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1. a song named after a hallucinogenic plant they read about on erowid

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:31 (thirteen years ago)

2. crunchy nugs

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:33 (thirteen years ago)

3. typos

cwkiii, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:34 (thirteen years ago)

4. some variation of big star's "the india song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Tw1herUfM

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

5. b&w photo of a dog

Thee Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

6. stay alert w/ consciousness

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:43 (thirteen years ago)

7. kickstarter link to help the tabla player finance a year-long internship as a coal miner in west virginia

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 01:45 (thirteen years ago)

wth is deepster

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:00 (thirteen years ago)

8. hilariously deluded and sanctimonious luddite worldview

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:02 (thirteen years ago)

deepster?

the late great, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago)

deepster = a hipster with deeply deep thoughts

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:09 (thirteen years ago)

e.g., jim morrison.

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:10 (thirteen years ago)

oh, that seems like a very different thing than jam bands to me. Examples?

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:13 (thirteen years ago)

Dickster.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:17 (thirteen years ago)

a hipster with deeply deep thoughts

http://postimage.org/image/62tgh5ig7/

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:19 (thirteen years ago)

http://s15.postimage.org/m1267acob/2laf1he.jpg

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:20 (thirteen years ago)

otm

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:22 (thirteen years ago)

deepster:

(a) not just an interest in drugs, but the belief that drugs are reaaally interesting
(b) pussyhound (the deepster is a hetero male)
(c) belief in eastern mysticism and/or the american desert
(d) closet prog fan

so, not so different from the jam band.

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:26 (thirteen years ago)

I guess when I think of jam bands I also think of goofball bands like String Cheese Incident

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:27 (thirteen years ago)

that's a whole subcategory of jam band!

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:29 (thirteen years ago)

like just what are examples of "deepster" jam bands, idgi

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:37 (thirteen years ago)

this thread was more fun in my mind than it is on screen.

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:40 (thirteen years ago)

sorry for harshing your mellow brah

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:42 (thirteen years ago)

have a brownie

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:44 (thirteen years ago)

9. radiohead reference

free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:51 (thirteen years ago)

10. libertarians

free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:55 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, idg deepster either. Those criteria seem to describe many of the best posters on ILM. I would also like to hear these jam band songs that rip off India Song because that sounds like my kinda thing.

wk, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:05 (thirteen years ago)

I'm 3/4 on those requisites w/the pedantic note that they're also major Mexican deserts

The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:14 (thirteen years ago)

11. Goofy song about an anthropomorphised animal.

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:41 (thirteen years ago)

12. liner note credits for mentor, spiritual advisor, or shaman

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:48 (thirteen years ago)

13. pic from tour stop in crested butte

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:49 (thirteen years ago)

14. a reprise

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:50 (thirteen years ago)

15. classic bluegrass cover

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:56 (thirteen years ago)

16. some latin jazz

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:56 (thirteen years ago)

17. a suite

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:57 (thirteen years ago)

18. song that takes it in a new direction that fans of the last album are unsure about

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 09:58 (thirteen years ago)

19. wrote this song in amsterdam

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:00 (thirteen years ago)

sorry. let me backtrack to

15. classic bluegrass cover (arr. traditional)

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:04 (thirteen years ago)

20. onamatopoeia or words that are complete nonsense

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:06 (thirteen years ago)

21. (instrumental)

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:06 (thirteen years ago)

shit, 15 would really be more like

(traditional arr. Anastasio)

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:11 (thirteen years ago)

22. version that's way different from the one they've been working out on tour

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:12 (thirteen years ago)

23. liner notes with cryptic extra lyrics that aren't in the song

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:13 (thirteen years ago)

24. song not explicitly about "the road" a la jackson fucking browne or whatever, but contains references to "roads", "travels", for bonus points "trips"

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:15 (thirteen years ago)

25. random Sanskrit words in song title

syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:17 (thirteen years ago)

26. random cobbled together faux Hindu imagery on album cover

syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:17 (thirteen years ago)

27. song about actual historical event from band's town of origin

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:19 (thirteen years ago)

28. synth, but not really the way you'd wanna hear it, you know?

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:20 (thirteen years ago)

29. attempt to incorporate techno/house/dubstep, but without listening to a whole lot of that in the first place.

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:22 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.stars-on-7-inch.com/discograpien/index_t/t_rex/jeepster_S.JPG

a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:23 (thirteen years ago)

30. shitty mixing

syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:23 (thirteen years ago)

31. nobody knew how to record a drum kit properly

a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:24 (thirteen years ago)

32. blues-ish

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:28 (thirteen years ago)

33. amateurish stab at falsetto, or doing a female voice "in character"

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:34 (thirteen years ago)

34. song about college. like 24, not directly mentioning it or anything. veiled just enough to give these college men and women something to figure out

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:40 (thirteen years ago)

35. something about a barn

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:52 (thirteen years ago)

36. mostly dialed-back, reigned-in versions of their expansive live repertoire, but one song that still mananges to clock in at 11:35.

how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:58 (thirteen years ago)

I need some examples of "deepster" too though.

deepster:

(a) not just an interest in drugs, but the belief that drugs are reaaally interesting
(b) pussyhound (the deepster is a hetero male)
(c) belief in eastern mysticism and/or the american desert
(d) closet prog fan

so, not so different from the jam band.

Does this mean Devendra Banhart?

die face down in some dude's pool (how's life), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:43 (thirteen years ago)

what's so bad about (c)

the late great, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:44 (thirteen years ago)

(i don't know anything about db, I've just always presumed this was what was going on there.)

die face down in some dude's pool (how's life), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Reyner_Banham.jpg

the late great, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

what's so bad about (c)

― the late great, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:44 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure what's so bad about any of them

One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:51 (thirteen years ago)

you pussyhound you

the late great, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 22:03 (thirteen years ago)

37. druggy rumination on an otherwise mundane household object that is laying around the studio or record company office

die face down in some dude's pool (how's life), Thursday, 27 September 2012 11:18 (thirteen years ago)

38. everybody iin the band gets a chance to be the singer for at least one song

die face down in some dude's pool (how's life), Thursday, 27 September 2012 11:20 (thirteen years ago)


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