The lyrics on their most recent album are their best, IMO.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 18 August 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link
huh, I never took 'Wide Awake' as meant to be literal
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 18 August 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
it's just a goofy little punk/funk jam with an arch lyrical conceit, y'know? I think it's fun
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 18 August 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
And it's one track
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 August 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
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It's fun and the Danny Krivit re-edit is well fucking banging
― davey, Sunday, 19 August 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
He shouts out eva hesse and KoBrA in a song where he also says âfuck tom brady!â You rarely see the battle lines between earnest art kids/adults and conservative jocks drawn so clearly in a song.
― Trϔϔship, Sunday, 19 August 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
Itâs all extremely arch and maybe obnoxious but also funâlike theyâre giving us our very own 80âs.
― Trϔϔship, Sunday, 19 August 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
At theyâr best though this band has amazing lyrics, especially that song pretty machines which i always liked but have come belatedly to really, really like. âBut these days I fear my window was just a reflection.â
― Trϔϔship, Sunday, 19 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
To me, it feels like the wit & poetry have largely been stripped from his lyrix, and replaced with awkwardly expressed rage (with, yes, some good lines here & there), and oblique sloganeering that doesnât even have the directness & appeal of good hardcore (although I guess âFuck Tom Brady!â qualifies).Of course, if I liked the song themselves more (music, melodies), I could probably overlook this...
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
confession... i thought he was saying Fuck Tom Petty
― flopson, Sunday, 19 August 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
lyrics on the new album are so great
― flopson, Sunday, 19 August 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
yeah lyrics are the best they have been, for both guys really.
total football makes some (mostly superficial) allusions to soccer and the line "swapping parts and roles..." is a specific reference to the title concept in soccer. i'm pretty sure the fuck tom brady line is about football (soccer) vs football (nfl), underscoring which the song is referring to, and probably revealing a personal preference too.
you know, there's a US band from the 90s who also had a thing for soccer...
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 19 August 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
I donât think the songâs about soccer at all, itâs about the NFL protests (and related issues, I guess)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
the line "swapping parts and roles..." is a specific reference to the title concept in soccer.Ok, I see
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
So itâs using this soccer technique as a metaphor for political action? Collectivism and autonomy / Are not mutually exclusive
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
yeah it is. the song is about collective action in general, and the nfl protests as part of that. i didn't mean to suggest the nfl wasn't also being referenced.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
What U.S. band from the â90s are you referring to, Polvo?
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
the other P band, who we're discouraged from mentioning on this thread
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Pavement?
― Trϔϔship, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
those would be they
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
I think you can talk about pavement. Theyâre not a NSBM band last I checked
― Trϔϔship, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
just having some fun "treeship"
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
When did Pavement mention soccer? (I know they had football lyrics...)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+malkmus+hull+city&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS801US801&oq=ste&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i61l2j69i65l2.2011j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Feel like stephen makmus would be down for a kick around, maybe if he happens to be in a park on a crisp autumn day and others are playing
― Trϔϔship, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
I thought Pavement was all about betting at the horse track
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Weezer are more closely identified w/soccer... maybe Parquet Courts are the new Weezer!https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/29/popandrockhttps://consequenceofsound.net/2010/06/weezer-releases-unofficial-u-s-soccer-song-represent/amp/
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
It was those lyrics about "Using" in Freebird 2
― Mark G, Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
malkmus is def a jock but heâs way more into basketball as I understand
still like the new one a lot, but if the ones iâve heard, âlight up goldâ is still their best to my ears
― k3vin k., Sunday, 19 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
new interview with a. savage: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-interview-with-parquet-courts-a-savage
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Hahahahahaha
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Monday, 20 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
10 minutes in. they are talking about The Strokes
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
had no idea he was in Wiccans, that band ruled
― flopson, Monday, 20 August 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
Of course lel
― ILXâs bad boy (D-40), Monday, 20 August 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
the chapo interviewers are talking at them a bit too much. i like his talking voice + he seems very nice and chill, a bit ilxian in his opinions if i dare
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
brutal hearing chapo rap opinions for like 15 mins
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
AS has a great vocabulary, just said âtantamountâ
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
painful discussion founded on a misunderstanding of poptimism
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
That was among the worst Chapo episodes ever imo.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
I liked how he immediately threw them off with We kinda thought the Strokes were poseurs, and they had to recalibrate
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
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this is the least surprising thing ever
― ILXâs bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
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One of many volleys in a rousing match of boring opinions pong.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
Chapo sucks; podcasts are terrible & i wish it was the 90s; I donât want to be put off this band by a lame interview; this band is great
― đŠ (Trϔϔship), Saturday, 1 September 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
yeah I got a few minutes into that podcast but it was unlistenable
― niels, Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
the band before us just covered Parquet Courts and a dude started skanking, so yes my night is going very well thank you for asking— noey wrong (@_josephwright_) September 26, 2018
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
why you gotta be so ruuude
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
Their new single is atrocious⊠sounds like 3rd-tier Franz Ferdinand.
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:10 (two years ago) link
Kind of low energy for FF, more Kasabian IMO
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:33 (two years ago) link
Blur
― nostormo, Thursday, 19 August 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link