Kids These Days
Now, I listened to all manner of dorky dual-singer screamo (yes, that’s really what we called it) and hardcore in my youth, and it was as atrocious then as it remains today. What can I say? I was young and stupid, and I listened to bad music. It happens. But even still, I have a hard time believing that the following track by some outfit calling itself Brokencyde isn’t parody, or perhaps an extremely sophisticated performance-art put on.
After the jump: The worst single I’ve ever heard? Maybe!
(Some language may not be office safe; the entire song is unfit for human consumption.)
You’d think this level of awful would be difficult to match, but this track comes pretty close.
Listening to these songs forces me to consider whether I would’ve listened to this when I was 15. I like to think I would have discouraged such behavior through ridicule, or some harsh criticism in a hand-photocopied ‘zine, but I’m not totally confident that I wouldn’t have blasted this at maximum tinny volume from the four-inch Radio Shack speakers in the side doors of my Corolla — perhaps with an ironic twist, but even still. Maybe this just means I’m out of touch and succumbing to early-stage get-off-my-lawnism. How’s the bumper sticker go again? If it’s too loud, you’re too old? I sympathize, really, but what if it’s just too bad?
(Hat tip to the great Buddyhead — finally back! — for the link.)
Update: DCeiver noticed this one way ahead of me.
Warren Ellis’s response is also equally worth reading.
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6781
“I would like you to watch the whole thing. Because it really is one of those ‘fall of Western culture’ moments. It’s a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s s—- about this point in the culture.”
(If you are somehow new to the internet, be aware that reading Warren Ellis is dangerous for your health, and is certainly NSFW. I only edited out his swearword since I don’t want to end up in a moderation queue.)
— Kasten · Apr 24, 07:53 PM · #
I lasted 17 seconds before I had to stop it.
— Daniel Koffler · Apr 24, 07:56 PM · #
90 percent of everything is crap. Why should this be exempt?
— tom cornell · Apr 24, 09:09 PM · #
Yeah, that’s definitely tongue-in-cheek…and not much worse than Lil Wayne trying to play “rock”. Which is not saying very much at all.
But hey, I still like some of those older screamo bands!…Well. Kinda. And I think even the worst of those (and I went to a lot of really bad shows just because I had nothing better to do and classmates in the band) were nowhere near this bad. And I’m still a big backer of my college friends’ zombie/robot/anticapitalist-themed satirical rap band Zombies! Organize!! (to the point of linking to them all the damn time in blog comments…sorry). So maybe I have no idea what I’m talking about.
— Joseph FM · Apr 25, 05:13 AM · #
“ all manner of dorky dual-singer screamo”
When my wife and I used to go to business meeting (this was back before I started living my life in my robe) we used to flip a coin to decide which one of us was going to be the rapper and which of us was going to be the crooner.
— Tony Comstock · Apr 25, 01:08 PM · #
Dude…thats dance musik, for d-a-n-c-i-n-g, see?
Raves or clubbing.
Are you getting old, Suderman?
Do you dig <a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA98SU7Qe4A”>Sonny?</a>
— matoko_chan · Apr 25, 02:56 PM · #
oops…forgot where i was….
Sonny
— matoko_chan · Apr 25, 02:57 PM · #
Membah him from FFTL?
— matoko_chan · Apr 25, 02:59 PM · #
You’re right, Peter, it’s completely lame. Yesterday I attended a pregnant teen’s baby shower and the mama-to-be’s and her friends looked like the young women in this video. She got freaky on and off the dance floor and now her freedom is curtailed at age 18 as she faces raising a child without the emotional and financial support of a husband.
— Joules · Apr 26, 10:06 PM · #
Gee, guess Peter and I lissened to different sorts of sceamo.
How could you not worship the legendary From First To Last?
And Joules…….blame teh musik?
Maybe if you egg-sucking conservative dogs had supported sex education in that girl’s local elementary school she might have avoided A Bristol Palin Moment.
— matoko_chan · Apr 28, 12:15 AM · #