If you don’t like Dan Deacon yet, or are mildly prone to epileptic fits, scroll on. Charm City polarizer Dan Deacon enlisted Jimmy Jo Roche to produce the first vid from Spiderman Of The Rings, pulling some footage (but no punches) from his typically batshit-insane live show, mixed with the sort of devil-horns-in-front-of-an-American-flag nonsense that’ll either have you chuckle at your desk or think your headphones are shitting in your ears.
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This guy’s so awesome. He better be a child molester or something, because he’s just too perfect to exist.
Awful! Just awful, and whoever thought that this guy had anything on the Smashing Pumpkins is a idiot!
And by the way… someone needs to put a bullet in this genre of squirly white men with beat machines who can’t set up a groove! He could learn a thing or two from the Chromeo and/or the Go! Team camps.
Hating Dan Deacon is basically hating fun. The punishment for being anti-fun? Swirlies.
To all haters: Not understanding a musician or genre does not allow you to discredit it. I think people are turned off by the fact that Dan Deacon is just trying to have fun and bring a sense of humor to music. How awful! Let the swirlies begin.
ps. The Go! Team was started by a squirly white guy.
I know the Go! Team was started by a squirly white guy. But the point of that statement was that Chromeo and the Go! Team have tons of fun with their music without negating things like melody or rhythm! And I would mention discernable lyrics, but that would negate the work of Sigur Ros and their Hopelandic experiments.
Also, I didn?t rag on all of those musicians ? just the tone deaf ones. I understand the genre just fine, but that doesn’t mean that I have to like it or hold back from expressing my distaste because you do! And if that makes me a hater, then fuck it!
P.S. – While I?m at it, let me also express my hatred of the work of the Animal Collective and just see if someone pegs me a being a musically insular asshole.
this is going to be so cool for a few years and then people are going to stop going for all these electro-pop people. everything about him is so trendy.
has the longevity of a wet fart.
DAN DEACONNNNNNN!!!! FUCK YEAH FUCK YOU! FUCK YEAH!
AWESOME
It took me a couple of viewings before I really ‘got’ the premise of this video. My brain was thinking from a completely different perspective when I first saw the title. Once it became clear to me, I fell out of my chair laughing. You just can’t appreciate how hilariously close this piece comes to the genuine article without visiting a trailer park in the south.
Ju Bean: You are so right about both Dan Deacon and the Animal Collective. The 2 worst live shows I’ve seen, (I should say suffered through) in over 25 years of concert-going!
Umm, yeah. If you do not get Dan Deacon, welcome.
You are the same folks who never got:
Big Black
The Flaming Lips
The Velvet Underground
Devo
The Jesus Lizard
And you probably didn’t get the Rolling Stones or buddy Holly, for that matter.
Really, I can’t think of electronic musician who did not take himself less seriously than Mr. Deacon. That’s part of what sets him apart. (oh, and he knows a good tone when it sets his hous on fire, unlike most electronic musicians) It’s not about how good you were at making it, it’s about how good it the finished product is as a whole.