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
if chillwave was just bankrupt ilx ephemera whiney would be upset re 'ban l0u1s jagg3r'
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 July 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
whiney g and the suggest band
― sarahel, Friday, 30 July 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^lol winner
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"Casiotone for the Painfully Alone"
― krippendorf's trife (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 July 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
is a great band
― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, that's not what those quotey fingers meant
― krippendorf's trife (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 July 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp Ooh, do you recall where he said that? I'd be interested to read the full passage.
This is all particularly interesting to me as someone who makes keyboard music but is really stymied by synth "patches," "mods," gear shit generally, programmed anything - - - basically if I'm not just banging keys on an actual cheap keyboard I sorta can't do it.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link