Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Blcok

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"It's like one of those really weak parodies of a Pitchfork review you read on every uninspired blog come to life right before your eyes"

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

I think the best part is that that line might as well be talking about the review itself.

Since when the fuck are the Shins "immediate?"

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we get a word count on "pop" in that review? CHRIST, I GET IT. IT'S INDIE POP. WHO CARES.

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we get a word count on "pop" in that review?

18!

― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Saw their Late Night jam yesterday. "One of the worst acts I've ever seen on that or any other late night show" just about sums it up. The song itself is not THAT bad, but the performance was extremely embarrasing.

― strom (strom), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I would characterize the performance on Conan as "low-key." It didn't turn me off to them.

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

They will never play the Super Bowl.

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

How are they more 'embarassing' than any other indie crossover act appearing on television? Because they played along with some pre-recorded parts oh no rockist concerns coming to the fore?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd call it "no-key". I have no problem with prerecorded parts, and the band I guess did what they should, but I can't stand that Concretes-womans stage manners.

― strom (strom), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

eight years pass...

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 is
was I more alive
then than I am now?
I happily have to disagree
I laugh more often now
I cry more often now
I 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 now
I cry more often now
I 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

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