The Kids Are All Right (And Very Loud)

July 30, 2019 9:56 PM

Three songs by 100 gecs: “money machine”, “800db cloud”, “stupid horse” (Album review)
posted by Going To Maine (21 comments total)

haha! :) one of the most polarizing records of the year (in my perception/bubble) but it's so in-your-face, stupid but honest (at least I don't agree with the team "but it's all irony"), catchy but also draining?
It's gonna make my top list at the end of the year, no doubt, but I fully understand that 100 gecs are ...an aquired taste.

(Somewhat relatedly: new Black Dresses [Bandcamp] release tomorrow, I'm excited!)
posted by bigendian at 2:50 AM on July 31, 2019 [1 favorite]

This is excellent.
posted by ocular shenanigans at 3:18 AM on July 31, 2019

OK,,,i have to say, I like it. I really do.
there is something there, that really gets me.
posted by quazichimp at 3:27 AM on July 31, 2019

money machine definitely another song of the summer, in a summer unusually full of songs of the summer!
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 4:00 AM on July 31, 2019 [1 favorite]

Mary, mother of god!

What is wrong with you people?!?!?!1
posted by dobbs at 5:38 AM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

I’ve been listening to this over and over since it was released. Cannot stop. Glad to see it here on MeFi.
posted by defenestration at 7:12 AM on July 31, 2019

The 'stupid horse' vid was like earbleach to me, but I was delighted to see the marvelous Japan World Cup playing as the background... as featured by Dunkey.
posted by FatherDagon at 7:36 AM on July 31, 2019

Thanks, I hate it!

Did I do that right?
posted by emelenjr at 9:09 AM on July 31, 2019

I'm a lyrics person, so I had to look for them I found them on my go-to site for such. So, here are the lyrics for you, complete with commentary.
posted by swlabr at 9:13 AM on July 31, 2019

The 'stupid horse' vid was like earbleach to me, but I was delighted to see the marvelous Japan World Cup playing as the background... as featured by Dunkey

I love it when, in the course of eating itself, the Internet shits out something brilliant instead of awful.
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:16 AM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

Well now I feel really old.
posted by misterpatrick at 10:19 AM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

And I totally blame Teenage Engineering for this.
posted by misterpatrick at 10:25 AM on July 31, 2019 [1 favorite]

i have a very low physical tolerance for noise music but sometimes it just slaps so hard and i listen to it for a whole afternoon and this is my one for the year
posted by gaybobbie at 12:10 PM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

This is a thing of exquisite beauty.

Also, by neighbor’s chihuahua is now going completely berserk and I suspect it’s not a coincidence.
posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear at 2:30 PM on July 31, 2019

This reminds me a whole lot of Plus-Tech Squeezebox, which marked the weird-and-stupid (but secretly pretty intelligent) frontier of Japan's Shibuya-kei music scene.

There will probably always be a need for somebody to delimit the anarchic extremes possible within contemporary pop music.
posted by ardgedee at 2:52 PM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

Oh btw, they've put up stems of the album for public remixes.
posted by ardgedee at 2:57 PM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

It's a wholesome Ninja and Yolandi.
posted by Bee'sWing at 5:19 PM on July 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

Thanks, I hate it!

So do I, and I think that's the point, and now I want to listen to more.


Pro Tip: listen without the distracting video. Put on your angry kid hat first.
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:32 AM on August 1, 2019

Nah, that video is blessed. The alternate is likewise hype.
posted by Rat Spatula at 5:18 PM on August 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

i hate it and love it. it is a sore spot that i keep poking to feel. a day later still singing stupid horse to self earworm style (though i don't think i'm getting the words right, i also don't think it matters if i do). i have shared it with a friend, whose response was muted. and i am struggling with the urge to share it with my parents and li'l lurk (cause the one prior experience 100gecs reminded me of was some stupid video of a gummybear riding a toilet with horrid sounds that li'l lurk liked)
posted by 20 year lurk at 10:48 AM on August 2, 2019

It reminds me of Grimes's Art Angels, but I think I'd rather just listen to that.
posted by mkb at 10:24 AM on August 7, 2019