nah not even fronting. i like the first one a lil more probably but the 2nd was great too
― max, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
2nd album is way better
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
forget is star wars, confess is empire. five seconds is the at-at attack on hoth.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
the second album is pretty poor. some of the lyrics are horrendous and make it hard to listen to.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
fyi i prefer star wars
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Finally got round to playing the first album today (like I said earlier in this thread I've owned it for months now) It totally blows Confess away. This album is incredible! When We're Dancing and Yellow Balloon are my early highlights.
The other day I was reading his reviews on Rate Your Music and came across one for Forget that said, Where did the interesting songs, beautiful vocals, and strange production go? I think they were being way too harsh on Confess but I can see what they mean. Forget is quite unique and just beautiful in places, Confess is way more straight forward and seems a little hollow in comparision. Of course Five Seconds still rules all.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
so which one of these albums is better?
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
recently picked up Confess, and it's def holding my attention, but it's also giving me a second-guessy feeling which i haven't really figured out.
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
the first is way better
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
upthread there's an argument about if/how he sounds like peter gabriel. whether he does or not seems a little beside the point.
i forget who argued this (reynolds probably), but there was an argument out there, in the flush of the "80s boom" ten years ago now, that all of the chilly, harsh, dominatrixy, ice queen type vocals that were all over electroclash and neo-nuwave at the time were a serious misremembering of 80s. that the 80s were a time of very lush and florid and soulful vocals; even about vocal pyrotechnics being attempted by people who really couldn't do them (phil oakey, hi) -- iirc the end of this piece wondered when the bigger, cheesier, sweatier 80s would come back into fashion
i have this in mind because it sounds to me like TS is trying to fully inhabit the lame side of the 80s, the grand reach of "boys of summer" or phil collins or even clapton's "behind the mask". certainly on ilm (and in my house) this is a very natural and welcome kind of move. seems obvious to describe it here, even.
to try to put my finger on it, Confess is giving me a play-acting feeling. like running into someone who always cops an accent. like he's treating 80s arena-pop the same way rockabilly or bluegrass bands treat their referent sources. is he a roots act?
"run my heart" rules pretty hard though.
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
first one is better
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
all right, shit
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
i have this in mind because it sounds to me like TS is trying to fully inhabit the lame side of the 80s, the grand reach of "boys of summer" or phil collins or even clapton's "behind the mask".
totally, see also rhye and the one vocal track on cfcf's new ep
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
or chad valley for that matter
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a full calendar year behind on all music fyi
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
thx tho!
haha i am paying extra close attention b/c i have been waiting for this particular flavor of 80s revivalism to break wide since tv on the radio
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh man i never liked them
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:02
What new CFCF EP? Or do you mean Exercises?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I mean the David sylvian half cover on exercises
― max, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
Ah. I got all excited for a moment as Exercises was one of my favourite releases of last year.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
which rhye tracks/lp do you have in mind, because i'm not hearing it?
― caek, Friday, 22 February 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
MUSO POST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYknpGqOcU
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
Eb Bb Eb G Bb D
i wonder how he came up with that, and if he writes in that tuning a lot. somebody should ask him!
― goole, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
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
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 (nine years ago) link
So bad. Just one big empty and overproduced misfire.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 13 July 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Didn't even bother.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:20 (nine 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 (nine 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 (eight years ago) link
His best album by a mile. I go back to it a lot.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:53 (eight 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