Braid: c/d?

braid rocketh in excelsius deo, esp the music for movie series

Hey Mercedes, on the other hand, are a monstrous Dud.

One classic thing about Braid: All the indie girls love to groove to "Dozen Roses," which is a great pop song.

Don't know the PGMG album as well, but every time I hear it it strikes me as Braid w/ Girl Singer.

I don't know either of the songs you cite for Braid = HHH, but HHH is awful, awful new-wave-tinged power pop. I can't think of a duller record I've heard all year. The critical and fan support baffles me. I trashed it when I reviewed it, and I couldn't believe that the editor assigned such a piece of shit record to me... Lo and behold a month later every other glossy's writing about and jizzing all over it. Oh well.

A big reason why Braid is a dud: Their drummer owes one of my best friends $500. My friend booked them to play our college a few years ago. The administration had not cut the check for the band in time, so they were going to mail it to them. Braid pitched a fit, so my friend, being the nice guy that he is, agreed to cut them a check personally, and then the band would be required to sign the school's check over to him, once they received it. The assholes instead decided to pocket both checks and they've ignored his phone calls for the past three years. I think he should sue, but he says it's not worth it.

That said: Frame And Canvas = Classic, everything else is neither here nor there. Hey Mercedes = Dud so far, except for "Bells", which = Classic.

I also definitely see the PGMG/Braid comparisons, except that Pretty Girls... really suck. They embodied the whole "irritating scenester with dyed black hair and a Fugazi patch" thing for me when I saw them live. Three of the people I was with hated them so much that they left before Les Savy Fav came on.

Have you ever seen them live? They put on an amazing show even though their records are piss poor. The singer's just a ridiculously crazy motherfucker; last time (the show with PGMG) he jumped up on the bar, spilled beer on all the middle-aged businessmen and broke the lamps hanging above. Worth seeing. (Also, their music actually has energy live.)

At least they're less boring than Braid.

2 BAD I LOST CUTTY'S COPY OF THE CD.

:(

is that the one with decorate your spine on it? the friend im meeting after work used to have a braid poster in her living room....

should i send her yr way ddb? though she told me shes not drinking...

IF SO, YES PLZ!

when are you gonna switch over the 1st cursive albums....

(s)he might..how many people do you see right now ddb?

im asking how the tasty spirits are effecting yr vision

"past out on your LAAW-AWWWN"

another starts "drunk on basille day-hay"

awesome

shit i gotta get outta here

Keep in mind that I hate "emo," or what it has evolved into. I do love that midwest 90s Jawbox/Fugazi "emo" sound though.

(I'm drunk, but really digging all the Kinsella-stuff).

maybe, maybe, you'd like the promise ring too, but i can't vouch for that

Cap'n Jazz eats Braid for breakfast.

I'm kind of convinced Tim Kinsella is going to age into Mark E Smith.

hey coffee eyes

a few years ago, i knew this nearly 50 year old archaeologist dude with about 30 letters after his name tell me how i should listen to braid and heatmiser.

rong and ronger

God, HStencil's comments on this thread! What a grumpy man. (And Braid never sounded anything like Jawbox at all - whole different animal).

Braid's drummer was awesome, but I hope he paid back Yanc3y's buddy.

frame & canvas = 90s classic

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:08 (5 years ago) Bookmark

<3

So the new EP is decent-ish. Not great, but I wasn't really expecting them to blow me away in 2011 anyway. The first track is easily the worse of the bunch though, definitely Hey Mercedes-lite. Gets better as it goes along though, and certainly not worth the dismissive 2.6 from Pitchfork.

Anyone else feeling the new album?

I like it. Not blown away, but feel like it's a picking up point from where they left off but taking into account the 15 years inbetween.

so far nothing's grabbing me as hard as "universe or worse" from the 2011 EP but ice had it on repeat for 2 days and it's def growing

"doing yourself in" has some great drumming and the line "she's got stars in her eyes/ for me and some other guys"

i love it, "pre evergreen" is one of the best things they've ever done

this album is seriously taking over my summer

a friend came up w/ the best tagline/throwaway joke for the first Braid album in 16 years:

"Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Braid"

this album rules

this album rules

― adam, Monday, July 28, 2014 11:09 AM (58 seconds ago)

wouldn't it have to be "brai"?

this album rules

― adam, Monday, July 28, 2014 11:09 AM (58 seconds ago)

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, July 28, 2014 9:10 AM (1 hour ago)

i think maybe part of what makes this record so good is that at times it sounds like the longawaited followup to destination failure more than to frame & canvas

I wasn't sold on this during the first half, Chris Broach's songs especially were bugging me - his new(ish) singing style makes some of the cornier lyrics pop out more than ever. But good fucking god damn, at the pairing of "Put Some Wings On That Kid" and "Lux" I was sold. This album rules. Makes me super nostalgiac for the years when I'd get to see them play all over Champaign and be able to go buy records from Bob Nanna at Record Service.