Two years ago, I thought that KRMTX "Ice Hatchets" single was really good. I just put it on recently, though, and thought, "What's the point?" I realize that they have a "darker" aesthetic, but there's nothing musically present in KRMTX that sets them apart from, say, Franz Ferdinand. And Franz Ferdinand write better songs, play better, have a better sound, and have a singer that you can actually hear/understand. The thing is, I think, that some of youse think that the new crop of successful and popular nu wavers are dumbing something down. So, what, Franz Ferdinand are dumbing down the Chromatics? The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are dumbing down Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater? The Killers are dumbing down Gogogoairheart? Now, maybe youse guys aren't really into the Chromatics, Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater, and Gogogoairheart, but I'd guess that you don't feel so vehemently opposed to them as you do to the Killers and Frank Ferdinand.
My point is that THERE WAS NOTHING TO DUMB DOWN IN THAT MUSIC IN THE FIRST PLACE. There is no CONTENT in the music of those bands that is missing in bands like the Killers or Franz Ferdinand. In fact, a band like the Killers seem to be GOOFING on the lack of content in this genre with their ridiculous lyrics and the guy's ridiculous singing (which is what I was getting at with that "Believe Me, Natalie" thread).
Also: it's only "fucking Dawson's Creek music" because these bands have better production value.
PEACE-OUT!
T.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Speaking of romance, looks like Seth is gona start banging the bartender from the bait shop! Way to go Seth, she is a hot biscut. Poor Marissa though, she is drunk and her dad left her and her Mom like totally hates the gardner. Ryan, stop dating Kirsten's half-sister, its just too taboo for us and she is gross, you can do better.
till next week!
― ddb (ddb), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― ddb (ddb), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
though franz is better than the killers (who are abysmal paint by numbers), both have such a lingering fog of generic, thoughtless sound, the edges and personality almost completely absent.
as for the "underground' bands you listed, all of them so different from each other that the common thread really isn't present. i mean comparing the killers to gogogoairheart? me thinks not songwriting, performance, production and influences-wise. it's like saying Norma O'Malley is a dumbed down version of Britney Spears.
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Plus the humor element in the Killers (again--what I was getting at with the "Believe Me, Natalie" thread).
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
DDB U R IN 4 A SURPRISE!
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
also, more than no wave to gogogo -- the band's sound has shifted from album to album -- also, though fractured, pretty clean poppish recording by rafter roberts.
also, "paint by numbers" doesn't mean playing in a preexisting style -- it means playing in a preexisting style or genre without adding anything to it whatsoever -- see 99% of garage bands, for example, or the Rapture.
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
kisses,jc
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
actually i've had that stupid 'somebody told me' song in my head all day and it made me want to kill myself and others.
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
except for the iron maiden album.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
*this doesnt apply to the killers, who have no paint
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
k-line his ass, DEAN!
― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
no, it's cool. I'll live. I don't know why I never see that thing around though. It was on Enigma, right?? What an enigma wrapped inside a riddle. I listened to Celestial again the other day -- that thing rips!
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Incidentally Gareth that's Ffressshh!, which has "Bonkers Goes Back to School," which is really all I need.
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
1) jacques le cont remix2) vegas, though reno would have been better
― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.cclassic.szu.pl/files/ZxSpectrum/Pictures/Screens.gif/Games/Cop-Out.gif
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Saturday, 21 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
?
― am0n, Sunday, 1 July 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
waht is tim's opinion now?
chromatics/glass candy have both moved light years away from nu-new-wave.
― haitch, Sunday, 1 July 2007 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i've only heard the new single once so far. the killers are ok.
― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 1 July 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link