on the other hand that might just be me wanting everything to sound like mort garson
― Storefront Church (688), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
true.
― groovemaan (groove nihilist), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you're off course calling them a Belle & Sebastian mimic... doubt the band even like B&S. The lyrics are simple, not generic -- "Objects of My Affection"!!!
And yeah I was totally wearing a white hood when I fell in love with this album. The fuck?
― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Because of the whistling? I love the production on the drums and bass.
I wasn't calling them a B&S mimic, per se - but the surface stuff (sensitive euro peeps) is significant enough; I've seen them mentioned side-by-side in several reviews.
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2007/01/young-folks-on-conan.html
- and I must admit it's pretty weak. I like the shtick alright, but I can't abide a PRE-RECORDED WHISTLE TRACK. And Concretes-lady is awfully shaky. Bongos Jackson back there is good, and I still love the muted bass, but I picture this song exploding with melancholic young love (tm), and this felt like it was first-song-without-being-drunk-yet karaoke or something.
Still, I love the album.
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
This is a great example of a song ruined by poor editing. If they would have shaved it down to 2.40 or 3.10 instead of 4+ minutes it would be perfect. They should have either cut the last minute or introduced another strong theme. I always turn it off after three minutes.
There are worse desires to be had...
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.aversion.com/bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=2957
The best part is when, after declaring the band worthless and making no mention of the fact there was a Writer's Block before Almost Gold, the author then pulls the ol' "their old stuff was better" shtick.
― marc h. (marc h.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Since when the fuck are the Shins "immediate?"
― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
18!
― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― strom (strom), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― strom (strom), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtQunmFhuNE
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-rekmZcrsg
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
Might be my most extreme example of endless advertising use of a song ruining the entire album and band for me permanently. Loved this album when it came out - incredibly packed with hooks; reminded me of Herman Dune, who I loved. No desire to ever hear a note from them again. I'm sure they don't mind - they had to make a fortune licensing that tune.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Sunday, 26 April 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Haven't (and may not ever) revisit the album, but I heard this song a few weeks ago and it's still a rush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrCOmvHEns8
― Evan R, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
And the question iswas I more alivethen than I am now?I happily have to disagreeI laugh more often nowI cry more often nowI am more me
It's perhaps sorta typical non-native English lyrics, but that might just make them speak even more to me. It's a great chorus.
― Frederik B, Monday, 27 April 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
"I laugh more often nowI cry more often nowI am more me"
damn, i remember seeing this quoted somewhere years ago and figured it was whitman or something. you're telling me this is a fuckin PB&J lyric?
― soyrev, Monday, 27 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Thought of 2011's Gimme Some as 60s Kinks in a motorik zone, approximately...good fun, anyway.
― dow, Monday, 27 April 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link