KevinG

i do now

not a huge fan of vocals, but an overall good album. kinda hoped for another 19xx World champion or the like on this album. BTW their version of Life on Mars is awesome.

best song ever!

and he owns a Zune or something. Let's begin the impeachment proceedings.

Rumors abound that Tennant may be tapped for the next Batman movie, as the Riddler. But that is just a rumor and based on something I saw one the internet. Go ahead google David Tennant Batman. Now that you are back, I think Tennant will have the best luck as an actor outside of Who. His stock has risen with Who (with it's airings on SciFi and BBCAmerica, which no other doctor really has had), but also his run on stage as Hamlet, his work in the Harry Potter Movies, and some other Brit TV stuff he is positioned himself to be come very big here in the states. I suspect David will be a pre

I did, or at least the first one, and it is terrible. I mean it was really really bad. It read like it was written by a 7th grader, trying to sound cooler then he is. There was way too much alliteration in the book. The one thing the book did well is explain Dexter's Dark passenger, which you don't get a sense of in the show as much. The TV show is way better.

until they develop the OS X version I won't use it.

Sleepytime in the Western World is just soooo damn catchy. I can't help myself to bob my head in a hipster kind of way when I hear it.

My biggest hang up with April is over half the songs clock in at nearly six minutes or greater. I love the music, but at about 5 mins I am like get on with it, already. Other then that Sun Kil Moon is fantastic, and April is great. prolly 8 in my top 10 of 2008.

I always thought you liked Armchairs over Eggs.

I totally agree with you. I am listening to right now, but at work. Over it is solid, a lot moodier then Eggs or AA. But it has a song about pirates, and that is always good.

I still don't know what Ryan said about his music that "hurt your feelings." Some context would put this whole thing in perspective.

Not quite what I was looking for, artists who use obscure references to not only make a point (and possibly do it in a tongue and cheek way), but also to show how smart they are. I have said it before and I will say it again. At times Colin Meloy writes songs just to show how smart he is. Not to say the end product is bad, but annoying. I have never said they where overtly serious, I think pretension and seriousness do not go hand in hand. Quite often the who are the most pretentious think they are doing it with a wink and nod. ie Dennis Miller. Another way to say this is Artists who ar

Is there anyway I can put this on my best of 2008 and 2009?

I was trying to make a point. I love this board and I love the exchange of ideas and what not. But when it boils down to it, does anyone really care what others think? Most of the time people are looking for some sort of validation of what they believe is right. Ryan Adams liking or not liking a record doesn't matter. If Ryan Adams or anyone preference changes your preference in anyway, well that is is just sad. Not to say people can't influence you, but ultimately your tastes should be your tastes. And Hardwood floor, I will never go away.

the Decemberist are the Dennis Miller of Rock'n Roll

Writing a 7 minute songs about obscure Japanese folk tales is pretentious. Simply put Colin Meloy is trying to show how smart he is. I have always felt his songs are like, look at me I know about this segment of obscure history and I am gonna put it with this outlandish cord changes for the next 9 and half minutes. That is pretentious. It is not goofy. Goofy is 2 min songs about milk. There is nothing goofy about the Decemberists. Needless to say as I had said before, the end product is generally good.

really who cares what Ryan Adams thinks, for that matter who cares what the hell you think. If you like the early records great. If someone doesn't then that is their opinion. It is hard to tell what the problem you had with Ryan's "diss" of Whiskeytown, because you never site anything. If Ryan said anyone who listens to Whiskeytown is a fing moron and should be killed with a chicken bone you might have something. But if he just care for the records, then why do you care, cause he made them? You like 'em, great. Just leave it at that. Ryan, Jeff Tweedy are actually people, why shoul

the thing about the Decemberists is that they really sing about some stupid stuff, but thinking they are singing about really important stuff. But the end product is generally pretty enjoyable, in a pretentious art school kinda way.

if that is what you think then, ok. I prolly won't change your mind, and you won't change mine. I think the majority of their songs are much better then Stacey's Mom. Traffic and Weather is a great album imo. And I meant bad rep, as in reputation. This is a bad rap:

I always felt Fountains of Wayne were an under appreciated band and got a bad rep with that silly Stacey's Mom song.

Is there any other reason to watch Chuck?

I heard that. quite awesome indeed.

I am still waiting for almost every musician in the world to sue Ryan Adams.

i'll be the first to say it. U2 and Radiohead should join Satch in a class action suit.