it's an 80s and 90s dance party in Las Vegas. what exactly are you looking for here? some sort of stylistic coherence or something? people are not there expecting the bands to "fit" together.
i'd actually say that's a pretty impressive/understandable lineup of live performers for an 80s/90s dance party on NYE in Vegas.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 05:55 (two years ago) link
xp: Bobby Brown is also roughly era/audience appropriate.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
I don't associate the Village People with the '80s, but hey, why not throw them in, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
They were already "Ready For the 80's" in 1979!
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
I'm really starting to question the integrity of this Fremont Street Las Vegas 80s and 90s dance party
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
The Fremont Street Experience, a cultural institution with an insanely high bar
― mh, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
It’s not eligible for this thread because Vegas? LolNot to belabor this, you guys – but to me, that collection of acts just didn’t fit any particular “taste profile”… unlike the more intentionally curated “retro” concert packages you see all the time. I have a hard time seeing someone rush to buy a ticket based on that lineup, even if they do just wanna party on NYE. That’s why it’s funny! I’m not mad at it.
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
Shit From Ages Ago Party
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
Hoping the Village People do the "ice ice baby" background chant.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
Are we expecting lineups to somehow have a very specific theme? That can work, but I much prefer large, genre-spanning lineups. I know that can and has gone wrong and that ILM likely prefers the former.
― DT, Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
morrisp are you familiar with the oeuvre of any dance-y cover act that plays at a local outdoor (non-music) festival? most have stepped up a bit but songs from all those artists could be done… by one bandor a cover band that plays at any suburban festival to be half-listened to with families milling around
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
I’ve also had the “beer tent at a state fair where every song is country or hip hop” experience so idk
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah a decent wedding band trying to please an audience aged 40-70 would almost certainly bring out some of that material, with Flock a sort of odd band out - maybe if the the groom had been a new wave dude in '85, they might add "Space Age Love Song" to the mix. Maybe not the full intro to "Modern Love Is Automatic" unless specifically requested.
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 December 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
its a funny lineup in the sense that back in their day all of those acts fans would have actively hated each other. but yeah, also its pretty much a direct lift from the playlists of many oldies stations in 2021 and millions of modern listeners wouldnt identify those acts as being different genres today, in the same way that they would classify frank sinatra, elvis, and the ronettes together.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 30 December 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
I'm familiar w/the Jack FM principle, but I guess in my mind there's a difference btw "this playlist is so random!" and "I'm going to buy a ticket to stand in a room and watch each of these particular artists play multiple songs" (who even wants to hear Vanilla Ice play multiple songs?)
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Thursday, 30 December 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
(...but for all I know, it's sold out, and you guys are totally OTM!)
it’s an entire street experience, man
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
fwiw i believe "the fremont street experience" is a big open-air shed covering fremont st, so my guess is that this is a free show on an outdoor stage for the benefit of revelers at the surrounding bars. i agree that this show would be a more WTF concept as a ticketed indoor concert where the expectation is that ppl would want to watch each band one after another.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
Oh - if it's free, then sure, all bets are off (geddit?)
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
it’s on the website noted on the flier, $50they also have a package deal that includes airfare and a zipline ride
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
It depends on how far away you live
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
Airfare OR a zipline ride
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
If you live close enough to get there by zipline, tix are half price
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
i grew up in vegas and the most surprising thing about that lineup is that it isn’t cover bands
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272107147_10159587567183788_4693032640654839016_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=DLWQbIzVSmsAX81mAQl&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT8f5iqsb_xoBH_R4Rf2LhWrp3cV-wRlJO9Ckn_4HUSq1A&oe=61EC4227
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
lol 3OH!3
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
yuck
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
surprising no one i would hell of go to this
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
https://snltranscripts.jt.org/00/00kvalentine.phtml
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
Has Avril always been accepted in the emo community, or is this a new development?
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
idk. She has a new album coming out called Love Sux.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
lol one of my friends shared this festival w/ me, but he was excited about it, and he is a big 3OH!3 fan among the other bands
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Avril probably gets scene kudos for looking and sounding the exact same as she did when she first broke through. That's dedication.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
ie she wasn't faking it after all!!
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
there's a return-to-form thing happening with the new avril stuff, it's also all produced by travis barker from blink
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
who also did the machine gun kelly pop-punk record and the willow record and is maybe wholly responsible for the return of warped tour aesthetics to the charts
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
"Dance Gavin Dance" ???
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
should've gone with Dance Charles Dance
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
car seat headrest and wolf alice are comically out of place on that lineup
― ufo, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
I share brad's initial opinion
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
Lol seeing this thread finally ties together the loose threads explaining about three different Twitter meltdowns I saw today, but couldn’t follow without the added context. There’s a handful of bands I wouldn’t mind seeing in a different context, but you could not pay me enough to see them together in a shitty festival in Vegas.
But I do admit to a certain level of enjoying the “real emo” purists losing their goddam minds over this.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
feel like back in the day bright eyes wouldn’t be caught dead playing in that lineup, congrats to conor oberst for finally embracing his place in the mall emo canon
― Roz, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
Trying to pick the least shitty band underneath the two headliners and ... really have my work cut out for me
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 05:56 (two years ago) link
Four Year Strong! Best known for their pivotal role in that "help me identify these album covers on this bedroom wall" thread.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 07:22 (two years ago) link
I think it was ilxor latebloomer who said on twitter that this festival really highlights a mid-generational drift in millennials because if you're on the other side of a 2 - 3 year divide, a lot of this poster seems seems like kiddie world
― mh, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Isn't "When We Were Young" the name of one of the more emo Killers songs? Kind of ironic it's the name of this fest in their home town.
Anyway, aside from Paramore I don't think there's a single band here I'd pay more than $15 to see, let alone in 2022. Mostly giving me flashbacks to all the Victory promos I had to get rid of back in the day.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
re: least shitty.la dispute, thursday, glassjaw, jimmy eat world, bright eyes, car seat headrest, and wolf alice all have albums i really like
― gman59, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
how did Wolf Alice sneak in there?
― mh, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
I think I'd pay $15 to see Wolf Alice.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
I'd pay a bucket of piss (not mine)
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link