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No. 50: brokeNCYDE, “Bree Bree”

Christopher R. Weingarten — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:01 +0000

It’s hard to believe that New Mexico “crunkcore” crew brokeNCYDE actually exists outside of YouTube links that doughy, saddo Broken Social Scene fans with superiority complexes send to each other to convince themselves that they are smarter than a 10th grader. And it’s even harder to believe brokeNCYDE didn’t come fully formed out of the bowels of MySpace as a combination of friend-stacking fashionistas and scene-kid crypto-irony, ready to convince your little sister that it’s still more fun to take pictures of a show with a cell phone than actually watch it.

brokeNCYDE had growing pains just like any band. Take “Bree Bree,” from 2008’s self-released BC-13—recorded back in the days before they had a better grasp of beats and before they realized it was probably a bad idea to be saying the n-word on their records. To explain this to anyone older than 17, “Bree Bree” is the piggie vocal noise that a few “deathcore” bands in the mid-’00s used to squeak out—an affectation they quickly abandoned once it became an internet punchline with in the span of a week. brokeNCYDE are goofballs (or completely fucking clueless), so they not only continued to bree proudly towards the end of the decade, but even named their giant pigsuit mascot (!) Bree Bree. Besides eating a big runny scoop of “Bree,” they get “freaky with sluts,” wear ice on their neck and say that—ugh, ugh, ugh—they “need a project chick.” Bands like brokeNCYDE and electro-doofus earthstains like 3OH!3 are essentially excuses for rich white kids to play dress-up with the most sexist and materialistic elements of hip-hop—pretty much a minstrel show in crooked haircuts.

brokeNCYDE – “Bree Bree” [YouTube]
brokeNCYDE [MySpace]
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Ten Bands That Should (And Ten Bands That Shouldn’t) Grace Us With A Cover Of “Yakety Sax”

Maura — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:00:23 +0000

I don’t know about you, but the dog days of August are making me long for some levity. And what better way to bring in some hilarity than to think about the late Boots Randolph’s delightful “Yakety Sax,” a.k.a. “that Benny Hill Show song,” a.k.a. the best way to make any YouTube clip hilarious? Noted “Yakety Sax” enthusiast Jess Harvell and I put together a pair of lists related to the song—namely, a top 10 countdown of artists who need to cover the song soon, and a counterpoint list of 10 artists who should never get within a 25-mile radius of its implied hilarity, for fear of ruining it for all time. The countdowns after the jump.

Feel free to listen to Randolph’s original track as you peruse the two lists:

The Ten Artists That Definitely Need To Cover “Yakety Sax” ASAP:
10. Slayer
9. Tom Waits
8. Rahzel
7. The User (but only if he uses dot-matrix printers)
6. Kronos Quartet
5. Wendy & Lisa
4. Mighty Mighty Bosstones
3. R. Kelly
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1. “Weird Al” Yankovic

OK, so that last one? Something of a gimme. To counterbalance it:

The Ten Artists That Should Stay As Far Away From Boots Randolph’s Triumph As Possible:
10. Dave Matthews Band
9. Grizzly Bear
8. Creed
7. Cat Power
6. James Taylor
5. Baz Luhrmann
4. 4 Non Blondes
3. Mariah Carey
2. brokenCYDE
1. Phish

The countdown to someone digging up a moldy clip of Phish doing “Yakety Sax” starts now, I guess.

Yakety Sax [YouTube]
Mario Paint Composer – Yakety Sax [YouTube]

Can You Use The Word “Brokencyde” In A Sentence?

Maura — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:00:07 +0000

In the eight-ish months since they first splattered themselves into the consciousness of music listeners, the shutter-shaded crunk-core act brokeNCYDE has spawned many reactions befitting the title of its debut album, I’m Not A Fan… But The Kids Like It. But I am wondering if revulsion toward their schtick, which combines David St. Hubbins’ confusion between “sexy” and “sexist” with tunes that even Tokio Hotel fans would find hookless, is starting to cross generational and demographic divides. The reason? The budding etymologists at Urban Dictionary have come up with a (somewhat convincing!) way to use the band’s name as a verb:

brokencyde

The act of having a penis inserted into your ear.

In case you need a refresher of just what that, uh, odd sex act sounds like, here’s the video for “Freaxxx”:

So far this definition of “brokencyde” is winning handily over its competitors (among them: “Music so bad, it has become the universal standard for bad music”; “A group who after having listened to them is the only good reason to commit suicide”).

brokencyde [Urban Dictionary]
[Decider]
brokenCYDE – Freaxxx [YouTube]
[HT Jess]

Brokencyde Reveal Themselves As The Heirs To Linkin Park’s Throne Of Teen Angst

Maura — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:30:23 +0000

brokeNCYDE – Booty Call Feat. E-40

I know that I’m far outside of their target demo–as evidenced by the title of their forthcoming album I’m Not A Fan… But The Kids Like It!–but I can’t help but be a little more than disappointed by the new single by the hilariously awfulsome crunk-core outfit Brokencyde. “Booty Call” is maybe the ultimate letdown, since it reveals the band as the second coming of Linkin Park, only with a dude making screamo noises instead of rapping and dimestore synths swapped in for awkward DJ scratches. I mean, slightly misogynist songs with lyrics about dropping panties to the floor and asses being stuffed with “chocolate milk” should not sound like they’re meant to soundtrack some kid staring at a ceiling while wishing that it would be set afire by the sheer power of hatred for his suburban upbringing! [MySpace; HT Chris S.]