that seems fine
it sounds like if Ryan Trecartin had daughters who made pop songs
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
too many gecs
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec gec
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
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
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
its one good idea, basically ... i appreciate that they dont stretch it out past 22 minutes or whatever
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
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
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
― 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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
deej extremely otm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten)
are neckbeards listening to 100 gecs?
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
I think it’s mostly trans teens.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
Trans teens who read the Fader
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
100 gecs are way bigger than the fader lol
― imago, Friday, 6 December 2019 09:23 (four years ago) link
Post videos that feel like SNL skits and / or migraine auras
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 6 December 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
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
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
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
― based grandpa (noz), Saturday, 7 December 2019 06:45 (four years ago) link
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)
― silverfish, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
Bad news I think I really like 100 gecs now
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/blnnko/100-shreks-money-machine
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
oh dear.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
I brainstormed some new display names if anyone needs one
as good as it gecsoedipus gecsballistic: gecs vs. severgecsodusi want your gecs (parts 1 & 2)gecsy mfgecs pretendgeCSistenZgecs! now that i have your attention
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
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
― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Gosh
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
I like Stupid Horse and Ringtone the most but the lyric in gecgecgec gets to me too
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
World tour announcedhttps://www.100gecs.com/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
May take my kid to the Austin show
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Generation (Demo idea) prod by Dylan Brady and Danny L Harle pic.twitter.com/nv1wHSuDPC— CHARLI XCX UPDATES (@FckyeahCharli) April 20, 2020
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Charli was on this version of Ringtone I rly like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmX4UPiVS-w
― silby, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzj2p8Z1Wjk
minecraft
― adam, Friday, 24 April 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
are they big now
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
disappointed no one has had much of a go at dismissing this band, too powerful for ilx
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
you need to visit the top 77 singles, lots of naysaying there.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
I was there it was devoid of insight
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
is that the name of the new single?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
what's to dismiss?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
ha
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 April 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
that's your first problem
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
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.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
Y u hate fun
― silby, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
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
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
could say they are doomer fun. not nihilistic necessarily (altho never listen to anyone who uses nihilist pejoratively), or stupid necessarily, so much as irrationalist. high nonsense. which makes them traditional rock and roll as outlined by meltzer.
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
why is everyone suddenly talking about them
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
ween-like
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
very weeny
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
there's an acceptance and glory in the total lack of transcendence, a ritualistic embrace of uselessness
Well, yeah.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
post-ween imo. something extremely, aggressively non-specific about the emptiness. beyond pastiche, not so much playing with particular signifiers as totally burnt out on cycling through them. standing atop the mashed-up goo, everything smells like shit. lowest-common-denominator meaninglessness to the point of total fluidity.
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
i genuinely like this? weird
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 19 November 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
great video imo
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 19 November 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 19 November 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
watching video while listening to song is trippy
― flopson, Friday, 19 November 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
ufo otm that the hook is weak. but idk, i still kinda like the song
― flopson, Friday, 19 November 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
agree that video is great
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 November 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
― 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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 20 November 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
i'd also like to add that "sympathy 4 the grinch" is a banger
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 20 November 2021 04:45 (two years ago) link
hm maybe i have something to contribute to ye old overhyped releases thread
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 November 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 20 November 2021 05:08 (two years ago) link
there’s something about the production i like but can’t describe. gummy? sounds like a flat tire driving down a bumpy road
― flopson, Saturday, 20 November 2021 05:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaBFLNWnQ0E
the skrillex collab is decent but the other two new tracks are kinda boring reheated sleigh bells
― ufo, Friday, 2 December 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
that's about right. hard to get too excited when the transgression has become the mean.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 December 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
i mostly like the 30 seconds in the middle of the hand crushed by a mallet remix that sounds like nguzunguzu sped up
― plax (ico), Monday, 19 December 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
https://go.seated.com/tour-events/f44863e0-2a91-484f-9eb0-92405252f998
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
Annoying crap
― CerebralCaustic, Friday, 20 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
10,000 gecs got bnm-ed by pitchfork, take that piss babies
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 16 March 2023 06:01 (one year ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
"mememe" is one of the better tracks here somehow
― ufo, Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 16 March 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 March 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
I Got My Tooth Removed bangs tho
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 March 2023 10:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 17 March 2023 11:55 (one year ago) link
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
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 17 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
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).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
I hate this
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
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 ...
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 13:49 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWHnWbpxmc
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 April 2023 20:33 (eleven months ago) link