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

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."

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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

fucking golden girls, christ

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

guy on the left is obviously "the blanche" of the group.

thinking l-r: blanche, rose, sophia, dorothy. also fuck these guys.

the Poison t-shirt under the flannel....it's happening...

i wanna hear 'em but can't find them yet

here's GoldenGirls which might be chillwave http://www.myspace.com/goldengirlskill

here's a golden girls song

http://www.thefader.com/2010/03/24/golden-girls-newports-mp3/

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whiney, do you not even like Washed Out?

can't wait till whiney hears that new teddy ruxpin track

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/teddy_ruxpin.jpg

^ lolz

dudes, what does this artwork look like? it's done so well, and i can picture a bunch of 80s covers looking like this, but can't think of one in particular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R31e3Spswk

the original and best Golden Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuadkqlS5dY

point / counterpoint

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/sxsw-glow-fi-draws-the-biggest-crowds/?src=twt&twt=artsbeat
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/03/in_defense_of_c.php

oh the NYT one is upthread already

I knew blueski would chime in with the Kinetic reminder!

Honestly tho, that NYT piece and some of these yahoos like Golden Girls (and other bands bunched together rather haphazardly as part of this) make me cross on behalf of guys like Memory Tapes and Washed Out - both of whom are just dudes that have been making their music for 2+ years and slowly gained attention.

They're quite humble guys and some distance away from the look of those twerps Golden Girls

Honestly tho, that NYT piece and some of these yahoos like Golden Girls and other bands bunched together rather haphazardly as part of this make me cross on behalf of guys like Memory Tapes and Washed Out - both of whom are just dudes that have been making their music for 2+ years and slowly gained attention.

http://www.myspace.com/throwmethestatue

There's some (emo?) band called Evergreen Terrace, so ppl are already aping the 90s for shit, ugh.

bands named after the Simpsons are their own seperate thing, imo

can i jushttp://www.100xr.com/100_XR/Artists/F/Fall_Out_Boy/Fall.Out.Boy.jpg

Yeah trufax (and depressing tbh)

i remember coming across a band called Screamapillar, probably within a year of that episode

I think there is an interesting conversation to be had about this mini genre, but the inclusion of the "named after 80s ephemera" thing is lumping in bands that are not stylistically related.

My two cents on it: I'm impressed with the technology some of these bands are using, and am way into expanding live sampling and processing into performance which is definitely a post AnCo thing -- I just haven't been into the vibe a lot of the groups have been going for, or their songs for that matter.

I'm totally spellbound by the vibe of many of these bands. Want to live there.

Guys the Chillwave name generator Jackpot:

http://www.inthe80s.com/saturdays.shtml

Get Off Your Block
Super Globetrotters
Casper and the Angels
Thundarr
Goldie Gold and Action Jack
Pandamonium
Shirt Tales
VidKids
Kidd Video
Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

My Pet Monster
Small Wonder
Kissyfur
Saved By The Bell

i'm shocked no chillwavy singer songwriter has replaced the Christopher in his name with fucking Kissyfur

kissfur g. weingarten

90s bands with 80s references were usually pop punk/hardcore scene bands. Mr. T Experience, etc.

Bad example, Mr T Experience started in about '84, so that's a band taking off a current pop-culture phenomenon, not a nostalgic one.

haha we'd taunt the bass player named Chris in my high school screamo band by calling him Kissyfur

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Didn't you guys basically already have this discussion about nostalgia and the effects of mass culture on our lol collective unconscious in the hypnagogic pop thread?

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