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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_jSAdlMXc

I had to turn it off after the first minute. Is that a sample from Exile's "Kiss You All Over" being looped over and over? Fffftt

van smack, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

This is getting out of hand

van smack, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

twin peaks was early 90s wasn't it?

sarahel, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

1990-91 but same diff

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

^sarahel missing the point as per usual

Christopher Green Leafy Swagon Indiebro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

what point?

sarahel, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/alf.jpg

Christopher Green Leafy Swagon Indiebro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)

Pwin Teaks reminds me of that thread from a few years back about how a music genre is officially dead when a band comes along that is a perfect caricature of the genre (Jet/00s garage rock being an example)

it's like Poe's Law for pop.

Cunga, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

i thought genres were born when they gelled into something that could easily be caricatured. up until then it's just sounds, y'know?

some dude, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

man whiney really was the canary in the mineshaft of triangle wave

dudely midriff (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

rip

tylerw, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

little bird u tried to warn us ;_;

dudely midriff (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

god. damn it.

hypnosis is the reason some Jewish people backed him → (will), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

What are the alternatives here. Of all people, I'm the one backing this stuff? There's so much more creativity to these games than, you know, fucking THE POSTAL SERVICE or any of the fucking jacknut half-ass wonder bread cunts that littered the 2000s. This is so much more propositional, despite the representational, appropriative slant you can throw easy slams at. "THIS IS CHEAP. THIS IS LEGO BLOCK CULTURE. YOU CANNOT JUST PUT A STICKER ON SOMETHING." Of course you can.

I don't know, I am honestly shocked at your resistance to a number of these acts, and ideas, Wang-art-en. If we love music for its ability to inform and inspire dialog, this is the richest time we've lived through. Writers haven't enjoyed this sort of direct injection into pop music since the 80s as far as I'm concerned. All this noise, the talk and the music, is moving together. Or, Don't u wonder sometimes about sound + [[[[VVRSSNN]]]]??

cee-oh-tee-tee, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)

▲__▲

markers, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

^ a pumpkin fyi

markers, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

PWIN ▲__▲ TWEAKS

I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:01 (fifteen years ago)

oops

I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:01 (fifteen years ago)

uh, teaks

I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

Wang-art-en.

classic material

da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

chros 8=D 8=D itt

am0n, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

i love any kind of fucked-up shit so ultra-effected casio wash over psychedelic scramble porn montage is the bees knees imo. its a kinder, gentler Noise, like Whitehouse giving you a hug.

very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

"half-ass wonder bread cunts"

best band name EVER!

scott seward, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

a kinder, gentler Noise, like Whitehouse giving you a hug.

awesome press release fodder actually

sarahel, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

hug it out with william b

am0n, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)

there is a band called "GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE"

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:26 (fifteen years ago)

first single: "Sloth Loves Chunk"

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman "Cosby Stills Nash Nash Nash and Young" CDr

the cover art:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LCXsDuWBD6k/TO8OTgmq-4I/AAAAAAAAAys/jKyK7e_J8hk/s1600/new.jpg

btw I think that is great

Bjorn Cyborg (van smack), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

looks incredible

dr. harbl's zing-along blog (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

I think reading record reviews for these bands is worse than the worst band name. At least the band names are kinda funny. You want to talk 'creatively bankrupt'? How many times am I going to read 'sounds like a worn VHS tape' this week...?

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:47 (fifteen years ago)

Wow! 'Dream-pop'??!! Finally someone has put those ideas together!

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

How many times am I going to read 'sounds like a worn VHS tape' this week...?

also: their videos and album covers look like they're from worn out vhs tapes

Bjorn Cyborg (van smack), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

enough already

Bjorn Cyborg (van smack), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LCXsDuWBD6k/TO8OTgmq-4I/AAAAAAAAAys/jKyK7e_J8hk/s1600/new.jpg

can't stop laughing at this am i a bad person?

tuom of finland (m bison), Thursday, 9 December 2010 03:03 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

My band: Sibyl Shepherd

our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

knew you were gonna do that!

scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

unfortunately Back to the Future the RIde had to cancel

naming my new band this

Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:17 (fifteen years ago)

this band is called SUMMER CAMP

they look like this

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/summercamp.jpg

I Lost A COGHdrop in His Pato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

wolf AND an american flag, dude getting in on the ground floor of irony circa 2003

I Lost A COGHdrop in His Pato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

summer camp looks like if pete smith and i had a baby and hung out w/his girlfriend

jaxon, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

wahhhhhhh it does

69, Friday, 14 January 2011 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

he1go was proto-chillwave:

dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown) wrote this on thread THIS IS THE lol WHERE WE SUM UP ILX excelsiors SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM on board I Love Everything on Jan 24, 2011

hahahaha

vas deferens was on the shortlist of names for my jr. high band, we ended up going with lethal weapon instead

trv kvnt (some dude), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:27 (fifteen years ago)

our cover of "i hate myself for loving you" by joan jett was ahead of its time

dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:51 (fifteen years ago)

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bamcquern, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 05:26 (fifteen years ago)

Onward Crispin Glover

a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 05:45 (fifteen years ago)

ftr lizzie from summer camp is one of my oldest friends and i can honestly say that the guy (jeremy, in the wolf t-shirt) is one of the sweetest most un-ironic guys i've ever met

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 10:06 (fifteen years ago)

so he really loves wolves and America and saw the shirt and bought it thinkin "yes, this is what I'm about"?

trv kvnt (some dude), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 13:42 (fifteen years ago)

it's just his personal brand - deal with it

whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 13:50 (fifteen years ago)

lol

Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:22 (fifteen years ago)

the only way that dude could be "unironic" is if he literally was a special ed student from 1986 instead of just dressing like one

when the president talks to based god (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:26 (fifteen years ago)


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