CortezTheKiller Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 1. Our Blood/Richard Buckner2. The Harrow & the Harvest/Gillian Welch3. Candidate Waltz/Centro-matic4. El Camino/The Black Keys5. Mount Moriah/Mount Moriah Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamin' Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 02 Destroyer - Kaputt Everything about this album is awesome - including the cover (http://lpwtf.tumblr....autifully-bored). I hadn't paid much attention to Destroyer since This Night, so Kaputt really blew my mind. "Whoa, how did we get from there to here?" I played it nonstop for months. One perk of living in Vancouver is (sometimes) understanding what Dan Bejar is singing about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
augurus Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Everything about this album is awesome - including the cover (http://lpwtf.tumblr....autifully-bored). I hadn't paid much attention to Destroyer since This Night, so Kaputt really blew my mind. "Whoa, how did we get from there to here?" I played it nonstop for months. One perk of living in Vancouver is (sometimes) understanding what Dan Bejar is singing about.Yeah, I'm quite enamored with Kaputt as well. It's so gorgeous. But, I get the feeling that most of ViaChicago loves Kaputt as much as they love Beth/Rest. As for how Destroyer got to this point musically, we may never know since this is still a radical departure from their last album, Trouble In Dreams. Destroyer released Bay Of Pigs, the last song, on an EP a year earlier, and that's when I had to look at Destroyer again. Kaputt certainly deserves more love. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Kaputt is way too yacht rock for me, and i like steely dan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
junkiesmile Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Kaputt is way too yacht rock for me, and i like steely dan.What the hell does "yacht rock" mean? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
opsopcopolis Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 In no particular order: Wilco - The Whole LoveUmphrey's McGee - Death By StereoNoel Gallagher's High Flying BirdsTedeschi Trucks Band - RevelatorTres. Mts. - Three Mountains Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamin' Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Kaputt is way too yacht rock for me, and i like steely dan.Steely Dan Bejar, not so much. To me, Kaputt is more Bryan Ferry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Melinda Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Just 2... Wilco - The Whole LoveJ Mascis - Several Shades of Why Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 What the hell does "yacht rock" mean? "In the musical sense, yacht rock refers to the highly polished brand of soft rock that emanated from Southern California between 1976 and 1984. The term is meant to suggest the kind of smooth, mellow music that early yuppies likely enjoyed while sipping champagne and snorting cocaine on their yachts. Significant "yacht rockers" include Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Toto." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 It also inspired one of the greatest things ever on the Internet: http://channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=152 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
junkiesmile Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 "In the musical sense, yacht rock refers to the highly polished brand of soft rock that emanated from Southern California between 1976 and 1984. The term is meant to suggest the kind of smooth, mellow music that early yuppies likely enjoyed while sipping champagne and snorting cocaine on their yachts. Significant "yacht rockers" include Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Toto." That sounds horrible. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
augurus Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Kaputt is way too yacht rock for me, and i like steely dan.I find it too difficult to associate Bodhisattva with champagne, cocaine, California, or even soft rock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 "In the musical sense, yacht rock refers to the highly polished brand of soft rock that emanated from Southern California between 1976 and 1984. The term is meant to suggest the kind of smooth, mellow music that early yuppies likely enjoyed while sipping champagne and snorting cocaine on their yachts. Significant "yacht rockers" include Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Toto." I never heard that term, but I kinda like it. Yacht Rock: the Nadir of RnR? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I find it too difficult to associate Bodhisattva with champagne, cocaine, California, or even soft rock. let's be clear here...Michael McD did the yachting up of The Dan, at least until Aja onwards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Who wrote that tired sea songSet on this peaceful shoreYou think you've heard this one before I love Steely Dan and Aja. I'm not a yuppie. I've never done coke. I've never been on a yacht. And the album in question (Kaputt) bores me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 a friend said that 'Bon Iver' is French for 'as boring as Iron and Wine' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shug Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Part of the genius of later Steely Dan (Aja and Gaucho) was that although the music was super smooth and slick (even though the music is complex and full of virtuoso performances that are very difficult to play), the subject matter was still about junkies, whores, drug dealers and other sleazy kinds of characters/experiences. The irony of the contrast between the smooth music and the dirty lyrics, I believe, largely went over the heads of the chardonnay-swilling yuppies who love those songs so much. Steely Dan, IMO, belong in a category light-years beyond Little River Band, Kenny Loggins, etc, even though I have a soft-spot guilty pleasure for yacht rock (first time I've heard the term, but its not bad as a neat short descriptor). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 My Top SixWilco --- The Whole LoveThe Horrible Crowes --- ElsieMiddle Brother --- Middle BrotherKurt Vile --- Smoke Rings for my HaloDawes --- Nothing is WrongRyan Adams --- Ashes and Fire(and for # 7 The Deep Vibration --- Strange Love) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 A top 20 song about smoking heroin?Must be Steely Dan. These guys were absolutely decadent and subversive and deserve much better than to be called 'Yacht Rock'. Son you better be ready for loveOn this glory dayThis is your chance to believeWhat I've got to sayKeep your eyes on the skyPut a dollar in the kittyDon't the moon look pretty Tonight when I chase the dragonThe water will change to cherry wineAnd the silver will turn to goldTime out of mind I am holding the mystical sphereIt's direct from lhasaWhere people are rolling in the snowFar from the world we knowChildren we have it right hereIt's the light in my eyesIt's perfection and graceIt's the smile on my face Tonight when I chase the dragonThe water will change to cherry wineAnd the silver will turn to goldTime out of mind Children we have it right hereIt's the light in my eyesIt's perfection and graceIt's the smile on my face Tonight when I chase the dragonThe water will change to cherry wineAnd the silver will turn to goldTime out of mind Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shakespeare In The Alley Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 yeah drugs have never been mentioned in hit songs before or since that one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 yeah drugs have never been mentioned in hit songs before or since that one By a 'yacht rock band'? Unless you think "horse with no name'\" is about smack. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Al.Ducts Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 1. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse2. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy3. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic4. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost6. Wilco - The Whole Love7. Panda Bear - Tomboy8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake9. Feist - Metals10. Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 That sounds horrible. sounds like heaven! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I never heard that term, but I kinda like it. Yacht Rock: the Nadir of RnR? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TLF18 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 if i HAD to pick just 5: Stephen Marley - Revelation Pt.1: Root of LifeRyan Adams - Ashes & FireThe Roots - undunWilco - The Whole LoveJason Isbell - Here We Rest but i did a Top 15: http://bumslogic.wor...albums-of-2011/ and a Top 10: http://bumslogic.wor...ewed-from-2011/ dammit... just realized i forgot to include Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears: Scandalous, and Blitzen Trapper: American Goldwing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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