic tees seems alright to me
though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nice try at ginning up another 400 posts of vitriol, but no Muppets on kickdrums, no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having. Pomplamoose infinitely worse imo.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
where did beret-sporting unicorns fall
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
o wait that's a baseball cap nm
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
hyundai commercial vs. match.com commercial
it's like rugburn vs. bleach in the eyes but pomplamoose are worse only because of their cultural juggernautics
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
"no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having."
i thought people here liked Elf. is will farrell inoculation against twee?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl.
I think one of the dominant themes of ILX as of late is how great ideas from the 80s have gone horribly horribly wrong...
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
actually the hyundai commercial was fairly innocuous the first time I saw it but they really drove it into the ground hur hur hur
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"exactly! i spent plenty of time w/ guys like this in high school/university days on long weekends at the lake, etc..Of course there would be the obligatory Neil Young strummery around the fire, but also drunken fist fights while Thin Lizzy's "Thunder and Lightning" was blasting from someone's Pontiac Firebird...
― Sanford, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
these guys are totally a subhipster type when they live in a major city!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
One man's stoner is another man's hipster.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Or something.
just read this thread and the fact that anyone in the world sees their harmonies as "elaborate" makes me want to commit suicide
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
that image is pretty fucking otm except the kyp malone part honestly
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Aw, that Match.com thing is cute.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah makes me misty with the implied possibilities
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
lmao
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and one of the big things about K, or at least flagship K-ers Beat Happening, was the contrast between super creepy guy with bass voice and ingenue (of sorts). It helps.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I was gonna toss in Beat Happening yesterday, there is a bit of this aesthetic in lots of K Records stuff, but it (they) always seemed to me to be more about inspired amateur cacaphony more than cutesy schtick.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i think beat happening would have died before staring into a video camera lovingly for hours
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
well now, maybe. but for real, there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this. what's baffling to me is that i'm pretty sure that being into bluegrass/folk music and accordions and going camping and shit was Not At All Cool ten years ago. or, at least, not a "hipster" subtype. they were just dudes.
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the comparison is way off, i don't see pomplamoose ever ending up in this situation for example
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Girl in Hyundai ad should rub her tummy suggestively while staring blankly at the audience.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
They Were Just Dudes: The American Bluegrass Underground 1989-1996 (Forward By Greil Marcus)
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
I may be massively projecting here but I am almost 100% certain that everyone I knew in 2002 who was massively into camping and bluegrass/folk music and accordions was also a massive hipster.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah i agree w/this--i think they have been subsumed into some kind of rugged outdoor urbanite model.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
(I mean, unless we are adding a scene-jumping/poseur element to the term "hipster" that isn't necessarily there by definition; there need to be some originals for the flock to copy, after all.)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
In 2002, people I knew (or knew of) who liked bluegrass and camping probably arrived at that via String Cheese Incident or Yonder Mountain String Band (i.e. hippies vs. hipsters.) They could have been sporting dreads. It hadn't reached this level yet:
(btw, that's the Roe Family Singers, and I like them. Not disparaging.)
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this.
this guy is david seville
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
dan, i think trampled by turtles is more that old string cheese audience, no?
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:50 AM
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:50 AM
well said.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
If ya got a dry bag for your banjo.... you might be a subhipster!
― Darin, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
(xpost) Matt, yeah, Trampled By Turtles too. Are they known nationally? Sorta? I think so, I have no idea. Yonder Mountain has/had some association with Phish (sorry to be cluttering up this Pomplamoose thread with my very limited jamband knowledge!) But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:21 AM (10 hours ago)
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:21 AM (10 hours ago)
see, i kinda give kimya a pass (and i don't like her music) for being an actual outsider. hyundai would not make a cheerful christmas commercial starring this person:
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
(I suppose my reaction to this particular branch of the hipster conversation is being colored by living with an Irish fiddler for 2 years and almost living with an old-timey musician who wanted to have jam sessions in our apartment in the late 90s)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
right, she only got her music into an incredibly popular movie that was nominated for a ton of awardsxpost
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
it wasn't incredibly popular when she got her music into it!
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
but it was in 2010 when hyundai was making this fucking commercial!
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
jbryanhopkins John B Hopkinsso pomplamoose is the name of that insufferable hipster duo on those nauseating hyundai commercials...more like pomplaDOUCHE. BOOM, roasted!7 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:07 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think they are pretty popular, like in that way that jam bands are like 10X more popular than local indie bands that get 10X the press...i think they might have a bit of that st. thomas/st.john's college dude "gear daddies" type crowd as well crossover (or dave matthews type crowd)
however, they are down with Low and Sparhawk but I think that's more a Duluth pride type thing
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
...with adorable white people with clear skin and no tattoos or piercings or 'fros!
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like people have forgotten jamiroquoi as a reference for insufferability.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
there is definite mix here of hill town dudes who grew up on farms and had hippie farmer parents and western mass noise/psych people who came from elsewhere to go to school here or just live here. everyone hangs with everyone. they can be hard to tell apart.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
that was in response to something way up there. i don't even remember what it was.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
that was so long ago now! i dunno, it's been a very strange decade.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
get bent otm, do you think those songs from Juno would have been so lauded if people thought it was kimya singing them instead of cute lil ellen page?
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
"But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids."
there are still tons of young non-ironic or whatever non-hipster rootsy people though. they just don't get the press, i guess. a gazillion dudes who want to be the old crow medicine show.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
like it's not about whether it's "ironic" or not, it's about them playing the same shows as a somebody's 8-piece indie band that kinda sounds like a bad arcade fire
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm beginning to think the only people who aren't hipsters are super-rabid sports fan d-bags, unless they root for an indie hipster team like the l.a. clippers or something.
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp i.e. being part of the same 'scene'
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:08 PM (28 minutes ago)
fwiw I meant "elaborate" in the sense that her vocals are overdubbed like 8 times, not in the sense that there's anything weighty going on there musically. my point was that the technique is a little unusual for the type of DIY indie pop where a live-in-the-studio sound is such a key part of the aesthetic.
but thinking about it more, it's not really accurate to include Pomplamoose in the twee/indiepop/C86 lineage just because they're ramshackle and exaggeratedly peppy. if anything, their gimmick comes right from hordes of solitary youtubers who post split-screen videos of their one-man-band covers of pop songs. and if the songs they cover are any measure of their taste in music, then I doubt they've ever heard the Beat Happening, and the resemblance is most likely accidental.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
omar — it's more like a continuum; there is no pure 'bro' or 'hipster', only various intermediate positions
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'd believe that they picked it up from feist, she's pretty popular + has highly bloggable video memes
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
(i mean the particular breathy affected vocal style here)
my posts look like the rantings of a madman
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think being poor completely absolves you of hipsterdom. i don't think it's a good tradeoff. just suck it up and enjoy your money.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
hipsters aren't the real class enemy tho
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
burn down a hyundai dealership or something, idk
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
im fbook friends w/ this tanning bed iowa state grad blonde event planner who loves hanging out in wrigleyville but has photos on her fbook that say things like 'look at this fucking hipster!!' underneath it lol
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dont think she even knows how to stare dead-eyed
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
tanning bed iowa state grad blonde event planner
because, really, who are we to judge?
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wish i was an event planner. baller dough
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm sure the "tanning bed" descriptor is far more important in her life than "event planner"
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I missed the Iowa State part and was trying to figure out which Jerseylicious cast member deej was friends with
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
iowa state lol
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:48 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
snooki obv
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
ws of ... shame?
I wish I was little bit tanner,I wish I was a planner
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
should i have whiney send her an autographed copy of *the book* y/n
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
"yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!"
nah, not really. not everyone lives in a city. there are still actual, like, young people out there who don't listen to indie rock at all and who play olde-tyme stuff. you might be surprised. third generation hippie family kids. ex-jam band kids. and lots of kids who just grew up on bluegrass/southern/country stuff. kids who grew up in the woods.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wish yall could have seen the ppl who came to the north coast fest in chicago. everybody really isnt a hipster. unless hemp necklaces & affliction (different people) are trending
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
your world of young ppl eh?
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
deejspatchs from the coast
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
as a kid who grew up in the woods, can I just say that the location of said woods is likely super critical to the likelihood of you being a bluegrass head or not
Like, I have 0 problems believing that MA woods is a breeding ground for this type of young pesron (particularly in central MA around Northampton) but it seems practically inconceivable to find a lot of these kids in the woods around where I grew up, where if you weren't a top-40 type you were likely either into metal or Christian contemporary (and gbx and I are from the same area so there might be a slight generation gap thing going on there although we aren't THAT far apart in age, or maybe I just wasn't talking to the right kids).
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
basically otm
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
kids still love their ~electronica~ jam bands & nas/damien marley albums
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
I haven't seen the Hyundai ad (guess I haven't watched much TV lately) and wasn't aware of it until I started hearing about the backlash, but I'm glad to hear about it because now hopefully a couple of my friends who have been posting Pomplamoose videos for months on their Facebook pages will be embarrassed and stop.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
feel like this thread has gotten away from its core of needless ranting
/alienated
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe they actually hate hipsters, like maybe they actually hate hipsters, like i've heard that people who dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations are often the sorts who spend 24/7 railing against hipsters.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:00 (Yesterday)
I've heard that people who deny the existence of hipsters (v.2011) are the ones dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations.
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
(and gbx and I are from the same area so there might be a slight generation gap thing going on there although we aren't THAT far apart in age, or maybe I just wasn't talking to the right kids).― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:01 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:01 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark
nah dan it was the same when i was there, too. i mostly thinking of these ppl in college in New England, where we had entire off campus houses of ppl that were the outdoorsy version of LARPers, all decked out in wool knickers and flannel shirts and, for real, quoting this one "how to talk like you're from new hampshire" cassette tape the way that other nerds memorized monty python and w/e. my buddy morgan had this v earnest whole mountain man thing going on, huge beard, woolen pants, flannel shirts, etc., that was not at all hipster at the time, but that would now be bloggable to some ppl.
also fwiw m@tt otm re: trampled by turtles. i'd never heard of them but went with a friend to a show at the cabooze and it was packed to the fucking gills. i'm guessing they do just fine on the crunchy college circuit, and that more ppl have their mp3s and jam them w/bros than, like, dark dark dark or tapes n tapes or w/e
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i thought it said "i wish i were an event planner, balling dough" as if he was confused and thought event planners baked cookies for events
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
as i've said here before, i'm almost kind of annoyed by the whole hipster-goes-flannel ish, because i've been called out for being a hipster for dressing the way i have for like ten years running. and i have friends that four years ago were all day-glo neon electro stuff and now fetishize camping gear from the 70s and Filson shooting jackets and stuff. get outta my clubhouse y'all. now i know how ~metalheads~ feel
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
how everyone feelsit's just sort of the new default state of culture
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
i heard recently hotel marketer is a great job
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
hi filson
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
"these people are not true hipsters" upthread
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
well, what i was saying is that they aren't hipsters period. they're indie kids. there's a difference, as well as a lot of overlap, but i get no intimation that these guys are "down with the underground," with the seedy underbelly, with the coming revolution or whatever. hence: not hipsters, just nice, pleasant indie people.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
...and now fetishize camping gear from the 70s and Filson shooting jackets and stuff
dunno about yr special brand names, but nice old camping gear is always excellent
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
i do notice a lot of overdressed guys wearing fingerless gloves that say "filson" this year
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
you seem to be describing "college juniors" more so than "hipsters"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
as i've said here before, i'm almost kind of annoyed by the whole hipster-goes-flannel ish, because i've been called out for being a hipster for dressing the way i have for like ten years running.
Wondering when selvage jeans with cuffs will make its way to Texas tbh.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
these ppl are yuppies they work in marketing & @ google they wear sweaters this is 2k11 ugh w/e
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
why are these people "indie"
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
they arent
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
because their music sounds like crap
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
down in the basement in the youtube zoneI was looking for some sweet inspirationoh well, just another viral bandwith hipster affectations
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
why arent they indie
i dont have a stake in this just wondering where u guys are parsing this
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
of course they're indie. their whole style (musical, sartorial and personal) derives from shit that's been bubbling up in US indie culture since the mid 80s.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
not it doesnt
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
What is going on the first 604 posts on this thread? I was hoping this was summed up elsewhere, but I can't seem to find that thread anymore.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's all they are. if the trappings of mainstream indie (oxymoron, but w/e) culture signals "hipster" to you, smdh.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't get where yr coming from lamp. these people and this music would have been instantly recognizable as "indie" in the late 80s, anytime in the 90s and on into the present. connecting points: twee, the adorableness of the ordinary, plinky-plonk xylophone pop, comfortability as a fashion virtue, teacups with winnie-the-pooh at the bottom, cursive script that looks like it was copied out of a third-grader's practice book (probably blue)... drifting off into the imaginary there, but i hope you take my point.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Someone said Ben Folds was involved with these guys upthread? Am I remembering that correctly? Because this sounds like a terrible Ben Folds Five pastiche with a female singer.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
holy fuck I just to their "Single Ladies" cover
FUCKING KILL THEM AND SPREAD THEIR ENTRAILS
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haha is this whole thread just "ohmigod these guys suck"? Should I listen to one of these (yay for DVR I haven't watched a straight live sporting event all season) just for grins or will the torment be too much?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
dunno why omar posted "my own prison," but i like that song
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you're actually tormented or offended by this kind of bland stuff i think you have thin skin tbqf, you should be alright. i saw these ads and recognized a few cynical twee-like affectations, but this still seems more like feist doing "1, 2, 3, 4" than old school indie, which is of course not really a specific sound but rather just a blanket term for a shitload of different movements, but has kinda come to be a shorthand for nerdish music i guess?
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
the commercials are way less enraging than what they did to Earth, Wind and Fire
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
none of that shit means now what it did in the late 80s or signifies the same things it wouldve meant in 86 or 93 or even 02. these kids are the standard-bearers of anodyne cultural mediocrity &c &c but what their ugly clothes and stupid music means to them bears no relationship to the tropes u/ilx sees them appropriating.
& i mean these kids arent even appropriating the appropriaters theyre just existing w/in theyre own umc milieu as it exists now rather than trying to freight their shitty car commercial blandishments w/ some kind of cultural 'meaning' theyre just 'being' ugh im the worst
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
What we're basically talking about is the general category of (mainly white) middle-class palatable non-aggro music. If "indie" is now the word for that, so be it.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
like, I was mostly looking at the length of this thread and going "oh ILX, I love how you overreact to things" and then I heard bits of "Single Ladies" and "September" and now I want to murder everyone and everything.
xp: Lamp, do you actually know who Ben Folds is, because their involvement with him basically makes your entire argument ridiculously wrong
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
just went to the youtube for their "single ladies" cover and saw that the comment
Fucking hipsters.kor9 13 hours ago
kor9 13 hours ago
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
THE MASSES HAVE SPOKEN
What is going on the first 604 posts on this thread?
Great that this was followed up almost directly by "Beat The Horse!"
Basically 200 posts of Twee C/D?, 200 of Hipster: What Is It Exactly?, and another 200 of various thread derailments.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
look i thought we had established that they were NOT HIPSTERS *throws cocaine mirror against wall*
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
here they are with Ben Folds AND Nick Hornby
so in summation, Lamp is completely wrong in every possible way here
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
other notable comments:
I heard this song on the radio today! In Israel! NICE WORK GUYS!!(it was broadcast on 99fm, which is a station that support ecological stuff..) :)onearmfrog 10 hours ago
You look kind of scared but other than that it was awesome! :DZziizzaa 19 hours ago
the worst fucking music i have ever heard in my lifeMrollins9389 19 hours ago
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― omar little, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 4:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
isnt what theyre doing a particular strain of indie tho
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
have no idea who ben folds is but how is nick hornby not exactly what i mean when i say they arent 'indie' or "'indie'"
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
also omar there appear to be a lot of thin skinned ppl all over the net going why the fuck are these annoying ads still on
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dunno i think of those two dudes as being representative of college rock more than indie. more frat house (lol i sure do hate etc) than lonely single unit in a dark corner of the dorm building.
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the ads are totally stupid btw, mostly because as mentioned they were airing this shit during the height of football season when normally the ads are all about how you're a homosexual with euro tendencies and mommy issues if you don't drink bud lite, or howie long calling you a pussy for not having the right kind of truck./
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
OTM
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
what kind of self-respecting frat would play this
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
college rock is the same as indie as far as i can tell
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hyundai Motor America's own web efforts, a holiday-themed video series starring Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn of polymath musical/performance-art duo Pomplamoose helped give the automaker a 54% boost last month versus Dec. 2009. The 44,802 units Hyundai Motor America helped lift the automaker's tally to 538,228 vehicles for the year, an increase of 103,164 vehicles or 24% versus 2009."December was the capstone to a good year for Hyundai, with our total sales results actually understating the more important gains we made at retail, where we added a full point of market share," said John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America, in a statement. "While we grew total volume 24%, retail volume through our 800-strong dealer network climbed 35%, or 115,786 units, with 90,349 of that retail gain coming from ... the 2011 Sonata."
"December was the capstone to a good year for Hyundai, with our total sales results actually understating the more important gains we made at retail, where we added a full point of market share," said John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America, in a statement. "While we grew total volume 24%, retail volume through our 800-strong dealer network climbed 35%, or 115,786 units, with 90,349 of that retail gain coming from ... the 2011 Sonata."
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=142338
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh god, the way she sings the chorus of single ladies — totally flat/hyperenunciated "don't be mad when you see that he wants it" — they really are the worst
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
YES! deej otm. a very specific and easily identifiable strain.
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:58 PM (5 minutes ago)
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:59 PM (3 minutes ago)
it doesn't matter whether or not indie is still "really indie" or even whether or not the people immersed in and representative of it as a culture are wholly aware of it. it's still indie, and it's not at all hard to recognize. and it doesn't encompass all white, middle-class palatable non-aggro music. a lot of that stuff owes to other traditions. indie isn't the word for this stuff by accident or default. indie is the word for this stuff because this stuff (not just the music, but the culture that goes with it) clearly owes a great deal to the 25 year evolution of american indie (from, i dunno, beat happening & sebadoh to sufjan stevens & beirut).
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ and yeah, that's just one thread w/in indie's Grand Tapestrie, but it seems to have been what won out in the end
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Hyundai-Pomplamoose campaign looped the loop. It went from odd to charming to familiar to contemptible to irritating in about 3 weeks.We can guess what happened. Hyundai discovered they had a hit on their hands. The campaign was doing good things for the brand and more to the point it was moving cars. So they sold the heck out of it.
We can guess what happened. Hyundai discovered they had a hit on their hands. The campaign was doing good things for the brand and more to the point it was moving cars. So they sold the heck out of it.
http://cultureby.com/2011/01/cracking-the-pomplamoose-hyundai-case.html
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
these ppl are yuppies theyre audience are yuppies and their music is corporate folk
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
First classic thread of 2011.
I'm taping it on my fridge atm.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
(feel like horrible things are gonna happen as a result of linking to these media and marketing sites)
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
pop music- aggression- distortion- 'image'+ affected mundanity+ loosely DIY ethos———= twee/indiepop/whatever
t/i/w+ evangelical christianity+ the internet- evangelical christianity- loosely DIY ethos+ shameless corporate shilling———= the pomplemooses
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
No results found for "nfl yuppies".
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
DJP thread savior TY TY
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah, exactly. indie = yuppies make a hell of a lot more sense than indie = hipsters. intersection point is whole foods, not an artist's garret and/or shooting gallery.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
...
you don't actually have a clear understanding of the pejorative use of the word "hipster" do you
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can we get back to yelling about them again now? :D
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
"corporate folk" lol gimme a damn break, just call it what it is
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
or don't, i guess
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
their music is corporate folk
In what conceivable way is their music "folk" (excepting by virtue of its not being played and sung by horses)?
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
So now can we talk about who's a prep and who's a jock?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Parsing 'indie' vs 'hipster' ITT is like parsing the tonal qualities of a car alarm. My point is RAARRRGH OMG MAKE IT STOP.
On the other hand, I love you ILM.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
contenderizer can field that one (not on ilnfl though) xp
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
bob dylan is corporate folk, the kingston trio are hipster/roots, pomplamoose are video installation
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
makes sense to me
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:20 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
i do. and i rebel.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Best quote so far from Zvookster's linked article:
She makes Zooey Deschanel look like Charles Krauthammer.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Peter Paul & Mary were the strings on Prince's guitarBut Pomplamoose went down more like Har Mar Superstar
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
do u ppl have jobs
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
other than your company, what do you think we're avoiding here?
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
har mar has o.g. am rep punk cred though, calvin krime was p. awesome
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys! Guys!
http://www.gawker.com/5785369/hyundai-hipster-couple-were-ska-kids-before-they-were-evangelicals
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/12/how_pomplamoose_made_me_hate_c.php
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
we thought she was just being precious but really she was trying to hide her ska evangelical past
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplamoose (ex-Skavangelists)
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
courtesy :
― Hans Peter Cutlassin' (crüt), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg so fucking fitting that they opened for The Dresden Dolls as I was going to mention them upthread as another example of a band like this that should be made to disembowel each other while being broadcast on a Jumbotron
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
indie duo cockfighting is a sport I would pay to see
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
nothing more annoying to me than a drummer who insists on not using a chair. i'm pretty sure noah lennox started this.
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
the deerhoof guy used a milk crate
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Most drummers in fact insist on a stool.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay, fess up. Which ILXOR is trolling the SF Weekly comment board:
Smedley_t_hambone 1 week ago
Don't you have anything better to do with your time than hate a tv commercial? Or hate someone cuter than you? What an idiot and what an incredible waste of time.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^thought that was so awesome
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
In re the effectiveness of the commercial: I kind of like the image of people angrily rushing off to buy hyundais and not quite knowing why.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
deerhoof drummer would be great sitting on half a pig
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
specifically that
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
woah buzza is the woodward and bernstein of pomplamoose
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh that video: Puffy Ski Jacket Guy is so much worse irl
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
if only those balloons were filled with saran gas
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
or saran wrap
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
The image of Don Draper just advocating for the usage of hipsters to promote the new Hyundai just kinda strikes me as wtf why
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you mean "drummer standing up" I really dont think anco started this, i mean ffs bands like the Fall and Big Black have had standing (and duelling!) drummers years ago. And uh I dunno, Moe Tucker?
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, but that trend didn't exact exactly last up until now.
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
considering those aforementioned bands were from the late 80's, mid 90's. I'm sure there are outliers but it's definitely a thing I have noticed in the past couple months whenever I go to the DIY venue here in town. p. much ever since post mpp
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
*early, not mid. whatever.
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dont get this post. i dont have the knowledge base as far as what strain of indie this is exactly but parsing the diff between this & sufjan stevens to someone who has never listened to a sufjan stevens album but has heard his stuff playing in a barnes & noble i used to work at, is serious hair splitting, in terms of the overarching aesthetic
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean, i think to 'mainstream america' this is indie. contenderizer (!) otm
maybe to indie fans this is something else now but
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hopefully they'll be dead with the year
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
scurvy, hopefully
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh my god.
You fucking guys know that hipster, yuppie and indie-person are all parts of the same interlocking venn diagram right?
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
im not talking about 'indie person' im simply talking abt the style of music theyre playing & how its presented
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
guys guys it's all car alarms
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dont rlly have a horse in the ARE THEY HIPSTERS?? contest -- just observing that i think they code 'indie' to 99% of ppl who have an concept of what 'indie' means
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyone who can't see that these two morons are indie AND hipster AND yuppie to varying degrees needs to take a cold hard fucking look at how they identify themselves
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't forget skavangelicals
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
But I thought hipsters played the part of vanguard proletariat revolutionists? Are you to tell me many of them are in some ways middle-class?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
loving this sentence
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is that a keffiyah youre wearing? look in a mirror, punk
I always liked seeing drummers who just sat on the floor and set their kit up super low... its an amusing gimmick. Haven't seen that in awhile though.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
(sorry to butt in)I'm two days behind on this thread - I just started reading it
1. they remind me pleasantly of some friends i have in portland,...
After I watched the first two youtubes, the hyundai commerical and as much as I could stomach of the next video, I decided to wiki the group JUST TO CHECK IF THEY WERE FROM PORTLAND OREGON
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is that a keffiyah youre wearing?
Or are you just angry to see me?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread is making me learn how to use killfile, here is my reason
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
I didn't know Palestinian Solidarity was a hipster thing.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
u hav a concept & its the rong one
― s1ocki the tripster (Lamp), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki the tripster (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:12 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark
ok im calling bullshit. if i call my lil sister up & ask her what kind of music this is do u think she'll say 'corporate folk'?
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
its the indiest indie that ever indied u lose
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 4:52 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
nah, i have this old-fashioned view of hipsterdom (no shock, i'm old), where you have to be self-consciously, patti-smith-style "outside of societeee (man)" to some extent to make the grade. understand that in current alt-speak, hipster just means "lol indie think you're cool fashion style person," but i refuse to endorse that usage.
i look in the mirror and notice that i am an indie listening wanna-be hipster in disarrayed retreat from his own yuppie birthright.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
deej otm
This is why lolcats shouldn't be allowed to register ILX accounts...
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
northface = to hip or not to hip?
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lamp, you are totally the Geir of 'indie'. Good to have you around; ignore the peanut gallery.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
what happened to the gawker post about pompskamoose
― dayo, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
. understand that in current alt-speak, hipster just means "lol indie think you're cool fashion style person," but i refuse to endorse that usage.
just because you want words to mean what they USED to mean makes you a pedantic dick. Yeah, I wish "hardcore" still meant Black Flag and not The Devil Wears Prada, but what can I do. You're digging in your heels about semantics and this says more about YOU than the the word indie, tbfh
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
i am not a peanut
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're smart enough to know where "hipster"'s been, why stake do you have to keep it from going where it's going?
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
unlike whiney i cant endorse any passionate opinion abt whether or not these ppl are hipsters
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
(don't worry, contenderizer. I'm only trying to coax more larfs out of Lamp.)
xxpost
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost oh look, capn "i don't know what a hipster is" has triumphantly fucking returned to another thread
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
whiney's p close to some 'faggot just means sum1 uncool' tip here
― s1ocki the tripster (Lamp), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol are u for real xp
more 'captain i dont give a fuck what hipsters are' u dork
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR OUR TIMES
like, when u read contenderizer say "i prefer the old skool definition where it means outsiders' or w/e do u ever just sit back & think 'why am i arguing about this'
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
i know, lol point from me, but u gotta draw a line somewhere
this thread is funny.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
just because you want words to mean what they USED to mean makes you a pedantic dick... You're digging in your heels about semantics and this says more about YOU than the the word indie, tbfh
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:18 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark
jeez man, i hardly think i'm being a dhick about it. i like a certain usage, hate another. this makes me pretty ordinary: we all have our pet loathes. and of course it says more about me than objective reality (man), wouldn't think to claim otherwise.
i prefer that my hipsters remain tea-smoking anarchist dropouts with a fondness for fringe vests, what's it to ya?
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, the point is you keep hammering this away. Like how many times are you gonna tell us you don't have "a horse in this race."
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:23 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah, contender, i was def harsh to use the word dick, sorry.
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the one time i said it?
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
u think i really have an opinion about this, or care?
"a horse in this race" makes me think of cutty
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
im keeping my real opinions about hipsters from you to seem cool!!
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
ill break down my real opinion: 'hipster' is the most boring possible topic of discussion, in 2010, and the fact that you keep talking about it, like it means something, is the corniest shit ever
excuse me -- 2011!!
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's the argument again? "hipster" is a pretty vacuous word.
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
arent u like some sort of hipster jane goodall reporting on 'the world of yung ppl' or w/e????
― s1ocki the tripster (Lamp), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just want to say that I think Pompaloose (sp?) are obviously trying to have an indie/hipster image but because they are soulless yuppies selling cars the image is just illusion and they aren't really hipsters, just ghoulish corporate apparitions of hipsters.
I am not an expert in this area though that's just my opinion.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
why arent they indiei dont have a stake in this just wondering where u guys are parsing this― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinki dont rlly have a horse in the ARE THEY HIPSTERS?? contest -- just observing that i think they code 'indie' to 99% of ppl who have an concept of what 'indie' means― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:50 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:50 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm not entirely sure what this argument is about, but i'm quite sure pompaloose isn't worthy of it.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:28 PM Bookmark
Here's a good summary:
So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Quite liked that "Another Day" one, but more than that might drive me blunt.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
When irrational anger attacks...
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki the tripster (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:28 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
no? that just means my peer group, generically. what the fuck is your deal
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
why arent they indiei dont have a stake in this just wondering where u guys are parsing this
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
the first was a discussion about indie whiney -- i thought u were being adamant that these were different things
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
imo
― Z S, ~THE~ University of Missouri-Columbia, (Z S), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
haw
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thx for the summary. Are they/are they not hipsters seems to be where we ended up and I don't think that's going anywhere. Hipster is like Communist - it's never you.
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Unless you really are a Communist, I guess.
Farewell, this thread imo
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
i meant graph, d'oh
― Z S, ~THE~ University of Missouri-Columbia, (Z S), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
A lot of people were actually members of something called the Communist Party -- do you think they knew?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah but the number of those people (in the West) <<<<< the number of people called "Commie"
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah but a lot of Communists got purged cause they weren't commie enough. So if there's a hipster purge lets hope Pompaloose is first up against the wall.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh, that's a little different than what I thought you meant by "it's never you"
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I haven't ever seen a definitive demarcation of what a hipster is but hasn't it always required someone to be of a certain means or station who dabbles in slumming of some kind, and what separates them from the others is that they can leave? like if somehow wearing loincloths and carrying around clubs became a "thing", this wouldn't retroactively make cavemen hipsters.
I'm not sure how what the hyundaimoose is doing is slumming, though. maybe they could have held out for a benz commercial?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
first they came for the pomplemooses...
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whiney why u braek heart
oh wait you can't see this nm.
anyway i'm that one person from upthread who was okay with pomplamoose, i've been checking in with this thread periodically to confirm that i'm still worse than hitler.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
nunez yr definition of "hipster", while not without its merits, is waaaaayyy too class-based to be what most americans have in mind when they use the term (imo)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp i'm super-poor tho so hopefully the fact that i don't vigorously condemn infantilism can be forgiven
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/356223/&p=311#246
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
My kind-of-point was that people tend to use "hipster" to describe people who are slightly different from themselves, even if they themselves are "hipsters" to 90% of the population. Only the truly committed vanguard will use the term to describe themselves.
(themselves themselves themselves)
Pomplamoose aren't hipsters in my book because they aren't even pretending to transgress. As deej pointed out, they're in the Sufjan lineage of wimpy but unthreatening music your sister might like.
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
feel like every msg board has a thread whinging abt this like the simpsons viking thing
the idea of them being yuppies & marketing hyundais 2 yuppies seems so ridic 2 me
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whenever I see my favorite bands, I just never think they're real people. I always think they're these musical gods that live up on clouds and only come to earth for the occasional performance. And everything -- their marketing team, their PR team, does such a good job at turning them into mythical creatures that I have no hope of attaining that level of musical genius on which they are constantly riding through life. That has always bugged me about the way bands are portrayed. So we try to keep it simple and normal as much as possible. A lot of people call [that] our brand, or whatever it is -- but for us, it's just a lack of one, I think. We try to just make it fun and happy and normal. I guess "normalcy" is the big word. And a lot of people accuse us of being hipsters for that, which I think is hilarious. They think oh, they're being such lo-fi hipsters, they're wearing shorts in their videos instead of a freaking Panic At The Disco, 18th-century fruffle shirt. I actually think that's hilarious, that when somebody's actually normal onscreen, they get called a hipster.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
does it have to be class-based? I mean you could be heir to the sriracha empire, and therefore your relationship with sriracha would be somewhat inescapable while still being loaded, while hipster-come-latelys can indulge and discard their mania for sriracha at whim.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyone discards sriracha mania is a fool imo
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
they cribbed that off section 25 ("our gimmick is that we have no gimmick")
hipster scum
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
i gotta be honest, the nitrates and whatever exotic preservatives they're putting in sriracha is worrying me a little.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah but did you see the tiny piano and xylophone, her hair and the fact that they do a Beyonce song?
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
no image as image is the most basic indie trope, surely, likewise attainable amateurism
― zvookster, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:59 PM
ditto for the henry rollins vs hipsters video
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
sup y'alljust chillin' outbein' normal, keepin' it simple
forgot to pick up our fruffle shirts from the drycleaners before the video shoot, but it's coolI'm only human y'know?
ppl can call us "hipsters" all they wantbut it just shows they're afraid of the realnesscan't handle an unfiltered glimpse at realitya day in the life of a youtube buzzband~
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
yup, you are still worse than Hitler
HTH!
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Doesn't it all go back to this? (Or has this been posted already? Sorry, I look forward to reading this thread.)
Amazed to recognize Jeremy Davies in this.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait wait just a goddamn minute
is there REALLY a hardcore band named The Devil Wears Prada???????????????
this is WAY FUCKING MORE INTERESTING AND ENRAGING than having the definition of hipster argument again
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Xpost: Booming post
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah they're like a 5th-gen screamo band
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Great post bernard snowy
What I have a problem with is the fact that someone will say "this is how we always look and act and we're not trying to be someone else" and think that is why they cannot be a hipster
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay we can push the button now, I think we're pretty much done as a society
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Devil Wears Prada got the idea for their band name from the book before it was adapted, and apparently get really butthurt about being associated w/ the movie, it's pretty hilarious
― washa flocka brain (some dude), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
And to think poor Mick Karn gave up the ghost today :(
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought you guys were talking about what a badass the anna wintour/meryl streep character was.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
SRSLY a band called The Devil Wears Prada exists?Oferchrissakes
Is there a band called Tyler Perry Presents For Colored Girls Only?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
And lol at being buttthurt about the movie association of DWP. Because the book really elevates the conversation
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
they have a song called "Assistant to the Regional Manager"
why did I think pursuing a music career was an unrealistic idea when I was younger
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
XppMy sister is an extra in that movie VegemiteGrrrl
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am starting a new band called Eat Pray Love (book, not movie fuckfaces)
I will play toy piano and glockenspiel. Need a mellotron player, Who's in?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Which movie, Lorax? For Colored Girls? or DWP?
I am going to drop my single under the name Riding the Bus With My Sister
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
XpFor Colored Girls
I'll play a grand stand piano with miniature pianos in each of my hands for your band
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cool, Lorax! I'm seeing it tomorrow: lemme know what scene, I'll keep an eye out for her!
First Eat Pray Love single will be our cover of Kanye's Gold Digger featuring guest vocals by Josh Groban
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Riding on the Bus With My Sister's first single is going to be a screamo mashup of "Bleeding Love" and "Move Bitch"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hey we should tour together. Maybe see if the Dresden Dolls need a couple of exciting upstart openers
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
A++++ band name btw DJP
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
haa this thread irl turned into deej & whiney fighting abt parsing indie/hipster, you guys *shrugs/freezeframe*
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:50 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^WHY ISNT THIS LINK WORKING
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
loool underrated joke hurting, well played
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
loool:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pomplamoose+gawker+ska
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
"grown up ska kids" is way more OTM than hipster/indie
was thinking i dont even have any idea what a grown up ska kid would be like then i realized yeah i do and basically yes otm
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
for the record my first live show was a skankin' pickle show.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys dont have any idea what youre talking abt pamplmose arent indie/hipster/yuppie/normals theyre grown up ska kids, get one clue ffs jeez stupid message board
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
they prob rode their vespas to their great jobs at google and shit
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
would someone worse than hitler innocuously drop this link in the thread?
xylophone & toy piano within first twenty seconds = invasion of poland iirc
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Anyone been noticing the juvenile/excessively negative utube comments? Think they'll act as any sort of deterrence, or promote the band to far greater heights? It's sort of hard to ridicule these dudes without making an ass of yourself.
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gr8080, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:28 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^^^
― dayo, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
cross post in tracer's cutesy artsy shit thread
― dayo, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
grown up ska kids
truth bomb
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Great thread, thank you for the LOLs and Halo Benders Real Stories of the Highway Patrol footage. Yeah, I hear more Beat Happening in M.I.A. than in anything else these days.
Wrong age and hair.
Blame the director: Diablo wanted classic rock.
Also: A kind word for Kimya: She played an amazing (I'm imagining unpaid) set at the memorial show for Eyedea at First Avenue, and for a not entirely enthusiastic crowd.
And I wouldn't knock the amateurish blank vocal thing handed down from Mo Tucker through the Shop Assistants/Heather from Beat Happening/etc. (call it twee if you want) to bands that will probably abuse it because the moving thing in the great ones is how vulnerable the approach can make the vocalists seem, one reason the Owls are/were awesome.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm surprised no one's coined the term "yupster" yet
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
help, i've realized i'm a Yindie (or am i a yupster?)
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
i don't have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the bathetic infatuation with clumsy frailty and endearing failure, as communicated by amateurish blankness and infantile affectation - has been exploited to death for decades by indie and post-indie and would-be-indie everything. in movies like juno and thumbsucker, on indie prints and greeting cards featuring awkward line drawings of birds (currently on sale in a bunch tiny shops on 5h in park slope), in back issues of mcsweeney's, in album after pitchfork-approved album of wounded & comforting soft sweater teatime glockenspiel music listened to, most likely, by someone you know and love. it's by no means an ineffective artistic stance: it works, communicates, gets a feeling across. but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.
this hyundai ad is just the they live moment - the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses and see what's really been going down.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp oh.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost lock fucking thread
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
contenderizer just dropped the 2012 of t-bombs
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
p sure it turned into me not arguing about that
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess i cant really post in any thread that also involves whiney w/out being accused of beefing w/ him at this point tho
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Game recognize game tbh
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Witnessing the birth of the modern indie reformation ITT
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's funny all the people bringing portland up, as i brought this shit up on ILH specifically when we were talking about regional advertising during basketball games and i was complaining about this nonsense thinking it was for a local portland hyundai dealer.
― lenonsense (Clay), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 08:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
hipsters is national, clay
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
still lolling at lamp as lolcat w ninja style typing skills. cats has opinions!
so easily amused...
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lousy beatniks
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 10:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.
i.e. it's gone mainstream, like melisma or punk guitar distortion.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 1:39 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 1:39 AM Bookmark
agree with this btw
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Instant classic post.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Also, they are xtian, so it's literally The Devil they are talking about.
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
You kids. I feel your pain, I'm just recognizing suddenly that it's your pain, not mine--and I'm somebody who for a while was keeping tally of how many indie films were being ruined by "indie" soundtracks. Is this an age/identity thing? I'm happy to see indie killed dead, my God, so "I'm Sticking With You" (playing in my head since '84) and Jamboree (since '92) can go back to being punk rock, or rock and roll, or whatever.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw I love this song
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean "beyond played" is really the language of outlining what's cool. You're still in the dream, pardner.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost, yeah, this thread has introduced me to a few babies I wouldn't throw out with the bathwater...
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
if car companies are looking for some twee amateurish cover songs to use in their ads they should check out this old favorite. i think it could be a hit.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
really makes me yearn for the days when indie meant this
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
you know what will make you forget all about these drab car dweebs? this!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah!
go man go!
all i know is i wanna cum in that slut's pomplamouth
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
and... scene
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
i could easily disprove this but then i'd be The Guy Who Knows Too Much About Porn― Princess TamTam, Monday, January 3, 2011
― Princess TamTam, Monday, January 3, 2011
all i know is i wanna cum in that slut's pomplamouth― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, January 5, 2011
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, January 5, 2011
theorum proven.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
idgi
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
typ
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Holy moly at the Tielman Brothers--you know my catnip.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the bathetic infatuation with clumsy frailty and endearing failure, as communicated by amateurish blankness and infantile affectation - has been exploited to death for decades by indie and post-indie and would-be-indie everything. in movies like juno and thumbsucker, on indie prints and greeting cards featuring awkward line drawings of birds (currently on sale in a bunch tiny shops on 5h in park slope), in back issues of mcsweeney's, in album after pitchfork-approved album of wounded & comforting soft sweater teatime glockenspiel music listened to, most likely, by someone you know and love. it's by no means an ineffective artistic stance: it works, communicates, gets a feeling across. but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.this hyundai ad is just the they live moment - the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses and see what's really been going down.
just in case this goes into the fold
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
I really want to repost that somewhere -- is there some kind of an "all time classic posts" thread?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
truth bombs
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Summing-up-things-I-have-been-trying-to-put-my-finger-on-for-five-years bombs
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i should know better than to get sucked into a pomplamoose convo (they are wretched obv), but hes wrong - "so far beyond played" is meaningless except to say "i'm bored of this thing that a lot of other people like", which all of you of course agree with because only insanely jaded music blogger dorks post here
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
rong
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
ya im right sorry :-/
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyway im out cuz this is 2 much ilm posting for me for one month but everyone just marinate on my rightness
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Calling out a music board post for having an element of subjectivity is so far beyond played.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
hipster is such a cop out term, let it be people...
*swags out of post smoking an Earl Grey cigarette, rocking skinny overalls and a divining rod*
― natlawdp, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Hey, some people like this." Oh. Sorry. Lock thread.
this commercial's success has inspired me to form a group called Aubergine featuring a girl with Marfan syndrome and a retarded guy
― akm, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
marfan's is pretty played, dude
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey man just because u are sick of marfan syndrome doesn't mean....
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ausberginers syndrome
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think I'll use this opportunity to post superior Bird & Bee covers.
― Darin, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
just did a quick fb search and the first things that came up were "pomplamoose suck (person)", "i hate pomplamoose (community)", and "pomplamoose sucks (community)"
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Bird & The Bee >>> The Turd & The Grapefruit
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OBL-Bo2i-iIJ:www.myspace.com/aubergineband+aubergine+band&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
(because the profile was "under maintenance, here's the cached page)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I really want to repost that somewhere -- is there some kind of an "all time classic posts" thread?"
i started this one for the tenth anniversary of anti-hipster vitriol:
In Honor Of ILX Being Ten, How About Some Quotable Posts Of Yore.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is how you do it, baby people!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
the thing that *really* bothers me about this stuff:
i grew up in the 80s and early 90s, in a bumfuck town. all the music i knew grewing up was 80s metal/pop metal, nothing but until rap came up...but everything was macho and hard basically....not that there weren't pathos in pop metal balladry, but there was something different about it more like "BABE WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I'm GONNA GET WASTED AND SHOOT BBGUNS AT POP BOTTLES", or at least that's how it was to us, it was sort of a romantic idea of being sad, the way that you can only feel when you are young enough to not understand that things have consequences
when i first got a hint of "indie"sadness-- like just little glimpses like the song "they'll need a crane" by they might be giants, or the song "romeo had juliette" by lou reed (these were just the little bits i would see on MTV), it was this sense of experiencing something new, like real life sadness, the idea that you would have to grow up and leave your little town and face real stuff that wasn't always gonna work out the way you wanted it to...like it really affected me pretty strong,
now like contenderizer said, it's sort of this horror show zombie emotion, like fucking poignant commercials for insurance companies, the whole thing isn't bad cuz it cheapens indie rock, it's bad cuz it ad agencies are so hip and cool and good production values now, it almost cheapens the *idea* of emotions and feeling to me....
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
All I know is that we don't have these issues in Roots Rock land.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Let's hope the ad execs don't figure out neck beards might like Hyundais.
― Darin, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
all the music i knew grewing up was 80s metal/pop metal, nothing but until rap came up...but everything was macho and hard basically....not that there weren't pathos in pop metal balladry, but there was something different about it more like "BABE WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I'm GONNA GET WASTED AND SHOOT BBGUNS AT POP BOTTLES
i grew up in the 80s. most of the dominant pop music -- in tone and lyrics -- had this uniquely 80s triumphalism. i guess we were collectively shaking off the feelings of US decline or defeatism in the 70s. in retrospect, it feels like the 80s had a lot of supposedly underground twee (or maybe "proto-twee") acts, but i don't really see bands like, say, the smiths as the grandfathers of the twee movement.
twee can be beautiful and moving. but there's a thin line between beautiful/moving twee and using the twee genre as cover for poor amaturism and poor songwriting and performance. i feel like this pomplamoose act is on the latter side of that divide, but what you see depends on where you sit, i suppose.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
well, i can't say "we" were shaking anything off. that's just how it felt to me at the time.
"it's bad cuz it ad agencies are so hip and cool and good production values now, it almost cheapens the *idea* of emotions and feeling to me...."
i think ad agencies have done a pretty good job at cheapening stuff for a while now.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
you know, the arrangement on that pimplemoose beat it cover isn't horrible. the tinkertoy shit and her voice are bad, but it does show some level of, um, craft or whatever.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
who was that indie band from the 80's that played all toy instruments? from boston?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pianosaurus.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bands that enrage you
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's a similar dude (I don't think it's a band) called Self — I'll post his "What a Fool Believes" cover if I can find it
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
('similar' in the sense of 'all toy instruments')
this thread needs more rita pavone singing and dancing with a hammer
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
honestly I don't hate this — dude sounds breathy but I think that's just because his voice isn't that strong and it's a really fuckin' hard song to sing!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
that Self cover is kind of great, actually
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
love her
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorta like this, might have to start using it:
Did Michael McDonald invent the word "nostalgite" (combination of naivete and nostalgia) in this song?I like it but I think it's a bit too close the original especially in the vocals.roesmoker 2 months ago@roesmoker ha ha, I am an idiot, according to random lyrics on the internet that is actually "nostalgic tale" - I always thought it was nostalgite. A Kiss That Guy moment for me!roesmoker 2 months ago
@roesmoker ha ha, I am an idiot, according to random lyrics on the internet that is actually "nostalgic tale" - I always thought it was nostalgite. A Kiss That Guy moment for me!roesmoker 2 months ago
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
they just don't make pixie spark plugs like they used to
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
beat this outfit you twee fuckers!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
As an advertising professional, I ask you...do hipsters care about deck protection? Do Pamplamoose fans understand the damage water can do to an unprotected deck?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
only like a 1/5 of the way through the thread but i have to giggle at
i think the ads are totally stupid btw, mostly because as mentioned they were airing this shit during the height of football season when normally the ads are all about how you're a homosexual with euro tendencies and mommy issues if you don't drink bud lite, or howie long calling you a pussy for not having the right kind of truck./― omar little, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― omar little, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
real men drink 'lite' beer.
― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
x-post to bernard - yeah, self was a single dude in the studio, but I knew a bunch of the guys that toured with him as his back up band
― Darin, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
i bet Pamplamoose own a deck
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is it wrong that I am basically like "oh, an Italian Shirley Bassey" with Rita Pavone?
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes imo
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
marine girls + sarah records circa 1965. so beautiful.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Think Blossom Dearie doing "I'm Hip" is patient zero.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
(t darin — makes sense. he/they're a hard act to google!)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:21 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
those miller lite commercials where the hot bartender chicks call dudes pussies are so bizarre
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
real men drink 'lite' beer.Empirical studies have shown that Americans have lousy taste in beer
― Sanford, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wonder how much lite beer it would take to get me drunk? it would have to be a lot, i'll bet.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't catch the 3.2 flu
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Start counting!
― Sanford, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thanks for those songs Scott! They are beautiful.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
can't remember the last time i had a trad dad american piss beer. probably a pbr. cuz i'm hip like that. but it was a long time back.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, aren't those great! glad you enjoyed them. they were ahead of their twee time.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
60's twee is so much more enthusiastic than modern twee!
― Darin, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Indeed
― grandavis, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's something inherently bored about modern twee. detached.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
since they're obvs the Buzz Band of the mome, I can't wait for their return next Holiday Season (with Baby Pomplemoose in tow)
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rita Pavone is a Sanpaku sufferer, too. Weird.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think it's sanpaku when you're tilting your head down.
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's a similar dude (I don't think it's a band) called Self — I'll post his "What a Fool Believes" cover if I can find it― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 5:11 PM (56 minutes ago)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 5:11 PM (56 minutes ago)
just to clarify, dude only did that toys only thing for one album called gidzmodgery. i know this will seem hard to believ3e but the live touring band was totally fucking full of fierce awesome musicians.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
fiercely bashing their toy pianos
― Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
I can't wait for their return next Holiday Season (with Baby Pomplemoose in tow)
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:53 AM (23 minutes ago)
with chilling inevitability
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I played in band with self's touring drummer back in the early 90's when he was slumming with crap musicians like myself!
― Darin, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
like fucking poignant commercials for insurance companies, the whole thing isn't bad cuz it cheapens indie rock, it's bad cuz it ad agencies are so hip and cool and good production values now, it almost cheapens the *idea* of emotions and feeling....
Not sure much has changed since Don Draper days.
Which isn't to take away from your hate, which I love.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
I feel like I have read somewhere a philosopher or sociologist saying the same basic thing but way pre-indie-music -- in fact I think he said that irony and cynicism were reactions to this cheapening by advertising, although now irony and cynicism are a huge part of advertising.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
many xposts, but leave los camp! out of this imo. their commercial is for regular not lite beer, after all.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
no
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
kind of surprising to think we're over half a decade removed from iron & wine being used in m&m commercials, also this is at least four years old:
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
well thanks for that
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
you shouldn't let me have good things
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow, they must be filtering their comments with a fine tooth comb every 5 minutes
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
why do I always get otherworldly help preventing me from being banned?!
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
the only thing pomplamoose can do now is some kind of double reverse fakeout sort of thing and put this thread in their electronic press kit; kind of like how Robert Fripp would put all those years of accumulated bad reviews in the liner notes of Crimson anthologies.
― Sanford, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
heh, I think fripp is OCD or something
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cap'n I love your enthusiasm but that was probly not cool.
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yep.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Shirley Pavone Bong Water; she's not twee, she's tweeeeeeeeisted.
― natlawdp, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
bf and me, in bed last night, after having read and discussed this thread:
bf: "can't sleep?"me: "no! i can't stop thinking about our favorite master race pod people!"
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
or Rita (either will do, but Rita actually put it on her album cover...)
― natlawdp, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp to Hurting 2:
TV cheapening life was like 50 percent of the humor of Laugh-In and early SNL, and of course a big part of punk. The main difference between the gag reflex here and the one greeting "This car is like punk rock" in '92 or the Minutemen Volvo ad in '00 is there isn't so much any objection (at least that I've seen on this thread) to bands whoring for automobiles, or even bands whoring for automobiles with an aesthetic rooted in an anti-corporate ethos (which was a shock for me as recently as a decade ago, but became less so as Low appeared in Target commercials, etc.). The objection seems to be to bands whoring for automobiles with an aesthetic rooted in an anti-corporate ethos when:1.) the band is bad, putting the worst face on the aesthetic or highlighting its abuses, or2.) the aesthetic is no longer "cool" because it's everywhere, embraced by people with jobs and kids, or3.) some masochistic combination of the two where you see an aesthetic both being ruined and further ruining the culture.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the objection when applied to a beloved band like hum is that the commercial isn't flattering to them, rather than a cry of sellout but there is still an objection. if movies have the power to uplift songs than certainly commercials have the power to ruin them.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
er then i mean. not that movies don't uplift songs more than commercials most of the time (c.f. every use of "walking on sunshine" in movies versus commercials)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
embraced by people with jobs and kids
Yes, god forbid those absolutely awful people with jobs and kids like music. Fuck them.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
really the main objection is "couldn't this shit have just stayed on youtube where it belongs instead of invading all our televisions 94/7 for the last month"
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
The song reddening posted is currently stuck in my head.
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp like i don't think anybody's really like "hyundai ruined the pommelmice!" or "hipsters ruined my favorite christmas songs!" or w/e — some wires got crossed somewhere in our culture, a few cheezeballs found a new favorite band, and now the rest of us can begin repressing this memory and getting on with our lives
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
i complained abt these dudes when they were just on utube and i think i deserve recognition
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
to officially recognize your achievements in this area I offer you the following jpg
― Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
ty so much!
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://blog.sharethrough.com/advertising/viral-advertising-working-in-reverse
For the first several years of online video’s boom, most brands took the logical route of syndicating their television commercials online. Gradually, though, brands have started embracing the creative freedom (and longer runtimes) afforded by online video, and have begun to create original, unique, and terribly entertaining videos specifically for that venue and that audience.
And with a new series of commercials from Hyundai, we may finally have come full circle. Hyundai hired a couple of viral video stars--the musical group Pomplamoose--to serve as their holiday spokespersons. You may have seen the commercials like this one:
Now, instead of old television commercials being repurposed as “viral videos,” we have viral video stars being hired to help make better television commercials.
This interview with the band says that not only did Hyundai make a bold leap by hiring the YouTube stars, but they also gave the pair complete and total creative freedom.
“They were actually awesome to work with. They totally let us do our thing. In our contract, it specified that they were not allowed to be in the room while we were filming, which was amazing. If we have 10 people breathing down our neck and we have to wait for somebody to adjust a light while we want to do our shot, it’s not going to be as fun and spontaneous. They let us do our thing, they let us have complete creative control over the whole song and the videos. We gave them songs, they didn’t have a single comment on the arrangements, or the singing, or the instruments — nothing.”
While this is not the first time a brand has hired a YouTube star to help market their company, the creative license given to the Youtube stars seems to be pretty unprecedented.
But did this accomplish anything? You might ask. Well the YouTube version of the Hyundai television spot (embedded above) is over half a million views… meaning that the television commercial featuring viral stars has itself now gone viral. Just sayin’….
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow @ lemmy_vega.jpg!
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
does ilx have the authority to issue a fatwa
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those songs posted just a bit upthread from Self and Jennifer Lewis are both great finds.
Suggest Fatwa button was removed in 2007 because of how Dom used it.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
speaking of the intersection between indie and corporate culture, dude from Self is also the guy who sang the "Exepedia DOT COMMMMMMMM!" jingle from a few years back. he also had a song on the shrek soundtrack right before smash mouth's cover of "i'm a believer," so, you know. worlds upon worlds.
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
"real men drink 'lite' beer."Empirical studies have shown that Americans have lousy taste in beer
― Sanford, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:33 (1 hour ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:35 (1 hour ago)
there is something manly to be said about buying cheap beer because you don't give a fuck and then pounding down large quantities of the stuff
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
college manly
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
no.judging from ILX, I don't think Brits know what blue collar manliness is
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
there is something manly to be said... and that manly thing is "getta load of this lil bitch sippin his miller lite"
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
why don't you school us, Rosie the Riveter?
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
where am i
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
you either know or you dontthere aint no schoolin to be had
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok lorie
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
brits and their reliance on school!
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
you seriously should calm down
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
cpt lorax bringing it
― ╰㊂-㊂╯ (Lamp), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
*lorax tips up his welding visor*
*wipes sweat from his brow*
*gazes at his dodge ram*
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
for some reason scott didnt post the best rita pavone vid
smdh
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:00 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 1:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, you had to be there
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
what's that thread of inexplicable celeb pairings that make you happy? prolly belongs there but y'know jho put in the work so
― Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
were they like friends or something?
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
(i suppose if there was some story behind it, it would cease to be 'inexplicable')
Ok just watched these videos for the first time and this is the most annoying shit ever. Also, three people have now insinuated that I resemble this lady and considering that just looking at her makes me want to punch her in the face, I'm not taking this as a compliment.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
E, you look NOTHING like that goofball.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dude she's not even your STAND IN. No resemblance that I can see aside from coloring and if that applies then I look like Judy Garland. You're safe imo ENBB. And WAY cuter. WAY WAY WAY cuter. In fact, you're cute. she's just a weird dead eyed hipster girl.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
still think people were way more punchworthy in olden days.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't believe their wicked lies, enbb. xpo
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude ENBB if you look like but do that thing with you're damn eyes then it's all good
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahahaha I mean I think she's cute but there's something indescribably ANNOYING about her face or the looks she gives that I hope I don't have. I can sorta see some similarities myself but hope I somehow bypass that bit. Nobody said this until today btw when two people emailed me about it and someone else mentioned it. weird.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
seems words were omitted from my post
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
erica tbh the pamplmose lady is p smokin, i mean its better than being compared to some gnarly motherfucker, tho not as good as being compared to a sexy yet down to earth godess, but ay we cant all have it all
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
her highlights are ridiculous. Compare her missionary haircut to her hipster haircut
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
x-post Yeah Joe, I know but I just can't get over how annoying they make her look in the videos and with the stupid faces.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kind of like that Jamiroquai song/videonothing cringeworthy about it
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like the in-camera gimmick of the jamiroquai video, but the dude's face is way more into fisting than pompladour's.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
but he's not doing anything unordinary with his face. you just don't like him because you think he's ugly?
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is from a bout 9000 post ago but...Holy shit you can smoke earl grey in a cigarette? Is it tasty? What about Lady grey?Or was that just a euphemism for "jazz tea"?
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
feeling better about the world now that we've managed to cover twee jamz, Jamiroquai, and tea all in one thread
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kind of like that Jamiroquai song/videonothing cringeworthy about it― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:13 PM (8 minutes ago)
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:13 PM (8 minutes ago)
we'll be the judge of that thank you very much
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
and...
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is my cousin and his wife
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
they are v strong ppl bc some terrible things have happened to them over the last couple years i wont go into here so i doubt they really care abt internet backlash
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
thread keeps giving
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
they are v strong ppl bc some terrible things have happened to them over the last couple years i wont go into here so i doubt they really care abt internet backlash― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011
― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Yeah, Hitler liked dogs and didn't eat meat. Your point?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
(i kid)
r u the dude from othello?
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
dunno if plax is being trolly or serious but i don't think anyone on this thread is partic concerned whether the pomples care about the backlash? i mean it's not like anyone is expecting them to change what they do based on this thread or w/e
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
u the dude from othello?― markers, Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I knew a dog named Pamplemousse once.
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
a camel?
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
ONE THOUSAND
(you guys, seriously)
― if anyone is lost to the tragic carnage of ILX, let it be (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
a camel is not a moose
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
good point
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplamoose's original name was "The Beast with Two Backs"
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
literally rendered into French, "pomp la moose" means "pumped the boy", fyi.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
(literally translated from French to English, I should say)
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I just wanted Pomplamoose them to join ILX when I linked this thread in the youtube comments
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jesus I can't stop clicking on this thread and I even know why anymore.
― Darin, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
"but he's not doing anything unordinary with his face. you just don't like him because you think he's ugly?"
his face is proxy for his hat.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
My advice:Remove Bookmark from this Thread
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:32 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest
ho_O_O_oooooly shit!
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
are they fun at parties???
― gr8080, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
is their deck okay?
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm gonna be listening to status quo for the rest of the night. i would totally buy a car if their was quo music in the ad.
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sanford, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
lordy those are some tight pants
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
None of the things we've been saying...were true. Were they?
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
the camel!
― markers, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 7:27 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fuckin' hipster!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh i am not that close w/ them and have only met them at like family things esp bc he is my mam's side of the family which is p big. lol i saw their single ladies video on a friend's fb before i heard anything about it from anyone in my family, my mam said he was in a jazz band or something idk. My sister is p. good friends w. nat bc they are like the same age and she thinks the whole thing is really cool, idk i think they made like a lot of money from the hyundai thing
― plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost and all that facial hair, whatta bunch of outdoorsy posers
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk i think they made like a lot of money from the hyundai thing
― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 7:33 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
they prolly made a lot of money for 2 amateurs, but nothing compared to what hyundai would've paid an ad agency to come up with the same thing
reminds me of when the majors were overjoyed at the ascent of grunge cuz it cost comparatively nothing to record those recs
― Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can tell you that hyundai dropped about $50k to license a single crappy video from my company so who knows how much they paid these guys to do the work they did.
― omar little, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
I haven't seen this commercial, so I never opened the thread. What is it about?
(I tried to post to the THIS IS WHERE WE SUM UP ILX CLUSTERFUCKS thread, but apparently that was locked.)
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
link 4 u jaymc: Clusterfuck Summary Corner
― markers, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think hyundai has their own inhouse ad agency but lower cost of production might explain why they had the scratch to run this thing 8 gazillion times
― Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp Haha, OK.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Edward bringin' it with the OTM
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 January 2011 00:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Cunga, Thursday, 6 January 2011 02:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Seriously I am very glad I clicked on this thread again.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 6 January 2011 03:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
whaaaaa
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh it's so not
― ENBB, Thursday, 6 January 2011 03:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Don't want this to get lost.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 6 January 2011 04:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is this land
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 04:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's something kinda magical about how plax uses abbreviations about "p." and "idk" and "V"
can't quite put my finger on it, but it's cool
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
This thread is already up there with the Joanna Newsom one, and with luck/further revelations/random Googling by fans could possibly push on into DMBand territory.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 2, 2011 10:34 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I want to kill all the people in that commercial much more than I want to kill pomplamoose, fwiw
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
theyre trying to signify wasp but getting douche its v strange
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is the first time I've clicked on this thread. Why does it have 1,039 new answers?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
1,039 people opening the thread for the first time and trying to find out what it's about
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Were Gap the pioneers of insufferable indie Christmas ads or is there a long heritage I'm unaware of?
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i loved all those gap ads. lou reed on a scooter heralded the coming tweemageddon though.
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh I like the song too much to really care about the ppl in the commercial
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's sort of fitting that VW, the band of "You know what, fuck you we actually are preps lol" is pared with the traditional brand of just "Fuck you, we're preps period."
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
paired
isn't ralph lauren/polo way more trad prep than tommy hill?
― lemmy ruxpin (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah tommy hill is p entry level
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I guess Tommy is "Yo dude I'm a prep," Polo is "I'm a prep" and Brooks Brothers is "What's a 'prep' these are just normal clothes what are you talking about?"
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't forget Old Navy, who have 10+ years now of attempting to turn everyone in America gay via the medium of Christmas advertising
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
not sure if that counts as indie or not
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
was a little mad when they co-opted this perverted japanese mannequin series to hawk their shitty clothes, i guess cause i felt that lifeless pieces of plastic had more integrity than hootie.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
is it hawk or hock?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
hawking is sellinghocking is pawning
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
thanks! thread delivers.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't forget, lead dude is a middle-class jew and one of the other guys is persian (persian-america stereotype = has money, but probably too nouveau-riche to be tru prep).
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
nitsuh said it better than i could: http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/359990238/the-rules-of-the-game-a-fuller-thought-on-j-hopper
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
i thought their ethnicity was a defense against the WASP tag, what does it have to do with being preps?
― Johnny Cheever (some dude), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
the fact that they're middle class and come from recentish immigrant stock? preps are old-money american.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
you can't just dress prep and "be" prep, it's a deeply embedded experience.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
prep can be a wearable style, wasp is an ethnic culture
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
if kanye wants to be a wasp, i think he will find a way.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
well obvs kanye can do whatever he wants
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
if we're just talking about wearable styles, anybody can wear those styles (and their cheaper knockoffs), so why attack vampire weekend specifically for dressing prep when anybody can go to goodwill and buy a used polo shirt?
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
i sympathize, but can we not vampire weekend again plz
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm just picturing kanye in a back to the future situation where he has to get prescott bush to hump his grandma at the enchantment under the sea dance, and there's a photo of his polo shirt disappearing.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
dang jessica hopper sucks
― omar little, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
nabisco otm
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm hungry
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a deal. besides, i'm too busy listening to this:
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
<|:)
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
party hat^
everybody here MUST party
or DIE
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
*parties frantically*
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol i am definitely stealing that party hat
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
when the WASP side of my family has a wedding i always make sure to wear the appropriate tribal pants.
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
scott i imagine you dressed like that in your every day life
― gr8080, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
extremely hard to figure out the consensus on this thread
the latest seems to renounce their hipster status and insist upon casual-prep-suburban-yups
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nah we just stopped talking about Pomplamoose a while back.
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have pants a lot like that, Scott, except they are green...
my best friend bought 'em at Goodwill for me for his bachelor party.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 6, 2011 5:17 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
Too lazy to upload the right "this was a great zing" gif but I lol'd
― Cunga, Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
First half of this thread really depressed me b/c like, man who cares? They're just having fun and making tunes and getting paid and maybe you don't dig their aesthetic, but really? Like maybe reserve your hate for something that's actually sinister (hey-oooooo Belle and Sebastian reference).
I appreciated that JBR went into some actual detail about what bugged her, but I guess I just have a hard time mustering up hate for people just because they are comfortable and privileged. I dunno, I thought ILM was generally opposed to the rockist notion that good art is made by "outsiders." Not that I necessarily think that Pomplamoose make "good art" -- I've only seen their TV-commercial Christmas songs, so I honestly don't know -- but I tend not to really give a shit what people represent or where they come from if their tunes work for me.
I liked the later posts by contenderizer and Helges0n more b/c they seemed to sum up why this particular twee style has become kind of bankrupt. I especially liked their concessions that it's an effective aesthetic choice that's not necessarily terrible in itself but that there's something annoying or soul-crushing about the way it's been coopted and sold. I'm still not sure I share those feelings (maybe I'm just not all that invested either way), but I thought the insights were good.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Congrats on the Mazda commercial jaymc - we know about it already and we won't hold it against you.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
― zvookster, Friday, 7 January 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
jaymc you should start a thread where you write PRR style reviews of ILX threads
― gr8080, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Need jaymc awards to posters ITT
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
too cool for school
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I appreciated that JBR went into some actual detail about what bugged her, but I guess I just have a hard time mustering up hate for people just because they are comfortable and privileged.
eh, it's envy more than hate. also, i'm kinda impressed that ppl like nataly exist -- she hit the fucking genetic/circumstantial jackpot and it's sobering when i take inventory of just how much that's true. and i really envy that she and her man had the luxury of quitting their (cushy) jobs because their youtube amateur-hour shit got into a commercial. she's already rich, can't someone else have some money now?
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ it's like, I remember a few years back the postman in this little depressed town won the lottery. He was one of those "well, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I didn't work" so he kept his job - his precious, covetable, stable, pensionable job in the shittiest economy in the country. Talk about the most hated guy in town... No reflection on the Pomp-lameos, just riffin'.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Friday, 7 January 2011 07:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 January 2011 08:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 08:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's sobering when i take inventory of just how much that's true. and i really envy that she and her man had the luxury of quitting their (cushy) jobs because their youtube amateur-hour shit got into a commercial. she's already rich, can't someone else have some money now?
ooh ouch, yes, perhaps.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Friday, 7 January 2011 08:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really envy that she and her man had the luxury of quitting their (cushy) jobs because their youtube amateur-hour shit got into a commercial. she's already rich, can't someone else have some money now?
it's like sofia coppola, though. moose-girl's successful in part because she's so wholly, obviously and effortlessly the product of what she represents to people: a covetable life.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 09:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
not to diminish the legitimate talent of either, to whatever extent it exists. i mean, no comment on pomplamoose in that regard, but i've got a lot of respect for SC as a filmmaker.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 09:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
i have no idea what directions this thread took under the cut as i couldn't keep up, but it's not really the privilege that's so grating about these people. it doesn't help but they'd be as reprehensible without it.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 7 January 2011 09:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is this along similar lines to..
Auction News StoryReporter: .. and t sold for 3 million poundsOwner: Yes, I bought it in 1991 for £27,000Reporter: That's a great result.
Even knowing that something was going to accrue that kind of value wouldn't have helped me or anyone I know in 1991.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 09:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
the first time I knowingly heard "Telephone" by Lady Gaga it was actually the Pamplemousse version.. and I thought "What a great song! But hmm, it's like there's something missing." There was! Lady Gaga!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 10:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
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yall set a low bar for privilege and envy - i mean u know there are people who own islands and jets right - show some ambition
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yea, but folk see them and think hey those people are not like me.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't have a problem with the people in the ad
― cherry blossom, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Me neither, as these people actually exist. As opposed to those that host the fake "Halifax Radio Station"...
― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
these two posts are depressing!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
the disintegrating middle class eats its own
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Pomplamoose folks obviously have talent; my issue is that the aesthetic in which they choose to express their talent really really really really REALLY really gets on my nerves. Really.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
theyre maybe quasi competent - not feeling any sort of particular talent
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
There is talent involved in arranging songs; it just so happens that they use theirs in a manner I wholeheartedly despise.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's like, all of the smugness of Ben Folds and none of the relatability.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol @ anyone who relates to Ben Folds too
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
well yeah, ppl generally lol at losers, which was the entry point into Ben Folds' relatability (that first album played pretty heavily on the amiable sad sack card)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
their level of arranging 'talent' is ime at the level of millions or tens of millions of people worldwide - at what point does talent become workmanlike average
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
tens of millions out of 6 billion is not actually average...?
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, if you're going to go to THAT scale, you have to go all the way and not just pick out the bits that make you look good
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
how many people attempt to arrange music ask yrself that smart guy
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
i kind of like the car they drive
― cherry blossom, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
another way to look at it: how many people do you know personally who could 'arrange some shit' as good as this
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
"A lot of people can do this" is not and never has been equivalent to "Anyone can do this"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know a ton of people who could have done what they did, which does not actually have any bearing on whether it takes talent or skill to do it.
You basically are being an idiot.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
ill give you skill but yr definition of talent is either v generous or you know idiotic
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
man there's no such thing as talent
― goole, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
see how you have devalued the concept djperry
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I WIN
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
you are very talented
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I do cop to using "talent" and "skill" kind of interchangeably; "talent" in and of itself is semi-meaningless because all it really is is an indication of how quickly you can pick something up
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like their 'talent' level is not noteworthy even if it may be statistically better than average, this is especially true in the context of ilx where they are notably below average in terms of the generally more pro music we usually talk abt
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
to me talent is something that jumps out and engages, some level of brilliance, never just o hey p good you mustve worked at that for a while - although obvs that definition has a lot to do w/putting in hard work too
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Talent is abundant and dispensable - other factors count for I'd say at least precisely 95.8% of everything good in any artistic endeavour.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
buncha gladwells the lot of u
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
just what i needed
her real talent is planting churches in godless europe, this music thing is the devil's work
― buzza, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm more of a renter. if i could rent an island for a week and get that out of my system, i'd be fine. and jets are terrible for the environment; just gimme a jetpack.
so many lols. i know that when i think of europe, i think of a GREAT LACK OF CHURCHES.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
So who IS that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
what - the new ones?
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh wait, nevermind...
they is a couple
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread is amazing but too long- just stopping by to ask: are they evangelical Xtians or not?
just curious . . .
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
they are not really husband and wife, they are brother and sister.
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
she's my daughter AND my sister
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
pamplemoose dude is a time-traveler?
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
girl is a pokemon
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
hyundai's trangenics lab fully operational
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
she's a church going girl who probably takes it up the butt.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
still not gettin any?
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
"and then he asked me how many fingers i could fit up there"
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha plax, nope.
I <3 this thread
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Me too, it's like the all bedlam or parnassus is let loose of ilm.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
twee ukelele cover songs should all sound like this. god i love these guys. i would marry all these alessi brothers. my heroes.
http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com/2010/11/098-two-of-us-alessi-brothers/
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Embarrassing confession: I kind of choke up when I see the Blue Valentine trailer because of that Ukulele song. It's really purty.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, January 7, 2011 1:02 PM
http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/6291054634
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
At 1,200 posts or whatever ILM's contrarianism will usually have come full circle in a thread, and we're almost to the point of re-evaluating Pomplamoose into one of the top acts of 2010. By Monday anything less than a top 15 placing in Pazz and Jop will be TOO LOW
― Cunga, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
liked the "Beat It" cover
― brownie, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you also like the screams of flayed children, because that is what their "Beat It" cover sounds like to me
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
so it's a literal interpretation?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
was this thread as good as or better than the Pitchfork Reviews Reviews thread? i missed that one.
― gr8080, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh this is so much better
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
So much better. We need some kind of King of Threads nominating system. Though the DMB thread was kind of all-time amazing.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think the best thread ILM ever had was either DMB or Janet Jackson vs Madonna
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
(one of) the problem(s) with the prr thread was that you had to actually read prr.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
well, not so much that YOU had to, but that other people were, and then were conscientiously quoting it at you so that they could make fun of it
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I reread the DMB thread a while back, and I was still dying with laughter. It doesn't pale with time.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
do pomplemonde cover DMB?
― brownie, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 3:41 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah true but there was a while where someone would link the newest post and be like "omg amazing post" and i'd kind of cringe and squint and click on it and spend 5 mins trying to read that guy's terrible writing.
i guess it was mostly my problem :(
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
prr thread proved a tremendous litmus test for other ilxors tbqf
― omar little, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
i didnt think anybody actually read the prr guy i figured that was like an injoke r something
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
BEST THREAD ON ILX: Part TWO - The Poll
― gr8080, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh god why did I click on that "put on a ring on it" jeezus time to blast some black metal to clear out the awful memory of "wacky delayface breakdown" *barfs*
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey guys this one features cutesy scatting, interested to hear ur opinions/shit jokes.
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol, I tried to play this directly on the Youtube site and accidentally got a two instances playing in separate tabs about a beat and a half apart and I was like "holy shit this is actually kind of next level"
realizing what happened and playing it properly makes this a hell of lot more boring
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
the t-shirt hawking at the end is super slappable
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you think you need some euroboostin', that's fine
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is there any actual name for this type of singing? I dig Cat Power but to think somebody would intentionally imitate it so precisely is so bizarre to me. It's like white-chick soul or something.
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxposts re epic Janet vs Madonna thread: Jefri and Alfonse. NEVER FORGET.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplamoose? More like ANUSMOOSE:
― Sanford, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
pomplamprey
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplamoatse.cx
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pomplanoose Pomplanuance
okifail
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
That t-shirt is really gross.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
That t-shirt is really gross.it's gross, it's indie, it's somewhat "rootsy"...it has limitless appeal.
― Sanford, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nakedlunchlemoose
― children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
it is (gross)! wtf cute christian indie couple with horny anus t-shirt
― carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm "guilty" of owning this shirthttp://www.kungfunation.com/artists/43-guided-by-voices/product/1127-cycles-t-shirt-gbv01it just made me shiver a little that the aesthetic is so similar
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Is there any actual name for this type of singing?"
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't even know why i thought of that. an idealized version of what you think drunks sounded like in the 30's? i have no idea. its gotta go though.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
olde-tymey
― am0n, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nothing against these two but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
This could be its own genre, and I don't know who to kill first.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm so happy that we've managed to NOT really talk about cat power on here! shit, now i've done it...
but, don't, okay?
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
(don't tell ian this, but i'm not a big karen dalton fan. i blame her a little bit for that kind of voice.) (not a big jo-ann kelly fan either.) (though i do love judy henske, so what are you gonna do?)
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo
Cruelty! They'd be humanely culled.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Has Mark E. Smith weighed in on this band yet??
― Cunga, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I actually kind of like Bird & the Bee, but that Private Eyes cover is exactly what I mean by THIS:
----the first time I knowingly heard "Telephone" by Lady Gaga it was actually the Pamplemousse version.. and I thought "What a great song! But hmm, it's like there's something missing." There was! Lady Gaga!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, January 7, 2011 5:30 AM Bookmark
Because it perfectly sums up what's wrong with most of these viral indie covers -- instead of taking an overlooked song and bringing something new, they take a perfect song that's already been performed the best it can be and do a half-assed job performing it. It's coattail riding in the guise of irony.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:16 (3 hours ago)
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean the original Private Eyes is such a perfect sounding song. The B&B version sounds like karaoke.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Their versions of I Heard it on the Radio and Kiss on My List are pretty ace.
― Darin, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those Nouvelle Vague covers of classic postpunk tunes slip into this territory too imo
it thinks it's doing some kind of compelling detournement but it's just taking something great and making it safe for boutiques and "chic" hotel lobbies/lounge compilations
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^kinda like that one u_u
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whoops, yeah, Low's "Little Drummer Boy" was used by Gap, not Target. It first aired near the end of 2000:
Target used the Suicide Commandos' "Complicated Fun" a few years later but that might have been in Minnesota only.
I actually think the first big commercial to use music from a non-major-label band was seriously Volvo's Minutemen ad in 2000, but Volkswagen had already been alt-ing it up since '99--I remember the Stereolab one well:
and this:
So I can't really blame Minutemen for anything: Money for the "Love Dance" licensing went to the late D. Boon's estate (he had sole publishing credit) and Watt said he approved it only to help Boon's ailing dad. Greg Milner reported in Spin that the song had actually been written in the offices of Dischord Records!
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The thing about the DMB thread is you don't even need to read the posts. Just seeing
Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (2634 of them)
is enough to make me laugh uncontrollably
― Spikey, Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh no. You need to read the posts. Ned and Alex going toe-to-toe with random G00glers was infinite pleasure beyond name.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Were the Troggs on a major label, back when they did Coke commercials?
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
iirc all proceeds from the minutemen vw ad went to d boons dad who was sick and broke or something
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
not that i feel the need to defend musicians getting paid somehow anyhow but there you go
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Volvo, here's the piece. But something will have been lost if we look back on this controversy as quaint.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Probably already has been lost. I taught a high-school civics class this semester where students set up their own towns, and many didn't seem to get that Targets and Wal-Marts aren't part of the city government.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
no idea what that has to do w/ this thread but i enjoyed your anecdote
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
""wacky delayface breakdown"
everything that is wrong with pomplemoose in three words
― dayo, Sunday, 9 January 2011 00:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haven't seen such annoying instrument by instrument mugging since
― Archers: Bold As Love (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 January 2011 01:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
How do you expect me to "BEAT IT" when you keep cutting away to that hairy guy playing the baby piano? It's totally killing the mood!
― Tinker Tailor Soulja Boy Tell 'Em (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 January 2011 02:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
What a perfect storm this duo is! It's amazing, the bile coughed up on their behalf. Impressive, even. I mean, if I were given a similar platform (a few Youtube clips and a couple of heavy-rotation holiday ads) and asked to irritate as many people as humanly possible, I couldn't even come close to matching their accomplishment. Such efficiency! Probably some important lessons to be learned here.
― henry s, Sunday, 9 January 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha, kids seem a bit fidgety during the performance
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/education&id=7886521
― buzza, Sunday, 9 January 2011 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
News anchors should be barred from trying to be witty ("Pomp-la-muse!" "Drumroll please") during reports. No, wait, I'm pretty sure they already are.
BAN
― heh (kelpolaris), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost: the parallel's in the change in how people relate to the corporatization of everything. Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language--you see it in the way "indie" can now describe a "couple." And of course it's normal for a rock band to buy your schoolbooks because Lord knows the government won't.
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 07:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i figured out my subconscious reason for hating mrs. pomplamoose. this is a picture of amy adams playing "julie" in julie and julia.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KqQsYqm5HXQ/TSucvfTb3SI/AAAAAAAAAOg/VbwE7SExIj4/s1600/Setup.JPG
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is that granite? Fancy pants!
― Sanford, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
it comes from a blog someone's doing where the author watches julie and julia every day for a year.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://lawrenceandjulieandjulia.blogspot.com/
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
i want to start a project where i write "go to hell" in that guy's comments a thousand times every day for a year
― goole, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
nothing is stopping you.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I feel like I've seen those damned Pomplacommercials every day for a year.
― henry s, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha my mom told me she hates these
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
;_;
― plax (ico), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
learn to let go folx
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 January 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language...
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, January 8, 2011 11:20 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark
Pete Fucking Scholtes OTFM. sometimes depressed by ILM's snide dismissal of the anticorporate aspects of 80s indie/punk ethos. still have a great deal of respect for those values, not least because that they help counterbalance apathy and the obvious power of big money to shape discourse & culture.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
"...not least because that they help counterbalance..."
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
like the downside of the anti-rockist embrace of all things pop is that it leaves little room for for such values, for the intrinsic social value of a loyal (economic/political) opposition
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuck capitalism imo
― plax (ico), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
contenderizer totally otm
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 14 January 2011 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
plax is joeks itt rite
pompla gal is called knutsen and looks for all the world like a scandie farmgirl
― nakhchivan, Friday, 14 January 2011 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Friday, 14 January 2011 03:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
These gifs have made me realize that all this time we been mad because they stylin on us
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 January 2011 03:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha ha okay i had managed not to watch this commercial, seeing that hat-and-candy cane business puts a lot of the rage in this thread into perspective.
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Friday, 14 January 2011 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
styling on u, deal w/it *sunglasses*
― ice cr?m, Friday, 14 January 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
new song OMGZ LOLZ BACON SO FUNNEHZ
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey, it was posted today & alraedy has 26k views. gross
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
New SONG!! Same VIDEO THUMBNAIL, THOUGH!!
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
skip to 2:45 on that
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
wish there was a separate counter for HATEviews
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
That stupid high-low singing style HAS to be over soon. Please.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw I think that's by far their best song to date
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
old school twee christian marketing still rules. beware of the devil!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
official euroboost theme song
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stop bending over keyboards!
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
I can't believe Hipster Runoff still hasn't written about these guys.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, January 17, 2011 7:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― gr8080, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
the downside of the anti-rockist embrace of all things pop is that it leaves little room for for such values
I agree with Pete but I don't agree with this. At all.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 10:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
In fact it's kind of the most stereotypically "rockist" thing one could possibly say!
who would win in a pomplamoose vs. ok go most annoying indie music video poll
― dayo, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 11:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
mental health professionals everywhere
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 11:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand)
I'd like to see this assertion convincingly defended.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 03:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Er, not its "rockistness" but that pop in 2011 leaves room for "the intrinsic social value of a loyal (economic/political) opposition"
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 03:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
No really guys, I kind of like that Bacon song. I don't read it as "lol bacon" but rather a deadpan commentary on the sickness of our country, for which our empty culture can offer no better "remedy" than bacon. The video is like a post-Christmas rec room toy binge to the point of hallucination.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
it seems a lot of those euroboost links and her dad's site are no longer accessible....is she doing a palin???
― buzza, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay, which one of you is doing denial of service attacks on the knutsens?
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh if i met these people and didn't know who they were i'd probably be like 'oh they're innocuous and straight, where's the tequila?'
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
ach, won't somebody please answer my damn question posed upthread already- are they xtians or not? is that a bile-driven rumor or is it a fact? I wanna know
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
well she def comes from missionary xtian family, lived in europe as a teen while parents were "planting" churches. no known indication whether she's still down with jesus tho
― buzza, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
if she is then we should be EXTRA CAREFUL
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
our whinging might bring down the wrath of skydad
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
thx for answer, dunno why i care either way (atheistpompla-whosis is no more excusable obviously)
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
troo xians don't shack up fwiw
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
when i was researchin their lives a couple weeks ago i saw some talk about maybe they were married (semi-secretly?) too lazy to follow up
― buzza, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
yr fallin off, bro
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
¯\(°_o)/¯
― buzza, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 07:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:36 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah, i know it sounds that way, but that's not an intrinsically bad thing, right? would love to hear a good counterargument.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 08:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
You know who else is xian? AL GREEN.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
how many al green gospel albums do you own?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
One. How many gospel youtube videos have we had to sit through on this thread?
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
just pebbles & bamm bamm, i think.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol @ having to sit through them
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
pleasant plains is tied to a chair! help!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
1. "hipster, yuppie and indie-person are all parts of the same interlocking venn diagram"
I suspect that for most people, yr music-store-nerd-type ILXorz are indistinguishable from these groups. Perhaps part of the rage is people who see a bright line between themselves and the Pamplamoosers, whereas most ordinary citizens would not.
I have it on good authority that some of you have beards; some have -gasp- even worn sweaters. Shit, I have a beard, wear sweaters, and can even play the mandolin! I guess I'd be up against the ILM firing-squad wall too.
2. Drummers without chairs: you mean like pretty much every orchestra ever, like Thompson Twins, or like Stray Cats?
3. Sure, I share a generous portion of eyerolling for whatever is the latest variant of Juno / Garden State / Rushmore / Tenenbaums / Little Miss Whatever. The Quirky Indie soundtracks, the Quirky Indie actors, the Quirky indie viral buzz gets all my Quirky Indie friends excited, but once I discern that "people like me" are the target market for something, it's a major turnoff.
But I recognize that the reason corporations want to market stuff to me - and why they use signifiers that they think will resonate with me - isn't because they're EEVil. It's because I've haphazardly stumbled into being a valuable demographic. One can hardly blame them for trying to chase after the contents of my wallet; that's their job. It's a sign at having "won" at "life," whatever that means.
4. "60s twee is so much more enthusiastic than modern twee!" / "there's something inherently bored about modern twee. detached."
And yet there's equally gleeful hate-ons for people who seem too attached / enthusiastic / emoting, cf. Nickelback. Y'all can just not be satisfied.
5. "people with jobs and kids"
Why the AutoScorn for people with jobs and kids? Bowie, Zappa, Lennon, Dylan, Bonham, Marley had kids.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
you mean like pretty much every orchestra ever, like Thompson Twins, or like Stray Cats?
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Had to watch all these youtubes to cleanse you of your sins.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Better you than me...thanks!
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― buzza, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:14 PM
!!
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ so did Pat Boone
― The Curse of Dennis Stratton (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
kids and jobs are lame.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
cosine
― I thought I lived in England (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
so is church planting
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
church planting is a cool job
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
church hoeing is where it's at tho
― I thought I lived in England (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
nice work if you can get it
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess if they're going to delete the evidence we could make this thread the top google hit for nataly dawn knutsen euroboost church planting pomplamoose duo viagra cialis online poker rolex watches
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is certainly my first destination for pomplamoose fan club white beyonce knowles and church planting indie boobs hyundai christmas youtube
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
what about pomplamoose guess papers superbowl britney sex riots?
― I thought I lived in England (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
No results found for "pomplamoose sex tape".
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
But there's about to be
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
PALIN HUNTING POMPLAMOOSE About 1,710,000 results (0.55 seconds)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― post-rock was most definitely the future of post-rock (Edward III), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't believe there is a nataly dawn nude pomplamoose sex tape, i think it's a made-up thing
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
they edited their wiki too
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pomplamoose&diff=406173928&oldid=406154237
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
steve jobs resigns POMPLAMOOSE is new apple CEO
― post-rock was most definitely the future of post-rock (Edward III), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Natalie Knutsen is the daughter of evangelical Christian missionaries who were in France and Belgium. They founded EuroBoost in 2005 as a way to accelerate church planting in European countries.
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
search: pomplamoose christianfirst link:
Guys!!!! You should definitely check this out. (At least those who havn't already.)While browsing on YouTube I discovered Pomplamoose, and consecuently got hooked with Jack Conte. It's not Christian band, but it is clean. In think it's a perfect example of pure, great, indie sound. They're officially my favorite musicians.Pomplamoosehttp://www.youtube.com/user/pomplamoosemusic?blend=1&ob=4Jack Contehttp://www.youtube.com/user/jackcontemu ... ture=chclkTheir music is clean so I don't think anyone should worry.
Looks like we've been worrying for nothing!
― Sanford, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
so twee and so clean clean
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
zestfully clean
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have it on good authority that some of you have beards; some have -gasp- even worn sweaters
oh shit I am currently sporting a beard and a sweater
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
i've got a beard, a sweater, kids, AND a job. i suck so bad.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
but do you have a hyundai y/n
― post-rock was most definitely the future of post-rock (Edward III), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
ford f-150 or die~!!!
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
― br