Someone recently told me that George Lewis Jr. was in a Boston punk band, Mad Man Films. I found their MySpace today:
https://myspace.com/madmanfilms/music/songs
The songs sound very early-aughts, but nonetheless, are pretty fun.
From a harmonic and lyrical perspective, “Betsy” sounds like a punk precursor to stuff on Forget. Anyway, enjoy.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 23 September 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
i figured out what he's doing on guitar here. it's an alternate tuning! and a pretty odd one; it's tuned to an Eb maj 7 chord
So weird. I love him.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 23 September 2013 01:31 (ten years ago) link
Did we ever talk about "To the Top" here?
It's not exactly Jim Steinman "huge," but it's the most luxuriously grandiose track TS has ever put out. lurve it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
"the official ilm thread started by max"
― Treeship, Thursday, 25 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
A+
I really didn't like To the Top at all. It's not really the direction I wanted him to go in at all.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 26 September 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
To the Tops's cool, I like it.
― nxd, Monday, 29 September 2014 08:44 (nine years ago) link
So, I had no idea this guy has a new album coming out next week. Surprised there's been no talk about it.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/08/390941870/first-listen-twin-shadow-eclipse
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
major label no less
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
great record.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
weird that only 4 tracks are on spotify, npr has the whole thing tho
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
The 4 tracks on Spotify have been staggered out as "single" releases.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Not really into this sadly. Forget is one of my favourite albums of the decade so far but this isn't really what I wanted from him.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
I still have a favorable opinion of "To the Top," but the rest of this is a big NOPE.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
to the top is great
sometimes this hits me just right and sometimes it sounds like onerepublic
― max, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
its very grandiose but i like it
― gr8080, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
couldn't handle this one
― flopson, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
"Eclipse" was pretty bad huh
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 13 July 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
So bad. Just one big empty and overproduced misfire.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 13 July 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Didn't even bother.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I don't think I even managed to listen to this in its entirety. Forget is one of my favourites from this decade as well. :(
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Monday, 13 July 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
forget has got to be his best. the other two don't have the same strangeness. when i first head forget it seemed like an album i dreamed up after falling asleep watching weird science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNpq942YT50
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
His best album by a mile. I go back to it a lot.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
His new single features Haim and is thankfully so much better than anything on that last album.
https://youtu.be/NXpYoiCOuLE
― kitchen person, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
much much better than anything from that last album!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:00 (six years ago) link
Listening to Forget again. It really is one of the most perfect records of the decade for me.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 17 March 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
"I Can't Wait" one of the least popular songs on Forget according to Spotify stats. I don't understand people at all.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:36 (seven months ago) link
Yeah that's odd considering its strengths and that the closing title track has a lot more. Although I often skip 'Tyrant Destroyed' this is still one of my favourite albums since 2010.
In the past there was an additional version of 'Forget' on Spotify with iirc a slightly different running order and the apostrophe in 'I Can't Wait' was also different - don't suppose that could've affected its tally at all?
― nashwan, Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:52 (seven months ago) link