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

I don't know, it just seems that way to me.

There were alot of dudes named Zack who lived far away back in the 80s man

Yeah but the 90s didn't have an influx of grunge/indierockers named The Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Happy Days, etc.

There were the Groovie Ghoulies. I bet there were others, too.

Heatmiser

sesame's treet (not a band name but still)

― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Soup Dragons

was a.c. slater in the bible?

who did the "[Title] 2: Electric Boogalo" joke first?

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits. i almost want to start a thread posting examples of the joke being used 100000 times over

― tza tziki sauce (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:10 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

going a little further back, wikipedia informs me that the second official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan convention, held in 1996, was named "ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Bugaloo"

so basically

it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits

then again, in the context of shit like this
http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/11/3861/images/23152_lg.jpg
self-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing

"chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't."

They have done it, just not 900 pages of it at a time.

http://pitchfork.com/news/38147-new-neon-indian-track-co-produced-by-grizzly-bears-chris-taylor/

this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective

self-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing

OTM. Maybe getting on the cover of a magazine with a shitty band name shows you think the magazine is stupid and want to further illustrate that point by getting a dumb name printed on the cover.

there is a band called MADDEN iirc

this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:55 PM (20 minutes ago)

it's kind of creepy how real post-anco is. there are already a few local bands in montreal who do it, too.

So according to the SXSW torrent file for this year, there's a band out there called Follow That Bird!

so, out of all the people that posted in this thread whose band is the worst ?

i vote ned's

if alex in nyc posted, his band would've been worst for sure

my band sucks too

8-bit music in general is a perfect example of this

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/

i like art with nes controllers. i like tora y moi and washed out and neon indian. i live on the west coast and am deeply nostalgic for the mid to late 1990s. building your entire aesthetic around how awesome it was to watch legends Of the hidden temple is fucking appealing to me.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/03/is-the-text-and-walk-the-official-chill-bro-position-at-sxsw.html

It’s annoyingly noncommittal music, backing droopy vocals with impersonal sounds–a hedged, hipster imitation of the pop they’re not brash enough to make.

from that nyt article, pretty much my reason for not being into 99% of this stuff. a shame the writer ruined it all by going on to laud jj in the next paragraph.

narrowing in on nostalgia isn't necessarily a dud move, most genres are hedged around or defined by (among other things) emotional content. like you wouldn't be so far off to say "metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music" or whatever--it's reductionist but there's a real basis to it. i just find the way they go about it isn't as nuanced or imaginative as it could be, they paint their emotions in big, obvious strokes (reverb, synths, mumbled vocals) and the resulting uniformity is a bore.

Its cos we grew up in the Home Computer age!

"metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music"

indie: ??

Pareles otm about Tobacco being awesome too

well i did say "most" and i think it really depends on how one is defining indie. 90's indie rock could be unfairly reduced to 'suburban angst' but i wouldn't say the same thing about dirty projectors. anyways this is the creatively bankrupt chillwave thread not an indie thread.

whiney are there any of these bands that you like?

that sentence is so v much otm

I've listened to a few of these bands but the only song that stuck with me after closing the youtube window was "should've taken acid with you"

... and I think that was mostly cuz I saw it with this great video accompaniment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f1rQ2fNos

This is how boring 80s nostalgia has manifested itself in the Czech 7th-wave Pop Punk scene. http://www.airfareband.cz/en/extras/

Does Delorean count?

truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"

truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"

More 90s bands with 80s-referential name: just remembered that Sweep The Leg Johnny were named after a line from Karate Kid, or maybe I mean I just remembered that STLJ existed, but I liked them before I forgot about them.

None of which has anything to do with chillwave.

i like Zero Merch as a band name

90s bands with 80s references were usually pop punk/hardcore scene bands. Mr. T Experience, etc. Most of the """"""""""hipsters"""""""""" I know were at least familiar with the pop punk/hardcore scene in the 90s, many were part, etc. Probably just a generational thing.

I can't wait until 2019 when "Two Princes" is the latest hip band on the scene.

what he said was "it sometimes seems like they all use the same preset synthesizer tones" which is completely reasonable.

whiney are there any of these bands that you like?

― samosa gibreel, Monday, March 22, 2010 10:40 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't like any chillwave bands at all, tho I probably dislike Toro Y Moi the LEAST because dude seems to have an OK idea of beats.

I do REALLY REALLY REALLY like all the artists on the fringe of this, who seem more interested in rhythm than atmosphere/melody: ie, Javelin, Tobacco, Sleigh Bells and Nite Jewel. But no one is really lumping any of them in with chillwave per se, even though they have a little in common soundwise.

javelin is more outwardly poppy avalanches style music, as far as cut-up artists go, i think they're sort of the antithesis of the criticism that pareles levels on neon indian & the like

i feel like nite jewel is more about traditional song structures than most chillwave bands? but i haven't heard enough of her stuff

sleigh bells is not really chillwave at all, they prob just play shows with those bands cuz of indie rock blog ghetto stuff

xp that's pretty much my feelings about it too. i've fallen for a couple neon indian songs but it was way hard to get through the album.

gonna name my new post-chillwave band tailspin

gonna name my industrial meets paisley underground band the creepy crawlers.

Well, just a few years ago, when bands did this lol nostalgia thing, weren't the names usually some sort of subversive twist on the original memory? You did not just name the band "Huey, Dewey, and Louie" but you went with "Scrooge McFuck."

uh

sleigh bells & yacht are two of my favorite bands but they arent really chillwave just same dudes like them probably

really looking forward to the Sleigh Bells LP whenever it comes out

o nm whiney didnt mention yacht but i do like laptop bands generally just less dreamy & uncertain ones

also went 2 see a band called gameboy

saying they all use similar-sounding synthesizer settings would be more accurate. He doesn't know if the synths used even come with "presets"

haha, i generally think the moodier and more ambient the better in terms of this stuff.

not chillwave (grunge morelike) but seriously, Golden Girls. look at these guys

http://www.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/goldengirls.jpg

delorean sounds like lo fi fnk