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« Reply #75 on May 11, 2012, 5:02pm via the ProBoards Mobile App »

The Shins: Consistently above average but not great.

Possibly the best description of them ever.

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« Reply #76 on May 13, 2012, 3:38pm »

You know what I mean, Pea? Say you were to score them on a scale from 1-100, they'd always get, like, 83. On every record and every live show. From every person that saw them or heard them.

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It's the Pitchfork standard.

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« Reply #78 on May 13, 2012, 6:01pm »

I don't know, Chutes Too Narrow is pretty fucking transcendent, as well as Oh, Inverted World. I think that they're mediocre now.

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Wincing the Night Away is one of my favorite albums ever, but everything else by them really is just at most "good," like BTC said.

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« Reply #80 on May 13, 2012, 6:48pm »

I feel like The Shins (and specifically Wincing the Night Away, more specifically even "Sleeping Lessons" & "Girl Sailor") were the soundtrack to my life from 16 - 18 so they meant something special. I never held them in high regard as anything but story tellers that helped me through pimples, heartbreaks, drinking in the forest, etc. It was never like when I would listen to The White Stripes during the same time and say, "Fucking Jack White. He's a genius." James Mercer just is...well he's a lot of things but he's no Jack White.

Anyway, I had to see them at Coachella to finally say I saw them and the journey from adolescence into full blown adulthood was complete. They were Snoozechella but it was sentimental and wonderful. I still love some of those albums and Port of Morrow is good but it doesn't speak to me like WTNA or CTN did. I mean...it's a B+. I think taken out of the context of life's implications - The Shins are always just a 3.3 GPA.

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« Reply #81 on May 13, 2012, 10:07pm »

Sorry ya'll, but Chutes Too Narrow is a timeless and pretty much flawless pop record, and it was also the jumping off point for a whole wave of similar-minded artists for the last almost ten years. Wincing the Night Away and Port of Morrow are mere shades of its glory, and though I have a profound personal relationship with it, Oh, Inverted World is a bold and nearly-realized promise of Chutes Too Narrow's near-perfection.

Don't mistake James Mercer's current business-like deliberation in making records with the energy and earnestness of genesis in those songs back then. It's incomparable.

I know that we're talking about opinions here, but I can't overstate how emphatically positive I am of this particular opinion.

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« Reply #82 on May 13, 2012, 10:13pm »

I absolutely agree with drew on this. Anymore, they're just some band. But they really meant something from 2001-2004. It's easy to forget that, but they were not only hugely popular but HUGELY influential.

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Man...I think Chutes is their worst album :/

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« Reply #84 on May 13, 2012, 10:14pm »

I also really, really love Wincing the Night Away. It doesn't have the same sentimental value as Chutes (a lot), but it's definitely better than Oh, Inverted World.

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« Reply #85 on May 13, 2012, 10:17pm »

Oh, Inverted World is really nostalgic for me. It was my first real favorite album. I listen to it now and it reminds me of when I started getting so excited about music (early high school), and how it changed who I hung out with and what I did. So in that sense it's my favorite. But Chutes Too Narrow was like your favorite band putting out an album that you didn't think could be as good as it is. That was massive. I've never been that satisfied with a new album, I don't think.

Anyway, back to reality, I'll be skipping the Shins for St. Vincent.

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« Reply #88 on May 14, 2012, 10:25am »

I think the reasons the Shins were popular in 2001-2004 were because there was such a vacuous space in music back then. They were good in those years but not great. There just wasn't much better than them at the time and so they became very popular by default.

I like the Shins and am really sentimental toward those first two albums too, but just because you personally feel tied to a record doesn't make it amazing.

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