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    Silver Jews vs. Radiohead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I mean, The Beatles--good singers. Paul McCartney-- genius....but Pink Floyd? Sorry, you had me til then. Also, Thom Yorke has an extremely good voice and decent range. Probably a better range than Tweedy, and better singer. But I feel like Tweedy has consistently captured different moods. If you look at two quiet Wilco songs- Sky Blue Sky, and Someday Some Morning, there is a still a huge different in tone and color. Thom Yorke doesn't do that. Tweedy's a good singer, on the mumbly side, but he is extremely good at using what he's got.

     

    To me, Radiohead and the cartoonist R. Crumb present the same problems and are two groups that to me have a certain level of enjoyment but don't understand the large excitement about. Both entities are talented to an extent, but they just are presenting the same mood over and over again, always complaining about the same bullshit. (R.Crumb I hate even 10x more than my just overall distaste of Radiohead)

     

    also, U2? really? first you had me laughing with Pink Floyd in terms of singing (I'm not saying "bad" or anything, but to even compare them to any of the Beatles--even Ringo-- is kind of stretching it). but jeez, I said Radiohead needed humble pie, and then you brought up U2, probably the only band who could use it more and by the gallon. also, the common thread here I'm noticing is that all these bands are English. When I think of English bands, and then American bands, there tends to be more joy and humility present. It seems weird, like even a band like The Arctic Monkeys don't really make happy songs in a way.

    Silver Jews vs. Radiohead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    while I thing Berman is painting with a broad stroke (and kind of arrogantly too) I agree with him and this kind of materializes my feelings on Radiohead in general. Sure, they're an incredibly unique band, but even at The Bends all you have is this whining sense of self pity and agony. Seriously, Thom Yorke, with the ability to put out a record with no label and still make a sizable profit why are you so angry and depressed all the time? This is why I think Wilco is infinitely better than them. Where with Radiohead you always have this droning on and on about self pity and angst, with Wilco you can get a deeper picture of everything. Yeah, there's some self pity and angst in there for sure, but even during the darkest moments are there some of the brighter songs of Wilco's catalogue (HMD after Ashes? Late Greats after Less Than You Think? Theologians?) I don't understand why people are in such awe of a band that essentially has been playing the same song since OK Computer. We get it Thom, with your artistic freedom, sizable bank account, beautiful voice, and fronting a group of other talented musicians, that the world, and apparently, your life, is still an awful place.

    I don't expect everyone to be happy or that 'The Biggest Band in the World' be a mirror of the state of it's listeners, but come on. Eat some freaking humble pie, listen to the birds outside and write some happy songs.

    The only problem for these guys now is that after living an entire career in the depths of misery that if they were to write something happy and upbeat it would probably sound extremely laughable.

    new Animal Collective album

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    the only thing known at this point in time is that it's probably coming out in January, it's probably called Merriweather Post Pavilion, and it features 3 members of the band.

     

    oh, and a tracklisting.

     

    Track List:

     

    1. In the Flowers

    2. My Girls

    3. Also Frightened

    4. Summertime Clothes

    5. Daily Routine

    6. Bluish

    7. Guys Eyes

    8. Taste

    9. Lion in a Coma

    10. No More Runnin

    11. Brother Sport

     

    everything else is a mystery, and I am excited.

    8th election thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    wow, really, on The View? you know you have a problem when both candidates couldn't/can't handle competently talking and discussing your issues with those women....

     

    edit: not that it matters that if they were anti-Obama he would get ripped apart too, but I'm still amazed some people here are still vehemently pro Obama, OR McCain. they're both awful choices. On one hand, you have Obama: you want to like him, but too bad he's just as big of a liar as any politician. He's consistently sided with the "evil" George Bush on issues which he now tries to distance himself from, and he tries to pretend like he has more experience than Gov. Palin at anything, or trying to pretend that he's not trying to endow America with some good old fashioned Socialism. Not to mention his VP is virtually a nonfactor-- an old white guy who used to try and assume the identities of other people. With McCain you have an old, inarticulate Republican whose as religious and wishy washy as they come...not to mention his moronic campaign ads and choice of a general tool for VP.

     

    why do people still fall for this stuff? you want real change, you left it a few months ago. Someone like Ron Paul could have actually toted "Change" on all of his trendy Shepard Fairy merchandise and meant it. Here's a guy who actually has a doctorate, experience, and plans for legitimate, promising change. He's not some crazy Mike Gravel (who I admire)...he's as smart as the rest of them. He's a little extreme in some ways, but his plans are overall more interesting and promising for a world policing country with an enormous deficit. The same goes for a few other candidates in the past...

    this isn't a special election, this is just a really bad one. people got lulled into safety by people with more money and flashy speeches rather than the people who could actually promise change or not make themselves look like fools. if you want to vote for a woman or a black person, wait until a decent one comes around. America doesn't have to settle for these pathetic choices.

    Nicest songs ever

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Here comes the sun

     

    and

     

    Clair de Lune

     

    are probably the two most beautiful uplifting songs ever

     

    edit: and usually this band is great (but not always standard "nice"), but Loch Raven off of Feels by Animal Collective is amazing and up there with those two I feel like.

    Wilco and Fleet Foxes cover Dylan

    in Just A Fan

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    >JT is probably the only guy I can think of who tastefully does falsetto

     

    Thom Yorke

    Jim James

    Justin Vernon

    Neil Young

     

    -justin

     

    if I'm not mistaken, those guys all have the high enough range to sing good falsetto, like Brian Wilson, where JT's range is low enough for him to have to sing actual falsetto (where male singers with a lower range can sing falsetto, it works differently and isn't as clean sounding). that's what I mean...it's the difference between Beck's "Debra" and the high parts in Good Vibrations or any earlier Beach Boys song.

     

    I could be wrong, but this is what my girlfriend whose part of a choir told me, and having a generally similar range to JT I get what she's saying.

    I fear

    in Just A Fan

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    "The worst review you've ever read." Hmm... care to elaborate?

     

    i think my main problem is that it wasn't even a review. I definitely got around to going over the content, but they didn't even analyze the album. What was good about the album? what was bad? instead we get a random, literary mess of relating Wilco to The Band, something I'm SURE NO ONE has heard of. I don' care that he thought the album was good, that's not my problem. it's the fact he went at length to make all these comparisons without even talking about why the album is good or bad. A rating doesn't suffice, a review is a review, not some pretentious exercise in witty use of language and comparison. I felt like I was reading some kind of William Shatner monologue. Yeah, he goes about saying they're good musicians and hints at it being something along the lines of "typically sounding good" but otherwise it's just a boring collage of over intellectualized ideas.

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