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I enjoyed seeing Future Islands play. What puzzled me more than the trend (if there is such a thing) was this one guy's decision that their music was appropriate for moshing. He nearly got his ass kicked by a couple of girls that didn't appreciate his repeated bumpings into them.

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the thing is that it's an about face though.

 

crystal castles used to be like 8bit screamo and lady tron was like a boring abba with an analog bassline. The new lady tron track is actually pretty cool.. but how come the hipsters aren't like :dude WTF?:confused:

 

well anyway, since the hipsters consider music fashion and they have no loyalty, why should their bands? it's just funny because back in the day it would have been force: rage: push :mad: of course i can begrudge a band artistic freedom, but most fans used to have a problem with it. ie metallitard.

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:idk: i'm not complaining per se.. it's just weird to me as a quasi young old fart to see bands suddenly do an about face in genre and image and everything and the kids not notice a beat. I guess that mirrors their sense of self promotion anyway and they could all care less.

 

and i'll call it lady tron if I want to. I also pronounce it sub-tull. caprice?

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crystal castles used to be like 8bit screamo and lady tron was like a boring abba with an analog bassline. The new lady tron track is actually pretty cool.. but how come the hipsters aren't like :dude WTF?
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Ladytron's old sound was kind of lumped into "electroclash", which was neither electro or The Clash. "Electroclash" was Tubeway Army type mechanical, dark-ish synths with the addition of some wry urban expressionism and a touch of sexual detachment.

 

So Ladytron evolving into slicker, dark new wave oriented synthpop makes sense.

 

Yay 2000s decade. Synths are cool. Guitars are not. I'm kind of enjoying the trend. I guess I'm a hipster, because I own an analog synth and have been to a Ladytron concert. I hate PBR, but I do drink microbrew, so I don't know where that puts me in the stereotype spectrum. It's no longer "synth nerd", I guess.

 

Yeah, it's aping the 1980s, but {censored} it, if the music industry is dead, you might as well have fun with it. I wouldn't mind forming a "synthy + musical = fun" band, to be honest. :lol:

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I enjoyed seeing Future Islands play. What puzzled me more than the trend (if there is such a thing) was this one guy's decision that their music was appropriate for moshing. He nearly got his ass kicked by a couple of girls that didn't appreciate his repeated bumpings into them.

 

 

I actually saw Future Islands at a free concert here in Greensboro. While I appreciated the polished sound, the singer's overwrought vocal delivery, combined with fact that every song slogged along at the same mid-tempo, really turned me off, and I left after three songs.

 

Later I saw EAR PWR at another free concert and I LOVED them!

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I actually saw Future Islands at a free concert here in Greensboro. While I appreciated the polished sound, the singer's overwrought vocal delivery, combined with fact that every song slogged along at the same mid-tempo, really turned me off, and I left after three songs.


Later I saw EAR PWR at another free concert and I LOVED them!

 

 

Did anyone try to mosh at the show in Greensboro?

 

My friend and I were entertained by the singer's Meatloaf/Ozzie meets Nick Cave delivery, though probably not for the right reasons from his POV. She was sure he'd been a metal vocalist in an earlier life. I'm guessing he didn't see himself as a comedy act.

 

We liked the band that played before them, the post-rock/math-rock band Thank You from Baltimore. Fairly guitar oriented, but both guitarists also had vintage keyboards - I was too lazy to come closer and see if they were 60s organs or analog synths. Both 'boards were running through several pedals so it almost didn't matter what they were.

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With pop music, you have awful music with HUGE buzz, tons of people like them, it makes no sense but we take if for granted.

 

With hipster bands you have bands making something that sort of sounds like real music, has a lot of buzz, and lots of hipsters like them, and we're like "why do hipsters go so ape {censored} over this mediocre music?"

 

Well, it's kind of like the same thing. I won't begrudge hipster bands for not being the best musicians in the world, at least they're kind of trying to do something semi-interesting.

 

As for ladytron, their main appeal was the fact that it was more fashion then music to began with, so it makes sense they'd change their style. It was also like 15 years ago that 17 came out, and they haven't really had anything interesting since then.

 

80's synth music is a lot of fun. Some of the best dance music around (next to disco) and with drum and bass and dubstep being so watered down, and with house music playing in elevators and tv commercials 24/7 it makes sense people want to hear something different when they go out to the club.

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conservative? yeah, after 15 years of horror porn, lady gaga, pop punk, power pop princess being whores on myspace.. I think maybe spent but would be a better word.. but same idea :lol:

 

hell i love 80's music.. soundwave106, i'd do a "fun" band myself.

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It's just young musicians rediscovering musical styles from before they were born.

 

There's plenty of other backward-looking genres these days, like "freak folk" (retreads of Donavan and Incredible String Band) and "alt-country" (a mishmash of country-rock and the Rolling Stones), etc. I have 20-something friends playing pre-WWII country blues, string band and gospel music, rockabilly, 30s swing, 60s garage rock, etc. One local hipster joint specializes in torch/cabaret singers who are younger than my own children :cool: and is packed every night.

 

So why not a stroll through New Wave and synthpop?

 

The grunge revival is next :poke:

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It's just young musicians rediscovering musical styles from before they were born.


There's plenty of other backward-looking genres these days, like "freak folk" (retreads of Donavan and Incredible String Band) and "alt-country" (a mishmash of country-rock and the Rolling Stones), etc. I have 20-something friends playing pre-WWII country blues, string band and gospel music, rockabilly, 30s swing, 60s garage rock, etc. One local hipster joint specializes in torch/cabaret singers who are younger than my own children
:cool:
and is packed every night.


So why
not
a stroll through New Wave and synthpop?


The grunge revival is next :poke:

 

Absolutely. During the early 80's there was the psychedelic/60's revival. The Paisley Underground resulted in a few good bands but why did everyone try to sound like Jim Morrison?

 

Then during the horrible hair metal years you were up to your knees in drummers who openly bragged they were improving on Bonham and singers who were total Plant wannabes.

 

In the early 90's, every band in the OC and around Berkeley (yeah, I'm going there) believed that they sounded like the Clash by stealing licks from the Buzzcocks. Most ended up sounding like Generation X.

 

Yeah, a lot of great musicians started out that way but I'm doing my taxes today so I'm in a {censored}ty mood. :)

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what's with all these bands doing "lite" post wave, 80's music?


crystal castles, lady tron etc?

 

 

Yeah, whats up with this?

 

Today we have this song playing in the radio constantly, and I think I may have just found out why it's playing. Because all the other music is even much worse... At least this has the 80s groove down, while modern music just sounds like mass produced crap that someone threw onto Ipad without much thought. Thank god there still are people who make serious music though...

 

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