The Beets are the best band

i know killer tofu lol

but seriously i mean juan jose and the white guy from jackson heights. queens is the new brooklyn (but how do you gentrify a place already full of white people?)

regardless, raucous shout-slop funn. recommended if you want to be cool.

juan lives in brooklyn now!

AAAWW WEEE OOOO KILLLER TOFFFUU!

What about: DUUUURAAANGGOOO DOUUUG!

joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNa9vVqjsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7c3bQQmwVE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yak6Nt3uknA

probably should've read the entirety of the first post but oh well

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

1991 is not the '80s and The Beets are not chillwave/post-AnCo

uh the Beets are definitely post-AnCo

but they claim its just a coincidence. I think they're so young that they never even watched Doug or something

how is this band post-anco

http://royalrhinoflying.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/the-beets-spit-in-the-face-of-people-who-dont-want-to-be-cool.jpg

okay, but still. it's not like anco invented being twee and having cute awkward phrasing, and as much as i think anco are influential this is definitely something that existed before and unaware of sung tongs. this is like michael cera in juno. i always thought the animal collector innovation was white dudes who listen to noise attempting to channel faux-mystical native vibes and children's music as reimagined by nostalgic twentysomethings. most chillwave stuff has a similar attention to texture and if not trance-like is at least dream-ey.

anyways what i really meant was that this band is a garage rock band.

anco has a lot of innovations on this generation imo

influence i mean

this generation of underground teenagers i mean

in brooklyn i mean

brooklyn = 44% white
queens = 46% white

yeah but there were TONS of bands like the beets in SF & Columbus & Michigan & really all over throughout the nineties. I think calling the Beets "post AnCo" is like when Robert Hilburn used to insist that every songwriter working was expressing his debt to Springsteen, it was like "ok dude we get that you dig Springsteen but it's not really like that"

there have never not been garage bands in the history of music since 1960whatever iirc.

i'm not 100% discounting the existence of post-anco garage rock, i just think it's setting the bar low. one of my favourite local bands atm are these two dudes who moved here from orlando and do a huge variety of sets, sometimes it's vocal loops, stoner rock, sample-heavy poppy stuff or garage rock and to me they are really very post-anco. the inspiration is so immediately obvious--the vocal melodies and use of samples particularly--that it just seems unnecessary to call beets post-anco when it's resonating in such a real way elsewhere.

I need more allowance, yodelayeoo
Why? Because I do

spit in their faces
spit in their face
spit in their faces
spit in tthier face

Whiney, don't avoid the question: how is this post-anco?

btw, "killer tofu" and 'banging on a trash can' sounded even better in spanish.

In spanish 'killer tofu' was 'universal potatoe' (-aww wee ooh es la papa universal-) which makes for better phrasing I think. Killer tofu leaves an awkward space in there. I'm culturally biased of course.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100224044136/lyricwiki/images/a/a4/The_Beets_-_Let_It_Beet.jpg

The white people in Queens live in parts of queens most people don't go to. Trains don't even go there, unless you count the LIRR. Most of Queens, the parts where the Beets are/were from, are way less white than most of Brooklyn.

What you thought there'd be a thread that mentioned Queens and I wouldn't chime in?

I also don't see how The Beets are post-AnCo.

Whiney, don't avoid the question: how is this post-anco?

― Moka, Sunday, March 28, 2010 4:15 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, I mean, musically the connection is tenuous at best. I'm just saying that:

A) AnCo (and other Brooklyn bands) helped create a market for noisy underground rock like this to flourish circa 2009, and especially to SELL VINYL (which is huge with the whole Captured Tracks crowd)
B) AnCo helped popularize that whole nostalgia/back-to-innocence/faux-naivete vibe that permeates lots of bands right now. It can be seen in The Beets with hand-drawn album art, grown adults talking about "being cool" and the kind of 1987 Hulk-Hogan-era WWF wrestling belt on the cover.

actually "killer tofu" sounds pretty great...like Cracker meets Fleet Foxes with twee-goofball lyrics

my mom is from jackson heights! she grew up across the street from woody herman.

AnCo helped popularize that whole nostalgia/back-to-innocence/faux-naivete vibe that permeates lots of bands right now. It can be seen in The Beets with hand-drawn album art, grown adults talking about "being cool" and the kind of 1987 Hulk-Hogan-era WWF wrestling belt on the cover.

I guess my question is "when was this not an aesthetic in indie"? championing a more wilfully naive approach (I avoid "faux-naive" it kind of implies that anybody who isn't cynical is posing, which I don't think is true) dates back to, at the latest, the modern lovers (way stronger connection between them and the beets imo), and runs from there through a whole bunch of north-of-london UK stuff & then K records/Internat'l Pop Underground -- all of which was hand-drawn album art, much much MUCH talking about being cool - it's not like Animal Collective resurrected this, it was always prevalent, and their own schtick is way more electronic-age than the sort of bashing-on-stuff/doin'-it-by-hand feel the Beets do

i miss the pooh sticks.

I was just thinking about "Shout Your Lungs Out" the other day!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfyGtKq2MTA

The imagery the Beets use is a bit twee, but I have a hard time believing that an AnCo-influenced band would suggest something as aggro as spitting in someone's face. Plant a sapling for people who don't want to be cool!

Animal Collective WISH they rocked this hard

the beets aren't really grown adults in as much as i hardly consider myself to be a grown adult and they are like, young pups in comparison.

also: fuck captured tracks, this has been my stance from DAY ONE.

I believe that the vinyl resurgence is in fact 100% attributable to me being awesome btw

there is definitely some stank on captured tracks but if you don't fuck with teenage panzerkorps, the bitters, gary war or thee oh sees you're missing out dude.

i like der tpk, love gary war as a dude, don't give a fuck abt bitters or the oh sees. i am also of the "fuck j0hn dwy3r" stance.

just got Juan's cassettes. Uruguay Radio is like a Beets Beach Party. He should have called it Beats Blanket Bingo. Wandering Wondering is similar, but a bit more dour, weirder, and probably better. Both sound like a lot like the Beets.

The Beets are the best band!

*Beets Blanket Bingo, of course

The Beets are great. Stay Home is getting me through this Friday afternoon.

Their 3rd album is out and sounds like it was actually produced in something like a production studio. Also, the relatively new girl-drummer is singing, which gives them that boy-girl sound on some tracks. Anyway, love these guys forever.

also, we finally get a non-youtube version of j0hn's favorite track