"Art Punk"?

[Tanooki Suit]

Anyone else a fan? Yeah, I know it's a pretty ambiguous term, but I'm sure I can clarify it to a certain degree. I would consider Les Savy Fav to be the epitome of what "art punk" embodies, and other bands that I would include in the category include:
Clinic
At the Drive-In
Despistado (they broke up already though, after one EP)
British Sea Power

Can anyone think of any else?

[dretti]

I read somewhere where the yeah yeah yeahs were called "art punk"

[jaimej]

Gah I hate the yeah yeah yeahs. Worst live show ever.

[irthesteve]

Gah I hate the yeah yeah yeahs. Worst live show ever.
but the lyrics to "maps" are so deep...

[jaimej]

but the lyrics to "maps" are so deep...
Hahahahaha ohhhh yeah.

[Tanooki Suit]

YYY's are not art punk. They're like garage-indie rock.

Anyways, back to Les Savy Fav. Check out these terrific lyrics to "Tragic Monsters":

What we don't know can fill a truck
What we don't know cannot hurt us
Well, is that so?
We're hard to destruct
Well, is that so?
Why do we get crushed?

Prepare the isolation chamber
I'm going in
And all the people there will wonder
"Can we go with him?"

Tell me now you're only kidding
When you say "We'll pass away"
Tell me now this yarn we're spinning
Doesn't end on judgement day

All tragic monsters are crying for themselves
In attics and in basements
In cages and prison cells
Wishing that the citizen's myth they could dispel
Until you see the faces,
in the limestone on the pipe;
don't tell the tragic monsters what loneliness is like

And is there any wonder
That some misfits lose their mind?
Left to fumble asunder
In the world deaf, dumb, and blind
And can they sense our justice
When they commit their crime?
How can they abide our justice?
They're already doing time

What we don't know
What we don't know
What we don't know
What we don't know
What we don't know
What we don't know
What we don't know
Can't hurt us yet

[Sabian]

Why not just listen to Yes, ELP, or King Crimson? ATDI owns though

[Love As Arson]

It doesn't exist.

[Tanooki Suit]

Why not just listen to Yes, ELP, or King Crimson? ATDI owns though
What do those bands have to do with art punk? Yes are like prog/psych/BS, King Crimson is BORING prog, and I've never even heard of ELP, unless you're talking about El-P, who is most assuredly hip hop.

[Sabian]

What do those bands have to do with art punk? Yes are like prog/psych/BS, King Crimson is BORING prog, and I've never even heard of ELP, unless you're talking about El-P, who is most assuredly hip hop.
Its all art rock man. ELP= Emerson Lake and Palmer...

[FinchBulldog2]

but the lyrics to "maps" are so deep...
haha I do not like that band.