I listen to tons of weird poo poo, I’m sure a lot of people in this thread do. 100 gecs isn’t some avant garde art project, it doesn’t even rise to DARKSIDE levels of sometimes being semi unlistenable annoying wankery. I personally just find them annoying 
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i am a moron posted:I listen to tons of weird poo poo, I’m sure a lot of people in this thread do. 100 gecs isn’t some avant garde art project, it doesn’t even rise to DARKSIDE levels of sometimes being semi unlistenable annoying wankery. I personally just find them annoying I think that’s fine. 100 gecs is an amalgation of tons of stuff that personally give me nostalgia and joy. Like it’s silly as gently caress and hits all the reference points I love in music since the nu metal days. It’s just ridiculous and over the top and I’m on board. Like when a song just randomly turns into like a death metal grind core thing for the breakdown. Or when suddenly you get nu metal style grooves. Or just a silly ska song about a frog or removing your tooth.
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Mar 20, 2023 12:40
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i am a moron posted:I listen to tons of weird poo poo, I’m sure a lot of people in this thread do. 100 gecs isn’t some avant garde art project, it doesn’t even rise to DARKSIDE levels of sometimes being semi unlistenable annoying wankery. Agree
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Mar 20, 2023 14:02
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Yeah 100 gecs is just really fun and uniquely talented in their ability to musically speak in a billion 00s teenage tropes and they use their talent to craft, well, jokes that are written in the language of music. They’re like Olivia Tremor Control if they were into the 00s instead of the 60s and into making lofi jpeg shitposts instead of art installations of crowns and birds. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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Mar 20, 2023 14:48
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It sucks they take so long to release music because they’ll probably be their 30s by the time they release their 4th album (also 20 minutes long) and they’re probably going to become very boring like every other act who’s youth is a part of their musical identity. (Like Deerhunter, now that this thread brought them up.)
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Mar 20, 2023 14:54
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I'm listening to the 100 gecs album now and I think I would just call it "Modern Punk" or something. Like not the specific sound of Punk (except for the one song), but the attitude. Reminds me of The Clash where they kind of just do whatever style they feel like, but it's still "punk". It's really not aggressively weird or artsy enough to be called "anti-music" or avant garde. It's just deliberately noisy and chaotic and "annoying" which I mean in the nicest possible way. Also, I don't like it. But I do think I get it. (e: I don't really like The Clash either, so if that comparison is wildly off, so be it) Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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Mar 20, 2023 15:34
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Automata 10 Pack posted:They’re like Olivia Tremor Control if they were into the 00s instead of the 60s and into making lofi jpeg shitposts instead of art installations of crowns and birds. That's actually a really solid comparison
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Mar 20, 2023 18:27
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new M83 good
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Mar 20, 2023 18:27
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100 gecs are just really good pop songwriters. If you listen to something like Hand Crushed by a Mallet, it's a great pop song. poo poo, so is Hollywood Baby. They just use a different set of sounds to get there than like Mag Bay or CHVRCHES
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Mar 20, 2023 19:15
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captainOrbital posted:Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew are just really good rappers. If you listen to something like Rap Like A Pirate, it's a great rap song. poo poo, so is It’s All About The Booty. They just use a different set of sounds to get there than like Nas or Kendrick Lamar
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Mar 20, 2023 19:46
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I will hear no ill spoken of the good captain. Now if you want to talk poo poo about MC Paul Barman I'm all in
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Mar 20, 2023 19:51
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captainOrbital posted:Oasis are just really good pop songwriters. If you listen to something like Wonderwall, , it's a great pop song. poo poo, so is D'ya Know What I Mean. They just use a different set of sounds to get there than like Blur or Pulp
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Mar 20, 2023 20:10
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100 gecs is a fun listen. Wasn't sure what to expect. Probably not the thing I'm going to add to my permanent playlists, but feels like the kinda thing that I'd hear playing in H&M and be boppin' to.
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Mar 20, 2023 21:55
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Pitchfork lineup is out. Looks pretty solid, no Postal Service though.
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Mar 21, 2023 15:27
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They must be at Lolla instead. E: Or not, apparently! And they don’t really fit in the typical Riot Fest lineup. Henchman of Santa fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 15:29
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Death Cab has played Riot Fest a couple of times and a ton of their headliners are nostalgia acts so they'd fit in fine
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Mar 21, 2023 17:14
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Is Phoenix indie? They're on boutique labels, played for NPR, and a surprising number of people I know haven't heard of them. Anyways what I want to do is to complain that they've gone from tracks to which you want to dance & bittersweet ballads to recent albums being (serious?) takes on technology and religion. Every other song has been hearing John Lennon saying "Number Nine" in my head.
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Mar 21, 2023 18:25
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Bright Bart posted:Is Phoenix indie? They're on boutique labels, played for NPR, and a surprising number of people I know haven't heard of them. No they are not indie.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:27
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Sonically they are absolutely most people's understanding of indie. "Indie = independent" is as long gone of a definition as "alternative = alternative to the mainstream."
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Mar 21, 2023 19:35
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Henchman of Santa posted:Sonically they are absolutely most people's understanding of indie. "Indie = independent" is as long gone of a definition as "alternative = alternative to the mainstream." Yeah, 15 years ago a friend was annoyed with my interest in indie music and asked me to identify how it's categorized, expecting to trip me up in trying to describe the sound or style. I simply told him, it means that the band is on an independent record label. But a lot of those bands that continued to have success have long since moved onto major labels, like Arcade Fire. A quick look at the wikipedia for alternative says that it's just another term for independent music, with distinction from mainstream acts. So maybe it's just bands that don't generally appear on top 40 radio?
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Mar 21, 2023 19:42
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I'd absolutely consider Phoenix an indie band.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:48
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if we only posted about truly "indie" acts in this thread, you'd just see people posting about acts that they have heard of that no one else in this thread has heard of, because basically anyone with enough popularity to wind up on even the smallest festival text is signed to a "major" label these days
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Mar 21, 2023 20:01
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whos that broooown posted:Unwound reunites after 20 years and still loving rips. Saw them in Philly on Thursday. why the gently caress were the vocals so low? they were excellent in terms of musicianship, but barely being able to hear justin was a real bummer; considering it was their second night there, i can only assume that's how they wanted it. kinda bummed that the wednesday crowd got "go to dallas and take a left" and we got "arboretum." overall happy, though. 100 gecs fans, do y'all like brokencyde and dot dot curve? because that's what they sound like to me
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Mar 21, 2023 23:58
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brokencyde was funny to listen to ironically like 3 times
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Mar 22, 2023 00:02
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Gone Fashing posted:brokencyde was funny to listen to ironically like 3 times They used to tour with Millionaires, who were a good joke band
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Mar 22, 2023 02:22
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lol yeah millionaires was like mid 2000s myspace in band form
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Mar 22, 2023 02:28
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I still have "Alcohol" on my Playlist The fact that they were accidentally electroclash was incredible. I wish I'd been able to interview them https://youtu.be/AOVK_iQvvsw Feels like they would have been huge if they'd had a label behind them. If nothing else they beat Ke$ha to market
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Mar 22, 2023 05:12
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Yegor Letov is an underappreciated musical genius. This fan music video is perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcl1hss_MI
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Mar 22, 2023 15:22
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Okay, you may be too old for 100 gecs, but were you too old for Neil Cicierega’s mouth sound albums ten years ago? It’s kinda the same thing, spiritually speaking. woof this makes me hate 100 gecs
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Mar 22, 2023 22:04
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lol yeah a lot of the 40 year olds in here are, well, not "damning with faint praise" exactly but something close to itBonoMan posted:100 gecs is a fun listen. Wasn't sure what to expect. Probably not the thing I'm going to add to my permanent playlists, but feels like the kinda thing that I'd hear playing in H&M and be boppin' to. lolling at this
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Mar 23, 2023 00:52
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I can't decide which new M83 song is my favourite but it might be this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZG2c824nrE
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Mar 23, 2023 01:05
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Killing Joke have a new single out and it kicks rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4lLQAbI-8E New Night Tapes too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMgmN2PBicQ Ratios and Tendency fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 03:40
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CLAM DOWN posted:I can't decide which new M83 song is my favourite but it might be this one It gets better the more I listen to it, Deceiver and Earth To Sea are both just incredible though. Oh and Amnesia. And the title track. Also it’s far from my favorite but the idea of “M83 does Beck’s Sea Change” on Radar Far Gone is super cool too
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Mar 23, 2023 03:52
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Thanks M83, Fever Ray, and Dry Cleaning for some great album covers
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Mar 23, 2023 16:19
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M83 sounds like if Beach House were obsessed with nostalgia. By this I mean Hurry Up, We're dreaming is a very fun album.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:46
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Earth to Sea and Laura are amazing.
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Mar 23, 2023 21:32
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Today is International Caroline Rose Day!
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Mar 24, 2023 15:26
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Bismack Billabongo posted:And the title track. Also it’s far from my favorite but But it's by far the funnest song on the album! Makes me smile. e: Also feeling Sunny Boy Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Mar 24, 2023 16:57
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The new Lankum album is good.
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Black Country, New Road live album of new material is good.
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