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

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

Sigourney Got Weaver'D

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..."

truth bombin'.

Yeah, Ducktails really was hoping to stick it to those 30-something dads when he named his act.

He sure showed us.

http://www.johnstamosproject.com/

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

http://alteredzones.com/posts/154/knight-rider-parasite-emblem/

are you guys even trying anymore?

someone mentioned Knight Rider earlier in this thread - i'd actually seen them - they weren't chillwave when i saw them a couple years ago

Next up will be Air Wolf

http://c1931172.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/post_art/Knight_Rider.jpg

"Parasite Emblem" is more like a Jesus and Mary Chain take on crunkcore

that is some epic bad writing there.

wtf. how does that sound anything like jesus and mary chain or crunkcore?

omg altered zones still exists well done universe

mp3 blog revolution savin music one harddrive at a time

bbl, gonna take some 'adventures in the bliss zone'

fort thunder dudes like chippendale and paperrad or whatev would do weird and wild stuff in their art with thngs like garfield and bart simps, but it was always really mutated and distorted and weird, and generally pretty awesome.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:38 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark

whiney, do you want to use some of your book money to buy some RARE OOP CHIPPENDALE posters? i have one with M&Ms and Ming the Merciless.

come to think of it, i think i'm gonna name my chillwave band Ming the Merciless.

that doesn't sound very chill, ian

sounds more like a Jesus and Mary Chain take on crunkcore

relax, babe, it's gonna be mellow. and cosmic! xp

luv paperrad

well some of it.

how long till we get to 90s ephemera, i really wanna mention COOLRUNNINGS

AIR BUD

Pretty sure there were plenty of bands in the early 90s that were like "lol-Brady Brunch" in a similar vein to what you're describing

― sarahel

Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown was in one called The Friendly Ghosts circa 1992. I think there was a band called Mystery Machine around the same time. It was very much in the air.

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

Yeah, Ducktails really was hoping to stick it to those 30-something dads when he named his act.

― Fetchboy
Might not be an attempt to actively aggravate a generation gap, but there must be some sort of age-signifier effect in action if only subconsciously.

Universal Studios Florida had all their gear totally stolen right before an epic tour with Back to the Future the Ride! Hella weak! Help them out if you can! $$$ ---> gear ---> more jamz!!!!!

http://cometbranding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thumbs-up-low-res.jpg

"Teen Wolf" seems to fit right in except bands with "wolf" in their name were hip in like 2004.

creatively bankrupt etc, whose names are just early '00s ephemera

this band doesn't actually exist but "Vaginal Reference" would be a great band name for one of these bands

just came up with this in chatz

also, Beachgina

has anyone taken KAZAAM as a band name yet

the bilinda butchers, inasmuch as mbv guitarists can be considered 80s ephemera

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Also, this doesn't count, but I had to throw up a little:

FOOD S†ΔMPS - real band, formatted that way.