Negative XP is a great band

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Sex Pistols era punk was revolutionary because it rejected the idea that music and musicians needed to be well produced or technically skillful, it just needed to have passion behind it.
It was in essence a re-democratisation of music in an era of corporate music control comparable to now.
But the Sex Pistols and their contemporaries always sounded like shit and so does Negative XP.

The scott pilgrim song was an unexpectedly good piece of social commentary, but only holds up when carved down into about 35 seconds.
MK Ultra victim is arguably their only passable song and the only one where he isn't fighting the his overpowering vocal fry.
Everything else you can group into:
  • What I'd very charitably call experimental music EG literally anything on Gamer III
  • Teen Pop Punk aimed at emotional stunted grown men (Translation: incel music) Goodbye
  • And kekistan tier Independent Thinker™ music like OP posted for terminally online rightoid dopamine fiends.
It sounds shit and it has no value except as a study of the sad minds of his millennial audience.
It is not subversive and neither are you.

I do like how the album covers are styled like PS1 game covers though, that's pretty cool.
 
Sex Pistols era punk was revolutionary because it rejected the idea that music and musicians needed to be well produced or technically skillful, it just needed to have passion behind it.
It was in essence a re-democratisation of music in an era of corporate music control comparable to now.
But the Sex Pistols and their contemporaries always sounded like shit and so does Negative XP.

The scott pilgrim song was an unexpectedly good piece of social commentary, but only holds up when carved down into about 35 seconds.
MK Ultra victim is arguably their only passable song and the only one where he isn't fighting the his overpowering vocal fry.
Everything else you can group into:
  • What I'd very charitably call experimental music EG literally anything on Gamer III
  • Teen Pop Punk aimed at emotional stunted grown men (Translation: incel music) Goodbye
  • And kekistan tier Independent Thinker™ music like OP posted for terminally online rightoid dopamine fiends.
It sounds shit and it has no value except as a study of the sad minds of his millennial audience.
It is not subversive and neither are you.

I do like how the album covers are styled like PS1 game covers though, that's pretty cool.


i just like the covers and how it sounds
 
A lot of his stuff is pretty same-y and I don't agree with his vocals a lot of the time (both the style and what he's saying) but every once in a while the stars align and he makes some shit I can really groove to:
Also he did a cover of that one robocop/dilbert song and it was pretty cool:
 
He sounds like Wavves. There used to be a guy called Wavves who made lofi surf rock inspired punk with a very similar sound to Negative XP. I was never a fan of Wavves, mostly because of how simplistic and childish his lyrics were. They were really really cringe inducing and embarrassing to listen to. Negative XP is basically just what Wavves wished he could be.
 
I like Negative XP a lot, I would respect him alone for all the salt he mined from Cucktano and his orbiters but his actual music is good old school style 70s punk rock/power pop. He genuinely sounds like one of those weirdo one-off 7 single bands like The Child Molesters, The Mentally Ill, Silver Chalice, AK-47, etc. that you'd hear on one of those Killed by Death or Bloodstains Over... comps back in the day.
 
Negative XP does the fuzzed out garage punk sound that is still popular. Check out LiveFastDie or Wavves if you like that sort of sound.
 
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