You know, back in the day there were loads of bands who'd make a single and it'd go round the radio stations in the hope that they'd get play.
It wasn't until they did that the record company would put actual money into promoting the band with photos and press and so on.
Now because it's cheap to do so, every band has a backlog of promo shots, videos, archive footage of their first gig, the lot.
There's not enough land for this landfill!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know, I'm laughing at this stuff too, but I actually get a kick out of these goofy photos. I like it when a band takes it out there and tries to get away with it, and it's no shame to fail. Better than four blokes against a wall pulling a tinny or something. Here's feedtime, a very great Australian rock band:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/160/415884.jpg
And you can say, yes, they look pretty cool, definitely not idiots or wankers, and in fact they exemplify their no-frills musical approach very well - but it's not really as in yer face as their music is, not even close - their music is a thousand times more white-knuckled than that. Lots of hardcore bands have this problem when shooting their shots. They don't want to look like dickheads, so they underdo it. The feetime shot is a forgettable band shot that undersells the power of their music. They might have glammed it up a bit, given it a bit of the ol' Motorhead showmanship, why the hell not? So I'm half and half. It's sometimes good to go the hack on a band shot even if you end up overdoing it and looking stupid.
― moley, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link
They need bigger photos.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ILX can't make it's mind whether we need retarded photos or boring photos:
i'm sorry but none of these bands look very interesting. they need swords or something...
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post) I think even with the poor range of examples on offer for an 80's band, you can get the gist. If not, here's something similar, but bigger, from Mortal Sin.
http://www.alternative-zine.com/images2/bands_photos/Mortal_Sin/Mortal_Sin_01.jpg
Different band, bigger photo, same observation. Incidentally, I suspect that shot was taken just down the road from where I live. Nice river eh? Care to swim in it?
― moley, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
We neede photos of bands rockin it outrageous style. But those bands have to be rockin it. Canonical example: Queen.
― moley, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/e/e6/Queen_Queen_II.png
― moley, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
what's happened to bands posing with instruments?
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Some bands are just better at this shit.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/shadowcasted/Blondie_2.jpg
I give you: Blondie
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Was this the last one? http://membres.lycos.fr/qualitywallpapers/music_pics/oasis_band.jpg
(apart from the one mogwai did after this oasis one that I can't find anywhere).
― Bocken Social Scene, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Noel looks like gareth in that photo.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
No, you don't want boring photos.
But neither "let's look wacky" or "guys close your eyes, girl cuddle some knitting" not goodenoughness...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
animal collective are also good at this. Strawberry jam photos are genuinely unnerving.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
also, Daft Punk, who somehow sidestep "Wacky" allegations, by looking totally cool
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/acidreign-moshkinstein.jpg
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^Acid Reign
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Trans Am rules this
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Possibly the only band that can pull off this kind of ish without losing a shred of credibility; http://us.ent2.yimg.com/musicfinder.yahoo.com/images/yahoo/arista/outkast/0903_outkast_a.jpg http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/43/6229/images/00341245_lg.jpg Must be all that talent.
― VeronaInTheClub, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
GnarlsBarkley.jpg
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking forward to ruining this thread by liveblogging my review of this album later!
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Or I might just mention it once or twice and do some work in the meantime
Those pics only work because of Andre. Imagine he's not there.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I still think Big Boi looks cool
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah this neither holds any surprises or sucks enough to make it worthy of comment. Cabaret Surfin Stevens meets Fence Records, w00t. Sorry for the intrusion guys, carry on posting pictures of dungbags plz
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay woah woah I don't know how I missed this thread before.
Would someone please cut me a break and tell me who the band is on the first two posts of this thread (I think it is Dom who posted them) thanks.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Are they called Noah & the Whale?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Noah and the Whale.
There was a clue in the thread title. (xp)
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://hauteconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kanye-west-colette-22808-1.gif Is Ye a hipster???? http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/afi-2006-mtv-movie-awards-arrivals-1NuXZL.jpgThis is Davey Havok. Couple of people ROCKING THE FUCK OUT with instruments http://graveyardshiftshane.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/ladyhawke.jpg They have both 'contributed musical efforts' at some time or other so I'm justified in posting this. Also its lolz.
― VeronaInTheClub, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
That earlier rocking out pic was supposed to include... http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/upload/cajundanceparty300.jpg http://cdn.channel.aol.com/aolr/01-fallout-boy-present-400a032207.jpg http://image.hotdog.hu/_data/members3/335/155335/images/Fall%20Out%20Boy%2011.jpg
*My Chemical Romance versus Gnarls Barkley
― VeronaInTheClub, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://electricityandlust.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/gnarls-barkley.jpg http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g282/killingloneliness_06/097E3012.jpg
― VeronaInTheClub, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
guy on the left in squirt gun pic must be the one with no tattoos.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.serpent-sky.com/smp/davey01.jpg
not a band photo, but the twat-o-meter is goin haywire
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
DOES THE GUY IN SQUIRT GUN PIC HAVE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS TATTOOS??? THAT'S SO DORKY
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, sorry about all this Davey Havok shit, but seriously:
http://chenzhao.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/daveyhavok.jpg
but you know this he be ridin' the pussy train school bus.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
this
oops
How the fuck does Davey Havok even still exist in 2008?
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice backne on the tattooed douchebag.
― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Hot Topic? (xp)
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Like, maybe, but who actually listens to AFI these days? Emo girls who wish that Pete Wentz and Gerard Way looked more like goblins?
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
once spent an hour in an ATP chalet trying to remember who that band with the tattooed goblin guy were.
naw, he's just the fat one.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Panic-at-the-Disco-01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Panic!_At_the_Disco/gallery/PANICDISCOBH001/&h=300&w=450&sz=25&hl=en&start=7&sig2=5LO843MWzkuEWkW-N5Id_g&um=1&tbnid=Z6cRluSElpgFLM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=127&ei=Xfx-SNCyMZvg1wby8vDNCQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpanic%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bdisco%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN
extremely punchable
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 17 July 2008 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for this thread. Chock full odious uber tits. Hilarious
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 17 July 2008 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I like that single, 5 Years' Time.
― Alba, Monday, 28 July 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't tell anyone but I do, too.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 28 July 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I've liked every single I've heard, though I don't see myself going out of my way to listen to them.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 28 July 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Nip this cancer in the bud RIGHT NOW
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 July 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I've just found out that I accidentally know about four Noah & The Whale songs and I like them all so ner.
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i actually like The Shins a lot but they may have started this:
http://blogs.the217.com/hesaidhesaid/files/2007/11/the_shins.jpg
http://www.soulshine.com.au/images/article-image/shins.jpg
http://audictive.ofadam.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/shins.jpg
― Roz, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.nemsworld.com/beatles/64whit/umb1.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j26/Rita5_photos/rita/11720beatles206520photo20session.jpg