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Originally posted by pak:
I'd like to go ahead and say that We're from Barcelona is one of the shittiest groups I've heard this year. Shame on you, P4k!

Glorified childrens music. If I wanted that, I'd go to They Might Be Giants. It's Polyphonic Spree for Kids...shudder.

I downloaded that album, listened to "I'm From Barcelona" once, and though I kind of like that song, I haven't bothered to listen to a second of the album other than that song.

Primal Scream -- Riot City Blues

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Originally posted by pak:
I'd like to go ahead and say that We're from Barcelona is one of the shittiest groups I've heard this year. Shame on you, P4k!

Glorified childrens music. If I wanted that, I'd go to They Might Be Giants. It's Polyphonic Spree for Kids...shudder.

I agree. I actually almost had a fit when I saw them on Pitchfork. They don't even deserve a review.

Oh, stop hating on I'm From Barcelona. It's a pretty good album. "We're From Barcelona" is a great song, and there are a few pther pretty good ones as well. It's nothing great, but it's not bad. And I don't even usually like that kind of music.

I really love the video for "We're From Barcelona."

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Oh, stop hating on I'm From Barcelona. It's a pretty good album. "We're From Barcelona" is a great song, and there are a few pther pretty good ones as well. It's nothing great, but it's not bad. And I don't even usually like that kind of music.

You're right. I listened to it. It's alright, but it's also kind of repetitive.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Oh, stop hating on I'm From Barcelona. It's a pretty good album. "We're From Barcelona" is a great song, and there are a few pther pretty good ones as well. It's nothing great, but it's not bad. And I don't even usually like that kind of music.

I really love the video for "We're From Barcelona."

I hate "I'm From Barcelona"!

No, seriously though I haven't heard more than "We're from Barcelona" regularly, and I don't like it. But I heard them live, and was mightily dismayed by their musical performance, although they sure played with very much energy. To each his own, I guess.

These are all in early listening stage, so they may be growers, but after a few listens Donuts, Damage, Drums not Dead, Fort Recovery, Post-War, and especially the new Scritti-Politi are doing very little for me after the support they've received on this board.

I hold out hope for Donuts, Fort Recovery and Post War, but little for Damage, and Drums not Dead, and none for White Bread/Black Beer (it's completely out of my sensibility spectrum).

Lambchop's a unique taste and so is the Liars but I'm suprised you didn't like Donuts... These 3 are both great albums.

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Everyoneanindividual
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Posted 14 September 2006 03:03 PM
Lambchop's a unique taste and so is the Liars but I'm suprised you didn't like Donuts... These 3 are both great albums.

It's the rapid fire non-linearity of it that I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around right now...I sense it might be a strong grower for me with repeated listens as individual tracks start to take on some familiarity.

As much as I tried to like it, I just can't stand Thom Yorke's The Eraser. After loving OKC, Kid A, Amnesiac and, to a lesser extent Hail To The Theif, one would logically think that The Eraser would be my cup of tea. But I just don't like the vague, boring lyrics and the incredibly underproduced music.

If you're going to have an electronic album, at least make use of the stuff you have to make a fuller sound.

I recently stole the new Sparklehorse album off Soulseek and I'm dissapointed. It's similar to It's a Wonderful Life which is an album I love, but by similar I mean it's a lesser rehash of that album.

If someone had asked me for my five favourite bands in 2001 (nobody ever did of course) I might have said Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and Built to Spill and all of these bands have gone shit now haven't they? Oh well, I'm trying to move on.

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Originally posted by Thisheregiraffe:


If someone had asked me for my five favourite bands in 2001 (nobody ever did of course) I might have said Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and Built to Spill and all of these bands have gone shit now haven't they? Oh well, I'm trying to move on.

I think I'm probably in the same boat as you. I was really into that style of music in 99-00, and I've really grown out of it. I still do enjoy Sparklehorse though, and I'll give the new album a chance.

I think you're wrong about BTS too. The new album is a stunner.

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Originally posted by Dork:
As much as I tried to like it, I just can't stand Thom Yorke's The Eraser. After loving OKC, Kid A, Amnesiac and, to a lesser extent Hail To The Theif, one would logically think that The Eraser would be my cup of tea. But I just don't like the vague, boring lyrics and the incredibly underproduced music.

If you're going to have an electronic album, at least make use of the stuff you have to make a fuller sound.

Agreed. It's inhuman, distant, and emotionless. At least The Knife stole from all the right people and created something people could connect with.

[/QUOTE]Agreed. It's inhuman, distant, and emotionless[/QUOTE]

It depends if you listen "The Eraser" like a "kid A" album or if you listen to it when you work or clean your room...because many people said that it's less depressive and all, but the album is better when you listen to it carefully...and in the dark...because "Kid A" is not as good on a shiny saturday afternoon.

I was going to respond to these last few posts, but instead, I think it's better if I just say, "Yikes!!"

I was considering buying the album, I really liked We're from Barcelona and Collection of stamps. However I fear these songs will not hold the test of time, combined the averageness (is that a word) of their other myspace songs. I think they should borrow a bit from sufjan's book, in terms of subtelty and building a song.

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Originally posted by ericg75:

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Originally posted by Thisheregiraffe:


If someone had asked me for my five favourite bands in 2001 (nobody ever did of course) I might have said Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and Built to Spill and all of these bands have gone shit now haven't they? Oh well, I'm trying to move on.

I think I'm probably in the same boat as you. I was really into that style of music in 99-00, and I've really grown out of it. I still do enjoy Sparklehorse though, and I'll give the new album a chance.

I think you're wrong about BTS too. The new album is a stunner.

Definitely BTS hasn't fallen away as badly as the other bands.

Mercury Rev & Lips, those are two bands that have really lost their way after their turn of the century peak.

Grandaddy got a lot less interseting.

Prairiefire, since we've got a similar basis in taste, what are your current favourite bands?

Funny that Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Granddaddy, and Sparklehorse are usually compared to one another. Maybe it's not so much those bands as it is the (worn-out) style they employ.

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Originally posted by m.leland:
Funny that Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Granddaddy, and Sparklehorse are usually compared to one another. Maybe it's not so much those bands as it is the (worn-out) style they employ.

I think it's the fact that all those bands have a singer that sings in a Neil Young-ish tenor. Coupled with the fact that they all have play a similar style of music, and at least three of them (I'm not sure about Grandaddy) have had albums produced by Dave Fridmann, they do seem like quite an interchangeable lot.

I've never listened to Sparklehorse or Mercury Rev, but I will never tire of the epic sound that Grandaddy and the Flaming Lips try for, even if they've both failed to capture it since three releases ago.