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

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?

― Groke, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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";>

oh, you know what i meant
http://i2.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/03/70/8398_1_sbol.JPG

http://themicronauts.free.fr/

http://www.micro-outpost.com/

i want to see this "superbook"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTmZrJYF_DE

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?

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

love you <3

what do we were promised jetpacks sound like?

lolz. second half of stephanie and gia sounds like a shredz vid. and those tights are too slutty for someone her age

xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHWDhk7Hok

became adults in the worst decade since the Great Depression

...

See, people get nostalgic for that depression as well! How great was it really?

in that full house clip, i don't actually hear two guitars -- though they are playing two guitars. how is this possible?

superbook -- is this like veggie tales?

oh i listened to a neon indian song. it wasn't bad.

band names have been awful for decades. sometimes i need to pause and remind myself of that fact. a band named "japan." that's dumb. or "new order." that's dumb too. we just forget because we are so accustomed to them.

You know how it happens. Bands pick a new name every six months or so, then suddenly they get "national acclaim" and are stuck with the name they had at the time.

Like, is "The Crucial Three" a better name than "Echo and the Bunnymen" ?

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".