Theremin

Ha, it was only a matter of time before the obvious best song on this album got its own hate-thread.

It's subtle enough that I wouldn't be surprised if they missed it.

It's pretty obvious when you listen to it with headphones. I really can't imagine noone noticed this, so it's probably intentional.

"Leave it. It

Yeah, I noticed this as well, it's pretty obviously there. Guess it was intentional.

There's obviously some similarities between them but after the hysteric discussion surrounding it I was expecting more of a blatant rip-off.

Of course, this album is a bit more eclectic than their previous 4 efforts which all seemed to propagate more or less a single idea, so naturally that leads to the fact that it's easier to rearrange the individual songs without losing vital parts of the CD as a whole. Actually, the same counts for Being There.

Bull Black Nova was kind of a disappointment to me. Everybody keeps comparing it to Spiders, but it isn't quite as good. Spiders has the running bass line line and repeating melody, but it kicks in and delivers with the breakdown, which makes it a great song. Bull Black Nova, which has the lyrical edge over Spiders, just doesn't deliver like Spiders does. Maybe I need to listen to it a bunch more time. I didn't get Spiders, until I heard it live, then it became one of my favorite songs.

I think it's actually an improvement. BBN has a more organic kind of urgency over it, whereas spiders sounded a little too forced.

The Hold Steady has a board?

Better not try to look at it, though.

Still beats Neko Case's & Hold Steady's latest releases in the boring department though.

That reminds me of that story my sister in law told me recently after she's been in Brugge :

Two American tourists visiting Brugge asked her about the city closing time...like it were some kind of fake Disney entertainment park ... !

 

Samuel

Haha, brilliant.

@Howjado: those things are typically Belgian in general, well except maybe for the pies.

Anything that makes a song sound less like SBS is the opposite of dad rocking it.

The live version sounded more AGIB to me.

Also, I just wanted to use the very meaningful words 'dad rock' in a sentence. Next up: comptemporary adult.

Really dissapointing how they sucked the epicness right out of One Wing, it's like they dad rocked it down. Such a shame.

Hmm, I feel like they really could've done more with One Wing (the live version floating around was a lot richer) & Everlasting (ends just when it starts to get interesting). Also, as mentioned before You & I really sounds like something that will be played to the background of some corny emotional scene in one of those annoying soap-hybrids (though I actually get that feeling with all things Feist).

I really dig Deeper down, Bull black Nova & Sonny Feeling (a vast improvement over earlier versions) though.

Okay, theremin put a wink face but now I feel the need to defend Brugge! HA! Gent is very cool and Bruges does have lots of tourists but we just avoid the tourists and blend in. A great vibe. Sorry to threadjack. It is had for me to not discuss Belgium and Bruges.

Ya, but the local vibe in Bruges is kinda defined by lots of local old people (it's like the Florida of Belgium) and Japanese tourists with oversized camera's. Well, that's the way people in Belgium usually regard it anyway (except the ones who actually are from Bruges of course).

Ghent is indeed the real deal, it has actually no less of the medival history stuff but at least you don't feel like walking into a gigantic open air museum.

Seriously, Bruges is just one big tourist trap.

They anncounced that like a month ago.

They've had better.

Their raving review of YHF

Pitchfork will rate it 6.1. Slightly better than SBS but still not enough YHF & too much dad rock to deserve higher ratings.

Rhetorical questions... internet's final frontier.

Really? That's about the worst Lee Ranaldo song ever. The verses remind me of a song by EBM-prodigies Covenant (not a compliment when you're SY) & the chorus never really gets off the ground.

Pink Steam is a nice Jam but they've done better. Kinda falls flat when compared to e.g. the similar Rain on Tin.

I'm not disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing - but I think you may have just thought you saw that. I've been paying attention (pathetic, yes) to the fact that it's been spelled "sonny" on the site and elsewhere and nobody's mentioned it until a couple of days ago.

But I was being pathetic as well, I remember even thinking: "hmm, that's quite odd compared to the RS interview" etc.

And I'm not drunk. All the time.

Edit: well, what preferedB said.

Maybe someone saw "sunny" on a setlist or something - but it's been "sonny" ever since I've seen it mentioned officially - either on the band's site or in RS reports.

EDIT: March 27th: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...rly-track-list/

Actually, 2 days ago it was still named 'sunny feeling' on their official site. They deviously editted it (just like they did with everlasting everything).

I suppose you don't know me but I've been listening to Sonic Youth since Evol and I prefer Rather Ripped to Sonic Nurse.

That obviously implies you aren't a true fan.

Though War on War has a valid point, Incinerate is a pretty great song. Too bad the rest of the album doesn't live up to it.