I was told about this band today and a coworker showed me a youtube video of what they're like.
My question is not a joke, but the existence of this band may be?
Help me understand? Wtf this is? Is this an attempt to troll the world that people have accepted as "rock music" so they kept going?
Is this "real music" and I'm the idiot?
It feels like elevator music for people in the "Beavis and Butthead" universe.
WTF IS HAPPENING?! (And no I'm not just talking about their absolutely ludicrous appearance, I'm talking about the whole package. The music sounds like LSD fueled song intros looped together without ever reaching a chorus, ever.
Idk if you need to ‘accept’ them as anything lol, they’re just as much rock as Nickelback or the Sex Pistols or Lulu
The rumor I heard was that the outfits started as a trick to let the duo play the same club twice in the same week
Now if it’s just the looping micro-tonal double necked guitar math yeah that’s pretty much a gimmick, but that’s where the art is baybee
I caught a bit about them in the news, apparently their outfits are essentially there to give them more freedom, because they also make more "normal" music and they wanted to separate that from this venture, because it makes them anonymous (apparently no one knows who they are and no one knows what the other group is they perform as) and because it's so crazy that you don't expect anything normal in the first place.
These dudes have a hundred times the talent of Nickelback and Sex Pistols (before PiL, of course).
@SlurpingPus @ianhclark510 That's our defense of outsider art? Putting other artists down? Arts as a sports competition with winners and losers?
Screw it, I'm fully participating in the ragebait reddit drama.
I mean, AdP's music is based on technical proficiency, while Sex Pistols made objectively trashy music.
Funny thing: Lydon picked Vicious as the bassist, hoping that the latter would learn as he goes, which of course never happened. Then for PIL Lydon picked Jah Wobble through the same method (allegedly), and Wobble went on to become one of the best bassists ever, imo.
@SlurpingPus I think if what you want is technical proficiency you should be watching olympic gymnasts' routines instead of wasting your time on any of this shit but sure.
Ok boomer.
Nah, I'll continue listening to good music, and you can do nothing about it.
As much as I despise Nickleback, I feel even that comparison is spitting even in their (deserving) faces.
You're coming off as quite pretentious in a lot of comments here.
You don't have to enjoy art for it to be considered art. Frank Zappa sang a song about avoiding yellow snow, The Beatles sang about a yellow submarine and yet both were highly influential in the rock world.
What is your end goal with this thread? You asked for Angine to be explained to you and yet you refute every attempt to explain that art is in the eye of the beholder.
You don't have to understand it but a lack of understanding on your part doesn't make it not worth listening to you. Are you the art police?
Comparing those to that only works if their record was skipping for 4 minutes solid.
Bro has never listened to psychedelic rock, doom metal, dance/edm/trap, prog rock, ethereal pop/cloud pop, chillhop, hip-hop or any other genre known for long loops intended to entrance the listener.
Like... What is music to you?
Things that require more than a 5 second repeating pattern to master
What kind of music do you listen to?
What's in your rotation right now?
Sleep Token, President, Pink Floyd, I Prevail are the top artists/bands at the moment for me.
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As long as you're having fun.
Man, if you really think this is any different than Paul McCartney hauling a anvil into the recording studio than I guess we walk paths that are just too different