titus andronicus will fart in the face of your idea of success
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"half the time i open my mouth to speak its to repeat something i heard on tv" absolutely kills me fwiw & its kind the heart of whats so rad abt this album? for me?
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
see for me its all the last 4 lines
But my enemy--it's your name on my lips as i go to sleepAnd I know what little I've known of peaceYes I've done to you what you've done to meAnd I'd be nothing without you darling, please don't ever leave
like that broke the whole thing wide open for me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
coupled with lincoln "mystic chords of memory" piece and the title its like yo we just fought this climactic battle and seem to have reached this point of no return and i'm leaving town to go back to jersey cause i can't fuckin stand it here anymore but i hope this isn't it cause my life would suck w/o u in a k clarkson stylee
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
that is true
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
and the self destructive self loathing coping mechanisms are not gonna do me any favors ("when i smoke i will smoke gaping holes in my chest" = so fucking awesome) but yo i'm a drama queen this is how i deal xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
it's great that he wrote an allegorical album that compares his relationship w his girl to the civil war and he is able to note how ridiculous it is, and yet he still goes at it full-throated, and he doesn't undercut either sentiment -- i think maybe the solos help
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yah its just that i like that parts of the album where a more generalized kind of uncertainty & self-loathing & raw emotionalism take over from the relationship stuff & its like hes t-t-t-talkin baout my generation or smthn (xp)
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah exactly i love that it wholeheartedly embraces this absurdly grandiose idea and just goes the fuck in on it. i texted a friend this morning "shoulda been called "The Montior, or How My Breakup Was Just Like The Civil War" xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
right i feel u xp
whenever i listen to the last track, i yearn for two banners to fall from my ceiling, one that reads FUCKING and the other that reads BAGPIPES― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:36 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:36 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I made a podcast of rock songs that have bagpipes in them about three years ago, and the link appears to be in working order. So enjoy that, Jordan
http://www.allez-allez.co.uk/2007/10/parts-labor.html
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
@ j.sarge since this thread i cant help but hear parts of fevers & mirrors in this but i think the sheer stompin madness of the ~music~ on this album help makes it less pained & inward & more cathartic
tbh im really hopin enuff ppl are into this that at the live show "the enemy is everywhere" breakdown will be ~righteous~
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
neurosis – the last you’ll know
yeah but but purify
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to like stand and salute u or something xxp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lj wrong thread dogg lol
nah man i was quoting whiney's bagpipeathon
but yeah wrong thread fundamentally until i hear this record
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
y'all selling it well, kiu
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is that like, tons of people, in the deepest depths of a fucked up relationship, obv totally identify with the idea of relationships as war, and then eventually realize how ridiculous that notion is, but in the back of their mind are still like "yeah totally" -- and this dude wrote an album
yeah lamp it's totally cathartic -- and bcuz he intertwines his relationship w/ moving to a new city after college, he's def able to make it a sort of generational catharsis too (lol first world problems)
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
j0rdan, your enthusiasm for this is almost persuading me to download it from emusic. the bright-eyes comparisons make me very wary of this act, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
listen to "a more perfect union" or "no future part III" (the mp3s they released beforehand), they're pretty indicative of what the album is like
i think if you like the hold steady then you have a bit of a predilection towards digging this, as long as you have some tolerance for melodramatic youthfulness
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm a big fan of the hold steady.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i know
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"no future part iii" is one of the best songs imo
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
its funny yall i warmed to the mid-album stuff real slowly, for a while i just had the first two on repeat and would skip no future and pot/piss and even 4 score. i'm still tending to skip theme from cheers, but the others have totally crept up on me. richard iii totally sounds like flogging molly, and i think that means i have to admit i like flogging molly.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
btw sarge i assume u r familiar with this kickass song which may or may not have bagpipes but kinda sounds like it has bagpipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
DUH
cmon son, i've watched "the departed" like 15 times
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 March 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i know this tbh i just wanted an excuse to find it on youtube
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 March 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
my roommates are all gone so i listened to this on our big speakers, and dang -- i might've thrown my ps3 out of my living room window at one point
i love that this is such a formless album -- if i never saw it broken down on itunes i'd have a tough time figuring out what the tracks are -- it's like moments of triumph and calls to arms amongst a bunch of sprawling, growling mess and that really feels right
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 March 2010 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
so on "the battle of hampton roads" it hit me that he is driving the fuck away from her flooring it screaming out of boston back to jersey and as he's driving he starts howling "please don't ever leave"
fuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
word -- i listened to this str8 thru in the car -- some real shit
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so hey y'all
Saw this band rock the fuck out in a house party basement setting just now. Real nice folks with a great tight vibe. I heard a little bit of Springsteen maybe, but a lot more Mekons circa Rock & Roll with a dash of Fugazi sweaty group mindmeld. Lotsa anthemic chord progressions, and the electric violin also really recalls Mekons stuff. Great moments with three gtr players all hammering some simple 3-or-4-chord thing, several times I could have listened to them keep it up for ten minutes (usually it was over in 1 or 2). Typical basement PA garbage meant most of the vocals were lost, but the passion shone through loud and clear.
Also, they sounded nothing at all like Bright Eyes, who I have seen as well.
Conclusion: all hype is deserved.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It is important in this life to sound nothing at all like Bright Eyes.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it's more the vocals that do remind me a lot of earlier bright eyes..i can ttly i.d. w/ that comparison, also i dont dislike bright eyes
lol'd at the line 'prepare to be told that shits gay dude'
beginning of 'to old friends and new' sounds like loving cup
2d half of this album is my fav
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The video reminds me of the Replacements and the Gaslight Anthem. Perhaps I will investigate further.
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
...though i gotta say i ain't feeling that beard
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
am listening to this...not bad at all
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard of these dudes but yalls enthusiasm is contagious
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been driving around looking at apartments all day just leaving hampton roads on repeat
when they go back in doubletime on "cause my enemy" i go the fuck OFF in my car
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
motherfuckers at stoplights be like O_O
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
motherfuckers behind keyboards be like :D
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
really tho i havent been this happy about a rock album since like, gaslight anthem
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"IT's NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!" *sky falls*
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
^slays me
can't be said enough.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
incredible vocal doubletracking at the end of "four score and seven" - about halfway through the "it's still us against them!" chants the second voice becomes increasingly wearly, signifying for me this amazing detached sentiment saying basically "i'm getting fucking tired of this"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
weary*
― k3vin k., Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:35 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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yes -- this might be my fav moment on the whole album
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
And I know it won't do much goodGetting drunk and sad and singingBut I'm at the end of my ropeAnd I feel like swinging
dope lyrics
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been thinking about this album a lot in the context of, like, sufjan's 'illinois'
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yessssssssssss i feel like swinging made me O_O when i got it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link