jeffmac
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Post by jeffmac on Mar 17, 2011 14:50:06 GMT -8
the new antlers album looks to be pretty awesome! they killed it on npr.
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Hancho
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Post by Hancho on Mar 19, 2011 23:00:26 GMT -8
I really like the new Strokes album. +1. The only other album I've heard is "Is This It?"... This sound way different, but I really like it!
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Post by Lump on Mar 20, 2011 5:49:07 GMT -8
I'm afraid to listen to any other albums by them other than "Is This It?" because I just want the other 3 to be 3 copies of Is This It? and I feel I will be disappointed.
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Hancho
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Post by Hancho on Mar 20, 2011 18:54:01 GMT -8
I'm afraid to listen to any other albums by them other than "Is This It?" because I just want the other 3 to be 3 copies of Is This It? and I feel I will be disappointed. Lol. To be honest, that is kind of what I was hoping for with Angels... I don't think anything will top "Is this it?". There are some similarities, but it's for the most part a little more synth-y and the vocals are more expansive in range.
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Post by Cbats on Mar 20, 2011 20:10:06 GMT -8
you guys are weird, room on fire is a fucking great album, stop sleeping on it
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Post by Drew on Mar 21, 2011 19:10:37 GMT -8
cbats nailed it, Room On Fire is a fucking great album. If that were any other band's first album, it would have been hailed as revolutionary.
I feel similarly about Angles (not Angels, Hanch). I keep reading these really negative reviews that say that the band is so disjointed and nobody gets along and so they didn't make a cohesive album. That's such wild bullshit. This is when I hate places like Pitchfork.
Angles is a really good album. Not great like Is This It? and Room On Fire, but really good. Because Julian Casablancas is still a really good songwriter with an awesome voice, and Albert Hammond Jr. still throws fucking down on the guitar solos.
You can feel the energy level rise from the whole band on tracks like "Under Cover of Darkness" and "Taken for a Fool." It doesn't matter if Casablancas sent in his vocals via email attachments. It doesn't matter if the band had a shitty time. These reviewers are millennial fucks who think every band has to be best friends to make a good record. Sometimes really good musicians just make really good music and when you put it together it sounds awesome.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 21, 2011 19:22:22 GMT -8
I would point to Interpol(s earlier work) as a perfect illustration of this. Music was purely business for them.
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Post by Lump on Mar 21, 2011 19:29:47 GMT -8
Point taken. I just remembered I borrowed Room on Fire from a friend and never gave it back, so I'll be listening to that momentarily.
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Post by know ID yuh on Mar 21, 2011 20:04:07 GMT -8
These reviewers are millennial fucks who think every band has to be best friends to make a good record. Sometimes really good musicians just make really good music and when you put it together it sounds awesome. Menomena - Mines They didn't record it together, they broke up (sort of) soon after the release, and the album is excellent.
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Post by Drew on Mar 21, 2011 20:11:08 GMT -8
Two excellent examples.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 21, 2011 20:19:49 GMT -8
Can I just say, something I don't think has been touched on here, but Interpol's most recent album is awful. I think I actually made it through it 1.5 times, which amazes me to this day. It is seriously awful. And I actually thought Our Love To Remember was a little better than Antics, so I had high hopes.
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Post by know ID yuh on Mar 21, 2011 20:30:14 GMT -8
I disagree:
9.9 Turn On The Bright Lights 8.7 Antics 4.6 Interpol 2.9 Our Love To Admire
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 21, 2011 20:33:47 GMT -8
Interesting. Rest My Chemistry, as far as I'm concerned, is one of my top five favorite Interpol songs. Oh, and the Interpol EP should be on that list, as it houses the best song they ever made.
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Post by Blacksmile on Mar 22, 2011 7:07:21 GMT -8
I don't know why everyone shits on Our Love To Admire since it's fucking awesome album. But almost EVERYONE says otherwise. I have no idea why? It has "Rest My Chemistry", "Mammoth", "Pioneer To The Falls", "No I In Threesome"...it's great. Sure "The Heinrich Maneuver" is goofy but still, it's good album overall with solid writing and big choruses...and it's 100X better than the new album.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 22, 2011 10:28:32 GMT -8
Yeah know, why don't you like our love to remember?
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Post by Blacksmile on Mar 22, 2011 11:14:27 GMT -8
These reviewers are millennial fucks who think every band has to be best friends to make a good record. Sometimes really good musicians just make really good music and when you put it together it sounds awesome. Menomena - Mines They didn't record it together, they broke up (sort of) soon after the release, and the album is excellent. I've only recently discovered Menomena in the last few weeks and I love Mines! It's been in a steady rotation since I bought. Great instrumentation and vocals.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Mar 22, 2011 11:16:35 GMT -8
Mines is pretty good, but it's not as interesting as the first two. They really sanded all the edges off.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 22, 2011 11:29:28 GMT -8
They really sanded all the edges off. I love this phrase.
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Post by know ID yuh on Mar 22, 2011 12:39:19 GMT -8
Yeah know, why don't you like our love to remember? Pitchfork told me not to like it, duh. And why do you keep referring to this album you like so much by the wrong title?
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Mar 22, 2011 14:06:13 GMT -8
Well, I haven't listened to it in about 2 years, so I guess I just forgot it was admire. I saw them at Coachella, and was surprised at how much I ended up liking it. Could have had something to do with party favors, though... Someone else was at that coachella... Pea? Fox? Did you see them or did you go to Sonic Youth?
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