New Retro Wave

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Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

its just called "retro wave" dummy.

Some of its good but a lot of it is really low quality and amateurish.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2013 17:11

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:31

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Spacedad posted:

This is true and actually part of the fun of the movement is there's so much of it and it's easy to find and leaf through - which means that when you stumble across a gem, it feels like the song was made just for you.

The fact is that there was *already* tons of lovely synth music made using these techniques back in the 80's, so everyone knows what bad 80's synth sounds like. It is interesting to see amateurs experiment though, and more fun than listening to overhyped radio flash in the pans from that era. I'd rather listen to low quality amateurish fan built retro stuff than the shittiest actual music from the 80's. Fortunately, there's a considerable amount of really loving great stuff too.

In new GBS its impossible to tell if someone is serious or not.

The signal to noise in this genre is way, way too low. It's full of people who figured out how to make noises come out of a synthesizer and realized that they don't actually have to know how to write lyrics or sing so hey I'm a retro wave musician now :cool:

College and Kavinsky are examples of the few that are good.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2013 17:21

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Sabel posted:

Is there a name for that kind of dreamy, more optimistic space age stuff that evokes thoughts of interstellar space travel and not dystopian cyberpunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkx_PWjzbTM like so

look up space wave.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2013 18:05

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Jesus you people are worse than those electro-swing losers.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2014 06:06

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Babby Sathanas posted:

electro-swing is cool too bro

No, no it isn't. Electro-swing is the musical equivalent of wearing a fedora and smoking a pipe.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2014 22:52

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

i thought that one song was kinda catchy but it's apparently a huge thing with bronies, so

someone in the PYF awkward and ugly people thread posted pictures from an electro-swing party and it was basically nerds dressed in bad 1920s costumes trying way too hard to jive or swing or whatever. Uuuunnnnfff.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2014 23:04

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Saw FM-84 last night. I'd listened to their stuff on Spotify and mentally categorized them as yet another unremarkable, same-soundy, synthwave act but they were actually great live and their stuff sounded much better. Ended up picking up a signed vinyl album.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2018 20:17

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

I saw The Midnight a few weeks ago. They played neither American Online nor Memories, which are basically their best songs.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2019 20:34

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

America Online is like an order of magnitude a better song than anything else they've put out :colbert:

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 21:43

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:31

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Bruh it's the only song worth listening to.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 22:25

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