Is there a steampunk version of nerdcore? If there is, I'm sure that's eventually going to be a band name for some humourous steamcore atrocity and now I've made myself sad.
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: Lemon on February 04, 2014, 07:21:13 pm
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: Runic on February 04, 2014, 07:55:43 pm
Fuck, you beat me to it.
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: advancedclass on February 05, 2014, 12:39:14 am
Goddammit, I will apparently never learn to not ask questions of the internet, especially where Lemon might see.
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: Runic on February 05, 2014, 03:31:56 pm
The magical thing about that song is that, look you know it's going to be bad. You hear Steampunk Hip-Hop, it's given that it will be terrible. You know that there will be a fake mic that looks like it was assembled out of garbage because it was. You know that there will be terrible affected English accents. You know that there will be the inexplicable fetishization of the Victorian Era, which was one of the worst things ever. But somehow that song manages to be even worse. You know that it will be bad, but it still surprises you with how terrible it really is. It's not even that it has a lack of quality, it's more like the inverse of quality. Something that is just as hard to create as quality, but the opposite of it. It is a work of anti-art.
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: cyclopeantrash on February 05, 2014, 03:46:04 pm
Don't get too deep Runic. You're affording them far more faculty and control than they have. They're just a bunch of nerds with a fetish for stupid idealized historic revisionism. It's best to just attribute this to that and not put any more thought into it than necessary.
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: Lemon on February 05, 2014, 03:47:59 pm
Also that really fake seizure inducing old-timey video effect. As though that makes sense in the first place! If your excited about steam engines, cameras haven't been invented. Which would obviously be a blessing here.
Title: What should I name my band?
Post by: chai tea latte on February 06, 2014, 12:41:21 am
This Totally Biased clip where Hari Kondabolu goes to a steampunk convention is good: