Joe and Mabel are awesome kids, I am glad they are turning this unfortunate incident around to their advantage. I hear Rolling Stone has even contacted them now. Crazy talk.
I read a theory about this - since the cops keep managing to bust these shows anyway, they must be finding out about them somehow. So maybe these obvious cops are just decoys to distract from the more savvy infiltrators.
Joe and Mabel are awesome kids, I am glad they are turning this unfortunate incident around to their advantage. I hear Rolling Stone has even contacted them now. Crazy talk.
HAHA!!! Righteous! I think it’s fantastic that everyone is milking the heck out of this, and I can only imagine (HOPE) that Joe Sly’s buddy’s down at the station are busting his balls like nobody’s business. If we’re lucky, it’s viral status will hopefully elicit some others to post some equally hilarious exposures of Joe Sly or some of the other Boston Beatdown Zombie Punks.
I might check it out later, but I probably won’t like the Spelling Bee. I’m a bitter old bastard that pretty much hates 99.9% of everything new and aside from that, they have two other strikes against them right out the gate . . .
First off, their name is horrible (Sorry, Kids, but there is nothing fun or rock and roll about a Spelling Bee . . . oh, what? That was irony? Oh, my bad. I’m too old for that crap. Sorry.)
Also, they are a DUO, and I have come to detest duos. I think the last time two people did something good on their own was Simon and Garfunkel, or Sonny and Cher. These new duos with the sometimes exception of White Stripes (whom I blame heavily for all this crap, by the way), just can’t seem to figure out how not to be annoying faggitry. Whereas the White Stripes at least sort of rocked a bit, these new turd tag teams are like . . . One sort of lesbian-looking chick on banjo and one bearded guy on triangle, or one bearded guy on bass and another bearded guy on recorder, or one lesbian-looking girl on oboe and another bearded buy on another oboe. It’s all horribly pretentious and completely nauseating.
Okay, I’m done being old and angry (for now). I’ll listen to them later. I promise.
First off, their name is horrible (Sorry, Kids, but there is nothing fun or rock and roll about a Spelling Bee . . . oh, what? That was irony? Oh, my bad.
Actually Joe posted something on Facebook the other day about the overwhelming number of hits they get from very confused English as a Second Language students, ha ha.
Really, as a duo, they tear it up. Drums, guitar, saxophone, and pure BALLS.
Oh I gotcha homey, don’t worry. I know the fun and games. You found just the right way to frame it for that too. Honestly, knowing their sound I really could see it going either way for you, digging it or despising it. But whichever side you come down on, I pretty much guarantee it’s not anything like you are expecting.
Also, I always think I am exaggerating in my head how tiny Mabel is, but just look at that picture that guitar is almost as big as her! I bet she gets sick of people commenting on her height though, so I will drop it. But man, is she itty bitty!
I just listened to two SPELLING BEE songs on YouTube. The songs were “Cornucopia” and “Killing Jar”. The two songs sounded EXACTLY THE SAME. They were almost the exact same length too.
Anyway, I’m just going to say that I was NOT surprised and they only reaffirmed my stereotypes of and hatred of modern coolness. It was totally intolerable. I could tell by the girl’s smug expression that she thought they were just absolutely brilliant. And maybe they are. What do I know? But it was completely unlistenable to me. Her idiotic guitar noodling and anally-raped-chipmunk-on-helium vocals made it sound like someone gave me 20% of the band VOIVOD . . . whatever is the suckiest part and let them hobble on in a most miserable fashion.
I did kind of like the drum player’s energy and performance style. But he looks like a guy who wants to be Thurston Moore. I don’t know why that irritates me, but it does. And despite his groovy playing, it does not save the music, and the two tracks, as I noted, are completely indistinguishable from one another. I don’t say this just as a grumpy old man that would say all death metal songs sound the same or all techno sounds the same. The songs LITERALLY sound exactly the same.
Okay, enough about how much I hate this band and how totally vindicated I feel because I was 100% correct about them. I can now return to hating the youth of today, everything they do, and all the stupid goofy sounds they make.
Kudos to her, though, for busting the “Zombie Punk” Slyjoe’s balls. Regardless of their crappy music, that is still awesome and nothing can take that away from her.
I wouldn’t rate her as a guitar player but she’s cute and man do I LOVE DIY concerts!
But thanks a lot Gunnar, now I’ve just wasted about 30 mins linking to other videos; first it was Man v Wasps, then it progressed to Russian road rage fights. That’s another productive Sunday in the bag
Hey, fair enough. Granted, those are two live videos that are three years old and not the brand new studio material that I linked to, but if you’re nonplussed, you’re nonplussed. I think they are pretty good, but yeah a lot of their songs do kind of tend to be kinda samey. I think the new stuff is a little bit better about that. Anywhos, glad you gave it a shot anyway.
But thanks a lot Gunnar, now I’ve just wasted about 30 mins linking to other videos; first it was Man v Wasps, then it progressed to Russian road rage fights. That’s another productive Sunday in the bag
That’s the YouTube trap, Bro. And 30 minutes is nothing. I’m victimized in the exact manner you’ve described but I’ll be stuck in the the YouTube margin zombie time warp for like 5 hours. “Ooooh, dog craps on kitchen table? That sounds good! Retarded kids form metal band? Yes! Water bottle hits Justin Bieber in the face? Thank you, God!”
