*Overdrive, also
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:03 (eight years ago) link
The first thing that came to mind was Hooverphonic's "2Wicky" on the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack.
And Mono's "Life in Mono" on Great Expectations.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:13 (eight years ago) link
i am trying to think of the best Ivy track to put here
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
also omg this is my new favorite thread THANK YOU KATHERINE
is this electronic enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQxgRt1vJgQ
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:29 (eight years ago) link
wait i meant this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gz2WDJibk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D61Sje2Ts4
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:30 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6HVMwTl5U
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydjzF6mJ-9I
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyAsgalu3I
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
the frontwoman of this group went on to make "i'm still hot," of covered-by-betty-white-in-a-meme fame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZhyVAJFNg
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link
I think even before Garbage and/or Republica, this was probably the genesis of the trend (though the lack of guitars being mixed with the electronics might dq it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MPPOTarDM
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
^ nah, now that I've skimmed the rest of the thread, I see that's not really what you're going for.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
Where does Is This Desire? fit into this thread?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 06:13 (eight years ago) link
Too arty.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 06:14 (eight years ago) link
The Great Expectations soundtrack has Tori Amos' "Siren" which is the perfect example of established artists reacting to this trend.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 06:15 (eight years ago) link
I'd probably circumscribe the time period quite strictly because I do feel like by the end of the 90s the coalition-qualities of the major label notion of "alternative" - music that, regardless of specific genre or sonic affectations, sounded like it was angling for a Spin cover - had totally splintered.
By the time the third Garbage album came out in late 2001 it felt very outmoded.
Other key moments:
1. The Romeo & Juliet soundtrack from the beginning of 2007, with the truly archetypal trip hop remix of Garbage's "#1 Crush";2. The Cruel Intentions soundtrack from March 2001, with the Elizabeth Frazer / Craig Armstrong collabo.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 06:29 (eight years ago) link
Those dates should be early 1997 and March 1999 obv.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 06:30 (eight years ago) link
i was scrolling through this thread for the first time and was like whoa, serendipity when "2wicky" was mentioned, before i noticed the date and remembered that we don't control beyoncé, she controls us
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
(isn't trip-hop the elephant in the room here? my memories are indistinct but i recall a lot of "american rock acts trying to recreate trip-hop from a long distance" vibes)
(i'd love to know whether there were any equipment/technology changes that spurred on the electronic experimentation! i've tried to get tori amos to talk about her siren/datura/iieee phase on at least two occasions now but she can be extremely non-specific when she wants)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link
great expectations and romeo + juliet soundtracks both feel v key to this - the former is the only place i ever heard poe - but actually returning to the track listings doesn't seem to bear this out? actually both seem kind of grim?
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:34 (eight years ago) link
been a long time since i listened, but i seem to recall suzanne vega adding some electronica/noise/beats to her thing for the "99.9F" album.suspect some of that album would be suitable for this thread ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD5O4gdSPro
I big this record up every five years but nobody cares, so here I go again.
Also the Furslide album is brilliant, Jennifer Turner just vanished into the ether after that, which is a huge shame. I own more than two thirds of the records whose YouTubes are in this thread, predictably.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
OMG OMG OMG i remembered the song that is the absolute pinnacle of this aesthetic and also the worst song posted in this thread so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHKVaASeOg
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0O2-xV5XEA
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Another soundtrack touchstone of this sound was the one for Spawn from '97, which had a Judgement Night-style pairing of Rock & Electronic artists.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/spawn-the-album-mw0000030260
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
this is also early 2000s but I made the thread and I say it fits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G71-f08GeDk
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
this just sounds like grizzly bear today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay79zwejwf4
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 6 May 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
wtf this is what Grizzly Bear sounds like????
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 May 2016 01:56 (eight years ago) link
the "built around a peppy piano riff" part, silly
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 7 May 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
i have listened to v little GB and got rly excited for a minute a :/
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 May 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
that song sounds like a more frivolous Saint Etienne
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 May 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
three guesses what reminded me of this today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8PLB-zsV0
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 9 May 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pURJDToKA0k
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 9 May 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QORg0kMaqRg
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 9 May 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
Not quite sure if this fits this thread, but I've always liked this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeDs-jZBh5s
― MarkoP, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mcHfZOX5k
cannot believe it has taken me this long to get to ARCHIVE.
their second album (now disowned by the band) epitomizes this sub-genre.
― mark e, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
there must be something in the air bc i decided to finally try n get into garbage a couple mo. back & was really digging the overarching vibe
weirdly i completely love this aesthetic but the actual execution of it feels extremely spotty to me. IDK if it's just that I wish there was someone to distill the general sensation into something more pop or what but yeah
except for ivy's album which is pretty perfect.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
Of course i was familiar w/ Garbage from high school but i never owned their CDs or anything
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Did we already talk about Curve's "Chinese Burn" and specifically that time Buffy and Faith danced to it at some awesome underground club in a factory (the kind that only exists in video clips, The Matrix and, seemingly, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) in the middle of the day?
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 July 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
they exist for real in Berlin! Maybe all these ppl are secretly going to Berlin real quick to dance?
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 July 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
this is the stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_hkAKujXU
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 14 January 2017 06:52 (seven years ago) link