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but i guess they were ahead of the curve as far as being into like synthesizers and general machiney music in that scene, same as like trans am

feel like juan might be a little overselling how progressive they were i mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0OBlrx6qQw

Rev I'm pretty sure I played this for you when you were over haha

― 龜, Friday, January 30, 2015 5:20 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think what threw you off was that I mentioned the Sade comparison that gets thrown around and obviously everything that isn't Sade starts sounding a little bland as soon as you mention Sade

― 龜, Friday, January 30, 2015 5:50 AM Bookmark

I don't remember this at all! Just us playing a whole bunch of goon rap. I blame the whiskey.

6FS ruled

feel like juan might be a little overselling how progressive they were i mean

idk that youtube sounds like the rockier end of DFA stuff already to me

yeah theres def something going on there but it also doesnt sound that diff than like shellac

that electronic meets touch n go tuff guy thing wasn't nec uncommon though - trans am, girls vs. boys, etc were all in that zone

the whole edgy tuff guy aspect of that music is so hilarious in retospect

you wouldn't want to meet GVSB in a dark alley though. all those dark clothes, you might not see them and bump into them and injure yourself.

they might say something deeply cynical and disturbing to you about like society

look out, he's got guttural sloganeering + bass jams

GVSB came up to mpls to record an album and they did a residency night for a while on wednesdays at this bar, it was super awesome they would play & have guests & dj and stuff, p cool

i still f/w all that stuff though

i cant really deal tho in theory some of it is still p cool

i'm actually a gvsb fan, though i checked out after freak*on*ica. which is probably not as terrible as its rep but still kinda terrible.

i never listened to gvsb, i did jesus lizard, shellac, scratch acid, the band with the terrible name who had members of scratch acid and shellac

I've probably seen Shellac the most of any band that I wasn't friends with

i saw them at least a few times tho jesus lizard more i think, not sure who i saw most of all, maybe the melvins

i love all those bands but never heard SFS. Remember Brainiac?

I saw the jesus lizard once,was pretty great that 90's amerindie was my fave music back then

what do we call this type of music

fyi melvins were nominated in this poll and got zero votes, rip melvins

Brainiac was great

Great band out of that scene that is awesome but no one outside of Minneapolis or Albini & Cory Rusk love is Arcwelder

indie is more insidious now tho, secret indie histories revealed itt, sad

xps "pigfucker" iirc

fyi melvins were nominated in this poll and got zero votes, rip melvins

― gr8080, Friday, January 30, 2015 3:12 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw

does silkworm fit in here somehow?

Melvins are weird cuz the are partly this scene, partly Am Rep, and partly metal scene

xps "pigfucker" iirc

― brain floss mix (sleeve), Friday, January 30, 2015 3:14 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was thinking that tho cldnt be sure, i def never uttered that word or heard anyone say it tho maybe i read it in a magazine

Skwm were more trad & had some classic rock influences but are def core Albini posse members

yah I think FE coined it? xp

melvins kinda just in their own beautiful realm doing beautiful things

indie is more insidious now tho, secret indie histories revealed itt, sad

― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, January 30, 2015 3:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

It's crazy now they are like the Grateful Dead, dudes will pay crazy amounts for limited vinyl or small shows, they were charging like $100 for this thing where Buzzo bartender at Tom Hazelmeyer's bar

haha wut

Yeah wasn't even a show just a hangout

brainiac is def the band i was thinking of listening to that 6fs youtube

were there special hugs?

xp

what do we call this type of music

― lag∞n, Friday, January 30, 2015 3:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh early red red meat is part of this scene too I think. I'm not sure what the topic is right now though.

remember being really proud i d'led this one brainiac album on napster

Yeah it wasn't really a sound so much as some aesthetic I know instantly but can't articulate... Like Slint was a part too & they are way different

just figured out that Toko Yasuda from the Brainiac spinoff band Enon is playing moog & guitar for St. Vincent

it's so great that t&g stuff is on spotify, i am jamming some brainiac rn

when i hear 'indie rock' i think of a lot of that stuff in addition to the pavement gbv matador mid 90s indie rock but i guess they really arent related at all

def strongly overlapping fanbases tho

indie rock and indie in general was a lot of things not an actual 'sound'. You forget that sometimes in todays climate of all things 'indie'.

xp
even if yes there was overlapping audiences at times. It was a far cry from 90s uk britpop or whatever you would label post millennium indie

yeah, that's why it strikes me as weird when people categorize Haim or whoever as being "indie'. It's as useful of a descriptor as "hipster".

iirc the label that was involved also influenced that definition ;)

im interested in the hipster/indie divide i lived in new york so long i didnt know there were still indies left but then i visited portland and it was full of em i was like wow