THIS BOARDER recommended THIS ALBUM to me....

[PopTodd]

Just a place for us to post our thoughts about things that we listened to at the urging of our fellow VCers.

Really, just a place to answer these three questions:

 

What did you get?

Who suggested it to you?

What do you think of it?

 

And then, of course, add any other commentary that you might want to add; a "thank you", "screw you", "I'm going to kill you for this!", or anything else like that.

I hope that this will be stickied to the top of the forum, as a handy little reference tool for the board.

 

I'll be posting something here pretty soon -- as soon as I digest this album.

[PopTodd]

Okay, so JFF recommended this album to me:

 

Here are my impressions after a couple of listens:

The songwriting, itself is not immediately grabbing me. But on this (my second) listen, I am enjoying it more than the first time around. I can hear how it is a bit of a subtle record and how it will grow on me. The sound of it is absolutely 90's College Radio. Not commercial "Alternative", but exactly what I used to hear on the left of the dial back around 95 to 98. There is a DIY vibe with some interesting chord voicings and appropriately, half-mumbled, (barely) out-of-key vocals.

Hints of early Meat Puppets, Souled American, and Liz Phair's first record.

 

I'm gonna keep listening to this one.

Thanks, jff!

[jff]

Okay, so JFF recommended this album to me:

 

Here are my impressions after a couple of listens:

The songwriting, itself is not immediately grabbing me. But on this (my second) listen, I am enjoying it more than the first time around. I can hear how it is a bit of a subtle record and how it will grow on me. The sound of it is absolutely 90's College Radio. Not commercial "Alternative", but exactly what I used to hear on the left of the dial back around 95 to 98. There is a DIY vibe with some interesting chord voicings and appropriately, half-mumbled, (barely) out-of-key vocals.

Hints of early Meat Puppets, Souled American, and Liz Phair's first record.

 

I'm gonna keep listening to this one.

Thanks, jff!

 

 

Hey, cool. It was a grower for me, too. I didn't like it very much at first, but now I thoroughly enjoy it. It probably helps that I know the band, but then again, I have a lot of friends in bands and a lot of them have made albums that I think are crap.

 

I'll try to think of some records to add to this thread. Nothing's coming to mind at the moment, but I'm sure there are a number of examples.

[mpolak21]

PopTodd has been plugging Joe Pisapia's Daydream on here for awhile, and I was finally able to secure a copy. I was vaguely familiar with Joe through his contributions to Guster over the years, Keep It Together was a huge album for me my senior year in high school, and kind of expected it to sound like them. While I hear traces of Guster, it feels closer to The Band, Nick Drake, Songs for Beginners era-Graham Nash and even traces of the late great Elliott Smith. The second cut Empty is a real gem, and River Song is great. Pisapia's voice is instantly accessible, and I can get behind anyone whose vocals/lyrics I can actually understand. My favorite part of the album might be the extended piano piece on the end of Daydream, which might have been a hidden track. So if you are a fan of things that are awesome, this is worth checking out.

 

--Mike

[PopTodd]

PopTodd has been plugging Joe Pisapia's Daydream on here for awhile, and I was finally able to secure a copy. I was vaguely familiar with Joe through his contributions to Guster over the years, Keep It Together was a huge album for me my senior year in high school, and kind of expected it to sound like them. While I hear traces of Guster, it feels closer to The Band, Nick Drake, Songs for Beginners era-Graham Nash and even traces of the late great Elliott Smith. The second cut Empty is a real gem, and River Song is great. Pisapia's voice is instantly accessible, and I can get behind anyone whose vocals/lyrics I can actually understand. My favorite part of the album might be the extended piano piece on the end of Daydream, which might have been a hidden track. So if you are a fan of things that are awesome, this is worth checking out.

 

--Mike

 

Glad that I could turn somebody on to that record. And I'm equally glad that it didn't disappoint.