http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/130/l_9ca91baf3d36410fa583050e7e6142d8.jpg
― I DON'T 'RAP' (Pillbox), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i38.tinypic.com/167ts47.jpg
― wilter, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Animal Collective: The Movie...
Starring Zach Galifianakis as Geologist....Winona Ryder as Panda Bear...and the guy who plays Osacr on The Office as Avey Tare...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
anjelica huston is in a metal band now
― goole, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
local rag is trying to convince me to listen to these jokers:
http://www.portlandmercury.com/imager/b/magnum/2658980/fa86/music2-570x300.jpg
― Darin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh hey, your country has it's equivalent of Mumford & Sons: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Lmbijs2fZwI/S6UaJP38GrI/AAAAAAAAEe0/uZLuWGki04A/s640/mumford-and-sons-otw.jpg
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
They could get together and swap mandolin tips!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
need to open a lute/old timey hat store asap
― Darin, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Frightened Rabbit:
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/frabbitphoto452.jpg
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 26 August 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, that band looks like it needs some exercise.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
are there any indie bands who've forgone the oblig staging of (completely unremarkable singer) foremost, other members aligned due to some coefficient of instrument played/stature/idiosyncracy?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Like Fugazi photos often have Joe Lally, the most introverted band member, in front or at least sharing the front.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Frightened Rabbit, or Faith + 1?
― Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/faith1eh3.jpg
― Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 02:33 (1 hour ago)
true but that was a reaction to a long established protocol for diffidently conveyed hierachy, which now seems to have been restored
http://ezpicshare.com/images/art733-1282877352.jpg
some do it more subtly than others
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 August 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
all bands should look like that.
― rage for the machine (banaka), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Wiggles?
― Evan, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the decemberists
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/decemberists452.jpg
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
They all look vaguely embarrassed to be there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
except for the one holding the flowers
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, that's some serious moon face he's got there
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
saw decemberists pic on a rare visit to pfk and thought of starting/reviving a 'terrible looking indie band' thread, so yeah
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
'how do we get the requisite emphasis on lead singer/songwriter without it seeming ~too~ obviously hierarchical?''is that srsly necessary? that's some serious moon face he's got there''yeah i dunno,.....just get him to hold some, like, candy canes, or a broken ragdoll''flowers it is'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Beardo #1 looks like a veteran surfer, beardo #2 looks like a university professor, beardo #3 looks like a comic book writer.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i can get behind that
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
beardo 3 looks like a douchebag
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
He does if you cover over guy-with-flowers.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Chick is longingly staring at fields of alfalfa.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Elevator conversation yesterday, circa 5pm:
Guy from neighboring office: so what are you listening toMe: Mobb Deep. Because it's cold and rainy.Guy: Ever heard of the Decembrists?Me: um, yeah I know who they are. They're from Portland.Guy: Well, I used to manage them.Me: Really? Why did they fire you?Guy: Well, I let them go. This is back when they were a jam band.
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio_%28band%29
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I tried to steer the conversation to general music industry malaise type stuff rather than admit that I fucking hate this ludicrous band
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
loool
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
will anyone rep for'em? (dpn't look at me)
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
*jumps into line of fire* i liked the first couple of albums! maybe even the first three! i don't recall. and moonfaced smugness aside i don't suppose i have anything much against them now, although i haven't listened to them in a few years, or their last couple of albums.
also, if you covered over the two on the right in that there photo, i could imagine it being a photo of a band i'd like.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
or there last couple of albums at all, i should say.
"The Crane Wife" is pretty awesome, to my recollection. Other than that they're pretty dire, although I embarrasedly admit I liked their goofier first couple albums a fair bit during the middle of the last decade.
― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, crane wife...fantastic...rest of their output...craptacular.
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw them at a festival last year while they were touring for their last album, the rock opera. It was like watching a high-school production of "The Black Rider" made into a comedy. There was something very Rushmore about it.
― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:47 (2 hours ago)
nah, he's cool - used to live in my town!
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Apropos bit from M Perpetua's tumblr thingy today:
But just in recent memory, one thing that comes to mind is how the Decemberists went from being considered a fairly hip band in the early to mid 00s to being deeply uncool right now. But you know, I think the Decemberists were always deeply uncool and just lucked out in their cultural moment, things just went back to a natural balance and they have the modest, unapologetically dorky cult audience they deserve, a la They Might Be Giants. I think something the Decemberists and Arrested Development have in common is that their music and their fans exemplify a stereotype no one wants to be associated with — effete, wimpy, affected, unsexy. Overly “public radio,” you know? The music is weighed down by cultural baggage.
I still think Picaresque is a great album. It bothers me, though, that they made a whole EP about the Táin, without even bothering to find out how to pronounce the title. Also, in Táin stakes, they're no Horslips. But I digress.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
all music is weighted with cultural baggage. I could care less about their fans or their stereotype - the songwriting (especially the lyrics) is just atrocious.
― fuckin magnates, how do they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
tarkio's omnibus is filled with mispronounced/misused words too
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Friday, 10 December 2010 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link
but then again they misspelled their own name so the d's are clearly on another level
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Friday, 10 December 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
guy from belle & sebastian
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Murdoch.jpg
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
that's just creepy
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
he looks like Greg Germann
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm509385216/nm0314524
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
grrhttp://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYwNjA3MDMxOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjAxMTUz._V1._SX214_CR0,0,214,314_.jpg
why does photoshop make everybody look washed out and shiny?
hate this aesthetic
― fuckin magnates, why don't they work (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it makes everyone look like mannequin/alien clones
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Devo posing with Body Count at Riot Fest, iirc
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
Ah, thanks. I could place Devo obviously b/c of the hats but didn't recognize Body Count because I don't think I've ever seen pics of them? Other than Ice-T
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
My transition lenses question still stands tho. What's with that.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
I dunno, doctor probably told him he should wear transition lenses and still wants to be "eccentric" or "kooky" is my guess.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
I’m sorry but Devo always look like morons
― calstars, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
kind of the point, no?
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Thompson-Twins-Queer/release/3611463/image/SW1hZ2U6Njg4NzgxNQ==
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
Devo and Body Count photo rocks
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
It’s a great photo and Devo fucking rule but they do look so worrisomely old.
― And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
Like I knew Mark had COVID but they all look like they're 80.
As opposed to 70?
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
Ha yes, but many 70 year olds don't look as old as they do.
― And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
Mothersbaugh is my dad's age, and I guess he looks comparable based on that photo. I don't think he or the other two older guys in the band look particularly elderly, but age obv affects folks differently.
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
doctor probably told him he should wear transition lenses and still wants to be "eccentric" or "kooky" is my guess.
To be fair, one of his many activities is designing eyewear.
― everything, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
I absolutely love the Devo/Body Count photo and I don't understand the inclusion of it in this thread.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 30 September 2021 09:29 (two years ago) link