show was really fun. girls got on the stage and danced with them. P played drums on a girls butt.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
funnnn show
― max, Saturday, 28 July 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
dude loooks/acts kind of like pre-born to run jewish bruce
I saw them last week. Muy fun.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
ugh
i cant believe ppl i respect/tolerate are feeling this garbage
-- and what, Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link
otm
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 2 September 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
My roommate got Chromeo in the mail, not every 80s 12" R&B ever produced so I've been listening to the former. :(
― da croupier, Sunday, 2 September 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
if 00s R&B actually sounded like 80s R&B...
― blueski, Sunday, 2 September 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
these days = a bad Felix D H. they sound like they're taking the piss.
― pisces, Sunday, 2 September 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
how so
― deej, Sunday, 2 September 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
i didn't really know who these guys were, but they are on mtv all the time right now like they are the dance ed lover and doctor dre.
― artdamages, Monday, 8 October 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
really? great, i love 'em.
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck these guys
― omar little, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
: O
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost I don't think they'd fancy my fat arse. But I quite like their music.
― stevienixed, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i wasn't sure if they were a comedy troupe or what
― artdamages, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the dude who looks like turtle from entourage has a vocoder implant
― artdamages, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Chromeo.
― Chris in Belfast, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Props to my homegirl Lorna who turned me on to this shizzle after hearing about it from two groovy guys she worked with in Urban Outfitters in SF.
Tenderoni is good. I could swallow them slightly better if I could be sure they weren't just taking the piss. I mean they could love this sound as much as I do...
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i think they have a genuine love of 80s soul and synthfunk. check out their mix on eskimo, they're well into it. i remember when air came out everybody thought they were joking, but a little bit of humour in music isn't such a bad thing anyway. don't be some "OMG, everything is so ironic nowadays" drip.
― max r, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost - please don't post again
― jaxon, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay (shit!)
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
you cant make this shit up.
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, you could.
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just taking the piss a bit. I don't actually sound like that but whatevs.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
So... it appears you can easily.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Chromeo: The Next Crossover Band That We Feel Like We're Not Allowed to Like Any More?
MTV's Buzzworthy Blog features Chromeo this week.
Of course they make amazing music, but maybe it's just going to be annoying when all of the mainstreamers are post-post ironically having fun while listening to Chromeo, and saying "Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s." Then you'll log into facebook one Monday morning, and see a bunch of pictures of girls dressed like they are from the 1980s, and having a lot of fun.
So Buzzworthy.
Chromeo's good, but I think the blogosphere will probably focus more on Calvin Harris now that Chromeo is 'no longer ours.'
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s."
didn't this happen about 3 years ago anyway?
― max r, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
all those mainstreamers
― deej, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate hate hate Calvin Harris. It sounds so cheaply cobbled together.
And yeah, all the art school girls are so past 80's. Its all nu-rave nostalgia. Or so it would seem. I would have thought it a little early, but who am I to judge.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
And why would anyone care about someone crossing over into the mainstream?
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring04/V22.0002-001/Escher_hands_2.jpg
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
>>>>>>>fuck these guys
-- omar little, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link<<<<<<<<<
^^^^^^^^
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i would like chromeo, but deej enjoys it because people don't enjoy it because hipster douchebags enjoy it except they don't know because they are on mtv so maybe i do like them. you wouldn't believe how hard it is to smugly contrary sometimes.
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I can imagine.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5FOa3DrkY
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
is this stuff out of control yet
i really am having trouble figuring out how to be er 'smugly contrary' or whatever here!!! this is fun but diminishing returns the more of these groups show up i think
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link
something about their willingness to throw every pastiche cliche into it + dudes mj imitation is leaving me feeling very conflicted
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hm wow this is good. i guess if you wanna make this type of music— and i guess that's probably where this problem starts, but it's fine w/ me— you might as well jump all the way into the deep end and have a video like this and carry on like they do, or else it seems like your half-assing it, and intense self-conciousness would probably hinder the success of the music.
i guess part of why i stand/actively like stuff like this is because i don't have an intense emotional attachment to the music it so obviously mines, so my immediate reaction isn't "fuck you!"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:00 (sixteen years ago) link
its really quite well done
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm just afraid we're getting very close to, i dunno, The Caesars of 80s electro pastiche groups or something
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:05 (sixteen years ago) link
and some things are lost in the sort of lyrical vaguenesses required to keep it 'timeless'
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:07 (sixteen years ago) link
based on the two other songs i've just heard on myspace, private (ugh, btw) seem to be stretching their legs pretty well within the kind of box they're inherently in by making the music they're making. they seem way less one trick pony than chromeo, like "crucify my heart" has that awesome singing by the woman at the end that's just really genuinely awesome, super-talented singing, and something like that is way more rewarding than a lot of the things chromeo do.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree. chromeo had the freshness of being first tho. i think what rubs the wrong way about this is that you can really see the limits of the style they're working with
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
that kind of thing frustrates me more w/ something like new young pony club, who seem to want to work within the mold more than these guys, but then again maybe private are just much better at what they do.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
or maybe i'm giving private too much credit. i guess the flipside is appreciating when something is this good because you can see the limits of the style they're working with, however self-imposed they may be.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link
now im confused
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah idk maybe i am too. i don't pay enough attention to stuff like this to have reached a satuartion point, really. good shit tho, thx for the link.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:48 (sixteen years ago) link
new young pony club is super terrible. not sure what that has to do w/cromeo, but whatever.
re: cromeo - more of the music, more of the choruses, less of moustache dude talk rapping.
― John Justen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Eh...I like both Chromeo and NYPC (not really sure why the latter are being brought into this, they're a different pastiche), but this feels kind of embarrassing. I don't know how to put this really, but where Chromeo are equal parts genuine enthusiasm and aloof distance, this tips too far toward the latter. It also feels like they're trying too damn hard. The forced MJ vocals, the nauseating "rap" section, it's...icky.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link