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

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

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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"

is a great band

nah, that's not what those quotey fingers meant

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.

Don't think I'm fronting on thrift store Casio shit. I think if you can make that shit sound unique, I'm all for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIxZzgxm0c

erm I don't record my conversations with people

but the early/first few Casiotone albums are totally proto-chillwave in sound, dude was ahead of his time. everything made with $5 keyboards, interspersed with blasts of noise, simple pop hooks galore. he could also actually WRITE SONGS, which is a rarity in this subgenre, cuz as a fairly classicist verse-chorus-verse story-in-song lyricist he is (was? I haven't heard his last few records) really good

xp

yr brew of storms idea is more along the lines of the 'finding poetry in junk culture' someone mentioned upthread. I mean, it's relatively obscure and it will probably be much more emotionally resonant to those who get the ref. contrast this with with simply naming yr band Universal Studios

yeah

Shakey - sorry, didn't realize it was a convo, thought it was like an interview or something! Thanks tho.

LOLK - finding poetry in junk culture, yes, but also somehow asserting the resonance of my junk culture as opposed to someone else's. I never watched the Brady Bunch, yknow? King's Quest III is what feels like childhood to me.

So yeah what makes it 'creatively bankrupt' is that bands have been nostalgic for a long time and even ironic-nostalgic for a long time already. So it's deriving value from ironically being ironically nostalgic. Like the reason behind naming your band Golden Girls comes across as "Look at how stupidly simple it is to name your band Golden Girls." whether you genuinely like the name or not.

A friend of mine came up with the best way to do this 'naming of your band by parodying how banal it is to name your band after something in a completely creatively bankrupt way'. Just take old band names and add a number to it. It's far more original than naming it after a Family Guy pop culture reference.

For instance, start a band called The Beatles 2.

electric boogaloo

Duran Duran Duran is a good example of that iirc

i was wondering why there haven't been any bands yet that reference Magic: The Gathering, and if there have, how have i missed them?

anyone who wants 2 start band w/ me called like, Shivan Dragon or something, well, let's fucking do this thing

casiotone for the painfully alone was defly what i first thought of when i heard chillwave described

and it's a fucking awesome band name fuiud

like, what's even the point of making fun of a name like that

seems like any magic: the gathering bands would have to be creatively bankrupt newish power metal / post-Dragonforce bands

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