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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

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.

why is everyone suddenly talking about them

ween-like

very weeny

there's an acceptance and glory in the total lack of transcendence, a ritualistic embrace of uselessness

Well, yeah.

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.

haha money machine go brrrrrr

brrrrrrrrr

I'm reading GR atm and I think ogmor is Thomas Pynchon

the square garden set is the definitive document imo, better than the album

Were there visuals for square garden or was it audio only? Is Youtube best place to look or is there a full video on Twitch?

there was a minecraft world, the twitch streams I've seen are full of chat, there are some vids on youtube that give you the idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42rfQd1bZaU

loathe to google why everyone is gecsplaining right now

for the record my earlier post wasn't meant as some kind of sharp meta-dismissal of 100 gecs themselves, more a dismissal of the idea that there would be any value or purpose in any of us dismissing them.

100 gecs don't exactly invite critical discourse. what the hell am i supposed to say? i don't get it? who cares if i get it? they're not doing it for my benefit. i'm trans, sure, but i'm also a bougie middle-aged white lady. if they want my opinion, they'll ask.

but i have no idea why they would _want_ my opinion, quite honestly. it's not like uninformed critical opinions from clueless people are in short supply right now. the one thing i do get from being trans is that i am frequently the recipient of exactly those sort of judgements on my lived experience from people whose opinions are simply irrelevant. 100 gecs' music is their expression of their lived experience, and the least i can do is respect that. i support whatever it is they are doing, and i hope it brings them joy and that it brings the people who have some faint inkling of what the hell they are up to joy.

they seem to enjoy bad opinions

oh damn it's witch house all over again

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