Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

I think it's a case of the songs were just more memorable on the first record and because they are so hyped everyone is reading all this extra stuff into that. I just think it boils down to better songs the first time.

honestly surprised that the Ausgang artwork might be the best thing about this album. I was hoping for at least one more "Kids" out of the deal. what the hell Soulwax supposed to remix off of this dud?

strangely, parts of this album remind me of Cornelius.

^^^stop tempting me to hear it!

actually when this fuckmare of a class assignment is done i will listen to it, and return with judgements

i dunno, i hear lots of things in it at times. Cornelius, the Chrysanthemums, Homosexuals, late-period Turtles, early Supergrass. Flaming Lips, of course. it's interesting, at least.

Wish Cornelius was releasing a new album!

Maybe all that touring w Yoko will get him back into writing music again...

did he ever release anything after Point?

Sensuous is pretty amazing. Same minimal/robotic mix of sounds, really well done, some wonderful experiments in there too. They have a DVD for the entire album that features mindblowing animation from Koichiro Tsujikawa. Subsequent multimedia tours followed, along with a live DVD release. Parts of the live DVD are on youtube and it looks incredible but my days of forking over $50 for a Japanese DVD are sadly over....

4 star review from Spin

http://www.spinmagazine.com/reviews/mgmt-congratulations-columbia

that's pretty expected i would assume

SPIN is prob more invested in the career of mgmt than any other rock band currently going

also i thought they changed from 5-star scale to 10-point scale? i guess that's tough to code on a website tho

commiseration to SPIN for their tough-to-code website

other way around, they used to be 10 scale and are now 5

wait, no way, i swear they changed to a 10 scale pretty much at the beginning of this year

oh duh, i have a current issue right here that has reviews on a 10 scale. what am i thinking of? they went to an ABCDF scale for a while? i just remember them changing it for a few years there.

they could try out a Do Re Mi scale, that would really bring the readers in

I rate this album a half-diminished seventh

This is a really great album, first two tracks are especially good. Hipsters and GHEYS will hate it though!

Please be aware that by confirming this action, you are registering your wish to see this user removed from the site. Once the user has 51 such votes from individual users, they will automatically be banned from the site.

You're right, I'm gay and I hate it. According to Whiney I'm a hipster as well. So you've got me bang to rights.

i dont hate the album as thats just a waste of useful energy.
i'm completely indifferent to it.
ok, perhaps i'm a little annoyed i wasted 30 minutes of my life maybe, but i was on the payroll during the stream, so not all is lost.

'Dan Treacy' is my favourite here, completely different from anything MGMT have ever done before. It is a really charming song, with a little Television Personalities-resemblence, and I really can't imagine anyone hating it.

u don't need to imagine, because it's really happening

Guys, sorry this album pretty much sucks. If there was maybe at least one hook even half as exuberant as "Kids" or "Time to Pretend" I might be willing to give it another chance. This is just kind of meandering and dull, like they willfully smoothed over the most joyful exclamations that made the last one work.

Yes, there is no Kids or Time To Pretend here, but everybody have known that for months. And not enough hooks? Come on, it's a way too much hooks here.
MGMT second album >>> Vampire Weekend second album

That's a bit like saying cold vomit tastes better than warm vomit.

i think with the idea of hipsters often comes the idea of being "in the know" so your conception of hip hop and r&b rules u out, Doran. suggest u rebut whiney in this wise.

i like this album a lot, but this thread is funny.
it's like listening to people decide whether or not they want to have fun.

i decided i wanted to have fun, so i stopped listening to the stream of this album

o, snap!

ch-ching!

"i think with the idea of hipsters often comes the idea of being "in the know" so your conception of hip hop and r&b rules u out, Doran. suggest u rebut whiney in this wise."

This is *exactly* what I said to him, but he said that it didn't matter and that I was a hipster anyway.

(In my defence, I don't pretend to know anything about R&B or hip hop from the last decade or so.)

would anyone mind if we turned this into the fourth Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record thread?

i think this thread should just be destroyed, tbh.

you could do a million things in this world to have fun
you could play frisbee with a dog
or kiss a girl
or have a barbeque with some friends on a sunny day
and you suggest that i need this pitiable little collection of songs?

are those lyrics to an MGMT song?

yeah, you know m@tt, always railing off actual mgmt lyrics

m.he1go
ghost writer
and for the right price
i can even make MGMT's shit tighter

lol

loooool

when you were trying, among other things, to back up yr writer's claim that rihanna was "the archetypal ghetto hustler" in the comments to his "piece", you were pretending to know something abt r&b and hip hop, alas. if u have a new resolution not to do so in the wake of that, all power to you.

Look, you dull witted cretin. It says about 58 times I think he was entirely WRONG you fucking dullard.

All I said was that he was not a racist. Try reading before mouthing off. I do NOT think that Rhianna is an archetypal ghetto hustler...

Johnnyo could you please stop condemning people who hate on this album as unfun? I don't think this album is meant to represent fun and at any rate being fun is a really lame defense going for it.

^^^^^^^

you don't think you were trying to back him up? ok then. the comments speak for themselves.

I was - QUITE CLEARLY - attacking the suggestion that I allowed racist writers to pen for The Quietus.

Oh look, here's a quote from me: "I don't think Rhianna is an archetypal ghetto hustler." Fancy that.

here's another, there are more

"Yeah, how in God's name could you ever apply such a blinkered term to someone who's recorded with Jay-Z, signed to Def Jam, collaborated on an Memphis Bleek album named after a housing project, released an album called 'Good Girl, Gone Bad', sings about killing a boyfriend in 'Unfaithful' and the wholesome 'Rehab'."

(In my defence, I don't pretend to know anything about R&B or hip hop from the last decade or so.)

Can we save that battle for another thread fellas? We're trying not to enjoy MGMT in here thanks.