Worst New Genre: Shoemo

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Last night I saw something truly pathetic: a combination of shoegazing and emo. The act was called Human Hosts; I think they're from the Washington area but if they come to your area please ignore them.

The act consisted of three vocalists "singing" (whining, more like) to backing tracks, in the sort of voices that gave emo such a bad name. At the Drive-In broke up; deal with it. When these boys weren't howling they were slumping over in the direction of their footware and/or lurching about the stage. (And they had dirty dronerock hair of the sort that would leave Kate drooling.)

This has been a public service announcement.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not speak ill of Shlomo! He is a wonderful cantor and he makes excellent charoset.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 13 July 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gilligansisle.com/comics/comic15.jpg

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 13 July 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

christ that shoe strip is even worse than the usual quasi-political 'that darn congress!!' ones

― trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 13 July 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that pronounced the same way the cat from the mutts comic would say "sumo"?

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 July 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Shlomo's the best truck driver

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 13 July 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Pron. "shoe-mo," but I pray that no one ever has reason to refer to this monstrosity again.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 13 July 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't sound like it!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 13 July 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

trife: at least it's not "Mallard Fillmore"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 13 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the 'Fork had to label Kilowatthours with that term a little while ago. It's kind of inevitable that this would happen given the tendency of some indie rock bands to 1. whine instead of singing and 2. drone instead of writing songs.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Sunday, 13 July 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Shlomo was a great Change of Heart song in 92.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 13 July 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Oi Keenan, leave the making of silly genre names in order to create hype to the NME. New Weird America was bad enough, but Hypnagogic Pop? Really? Fuck off!
You can shove that one up your arse along with your overpriced CDRs that you sell.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/madlib/cover306.jpg
Now I'm going to go listen to Pocahaunted while cursing you some more.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

ok i have no idea how that double posted so the thread to reply on is
Worst "genre" created by a journalist part 4534547668686 : 'Hypnagogic Pop' by David Keenan.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

but since I somehow missed this thread 6 years ago, shoemo? Really? Who the fuck created that?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

even kjb wouldnt listen to something labelled shoemo

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

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