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Ok I like this but what actually is it

The album of the year, that’s what it is

Ok

you talk a lot of big game for someone with such a small truck!

Ok I like this but what actually is it

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

diplo remixes of the knife's deep cuts

(i do not like 100 gecs)

that seems fine

it sounds like if Ryan Trecartin had daughters who made pop songs

too many gecs

gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec

Idk why pc music people would hate this it seems like pc music with a better marketed image

I get that there’s a novelty to this I think is interesting

But it’s also borderline un-replayable ... a guy I know told me a (possibly apocryphal) story about his (probably annoying) friend who when in a museum would walk up to a painting and go “I get it” immediately. That’s how I feel when I listen to this ... “I get it.” There’s a kind of disruptive shock to how they’ve rearranged their previous influences/inspirations/junk culture in some new, coherent formation. But it’s also like ... that’s all there is, it’s all surface, so once you’ve talked about that, what is there? Something very temporal about its appeal to me, that especially once they get sucked up into the attention machine, I’m curious how well they’ll be able to sustain it

its one good idea, basically ... i appreciate that they dont stretch it out past 22 minutes or whatever

looking forward to them digging into the craft of songwriting, but also not expecting it

Pretty weird to see 100 Gecs get embraced by hipsters after like 30 years of message board posters calling John Zorn and Mr. Bungle insufferable neckbeard music

I think ringtone is genuinely a well written song. Catchy, and it switches up in the second half before it returns to the start. But yeah, a lot of the album is noise with jokes on top. Which is great as well.

Pretty weird to see 100 Gecs get embraced by hipsters after like 30 years of message board posters calling John Zorn and Mr. Bungle insufferable neckbeard music

― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 6, 2019 12:06 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"OK boomer"... You've been around long enough to know how it works, surely.

deej extremely otm

Pretty weird to see 100 Gecs get embraced by hipsters after like 30 years of message board posters calling John Zorn and Mr. Bungle insufferable neckbeard music

― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten)

are neckbeards listening to 100 gecs?

I think it’s mostly trans teens.

Trans teens who read the Fader

100 gecs are way bigger than the fader lol

Post videos that feel like SNL skits and / or migraine auras

my only disappointment with coming out as trans was finding out that trans people in real life listen to the same sort of music everyone else listens to; we're not really some sort of tastemaker cultural elite. eventually other people will cotton on to the fact that we're not actually "cool" but until them i guess we can snow them by talking about 100 gecs

whiney some of us have actually been waiting almost thirty years for someone to mr bungle all the great music that came out after mr bungle just let us have this one okay

I just keep going back to this album again and again, which isn't something I expected after my initial listen. Definitely up there as far as album of the year goes.

(I also listened to Mr. Bungle a lot in the 90s)

Bad news I think I really like 100 gecs now

https://soundcloud.com/blnnko/100-shreks-money-machine

oh dear.

I brainstormed some new display names if anyone needs one

as good as it gecs
oedipus gecs
ballistic: gecs vs. sever
gecsodus
i want your gecs (parts 1 & 2)
gecsy mf
gecs pretend
geCSistenZ
gecs! now that i have your attention

In gecs-adjacent news, Dog Show Records just put out this track and along with the music video it’s taken up the better part of my media consumption over the past 24 hrs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmjbZtMrJQ

Gosh

i got late to this album and i don't think i want to listen to it much ever again but it's a real good time if you go into it with the right attitude!
also, "money machine" is kind of all-time great somehow

I like Stupid Horse and Ringtone the most but the lyric in gecgecgec gets to me too

World tour announced
https://www.100gecs.com/

May take my kid to the Austin show

Generation (Demo idea) prod by Dylan Brady and Danny L Harle pic.twitter.com/nv1wHSuDPC

— CHARLI XCX UPDATES (@FckyeahCharli) April 20, 2020

Charli was on this version of Ringtone I rly like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmX4UPiVS-w

Their May 8 show in Austin has not yet been cancelled, but I don't know how it could possibly happen or whether I'd even want to take Datapod to see them and risk our health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzj2p8Z1Wjk

minecraft

are they big now

disappointed no one has had much of a go at dismissing this band, too powerful for ilx

you need to visit the top 77 singles, lots of naysaying there.

I was there it was devoid of insight

is that the name of the new single?

If I knew what the fuck they were trying to do I might have a go at dissing them, that or I would be a fan I guess.

what's to dismiss?

ha

that's your first problem

What's fresh about chipmunk vocals in 2019 ? This is for people who had not yet heard of PC Music, back in 2014.
Novelty and stupid jokes are immune to criticism, so it's not on you if you don't have the patience to go through more than ten seconds of that shit.

Y u hate fun

as is often the case the best angle we have here is from d-40 about pure surface. there are other things that you might call totally superficial that don't have the same resonance or particular affect, just as there are many types of shitposting. gecs have a distinct attitude behind them that is v different to melodramatic kitsch old stuff like mr bungle or whatever. it's not parody, it's not quite pastiche. there is a welcoming cuteness and personability that help make gecs infectious, but also a blankness. they're not aiming for any sort of transcendence, they're not referring to anything other than referencing itself, it's pure empty gesture, like when maggie nelson says "the most I want to do is show you the end of my index finger. its muteness". there's an acceptance and glory in the total lack of transcendence, a ritualistic embrace of uselessness

cooking pic.twitter.com/CYbTsfk3ii

— Claws & The Tree Of Clues (@dylanbrady) April 21, 2020

my friend (an old indie rock hand) is out on tour with them as a tech/sound engineer right now. says it's been fun, really crazy crowds.

fewer gecs pls

surely gecs are central enough to the pop narrative that they deserve yknow some fraction of the fawning in-depth analysis queen taytay is receiving

this all feels dismissive & like you all wanted it to be bad so you could dismiss it

as for me, I am undecided

This is like all their other songs. Super fun for 1-5 listens.

i genuinely like this? weird

great video imo

this all feels dismissive & like you all wanted it to be bad so you could dismiss it

i would have much preferred it to be good or at the very least interesting. i didn't love the debut but there was definitely the possibility of the group that made that making something really really good & this is clearly the complete opposite

maybe. i am gonna wait for the album before deciding whether they've taken a bad path. the same wait i am also granting charli and mitski obv lol

watching video while listening to song is trippy

ufo otm that the hook is weak. but idk, i still kinda like the song

agree that video is great

this all feels dismissive & like you all wanted it to be bad so you could dismiss it

― imago, Friday, November 19, 2021 12:10 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the thought of 100 gecs releasing a sophomore slump is a terrible thought. that first record is so goddamn good, and after two years of a pandemic we need the best gecs we can get

i'd also like to add that "sympathy 4 the grinch" is a banger

hm maybe i have something to contribute to ye old overhyped releases thread

even imago isn't really willing to bat for this single so i don't think it's overhyped yet

it's just dire, surely they can do better than this bottom of the barrel pop punk

there’s something about the production i like but can’t describe. gummy? sounds like a flat tire driving down a bumpy road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaBFLNWnQ0E

the skrillex collab is decent but the other two new tracks are kinda boring reheated sleigh bells

that's about right. hard to get too excited when the transgression has become the mean.

i mostly like the 30 seconds in the middle of the hand crushed by a mallet remix that sounds like nguzunguzu sped up

https://go.seated.com/tour-events/f44863e0-2a91-484f-9eb0-92405252f998

Annoying crap

10,000 gecs got bnm-ed by pitchfork, take that piss babies

really just feels like they're making up for not really caring about the debut because this is really really bad lol

everyone go listen to the pas tasta ep instead of this

"mememe" is one of the better tracks here somehow

i was not much of a fan of the debut (basically came down to not liking pop-punk vocals and the production being too flimsy - i want my hyperpop to sound huge!) but they could at least write a hook

Ok yeah I can’t deny on first listen this is a massive drop in quality from the debut. It’s good but the pop-punk/Sleigh Bells style they’re going for here doesn’t work as well as I would’ve hoped. It all just feels like general zany randomness in a way the debut didn’t? And it’s so much less fun

I Got My Tooth Removed bangs tho

Thought the last album and the December EP were mostly awful - but Doritos & Fritos was a worthwhile attempt to update White Music. So I have no idea what to expect from an album which is apparently more like the latter but which most people aren't keen on.

idk, I think the new album is pretty good, but then again, I loved the first one and thought the Snake Eyes EP was a decent stopgap so ymmv. I did find it a bit disappointing on first listen, but I've warmed up to it more with a couple more go thrus.

It definitely helps to have a strong tolerance for late 90s/early aughts pop-punk though and I agree with the pfork review that Ween is a pretty good reference point for the wackiness and erratic tonal shifts.

Kinda wish that the looming specters of Disney lawyers didn't prevent this one from getting included though . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgBfhn3c6e8

I generally really liked the album! Wasn't too interested in the more digicore/screamy aspects that return from the earlier releases but I was taken by the stuff that's more in the vein of D&F (latter of which sounds better than ever) or at least more tuneful. The frog song for instance, with its croaks a nice Stump homage. Or the Sleng Teng underlay of The Most Wanted Person. Or the two songs that try awfully hard not to turn into Sweet Dreams or Hunting for Witches (this is a struggle I faced several times when I used to make music).

I hate this

he's been chilling in the basement for a minute

757 and frog on the floor are so good, mememe also pretty great, rare moments that match the charm of the debut. i feel like 21 pilots and KLF are under-discussed touchpoints for this project ...

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