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

is this gonna be like when you insisted most twentysomethings think of actual ducks' tails when they hear the phrase "Ducktails"

― livin' la vida Moka! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:09 AM (15 minutes ago)

i suggested that 20-somethings that didn't grow up in America might not be familiar with the cartoon.

Personal and the Pizzas is such an awesome band name.

Any reference to Pizza Hut personal pizzas are worthless without an included nod to the Book It! program:

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i thought pizza punk was a termbo thing

They're certainly a termbo band.

Universal Studios Florida played at a Laser Dome last night. With a band named Beat Connection. Like the LCD Soundsystem song. '00s ephemera already!

Maybe not ephemera, but is Dutch Uncles the least appealing name for a band on the planet?

It's better than Dutch Oven.

This probably isn't the right thread, but these opening credits for the show The Phoenix are amazing. This must be the most Kenneth Anger-esque thing to ever appear on network TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SASkqWyn40

Have we done shred savage?

wk, i think you're lookin for this thread

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shred savage is kinda lol

took me a moment to get that one

this thundercat (lol) song isn't bad.

a friend's band is playing a gig with a band called Polly Darton

not sure what kinda bands these are, but just saw the names: Dananananaykroyd and Ringo Deathstarr

noisy British twee rock and shoegaze o rama respectively

more '90s/'00s ephemera but the futurama band names are coming thick and fast lately

today's: 'death by snoo snoo' and 'robot house'. really like the name robot house tbh

Hudson Mohawke

What better way to kick off where we left off than with a producer we've been keeping our eye on all summer, MORD FUSTANG! Flying in from native Estonia, it's nothing but sick, upbeat, synth heavy tracks with his sound being compared to Deadmau5, Feed Me and Skrillex combining electro drops with a little bit of dubstep to produce a mesmerising sound which has become his trademark.

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you utter wanker

You Utter Wanker is a great name for a band.

i read that like Too $hort saying it

xp http://www.discogs.com/artist/Utter+Bastard

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literally just came here to post the last one of those

one thing i wonder about chillwave artists (and maybe lamp or MFB can help here) is do they sit around and actually listen to like Steve Winwood and Chris DeBurgh all day?

when your art is like "creating faded memories of pop culture ephemera" or whatev, is that what what you listen to for fun? Like if Memory Tapes picks me up at the airport, is he gonna be blasting an Air Supply tape in his car, or is he just gonna be playing Fleet Foxes or whatever like any other white person?

well the wall street journal hasnt appointed me an authority on hipsters or anything but yeah, id say lots of ~these people~ listen to air supply or thrifted cassettes of 80s pop or youtubes of childrens tv show themes or w/e for pleasure. i personally am more likely to listen to that stuff than fleet foxes (which im never going to listen to) but i cant vouch for memory tapes bro there

i dunno, i guess a lot of my hatred of chillwave probably comes from my inability to relate to the emotions that propel it.

Like, I love to fondly remember the old HBO logo as much as the next guy, but I don't want to LIVE in that feeling, you know? Part of what makes nostalgia work for me is that initial feel-good rush of "Wow, I remember that," like when I saw the Gummi Bears or Rude Dog opening credits for the first time in 25 years or whatever.

But like, living on the internet, these low-hanging fruit of Legends Of The Hidden Temple or Duck Tales a woo ooh or OMG THE SAVED BY THE BELL WHERE WHATSHERNAME TAKES PILLS or like every Nintendo game ever made get repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated until they're not nostalgia but the actual TEXT of a particular subset of plugged-in ppl.

I'm saying that if I spent like even a week watching bumpers I would lose the actual nostalgic emotion until it was just another boring text to deal with. I couldn't imagine making that a CAREER. y'know?

like i lived through TWENTY FIVE YEARS of Top Gun jokes on cable and the internet, non-stop. It's not novel or interesting to base your aesthetic on Top Gun.

I feel like there was already trenchant critique of the 'chillwave' tendency in a Why? song from like 2002 or 2003 — "creepy wide-eyed youngsters looping 4 notes from some TV jingle / the entire afternoon"

whoa

oh yeah btw I saw a flier recently for a (local?) band named LASER TAG

either that or this club was hosting a laser tag night but I'm not really sure how that would work

whiney would you rather go A. play laser tag B. see a band named laser tag

I don't really like chillwave. I'm trying to think of things that would be described as "chillwave" I actually enjoying listening to. Probs the early Ducktails material, had a nice amateurish vibe to it that I was into for a while. Some people see Excepter as an early chillwave thing, and I'm not on-board with that but I have enjoyed some Excepter over the years. When James Ferraro hits, he's great, but that's more damaged sound-art than "chillwave." I mean I LOL just as hard at some of these band names/album covers, but that aesthetic (although not necessarily the music) is derived from mid-00s Not Not Fun aesthetic stuff which was more noise/drone/experimental than "chillwave." Orthodox overground chillwave - Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out - does absolutely nothing for me and the most recent material by all three of those acts is a direct ripoff of like 80s MOTR Air Supply/yacht rock type stuff. The big elephant in the room for most of the stuff I hear described as chillwave is Arthur Russell. Most of the chillwave I hear is just a shitty version of some aspect of his catalog.

Orthodox overground chillwave

The big elephant in the room for most of the stuff I hear described as chillwave is Arthur Russell. Most of the chillwave I hear is just a shitty version of some aspect of his catalog.

i think what you're trying to say is "most of the chillwave i hear is just a shitty version of some aspect of panda bear ripping off his catalog."

I quite like Panda Bear but I see what you're saying. I think Panda Bear puts many different influences into a nice stew that works for me, and Arthur Russell would definitely figure heavily into that.

Orthodox overground chillwave

I mean this is a real thing right? Did that not make sense in the context in what I wrote it.

As much as you hate it (and I don't rate most of it) chillwave is "a thing."

this whole chillwave is kind of all new to me, actually.

Toro Y Moi guy hit on my sister a couple of years ago

she had some funny story but i can't remember it now :-/

ha i'm sure it is a real thing mfb, it's just vaguely amusing that chillwave has such an extensive taxonomy

It's like any subculture really, once you get down to brass tacks the tiny characteristics that differentiate one version of it from another can be incredibly amusing to outsiders. That's how I feel about modern dance music/techno. Like it's hilarious to me there is a "techno thread" for the real heads and then a "partisans" thread for like the hipster dance enthusiasts on ILM.

LOL MUSIC

What Why? song was that Bernard Snowy?

on further investigation, it was not a Why? song, but "Pretty Colors (Smile Your Brains Out)" on the Hymie's Basement record

not why but hymie's basement - pretty colors

i like that hymie's basement record

oops xpost

Hymie's Basement record is prolly the most slept-on Anticon thing ever.

it's okay zvookster I like that record too, and I like you for liking it, and frankly I would rather talk about dis shit than chillwave

(Reaching Quiet, on the other hand...)