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

tbh this thread has left me with nothing but an urge to name a band after a character from Galaxy High and do covers of "Sail Away" and claim it's ironic

sorry mum

I guess I'd better get onto Bucky O'Hare and "Mr Loverman" so I'm ready for the 90s nostalgia wave though

heeey britishers, is there a band called blue peter?

*snicker*

heeey britishers, is there a band called blue peter?

― goole, Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:34 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is just like the american version of ghost box imo

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

new mgmt cover seems to fit into this

massive, massive lols @ http://pitchfork.com/news/38020-neon-indian-teams-with-mountain-dew/

MANIMAL

Witchypoo

Le Tigre

Yesterday I posted on Facebook that I'd rather listen to Grand Funk Railroad than any rock music released in the last 20 years and I stand by that more than ever after reading this thread.

This thread isn't really about rock music, though.

Tape Deck Mountain

http://vimeo.com/9814265

Summer Camp "Ghost Train". i dig the song, but everything about it from the name to the vid just scream this thread

On Slate today:

I know, Bingham wrote it, but we get to hear him perform it on the soundtrack ever after, and we get to see Jeff Bridges in character as Bad Blake only one last time (unless my dream sequel, Even Crazier Heart: Electric Boogaloo, is currently in development).

(Does Dana Stevens not get that for "Electric Boogaloo" to work as a imaginary sequel subtitle, the title has to end in "2"? Or is this all a sly wink at how played out the joke is?)

how does Electric Boogaloo not work as an imaginary sequel title?

doubting the sly wink thing

que no rhyme

not 'chillwave' (lol genre names keep getting more creatively bankrupt too, this name means nothing) but there was some shitty hardcore band a few years back called rival schools, with an album 'united by fate'. band name is bad enough but the name of the record is also ripped from the same video game title!

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

sesame's treet (not a band name but still)

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names

I thought that was a Silver Jews reference. What else is it?

80s ephemera?

A band name so vile I wish the members a world of indifference and zero merch sales?

doesn't fit the thread duder

People Asking People to Watch Their Scotch

what makes it 80s ephemera? I appreciate that I am possibly being very stupid here.

(Suburban Kids..., that is)

I don't know, it just seems that way to me.

There were alot of dudes named Zack who lived far away back in the 80s man

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

sesame's treet (not a band name but still)

― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Soup Dragons

was a.c. slater in the bible?

who did the "[Title] 2: Electric Boogalo" joke first?

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits. i almost want to start a thread posting examples of the joke being used 100000 times over

― tza tziki sauce (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:10 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

going a little further back, wikipedia informs me that the second official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan convention, held in 1996, was named "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Bugaloo"

so basically

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits

then again, in the context of shit like this
http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/11/3861/images/23152_lg.jpg
self-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing

"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."

They have done it, just not 900 pages of it at a time.

http://pitchfork.com/news/38147-new-neon-indian-track-co-produced-by-grizzly-bears-chris-taylor/

this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective

self-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing

OTM. Maybe getting on the cover of a magazine with a shitty band name shows you think the magazine is stupid and want to further illustrate that point by getting a dumb name printed on the cover.

there is a band called MADDEN iirc

this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:55 PM (20 minutes ago)

it's kind of creepy how real post-anco is. there are already a few local bands in montreal who do it, too.

So according to the SXSW torrent file for this year, there's a band out there called Follow That Bird!

so, out of all the people that posted in this thread whose band is the worst ?

i vote ned's

if alex in nyc posted, his band would've been worst for sure

my band sucks too

8-bit music in general is a perfect example of this

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/

i like art with nes controllers. i like tora y moi and washed out and neon indian. i live on the west coast and am deeply nostalgic for the mid to late 1990s. building your entire aesthetic around how awesome it was to watch legends Of the hidden temple is fucking appealing to me.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/03/is-the-text-and-walk-the-official-chill-bro-position-at-sxsw.html

It’s annoyingly noncommittal music, backing droopy vocals with impersonal sounds–a hedged, hipster imitation of the pop they’re not brash enough to make.

from that nyt article, pretty much my reason for not being into 99% of this stuff. a shame the writer ruined it all by going on to laud jj in the next paragraph.

narrowing in on nostalgia isn't necessarily a dud move, most genres are hedged around or defined by (among other things) emotional content. like you wouldn't be so far off to say "metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music" or whatever--it's reductionist but there's a real basis to it. i just find the way they go about it isn't as nuanced or imaginative as it could be, they paint their emotions in big, obvious strokes (reverb, synths, mumbled vocals) and the resulting uniformity is a bore.

Its cos we grew up in the Home Computer age!

"metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music"

indie: ??