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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

^they'd hoover up that one

i am automatically suspicious of diplo affiliates in 2020 so

in a just world, all the praise for gecs would be lavished upon glass beach instead

threads are free, start a thread!

there is one

bump the thread!

ogmor i don't even know who the "they" you're talking about are

people talk a lot about glass beach too? it's not like they're off in some corner being listened to by three or four people like most of the music i listen to

the classic j video has 32k views, which is admittedly more than 3 or 4, but they've never been a trending topic on twitter, afaik

gecs have way more critical focus on them it's not close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEb4Hwo_T98

i think id like them a lot more if they drew more on the sicko mobb part of their sound instead of like the pop-punk part

well if the issue is that nobody is talking about glass beach on twitter i don't see how talking about glass beach here will help anything...

http://songexploder.net/100-gecs

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