'Bands' that sign and dance along to CDs or Laptops - Why isn't everyone sick of them yet?

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Just saw stereototal and quintron. As a part of their tour some guy (aparently from XBXRX) does this 'zany' and 'crazy' routine where he wears hot pants, sock pulled up really high and a really tight shirt and sings shocking party style lyrics "we like to fuck" repeat etc...

Why hasn't the novelty of this worn off yet with atom and his package, chicks on speed et al.?

― ddd, Saturday, 30 November 2002 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it possible that it's less about novelty and more about the fact that some people can play to pre-programmed stuff pretty entertainingly? Two of the shows I've enjoyed most over the past year were Stereo Total and Le Tigre, both of whom have a decent amount of fun stepping away from the minimal instrumentation they do provide live and just dancing around a bit.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 November 2002 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

the novelty you speak of is "da hawnay troof"... i enjoyed it when i saw him do his thing... he even had a member of gravy train on stage with him... (another bay area group with similar leanings... just like crack: we are rock!)...

i guess it just connects with a certain age group that were young during the tigre and bunny sorts of stuff...

plus da hawnay troof had some nice indie rock samples amongst his hip-hop beats.

i dig it...but yeah... it does have certain novelty things going for it.
m.

― msp, Sunday, 1 December 2002 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

nitsuh you are surely aware there is something comical about the phrase 'a decent amount of fun'

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 1 December 2002 02:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

i sing and dance to my computer on stage. i really love to entertain. fack you man.

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 1 December 2002 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

CEX.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 2 December 2002 05:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last Tuesday evening was spent freestyling with Cex in my friend's basement after a show he did at William and Mary...

― Clarke B., Monday, 2 December 2002 06:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Aw, but we need more people to sign and dance... reaching out to the hard of hearing is always a noble deed.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 2 December 2002 06:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

The laptoppers and Japtoppers call us 'poptoppers'. We dance, they just frown.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 2 December 2002 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Japtoppers'?

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've heard lots of nasty storis about electroclash bands that lipsync along with prerecorded stuff

this takes it too far!

recorded instruments are ok.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

chicks on speed had tons of instruments (read: gear) on stage when they 'played' but never touched anything. they just sang along to the album tracks with the vocals muted. worst show ever.

― ddd, Monday, 2 December 2002 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Gold Chains a week or so ago and he just danced and rapped along to his laptop. He had two women singing with him and he said that he'd brought them instead of guitars.

The three of them were very good. So good the crowd demanded an encore but he'd turned his laptop off so while it re-booted one of the women got to tell us some jikes, which were pretty damn funny, but I can't remember what they were. One was about a Whale.

― meirion john lewis (mei), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

chicks on speed had tons of instruments (read: gear) on stage when they 'played' but never touched anything. they just sang along to the album tracks with the vocals muted. worst show ever.

They were rocking the airpad pretty hard when I saw them. Unfortunetly the airpad just went wosh wosh, fun toy to play at home but did nothing for the show.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

ddd, was that show in Boston? Cuz I saw that spectacle there. Yeah, ironic disco-porn-Peaches-shit is horseshit. At the very least Har Mar and Paul Barman write actual funny lyrics. These other people just think it's fucking genius just to say "fuck" and be white.

As for drum machines, Iboxes itself, I don't mind as long as the beats/songs/dancing is good. I just can't handle the uninspired sex-obsession. Peaches needs to get fucked, and I'm sure she'd agree.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 December 2002 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

no, that was the show in montreal. but i guess when you just sing along to album backing tracks it all kinda ends up the same

― ddd, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last Tuesday evening was spent freestyling with Cex in my friend's basement after a show he did at William and Mary...

I'm sorry, but that sounds about as fun as having a jam session with Anal Cunt.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

which is to say, A LOT OF FUN

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 03:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well it didn't fuckin' RAWK if that's what you're wondering...

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 3 December 2002 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

i dunno. this is very hard to pull off and it's almost always disappointing. kind of like folk music. not to be a list kiss-ass, but the only one i've seen do it well is momus cuz he's fuckin' funny. anyone trying to 'rawk' or be sexy or take themselves at all seriously in this karaoke format gives me that uncomfortable embarassed feeling. ie. peaches (though i actually do dig her music), taylor savvy (oy vey!), ping pong bitches, etc. if you have no talent and nothing to say (or even just a little talent and something kinda sorta to say), i would suggest distracting people with cool outfits and lots of people playing instruments. it's an old trick, but it still seems to work ok.

and on an 'uninspired sex-obsession' tangent, i don't get it either. who cares if electroclash is all about sex? who wants to fuck anyone with such horrificly bad style as those folks?

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

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