Whats wrong with the Jonsi pic? :/
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxxxp from Simon Napier-Bell's book 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me':
The lead singer had protruding teeth and a high warbly voice. He was generally known around the music business as the singing goat and one TV producer went to enormous lengths to send the whole thing up. Under instructions from Robert (Stigwood, the group's manager) to produce a beautiful artistic image of the group, the director placed his cameras on the singer in close-up profile, then he shot the rest of the group in miniature, in a pool of light in the distance. They were framed by the singer's open mouth, with the goaty teeth protruding over the small background figure like an awning over the tables of a French street cafe.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
― I DON'T 'RAP' (Pillbox), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― wilter, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Animal Collective: The Movie...
Starring Zach Galifianakis as Geologist....Winona Ryder as Panda Bear...and the guy who plays Osacr on The Office as Avey Tare...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
anjelica huston is in a metal band now
― goole, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
local rag is trying to convince me to listen to these jokers:
― Darin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh hey, your country has it's equivalent of Mumford & Sons:
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
They could get together and swap mandolin tips!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
need to open a lute/old timey hat store asap
― Darin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Frightened Rabbit:
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 26 August 2010 22:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Man, that band looks like it needs some exercise.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 00:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
are there any indie bands who've forgone the oblig staging of (completely unremarkable singer) foremost, other members aligned due to some coefficient of instrument played/stature/idiosyncracy?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like Fugazi photos often have Joe Lally, the most introverted band member, in front or at least sharing the front.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Frightened Rabbit, or Faith + 1?
― Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 02:33 (1 hour ago)
true but that was a reaction to a long established protocol for diffidently conveyed hierachy, which now seems to have been restored
some do it more subtly than others
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 August 2010 02:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
all bands should look like that.
― rage for the machine (banaka), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Wiggles?
― Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
the decemberists
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 14:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
They all look vaguely embarrassed to be there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
except for the one holding the flowers
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow, that's some serious moon face he's got there
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
saw decemberists pic on a rare visit to pfk and thought of starting/reviving a 'terrible looking indie band' thread, so yeah
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
'how do we get the requisite emphasis on lead singer/songwriter without it seeming ~too~ obviously hierarchical?''is that srsly necessary? that's some serious moon face he's got there''yeah i dunno,.....just get him to hold some, like, candy canes, or a broken ragdoll''flowers it is'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Beardo #1 looks like a veteran surfer, beardo #2 looks like a university professor, beardo #3 looks like a comic book writer.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol i can get behind that
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
beardo 3 looks like a douchebag
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
He does if you cover over guy-with-flowers.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Chick is longingly staring at fields of alfalfa.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Elevator conversation yesterday, circa 5pm:
Guy from neighboring office: so what are you listening toMe: Mobb Deep. Because it's cold and rainy.Guy: Ever heard of the Decembrists?Me: um, yeah I know who they are. They're from Portland.Guy: Well, I used to manage them.Me: Really? Why did they fire you?Guy: Well, I let them go. This is back when they were a jam band.
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio_%28band%29
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I tried to steer the conversation to general music industry malaise type stuff rather than admit that I fucking hate this ludicrous band
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
loool
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
will anyone rep for'em? (dpn't look at me)
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
*jumps into line of fire* i liked the first couple of albums! maybe even the first three! i don't recall. and moonfaced smugness aside i don't suppose i have anything much against them now, although i haven't listened to them in a few years, or their last couple of albums.
also, if you covered over the two on the right in that there photo, i could imagine it being a photo of a band i'd like.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
or there last couple of albums at all, i should say.
"The Crane Wife" is pretty awesome, to my recollection. Other than that they're pretty dire, although I embarrasedly admit I liked their goofier first couple albums a fair bit during the middle of the last decade.
― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
yep, crane wife...fantastic...rest of their output...craptacular.
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Saw them at a festival last year while they were touring for their last album, the rock opera. It was like watching a high-school production of "The Black Rider" made into a comedy. There was something very Rushmore about it.
― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:47 (2 hours ago)
nah, he's cool - used to live in my town!
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Apropos bit from M Perpetua's tumblr thingy today:
But just in recent memory, one thing that comes to mind is how the Decemberists went from being considered a fairly hip band in the early to mid 00s to being deeply uncool right now. But you know, I think the Decemberists were always deeply uncool and just lucked out in their cultural moment, things just went back to a natural balance and they have the modest, unapologetically dorky cult audience they deserve, a la They Might Be Giants. I think something the Decemberists and Arrested Development have in common is that their music and their fans exemplify a stereotype no one wants to be associated with — effete, wimpy, affected, unsexy. Overly “public radio,” you know? The music is weighed down by cultural baggage.
I still think Picaresque is a great album. It bothers me, though, that they made a whole EP about the Táin, without even bothering to find out how to pronounce the title. Also, in Táin stakes, they're no Horslips. But I digress.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
all music is weighted with cultural baggage. I could care less about their fans or their stereotype - the songwriting (especially the lyrics) is just atrocious.
― fuckin magnates, how do they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
tarkio's omnibus is filled with mispronounced/misused words too
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Friday, 10 December 2010 06:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
but then again they misspelled their own name so the d's are clearly on another level
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Friday, 10 December 2010 06:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
guy from belle & sebastian
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's just creepy
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
he looks like Greg Germann
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
they look like they're waiting for school detention
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
teacher: "During this detention, each of you has to write an essay on the subject 'Why I Shouldn't Make Unfortunate Band Photos'."
― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
haha yeah it's The Breakfast Club.
― Sailor-neighbor of Chaucer's wife (Tubby) (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
L-R: Brian (the 'brain'), ?, ?, ?, Andrew (the 'jock')
― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
Nah, they're all preppy except the jock, you don't get the brain or the weirdo in there.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:08 (4 months ago) Permalink
oh christ
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
looooooooooooool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:00 (2 months ago) Permalink
hutch looks like he's wearing the national costume of australia in some sort of alternative reality where it's a former spanish colony
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:08 (2 months ago) Permalink
dunno what the guy with the clown boots is supposed to be though
is that garry gary beers? I always got him confused with one of the farrisses
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
That's Tim Farriss. GGB has his arm around him.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:13 (2 months ago) Permalink
Tim sort of looks like an action figure.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:14 (2 months ago) Permalink
(from the dumbest action franchise ever)
[in a Lenny from Mice and Men voice] I AM A RACE CAR DRIVER
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:20 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://www.vanswarpedtour.com/bands/
― skip, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 18:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
The number of spacers on that page is something to behold.
― SongOfSam, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
wtf
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:15 (1 month ago) Permalink