How many artists could drop a new album and get as much internet buzz as MBV is right now?

Radiohead? Neutral Milk Hotel? Perhaps the new Bowie?

Dr Dre

D'angelo

If The Smiths dropped an album out of nowhere right this very moment the internet would just die.

oh yeah, I forgot about Dre

motherfuckers act

oh yeah, I forgot about Dre

― frogbs, Monday, February 4, 2013 9:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*facepalm*

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothing comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of frogbs

alright, I'm locking this thread

wait, you can't lock your own threads on this site. W.T.F.

wait you mean this whole thread wasn't just an elaborate setup for that joek

Beck? Radiohead?

Neutral Milk Hotel.

Yeah NMH was the only artist I could think of that could potentially generate that type of "holy shit" reaction among those who worshipped Aeroplane their whole lives. MBV was like a perfect storm of an incredibly long wait and a body of work that's actually held up quite well.

Radiohead could do it - the internet pretty much exploded when In Rainbows came out. TKoL was the same I guess but I wonder if that's sort of tapered expectations a bit.

Nine Inch Nails, maybe 5-6 years ago?

destroyer's followup to "kaputt" will probably crash many a site.

PAVEMENT

NMH otm.

Maybe the Pixies?

slint are doing something, right? thought i read that. probably wouldn't be THAT huge though.

oh yes, if Pavement announces there is a release in 2-3 days. then yeah, i can see people getting really really hyped.

i was talking to someone the other day about kate bush and i said if she ever decided to tour in the u.s. it would create riots in the streets. which is hyperbole but i bet she could sell out huge arenas here in minutes. so, she might be able to crash ticket sites anyway. that would be pretty major for millions of people.

The remaining members of Nirvana featuring Paul McCartney.

Kate Bush has been releasing records tho. Touring would be another story.

yeah i know not the same thing but i was just thinking of some out of the blue thing that would freak people out.

Daft Punk

mcartney ringo chris cornell and eddie vedder

im sure if the stone roses had dropped an album instead of reforming for gigs that wouldve created a big buzz

which is hyperbole but i bet she could sell out huge arenas here in minutes.

I love Kate Bush too, but there is no fucking way she would sell out "arenas" at this point, come on.

Stone Roses are sort of unknown over here

and mbv are?

the huge roses gigs sold out in 5 mins here.

points AG to the "who the fuck are Stone Roses?" tumblr

and mbv are?

we could take an informal US poll here or something but yeah I think MBVs legend/fanbase over here is bigger

Considering how much was written about that awful Tron soundtrack I'm sure Daft Punk could break some things

it doesnt really matter as the roses big moment was those gigs. But i assure you it would be a massive deal over here

how about the KLF?

"I love Kate Bush too, but there is no fucking way she would sell out "arenas" at this point, come on."

do you have any idea how many people love her in the states? teenagers on up to oldies like me. LOTS of people who would never think they would ever live to see her live. probably the most popular "cult" artist in the states that i can think of. the only person i can compare her to is tom waits as far as having such a wide-range of fans. from people who have been fans for decades to teens.

you are high

waits doesn't sell out arenas either fwiw

but he has toured for years.

she never has.

Never heard a Kate Bush song, that I'm aware of.

the postal service is playing the brooklyn nets' new arena; pretty sure kate could pull that off. maybe not in pittsburgh or wherever tho

I mean maybe we're working with different definitions of "arenas" here but, fwiw, I don't think even Coldplay sold out all of the arenas they played on their latest tour.

they also tour a lot.

you are underestimating the once in a lifetime angle. she has very devoted fans.

I am pretty sure no person that I know who is not ilx-related has ever heard of kate bush

I think a new pink floyd with roger waters in the band or a new led zep album might break the internet

she has sold millions of records here. she continues to sell a ton of records in her back catalog. and she has never performed live here. you do the math!

is Big Boi on this theoretical tour with her that might sell some more tickets

she could change her name to kate(y) (bush) perry and try and trick teen girls into going to her stadium concert

harry connick jr. and chris stamey also very pissed that they were upstaged like this:

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed

boards of canada, as noted above, is a very reasonable answer. there's that distance of release, obviously, but i can't argue for groups like the smiths as i know *exactly* what their next release would roughly sound like. with BoC, you get that it'll retain their most classic elements and yet at the same time - especially considering the leap to acoustic-infusion with their last release - you have little idea of what to expect. the only bands that can stir this kind of momentum are ones that are self-consciosly progressive.

new matmos and bret michaels albums so synergistically close to each other though. good for both parties.

I'm thinking maybe A Tribe Called Quest

Many interesting suggestions on this thread and many lols.

The correct answer is "none". No one could do this in the same way as MBV, because we haven't been promised the new full length for two decades from anyone else. The closest name already mentioned is Aphex, if only because he's dropped hints at having this vintage arsenal of tracks to unleash, you know, one of these days, they're just sitting there in the vaults. No one else has been slavishly working out the kinks for so long that they haven't put out an lp every once in a while, reformed, or just simply said "no" like MBV has.

they haven't put out an lp every once in a while (Kate Bush), reformed (Pavement), or just simply said "no" (Smiths, ABBA)

The level of devotion from the Loveless follow-up is a horse of a different colour from Chinese Democracy or Smile, but despite the comically heavy interest for these I wonder why? Why didn't they break the internet?

Because they weren't released on the Internet?

The correct answer is "none".

lol. jay-z had more buzz off an album when he was retired for like 4 years.

Chinese Democracy broke Best Buy, and Long Road Out of Eden broke Wal-Mart.

Whereas this is the biggest digital release since In Rainbows, no?

or maybe since the third girl talk album

meek mill's dreamchasers 2 has been downloaded 3.8 million times off datpiff alone, let's see what numbers MBV do http://www.datpiff.com/Meek-Mill-Dreamchasers-2-mixtape.339288.html

lol. jay-z had more buzz off an album when he was retired for like 4 years.

Yeah, completely off the map in the public eye, with only the occasional cryptic interview, and leaving Shields to low profile collab releases w Linkin Park and R Kelly in the interim.

yeah MBV has been completely out of the public eye, what with people elevating them to god status and then writing tomes about their album

Dude, to be fair, I'm only nominally interested in MBV's music (and Jay-Z's) but the crosstalk both online and irl is sorta deafening, and it's honestly pretty weird cos I've heard chatter from the shoegaze camp amongst my friends at a level equiv to duck farts across a lake for years re mbv's amazing new long awaited tuneage

right. well in my neck of the woods, this album is getting as much burn as any old album that drops with a 24-hour lead time.

and anyway, only in rock music can a band peace out for 2 decades and still come back as if they walk on water. a rapper or pop artist couldn't pull a stunt like this because people would cease to give a shit after a certain point way, way before 20 years.

popper

xp Good points. Artists in the future are going to have a far slimmer era of interest to fall off the radar then phoenix again, since the important peeps prob won't have full blossom careers that extend so long, regardless of genre (rock is fucking dead i've heard)

Elvis Presley

Beethoven

d'angelo and maxwell and sade push the limits of my theory a bit but at least as far as the latter two go, their recent career revivals of happened almost completely outside of the internet

what about lauryn hill?

talking heads and steely dan (?) by ilx standards

sonic youth after a 10-year hiatus

lauryn... maybe. fugees reunion was a dud tho.

when lauryn announced a tour, not even new material, it got this much buzz, which = a hell of a lot among people who already care about her, but outside that you could happily ignore it. what a weird thread. j0rdan otm about how any given band with a passionate fanbase could do this.

also are people really bringing up kate bush's sales to make the point that she's not as big a deal as...MY BLOODY VALENTINE? smh

Outside of indie music circles, nobody gives a fuck. This is not like the Bowie thing the other week, or anywhere near close to In Rainbows dropping, which was all over breakfast TV in the UK.

seems bigger than the Bowie thing from the other week...?

somebody mentioned SNL earlier itt: think they got a shot at appearing this season?

The Bowie thing was all over mainstream media; this is very much saturation in a certain demographic's sphere, but little beyond that. There's also an amount of instant criticism here - because we can actually listen to the full record - that wasn't there with the Bowie thing, because that was only a single.

also are people really bringing up kate bush's sales to make the point that she's not as big a deal as...MY BLOODY VALENTINE? smh

I was bringing it up to refute Scott's point that Kate Bush could sell out arenas across the U.S.

But I'm guessing she's still better-known here than MBV is, since she's at least had a couple of minor hits.

Reformed Husker Du with all original members would attract some interest.

Based on the love the limited semi-reunion dates received, I would think a new Faith No More album would garner some buzz. Even more if Jim Martin was involved.

Maybe a Guns N' Roses reunion with the real line-up and not just fat Axl.

Talking Heads, for sure.

I'll cede that it's rare for an act to disappear for as long as MBV did and have a new release be treated by most of its fans as a serious artistic statement in continuation with its legacy, rather than just a greed- or nostalgia-motivated attempt to recapture something of the past. But that doesn't mean those other attempts wouldn't get way more people excited.

The La's

lol

somebody mentioned SNL earlier itt: think they got a shot at appearing this season?

― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, February 5, 2013 4:23 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

hell no

A new Avalanches LP would be pretty big, right?

only in rock music can a band peace out for 2 decades and still come back as if they walk on water. a rapper or pop artist couldn't pull a stunt like this because people would cease to give a shit after a certain point way, way before 20 years.

hence rock music = THE BEST!

yes j0rd, we know pop/rap fans hv the att spans of tsetse flies.

what's our kevin been up to these eight years

happy tenth everyone

Man that was a wild ride.

<3

what's our kevin been up to these eight years

mixing it hot

everything has to be absolutely perfect. also loveless sounds best over a boombox though, so it's a balance between those two things

i love mbv and i love kevin shields, but he is one of the worst influences a musician could possibly have

Just listened to this album for the first time... I liked it! The tracks are a little repetitive, but they're cool and sound great. It's not really what I was expecting, from the band's rep.