In gecs-adjacent news, Dog Show Records just put out this track and along with the music video it’s taken up the better part of my media consumption over the past 24 hrs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmjbZtMrJQ
― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Gosh
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
i got late to this album and i don't think i want to listen to it much ever again but it's a real good time if you go into it with the right attitude!also, "money machine" is kind of all-time great somehow
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
I like Stupid Horse and Ringtone the most but the lyric in gecgecgec gets to me too
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
World tour announcedhttps://www.100gecs.com/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
May take my kid to the Austin show
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Generation (Demo idea) prod by Dylan Brady and Danny L Harle pic.twitter.com/nv1wHSuDPC— CHARLI XCX UPDATES (@FckyeahCharli) April 20, 2020
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Charli was on this version of Ringtone I rly like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmX4UPiVS-w
― silby, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
Their May 8 show in Austin has not yet been cancelled, but I don't know how it could possibly happen or whether I'd even want to take Datapod to see them and risk our health.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzj2p8Z1Wjk
minecraft
― adam, Friday, 24 April 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
are they big now
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
disappointed no one has had much of a go at dismissing this band, too powerful for ilx
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
you need to visit the top 77 singles, lots of naysaying there.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
I was there it was devoid of insight
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
is that the name of the new single?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
If I knew what the fuck they were trying to do I might have a go at dissing them, that or I would be a fan I guess.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
what's to dismiss?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
ha
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 April 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
that's your first problem
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
What's fresh about chipmunk vocals in 2019 ? This is for people who had not yet heard of PC Music, back in 2014.Novelty and stupid jokes are immune to criticism, so it's not on you if you don't have the patience to go through more than ten seconds of that shit.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Y u hate fun
― silby, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
as is often the case the best angle we have here is from d-40 about pure surface. there are other things that you might call totally superficial that don't have the same resonance or particular affect, just as there are many types of shitposting. gecs have a distinct attitude behind them that is v different to melodramatic kitsch old stuff like mr bungle or whatever. it's not parody, it's not quite pastiche. there is a welcoming cuteness and personability that help make gecs infectious, but also a blankness. they're not aiming for any sort of transcendence, they're not referring to anything other than referencing itself, it's pure empty gesture, like when maggie nelson says "the most I want to do is show you the end of my index finger. its muteness". there's an acceptance and glory in the total lack of transcendence, a ritualistic embrace of uselessness
cooking pic.twitter.com/CYbTsfk3ii— Claws & The Tree Of Clues (@dylanbrady) April 21, 2020
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
could say they are doomer fun. not nihilistic necessarily (altho never listen to anyone who uses nihilist pejoratively), or stupid necessarily, so much as irrationalist. high nonsense. which makes them traditional rock and roll as outlined by meltzer.
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
why is everyone suddenly talking about them
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
ween-like
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
very weeny
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
there's an acceptance and glory in the total lack of transcendence, a ritualistic embrace of uselessness
Well, yeah.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
post-ween imo. something extremely, aggressively non-specific about the emptiness. beyond pastiche, not so much playing with particular signifiers as totally burnt out on cycling through them. standing atop the mashed-up goo, everything smells like shit. lowest-common-denominator meaninglessness to the point of total fluidity.
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
haha money machine go brrrrrr
― silby, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
brrrrrrrrr
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
I'm reading GR atm and I think ogmor is Thomas Pynchon
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
the square garden set is the definitive document imo, better than the album
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
Were there visuals for square garden or was it audio only? Is Youtube best place to look or is there a full video on Twitch?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
there was a minecraft world, the twitch streams I've seen are full of chat, there are some vids on youtube that give you the idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42rfQd1bZaU
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
loathe to google why everyone is gecsplaining right now
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
for the record my earlier post wasn't meant as some kind of sharp meta-dismissal of 100 gecs themselves, more a dismissal of the idea that there would be any value or purpose in any of us dismissing them.
100 gecs don't exactly invite critical discourse. what the hell am i supposed to say? i don't get it? who cares if i get it? they're not doing it for my benefit. i'm trans, sure, but i'm also a bougie middle-aged white lady. if they want my opinion, they'll ask.
but i have no idea why they would _want_ my opinion, quite honestly. it's not like uninformed critical opinions from clueless people are in short supply right now. the one thing i do get from being trans is that i am frequently the recipient of exactly those sort of judgements on my lived experience from people whose opinions are simply irrelevant. 100 gecs' music is their expression of their lived experience, and the least i can do is respect that. i support whatever it is they are doing, and i hope it brings them joy and that it brings the people who have some faint inkling of what the hell they are up to joy.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
they seem to enjoy bad opinions
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
oh damn it's witch house all over again
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
^they'd hoover up that one
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
i am automatically suspicious of diplo affiliates in 2020 so
― maura, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
in a just world, all the praise for gecs would be lavished upon glass beach instead
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
threads are free, start a thread!
― silby, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
there is one
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
bump the thread!
― silby, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
ogmor i don't even know who the "they" you're talking about are
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
people talk a lot about glass beach too? it's not like they're off in some corner being listened to by three or four people like most of the music i listen to
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
the classic j video has 32k views, which is admittedly more than 3 or 4, but they've never been a trending topic on twitter, afaik
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
gecs have way more critical focus on them it's not close
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEb4Hwo_T98
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
i think id like them a lot more if they drew more on the sicko mobb part of their sound instead of like the pop-punk part
― ufo, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
I Got My Tooth Removed bangs tho
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 March 2023 10:50 (one year ago) link
Thought the last album and the December EP were mostly awful - but Doritos & Fritos was a worthwhile attempt to update White Music. So I have no idea what to expect from an album which is apparently more like the latter but which most people aren't keen on.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 17 March 2023 11:55 (one year ago) link
idk, I think the new album is pretty good, but then again, I loved the first one and thought the Snake Eyes EP was a decent stopgap so ymmv. I did find it a bit disappointing on first listen, but I've warmed up to it more with a couple more go thrus.
It definitely helps to have a strong tolerance for late 90s/early aughts pop-punk though and I agree with the pfork review that Ween is a pretty good reference point for the wackiness and erratic tonal shifts.
Kinda wish that the looming specters of Disney lawyers didn't prevent this one from getting included though . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgBfhn3c6e8
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 17 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
I generally really liked the album! Wasn't too interested in the more digicore/screamy aspects that return from the earlier releases but I was taken by the stuff that's more in the vein of D&F (latter of which sounds better than ever) or at least more tuneful. The frog song for instance, with its croaks a nice Stump homage. Or the Sleng Teng underlay of The Most Wanted Person. Or the two songs that try awfully hard not to turn into Sweet Dreams or Hunting for Witches (this is a struggle I faced several times when I used to make music).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
I hate this
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
he's been chilling in the basement for a minute
757 and frog on the floor are so good, mememe also pretty great, rare moments that match the charm of the debut. i feel like 21 pilots and KLF are under-discussed touchpoints for this project ...
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWHnWbpxmc
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 April 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link