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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:
Look. Everyone love's McDonald's fries,

No.

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Originally posted by LRWS:
Quality music has a great deal of thought put into it and requires a great deal of thought to take something from it.

Totally, inarguably subjective position here.

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Originally posted by Dork:

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Originally posted by LRWS:
Quality music has a great deal of thought put into it and requires a great deal of thought to take something from it.

Totally, inarguably subjective position here.

Gotta agree with the Dork here. Some of the best music is just tossed off or easily accessible. I know a lot of people don't like Paul McCartney's solo career, but one of the things I found most remarkable about Flaming Pie was that he wrote some of the best songs on it in an hour or less, and that was it. Stephin Merritt does the same thing, and I'm sure there are numerous other examples. And it certainly doesn't take a whole lot of thought to get something from anything the Beatles ever did.

On the other side of the coin, there's also some quality music made by personally reprehensible people who probably didn't do much thinking - think Fear or early black metal.

Still waiting on that Postal Service followup...

Give Up hands down my favorite album

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Originally posted by theelfpat:
Still waiting on that Postal Service followup...

Ya whatever happened to that?

I haven't listened to the Postal Service in ages, but I really don't like Dntel at all, so I guess I vote for "Give Up" which I remember as a pretty solid pop record. Maybe I should give it a few spins...

Give Up had 3 or 4 great songs, a couple of solid songs, and a couple of cringe-worthy songs. At least that's how I remember it. It's been years since I heard it. The cringing came mostly from some of the lyrics in those songs.

I love "Brand New Colony". That rachet sound in the beginning working into the Super Mario synths is genius.