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

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..."

that the 90s were a very different time.

when all the poets studied rows of verse and ladies rolled their eyes, presumably

lol Shakey! Whiney wishes he were on a great big clipper ship going from this land into that (never mind the risk of scurvy)

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.

rows of verse

rosy verse surely? ducktails/ducktales

what if they were called Thee Bevverly Hillbillies? would that be an improvement?

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.

nah even the made up ones are bad. but the original ones are worse, yr right about that

at this point, bands should just resort to a numbering system

dude have you heard 5887933176? MINDBLOWING

btw alternate version of that lyric = rules of verse?

Lou's pronunciation of that line is very weird

Beverly Kills Billy

not matter how many words you use, it all adds up to these band names are hilarious

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?

at least make a rudimentary attempt at a punning

like Rudimentary Punni?

'old man yells at chillcloud'

Full Blouse, whose album cover would be John Stamos' head superimposed on a Guess Jeans add photo?

seems like there's gotta just be a band called Stamos out there, right?

is there a band named wind sprint I thought of that yesterday

but tbh I originally thought of it to be a name for some type of weed or something

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

would smoke some stamos tbh

O_o

chillwave band would obvs be called 'uncle jesse' u guys have no feel for this

http://dakkster.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/duck-hunt-oshi.gif

is there a noize band called Duck Cunt?

oh shit

chillwave band would obvs be called 'uncle jesse' u guys have no feel for this
i dunno, I think STAMOS kinda has more mystery to it, more of a chill vibe.

have we commented on that this chillwave has hella noise influences cause it does

apparently a lot of former LA noizers are now in chillwave bands

noise attempts to take it easy, write a song

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

maybe 40 year old Whiney could guest with up-and-coming lolwave band, hipsterpuppies

INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

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.

James Ferrari

Sky Ferrari

AIDS Panda Bear

in the future all bands will be named after ILM threads

Controversial Mod Edit will have the album of the year in 2020

Cooldogmowinglawn

Manimal Wavves Tapes

Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?, will controversially take the #2 spot in the best tracks poll.

American Idle
South Parker Posey
Pokemonorail

full house names:

Kimmmy Gibbbler

Joey (No Uncle)

Bobs Aggett

Olsen Twinz or Michelle!=Michelle

Ripper & The Jesses

if chillwave was just bankrupt ilx ephemera whiney would be upset re 'ban l0u1s jagg3r'

whiney g and the suggest band

^^^lol winner

This doesn't really necessarily relate to anything posted in this thread so far, but bear with me for a few while I talk about something else. I've been thinking off and on for the past few years about a zone of new authenticities surrounding computer ephemera and basically cheap electronic crap generally - - Sierra games and Casio keyboards and shite all-in-one drum pad things, certainly Nintendo sounds which have been all over the place for the better part of a decade now... I think the deployment of these things is actually really interesting, or is at least potentially really interesting.

Like, some of it is going to be "lame nostalgia for crap" to borrow an ILX phrase from somewhere, and some of it's going to be LOL he's playing a keytar this is SO IRONIC, it's like something from the EIGHTIES haha. But meanwhile, though, there is a huge new cohort of people, basically my age and younger (I was born in '81) for whom this kind of electronic detritus is part of the background condition of everyday life, as opposed to a high-tech novelty from outerspace. Horrible Casios and Yamahas are at every thrift store in the country for $10-40 - - - way more common in my experience than guitars or banjos or the other "folk"/"punk"/"three chords and the truth" instrument that anyone would just pick up and deploy to get the music from inside her head back out into the world. For at least some of us, the sounds in our heads are low-grade electronic sounds and that feels right, true, and safe-at-home.

So - - - the point of all that is that I have been thinking for a long time about calling my next CD (should I ever get started on recording it) Brew of Storms, which is part of the text of a magic spell from King's Quest III. On the one hand, this name is "just 80s ephemera," because, I mean, it's the second sequel to a computer game and it came out in 1986. But it's basically the first game I remember my Dad bringing home from the store, and I played the shit out of it at a really young age, so naming something after it has this resonance to me that feels like connecting with something much more timeless and enduring, like I'm sure people who got really into Lewis Carroll or the Wind in the Willows or whatever else has been touched on upthread. I can't articulate it, but the idea of a "brew of storms" just clicks with me.

This isn't to defend all of the names on this thread, but to suggest that maybe - in at least some cases - the intended connection isn't "LOL, remember that, go buy tickets to this band with the hilarious name," but rather, "this thing that I remember from my childhood was really awesome/interesting/fascinating to me at a young age, even if on paper it was something really superficial, badly-made, and irrelevant."

I dunno, sorry, that all came boiling out of my head while I was trimming Commodore 64 drum samples down in HotStepper. Carry on, folks!

all very true. Owen of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone was noting that shitty old keyboards have basically assumed the role of traditional folk instruments as far back as 1996, and he was right

"Casiotone for the Painfully Alone"