Do Nosers Like the TEST ICICLES?

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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

they look pretty indie.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

i dont like them

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

They are punk/house/screamo. (x-post)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I heard one number by them on the radio. I remembered the name because they were connected w/the arctic monkeys of uk indie terahype fame. Did they play a tour with them or something like that? The number wasn't very memorable, anyway.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

they look like fucking idiots

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

oh i get it!!!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Band Members: DEVMETAL, Sam E Danger & RAARY DECIHELLS

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

same manager as the bravery!

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Same chance of lasting success!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

why is that black man playing a left handed guitar strung right handed?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

i still haven't heard a single bloc party song

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

they arnt as good as ned says

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I've heard a couple. They're OK, but not wow in any way whatsoever.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

pashmina do you like AREA ??

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Who? Name is vaguely familiar.

Last thing I bought that I liked was Guapo.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

70 italian prog!

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

i got one Area album, and one song was super wicked looser Magma type shit. the singing is awesome, but then the rest of the album was kinda free. kinda boring.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

The only '70's italian prog thing I got, apart from the obvious names - goblin, pfm and franco battiato, was this thing called "Palepoli" by a band called "Osanna". It sounded like someone got Genesis, Jethro Tull and est together in one room, and got them all to play at once. It was a bit...much, TBH.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

This is not the idle prog rock chatter thread.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

i've heard the boa vs. python song from their single-ish thing.

post-punk revival meets poison?
m.

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

sorry tim i really wanted to derail

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

ever dabbled in stormy six, norm or chaki (sorry tim)?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

No, sorry AJL!

(Sorry, Tim [though I thought all NB music threads wound up as either idle prog chatter or stuff about the grounhogs] next time the test icicles are on the radio I'll listen more carefully&report back)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

pic 7: CASIO film watch

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/testicicles

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

get this bullshit off the noize bored, pls, tim. you're cruisin' for a yellow card.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Aren't they just a myspace band that got signed because of myspace hype?

― Camtron (Cameron), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Wait, did I miss the prog chatter or is it still going? I have an area record and it sucks.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

I took my guitar into the shop to be repaired the other day and this guy came in and was talking all about how he needed to get his super strat routed for a floyd rose and all of this shit like it's 1985 but I guess maybe the ironic 80s metal guitars are in now?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

The last song on the album is called "Party on Dudes (Get Hype)."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

aussie band the test eagles used this pun about seven years ago with far more panache!

― haitch is the realest topic alive (haitch), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

that baby is so cute

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

hstencil otm

― O RLY? (eman), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard many of their songs, but I'm not sure how liking these guys is different from liking Couch or early Boredoms or something.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

early boredoms??????

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

couch? the german couch? are you out of your mind?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Meh. I actually think that Circle Square song is a pretty good catchy, if un-original dance track, but the other songs on the myspace page are meh. The singer is quite punchable.

When I first clicked the page, I thought Circle Square had this really awesome crazy beat but it turned out that it was just the song and the video-song playing out-of-synch with each other.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

No, the Michigan Couch.

And yes, early Boredoms. How can you look at those pictures and not think of early Boredoms?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

i don't HATE the band's music by any means, but i stand by what i said upthread:

they look like fucking idiots

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Combining emo-punk and dance music was a smart business move -- whoever thought of it (The Rapture?)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

j4me$ murp9y might disagree with that

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Why, because he doesn't make money or because he invented the shit (didn't really think there was much emo-punk there)?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

i do not see the early boredoms connection

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

For a band whose name is a play on balls, they don't seem to have much.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

>For a band whose name is a play on balls<

It's not, actually. It comes from primitive man and how he had to TEST out his ICICLE before using it as a weapon.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

That is explained on their myspace page, duder.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Haha, get it, cuz if you "test" an icicle it's no good anymore! Stupid caveman!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Hence man not advancing from the paleolithic age for a very long time.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

No, but seriously, I heard they thought of it cuz some dumb producer heard their music and said "Yeah right, that'll be about as successful as a test icicle"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

I give them top marks for the pink nuno guitar, anyway.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

is Tim Ellison a new nickname for Geir? (sorry Tim if you are a real person, i can't tell)

-- yuengling participle (pton_mwaa...), December 8th, 2005. (later)

― O RLY? (eman), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

they would be pretty good without guitars and singing!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realize O RLY? was jw. I was gonna say that I give him props for not dissing the Test Icicles without hearing much of their music.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

O RLY = amon

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Haha OK. Props to jdubz then!

When Eye is seen somewhere wearing a Test Icicles t-shirt, I insist that someone eat a hat, tho.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Getting back to Area, their first album "Aerbeit Macht Frei" is the best one I've heard, but they do have this tendency to degenerate into substandard improv.

You can all get back to talking about indie music now.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Area = Indie Music '76

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

It's all over, doods.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

they had a good run

― gear (gear), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

what will the "myspace band generation" do without their figureheads??

― destroye's noobies (haitch), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

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― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Thursday, 23 February 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

their album is really bad.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

watch AIDS Wolf stay together for 20 years and amass a huge "tripster" following

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:56 (twenty years ago)

I thought the circles and triangles song was OK at least.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 February 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

still not as bad as that cd by girl/guy duo *People* that i heard last year. That was memorably bad.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 23 February 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

THIS THING I WROTE TIES IN, DUDERS. WHAT YOU THINK.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

you lost me with the Bulb stuff. Pete Larson loves heavy metal -- nothing tongue in cheek about it.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Pterodactyls were more "tongue-in-cheek" than 25 Suaves, but 25 Suaves were still comedy.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

the elements of comedy are there -- but also the true love for the music itself, including the pterodactyls or even larson's non rock work as velocity hopkins.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I agree. My comparison is favorable towards those bands, Jack!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

i guess my problem is that i dont think 25 Suaves are intentionally being dumb (though that does apply lyrically to the Pterodactyls). Larson, I think, is more attempting to bring in fun to an equation sorely lacking it (noise, etc).

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I liked 25 Suaves well enough and I agree that there's some genuine passion for the art of metal there. But I do think there's some element of playing on the silliness and even dumbness of metal there, too. And part of the humor of their nonsense lyrics was in their dumbness, too, right? (I'm not necessarily using "dumbness" as a pejorative here, btw, so much as looking to identify the nature of the humor.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

i'd say there's also a quality of nostalgia, too -- remembering music loved as a teenager and then attempting to recapture it, creating a portrait altered by memory.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

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