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

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

Time Sunday, October 3 · 9:00pm - 11:30pm
Location
Oakland, CA

More Info SEVEN LIES ABOUT GIRLS
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA (from seattle)
GAZE
SCOTT THEISSEN (from VNC / ex-rRope)

unfortunately Back to the Future the RIde had to cancel

ALL AGES / DONATION PLEASE!

Pariah Carey

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

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

(D)EBT

which one of you did this: http://chillwitchnamemagic.com/

Do we need a '90s ephemera thread?

HYPE WILLIAMS
HONG KONG IN THE 60S
Wednesday 24th November
The Portland Arms, Chesterton Rd, Cambridge
8pm, £tbc

PΔPER ΔNGER

TV LOSERS

dammit! I wanted to name my band "Wednesday 24th November" but someone's already beaten me to that.

PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS

get
the
fuck
out
of
here

they're a few youtube Suggestions clicks over from yer GR†LLGR†LL vid on the Salem thread

GR†LLGR†LL -> SaiLoRsbLaCKvirGiNmiLFs -> ∆RidIcUlEs∆FenCinG∆ -> PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS

not with a bang, but with a ▲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_jSAdlMXc

I had to turn it off after the first minute. Is that a sample from Exile's "Kiss You All Over" being looped over and over? Fffftt

This is getting out of hand

twin peaks was early 90s wasn't it?

1990-91 but same diff

^sarahel missing the point as per usual

what point?

http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/alf.jpg

Pwin Teaks reminds me of that thread from a few years back about how a music genre is officially dead when a band comes along that is a perfect caricature of the genre (Jet/00s garage rock being an example)

it's like Poe's Law for pop.

i thought genres were born when they gelled into something that could easily be caricatured. up until then it's just sounds, y'know?

man whiney really was the canary in the mineshaft of triangle wave

rip

little bird u tried to warn us ;_;

god. damn it.

What are the alternatives here. Of all people, I'm the one backing this stuff? There's so much more creativity to these games than, you know, fucking THE POSTAL SERVICE or any of the fucking jacknut half-ass wonder bread cunts that littered the 2000s. This is so much more propositional, despite the representational, appropriative slant you can throw easy slams at. "THIS IS CHEAP. THIS IS LEGO BLOCK CULTURE. YOU CANNOT JUST PUT A STICKER ON SOMETHING." Of course you can.

I don't know, I am honestly shocked at your resistance to a number of these acts, and ideas, Wang-art-en. If we love music for its ability to inform and inspire dialog, this is the richest time we've lived through. Writers haven't enjoyed this sort of direct injection into pop music since the 80s as far as I'm concerned. All this noise, the talk and the music, is moving together. Or, Don't u wonder sometimes about sound + [[[[VVRSSNN]]]]??

▲__▲

^ a pumpkin fyi

PWIN ▲__▲ TWEAKS

oops

uh, teaks

Wang-art-en.

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