Never name your band something "funny." Other than that, though, this is pretty awesome. posted by Sticherbeast at 8:50 AM on September 25, 2011
Awesome! I've been really digging Galactic Melt. posted by griphus at 9:15 AM on September 25, 2011
Wow, thanks so much for this! I'm painfully in love with the late early 80's future aesthetic. And wow, despite the silly name, the music is quite good! posted by strixus at 9:16 AM on September 25, 2011
Wow, her hair is spot on future 80s. For some reason when people do retro pastiche they always get the hair wrong..... posted by The Whelk at 9:24 AM on September 25, 2011
I liked use of the Laser Tag guns and the C64 as the main console. Of this I approve. posted by yeloson at 9:29 AM on September 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
This is perfect. This is exactly what I want out of the in-development-hell-forever Neuromancer movie. posted by codacorolla at 10:02 AM on September 25, 2011
I love this. I still think that SoulHackers is the epitome of "future 80s"/early 90s "wooshy cyberspace GUI" cyberpunk aesthetic, but this is really good--the music actually compliments the aesthetic, which seems like the hardest part to pull off half the time. posted by byanyothername at 10:28 AM on September 25, 2011
Oh my god preview button when did that I didn't even wow posted by byanyothername at 10:28 AM on September 25, 2011
> pitch-perfect…<
I don’t think that means what you think it means. I think you meant "somewhat reminiscent" in the only the most obvious ways. Like those guys who wear jeans and band t-shirts with a fedora and think they look like Frank Sinatra. posted by bongo_x at 10:39 AM on September 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
Listening to Galactic Melt right now. Loving this. Thanks for posting it! posted by Matt Oneiros at 10:42 AM on September 25, 2011
Man all I can say is that his live PA was pretty excellent this year at DEMF. I too had the "what a dumb name" knee-jerk reaction... but then my friend Minto advised I check him out, and so glad I did! Really really talented guy - I need to get this album like YESTERDAY. posted by Unicorn on the cob at 10:43 AM on September 25, 2011
I'm pretty sure the Commodore hacker is wearing glasses cast off by William Gibson himself. posted by adamrice at 11:40 AM on September 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
Also, I think pretty much most things are a lot less weird than Wevie Stonder. posted by titus-g at 11:43 AM on September 25, 2011
Oh wow, that post played a neat trick on my brain: I read the bands name as Tom Cruise at first, naturally and had real troube associating song writing or anything of that nature to the actor. So, desperatly trying to make sense of it I somehow blamed my tiredness for garbling the sentence and simply assumed that there is a big Hollywood movie in the making that is in the "80s/90s cyberpunk aesthetic with nods to Blade Runner and Tron, among others".
Man, I was ready to flip out and disregard completely that with Tom Cruise in it it just could not be as cool as I imagined it.
And then - after starting the video proper - it dawned on me and I was let down a little.
Anyway, thanks for the link and the good memories of Max Headroom and Mark 13 it evoked! posted by Glow Bucket at 11:54 AM on September 25, 2011
Great video, although I think we are well past the point that mining this period and aesthetic for nostalgia is a little stale, no? Still the execution is awesome.
The track itself is pretty unremarkable.
The best neo-retro-80s music video I've seen this year is Drive, which I highly recommend you check out. And I dont use the term "video" to be insulting there either. It's tonally beautiful and poetic. posted by Senor Cardgage at 11:59 AM on September 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
gotta link or band name, senor cardgage? Randomly searching for 'drive' is probably going to bring up a lot... posted by kaibutsu at 12:02 PM on September 25, 2011
The best neo-retro-80s music video I've seen this year is Drive, which I highly recommend you check out. And I dont use the term "video" to be insulting there either. It's tonally beautiful and poetic.
Same here. When the movie first declared its intentions in the opening credits, the audience I was sitting with - we all hesitated, as if about to laugh at the unexpected 80s cheese - the magenta/pink cursive credits, the 1980s opening music ... and then we didn't. The movie, the director, the character, were confident and we were willing to go along. posted by zippy at 12:10 PM on September 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
I don’t think that means what you think it means. I think you meant "somewhat reminiscent" in the only the most obvious ways. Like those guys who wear jeans and band t-shirts with a fedora and think they look like Frank Sinatra.
(And I'm glad to see I still can't remember to look in "Live Preview.") posted by beaucoupkevin at 12:20 PM on September 25, 2011
Com Truise? Surely, it's "Crom Tuise."
The only possible answer to the riddle of steel. posted by Eideteker at 4:47 PM on September 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
So many references! The Blade Runner, Tron, Highlander, Terminator and Matrix shouts are ovious but i know there are more I'm missing. Time to watch it again! posted by New England Cultist at 4:47 PM on September 25, 2011
HOLY CRAP! This is awesome. Allow me to spill my guts a bit: I just watched 'We Live in Public' a couple of days ago and I was telling my girlfriend who is quite a bit younger than me that that it reminded me of what I wanted the future to be like when I was 17 (in 1993) and why I got into molecular biology (intended to be genetic engineering) and software. But, I was thinking... that wasn't quite it... The more I thought about it it was because of Blade Runner, which really affected me at a young age. The movie was/is kind of sad and it's reflected in the music of Vangelis and my dad was listening to Jean Michel Jarre at the time. Which kind of opened the door to listening to Orb and Air later on in life.
So I was wondering, where was the future of the music that I _used_ to listen to. AND HERE IT IS. FULL CIRCLE back to the beginning! So I was wondering why and I was thinking about that David Byrne TED talk. This isn't music that you can really put on at a party or a club or really even with your friends (unless they're into that kind of thing). Its stuff you listen to through headphones or you're alone working on something. The original stuff came out with the walkman and this stuff is here now with the personal mp3 players.
TL;DR: awesome, thanks for posting! posted by kookywon at 9:03 AM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
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