like the only true way to do it is to pick more obscure references, so people of your generation can share a joke that isn't being LOL STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE-d to death on Adult Swim
― krippendorf's trife (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
xxpost didnt see your post whiney but otm
― ▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼ (LOLK), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
emil.y, if you are under 30 if someone says the word "ducktails" to you there is exactly one thing you think of, and don't try to pretend otherwise
― krippendorf's trife (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, July 30, 2010 4:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
sex
― titchyschneiderhouserules (s1ocki), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
actually whiney your new display name makes me think that "krippendorf's tribe" would be a pretty cool post-anco band time
― titchyschneiderhouserules (s1ocki), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't really feel like the Buddy Holly/Eve's Plumb pop cult-referencing band names were part of anything secret or shared with people i had some bond with. i watched the Brady Bunch, but plenty of annoying people that i thought were dumb also did, though i was more dismissive of people that watched "full house." i probably felt closer to the way Whiney feels about these current "creatively bankrupt" bands.
my best friend in college - this was 1995 - bought a record by a band named Grover, because "awww Grover from Sesame Street!" - and they had a song called "Hole in my Eye" that was pretty great.
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I grew up in the middle of nowhere and never traveled much so my concept of mass culture wasn't really all that mass, nor were things like the Brady Bunch really all that popular when I was ten years old - the show had been off the air for ten years and there wasn't yet movie remakes or off broadway ironic musicals about it.
Seeing references to junk culture like this in popular music felt different, because it was much harder (especially in small towns) to seek out and find other people who were into the same things that you were. You didn't know they existed or that there were so many of them, when now you can find a huge group of people devoted to stuff that was crazy obscure 15 years ago.
― joygoat, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
but if you're on the internet as much as these guys, you start to LOSE the generational signifier because TMNT references start to belong to everybody, all the fucking time, constantly.
I was too old for Pokemons but I know SO MUCH ABOUT THEM just from being on the internet.
Well, that's perhaps an interesting larger point about people trying to stay younger and clued in for longer and the internet making that easy. I mean I'm 33 and have a kid, why the hell have I even heard of any of these bands or even care?
The generational divide used to sometimes mean that older people were actively hostile to the way the kids dressed or whatever. Now we just want to copy them so we can be cool dads and stay "relevant." So maybe the only way for them to really get to us is to name their band Reading Rainbow or some shit and we get all mad and "back in my day..."
― wk, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
that the 90s were a very different time.
when all the poets studied rows of verse and ladies rolled their eyes, presumably
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Shakey! Whiney wishes he were on a great big clipper ship going from this land into that (never mind the risk of scurvy)
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
in the chillwave era a decent band name like Dash Rip Rock would just be called The Beverly Hillbillies. Toad The Wet Sprocket would be called Monty Pyyython and Eve's Plumb would be called Brady Bunch
See, I still have a problem with this because they're all pretty terrible band names. I don't think any of those three examples are decent and your made up ones are pretty much an across the board improvement.
― wk, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
rows of verse
rosy verse surely? ducktails/ducktales
what if they were called Thee Bevverly Hillbillies? would that be an improvement?
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
nah even the made up ones are bad. but the original ones are worse, yr right about that
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
at this point, bands should just resort to a numbering system
dude have you heard 5887933176? MINDBLOWING
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
btw alternate version of that lyric = rules of verse?
Lou's pronunciation of that line is very weird
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Beverly Kills Billy
― wk, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
not matter how many words you use, it all adds up to these band names are hilarious
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
So I think in the end we can all agree that the problem with kids these days is that they're not using enough puns in their band names?
― wk, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
at least make a rudimentary attempt at a punning
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
like Rudimentary Punni?
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
'old man yells at chillcloud'
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Full Blouse, whose album cover would be John Stamos' head superimposed on a Guess Jeans add photo?
― grandavis, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like there's gotta just be a band called Stamos out there, right?
― tylerw, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a band named wind sprint I thought of that yesterday
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
but tbh I originally thought of it to be a name for some type of weed or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
at least make your art have cool shit in it like a hand drawing itself or a guy looking at his reflection in a crystal ball
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
would smoke some stamos tbh
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
O_o
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
chillwave band would obvs be called 'uncle jesse' u guys have no feel for this
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dakkster.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/duck-hunt-oshi.gif
― van smack, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a noize band called Duck Cunt?
― tylerw, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit
― van smack, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
chillwave band would obvs be called 'uncle jesse' u guys have no feel for thisi dunno, I think STAMOS kinda has more mystery to it, more of a chill vibe.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
have we commented on that this chillwave has hella noise influences cause it does
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently a lot of former LA noizers are now in chillwave bands
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
noise attempts to take it easy, write a song
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
obviously in 10 years the natural conclusion to this would be today's 10-year-olds naming their bands after memes like Tay Zonday and The Chocolate Reign and feelsgoodman and Longcat
― krippendorf's trife (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe 40 year old Whiney could guest with up-and-coming lolwave band, hipsterpuppies
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
RON PAUL
Airwolf would be a nice mix of '80s ephemera and wolf. Add some badass helicopter pix, a little Jan Michael Vincent and a dash of Ernest Borgnine -> profit.
― wk, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
James Ferrari
― van smack, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Sky Ferrari
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
AIDS Panda Bear
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
in the future all bands will be named after ILM threads
Controversial Mod Edit will have the album of the year in 2020
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Cooldogmowinglawn
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Manimal Wavves Tapes
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?, will controversially take the #2 spot in the best tracks poll.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
American IdleSouth Parker PoseyPokemonorail
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
full house names:
Kimmmy Gibbbler
Joey (No Uncle)
Bobs Aggett
Olsen Twinz or Michelle!=Michelle
Ripper & The Jesses
― Chewawa Allstar (herb albert), Friday, 30 July 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link