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"
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so basically
it's like the first resort of the hackiest dipshits
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
then again, in the context of shit like thishttp://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/11/3861/images/23152_lg.jpgself-deprecating forced zaniness starts to seem kinda refreshing
― some pretty girls make bigger graves than others (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/38147-new-neon-indian-track-co-produced-by-grizzly-bears-chris-taylor/
― ksh, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
this pill wonder album sounds exactly like animal collective
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
there is a band called MADDEN iirc
― max, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
So according to the SXSW torrent file for this year, there's a band out there called Follow That Bird!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― tramp steamer, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
8-bit music in general is a perfect example of this
― I am become death, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/
― there are tons of lame posts with your login underneath: write a book! (ksh), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/03/is-the-text-and-walk-the-official-chill-bro-position-at-sxsw.html
― there are tons of lame posts with your login underneath: write a book! (ksh), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Its cos we grew up in the Home Computer age!
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"metal: angry music" or "post-punk: depressing music"
indie: ??
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Pareles otm about Tobacco being awesome too
― rolling stupid fruity crazy ragg ned (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney are there any of these bands that you like?
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
that sentence is so v much otm
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
... and I think that was mostly cuz I saw it with this great video accompaniment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f1rQ2fNos
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This is how boring 80s nostalgia has manifested itself in the Czech 7th-wave Pop Punk scene. http://www.airfareband.cz/en/extras/
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Delorean count?
― jam master (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
truth be told, music writers tend not to know what they're talking about when they mention "presets"
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― ian, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i like Zero Merch as a band name
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what he said was "it sometimes seems like they all use the same preset synthesizer tones" which is completely reasonable.
― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 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.
― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna name my new post-chillwave band tailspin
gonna name my industrial meets paisley underground band the creepy crawlers.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
― Cunga, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
uh
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
sleigh bells & yacht are two of my favorite bands but they arent really chillwave just same dudes like them probably
― Lamp, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
really looking forward to the Sleigh Bells LP whenever it comes out
― ksh, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lamp, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
saying they all use similar-sounding synthesizer settings would be more accurate. He doesn't know if the synths used even come with "presets"
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, i generally think the moodier and more ambient the better in terms of this stuff.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
not chillwave (grunge morelike) but seriously, Golden Girls. look at these guys
http://www.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/goldengirls.jpg
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 March 2010 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
delorean sounds like lo fi fnk
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 March 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking golden girls, christ
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
not that i've heard their music or anything, but C'MON MAN
i feel like this tread has made it too far w/o this being posted
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/WHYMUSTICRY.gif
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
guy on the left is obviously "the blanche" of the group.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
thinking l-r: blanche, rose, sophia, dorothy. also fuck these guys.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link