I saw this meme ‘going alt viral’ 2day. Some hardXcore bros covering ‘Such Great Heights.’ Sorta made me yearn to chill with some bros who were in ‘hardXcore bands’ in my local scene, but worked full time at some coffee shop, making sure that they ‘totally ruined the coffee shop’s chill vibe’ by playing hardcore music. h8 places like that. Sort of ‘grinned’ when I watched this vid, and imagined a hardcore tween ‘finding meaning’ in it. Feels weird how all music that sounds like this is ’stuck in some sort of time portal’, not really ‘moving forward.’
Meme via dailyswarm
(If u were in a screamo band, would u be the ’screaming bro’ or the ‘bro with a sweet voice singing the ghey parts’?)
Damn. Can’t believe I have lived to see this meme. Postal Services are the whole reason I got into ‘electro’, and probably one of the key forefathers of meaningfulcore. Before the PostyService era, I knew that music was supposed to be ‘cool’, but I hadn’t yet found a voice that really spoke to me in a meaningful, earnest way. Then Benjamin Gibbard & Jimmy Tambarellbro came along and changed everything. Really just changed the way that ‘indie music’ was written, both musically and lyrically.
I remember in a previous musical era, every1 thought that screamo + hardcore was going to ‘catch on.’ Unfortunately, only bands like Taking Back Sunday ‘made it’ because they were attempting to be the most meaningful, along with other bands who sang about high school era themes. I think that this video is a metaphor for ‘what could have been’ if the Postal Service didn’t invent the meaningfulcore genre of ‘electro indie.’
Feel like it is incredibly ’stupid’ that Postal Service haven’t released a second album yet. Feel like they are losing out on millions of dollars in band revenue [via digital sales and merch]. Just feels like everything that tweens consume these days is trying to ‘replace the Postal Service.’ Think that they should at least make 5 new songs, and possibly just ‘launch a tshirt line.’ Feel sad that Death Cab for cute ‘doesn’t even sound meaningful any more’, but their brand is so strong that it doesn’t matter. Seems like a Postal Service relaunch would ‘melt the internet’, kinda like ‘In Rainbows’ did.
Wonder if Pitchfork would give it an 8.9, or if they would ’shit on it’ and distance their brand from ‘tween bullshit.’ Probably would just use the review as ‘an opportunity to reflect’ or showcase their knowledge of ‘indielectro history.’
They will see us waving from such great
Heights, ‘come down now,’ they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
‘come down now,’ but we’ll stay…
-meaningful screambros
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39 Comments
First !!
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FCK U THIS IS REAL 1ST!
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Death Cab for Cutie is sooo 2k7.
h8 u Ben Gibbard. <3 u Alice Glass.
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//////////Reply by alttweenbro
//////////Posted July 13th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
@alttweenbro,
edit:
Death Cab for Cutie is sooo 2k3
h8 u Benjamin Gibbard. miss u Alice Glass
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//////////Reply by TR_M
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
@alttweenbro, Alice Glass is so 2k8
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One of your best posts in recent memory, Carles.
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METAL
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//////////Reply by Erik
//////////Posted July 13th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
@m/, sooooo good.
mandatory metallica
bi-weekly black flag
pretty chill periods of postal service
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Haha this is the fuckedest thing ever. Well maybe not ever. But it’s still pretty fucked.
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I’m taking your praise for postal service without any layer of sarcasm you were hoping might hide your undying love for them.
<3 ur insides.
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//////////Reply by Noodles
//////////Posted July 13th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
When Postal Service dies I hope there will be a massive outpouring of grief similar to that for Michael Jackson or maybe that guy from Pantera.
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favorite new band, confidebros
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If I died right now this would sum up my altbrotween life.
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the lyrics of that song can totally apply to unconventional relationships. Not gonna be any more specific cuz these comments are highly searchable. but yeah. sentimental value for me? mmhmmm.
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idk
im too tired to care about this
im sorry crls
i will make it up 2 u l8r
but right now, i just dont care
‘im not O-kay’ -my chem romancies
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thnk u for the serving these pieces of shit.
No better way to put it then, “not moving forward” hahahahaha lold so hard when I read that.
<3 this post.
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deathcab is seriously gay.
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think this post is abt the conflict between bros w/ long womanly hair & bros w/ more of a conformobro look [via USPS].
think that there should be more haircore [via pantween pro -V]
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This is so 3 days ago.
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|<µ†3 ®£/\/\¡x, !$ i† √µ$†¡Œ¿
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//////////Reply by pfft
//////////Posted July 13th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
@†®åπP, haha
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fuck these fggtz! how could Ben Gibbard stand for this shit?
< / 3
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It’s pretty sad huh Crls. :/
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i miss the days when it would have been authentic to post this as my myspace profile song.
<3 US postal bros
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carles i thought u sharted on postal service. i thought i wasnt hip enough for actually liking them back in the day. this remix is atrosh
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It’s second-wave crabcore!
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//////////Reply by cass
//////////Posted July 15th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
@Sam, was waiting for the crabcore
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most meaningful bands (official list):
1) Postal Service
2) MGMT
3) ?????????
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//////////Reply by salami
//////////Posted July 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
#3 is Pony Pony Run Run
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//////////Reply by baberaham linkin
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 1:41 am
@salami, your order is wrong… it should go
1. Postal Service
2. Of Montreal
3. Modest Mouse
4. The Shins
5. The New Pornographers
6. Sufjan Stevens
7.Broken Social Scene
8. Hot Chip
9. MGMT
And the current incarnation is PHOENIX.
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//////////Reply by El Buki
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 2:33 am
@baberaham linkin, Eat Dick
//////////Reply by we tigers
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 5:38 am
@baberaham linkin,
what about the modest mice?
spoons?
h8 MGMT
h8 the shins (bc of garden state)
//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 10:58 am
@baberaham linkin, WTtits?? /\/ø
//////////Reply by denny
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
@baberaham linkin,
so0o meaningful I dunno what these haters are talking about. except hot chip, not that meaningful, just kinda dancey. could probably replace them with Silversun Pickups
//////////Reply by baberaham linkin
//////////Posted July 15th, 2009 at 3:56 am
@baberaham linkin, yeah you’re right… i just had a hard time, thinkin of a filler between broken social scene and mgmt… but now that i think about it, i think that i would replace hot chip with kings of leon
//////////Reply by lil hipster girl
//////////Posted July 17th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
@baberaham linkin, moldy peaches, silver jewz, architecture in helsinki, stars, RADIOHEAD, belle and sebastian
Disgusting
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disgustin’
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this is terrible!
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p.s. the iron&wine version is so much better..puts me to sleep, this brings my death. gbye
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First Act Guitars Rock Hardcore!
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makes me miss my hardcore days :(
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still trying to remember the name of my high school’s in-house hardcore band (florida ‘burbs represent). dammit, what was their screamer’s name?
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 11:04 am
@vivi, ƒ¬ø®ˆ∂å ‘burbs’ = SUCKS! †h£®e$ ø/\/|_¥ g/-/£††0 ƒ©|©|†z \-\£®3
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So Good
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I thought this shit died long time ago. This might be more meaningful than HRO since this shit is selling out! What’s up with the big ass AD with Jack’s new band and the girl from the kills? how much was the pay? when are your finances going to be discuss?
Come on Crls, better be careful or other meaningful (or meaningless) blog might take over and you’ll end up 2k9 next year.
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SCREAMO CRLS
SO HXC
THIS IS BROOTAL
THAT BREAKDOWN IS FVCKING RAWR
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i have been slain.
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I feel so old When I read HRO now, like a wise old man listening to an older wise man talk about his life experiences and how he “wouldn’t have done anything different” but he wishes he knew then what he knows now.
I feel like we went on a great adventure together, but now it has taken us back home to sit in bed and watch Jeopardy.
I feel calm, content, and ready to grow old with all of you, slowly learning to feel regret and shame for the clothes we wore and the music we listened to these past few years (it was all “bullshit consumerism”, anyway). I feel ready to cut off my alt hair so I can get a regular job.
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OMFG! LOL! 596914-710-7-719-759-79618571563442an,sna,nz,.mzbjjdguqfajdvv
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i cunt get over it!!! wtf?!!!! LOL
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Do you think the future will remember how we were, HRO?
Years from now, when the next Adam Sandler-brocomedy-dbag makes “The Zany Janitor”, and it’s set in 2007, do you think it will be full of jokes about blipsters and shutter-shades and bangers and post-irony?
Or will people just remember the 2000’s for our sweet white-colored iStuff, organic wheat bread, hybrid cars, and quirky comedies with childlike artwork and an “indie-like feel”?
I’m ready to start getting nostalgic for right now in a simplified, condensed way. I don’t have time for the whole 20000’s. Telll me what to remember. Should I skip electroclash and go right to bloghouse? What’s more authentic pre-electro music? HxC or twee pop?
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//////////Reply by TR_M
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
@Mechrobioticon, Post-Punk and New Wave ==> most authentic
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//////////Reply by Mechrobioticon
//////////Posted July 14th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
@TR_M,
I’m so glad you said that. :D
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Christians. >>next>>
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yeah. this is originally iron & wine, before he became the soundtrack to fangbanger proms.
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