― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Hahah -- a fellow writer friend down here was complaining about BP precisely because of a Blink-182 similarity. (He preferred the Futureheads, which I admit I've not yet heard.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― TayBridge, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
This never does anything for me.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, Ned, the other person their singer kinda sounds like sometimes -- weirdly -- is Colin Hay from Men at Work.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
And "Price of Gas" kind of bugs me for some reason. Maybe I can't relate because I don't have a car (or live in Britain-- is it worse off there?), but I kind of want to say, "Yep... the price of gas is high...and?" It'd be like if I recorded a song called, "The Value of the Dollar" that went, "The dollar's getting weaker / The dollar's getting weaker... So fuckin' useless!
Otherwise, awesome record. Nabisco, I like your take: it's solid, but it doesn't have that, um, "urgency" or, er, "magic" that you get sense sometimes when you hear something fresh (the way I felt after I picked up Arcade Fire). That doesn't mean it's bad. The Stylus review pumped me up ("I belive in this!"), but it didn't last... It's still my favorite thing to come this year so far.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
That said, I like the song.
― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm just starting to get burned out on anything remotely mid-'80s-UK-ish
Trust me, Go West weren't all that.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not remotely to see that young Nedric likes it; 'cos what it probably reminds me of more than anything else is Pornography-era Cure.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm still waiting to have my epiphany and love it like everyone else, but at this point, it's 6/10 and no more.
― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
i'll have to have a listen. you don't have any lyrics from it to hand?
i like this album a lot, but i can't help feeling that all the songs are melodically very very similar.
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― TCB, Monday, 21 February 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― nader (nader), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ain't Un-nice (nader), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Haaa ha! Those comments were slightly shocking, yes.
My housemate made me download the album for him, I tried listening to it and couldn't get past two songs.
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, jesus.... what would I have to do to get those emailed to me?!? Or maybe you could You Sent It them?..... .. . . . . oh, sweet bearded baby jesus.. .. . .
― Bent Over at the Arclight, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I blame hearing what is probably the best song on the album at exceedingly low volume at 6am in the morning and thinking it sounded a bit like Bows. A proper listen confirmed that it doesn't really, while the rest of the album seemed like the most pro forma recitation of current post-punk revival power-moves that I've yet heard.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Is it the hype?
Is it because they're getting press when the artists from which their sound(s) derive(s) didn't tap into/have access to the marketing machines of yore?
― nader (nader), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link