Kniferide wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:28 pmDude fro Grizzly Bear at least has some subtlety and emotional control... and better pitch... and lacks that shot up with novocaine annunciation.

Come on man. What forum did you mean to post that one on?

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 2:05 pm

Kniferide wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:28 pmDude fro Grizzly Bear at least has some subtlety and emotional control... and better pitch... and lacks that shot up with novocaine annunciation.

Come on man. What forum did you mean to post that one on?

Filling out my tender profile in another window. Seriously though, I'm no huge fan of Grizzley Bear, I like their cover of "He Hit Me" and I got pretty zooted on Mushrooms once and thought their first record was pleasant enough to lay on the floor to, but that dude is very easily a better singer by all measures than the Geese guy. I put Geese guy up for maybe my least favorite singer in the last 10 years. I fucking hate it.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 12:07 pm Saw them last night in Houston. Really good. They’re basically a bunch of 20 year olds that grew up on Fender Deville bands.

There’s not a lot to dislike here. They played through amps w/ minimal pedals, had a good drummer, used Television style techniques for aorta broken pretty guitar lines. Vocals fit in better with the band, though when the guy is playing with a group he kind of leans into the Thom Yorke thing - sings way different than on the solo album. Made sure the crowd was being safe like all our fav nice guys pretending to be mean bands.

The band has their own thing going on, I think the records have modern production flourishes that are sort of distracting.

I mostly went because I fell in love with the solo album and knew my wife would be into it, which she was.

She said they weren’t that cute though, looked like a bunch of nerds? Is that true?!

Dude, come on...

Bands actually used to be cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0mehF ... rt_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_YB5dY ... rt_radio=1

the SNL performance is really good, made me think of Tropical Fuck Storm which is a huge compliment. But I still go "oh fuck, no" when dude goes near the microphone.

emmanuelle cunt wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 6:14 am the SNL performance is really good, made me think of Tropical Fuck Storm which is a huge compliment. But I still go "oh fuck, no" when dude goes near the microphone.

idk what you were watching, sounded like amateur hour at the battle of the bands to me. the wife literally said "how'd these dorks get on snl", had to inform her the old fashioned way, daddy bought them a slot.

dumbass wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 6:50 am

emmanuelle cunt wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 6:14 am the SNL performance is really good, made me think of Tropical Fuck Storm which is a huge compliment. But I still go "oh fuck, no" when dude goes near the microphone.

idk what you were watching, sounded like amateur hour at the battle of the bands to me. the wife literally said "how'd these dorks get on snl", had to inform her the old fashioned way, daddy bought them a slot.

Ha, what a Rorschach of a band. I skim the rundown of SNL performances at AVclub to see if there are 1-2 sketches that might give me a laugh. I checked the comment thread to see how people responded to Geese and they all said similar things about how they can't play/amateurish etc.

To me watching that performance, you'd have to be pretty on top of shit as a band to play a song with such a loose structure. It falls apart and comes together suddenly without visual cues or eye contact from the members. I'm sure plenty people talking about this have played in bands. I'm wondering if I'm the only one seeing that if I were covering this song (what could earn more ridicule than a Geese cover?!) the arrangement would be quite a handful even though the individual parts are easy.

You definitely can't argue with someone who hates the singing style. It's a lot. It's also what gives them their identity so that's make or break. Some people can't stand cilantro.

The other thing interesting to me about the Geese phenomenon is at this point they're what I call the IPA phenomenon. This is when something becomes big enough that everyone assumes it's unanimously loved. Then a million people separately say something about how they don't understand why everyone loves it because they personally find it awful. The hype backlash on this band seems about as big as the hype. There are parody videos (many of which are hilarious).

If my AOR, FM radio listening old man, and the PRFers who listen to some relatively freaky shit have almost identical reactions to the group's sound I have to conclude that big hype might really hurt this band's trajectory. I suppose that's a classic equation in rock music.

I watched some of that SNL performance, and it sounded like a Black Keys cover band attempting Captain Beefheart.

Krev wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 10:02 am I watched some of that SNL performance, and it sounded like a Black Keys cover band attempting Captain Beefheart.

I was thinking more like Audioslave cover band attempting US Maple.

Lu Zwei wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 10:31 am

Krev wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 10:02 am I watched some of that SNL performance, and it sounded like a Black Keys cover band attempting Captain Beefheart.

I was thinking more like Audioslave cover band attempting US Maple.

Hilarious.

"We're really trying to find the space where Creed connects with the Van Pelt"

losthighway wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 7:44 am Some people can't stand cilantro.

That's very often genetic.