Care to help someone who just realized he must be much older than he thought to understand what’s so supremely comic? I’ve never heard of any of the bands listed, but I would probably be hard-pressed to recognize a list of current mainstream bands, either. My encyclopedic knowledge of popular music fell off a cliff sometime in the early 90’s.
All those bands are drooling idiots banging on coffee cans and cowbells compared to the ultra-underground stylings of Oscar Grumman, Colorless Green Worms, Hippie Stick and the Amazing Fly Catchers, Snot-rokket, El Bastardo Sombrero, Zombie Weekday, and so many others.
Shoot, I went to a local club last night that was like, TOTALLY EMPTY, as if nobody could even understand the beauty of juxtaposing silence with the lack of noise, and the use of invisibility was something that I’ve never seen in a band. I’d never heard of these guys before, but the marquee said “9/28 CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE.” I haven’t found them on iTunes, but I bet the press some good vinyl.
You are so mainstream.
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Don’t you get it, man? Man, if your favorite obscure indie fan gets national attention then they’re mainstream, man!! They’re THEM! Man! It’s like a catch-whadyacallit, man… Either way the man wins, man.
I think it’s generally a sign of getting old when you start bitching about music these days.
Only the last 1/2 decade? Been a lot longer than that.
I’m also confused as to why bands that only four people have ever heard of are not played on commercial radio.
It just isn’t fair, I’m telling you.
John Cage did it better.
Ey, Pikey! Get a guitar! Make your own music!
And people wonder why I don’t listen to music.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s…
Losing My Edge - LCD Soundsystem (It’s pretty much the soundtrack to this thread).
Myself, I enjoy making the baby Jesus cry.
Your musical tastes can’t be as sophisticated and discerning as you think if you left off:
Japanese Nipples of Fury
Bigot Magnet
Sweet Blueberry Pancakes of Christ
Nostril McBooger
The New Vaginae
Bobble-Headed Doll
PeePaw’s Spit Can
Sputum Tsunami
Don’t you know this great music?
Clear Channel is evil! Their stations would rather play old Journey songs, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears instead of quality bands like Stepping Worm, Speech Beat, Checkered Zombie, Slipping Devil, Canned Ache, Lewis and Clark LLC, The Hazard, Labrador Believer, The Red Stormy Guardians, The Big Mercury Major, Austin Death Trailer, Digital Bulldozers, Massive Stallions, The Cosmic Scoreboards, Red Rocket, The Silver Killers, The Tainted Poles, The Robert Taylor Project, Brave Nephews, The Wild Molesters, The Vital Plasticines, Don Cherry’s Jacket, Grotesque Soldiers, The Itch, The Stray Shaggers, Los Beammers, King Scissors, The Hidden Wolfram Commanders, Gamma Agents, Cobalt Trombones, The Frozen Vipers, Canyonero, The Vegetables, Persistent Invaders, Balloon Knot, Doggy Snakes, Mellow Sisters, Groin, Omega Omega, Brave Pineapples, The Dead Propellers, The Tunas, The Skin Flutes, Full Love, The Mercury Tigers, The Sleepy Giants, The Week, The Wild Rangers, Disco Sapphires, The Poseidon Butterflies, The Universal Remotes, Crying Summer, The Whitey Killers, Teal Generals, The Brigadiers, Anal Habitrail, The Hydrogen Giants, The Rebel Rubber Colonels and Angst Cart.
Omigod! No Vaginal Kevlar, Vulture Kibble, Granola Taxi, Armor Piercing Trout, or Penis Girdle?
Philistines.
I saw Penis Girdle at the Poodle Dog Lounge in Austin. They were cool then. When I saw that they were playing at Emo’s a couple of months later, I knew that they had sold out and become just another corporate shill.
But I think he was visible.
These guys were so out there I couldn’t tell if the guy with the mop was part of the band! Now that’s underground.
Actually, the non-music was so amazing it completely elevated me – above underground. The scene was totally ground. Maybe even slightly hovering.
Did you know they retitled “My Dank Underpants” as “My Dark Underpants” when they got out of the 10-seat venues and into the 12-seat ones? And the lyrics went from “can’t find a washer” to “can’t find the washer.” That’s exactly what Kenmore wants us to think. Bastards.
Their drummer was so pissed off by selling out, and he took off and formed the Pus Nuggets, an emocore/twee/death metal band. I think I heard them practicing once in a mini-storage unit.
People who complain about mainstream music and how it apparently has a lack of creativity, too commercial etc. are sometimes (but certainly not always) wankers who attempt to be cool by listening to obscure bands so they can feel good/superior about listening to music nobody else has ever heard of, and that list has the most hilarious stereotypical “indie-wankery” band names. “Hentai Improvising Orchestra”? “The Me-Thinks”? “The Skin And Bones Drum Cult”? “Spoonfed Tribe”? Hahahahaha.
Oh my god, if you just made that list up, you’re brilliant.
For some reason I can’t explain, I can’t stop laughing at “Don Cherry’s Jacket”.
The Wild Molesters are my personal favourite, and I liked them before they were mentioned in this thread.