So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

the thing that *really* bothers me about this stuff:

i grew up in the 80s and early 90s, in a bumfuck town. all the music i knew grewing up was 80s metal/pop metal, nothing but until rap came up...but everything was macho and hard basically....not that there weren't pathos in pop metal balladry, but there was something different about it more like "BABE WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I'm GONNA GET WASTED AND SHOOT BBGUNS AT POP BOTTLES", or at least that's how it was to us, it was sort of a romantic idea of being sad, the way that you can only feel when you are young enough to not understand that things have consequences

when i first got a hint of "indie"sadness-- like just little glimpses like the song "they'll need a crane" by they might be giants, or the song "romeo had juliette" by lou reed (these were just the little bits i would see on MTV), it was this sense of experiencing something new, like real life sadness, the idea that you would have to grow up and leave your little town and face real stuff that wasn't always gonna work out the way you wanted it to...like it really affected me pretty strong,

now like contenderizer said, it's sort of this horror show zombie emotion, like fucking poignant commercials for insurance companies, the whole thing isn't bad cuz it cheapens indie rock, it's bad cuz it ad agencies are so hip and cool and good production values now, it almost cheapens the *idea* of emotions and feeling to me....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVf7LUF-X-M

All I know is that we don't have these issues in Roots Rock land.

Let's hope the ad execs don't figure out neck beards might like Hyundais.

all the music i knew grewing up was 80s metal/pop metal, nothing but until rap came up...but everything was macho and hard basically....not that there weren't pathos in pop metal balladry, but there was something different about it more like "BABE WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I'm GONNA GET WASTED AND SHOOT BBGUNS AT POP BOTTLES

i grew up in the 80s. most of the dominant pop music -- in tone and lyrics -- had this uniquely 80s triumphalism. i guess we were collectively shaking off the feelings of US decline or defeatism in the 70s. in retrospect, it feels like the 80s had a lot of supposedly underground twee (or maybe "proto-twee") acts, but i don't really see bands like, say, the smiths as the grandfathers of the twee movement.

twee can be beautiful and moving. but there's a thin line between beautiful/moving twee and using the twee genre as cover for poor amaturism and poor songwriting and performance. i feel like this pomplamoose act is on the latter side of that divide, but what you see depends on where you sit, i suppose.

well, i can't say "we" were shaking anything off. that's just how it felt to me at the time.

"it's bad cuz it ad agencies are so hip and cool and good production values now, it almost cheapens the *idea* of emotions and feeling to me...."

i think ad agencies have done a pretty good job at cheapening stuff for a while now.

you know, the arrangement on that pimplemoose beat it cover isn't horrible. the tinkertoy shit and her voice are bad, but it does show some level of, um, craft or whatever.

who was that indie band from the 80's that played all toy instruments? from boston?

Pianosaurus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn4UmJgp24I&feature=related

Bands that enrage you

there's a similar dude (I don't think it's a band) called Self — I'll post his "What a Fool Believes" cover if I can find it

('similar' in the sense of 'all toy instruments')

this thread needs more rita pavone singing and dancing with a hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIXrziSLCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUjg8Nb2Qc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV64MTaw7aE

honestly I don't hate this — dude sounds breathy but I think that's just because his voice isn't that strong and it's a really fuckin' hard song to sing!

that Self cover is kind of great, actually

love her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4voeDBx96c

sorta like this, might have to start using it:

Did Michael McDonald invent the word "nostalgite" (combination of naivete and nostalgia) in this song?
I like it but I think it's a bit too close the original especially in the vocals.
roesmoker 2 months ago

@roesmoker ha ha, I am an idiot, according to random lyrics on the internet that is actually "nostalgic tale" - I always thought it was nostalgite. A Kiss That Guy moment for me!
roesmoker 2 months ago

they just don't make pixie spark plugs like they used to

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bravo/388-1.jpg

beat this outfit you twee fuckers!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZpzCC9EQGvI/SZB1RxAAJhI/AAAAAAAAARo/P0a287Qnks4/s400/portada_redimensionar.jpg

As an advertising professional, I ask you...do hipsters care about deck protection? Do Pamplamoose fans understand the damage water can do to an unprotected deck?

only like a 1/5 of the way through the thread but i have to giggle at

i think the ads are totally stupid btw, mostly because as mentioned they were airing this shit during the height of football season when normally the ads are all about how you're a homosexual with euro tendencies and mommy issues if you don't drink bud lite, or howie long calling you a pussy for not having the right kind of truck./

― omar little, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

real men drink 'lite' beer.

x-post to bernard - yeah, self was a single dude in the studio, but I knew a bunch of the guys that toured with him as his back up band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHt2CveSXqE

i bet Pamplamoose own a deck

Is it wrong that I am basically like "oh, an Italian Shirley Bassey" with Rita Pavone?

Yes imo

marine girls + sarah records circa 1965. so beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6HF8N8_s4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoB-u5avo6A&feature=related

Think Blossom Dearie doing "I'm Hip" is patient zero.

(t darin — makes sense. he/they're a hard act to google!)

only like a 1/5 of the way through the thread but i have to giggle at

i think the ads are totally stupid btw, mostly because as mentioned they were airing this shit during the height of football season when normally the ads are all about how you're a homosexual with euro tendencies and mommy issues if you don't drink bud lite, or howie long calling you a pussy for not having the right kind of truck./

― omar little, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

real men drink 'lite' beer.

― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:21 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

those miller lite commercials where the hot bartender chicks call dudes pussies are so bizarre

real men drink 'lite' beer.
Empirical studies have shown that Americans have lousy taste in beer

i wonder how much lite beer it would take to get me drunk? it would have to be a lot, i'll bet.

don't catch the 3.2 flu

Start counting!

Thanks for those songs Scott! They are beautiful.

can't remember the last time i had a trad dad american piss beer. probably a pbr. cuz i'm hip like that. but it was a long time back.

yeah, aren't those great! glad you enjoyed them. they were ahead of their twee time.

60's twee is so much more enthusiastic than modern twee!

Indeed

there's something inherently bored about modern twee. detached.

since they're obvs the Buzz Band of the mome, I can't wait for their return next Holiday Season (with Baby Pomplemoose in tow)

Rita Pavone is a Sanpaku sufferer, too. Weird.

I don't think it's sanpaku when you're tilting your head down.

there's a similar dude (I don't think it's a band) called Self — I'll post his "What a Fool Believes" cover if I can find it

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 5:11 PM (56 minutes ago)

just to clarify, dude only did that toys only thing for one album called gidzmodgery. i know this will seem hard to believ3e but the live touring band was totally fucking full of fierce awesome musicians.

fiercely bashing their toy pianos

I can't wait for their return next Holiday Season (with Baby Pomplemoose in tow)

― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:53 AM (23 minutes ago)

with chilling inevitability

just to clarify, dude only did that toys only thing for one album called gidzmodgery. i know this will seem hard to believ3e but the live touring band was totally fucking full of fierce awesome musicians.

I played in band with self's touring drummer back in the early 90's when he was slumming with crap musicians like myself!