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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Eddie 88 on 02 Aug 2009, 05:04
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I'm always curious to see if other people see bands the same way I do, and you know you are too (admit it), so let's all describe our favorite indie bands as "x band meets y band" or whatever. I'll start us off.
Deerhoof: Imagine if Sonic Youth and Shonen Knife had a one-night-stand in Western Mass. Deerhoof is the resultant child-out-of-wedlock.
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It's funny you should mention indie, seeing as that's all any of us ever listen to.
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He's not my favourite musician, or even one I particularly like, but I guess Rufus Wainwright sounds like what would happen if Louis Wainwright III met Kate McGarrigle.
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Indie doesn't even mean anything anymore.
It should mean "independent", but most people seem to use it to refer to a kind of diatonic rock that draws its heavier aspects from grunge and lighter aspects from acoustic balladry.
I guess if you take the term literally, my favourite "indie" band is Animals As Leaders, which is kind of Metroid meets Guitar Sorcery In General with powerful progressive leanings.
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Oh god no, can there please not be a discussion about what 'indie' means? Please??
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Hay guyz wut is better CD or Vinyls???
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Oh god no, can there please not be a discussion about what 'indie' means? Please??
There's no discussion to be had, since there's one technically legitimate use of the word and another, different, culturally legitimate use of the word that are both equally, er, legitimate, as such.
It's just frowned upon to use the term "indie" here for that very reason.
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Saying the same joke twice usually pulls in a bigger crowd.
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swing and a miss
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To be fair, despite me being the first one to make this joke, most of the people on this forum do seem to listen to a lot of indie - although about half of them seem to also be in denial over whether it's indie.
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man this thread is so good.
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Indie doesn't even mean anything anymore.
It should mean "independent", but most people seem to use it to refer to a kind of diatonic rock that draws its heavier aspects from grunge and lighter aspects from acoustic balladry.
I guess if you take the term literally, my favourite "indie" band is Animals As Leaders, which is kind of Metroid meets Guitar Sorcery In General with powerful progressive leanings.
Oh aren't you adorable!
Forumz, can we keep him?
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Look guys we don't have to piss all over new people because they assume we like indie music when the subtitle of the comic this forum actually belongs to contained the words "indie rock" for ages and ages. The assumption made is not that the entire forum listens exclusively to indie rock, but rather that it is an indie rock discussion forum, and that that is what one talks about! That is an important distinction. One might argue that more lurking is in order but really who cares? If you feel horribly offended by the fact that a complete stranger assumes you listen to indie rock on a forum belonging to a comic about indie rock, that is your problem.
This. Plus, if you look in the mediafire thread that thing is bloated with indie rock. Or look at a lot of the bands people get excited about. I mean, people on here gush over Sloan.
I was in a band that once got described as "Party Of Helicopters meets Huggy Bear." Sadly, we weren't that good.
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Taking "Indie" to mean independent, and considering my current favourite artist wasn't in a band...
Erik Satie is like Claude Debussy meeting John Cage.
HOORAH!
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Discovery is like vampire weekend meets ra ra riot.
Oh wait.
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Starfucker rose from from the primordial music ooze of it's own accord.
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Oh aren't you adorable!
Forumz, can we keep him?
You walk him, you feed him, if he makes a mess in the house, you clean it up.
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Even though I admit that I am guilty of describing music in this way occasionally, I still think it is pretty lazy and also crap.
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+1
Me and my friend have decided to classify new bands we listen to in terms of Mogwai. Like, "Franz Ferdinand is Mogwai if Mogwai ripped off of Gang of Four instead of Slint" or "Errors is Mogwai if Mogwai decided to make dance music and lose self-respect".
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Queens of the Stone Age: Imagine if two dudes from Kyuss teamed up with some other guys to make some new music and started out kind of ok but then just degenerated into really boring pop rock
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Hay guyz wut is better CD or Vinyls???
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man people master CDs too loud nowadays its all clipped cause they're tryin' to make shit louder to play on radio stations so vinyl is pretty for real also you can touch it more because it is bigger more music to touch!
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Easily the most eloquently worded endorsement for vinyl I have ever read.
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But "mastering" was invented for getting more volume onto vinyl. I know CDs are generally worse now in that respect, but LPs are not inherently pure.
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guys i need to make my annual deez nuts joke, come on
STAY TRUE
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Oh aren't you adorable!
Forumz, can we keep him?
don't even fucking
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kyuss is like awesome meets FUCK YEAH
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+1
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Easily the most eloquently worded endorsement for vinyl I have ever read.
Is there a correlation between those with a penchant for vinyl and those who abuse narcotics? Methinks this requires more study, I'm forwarding my findings to Oxford.
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Cloudkicker - when an unexpectedly magical night between God Is an Astronaut and Meshuggah turned into a lifetime of awesomeness
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The Eels are like Smash Mouth shooting drugs with Nirvana.
Think about it.
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That's pretty accurate.
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Ok are people actually taking this thread seriously? What are you doing.
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taking this thread seriously
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Is there a correlation between those with a penchant for vinyl and those who abuse narcotics?
Well everybody knows you can easily hear more detail in music when you're high so there's not really much point having a high level audiophile setup unless you're going to listen to all your records fucked on the highest quality liquid acid
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Julian Lennon is like when....
I can't do it.
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I started collecting Vinyl when I gave up drugs. I spent my drugs money on records instead.
It's just as addictive, but a lot more fun at parties. Esp. Rum & Records Parties. Those are my favourites.
I hope this helps your research sir.
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Halo of Flies (UK) sounds like if shit meets a fan and gets sprayed into your ears.
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These Estates sounds like if a turkey ham sandwich in a plastic tub meets two weeks of direct sunlight and is opened underneath your girlfriend's nose.
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Half-mile Fox Fur sounds like Phil Collins.
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Valley Parade sounds like if Joanna Newsom met These Estates but without the guitar solos.
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Specifically, the Honey Bee sounds like a pneumatic drill meeting your anus in a bathtub full of lemon juice.
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You're just jealous of my lyrics. What's the matter, is rhyming words too difficult for you?
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Saying the same joke twice usually pulls in a bigger crowd.
Lol'd.
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Even though I admit that I am guilty of describing music in this way occasionally, I still think it is pretty lazy and also crap.
When writing music reviews I wear a vice on my balls as a constant reminder not to employ this trope.
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Ok are people actually taking this thread seriously? What are you doing.
Est is like a nice young gentleman meets that guy who makes subtle witticisms that most people just don't quite get.
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Khar is like Oscar the Grouch meets a Viking
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Ok are people actually taking this thread seriously? What are you doing.
Est is like a nice young gentleman meets that guy who makes subtle witticisms that most people just don't quite get.
Who then meets an old person.
Khar is like Oscar the Grouch meets a Viking
I think I might have to sig that.
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Too late
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Neutral Milk Hotel = When seaman meets mountain tops.
I give it 5 muffs out of a possible 5.
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Pretty sure it's not that kind of "seamen"
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These Estates sounds like if a turkey ham sandwich in a plastic tub meets two weeks of direct sunlight and is opened underneath your girlfriend's nose.
i've been ethered
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My favorite indie band is like X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(American_band)) meets Y (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_(album)).
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Dragonforce is clearly the raw, forceful vigor of Metallica fused with the blood of dragons.
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?? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%26Y)
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My favorite indie band is like X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(American_band)) meets Y (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_(album)).
I would so listen to that.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Jesus and Mary Chain meets The Cure's happier songs
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Jaydiohead (http://jaydiohead.com/) is like Jay Z meets Radiohead
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:lol:
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They have 99 problems, but they're not an anrdoid.
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Both of those post made me choke a little on my coffee from laughing. This is good.
William Elliot Whitmore: People who don't want to murder their woman meets Blues.
I also wanted to review a band & discribe them as boredom meets distortion. I can't decide if they would be a fast band or a slow band, or whether it's a compliment or an insult.
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(http://www.kevchino.com/graffix/bandphotos/boredoms_bp.jpg)
meets
(http://jandemessemaeker.net/music/albumcovers//thumbnails/tn_The%20Magnetic%20Fields-Distortion.jpg)
?
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Look at that sexy guy in the blue, I bet he gets all the ladies
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Morrissey is like Oscar Wilde meets Bryan Ferry.
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Morrissey is like a yeast infection meets a vagina
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Meets a bucket of tears and a quiff.
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I also wanted to review a band & discribe them as boredom meets distortion. I can't decide if they would be a fast band or a slow band, or whether it's a compliment or an insult.
Let me solve that for you.
Sunn O))) are like boredom meets distortion.
Oh, and it's an insult.
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o/
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Sunn O))) are like "wooded mountains meet frozen rivers."
Actually, that's Earth.
Sunn O))) are like "wooded mountains meet
(http://www.wearworx.com/projects/Attila/200712sunno/42568.sunno1.jpg)"
Although actually, "boredom meets distortion" pretty perfectly describes Wavves.
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Well done thread. You picked out two of the bands I was thinking of...Now throw Skullflower into that mix and it's all wins.
That is also not a compliment.
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Since the 'boredom' in "boredom meets distortion" as I applied it to Wavves doesn't refer to what the listener experiences, as you both seem to mean it, but rather to Nathan Williams attitude toward his music, I don't think it's really a compliment or insult so much as a neutral description.
But mostly, I don't want my post to be misread to say that I don't like Wavves. Wavves is great.
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For the record, he's actually developing as a musician (his latest songs have been pretty sweet and free of his goth obsession) but I still don't see him as being a feasible live act yet.
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He has his days. I saw a kinda shitty show, a pretty fun show, and he did pretty all right at p4k.