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

^ 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

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3923/knightb.jpg
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?

Birth!

Presented by Lots O' Crap

i would have maybe been guilty of this if i had bothered to try and do anything with the tunes i made on my computer of late because i was thinking of using the name "Granny's Garden". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%27s_Garden

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Granny%27sGardenWitch.gif

would make great cover art imo

Y'see, I wouldn't mind it if they were referencing the less 'hip' relics like Granny's Garden, Droom etc. (But then again I named my album Your Sinclair)

I think I like this stuff, jokey bandnames aside

i really can't be bothered to listen to any of the big bands associated with this stuff to be sure, but now when i go see weird local bands i'm standing there thinking "is this chillwave?"

BACK TO THE FUTURE THE RIDE

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-back-future-ride-sitting-under-pyramid-silence

Holy shit, was that entire project constructed for this thread? That song (as well as the title of the project) is completely creatively bankrupt.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2j5m8zp.jpg

looool

YouTube comment on someone's upload of Washed Out's "Feel It All Around":

this song is a summer classic. right up there with big willy's summer time

there is no way back the to future the ride isn't some fucking prankster. there's no way that can be fucking real.

the actual ride was dope imo

noted music critic Chocolate Grinder wouldn't give us anything less than the real thing

^^still lovin this guy's new steez

i would wager that a good portion of chillwave has started off as a prank

now thinking it would be a good career move to change my musical pseudonym to Morty Maxwell

or my ilx display name to Mordy Maxwell

http://gawker.com/5514620/how-to-invent-a-music-genre

http://i42.tinypic.com/ivwztk.jpg

iTunes --> Electronic, and it's right there

RIP world

so proud of my man carles

seriously.

especially since p4k launched the competing term "glo-fi" like two weeks earlier iirc. u can 'beat the system'

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,700 from pitchfork.com for "chillwave". (0.27 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 8,940 from pitchfork.com for "glo-fi". (0.14 seconds)

what happened to hypnotoad pop was that something else?

is it creatively bankrupt to name your band Omega Flight? (assuming you could find four other humans who would consent to be in a band with that name...)