Feeling Healthy
Annoyingly, the internet connection on my media server is mysteriously down (and resisting troubleshooting attempts) — meaning I can’t watch this on the big screen. Not at all annoying, however, is that this Pitchfork.tv rooftop performance by chaos-loving L.A.-based noise punks Health is terrifically thrilling at any size.
I guess these guys come out of the same L.A. scene that gave us the oft-name dropped, terminally hyped No Age. I don’t exactly dislike No Age, but they seem awfully overrated, especially in comparison with truly innovative, pretty much mind-bending stuff like this
Perhaps TAS should engage in regular rooftop blogging. It certainly seems to promote awesomeness.
No Age played the f@cking library. Put that in your rooftop and dogear it.
— Wrongshore · Apr 24, 06:49 AM · #
OK, that’s kind of cool.
(And again; it’s not that I have something against No Age. Their album is good! I just am a little vexed by the surplus of attention they’ve received.)
— PeterSuderman · Apr 24, 01:20 PM · #
This band should be called Soon We Will Be Deaf.
What was that other rooftop band again? Don’t make me paw through the archives.
— cw · Apr 24, 04:02 PM · #
CW — you’re thinking of The Thermals. Reihan put that one up, not me. I guess my taste is just going to veer too far toward either noise or tweeness for you. Sorry!
http://pitchfork.tv/dont-look-down/the-thermals/returning-to-the-fold
— PeterSuderman · Apr 24, 06:56 PM · #
Don’t apologise. You can like twee. You can like noise. You can like noise-twee. We are all free to be you and me.
I think nosie-twee is a really good discription of the Dirty Projectors. That’s one of the bands you like, right?
— cw · Apr 24, 10:09 PM · #
Indeed, I do like them
— Peter Suderman · Apr 25, 12:14 AM · #
We’re not using “twee” here in San Diego, dudes. What does it mean?
— Joules · Apr 25, 03:47 PM · #
What does “twee” mean? It’s kind of like wimpy arty teenaged gayness without necessarily a sexual connotation. Motorhead is NOT twee. The TV Personalities: supertwee. The mentos girl on the tv ads: Twee. Tegan and Sara: twee.
— cw · Apr 25, 08:59 PM · #
I think CW’s description is more or less right, but perhaps a little harsh; it tends to mean a lack of aggression, a softness of touch, usually combined with a soft-spoken, “artistic” temperment.
Belle and Sebation: very twee.
Dave Eggers: Kinda twee.
James Wolcott: Not so much.
Health: Not twee.
— Peter Suderman · Apr 26, 03:38 PM · #
I didn’t mean it to be harsh. I like twee when it is combined with humor and I don’t it when it is serious.
— cw · Apr 27, 05:54 AM · #