sarram - how were the V Girls last night?

i thought they were a bit dull

They were great!

I'm completely off the pace with this. I'm just listening to the album for the first time now. I love them completely.

i have it on good authority that the blonde, cassie ramone i think, isn't courteous on the dance floor and will dance right up on you without any warning, but it's second hand so i can't say for sure

She also isn't courteous if she's standing against a pool railing and you're on
the other side, on the receiving end of her swaying handbag. Shit was
hilarious.

I like Vivian Girls quite a bit, but the one time I saw them live was, well, at
McCarren Park Pool, a venue too spacious to suit them.

she was dancing all up on the dance floor after the crystal stilts show tonight. she looked pretty damn drunk.

I've not read Hat and Beard's comment but the 'hipster' aspect of the band. It's something I'm trying to disregard. All I can do is listen to the album and think that, hipsters or not, they've produced something wonderful which, regardless of what the motives behind it might be, is enough in itself. I get a feeling that the more I know about them the less enthusiastic I'll be, so I'm trying not to read up on them too much.

Eh? Motives? Hipsters? Now I am confused. Oh well.

I think it stems from the whole cooler-than-thou Brooklyn thing. I don't know if that's exactly the case with the Vivian Girls but I wouldn't be surprised if they're being dismissed by a number of people in the same way that a band that appeared fully formed out of somewhere like Hoxton, or Mitte might also be. I'm not saying they should be, just that I expect they are.

Ah... I dunno.

Me neither. Either way. They're making me play my favourite records again and that can be nothing but a good thing. From my first listen to "Such a Joke" it was like, ahh yes, this is what I like. I'd almost forgotten. If it turns out they're all runners for Vice magazine, then so be it.

hahaha.

I never bothered reading about who they are much, apart from some stuff on blogs and forums here and there, not because I'd be let down by what they say, simply because that's the way it turned out. I didn't even think there would be so much fuss about them, to be honest. There is, and that's fine, they aren't the greatest band, I just happen to really like the record and enjoyed their set live. They might even disappear amid all the hype in about a year, so what?

I completely agree. Whatever their 'story' might be they've created a truly great album which is more than a vast majority of arguably more 'credible' bands can claim. Whether they go on to produce anything remotely as good in the future is largely besides the point - for me at least. I'm just pissed that I never got to see them live last month. They're one of the very few bands right now I'd bother leaving the house for - and for that fact alone I'm extremely glad they exist.

they're recording their next album in march.

they've been dismissed by a lot of hipsters in brooklyn because they're "full of hype and too big now." it's pretty lame.

Being dismissed by hipsters is a great thing in my book. Means I might get to see them again.

well there's two kind of hipsters here. the one is the know it all hipsters and the other is the don't know shit but i pretend to do by reading pitchfork and i wear extreme v-necks and like mgmt. the know it all ones don't like them anymore and the don't know shit ones pretend to like them.

article in paper magazine. cassie ramone mentions lee ranaldo.

http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=2969

edit: plus a video of a new song live in shitty stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/br...vian-girls.php

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9fggfm

There's the 6 non album tracks they've done so far collected from various singles and whatnot. All the singles are out of print so...

zanc u

thanks. i still need a record player up here, so this will due for now. the cassette i have of their singles isn't recorded so well.

for new york city people: they will be djing at daddy's bar in williamsburg from 10-4 tonight.

thats a fucking awesome song they play

London peeps - they be playing on Sat and Sun this weekend...

Too skint.

i bet thurston is grabbing their asses n thats why the blonde turned around with that look on her face

nathan from wavves told me that "the best thing about those girls is they all started out as this mall pop punk band" who one day decided that they wanted to start a "hipster" band. which makes the quality of their music even more surprisingly good.

Hmm. Is he jealous or...?

which is where wavves failed bar one song?

no man he meant it as a compliment! he was saying it was cool how they just managed to up and change their whole sound really quickly despite coming from a backround of horrible music.

and sarram, i assume the song yu mean is weed demon, but nah i think wavves are really good.

yeah they did start out as a punk pop band, but not a "mall pop punk" band. they were kind of bad though. aren't most bands are when they haven't found their sound yet? i heard they went in the direction they did after one of the guitar player's ex boyfriends introduced her to black tambourine.

the bass player was in a riot grrl surf band for a bit. that's according to maximum rock 'n' roll.

Ohhh, surf band! Surf band?!! SURF!

yeah i wish they had a song or something i could listen to. a riot grrl surf band is right up my alley.

someone needs to make a new surf compilation

you can make a tenuous surf connection with bands like graffiti island, pens, vivian girls, wavves.

dark surf, pussy surf, fat red cheecked people in long sleeved t shirts with headfones and ice cream surf

I love surf music. I'm always on the lookout for new surf bands. I counted my surf cd's the other day, and I have 180. I need to get more.

what's a good surf collection cd i should get?

what are the best out of the 180?

a surf COLLECTION? Lost Legends of Surf Guitar vol. 1.

My favorite surf cd is probably the ventures - surfing or man or astroman's "experiment zero". I also love Mermen, the Ghastly Ones, the Treblemakers, Hawaii Samurai, Violentures, the Wangs, the Lively Ones, the Trashmen, the Tormentos, Gein and the Graverobbers, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Red Elvises, Vibrasonics, Bambi Molestors (highly reccomended!), Volcanos, Vultures, Woodies... actually, there are way too many good surf bands out there.

The weirdest surf album I've heard is probably the wipeouters "p twang". There's a rave surf song on it!