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

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.

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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.

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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: ??

Pareles otm about Tobacco being awesome too

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.

whiney are there any of these bands that you like?

that sentence is so v much otm

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"

... and I think that was mostly cuz I saw it with this great video accompaniment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f1rQ2fNos

This is how boring 80s nostalgia has manifested itself in the Czech 7th-wave Pop Punk scene. http://www.airfareband.cz/en/extras/

Does Delorean count?

truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"

truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"

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.

i like Zero Merch as a band name

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.

what he said was "it sometimes seems like they all use the same preset synthesizer tones" which is completely reasonable.

whiney are there any of these bands that you like?

― samosa gibreel, Monday, March 22, 2010 10:40 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't like any chillwave bands at all, tho I probably dislike Toro Y Moi the LEAST because dude seems to have an OK idea of beats.

I do REALLY REALLY REALLY like all the artists on the fringe of this, who seem more interested in rhythm than atmosphere/melody: ie, Javelin, Tobacco, Sleigh Bells and Nite Jewel. But no one is really lumping any of them in with chillwave per se, even though they have a little in common soundwise.