how does Electric Boogaloo not work as an imaginary sequel title?
― Mr. Que, Friday, 5 March 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
doubting the sly wink thing
― some dude, Friday, 5 March 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
que no rhyme
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― eau de humanity (haitch), Saturday, 6 March 2010 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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
There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.
Heatmiser
sesame's treet (not a band name but still)
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought that was a Silver Jews reference. What else is it?
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
80s ephemera?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
A band name so vile I wish the members a world of indifference and zero merch sales?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
doesn't fit the thread duder
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
People Asking People to Watch Their Scotch
what makes it 80s ephemera? I appreciate that I am possibly being very stupid here.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
(Suburban Kids..., that is)
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, it just seems that way to me.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
There were alot of dudes named Zack who lived far away back in the 80s man
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Soup Dragons
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
was a.c. slater in the bible?
― ogmor, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
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
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so basically
it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
then again, in the context of shit like thishttp://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/11/3861/images/23152_lg.jpgself-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/38147-new-neon-indian-track-co-produced-by-grizzly-bears-chris-taylor/
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
there is a band called MADDEN iirc
― max, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
So according to the SXSW torrent file for this year, there's a band out there called Follow That Bird!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― tramp steamer, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
8-bit music in general is a perfect example of this
― I am become death, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/
― there are tons of lame posts with your login underneath: write a book! (ksh), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/03/is-the-text-and-walk-the-official-chill-bro-position-at-sxsw.html
― there are tons of lame posts with your login underneath: write a book! (ksh), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Its cos we grew up in the Home Computer age!
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music"
indie: ??
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Pareles otm about Tobacco being awesome too
― rolling stupid fruity crazy ragg ned (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
well i did say "most" and i think it really depends on how one is defining indie. 90's indie rock could be unfairly reduced to 'suburban angst' but i wouldn't say the same thing about dirty projectors. anyways this is the creatively bankrupt chillwave thread not an indie thread.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney are there any of these bands that you like?
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
that sentence is so v much otm
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I've listened to a few of these bands but the only song that stuck with me after closing the youtube window was "should've taken acid with you"
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
... and I think that was mostly cuz I saw it with this great video accompaniment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f1rQ2fNos
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This is how boring 80s nostalgia has manifested itself in the Czech 7th-wave Pop Punk scene. http://www.airfareband.cz/en/extras/
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Delorean count?
― jam master (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― ian, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
More 90s bands with 80s-referential name: just remembered that Sweep The Leg Johnny were named after a line from Karate Kid, or maybe I mean I just remembered that STLJ existed, but I liked them before I forgot about them.
None of which has anything to do with chillwave.
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i like Zero Merch as a band name
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
90s bands with 80s references were usually pop punk/hardcore scene bands. Mr. T Experience, etc. Most of the """"""""""hipsters"""""""""" I know were at least familiar with the pop punk/hardcore scene in the 90s, many were part, etc. Probably just a generational thing.
I can't wait until 2019 when "Two Princes" is the latest hip band on the scene.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what he said was "it sometimes seems like they all use the same preset synthesizer tones" which is completely reasonable.
― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link