creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

stuff from my generation was awesome, stuff from the younger generation is dumb

yeah, more Hartley hare!

unsloved mysteries

The New Zoo Revue Revue

my new band: *Ben Matlock's Season Four Cameo On Diagnosis Murder*

ducktails is a really cool band name

Boards of Canada surely were the first band to do this?

okay, really, i'm all for this, i guess. ducktails is a pretty good band name.

not v. chill but (wikipedia time) Crystal Castles were named after ... She-Ra's fortress in the sky

ducktails is a really cool terrible band name

Fixed that for you.

not all these bands are chillwave. I'll allow it.

7. Crystal Castles

fort thunder was never "cute." or at least ONLY cute.

also very few of these bands will ever produce anything on par with the non-musical shit many of the fort thunder guys produced, simply from a scale/intensity/effort standpoint. effort seems to be beyond most of them.

also crystal castles was named for a video game, whatever the band says.

tho both lightning bolt and chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't.

isn't Vampire Weekend super proud of the fact that one of the associations w/ the title of their new album is the title of an old Nintendo game?

lol i was gonna say didn't we explore this idea about 4 months ago

I had assumed it was the game too but checked on Wikipedia and it said that. still 80s, -600 points to me for believing wikipedia

btw i know y'all will find this hard to believe but fort thunder's influence has been way more pernicious in comics/visual art than in music

"tho both lightning bolt and chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't."

why don't you marry him already.

would if i could, man.

in a way there is a playfulness with this naming trend that i'm tempted to equate with some of the old rave producer/acts. this is all a bit 'tweer' tho perhaps.

i dunno the rave guys at least came up with bad puns

though maybe there were a bunch named directly after bbc childrens shows of the '80s i dont know about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roobarb#References

though maybe there were a bunch named directly after bbc childrens shows of the '80s i dont know about

Cosmo & Dibbs was one (wasn't this 4Hero? can't remember)

Discogs sez Rob Playford

I think Eye from Boredoms should get some cred too for his influence A) in visual arts with his colors everywhere collages he's been doing for 20 years and B) his use of emerging technologies in ritualistic and tribal ways, which everyone from animal collective on down have been reinterpreting

can i blame him for yo gabba gabba? i think i will anyway.

Boards of Canada surely were the first band to do this?

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maybe Belle & Sebastian?

this is about 20 somethings just borrowing the names of annoying, overplayed nostalgia tropes.

ok then:
Final Fantasy
Dangermouse
Charles The Hedgehog

apparently there is(was?) a venue in New Brunswick called Camp Anawanna

http://i49.tinypic.com/nfk385.jpg

tanlines
lemonade

^ both popular when we were kids in the 80s

lemonade, still is, etc.

man i h8 bands named after things theyre the worst

damn strongo beat me

The Ataris
Atreyu
The Mr. T Experience

What's up with our generation being so nostalgia obsessed? We grew up in the sunny, booming, carefree 90s, and became adults in the worst decade since the Great Depression ... kinda depressing, really. During my second week of college (freedom, yeah!) I got to watch the WTC towers fall from my dorm window, and watch all my classmates cry their eyes out because their family members couldn't be found. Now nobody can find work and there's no recovery in sight.

So yeah, how great was it being forced to watch Captain Planet in health class? Super awesome!

Universal Studios Florida is the most irritating band name ever

Fall Out Boy?

If they were Universal Studios Orlando Flordia I would like them more.

i have never heard of any of these bands, have never heard the word "chillwave" before, and have only the faintest notion of what any of you are talking about. win?

Win were scottish. They had an album called "Freaky Trigger"

Every generation is nostalgia-obsessed.

Future Bible Heroes always reminded me of Superbook

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Superbook.JPG

Neon Indian album is great fun ftw

One Sunday and one only I managed to convince my mother that if I watched Superbook I didn't have to go to church.

subgenre of synthpop, apparently
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillwave

hadouken

Semi related - that song called "POWER GLOVE"

hahah i was thinking that today

Best Coast =
<img src="http://i2.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/03/70/8398_1_sbol.JPG";>

Naphta is more reminiscent of Naptha

https://soundcloud.com/cgijoe

CGI Joe

this band's name is actually really cool

there is a song called "Sinusoidal Wibbler"

damn this is so Athens. so great.

otm

Gold Panda

oof. hurts.

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having their name spelled three different ways in one short press release is no less than this band deserve tbqh

Not 80s ephemera but there is a 90s cover band in this region that's called White Ford Bronco, and I find it in marginally poor taste (haha, murder, so droll)

There's another 90s cover band called the Bayside Tigers, which needed to be explained to me (hi i am an old)

it continues: Bandler Ching

shit i came here to post that one

Thats appalling

Michael Cera Palin

Also, one of my students had a band called GG Alan Partridge

That's good though

I know a member of GGAP! Small world.

If it's Sophie, say "hi".

Gg Alan partridge is great

There was a band in Portland I’d see on flyers callled “Guantanamo baywatch” - not so good

I recall a festival about a decade ago with duran duran duran (bad) and black abba (good)

"Ross from Friends", made more annoying by him being from Essex. I'd have preferred "Martin from Game On" or "Tony from Men Behaving Badly".