help, i've realized i'm a Yindie (or am i a yupster?)
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
And I wouldn't knock the amateurish blank vocal thing handed down from Mo Tucker through the Shop Assistants/Heather from Beat Happening/etc. (call it twee if you want) to bands that will probably abuse it because the moving thing in the great ones is how vulnerable the approach can make the vocalists seem, one reason the Owls are/were awesome.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
i don't have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the bathetic infatuation with clumsy frailty and endearing failure, as communicated by amateurish blankness and infantile affectation - has been exploited to death for decades by indie and post-indie and would-be-indie everything. in movies like juno and thumbsucker, on indie prints and greeting cards featuring awkward line drawings of birds (currently on sale in a bunch tiny shops on 5h in park slope), in back issues of mcsweeney's, in album after pitchfork-approved album of wounded & comforting soft sweater teatime glockenspiel music listened to, most likely, by someone you know and love. it's by no means an ineffective artistic stance: it works, communicates, gets a feeling across. but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.
this hyundai ad is just the they live moment - the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses and see what's really been going down.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
xp oh.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost lock fucking thread
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
contenderizer just dropped the 2012 of t-bombs
haa this thread irl turned into deej & whiney fighting abt parsing indie/hipster, you guys *shrugs/freezeframe*
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
p sure it turned into me not arguing about that
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i cant really post in any thread that also involves whiney w/out being accused of beefing w/ him at this point tho
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Game recognize game tbh
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Witnessing the birth of the modern indie reformation ITT
http://i53.tinypic.com/2hchklw.jpg
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it's funny all the people bringing portland up, as i brought this shit up on ILH specifically when we were talking about regional advertising during basketball games and i was complaining about this nonsense thinking it was for a local portland hyundai dealer.
― lenonsense (Clay), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
hipsters is national, clay
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
still lolling at lamp as lolcat w ninja style typing skills. cats has opinions!
so easily amused...
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Lousy beatniks
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.
i.e. it's gone mainstream, like melisma or punk guitar distortion.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 1:39 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 1:39 AM Bookmark
agree with this btw
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Instant classic post.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The Devil Wears Prada got the idea for their band name from the book before it was adapted, and apparently get really butthurt about being associated w/ the movie, it's pretty hilarious
― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Also, they are xtian, so it's literally The Devil they are talking about.
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
You kids. I feel your pain, I'm just recognizing suddenly that it's your pain, not mine--and I'm somebody who for a while was keeping tally of how many indie films were being ruined by "indie" soundtracks. Is this an age/identity thing? I'm happy to see indie killed dead, my God, so "I'm Sticking With You" (playing in my head since '84) and Jamboree (since '92) can go back to being punk rock, or rock and roll, or whatever.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
fwiw I love this songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwsJOBJNMSc
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean "beyond played" is really the language of outlining what's cool. You're still in the dream, pardner.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost, yeah, this thread has introduced me to a few babies I wouldn't throw out with the bathwater...
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
if car companies are looking for some twee amateurish cover songs to use in their ads they should check out this old favorite. i think it could be a hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-zKWA6cWQ
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
really makes me yearn for the days when indie meant this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9lUbf5GQ0
― endlamoosing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you know what will make you forget all about these drab car dweebs? this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1U3JZ4-rQ
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah!
go man go!
all i know is i wanna cum in that slut's pomplamouth
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
and... scene
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i could easily disprove this but then i'd be The Guy Who Knows Too Much About Porn― Princess TamTam, Monday, January 3, 2011
― Princess TamTam, Monday, January 3, 2011
all i know is i wanna cum in that slut's pomplamouth― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, January 5, 2011
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, January 5, 2011
theorum proven.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
idgi
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
typ
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy moly at the Tielman Brothers--you know my catnip.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the bathetic infatuation with clumsy frailty and endearing failure, as communicated by amateurish blankness and infantile affectation - has been exploited to death for decades by indie and post-indie and would-be-indie everything. in movies like juno and thumbsucker, on indie prints and greeting cards featuring awkward line drawings of birds (currently on sale in a bunch tiny shops on 5h in park slope), in back issues of mcsweeney's, in album after pitchfork-approved album of wounded & comforting soft sweater teatime glockenspiel music listened to, most likely, by someone you know and love. it's by no means an ineffective artistic stance: it works, communicates, gets a feeling across. but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.this hyundai ad is just the they live moment - the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses and see what's really been going down.
just in case this goes into the fold
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I really want to repost that somewhere -- is there some kind of an "all time classic posts" thread?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
truth bombs
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Summing-up-things-I-have-been-trying-to-put-my-finger-on-for-five-years bombs
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i should know better than to get sucked into a pomplamoose convo (they are wretched obv), but hes wrong - "so far beyond played" is meaningless except to say "i'm bored of this thing that a lot of other people like", which all of you of course agree with because only insanely jaded music blogger dorks post here
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
rong
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ya im right sorry :-/
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway im out cuz this is 2 much ilm posting for me for one month but everyone just marinate on my rightness
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Calling out a music board post for having an element of subjectivity is so far beyond played.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
hipster is such a cop out term, let it be people...
*swags out of post smoking an Earl Grey cigarette, rocking skinny overalls and a divining rod*
― natlawdp, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hey, some people like this." Oh. Sorry. Lock thread.
this commercial's success has inspired me to form a group called Aubergine featuring a girl with Marfan syndrome and a retarded guy
― akm, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
marfan's is pretty played, dude
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
hey man just because u are sick of marfan syndrome doesn't mean....
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Ausberginers syndrome
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I'll use this opportunity to post superior Bird & Bee covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ed-LaBgQOk&feature=related
― Darin, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
just did a quick fb search and the first things that came up were "pomplamoose suck (person)", "i hate pomplamoose (community)", and "pomplamoose sucks (community)"
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The Bird & The Bee >>> The Turd & The Grapefruit
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link