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
beardo 3 looks like a douchebag
― 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
see when i see this thread i always have to go and look at this one i started.
i'm sorry but none of these bands look very interesting. they need swords or something...
i could look at band pictures all day. bad and good.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 December 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha omg love that thread
~~~memories~~~
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 10 December 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Okkervil River (esp. the guy in the middle)
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/oriver.jpg
― slouching, unshaven, thick-necked, unstylish, pig-eyed (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
itt:p4k
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
old dude on the far right looks like he's posing for a nice classic band photo on the set next to them and accidentally got cut into the photo, lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
dude from vampire weekend
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Rostam.jpg
― slouching, unshaven, thick-necked, unstylish, pig-eyed (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
keep it bookmarked
― slouching, unshaven, thick-necked, unstylish, pig-eyed (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
loving this new DN
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
dn vmic
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
thx
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
u shd get rid of the 'imo' tho, make it looks it look kinda insincere
imo
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
en ingles = makes it look kinda insincere
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha my eye completely glossed over that
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.portlandmercury.com/imager/b/magnum/2658980/fa86/music2-570x300.jpg
dying here
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
worst marching band ever
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Rotherhithe Crayfish formed in Nethulah, OR in 2005 when frontman Darlin Oberhausen (2nd right) met xylophonist Tré Klimpfner at a half-way house for recovering khat addicts. Their debut album 'Toad/Toad/Nematode' will be available for download exclusively from GlaxoSmithKline in April. Oberhausen relates tales of backwoods chicanery, incest and Pentecostal psychosis in his patented 'choady' drawl while Klimpfner devotes two songs to his cyclothymic goat, Lavinia.
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
such japes.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Danielson
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/danielson452.jpg
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/1523608.jpg
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.rtvchannel.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/the-Courteenersthe-Courteeners.jpg
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
need some sort of uk landfill indie vs us p4k indie unfortunate photo contest
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ "landfill indie"
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"look, it's going to get out anyway: our mate here is suffering from dioxin poisoning and we just want you to know that he's still in the band."
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/CC_450.jpg
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Most English looking band I've ever seen.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like theyre serving detention
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
They got caught with some weed behind the sports hall, but they weren't smoking it properly.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1672/siriusb.jpg
Sirius.B brings to you the finest Absurdist Gypsy Folk Funk Punk that the world has to offer. Their "impressively irreverent, combustible, three-ring circus of sound" (as described by the Mountain Xpress) is formed using an ancient recipe of gypsy melodies, Andean folk instrumentation, and Uzbekistani dance rhythms blended with a solid base created from some elements of American rock.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
nonononono....this thread just exploded with wrongness
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
least punchable band member of Sirius B: GO
Imhotep. Actual band member name. I shit you not.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
AWESOME
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
At least they are classy enough to enlist Weird Al as a guitarist
― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the cellist could look like a nice gentleman if he were in another context. the rest, how i wish i had six fists.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
this is where I enact my new phrase 'omg running at u with knives'. I feel it is appropriate for this particular band photo.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
knives: they fly @ u face!
― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a brilliant turn of phrase, but I dunno, it seems like a lot of work to shout,"omg running at u with knives!" while you're running, especially if you tend to get out of breath easily. I'd suggest simply grunting "omgrrrrargh"and letting your victims figure out what you're saying based on context cues, such as the running and the knives.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link