The only reason I listened to these guys, initially, was their name – Starfucker. I thought it was the coolest band name I’d heard in a while, but I also thought it was meant as a metaphor for “fucking” a star (like the ones in the sky), not the more obvious fucking a star (like the ones in the movies). I’ll admit, I wasn’t as impressed, but the name still rolls off the tongue nicely – or maybe that’s just my fascination with the word, fuck.
Aside from Starfucker’s name, their first album, also called Starfucker, was a pleasant surprise – I’m not that into indie rock, yet, but I really enjoyed a few songs off this. The album had a nice blend of electronic instrumentals with an indie rock vibe. It resembled Broken Bells, which whom I’ve really gotten into lately.
The top songs I picked, if you’re not playing them already, are “Florida”, “Gregory Erickson the Second” & “German Love”. I read on a forum that “German Love” is a true story about a guy from Germany who made sex tapes with his girlfriend but didn’t exactly tell her about making the tapes. Well, he put up a site with the videos (also called a porn site) and it blew up in popularity. She found out and dumped his ass, and so the rest of the story goes. Who knows if it’s true, but it’s a good story to tie along with the song.
Let me know what your favorite song is out of these three.. or any other Starfucker song, if you’re into ‘em…
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Download: Florida | Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second | German Love
Starfucker/STRFKR Info.:
Styles: Indie/Alt Rock, Indie Electronic
Origin: Portland, Oregon
Members:
Joshua Hodges: vocals, keyboards, guitar, drums
Ryan Biornstad: guitar, keyboards, vocals, turntables
Shawn Glassford: bass, keyboards, drums
Keil Corcoran: drums, keyboards, vocals
Formerly: PYRAMID, Pyramiddd
Label: Old Wave Records
Albums: Starfucker | Jupiter
Similar Artists: Broken Bells | SOLID GOLD | Passion Pit
Links: Wikipedia | MySpace | Facebook | Twitter | SoundCloud | YouTube | Last.fm | AllMusic
Starfucker (album) Info.:
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Buy Links: Amazon | Amazon MP3 | iTunes
Eh Not a huge fan of this…..I know it is very constructive but I actually just stopped playing it in the middle because it sounded just too awkward…
Yea, I wouldn’t think you’d be a fan of this. What exactly do you mean by awkward, though?
to me it feels like they just threw a bunch of music together at a wall and hoped som would stick. You can’t hear the lyrics it was just awkward for me .
I downloaded my first starfucker song because of the name too and I also thought it meant a star in the sky! Lets be friends. They’re not my favorite band but they definitely deserve a listen.
TS – ya, it’s hard for me to hear the lyrics in a lot of music, so I just make up my own :) As for it just being music ‘thrown together on a wall to see what would stick’, that’s a pretty harsh opinion, but I’m just glad to hear people’s opinions – even if I disagree with them totally! ;)
Mimi – lol, glad I’m not the only one! Yea, they are far from my favorite, but I thought people should know about them. And yes, we should be friends, haha.
I love this, not awkward in the slightest! get your ears cleaned folks ;)
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Excellent. Great tracks here. To the extent that the music sounds like a bunch of sounds that were thrown at a wall to see if it would stick, it definitely stuck. Great post!