obviously not hot if you have a curvy colombian wife
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
mmm.
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah guys this is why I tried not to mention that they are pretty fine. Kevin I didn't notice any attitude among the many girls there but I was kind of hanging in the back since I was late and by myself. I don't get it at all esp. since their music isn't cute or naive or anything. It's simple but some of it is pretty badass.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, i was unawares of any innernet buzz about them but... wtf? "very unplayed"?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
That just got repressed according to username sleep. I was kinda non-plussed by them; the new drummer was too cymbally and the same-ass reverb got boring.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
that's the one In the Red is reissuing in the fall
xpost
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, if anyone wants my mauled by tigers copy i'll let it go for FIFTY.
i liked them, definitely a change of pace from what i had been listening to.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the new drummer was too cymbally and the same-ass reverb got boring
I don't know how much of that is the sound they're going for and how much was that the sound at the show just wasn't very good
they do use the vocal reverb on pretty much every song though
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i kinda like the shimmery vocals.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
All I know about this group is the name, and I thought "wow, why hasn't that one been used before?" and then it turned out it was
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Just heard some of this band's new album in a record shop, sounds like Talulah Gosh/Rosehips, assuming it's the same band called Vivian Girls. Which = awesome.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 15 August 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
they sound like an early K records band which is good, but lets face it - those legendary bands were better. but ask me again in a week or two, maybe it's a grower
― Zeno, Monday, 18 August 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I played this earlier today and liked it, and pretty much can't remember the last time I was into a record like that - maybe like one Dressy Bessy album, yeeears ago
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
damn this is goood
― ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"never see me again"
― ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
lol u read the same rapidshare blogs as me
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
indie pop!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 19 September 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Why'd they dump the cute drummer, a major part of their appeal was that they were all beautiful.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
she quit to play in crystal stilts full time.she was too short to be cute anyhow.
― ian, Saturday, 20 September 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
short girls are totally cute!
― t_g, Sunday, 21 September 2008 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, this is awesome!
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
will this band be popular longer than Slumber Party? Didn't they kinda sound similar?
― mizzell, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
The way they kind of slowly reveal the chorus on Where Do You Run To is really really great.
― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the new record is pretty tightwhere do you tun to is a sweet song
― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
a three-girl band with candy-sweet vocals and great bangs
maybe they are great but I share the bell labs ugh factor when I read things like this
― Edward III, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
this band is dogshit for faggoty loser writers to jizz over
pro-tip giving them a good review wont get u any titty
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^real talk
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i have kickball katy's n00dz btw
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
ysi?
― Edward III, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i have kickball katy's n00dz btw― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:07 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:07 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
There are two kickball katy's btw! This confused me too because I dated her friend pre-MOC
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa!!!!!!!! who is real who is the impostor
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The moc one is the one that brought shitty kickball from RIT photo majors to dumbfucks in Boston and LA. The Vivian girls one is just some dumb broad
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
MOC = Make Out Club?
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i always liked to call her kickball cansy
cuz of her deceptively large cans
it never caught on
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost yes
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
a henry darger ref in 2008 is bad form
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly it's so 2005
― Edward III, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
this band is fine but i don't really get what makes them better than the 4,000 other bands that sound exactly like this playing everywhere all the time
― metametadata (n/a), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
the vivian girls are at my workplace being girly wayyyyyy too much. annoying.
― ian, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
natalie merchant wrote a song about it already. natalie merchant.
xp
― goole, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
dude don't call girls annoying
sunny successor is on to us
― Edward III, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit i didn't mean like that i meant being like "uhhh i'm gonna leave my cell phone here in case it rings" and "can i use the computer???"
― ian, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
pro-tip giving them a good review wont get u any tittyno, but hating things for the sake of looking cool will? talk about loving yourself, geez. surely going around looking for things to dislike is more female-repelling than trying to find things you do like. grow up, buddy, we're not 17 anymore.
― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still enjoying their cover of the Wipers' "Telepathic Love" more than any of their own songs. Sort of how I used to feel about Yo La Tengo and "Somebody's Baby." They need a hit single.
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
They need to stop using the same lame reverb effect on every fucking song live and stop emulating reductively simple bands.
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm kinda with n/a on this band. But one thing I will say, looking back to times when I consumed lots of C-86y indie racket along these lines, is that sometimes acts like this can seem better the more of them they are, for some reason. (Small-differences comparison helps clarify what's unique about any given one, maybe?) And when listening to Vivian Girls next to something like Cause Co-Motion, I wind up liking them both better. VG have dead-girl harmonies that really suit them, sometimes.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Kevin Keller -- In the tank for Vivian Girls
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
So far, at least, Cause Co have many more good songs, though they've been doled out parsimoniously, single by single. Maybe the new 7" comp cd will remind people of their charm? People at Cause Co shows are made to twitch and jerk; people at Viv Girls shows seem a little more caught up in their own appreciation of the new it band--perhaps they're too cool to spazz out?
― Michael Train, Thursday, 16 October 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
ts: being a faggoty loser writer vs. projecting onto one.
This band isn't even really that good, but whatever, they're fine.
― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Thursday, 16 October 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Kenley with reverb
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 16 October 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Good god, this thread
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Thursday, 5 March 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i've had the phrase 'kickball cansy' in my head all day thanks to this thread
― w/ sax (electricsound), Thursday, 5 March 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
This is pretty otm, but it doesn't explain why the Vivian Girls have such a strong nationwide following w/ hardcore indiepop fans who do realize that the music is more-or-less old hat. If you lurk on the indiepop list & read the year-end poll, you'll see people gushing over them with very little backlash. This is (presumably) a crowd who followed Black Tambourine 20 years ago and Slumber Party 10 years ago, so you'd expect a little less excitement from those parts.
Even ten years ago the indiepop list had the same split... posters liked C86 bands and they liked the 90s bands that were inspired by those same C86 bands. And there were people posting the exact same observation you are on the list as well, except they were asking why all the fuss about Black Tambourine!
Putting aside the somewhat subjective claim that the C86 bands were actually better, the advantage of the contemporary bands was that their records were easier to get a hold of and you could maybe see them perform live. And as others have noted, the concept of "old hat" doesn't really map onto indie pop aesthetics.
As for the strong nationwide following... they don't have that. They get press because they're young and they're cute and they put out a record they're happy to give interviews about. It doesn't take much more than that. Operating out of NYC probably helps a lot as well.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 4 May 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
if they encourage kids to get into early/ier slumberland albums then their existence isn't a total waste
― and the gold loogie goes to... (electricsound), Monday, 4 May 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the new single is reeeeeeally good imo
― barrymore, murdrewland (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
minute plus instrumental outro = good idea!
― barrymore, murdrewland (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
is that "when i'm gone"? it is pretty good.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Friday, 17 July 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
(´・ω・)つ(・(・
― best "Courtroom/Lesbian Scene" titties (gnarly sceptre), Friday, 17 July 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I am on board with the Vivian Girls.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 17 July 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xp lol is that boobs or something?
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Friday, 17 July 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it's kneading tits
― born s1ocki (cankles), Friday, 17 July 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
looks like a butt, to be fair, but it's the best we got
― best "Courtroom/Lesbian Scene" titties (gnarly sceptre), Friday, 17 July 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Finally listened to the new album and IMO if you love Black Tambourine, Tiger Trap, Slumber Party etc etc etc and you don't like this there is something wrong with your ears.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
mentioned this a bit on the other thread but yeah i think the 2nd album is ridiculously better than the first. also they were pretty darn tight live
― get up and use(rna)me (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
there is a new song available through lol polyvinyl.
it's clean and midtempo with lots of harmony i.e. it's v. boring :(
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost nsfw pic rip
― ship_rex (+ +), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Such an angsty thread. Those 2nd and 3rd records were pretty solid. Mostly. The world could do with more Vivian Girls songs than we ended up getting.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
Wow, I was the last poster on this thread.
Anyway, they're back, and I've not seen any mention of it here. This sounds kinda promising.
https://youtu.be/OYwmrOCAd_s
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 21 July 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
Yeah, we have tickets for SF
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
here for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oUWoj6KXpM
― devvvine, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
yes
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
The whole album sounds nice and dense. Possibly similar to Everything Goes Wrong in that it may take a few listens to absorb the finer details.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 21 September 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
Show the other night was quite great!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link