I was all set to write a self-righteous post about Two Lights' clueless public display of entitlement, but these guys did it better and used bagpipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iR2Wi3u5o
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 27 January 2012 01:32 (fourteen years ago)
Anyway, fight the real enemy
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/popcrush.com/files/2011/06/Karmin.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 27 January 2012 01:33 (fourteen years ago)
We've been mentored by former British rock stars
― some dude, Friday, 27 January 2012 03:19 (fourteen years ago)
must've been Gay Dad
― omar little, Friday, 27 January 2012 03:20 (fourteen years ago)
no they mentored young heart attack
― ‘Banksy bacon burgers’ and ‘Shepard Fairey Bread’ (electricsound), Friday, 27 January 2012 03:27 (fourteen years ago)
Harper Willis graduated from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at New York University with a concentration in ancient theater and jazz guitar. He is a musician and writer, and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
― dave cool, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:28 (fourteen years ago)
wow, cool!
― sarahell, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:28 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:31 (fourteen years ago)
swear to god the second verse of their single sounds like it starts with "waiting til the dawn to try and pee/promises i thought that i could keep"
― da croupier, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:42 (fourteen years ago)
those are cool lyrics!
― sarahell, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:43 (fourteen years ago)
they also sound like the jonas brothers making a snow patrol move
― da croupier, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:43 (fourteen years ago)
this is gorgeous, this story
― oneohtrix and park (m bison), Friday, 27 January 2012 12:09 (fourteen years ago)
I want to d/l that Albini article as a working spreadsheet.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 January 2012 12:36 (fourteen years ago)
graduated from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at New York University with a concentration in ancient theater and jazz guitar.
so goodlike it should have been the entire pitch for the article
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 27 January 2012 12:42 (fourteen years ago)
Just WTF-ing here at that bit.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:14 (fourteen years ago)
BA (Hons) Individ. Std w/AncThtr & Jz Gtr - NYU
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:27 (fourteen years ago)
More like jizz guitar, amirite?
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:30 (fourteen years ago)
Two Hats, more like.
― Turrican, Friday, 27 January 2012 13:35 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/1651_buckethead.jpg
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:36 (fourteen years ago)
we need a two lights v. pomplemousse poll
― dayo, Friday, 27 January 2012 13:36 (fourteen years ago)
Two Shites, more like.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:39 (fourteen years ago)
Orbital only spent $1 to make "Chime", you give 'em $100,000, that's a career, baby
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 14:42 (fourteen years ago)
No way, how did they manage to pay a guy to send email blasts to databases of hip music blogs on a budget of $1?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 14:45 (fourteen years ago)
Because they were that guy?
― Mark G, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:01 (fourteen years ago)
And one day later...the parody:
http://twolights.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:34 (fourteen years ago)
lol they've taken down their Facebook page the poor mites
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:37 (fourteen years ago)
lolxp lol
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:38 (fourteen years ago)
Recorded at Platinum Sound NYC for $7000
haha !
cmon, own up - who did this ?
― mark e, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:38 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah that parody is A+ well done all involved
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:39 (fourteen years ago)
That parody is much better than it has any right to be.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:46 (fourteen years ago)
pretty impressed that this was whipped up in < 24 hours. union pool line is ace.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
Five Dollars?
― Mark G, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:51 (fourteen years ago)
i'm a looking at ned.he dropped the thread, the twitter, and now the parody.after his success with the lulu campaign, i'm wondering if this is all some mad viral promo gig that he's running ..
[ love the parody btw .. ]
― mark e, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:51 (fourteen years ago)
this is amazing
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)
fantastic
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:13 (fourteen years ago)
omg the logo
― Saltines of Pink - 'Whites Me Tumblr?' (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:17 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah that was a great touch
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:23 (fourteen years ago)
Once again Mark E Smith displays his psychic prowess. From "Winter 2" off Hex Enduction Hour:
The mad kid had 4 lights, the average is 2.5 lightsThe mediocre has 2 lights, the sign of genius is three lightsThere's one light left, that's the one lightThat's the science law
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:04 PM (Yesterday)
haw
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:34 (fourteen years ago)
I'm far too lazy for that.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:34 (fourteen years ago)
I want a cover of the tribute song with Ned on vocals.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:39 (fourteen years ago)
Lord. However, if someone cares to supply a new backing arrangement...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:45 (fourteen years ago)
this is the link to 'Two Lights in NME (New Musical Express)' on their own site's press page
http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/8DsjzTfeQAc/search/two-lights
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)
I wouldn't be surprised if many semi and fully-successful bands have had money put into them by their wealthy families. The fact is that music is largely a middle-class business, moreso than it was 20 years ago. Most bands wouldn't be so stupid as to blurt it across Time magazine though.
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Friday, 27 January 2012 17:29 (fourteen years ago)
But granted, these guys make shitty music and have no sense of the value of money.
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Friday, 27 January 2012 17:32 (fourteen years ago)
If your parents pump money into your vanity band project, and then you complain about how hard it is ... at least pretend to be poor. That's all we ask.
― lukas, Friday, 27 January 2012 17:34 (fourteen years ago)
"You're going to Pulp, you guys?"
"Yeah, we tried to open for them. We hear they wrote a song about people just like us!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 17:41 (fourteen years ago)
Good thing they didn't move to Atlanta, no music ever gets big out of here.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:08 (fourteen years ago)
that so so def deal fell through for them ;_;
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:10 (fourteen years ago)
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/400146_308805082503225_142682905782111_915758_1883687596_n.jpg
i have a very good feeling about where this is going
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:13 (fourteen years ago)
Hahaha!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 18:14 (fourteen years ago)