(one of) the problem(s) with the prr thread was that you had to actually read prr.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 7 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I reread the DMB thread a while back, and I was still dying with laughter. It doesn't pale with time.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
do pomplemonde cover DMB?
― brownie, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 :(
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
prr thread proved a tremendous litmus test for other ilxors tbqf
― omar little, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i didnt think anybody actually read the prr guy i figured that was like an injoke r something
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
BEST THREAD ON ILX: Part TWO - The Poll
― gr8080, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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*
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guys this one features cutesy scatting, interested to hear ur opinions/shit jokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the t-shirt hawking at the end is super slappable
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
if you think you need some euroboostin', that's fine
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
xxposts re epic Janet vs Madonna thread: Jefri and Alfonse. NEVER FORGET.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Pomplamoose? More like ANUSMOOSE:
http://blog.amysteryincommon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091102_a.jpg
― Sanford, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
pomplamprey
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Pomplamoatse.cx
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Pomplanoose Pomplanuance
okifail
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
That t-shirt is really gross.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That t-shirt is really gross.it's gross, it's indie, it's somewhat "rootsy"...it has limitless appeal.
― Sanford, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Nakedlunchlemoose
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nCLKbj44niI/R7utDQMeUcI/AAAAAAAAAV4/x-24g7_1cHw/s400/naked-lunch-beetle-typewriter-powder-lips-anus-1.png
― children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it is (gross)! wtf cute christian indie couple with horny anus t-shirt
― carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm "guilty" of owning this shirthttp://www.kungfunation.com/artists/43-guided-by-voices/product/1127-cycles-t-shirt-gbv01it just made me shiver a little that the aesthetic is so similar
― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"Is there any actual name for this type of singing?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGAcqBb_tA
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
olde-tymey
― am0n, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing against these two but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
This could be its own genre, and I don't know who to kill first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDUxKosTXNs
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
(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?)
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo
Cruelty! They'd be humanely culled.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Has Mark E. Smith weighed in on this band yet??
― Cunga, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually kind of like Bird & the Bee, but that Private Eyes cover is exactly what I mean by THIS:
----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)
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean the original Private Eyes is such a perfect sounding song. The B&B version sounds like karaoke.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Their versions of I Heard it on the Radio and Kiss on My List are pretty ace.
― Darin, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmG0sPyZJBg
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^^kinda like that one u_u
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The thing about the DMB thread is you don't even need to read the posts. Just seeing
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is enough to make me laugh uncontrollably
― Spikey, Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh no. You need to read the posts. Ned and Alex going toe-to-toe with random G00glers was infinite pleasure beyond name.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Were the Troggs on a major label, back when they did Coke commercials?
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlUQfXZGvgc
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc all proceeds from the minutemen vw ad went to d boons dad who was sick and broke or something
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
not that i feel the need to defend musicians getting paid somehow anyhow but there you go
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Volvo, here's the piece. But something will have been lost if we look back on this controversy as quaint.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably already has been lost. I taught a high-school civics class this semester where students set up their own towns, and many didn't seem to get that Targets and Wal-Marts aren't part of the city government.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
no idea what that has to do w/ this thread but i enjoyed your anecdote
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
""wacky delayface breakdown"
everything that is wrong with pomplemoose in three words
― dayo, Sunday, 9 January 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link