Not insufferable enough?
― BULGING! CONTAGIOUS! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
. . .
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok!
― BULGING! CONTAGIOUS! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
srs question: how much tv do you watch?
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
...
― BULGING! CONTAGIOUS! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the heineken ad!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 May 2011 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
my dad asked me who that was singing in the Heineken ad cos he wanted a copy of the album. had to look them up. not really impressed tbh.
― wanking on the moon (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 May 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think the heineken song is bad... has no place in the pomplablorf thrad either way
― Princess TamTam, Thursday, 12 May 2011 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
nah it's a different thing
― wanking on the moon (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 May 2011 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
just that my old man's taste is weird and unpredictable
who is it in that ad anyway?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
some Danish group with a silly name
― wanking on the moon (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that is a guy w/ excellent manual coordination
― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 12 May 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty9Smrs67s8
― buzza, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I like her much better when she stops mugging. It's annoying in videos, but it just doesn't work at all on stage.
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 June 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Why do I keep clicking on this thread? It's like picking a scab, or repeatedly sniffing the air after someone's farted, just to confirm to yourself how bad it is.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Friday, 3 June 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah she really does just not ever stop making stupid faces
― a http://bit.ly/kv895M (some dude), Friday, 3 June 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mousepotatoes.com/about/covers/its_a_condition.jpg
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 June 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
00:49 ohgodohgodohgod
didn't make it any farther
― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ ditto
Its even worse because her timing is nowhere near as "hilarious" as it must be in her head.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
I am amused by the visceral hate these guys provoke. They're like the cilantro of music.
― polyphonic, Friday, 3 June 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
honestly they don't really bug me so much but it is really funny to watch people foam at the mouth over them
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the fact that they make my head want to explode, but there it is
― I hate myself for lovin' HOOS (rip van wanko), Friday, 3 June 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/jubst5.gif
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Friday, 3 June 2011 07:58 (twelve years ago) link
The guy is actually much more of a douchebag in my eyes.
― everything, Friday, 3 June 2011 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
I like that bit in the Angry Birds video where she punches him in the mouth.
― everything, Friday, 3 June 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
who plays angry birds with the music on
that game has really awesome sound design /:
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
i'm curious about, like, why people would actually like this band, and what that says about music and stuff
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
is that video, above, just a half hour of them performing to no audience? how peculiar
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
In 2011, Pomplamoose began a weekly, interactive, half-hour webcast called “Hey, It's Pomplamoose: A Show about Pomplamoose and Other Things” that airs every Tuesday. After the March 29th show, the webcast has been put on hiatus until their East Coast tour is completed. They will be joined by Ryan Lerman and Carlos Cabrera as they open for fellow YouTube stars OK Go.
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
Angry Birds is actually terrible, and combined with that 'game essay' on Pitchfork about it (the worst thing I've ever read about video games), Pomplamoose's take on it is as easy to hate as anything ever was.
― abcfsk, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
it ... really isn't, though
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
this pitchfork thing looks like fun!!
"What follows is my attempt to understand the widespread popularity of a mobile videogame called Angry Birds. I don't play games, but"
uh oh
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
"Think about that the next time you're playing-- sitting in the handicap stall of your company's bathroom"
He got me.
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Friday, 3 June 2011 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
The girl has a funny way about her, but I don't find her hateable. They are both irritatingly upbeat though, and their act is weak. That said:
Yeah, I doubt I'd even give them a second's thought if it wasn't for all the ire they inspire on here.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Friday, 3 June 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know. Is it funny that people hate Hitler?
― abcfsk, Friday, 3 June 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
have you been here too long to be on the valuable new posters thread
― thomp, Friday, 3 June 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think this kind of "bank of mom and dad" marketing to twentysomethings - like "hey kids ask your parents to buy you this toy!" aged up to cars and apartments - should be confined to billboards in hipster neighborhoods. It's just gonna engender rage and hate in the wider world.
Band banter kind of reminds me of http://www.hulu.com/watch/147961/saturday-night-live-npr.
― can't remember why i picked this awful name (forapper), Friday, 3 June 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
“Hey, It's Pomplamoose: A Show about Pomplamoose and Other Things”
I didn't know they were Finnish!
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 3 June 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
They're not; they're just getting started.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Angry Birds is actually terrible
This comment annoys me more than Pomplamoose. For an ubiquitous app game, Angry Birds is incredibly designed and thoughtful.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i've only played the version for chrome but i liked it a lot and will probably be buying it for the iphone too once i get an iphone!!!
― markers, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
there might be a parallel in that there was a genre of rough-looking, but fun,knocking-things-over games that was happy to exist tastefully out of people's radars,until someone decided to put animal characters on everything.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
hi dere, spielberg produced and animals out the wazoohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Blox
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
one of the things that bugs me about pomplamoose is that in music and mannerisms they resemble children's show hosts, but are seemingly targeting their music/performance at adults. the endless mugging, upbeat wackiness and reassuring demonstrations of friendly intent are enticing in a way ("hey kids, lets all have a good time right now!"). i mean, why be so churlish as to sneer at unpretentious good times? it feels like hating the muppets. but pomplamoose aren't the muppets. they don't come with that sort of wit and inventiveness. they're simply a nice voice and some denatured cover tunes to go with it. absent the sort of brilliance that animated the muppets, the smarmy blue's clues mannerisms become gratingly infantile.
beyond that, while i basically loathe them, i can sort of see the appeal - you know, to someone else, some drip. natalie's voice is hardly an instrument of great range and dimension from what i've heard, but it's pleasant enough, and their vaguely jazzy indie schmaltz is reasonably well performed. they've even got an ear for hooks. here are two pomplamoose originals (i think?) that clarify where they're coming from (high holy godland) and what they've got to offer (saccharine twee). probably helps if you don't watch the videos while listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-OFaFzHQMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg
apologies if they've been previously posted
― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
plus jack is a thousand times more horribly annoying that natalie could ever hope to be. the camera lingers longer on natalie, for obvious reasons, so you spend more time marinating in her bullshit, but he's toxic in even the smallest doses.
― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Given their trademark schtick ("I'll be the crazy guy, jumping up and down banging on pots, and you'll be the waifish-kid-in-the-painting-whose-eyes-follow-you-around-the-room"), is it wrong for me to wonder if they're also like that in the sack?
― henry s, Friday, 3 June 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
(Dude seems poised to be the next Paul Shafer, btw)
I don't know, the dude seems at least a teeny-tiny bit self-aware about how ridiculous he is and decides to just relish it, but the girl was told she was "such a cute and precocious kid" too many time at age six and decided to dedicate the rest of her life to preserving that feeling.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 June 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link