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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: G3K on January 24, 2004, 09:45:47 pm
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Freezepop (http://www.freezepop.com). It's got nothing to do with popsicles or Otterpops, although Philippe does indeed resemble one.
It's actually an inane Boston techno-pop band (with a Flash-infested site; watch out) who for some bizarre reason decided to record a song entitled "Here Comes A Special Boy" (http://freezepop.net/listen/songs/Freezepop_Here%20Comes%20a%20Special%20Boy.mp3) in tribute to our very own Philippe. I'm not sure what I think of it but it's amusing in some way. I forgot where this post was going shoot me.
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That was indescribably delightful.
~Paul
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Oh yes. That's exactly what a song about Philippe should sound like.
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Props to the pops. Sounds good, definitely Phillipe-ish. The rhymes are a little sketchy at times, but I mean the mere fact that they put time into a Phillipe song makes it enjoyable.
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Props to the pops. Sounds good, definitely Phillipe-ish. The rhymes are a little sketchy at times, but I mean the mere fact that they put time into a Phillipe song makes it enjoyable.
Well, the sketchy rhymes are only appropriate. This is, in fact, just what Wombat said: exactly what a Philippe song should sound like.
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As much as I could go either way on the song, the link-image totally sells it for me.
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I cannot stand Freezepop. I had a friend of mine let me borrow one of their albums - all right, more correctly, I downloaded it. Here's what I thought of it:
It is the most soulless, inauthentic, by-the-numbers attempt at alt.culture bandwagoneering I've seen sashay down the fuck*ng runway in a long goddamn time. It may seem a bit weird to damn a band in this "genre" (i.e. electric pop by and for temporarily fickle trust fund kids) for being soulless, but my stars. If only I'd seen the pattern sooner, I could have been Freezepop:
- Find a chick to be the "face" of your synthpop band. She will talk, sounding bored-as-you-please (but with a touch, of course, of just-beneath-the-surface grrrrrrrlish enthusiasm - OMG MAYBE SHE LURKS OUR FANSITE MESSAGE BOARD), and sing tunelessly over...
- Music that is more or less the worst of Overclocked Remix, circa 1999: carnival music for the attention deficit generation made with an unofficial plugin for fuck*ng Nesticle.
- And don't forget to tap, tap, tap that word-of-mouth market! You'll do this by dropping in a careful balance of common pop music themes and geek / alt / meta-indie references. Did that chick just say grep?? In a LURRVE METAPHOR???? She may have, and won't you look smart for being the first one to have noticed / appreciated / shelled out for it. Can YOU think of an 80's pop culture touchpoint that hasn't been made into a meme??? HOUSTON WE ARE GO FOR OUR NEXT SINGLE -- ON VINYL!!
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Freezepop isn't a real band, is it? I mean, I thought they were some shitty club band that we've only heard about because Onstad is friends with one of them.
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Freezepop isn't a real band, is it? I mean, I thought they were some shitty club band that we've only heard about because Onstad is friends with one of them.
I'd never heard of them before, period. Of course, I hadn't read this board more than a half-dozen times before yesterday, either.
Although I did pick up the feeling that, even though you moderate the board, you seem to really dislike the author of the comic it's dedicated to... what's up with that, if you don't mind my asking? :?
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Freezepop isn't a real band, is it? I mean, I thought they were some shitty club band that we've only heard about because Onstad is friends with one of them.
I'd never heard of them before, period. Of course, I hadn't read this board more than a half-dozen times before yesterday, either.
Although I did pick up the feeling that, even though you moderate the board, you seem to really dislike the author of the comic it's dedicated to... what's up with that, if you don't mind my asking? :?
I never thought Jough disliked Onstad...Jough's very egalitarian. He'll give you just what shit you deserve, sometimes more but never less. It's his way.
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Go on, Jough... tell him. There's no reason not to talk about..................... the Incident.
Edit: Curse you for being ever-so-slightly quicker on the comeback draw, Aloha.
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Yeah, if you start acting like a dick, G3K, I'll call you on it too.
No, I have no problem with Mr. Onstad. He's just a little pissy at times, and tends to be a bit of a creep to people that like his work, let alone criticise it.
But artist types are renowned for that. :roll:
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Although I did pick up the feeling that, even though you moderate the board, you seem to really dislike the author of the comic it's dedicated to... what's up with that, if you don't mind my asking? :?
Is bad mojo, Padawan. Is complicated.
Anyway -- I'm not entirely sure if I would dig Freezepop doing much else beyond this. But for this little Philippe song, I can deal with it. It's sort of charmingly inept, if that makes any sense.
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Yeah, I guess that explains why the Dumbrella board was on its last day of existence the first time I tried to access it. "I can't handle this anymore" blah blah blah.
At least he's not Chris Baldwin of Bruno. That guy is fuck*ng annoying. And the comic is usually quite good.
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The Freezepop girl is almost hot. The music sounds like the song that played when you pressed the "DEMO" button on a 1984 Casiotone Mini Keyboard.
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Hey, I liked the demo music. :P
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I never said that I disliked it.
That, and the synth sound of a dog barking. Good stuff.
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I had somehow come across Freezepop previous to this. But as then, I am just too scared to make the click.
Zartan's comments also lead me to believe my gut reaction upon first sight.
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I don't know what people expected from a song about an alive stuffed animal, but I liked it, in the way that I like neat things that do not necessarily have any serious artistic merit anyway.
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i LOVE this song!!
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i LOVE this song!!
Wow, now I feel dirty for liking this.
To beat Jough to it: weren't you supposed to be banned and/or dead?
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i LOVE this song!!
Wow, now I feel dirty for liking this.
To beat Jough to it: weren't you supposed to be banned and/or dead?
I was thinking the same thing, new avatar notwithstanding.
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Yeah, dude. You say you're going to kill yourself because we don't like your web comic, and then, like, you're still here.
LAME
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Wasn't that the Puzzle Bobble music?
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I cannot stand Freezepop. I had a friend of mine let me borrow one of their albums - all right, more correctly, I downloaded it. Here's what I thought of it:
It is the most soulless, inauthentic, by-the-numbers attempt at alt.culture bandwagoneering I've seen sashay down the fuck*ng runway in a long goddamn time. It may seem a bit weird to damn a band in this "genre" (i.e. electric pop by and for temporarily fickle trust fund kids) for being soulless, but my stars. If only I'd seen the pattern sooner, I could have been Freezepop:
- Find a chick to be the "face" of your synthpop band. She will talk, sounding bored-as-you-please (but with a touch, of course, of just-beneath-the-surface grrrrrrrlish enthusiasm - OMG MAYBE SHE LURKS OUR FANSITE MESSAGE BOARD), and sing tunelessly over...
- Music that is more or less the worst of Overclocked Remix, circa 1999: carnival music for the attention deficit generation made with an unofficial plugin for fuck*ng Nesticle.
- And don't forget to tap, tap, tap that word-of-mouth market! You'll do this by dropping in a careful balance of common pop music themes and geek / alt / meta-indie references. Did that chick just say grep?? In a LURRVE METAPHOR???? She may have, and won't you look smart for being the first one to have noticed / appreciated / shelled out for it. Can YOU think of an 80's pop culture touchpoint that hasn't been made into a meme??? HOUSTON WE ARE GO FOR OUR NEXT SINGLE -- ON VINYL!!
AMEN. Look, I run a club night that specializes in electroclash and the like, and Freezepop is what I would term the 'cleopatra records' of the genre. Those in the know what I'm talking about. Maybe they even -are- on Cleopatra...
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I run a club night that specializes in electroclash and the like...
Where?
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I run a club night that specializes in electroclash and the like...
Where?
http://www.chiaroscuro-dc.com
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Freezepop did one of the first level songs (Science Genius Girl) for Sony's Frequency game for PS2. For the Frequency sequel Amplitude, Freezepop added a song called Super Sprode. That and I think Penny Arcade dropped their name once too.
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Freezepop did one of the first level songs (Science Genius Girl) for Sony's Frequency game for PS2. For the Frequency sequel Amplitude, Freezepop added a song called Super Sprode. That and I think Penny Arcade dropped their name once too.
Thank you for that update.
~Paul
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Okay, so I like "Science Genius Girl." I am nonetheless reluctance to actually buy an album, because what happens if I like Freezepop? There goes all my hard-won indie cred!*
Also, I'm not sure I can entirely like any band which sells katakana T-shirts. Hot Topic, much?
* Read: "I bought the Albumfight."
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Also, I'm not sure I can entirely like any band which sells katakana T-shirts.
I'm guessing that doesn't go for Japanese bands?
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Also, I'm not sure I can entirely like any band which sells katakana T-shirts.
I'm guessing that doesn't go for Japanese bands?
Actual Japanese bands are allowed, on account of presumably not being Japanoposers.
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Hey Lane, didn't you live in Fairbanks at one point?
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Are you moving from or to Alaska? I remember you do something with oil...
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This is kind of odd for me, and might be pissing some folks off - having little chunks of information about my move showing up in all sorts of different threads. Anyway, I'm moving from Wasilla, AK to Portland, OR on or around the fourth of March. I'm driving out, pulling a trailer, for the slightly daunting 2400 mile (approx.) trip. Also, my cat Bob will be riding shotgun. He's demanded driving privileges, but he plays too much GTA Vice City for me to trust him behind the wheel.
Also, I make oil (we call it erl, or earl).
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Sounds like an Awesome trip down a long, long highway. Just you and the cat? Sounds awesome.
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Well, I'm going to keep thinking about the light at the end of the tunnel, which is the cute girl waiting for me to get there.
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I thought only, like, dead dinosaurs and thousands of years of pressure could make oil. But then I looked it up on Google and it's seaweed and plankton, not dinosaurs. What a disappointment. So I hope it's true that Nabubrush makes it instead.
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I thought he was talking about his pores, and that he was in love with his dermatologist. I also thought it polite not to comment.
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Also, I make oil (we call it erl, or earl).
You make oil, and you're driving 2400 miles with a cat. Well, thanks, man. I was starting to think I was pretty cool, and suddenly there's a guy who makes OIL and drives with his cat. Why not finish it, man. Go ahead, tell me you shoot lazers from your eyes, I've given up.
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They're more thermal beams, really.