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

Embarrassing confession: I kind of choke up when I see the Blue Valentine trailer because of that Ukulele song. It's really purty.

they is a couple

― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, January 7, 2011 1:02 PM

http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/6291054634

At 1,200 posts or whatever ILM's contrarianism will usually have come full circle in a thread, and we're almost to the point of re-evaluating Pomplamoose into one of the top acts of 2010. By Monday anything less than a top 15 placing in Pazz and Jop will be TOO LOW

liked the "Beat It" cover

do you also like the screams of flayed children, because that is what their "Beat It" cover sounds like to me

so it's a literal interpretation?

was this thread as good as or better than the Pitchfork Reviews Reviews thread? i missed that one.

oh this is so much better

So much better. We need some kind of King of Threads nominating system. Though the DMB thread was kind of all-time amazing.

I think the best thread ILM ever had was either DMB or Janet Jackson vs Madonna

(one of) the problem(s) with the prr thread was that you had to actually read prr.

well, not so much that YOU had to, but that other people were, and then were conscientiously quoting it at you so that they could make fun of it

I reread the DMB thread a while back, and I was still dying with laughter. It doesn't pale with time.

do pomplemonde cover DMB?

well, not so much that YOU had to, but that other people were, and then were conscientiously quoting it at you so that they could make fun of it

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 3:41 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah true but there was a while where someone would link the newest post and be like "omg amazing post" and i'd kind of cringe and squint and click on it and spend 5 mins trying to read that guy's terrible writing.

i guess it was mostly my problem :(

prr thread proved a tremendous litmus test for other ilxors tbqf

i didnt think anybody actually read the prr guy i figured that was like an injoke r something

BEST THREAD ON ILX: Part TWO - The Poll

oh god why did I click on that "put on a ring on it" jeezus time to blast some black metal to clear out the awful memory of "wacky delayface breakdown" *barfs*

hey guys this one features cutesy scatting, interested to hear ur opinions/shit jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg

lol, I tried to play this directly on the Youtube site and accidentally got a two instances playing in separate tabs about a beat and a half apart and I was like "holy shit this is actually kind of next level"

realizing what happened and playing it properly makes this a hell of lot more boring

the t-shirt hawking at the end is super slappable

if you think you need some euroboostin', that's fine

Is there any actual name for this type of singing? I dig Cat Power but to think somebody would intentionally imitate it so precisely is so bizarre to me. It's like white-chick soul or something.

xxposts re epic Janet vs Madonna thread: Jefri and Alfonse. NEVER FORGET.

Pomplamoose? More like ANUSMOOSE:

http://blog.amysteryincommon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091102_a.jpg

pomplamprey

Pomplamoatse.cx

Pomplanoose
Pomplanuance

okifail

That t-shirt is really gross.

That t-shirt is really gross.
it's gross, it's indie, it's somewhat "rootsy"...it has limitless appeal.

Nakedlunchlemoose

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nCLKbj44niI/R7utDQMeUcI/AAAAAAAAAV4/x-24g7_1cHw/s400/naked-lunch-beetle-typewriter-powder-lips-anus-1.png

it is (gross)! wtf cute christian indie couple with horny anus t-shirt

i'm "guilty" of owning this shirt
http://www.kungfunation.com/artists/43-guided-by-voices/product/1127-cycles-t-shirt-gbv01
it just made me shiver a little that the aesthetic is so similar

"Is there any actual name for this type of singing?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGAcqBb_tA

i don't even know why i thought of that. an idealized version of what you think drunks sounded like in the 30's? i have no idea. its gotta go though.

olde-tymey

Nothing against these two but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo

This could be its own genre, and I don't know who to kill first.

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

i'm so happy that we've managed to NOT really talk about cat power on here! shit, now i've done it...

but, don't, okay?

(don't tell ian this, but i'm not a big karen dalton fan. i blame her a little bit for that kind of voice.) (not a big jo-ann kelly fan either.) (though i do love judy henske, so what are you gonna do?)

but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo

Cruelty! They'd be humanely culled.

Has Mark E. Smith weighed in on this band yet??

I actually kind of like Bird & the Bee, but that Private Eyes cover is exactly what I mean by THIS:

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the first time I knowingly heard "Telephone" by Lady Gaga it was actually the Pamplemousse version.. and I thought "What a great song! But hmm, it's like there's something missing." There was! Lady Gaga!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, January 7, 2011 5:30 AM Bookmark

Because it perfectly sums up what's wrong with most of these viral indie covers -- instead of taking an overlooked song and bringing something new, they take a perfect song that's already been performed the best it can be and do a half-assed job performing it. It's coattail riding in the guise of irony.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:16 (3 hours ago)

I mean the original Private Eyes is such a perfect sounding song. The B&B version sounds like karaoke.

Their versions of I Heard it on the Radio and Kiss on My List are pretty ace.

Those Nouvelle Vague covers of classic postpunk tunes slip into this territory too imo

it thinks it's doing some kind of compelling detournement but it's just taking something great and making it safe for boutiques and "chic" hotel lobbies/lounge compilations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmG0sPyZJBg

^^kinda like that one u_u

Were Gap the pioneers of insufferable indie Christmas ads or is there a long heritage I'm unaware of?

Whoops, yeah, Low's "Little Drummer Boy" was used by Gap, not Target. It first aired near the end of 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv61mHwGmbI

Target used the Suicide Commandos' "Complicated Fun" a few years later but that might have been in Minnesota only.

I actually think the first big commercial to use music from a non-major-label band was seriously Volvo's Minutemen ad in 2000, but Volkswagen had already been alt-ing it up since '99--I remember the Stereolab one well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7wkRGjOs7w

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lSKUL_n6c0

So I can't really blame Minutemen for anything: Money for the "Love Dance" licensing went to the late D. Boon's estate (he had sole publishing credit) and Watt said he approved it only to help Boon's ailing dad. Greg Milner reported in Spin that the song had actually been written in the offices of Dischord Records!