Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

Whiney killin' it in this thread.

Yeah, that time he told somebody who disagreed with him to "eat me" was classic.

Was obviously referring to the Salem insta-mashup posted 10 minutes prior.

i have a kneejerk "yeah but you like sleigh bells" reaction to every whiney post in this thread

i detest pretty much every indie hype act of 2010 but salem are basically acceptable to me. i can well believe they're horrendous live but who cares about that.

sleigh bells at least have a creative aesthetic

"jangly indie mess w/bad singing" is no more creative an aesthetic than "screwy synths turned up to 100"

at least salem are effective in a basic kind of way when they get their sound right (whoever the post-gig dj was played "king night" tonight (after "whip my hair" o_0 ) - it sounded good! and big!)

bring back friendly ilxor imo, we have enough whinyeasayers to fill a tollbooth & that's plenty

haha lex defending this is basically the essence of my least favorite lex characteristics

rockism redrawn with synths in place of guitars and advertised as popism

oh great the gang's all back again

rockism redrawn with synths in place of guitars and advertised as popism
--trollin trollin trollin we aint slept in weeks (deej)

Screwming post

there's some weight to describing Salem as "shallow" and "obvious" but reducing this album to shitty hip-hop for indie kids is tantamount to admission of deafness imo

<3 that the Wikipedia entry "Rockism" cites Momus

Yeah we really needed a more elegant name for relativism. Thank u, "rockism".

i feel like the salem album was really easy to like when i first heard it. i didn't have to struggle with it. it just sounded cool to me. i didn't know anything about them. I STILL don't know much about them. i doubt i would go see them live if i had the chance. there is way better stuff to spend money on. i think druggy goth + beats is something that just agrees with me. i don't listen to anything like this though, so i'm not burnt out on hyped bloggy kid stuff. i'm just thankful to get a cd in the mail that i can listen to more than once. and i did think about, um, music and stuff when i was listening to it. it's a rock critic-y kind of record. and thinking is good, right?

bring back friendly ilxor imo, we have enough whinyeasayers to fill a tollbooth & that's plenty

Who, me??

O_O

does the lex like we are the world? (on the same label as salem)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrnTY9_KMQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLFzqlz4hsM&feature=related

jesus, the IAMSOUND roster is like across the board shit

* The Black Ghosts
* Suckers
* Telepathe
* Little Boots
* Sunny Day Sets Fire
* Cut Off Your Hands
* Florence and the Machine
* Get Shakes
* Men Women & Children
* Nico Vega
* The Slips
* Fool's Gold
* thecocknbullkid
* SALEM

Actually, I'll fuck with a little Florence/Machine and Telepathe, but Suckers and Little Boots are like ughhhhhhh. And Fool's Gold is zzzzz. And fuck whatever "thecocknbullkid" is

you've hEARD all those people? no wonder you are so sad about salem.

* Sunny Day Sets Fire
* Cut Off Your Hands
* thecocknbullkid

these guys are great

actually, i'm on thecocknbullkid's MySpace and this is kinda aight. I take it back!

you've hEARD all those people? no wonder you are so sad about salem.

i'm better now.

Oh yeah, the CPAP, it cured that too?

"clay stones" is goth pilobolus. "not in death" is goth mark morris.

no, after i started that thread i got someone to let me write a column about new experimental music. worked like a charm. i am a part of the world again.

good to hear it

* Sunny Day Sets Fire

Sunny Day Real Estate + Boy Sets Fire = ...

not.. exactly

Ah... then worse, as I expected.

ILX field trip to Salem, MA this Halloween!

― markers, Friday, October 8, 2010 2:23 PM (3 days ago)

doom metal band that played in my store the other night had a day off on their tour and they were heading to salem for a day trip!

My beef with bands like Salem and most any other band that thinks smoking crack is the ultimate display of intellectual prowess, is that they're totally silly and they don't even know it. They seriously believe that teenage angst is a new concept and that if they use the words "smoke" and "cock" enough, they will "connect" with all the unfortunate middle class white kids who were ever spanked by their parents or picked last for water polo.

― markers, Friday, October 8, 2010 2:23 PM (3 days ago)

"my" finest moment

telepathe are worse than salem

They seriously believe that teenage angst is a new concept and that if they use the words "smoke" and "cock" enough, they will "connect" with all the unfortunate middle class white kids who were ever spanked by their parents or picked last for water polo.

― markers, Friday, October 8, 2010 2:23 PM (3 days ago)

uh

I didn't say it, markers did...!

O_O

and what, exactly, is he saying?

middle class white kids who were ever spanked by their parents

maybe these unfortunate middle class white kids are still being spanked.

Everspank is my nu electro-grunge band.

What are your songs in this band?

we sound like a mix of old sleeping bag record 12 inches and alice in chains. our first single is called "mud donor" and it features guest appearances by 7 Year Bitch vocalist Selene Vigil and Toure Embden a.k.a. MC Tee of Mantronix fame.

i'm kinda mystified by the extreme hatred leveled at this band from certain quarters. they've got a nice sound, doomy and dreamy in equal measure, and i can see how they'd appeal to a broad cross section of music fans. i don't think there's anything massively groundbreaking in what they're doing (aside from introducing vampire goth and southern rap to one another), but so what? don't see how they're any more "shallow" than most pop bands/artists.

My beef with bands like Salem and most any other band that thinks smoking crack is the ultimate display of intellectual prowess, is that they're totally silly and they don't even know it. They seriously believe that teenage angst is a new concept and that if they use the words "smoke" and "cock" enough, they will "connect" with all the unfortunate middle class white kids who were ever spanked by their parents or picked last for water polo.

― markers, Friday, October 8, 2010 2:23 PM (3 days ago)

add 1 to chorus of uh

omg everspank

I like trapdoor but don't really care for the overblown mbv via m83 sound no matter how good the branding

and you know, i like MBV/M83/Ulrich Schnauss/Tim Hecker stuff too and i really don't think these guys even get the shoegaze right. Like all their "omg hueg drones" sound weak as fuck, lo-fi and underdeveloped to my ears.

see, that's the stuff i think they do pretty damn well. prefer them to most m83, tbh, cuz there's something intriguing about their rough edges and cryptic bullshit. at least for the moment. plus they're doing more of their own connect-the-dots work.

rockism redrawn with synths in place of guitars and advertised as popism

deej this doesn't even make sense, it's totally ad hominem. do you really think i defend all synth-based bands regardless? pay more attention if so.