CHROMEO

I can imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5FOa3DrkY

is this stuff out of control yet

i really am having trouble figuring out how to be er 'smugly contrary' or whatever here!!! this is fun but diminishing returns the more of these groups show up i think

something about their willingness to throw every pastiche cliche into it + dudes mj imitation is leaving me feeling very conflicted

hm wow this is good. i guess if you wanna make this type of music— and i guess that's probably where this problem starts, but it's fine w/ me— you might as well jump all the way into the deep end and have a video like this and carry on like they do, or else it seems like your half-assing it, and intense self-conciousness would probably hinder the success of the music.

i guess part of why i stand/actively like stuff like this is because i don't have an intense emotional attachment to the music it so obviously mines, so my immediate reaction isn't "fuck you!"

its really quite well done

i'm just afraid we're getting very close to, i dunno, The Caesars of 80s electro pastiche groups or something

and some things are lost in the sort of lyrical vaguenesses required to keep it 'timeless'

based on the two other songs i've just heard on myspace, private (ugh, btw) seem to be stretching their legs pretty well within the kind of box they're inherently in by making the music they're making. they seem way less one trick pony than chromeo, like "crucify my heart" has that awesome singing by the woman at the end that's just really genuinely awesome, super-talented singing, and something like that is way more rewarding than a lot of the things chromeo do.

i agree. chromeo had the freshness of being first tho. i think what rubs the wrong way about this is that you can really see the limits of the style they're working with

that kind of thing frustrates me more w/ something like new young pony club, who seem to want to work within the mold more than these guys, but then again maybe private are just much better at what they do.

or maybe i'm giving private too much credit. i guess the flipside is appreciating when something is this good because you can see the limits of the style they're working with, however self-imposed they may be.

now im confused

yeah idk maybe i am too. i don't pay enough attention to stuff like this to have reached a satuartion point, really. good shit tho, thx for the link.

new young pony club is super terrible. not sure what that has to do w/cromeo, but whatever.

re: cromeo - more of the music, more of the choruses, less of moustache dude talk rapping.

Eh...I like both Chromeo and NYPC (not really sure why the latter are being brought into this, they're a different pastiche), but this feels kind of embarrassing. I don't know how to put this really, but where Chromeo are equal parts genuine enthusiasm and aloof distance, this tips too far toward the latter. It also feels like they're trying too damn hard. The forced MJ vocals, the nauseating "rap" section, it's...icky.

I love New Young Pony Club.

Yes, but what of Private?

Never heard of them.

chromeo were not the first at anything

they were first at not being first

what is other successful mid-80s R&B/funk pastiche groups not actually from this era

i think i agree w/ reverend but some of these songs aren't really bad either

i like that they try to hard.

I enjoy Chromeo's album (its all about the keyb fills) but ugh not feeling "Private." This song is tepid!

too*

im gonna stop riding the fence and say i agree, dollars to donuts this ends up in an ipod commercial in a couple months and i'll never want to hear it again.

chromeo still good tho

I'd rather hear Chromeo than look at them, though

yah chromeo is good but theres been doods dancing with their laptops to prince style shit way before them

I am always up for a good Zapp rip

word

eh well i am generally outside of their target audience i guess

Private = good song - rap bit.
video = good - watching that dude dance

other 80s funk/disco groups out now = Escort

Swade

^ ugh, sounds like some mid 90s house/jazzy jungle/lounge/sushi bar music

it doesnt really have a hint of irony to it, but most of the songs are zzz with a couple exceptions. but i think those songs are very good.

Escort are good.

jaymc, you dumbass. David linked to Private's video in his revive. That's kind of what we've been talking about in this section of thread.

when i was all hating on this i had never heard 'bonafide lovin'... thats a jam

still dont get why these dudes dont just like do a comeback album for chaka khan or some shit

Private sucks, i heard the obscure boogie track that they explicitly ripped off of for their single on trusme's release party mix and i felt gross for even bringing them up

This song is tepid!

-- da croupier, Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:50 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

this was wrong, what was tepid was that it was a cover masquerading as a new song

that makes sense then i guess

>>>>>>>fuck these guys

-- omar little, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link<<<<<<<<<

^^^^^^^^

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 3:34 PM

been jamming to 100% lately

lmao nobody told me these dudes made beats for non phixion

chromeo go over to Daryl Hall's house and play songs with him and his band

http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/index.php?page=ep10

oh, that's just the first song of the whole episode. the interviews are fun.

here's Say No Go. gets kinda jazzy, but still fun to hear the talk box over the song
http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/index.php?page=ep10

livefromdarylshouse.com!!!!!