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

I'm really wondering if all of these bands are proving that everyone needs to spend a lot less time on the internet, myself included.

― filthy dylan, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:37 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i almost feel like the opposite is more true, like you have to be kind of naive or out of it to think referencing a TV show you watched in middle school is still clever or funny and not just played the hell out

The Lacts of Fife

Illusion, Michael (an Arrested Development ref)

Bunnky Prewstarr

Soleil Moon Frye's Breast Reduction Surgery

Back to the Future Ride covering George Michael's "Father Figure" is like the top prize here.

http://alleveryone.blogspot.com/2010/07/back-to-future-ride.html

The gift that keeps on giving

the cafeteria at the hospital where my wife and I had our baby is called "The Chill: A Place for Food and Art." I saw no art there.

http://www.lecastlevania.com/promo/releaseart/NGOA_RMX.jpg

probably not chillwave

I started watching Deadwood, saw the dude from Newhart, and figured that there had to be a band named Other Brother Darryl somewhere out there. And there is, but not chillwave:

http://www.myspace.com/theotherbrotherdarryl

http://i29.tinypic.com/2z5sk1u.jpg

uh ...

can't we let that dude rest in peace?

http://i29.tinypic.com/2z5sk1u.jpghttp://i29.tinypic.com/2z5sk1u.jpg

http://img.skitch.com/20100728-d5cxyyn872j59ue92qt1x2153d.jpg

a few weeks ago a college radio station was playing some song that I'd never heard and flipped out about. I called in, turned the radio down, and asked what the song was was and the dj was like "Oh that song you're asking about was by this new band _________, I'm playing ducktails now." And I was like "oh ducktails, that shit is pretty alright." Then I turned the radio back up and it was the theme song to ducktales.

basically all I'm trying to say is that this phenomenon fucked me

oops, wrong thread for above post

haha what was the right thread?

i put "chillwave" as a keyword in my online internet auction of first beat happening lp

Ex girlfriend dream. Zuh!
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xp: good question!

Gremlins tape
http://slippytown.com/gremlins.jpg

How is this different than like Black Sabbath or Duran Duran?

what

oh ~internet~

Black Sabbath - Bava horror film
Duran Duran - name taken from Barbarella

(Assuming cutty's what was directed at wk's post, there.)

Not the same put there is something out there now called Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Black Sabbath - Bava horror film
Duran Duran - name taken from Barbarella

i.e. campy stuff from their childhood

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

― ᶠᵧᶸₒᶜᵤᵏ (LOLK), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 4:52 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

literally just came here to post that

― ᵧₒᵤᶠᶸᶜᵏ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 5:37 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Post the photo of Dale Earnhartdt Jr. Jr. that they sent around

― Catbird (mbvrc), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 5:59 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

except it's not chillwave and it's not 80's ephemera? there are plenty of threads on SHITTY BAND NAMES.

― cutty, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:06 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sorry about that...it is in the "442 skipped messages" in the middle of the thread (I did CTRL + F it before...). But still, lest we never forget...

sure, Sabbath and Duran are campy stuff maybe from their childhood, but not OF childhood.
to be the same they would have named themselves like Blue Peter Peter or Z-Cars.

there was an aussie punk band called z-cars

sure, Sabbath and Duran are campy stuff maybe from their childhood, but not OF childhood.

I don't entirely agree. Who were AIP-distributed horror movies for if not kids? Barbarella maybe less so, although I saw it when I was a kid.

But at any rate you're saying the distinction is naming a band after "adult" material rather than kids entertainment? Not a TV vs. movies thing, or an '80s vs. '60s thing? So then Golden Girls doesn't count right? :P

And is Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron one of the earliest precursors?

Really love that Sabbath chillwave album "Vigo the Carpathian" on Jagjaguwar.

yeah, I don't get the Golden Girls fetish. like naming yer band Mama's Family or Murder She Wrote, unless it's that lol-hipster irony.

like naming a dancehall song murder she wrote

Really love that Sabbath chillwave album "Vigo the Carpathian" on Jagjaguwar.

So "creatively bankrupt" was in reference to the chillwave aspect, not the '80s ephemera?

wk, the Beastie Boys and Generation X alt-rock bands invented a way of defining yourself through nostalgia and junk culture that wasn't around in Sab/Duran's time. I'm willing to bet when Black Sabbath and Duran Duran were naming their bands, they were coming from "this sounds cool" rather than "I am subverting the culture of my youth for ironic means" or "what I consume defines me."

The point is that once that mentality filtered down to chillwave two generations later, it's basically hacky Family Guy/Robot Chicken references as shorthand for "nostalgia."

which ultimately takes no creativity. or at least it takes far LESS creativity to name your band READING RAINBOW after 20 years of Weezer doing a Happy Days spoof or naming your band Eve's Plumb in the early 90s

both of which were pretty creative imo

So the critical difference is that the earlier bands were referencing pop culture ephemera in an era before the Beastie Boys invented irony?

before the Beastie Boys/Gen-X defined our generation's reference-happy version of irony. which all the 20 y/os in chillwave bands grew up seeing as the dominant aesthetic in the post-nirvana landscape and are savvy enough to use quicker shorthand to get the same effect, but not creative enough to do much else with it imo

see also the Simpsons

i mean the culture that produced the chillwave generation is the same culture that produced an audience for SCARY MOVIE 4 despite being opposite ends of the coin

I think it makes sense that early childhood entertainment had such a strong effect on this generation. They were the first to experience 24 hour cable networks devoted to kids. When I was a kid you could watch cartoons on Saturday morning and for a couple of hours in the afternoon after school. But people who grew up with Nickleodeon had this whole range of soap opera, game shows, and targeted advertising running 24 hours a day.

It's kind of like how the boomers were the first generation to grow up watching TV, and so they ended up dressing up like cowboys and indians in the '60s. These kids grew up in an atmosphere saturated with intensely focused pre-teen marketing and it made a big mark on their brains. They were also the first generation where "tween" was identified as a unique demographic, much like how the boomers were basically the first "teenagers." So I guess maybe these dumb ass band names are a reflection of that.

100% totally