http://www.rushkorea.com/discography/img/presto_large-02.jpg
― Pono For Pyros (zero of the signified), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-24-at-5-25-57-pm.png
― Pono For Pyros (zero of the signified), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
http://www.asburyrecords.com/public/cover/24050.jpg
― Pono For Pyros (zero of the signified), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.soundpress.net/graphics-feature-articles/fa-2012-08-07-yes-oye-02.jpg
― Pono For Pyros (zero of the signified), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.mightofstrings.com/sites/mightofstrings.com/files/Fun%20Factory.jpg
Fun Factory
― jmm, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/9d1ebcfe-4c15-4d18-95d3-d919898638a1/albumcover/songs-for-drella-51ea19a18b6e2.jpg
― Pono For Pyros (zero of the signified), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.janes-addiction.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/janes-addiction-members.jpgjane's addiction
― drash, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
http://images.popmatters.com/music_cover_art/b/bauhaus-2006.jpgbauhaus
― drash, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/211854/Jesus+Jones.jpg
Jesus Jones (2004)
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
http://www.thepublicreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/Human-League-O2-Academy-Leeds-V2-620x330.jpg
The Human League
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.mudkiss.com/interviews/Neds%20-Present.jpg
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 July 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
not to be cap'n control-a-thread, but this is sort of devolving into "bands just wearing black in general"
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
http://image.excite.it/musica/news/duranduran-wild-boys-nuovo-album-default.jpg
Duran Duran
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
key variables imo are how sincere they wish to come off, versus how sincere you would reasonably expect the band in question to be
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
(sub "sober" and "wise" in there too obv)
was going to suggest this 2014 press shot of James
http://i1.cdnds.net/14/21/618x412/james-band-press-shot-2014.jpg
but then I realised that they are re-enacting this early 90s picture
http://991.com/newgallery/James-Sound-173285.jpg
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
http://www.footballandmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/James1.jpg
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
they actually look a bit more smirky in the 2014 version, I guess
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
man, that a-ha elf looks spooky. don't even get me started on that one new kid. so frightening. i know it's not politically correct to say this, but all these people should retire.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 July 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2013/9/23/1379932081537/Bon-Jovi-011.jpg
admittedly not an earnest promo photo, but this still feels like a place to appreciate a photo of an unsmiling bon jovi where 3/4ths of the band is wearing scarves
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
and not like, steven tyler scarves
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
http://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cynic-band-2014-620x350.jpgCynic
― July retires into a shrubbery. (Øystein), Friday, 3 July 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
that’s good way to put it, dr canother variable is ‘rebootier’some pr-managed (or self-aware) image recasting, (re)intro considering how they look to two audiences: original fans (now sadly older themselves, if not wiser) & ‘youth of today’: aiming for dignity/cooldon’t want former to feel embarrassed (for the band or for themselves) or to elicit latter’s ridiculealas sometimes reboot's effect (in particular pic) is what reboot was intended to avoid
(maybe missed mark with bauhaus)
― drash, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
http://cegtalent.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cmbbackstage02-e1400518650645.jpg
Color Me Badd
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
http://thelatest.co.uk/files/2013/04/House-of-Love1.jpgThe House of Love
― everything, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/promo_650/public/media/98-degrees-2013-650-430.jpg
98 Degrees
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/02042/Spandau-Ballet_2042715a.jpg
spandau ballet
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
reconstituted (or just long running) boybands and metal bands seem to be particularly prone to this?
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
the crocodile looks like the happiest one there xp
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
so much charcoal grey.
yeah, i suspect the intended message of so many of these is "weather-beaten. wiser. thoughtful and earnest. but still ready to rock!... in kind of a soulful, MTV unplugged, roots-rock kinda way. just like you, there in the audience. you're grown up but the music still matters. we've all been through some hard times. it's not just about the money."
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
omg, hadn't even noticed crocodile, I was trying to remember if one of spandau was nicknamed 'the crocodile' for a moment xp
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
http://uptownmagazine.com/files/2013/12/uptown-swv-new-reality-series-2014.jpeg
SWV
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
we're just as boring now as your life turned out to be. won't you join us this weekend at the casino. all you can eat buffet and opening act mr. mister.
so sad! what's wrong with color? old people can be colorful.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
https://blitzrockgyn.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/alpha.jpg
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
"we are weather-beaten warriors in the populist-but-dark 2000s sci-fi action film of your choice, and we continue to fight for our mission with hard-won strength and clarity"
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Friday, 3 July 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link
lol, yes
always nice to see bands who don't succumb to this aesthetic; often, counterintuitively, they project more dignity
― drash, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
I was pleased that Kajagoogoo didn't start presenting themselves this way when they made a comeback, not sure I'd go so far as to describe the result as dignified
http://discordrhyme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kadgagoogoo-pic-tim-anderson-dm-613355759.jpg
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
the warped tour presents: kajagoogoo!
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
second from right has seen the writing on the wall
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
80s new wave haircut bands reinventing themselves as bad-ass industrial cyberpunks is different progression that some bands go through, I guess?
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
but yeah, i've searched a few bands where it'd be particularly pathetic if they'd "gone gray" in this sense, but who have turned out, imo to their credit, to say "ehh, we were a comedy novelty act to begin with, and if anybody's going to come out and see us in 2015, it's to see a comedy novelty act. that's who's paying our checks so let's be good entertainers ffs."
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
<3 kajagoogoo forever, just to be clear
― soref, Friday, 3 July 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
xp Have Bentley Rhythm Ace reformed then?
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 July 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
haha no, was thinking of POTUS and me first and the gimme gimmes.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
http://content.hollywire.com/sites/default/files/2015/04/06/Fall-Out-Boy-‘American-Beauty-American-Psycho’-Album-Review-Thumb-FDRMX.jpg
Fall Out Boy's thug gravitas.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 3 July 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.reloadfestival.co.uk/img/slideshows/image/slideshow/boomtown-rats-16.png
― everything, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
Bob Geldof IS Marianne Faithful AS Oliver Twist
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha i was looking for the best way to phrase something on that order but you nailed it
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Friday, 3 July 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
i was debating dru hill, as the ed hardy-ness of their current look undermines any evidence of "wisdom," but they're definitely darker, grittier, etc
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2014/05/22/1226926/485487-de510036-e074-11e3-9839-f536ebd0cf5e.jpg
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dublinconcerts.ie/content/uploads/2013/11/ub-40.jpg
UB40
― da croupier, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link