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Post by Blacksmile on Jan 19, 2012 10:12:02 GMT -8
haha, at least it's better than "Working on a Dream"! Gotta think positive here! For sure. After the stellar release of Magic, Working on a Dream was a massive letdown.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 20, 2012 7:04:50 GMT -8
'57 Channels and Nothing's On' /thread Gerry curls and hoop earnings did not suit him. Neither did the terrible song. As far as Working on a Dream goes, I thought it was a much better musical direction than Magic and The Rising (the production on both those albums stunk so bad as well). WoaD wasn't a great album but I appreciate the 60's AM radio sound and "Queen of the Supermarket". The Glory Days:
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Post by wompwomp on Jan 24, 2012 7:49:43 GMT -8
RUSTY!!! Where's Rusty at?
Neil freakin Young and motha fuckin Crazy Horse are releasing one, possibly two albums this year. Holy smokes.
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Post by Pea on Jan 25, 2012 13:34:25 GMT -8
The new Perfume Genius album is really pretty. January has already seen a couple early contenders for top albums for me this year, and this album might just be up there as well. Want some samples? OF COURSE YOU DO.
Possibly NSFW. I'm not sure. It just features some shirtless gay sensuality.
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Post by Cbats on Jan 25, 2012 14:04:29 GMT -8
What other new stuff have you been listening to Pea? the Cloud Nothings and Grimes albums are the only new albums I've been listening to a lot
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Post by Pea on Jan 25, 2012 14:07:12 GMT -8
First Aid Kit and Alcest are the other two I'm really enjoying. I've been meaning to check out that Cloud Nothings album but can't say I'm familiar with Grimes. I'll look into him/her/them/it, though!
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Post by Cbats on Jan 25, 2012 14:26:11 GMT -8
oh yeah I forgot about Alcest, I liked his/their new album quite a bit. I think you'll probably like Cloud Nothings a fair bit (Geno as well if he hasn't listened to it). Some of the other people here might be a bit turned off by the vocals though
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Post by Pea on Jan 25, 2012 17:58:11 GMT -8
That Lana Del Ray album is the biggest pile of shit I've heard in a long time. I've never taken so much pleasure in deleting the FUCK out of something.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 25, 2012 19:03:18 GMT -8
That Lana Del Ray album is the biggest pile of shit I've heard in a long time. I've never taken so much pleasure in deleting the FUCK out of something. I'm sure the album blows, but "Video Games" is better than 99% of anything I've recently heard from any buzz band.
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Post by J-Dawg on Jan 25, 2012 19:07:47 GMT -8
Possibly NSFW. I'm not sure. It just features some shirtless gay sensuality. The gentleman with the beard has been in numerous adult-oriented videos. Watching him put lipstick on another guy has ruined his image completely.
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Post by Drew on Jan 25, 2012 19:45:37 GMT -8
I can't wait to hate that Lana Del Rey album. And that Cloud Nothings album is really, really awesome. It's infectious. I think it would be a horrible 50-minute album, but at just over thirty it's perfect.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 25, 2012 19:54:03 GMT -8
I can't wait to hate that Lana Del Rey album. And that Cloud Nothings album is really, really awesome. It's infectious. I think it would be a horrible 50-minute album, but at just over thirty it's perfect. Y'all are crazy with Cloud Nothing and Youth Lagoon. I'd rather listen to "Video Games" for the same amount of time as both of those albums. So no matter how god awful shitty her album will be the stone cold truth is that it will be better than those two albums. Cloud Nothings and Youth Lagoon are just like that Yuck band to me, what is the point. Not only do they sound musically like the bands that are directly influencing them, they are lyrically identical and they even emote in the same manner as their influences.
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Post by Pea on Jan 25, 2012 20:08:25 GMT -8
I can't speak to Cloud Nothings, but I quite enjoy YG and don't care for Yuck at all.
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Post by know ID yuh on Jan 25, 2012 20:11:19 GMT -8
I can't wait to hate that Lana Del Rey album. And that Cloud Nothings album is really, really awesome. It's infectious. I think it would be a horrible 50-minute album, but at just over thirty it's perfect. Y'all are crazy with Cloud Nothing and Youth Lagoon. I'd rather listen to "Video Games" for the same amount of time as both of those albums. So no matter how god awful shitty her album will be the stone cold truth is that it will be better than those two albums. Cloud Nothings and Youth Lagoon are just like that Yuck band to me, what is the point. Not only do they sound musically like the bands that are directly influencing them, they are lyrically identical and they even emote in the same manner as their influences. One of the reasons I like the Youth Lagoon album so much is because it only sounds like Youth Lagoon. It's unique in the sense that none of the songs remind me of any other band, especially not Yuck.
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Post by Rusty on Jan 25, 2012 21:39:50 GMT -8
I just heard a few of the songs off the New Cloud Nothings album, it's really great so far.
I also don't really know if FD is joking (I never do), but Lana Del Rey is the worst. That one song is pretty good, but the others I've heard are ridiculously bad. Her whole contrived image/past life causes me to hate her, regardless of whether her new album is actually good.
edit: also that Youth Lagoon really grew on me. I hated it when it first came out, but I started listening to it a couple weeks ago, and it really hit me differently.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 25, 2012 22:55:45 GMT -8
Okay, Youth Lagoon doesn't annoy me all that much compared to Cloud Nothings but he does sound an awful lot like Mark Linkous and almost exactly like Mercury Rev at times. Again it's not so much the fact that he's being influenced by the music so much, that's a fine thing for any young band to do, it's the fact that the lyrical material and his vocal delivery are also incredibly similar. I bet it is good live (being serious Rusty).
Also serious that "Video Games" is a more than great tune.
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Post by Cbats on Jan 26, 2012 1:35:06 GMT -8
I think the Cloud Nothing/Yuck comparison is completely fair but I love both so I don't mind. The Youth Lagoon comparison doesn't make much sense though.
that said, Yuck is paying homage to dino jr and pavement while Cloud Nothings are more interested in The Wipers and Sunny Day Real Estate. Same era but completely different bands
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Post by Drew on Jan 26, 2012 7:17:31 GMT -8
Okay, Youth Lagoon doesn't annoy me all that much compared to Cloud Nothings but he does sound an awful lot like Mark Linkous and almost exactly like Mercury Rev at times. Again it's not so much the fact that he's being influenced by the music so much, that's a fine thing for any young band to do, it's the fact that the lyrical material and his vocal delivery are also incredibly similar. I bet it is good live (being serious Rusty). Also serious that "Video Games" is a more than great tune. I do love "Video Games," it's true. And I get really bothered when music is soooo so so derivative that all I can hear is the band's influences, but frankly I was just never into Fugazi or Sunny Day Real Estate hard enough for that to happen to me with Cloud Nothings, which is why I like it so much. I hear it, but it doesn't impact me emotionally like it obviously does you, because I don't really have strong emotions tied to the other stuff. Like with Muse, for instance, where I can't listen to them without thinking, "this Radiohead cover band blows."
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Post by Rusty on Jan 26, 2012 10:46:35 GMT -8
Okay, Youth Lagoon doesn't annoy me all that much compared to Cloud Nothings but he does sound an awful lot like Mark Linkous and almost exactly like Mercury Rev at times. Again it's not so much the fact that he's being influenced by the music so much, that's a fine thing for any young band to do, it's the fact that the lyrical material and his vocal delivery are also incredibly similar. I bet it is good live (being serious Rusty). Also serious that "Video Games" is a more than great tune. I do love "Video Games," it's true. And I get really bothered when music is soooo so so derivative that all I can hear is the band's influences, but frankly I was just never into Fugazi or Sunny Day Real Estate hard enough for that to happen to me with Cloud Nothings, which is why I like it so much. I hear it, but it doesn't impact me emotionally like it obviously does you, because I don't really have strong emotions tied to the other stuff. Like with Muse, for instance, where I can't listen to them without thinking, "this Radiohead cover band blows." This really sums it up for me. I just didn't listen to the bands they're ripping off, so I'm not all that bothered. I can understand how that could be really annoying if you were really into those bands. Has any one heard the whole Lana Del Rey album? Is it as bad as we all thought it would be?
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Post by Cbats on Jan 26, 2012 10:52:48 GMT -8
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