creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

Like every time I go to the Whitney biennial, every single artist my age and younger can't seem to make art that doesn't have Nes controllers or Captain Planet in it.

It's fucking embarrassing to think this is how my generation is squandering their talents

― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 28, 2009 3:36 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Guys there's a difference between people aping the bands they liked as a kid and building your entire aesthetic around how awesome it was to watch Legends Of The Hidden Temple

― Guerilla Zooey (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 28, 2009 6:25 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gonna stop cloggin the MPP thread with this. no fake band names. only real ones when they occur

1. Reading Rainbow
2. Golden Girls
3. Unsolved Mysteries
4. Ducktails
5. Universal Studios Florida
6. The Pudding Pops

hahaha The Pudding Pops. urge to post fake ones is almost overwhelming.

also read that as 'Whiney biennial'

Roy Division?

Oh hang on, I mean Joy Orbison.

or is it?

NO

yeah, no one post fake ones, plz. i think this is an interesting trend that could stand some actual debate.

I think the Pudding Pops used to be called "Bill Cosby and His White Pudding Pops" and i am not bullshitting about that

i mean, also Joy Orbison i think falls under the 90s punk pop-culture mash-up trend of like John Cougar Concentration Camp and like Clearance Clarence Revolver or whatevs

this is about 20 somethings just borrowing the names of annoying, overplayed nostalgia tropes. it really is the pitchfork generation's version of Young Money "I got her... GROCERY BAG" rapping

.. i wasn't posting a fake one...

saw this coming three or four years ago and feel vaguely guilty for supporting it in utero to be honest

xpost, i was talkin to blueski

i don't know if i've ever even heard a chillwave album. what's the big one to listen to?

Memory Tapes, I guess.

Neon Indian's record from last year was one of the big ones, I think.

has the thing where they "rap" over old volumes of jock jams stopped yet?

atari teenage riot

memory tapes (hey guys, remember tapes?)

neon indian (reference to the seminal mr. wizard episode with the neon indian)

washed out (stonewashed jeans)

toro y moi (preppy fashion label like polo and izod)

and that's all of the chillwave bands, the end

i mean, in Harvell's Wham City piece, I always thought this part rang somewhere between articulate justification of motives and total bullshit

"The melting pot of referential visual materials--all the fliers, the videos we're making, board games, comic books--it's a melting pot of these mythologies that are coming out of what might be called `low cultures,'" Roche says. "And I think that's super important. I think it's something we all share. It goes back to Beauty and the Beast--all of the things we've been talking about feed into that. Instead of it being purely ironic or purely a joke, those mythologies are being seamlessly integrated into more spiritual art."

And now I'm realizing that Wham City is like Marchel Duchamp compared to the laziness of naming your band a fucking TV show

this may not be the thread for Shuki Levy as greatest influence on last 5 years of music musings, but there is probably a band somewhere out there named after every TV show he worked on, just need to bump this thread whenever I find one

not a chillwave band, but *This Moment In Black History* reminds me of this.

kinda like if you named your band *A Very Special Episode Of Blossom*.

yeah wham city was definitely the tipping point or at least an early outlier of this stuff...i think maybe it being in the air in baltimore for so long is why i'm more ambivalent about it than whiney or whoever now, i already went through rolling my eyes and then accepting it and finding people i like who are guilty of it.

Cold Cave - back in the 80s I lived in a cave with no heating

yeah wham city was definitely the tipping point or at least an early outlier of this stuff...i think maybe it being in the air in baltimore for so long is why i'm more ambivalent about it than whiney or whoever now, i already went through rolling my eyes and then accepting it and finding people i like who are guilty of it.

― some dude, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:27 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Uh, try Fort Thunder

i've seen wham city people cite fort thunder as an inspiration but i literally know nothing else about it other than that their best known band is lightening bolt, and i thought they were like a hard rockin instrumental band, not any 80s retro bullshit?

fort thunder dudes like chippendale and paperrad or whatev would do weird and wild stuff in their art with thngs like garfield and bart simps, but it was always really mutated and distorted and weird, and generally pretty awesome.

stuff from my generation was awesome, stuff from the younger generation is dumb

yeah, more Hartley hare!

unsloved mysteries

The New Zoo Revue Revue

my new band: *Ben Matlock's Season Four Cameo On Diagnosis Murder*

ducktails is a really cool band name

Boards of Canada surely were the first band to do this?

okay, really, i'm all for this, i guess. ducktails is a pretty good band name.

not v. chill but (wikipedia time) Crystal Castles were named after ... She-Ra's fortress in the sky

ducktails is a really cool terrible band name

Fixed that for you.

not all these bands are chillwave. I'll allow it.

7. Crystal Castles

fort thunder was never "cute." or at least ONLY cute.

also very few of these bands will ever produce anything on par with the non-musical shit many of the fort thunder guys produced, simply from a scale/intensity/effort standpoint. effort seems to be beyond most of them.

also crystal castles was named for a video game, whatever the band says.

tho both lightning bolt and chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't.

isn't Vampire Weekend super proud of the fact that one of the associations w/ the title of their new album is the title of an old Nintendo game?

lol i was gonna say didn't we explore this idea about 4 months ago

I had assumed it was the game too but checked on Wikipedia and it said that. still 80s, -600 points to me for believing wikipedia

btw i know y'all will find this hard to believe but fort thunder's influence has been way more pernicious in comics/visual art than in music

"tho both lightning bolt and chippendale's comics made a lot of people of the following generation think they could do what he could do, but they can't, at least not with the ease they think, and they haven't."

why don't you marry him already.

would if i could, man.

in a way there is a playfulness with this naming trend that i'm tempted to equate with some of the old rave producer/acts. this is all a bit 'tweer' tho perhaps.

Now I'm waiiting for a DJ duo, Bert & Ernie Hudson.

I think I like Bleeding Rainbow

i fucken love em

chet faker

Tera Melos premiere "Slimed" video via Brooklyn Vegan

think there's a bit more to tera melos than this, but not as much as I'd hope

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Remember-Lite-Brite/176839312438663

Someone must have told this guy that there's already a band called Twin Peaks: http://www.obscuresound.com/2014/07/pin-tweaks-girl-wire/

AND there's already a Pwin ▲▲ Teaks

http://cinyf.wordpress.com/reviews/pwin-%E2%96%B2%E2%96%B2-teaks-aoxomoxoa/

The British bar band version is Weak Pints.

ha

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Twin_Freaks.jpg

creatively bankrupt newish mashup/post-Wings bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

https://twitter.com/DDDrewDaniel/status/520338817119977473

2 for the price of 1

Adderall Canyonly
https://adderallcanyonly.bandcamp.com/

From the depths of Chicago, The Warehouse to Paradise Garage, The Sound Factory to Studio 54 came HOUSE.
The Hacienda and Turnmills, Hard Times and The End…HOUSE and more HOUSE.
Friday till Monday, HOUSE every weekend and all weekend long.
The London Orbital M25, anywhere and everywhere,
Every weekend just HOUSE.
Space and Amnesia, London, Paris, New York.
HOUSE is our history.
It overcame racial divides and united the masses,
HOUSE music changed the world.
HOUSE is a feeling and a release,
A tribute to those who work hard every week and let themselves go.
HOUSE is hope.
HOUSE is working hard to relive that feeling every single weekend.
HOUSE is more alive than ever before.
This is the story of how a man called David Zowie has captured the heart of HOUSE, and how we live it EVERY WEEKEND.

what a wanker

May 7th, 2015 - Hopeless Records is thrilled to announce the signing of What's Eating Gilbert, the new musical endeavor of New Found Glory's lead guitarist, Chad Gilbert. Additionally, the band has announced their new album, That New Sound You're Looking For, which is set to release via Hopeless Records on July 10th! The first single, as well as the album pre-order, will be available on June 2nd.

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Charleston, SC's Heyrocco has announced their debut LP, Teenage Movie Soundtrack, out June 2nd via Old Flame Records (US) and June 8th via Vital Music Group (UK/Europe). Influenced by an era when alternative, guitar-driven rock and angst-fueled jams ruled the airwaves, the trio crafts '90s-inspired pop tunes updated for modern times.

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Sick Sad World is a lot of things. It’s coming up next on MTV’s Daria and it’s a more than apt summary of where we as humans have taken things and where we’re going. Most importantly, however, it’s a band in a cartoon universe within the mind of Jake Jones, an Olympia-born and Seattle-residing skateboarder, kickboxer, and smoothie enthusiast who, on Fear and Lies, out on 4/21/2015 through Seattle upstart Help Yourself Records, has knocked out 11 guitar pop gems ready for their inclusion on the classic hits playlists of the future.

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Fuck you

http://www.stereogum.com/1833992/boosegumps-stole-ur-bike/mp3s/

They’ve shared tour bills with Free Cake For Every Creature and I Tried To Run Away When I Was 6

Please, make it stop...

Joe Oxley, the one and only man behind TVAM, describes his sound as Post-Internet, motivational slime-punk and we totally dig it.

KANYE WEST ‏@kanyewest 6h6 hours ago
My next album is titled "Turbo Grafx 16" as of now…

lollllll

I've intellectually bankrupted five companies

Holy shits at that Boosegumps name

i'm currently playing in a band called Maris Vera, no shame tbh

Aussie emo band named Ted Danson With Wolves just played here :/

lol that one is funny

Yeah, that one is funny

Naphta
Eltron John

https://transatlantyk.bandcamp.com/music

Naphta is more reminiscent of Naptha

https://soundcloud.com/cgijoe

CGI Joe

this band's name is actually really cool

there is a song called "Sinusoidal Wibbler"

damn this is so Athens. so great.

otm

Gold Panda

oof. hurts.

Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobics HVS?
Announce UK Tour For October 2016

Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobics VHS? Have announced that they will be touring the UK in October 2016.

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS? is a strange bird in the Finnish rock scene not only because of it's long name, but also because the band doesn't have a guitar player.
Instead melodies and distorted sound walls are created by good old Casio and Eco-organs. Packed with 60's girl group/soul-melodies, bubble gum punk riffs and pounding drums, which will make your
eardrums bleed, this newcomer is truly something to get to know. HYESTJFAVHS? gets it's influences from a rather wide range of genres: all the way from garage rock to doo-wop, rock'n'roll to
80's dream pop and 60's soul and girl groups. Full UK Tour dates below.

having their name spelled three different ways in one short press release is no less than this band deserve tbqh

Not 80s ephemera but there is a 90s cover band in this region that's called White Ford Bronco, and I find it in marginally poor taste (haha, murder, so droll)

There's another 90s cover band called the Bayside Tigers, which needed to be explained to me (hi i am an old)

it continues: Bandler Ching

shit i came here to post that one

Thats appalling

Michael Cera Palin

Also, one of my students had a band called GG Alan Partridge

That's good though

I know a member of GGAP! Small world.

If it's Sophie, say "hi".

Gg Alan partridge is great

There was a band in Portland I’d see on flyers callled “Guantanamo baywatch” - not so good

I recall a festival about a decade ago with duran duran duran (bad) and black abba (good)

"Ross from Friends", made more annoying by him being from Essex. I'd have preferred "Martin from Game On" or "Tony from Men Behaving Badly".