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[LCB]

I think that Dr. David Thorpe more or less explained why I can't stand Mars Volta, it's crappy-prog rock run through a loathsome-indie-hipster filter.

And if we started in on the sheer number of so-called "indie" bands I hated we'd be here all night.

A quote from the good Dr. that had me laughing

There are a thousand indie labels churning out the same clamorous bullshit, and ten thousand indie bands stabbing at their guitar pickups with screwdrivers to get them to make that perfect irritating hum.

Collectively, I hate pretty much every emo band out there now. I don't care if they are so-called "mall emo", "emo pop" etc. or like, truly small label indie bands with INTEGRITY MAN WHOVE BEEN DOING THE SCENE BEFORE ALL THESE POSERS MAN, I hate them all. I hate their stupid twee, cloying names like The Promise Ring, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason or worst of all Ashes to Autumn...or is it Autumn to Ashes? I don't care, either way it's retarded beyond belief. I despise their bands with the stupid haircuts and dye jobs and second-hand store wardrobes which probably had more thought put into them than say, the lyrics. It got to the point where I threatend friends with violence if I ended up going to another club or musical event where I'd have to hear some mopey shitbags in oh-so-ironic faded (cartoon character/product logo/summer camp) T-shirts sing a song about still being in love with that chick from college but she left long ago and you asked her to a dance once and she said no and man life is kind of gray and dreary and on and on and on...my bold, iconoclastic stance on such issues has cost me many friends. Ah, such is the price of being a genius, ah ha ha ha.

sigh.

[robot_roll_call]

I think that Dr. David Thorpe more or less explained why I can't stand Mars Volta, it's crappy-prog rock run through a loathsome-indie-hipster filter.

And if we started in on the sheer number of so-called "indie" bands I hated we'd be here all night.

A quote from the good Dr. that had me laughing

Collectively, I hate pretty much every emo band out there now. I don't care if they are so-called "mall emo", "emo pop" etc. or like, truly small label indie bands with INTEGRITY MAN WHOVE BEEN DOING THE SCENE BEFORE ALL THESE POSERS MAN, I hate them all. I hate their stupid twee, cloying names like The Promise Ring, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason or worst of all Ashes to Autumn...or is it Autumn to Ashes? I don't care, either way it's retarded beyond belief. I despise their bands with the stupid haircuts and dye jobs and second-hand store wardrobes which probably had more thought put into them than say, the lyrics. It got to the point where I threatend friends with violence if I ended up going to another club or musical event where I'd have to hear some mopey shitbags in oh-so-ironic faded (cartoon character/product logo/summer camp) T-shirts sing a song about still being in love with that chick from college but she left long ago and you asked her to a dance once and she said no and man life is kind of gray and dreary and on and on and on...my bold, iconoclastic stance on such issues has cost me many friends. Ah, such is the price of being a genius, ah ha ha ha.

sigh.

Marry me!

Indie/Emo band names I hate:

Bright Eyes
Death Cab for Cutie
As I Lay Dying
My Chemical Romance
The Futureheads

(at this point I am looking at things under emo/indie on a torrent site for terrible names):

Saturday Looks Good to Me
Hawethorne Heights
Story of the Year (this one might be the winner)
Day at the Fair (they keep getting worse...can you picture someone saying 'my favorite band is Day at the Fair!'?)

OK, I need to stop before my brain blows a fuse.

[pmcd9]

Marry me!

Indie/Emo band names I hate:

Bright Eyes
Death Cab for Cutie
As I Lay Dying
My Chemical Romance
The Futureheads

(at this point I am looking at things under emo/indie on a torrent site for terrible names):

Saturday Looks Good to Me
Hawethorne Heights
Story of the Year (this one might be the winner)
Day at the Fair (they keep getting worse...can you picture someone saying 'my favorite band is Day at the Fair!'?)

OK, I need to stop before my brain blows a fuse.

Yet you listen to Nine Inch Naiils.

~Paul

[theinevitable]

Twee is not the same as emo in the majority of ways!? Twee is a proud and upstanding genre!

I'm still trying to find the point where post-hardcore became emo and started sucking hard. Fugazi is awesome. Drive like Jehu is awesome. Rites of Spring is Awesome. Slint is awesome. (I guess maybe these should be are? I mean the band, as a unit, is awesome, so...). How is it that the bands influenced by bands I really like are all horrible? What got broken in between? HOW CAN THE MUSIC I LOVE RESULT IN SUCH SHITTY MUSIC?

I think emo is on the way out. There will be a brief upsurge of pseudo-indie pop bands, which will hopefully die out pretty quickly. And then "indie rock" can go back to being about... indepenent rock. you know... music that is rock music, and the bands are not on major labels.

As... I think it was the guy in Mudhoney? Mark Arm?... said: "it used to be that if I saw someone wearing thrift-store clothes with dyed green hair, I could assume they were cool, liked good music, and were... authentic. What possible reason could there be for dressing like this unless you really liked it? Now every kid in seattle looks like that, and there's no way to tell the good ones from the bad."

But... I guess that's incredibly superficial. Damn. I just want to be able to know that people like my favorite bands for real, not just because it will make them "cool". Paradoxically: this is because that would make it more cool to like those bands.

So I guess, what I"m saying is, basically I'm a horrible pretentious teenager, who likes to ask people if they enjoy obscure Independent bands.


Edit: Come on, nine inch nails? it is silly to like nine inch nails.

[robot_roll_call]

You guys made me cry...maybe I should go listen to Day at the Fair.

[theinevitable]

*punches in kidney*

[V-Adore]

Yeah, that's it! Shuffle off and listen to your Day at the Fair and your Bright Eyes and your Sad Holiday Because My Girlfriend Left Me Five Years Ago And I Haven't Left the Salvation Army Sense, Waaah!!

I somehow managed to have a Brand New song ("Jude Law and a Semester Abroad," and if that title isn't just the twee-est thing?) stuck in my head for the entirety of Sunday, as I was attempting to leave Cornell by any means possible. I previously sort of cautiously liked Brand New, in the same way I liked caramel corn (delicious in small quantities, but will spoil your day if overconsumed), but now I ust can't wash the smarmy, smarmy taste out of my mouth. So, you know, like bad caramel corn. ... I think it's about time to take this analogy out into the street and shoot it.

...Actually, never mind, I like caramel corn significantly more than I like Brand New. But it's a qualitatively similar sort of appreciation, is all. Right.

[side_show]

At the bus stop today was a poster for "Johnny Furious and the Uppercuts," with a photo of some very surly looking men staring threateningly toward the viewer.  I'm sure they're terrible, but the poster looke funny.

[sunnystar]

At the bus stop today was a poster for "Johnny Furious and the Uppercuts," with a photo of some very surly looking men staring threateningly toward the viewer.  I'm sure they're terrible, but the poster looke funny.

Now THAT'S a bad band name! But I can picture the poster perfectly and that makes laugh out loud.

Of course, the poster in my head is probably far different than the actual poster...oh imagination...

[side_show]

I was at the bus stop again today, and it was actually Dr. Furious... I was wrong.

Also there's a quote from someone I've never heard of that says "very tasty..."  which is... strange.

[sunnystar]

I was at the bus stop again today, and it was actually Dr. Furious... I was wrong.

Also there's a quote from someone I've never heard of that says "very tasty..."  which is... strange.

The "Dr." part actually makes that name even better! Haha! Although I'm disturbed by the fact that someone finds him and his uppercuts tasty...Disturbed with a capital D...

[misterqueue]

I am reminded of the fighting monkey on the Simpsons "Furious George" which is one of my favorite monikers of all time.

I do not recall Furious George being described as tasty though.  Just furious... hell of such as furious.

[side_show]

The Simpsons actualy lifted Furious George from Evan Dorkin's mini FUN! strips.  There are so many Furious George strips.  I would scan them if I owned a scanner and had knowledge of computers.  Bascially the theme of the strips is that Furious George is... Furious.  Even better than the Furious George strips are the Myron the Living Voodoo Doll strips, which always shows the living voodoo doll having something horrible happen to it, followed by Myron, always horribly injured in the same way as the doll has just been, saying "I must find that doll!" 

[misterqueue]

You know, being that I have a Dorkin avatar and that I am in possession of those strips I really should've made that connection long before.

Thank you smells, you have once again enriched my existence.

[wombat]

I have always wondered where Q's avatar comes from and keep forgetting to ask.  Proving once again that there is always a reason to keep checking these threads that mean absolutely nothing to me.