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You guys please listen to the Constantines....and give them time to sink in. You'll thank me. i don't know how, but you will. I'll hear you screaming thank you when you see them live
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WHAT ABOUT SOME PORTLAND LOVE!?!?
artists who reside in portland: the decemberists modest mouse spoon the shins stephen malkmus chris walla of DCFC the thermals m ward menomena and of course,the eliott smith make your own top 5 This message has been edited. Last edited by: CPJG, |
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Apprentice Guru |
ok then portland-
good news...-modest mouse chutes too narrow-the shins the crane wife-the decembrists XO-eliott smith kill the moonlight-spoon im going to get friend and foe soon so this list may change. |
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I just recently fell in love all over again with the Constantines' "Soon Enough." I'll admit that I didn't listen to Tournament of Hearts enough when it came out, but I'm going to remedy that situation ASAP. _____________________________ Weep to Water the Trees. "This is my main concern with Obama; what if he has been groomed since childhood to blend in with the zionists and infidels? What if he has been led along by a radical islamic terrorist organization and positioned to become an influential politician? What if Obama gets into White House and turns out to be some crazy muslim terrorist? What do we do then? We'll be pretty screwed. It could happen." -- by some fucking nutjob |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
I put Tournament of Hearts on my top 20 in '05. It's been awhile since I listened to it, but I did like it at the time. "You Are A Conductor" is a great tune.
----- Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. |
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Yeah man do that. For some reason it took me awhile to get into "Tournament of Hearts". I don't really know why, it's so full of melody. "Draw us Lines" feels like an uprising. Who else but Bryan Webb writes songs about eco-spiritualist activists? I love every song, but that one "You are a conductor", "Hotline Operator", "Litzveta", and "Soon Enough" are my favorites. I started listening to the Constantines after seeing them live as an opening act. It was an arena show for the Foo Fighters that my friend dragged me to (They're good, but I'm not a huge fan). When they played "On to You", and everything goes quiet except for Webb's gentle cooing, the whole arena seemed frozen. It's abnormal for me to get that from a band I haven't heard before. All their albums are great. I always go see them when they come to Winnipeg, a measly $10 ticket for a world class show. |
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Well, you guys have convinced me to check out The Constantines. I'll let you know what I think.
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Yeah man, I wanna know good or bad what you think. They just seem too good to be so off the musical radar. Probably just my opinion. Their first album is more of a straight up rock record than their others. Bryan Webb is a great poetic lyricist and he never sounds contrived or elitist. "And as long as we are lonely, we will dance. And as long as we are dying, we want the death of rock and roll." - Arizona (debut) |
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i saw them live, i think it was last year, and i was less than impressed. maybe they had a bad day? |
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Apprentice Guru |
hm.. technically you are right, Britt Daniel (and I assume the rest of the band) now reside in Portland. However, they were established and are most strongly associated with the Austin music scene. Just thought I would be a dick and point that out. Also, The Dandy Warhols. ==== What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. |
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Know-It-All |
I could easily list Detroit and then 5 out of the 6 White Stripes albums, but I'll do some other ones...
Montréal: (my favorite city for music right now) Malajube - Trompe l'Oeil Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Islands - Return To The Sea The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven New York City: Animal Collective - Feels Grizzly Bear - Yellow House Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell Liars - Drum's Not Dead The Forms - Icarus |
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Detroit
White Stripes - "Get Behind Me Satan" White Stripes - "Icky Thump" White Stripes - "Elephant" White Stripes - "White Blood Cells" hmmm.... the hard part.... I guess.... White Stripes - self-titled honorable mention to a Detroit band called The White Stripes for their fantastic album "De Stijl". Damn that was easy....except for the last pick that was really hard....thanks for the idea stereo |
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USA - Austin, Texas
Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place Okkervil River: The Stage Names Spoon: Gimme Fiction ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: Source Tags and Codes I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: Fear is On Our Side |
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No problem.  I actually would have chosen all of them except Get Behind Me Satan. |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
There are other indie bands from Detroit: The Von Bondies, Gore Gore Girls, Thunderbirds Are Now!, The Detroit Cobras, Electric Six, The Dirtbombs...
Plus, Jack White lives in Nashville now. Not sure about Meg. ----- Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. |
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Yeah that doesn't surprise me that much, as that seems to be a consensus among many WS fans. However "Get Behind Me Satan" is my favorite 'Stripes record. All my favorite albums are when a, generally highly regarded artist, makes such a formidable artistic statement that the music world is left in disbelief. Maybe that's a stretch, and of course, shock value doesn't make a great album, the songs do. Still, GBMS is the White Stripes at their most plaintive and epic, and to me, most interesting. Many of the songs on it are my favorite of their songs. Brilliant songcraft like "Forever for Her" and the simple but prfect "I'm Lonely(but ain't that lonely yet)" never fail hook me. A stream of consciouness piano ballad, a cryptic marimba tune with malicious overtones, a giddy bluegrass song about a ghost, the infectious pop hits, the two sonic rock songs(Blue Orchid and Red Rain - Instinct Blues is a bit weak), it's all so engrossing to me. The White Stripes are a band where each one of their albums has been my fav by them at one point in time, but GBMS is their most interesting. Even the title is so epic, ripping off Jesus Christ. This is probably a pointless rant but when it comes to a great album I can't stop. It's a counter-cultural punk rock(in theory) artistic stamp of an album. Those are usually my favorites. Other examples.... Radiohead - "Kid A" Nirvana - "In Utero" John Lennon - "Plastic Ono Band" Velvet Underground and Nico - debut Pink Floyd - The Wall The Pixies - Surfer Rosa Beatles - White Album Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Bob Dylan - Highway 61 I find an unyielding power in these albums plus many more I'm sure....this has nothing to do with the topic but....does anyone else have any examples of rocks great artistic statements? |
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Slacker First Class |
Wolf Parade - Queen Mary
Wilco - Anything Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow The French Semester - Tossed by the Waves Vampire Weekend - Anything |
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Noting the general neglect of BSS 'You Forgot It In People' by the many Canadians on here
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I'll Do Portland too
5. The Body, The Blood, The Machine- The Thermals 4. The Moon & Antarctica- Modest Mouse 3. XO- Elliott Smith 2. Oh Inverted World- The Shins 1. Picaresque- The Decemberists but soon i will buy Post War so that might slip in. |
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I'm listening to it again now, and I like it much better than I used to. It is a lot more diverse and much less downtempo than I remember it being. It is still one of my two least favorites, around the same area as Icky Thump, but that's still pretty good...because that's my #1 album of this year. All of The White Stripes' albums are great and there are 4 of them in my top 10 favorite albums. |
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