it's so fuckin' good, man
― alpine static, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
one thing about Motion Sickness ... album version is one of the songs of 2017 for me ... but if you go looking for some of the sessions she has played (like Paste, Tiny Desk ... something else, can't remember) she plays it a little slower, and she tends to slow it down even more on the bridge, and then she emphasizes the slight rhythmic and melodic change in the "I have emotional motion" line after the bridge ... and it's awesome.
well, here's the TIny Desk version, which has piano and vocal harmony with it, unlike, say, the Paste one:
https://youtu.be/-hLJNZSIwP8?t=3m34s
gives me chills, man
― alpine static, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
oh my god
https://youtu.be/H37WARFESUE
― alpine static, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:41 (six years ago) link
oh my god... motion sickness...― flappy bird, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:48 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flappy bird, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:48 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pretty much here now.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
everyone who hears it gets there eventually.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
Weirdly disappointed to learn that the boyfriend who shells out for expensive hypnotherapy, sings in an English accent and was in a band when PB was born is (supposedly) Ryan Adams.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 08:04 (six years ago) link
Motion sickness, damn
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
i saw her live recently. it was a really good show!
― dyl, Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
i heard "smoke signals" on the radio and it was v good, gave some julien baker vibes. other songs havent really clicked for me immediately
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
mordy and i both have this as one of our top albums of the year, if not the album of the year
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
just wanted to give it some more publicity before people vote on their year end things
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
this album, or boygenius?
― austinb, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
alright i am hearing reports that this came out last year
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
lol
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
i learned about it this year at the same time as boygenius. the boygenius one is a favorite of mine as well.
Treeship what do you think of the new Girlpool
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
this was one of the best albums of last year, glad that she's getting more exposure from all the boygenius excitement
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
agreed ^
moreso than I did a year ago, I think Stranger In The Alps is a legit long-haul classic
― alpine static, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
and by that i just mean it still sounds so good and feels like it's getting better, even after what must be, idk, 60+ listens?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link
I also missed out on this last year and probably would've put it at the top of my list this year if I could. Love boygenius and their whole coming together but this album is.. some album.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:03 (five years ago) link
i only heard it right at the end of last year when going through my backlog for eoy season but it instantly went to near the top of my list, an immediate classic to me. so many delightful moments - the "falling" bass on "smoke signals", the way the bridge goes into the final chorus on "motion sickness", that synth choir line near the end of "scott street", when the guitar comes in a minute into "georgia"
thinking about it now it's fairly similar in feeling to this year's kacey musgraves album - singer-songwriter with gorgeous arrangements and lots of beautiful ambience filling up the space
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
just to clarify what i was saying: i loved it a year ago, too. put it in the second half of my top 10, i believe.
but you know how a year or two or five later, some of the records in your top 10 kinda fade away and you don't reach for them as much, while a few come into focus as the ones you keep returning to? Alps is one of those for me, at least right now.
so is last year's Manchester Orchestra album.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
I like Phoebe Bridgers a lot and really hate the Julien Baker I've heard which makes the Boygenius album effectively useless for me.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
Hating Julien Baker seems.. cruel. But there are several Boygenius tracks that don't sound like Baker tracks.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
Funeral kills me every time. It never doesn't make me tear up a little.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
Yeah. She is just remarkably talented as a songwriter.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 3:27 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
phoebe's presence in the boygenius stuff is wayyy heavier than julien's imo, outside of "stay down" there isn't really a typical julien baker moment on the ep
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
imo "motion sickness" is a perfect song, rest of stranger in the alps is pretty good
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
year of impact rule means i get to vote for this
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/phoebe-bridgers-covers-the-cures-friday-im-in-love-listen/
― flappy bird, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, March 6, 2018 2:04 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just heard this song for the first time and I fucking hate the shit out of Ryan Adams, this is just amazing songwriting....
some of these lines are ice cold, damn love it:
And why do you sing with an English accentI guess it's too late to change it now
You said when you met me you were boredAnd you, you were in a band when I was born
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
this is my album of the year even tho it came out in 2017 and consequently i will not be voting for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Mordy, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
Ryan is great, but yes, that last line in particular is an all-time great dig xp
― alpine static, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
knowing that song is about ryan adams makes it 1) funnier, then 2) more upsetting
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
album is much better than i gave it credit for upthread but i've also been depressed
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
it also keeps getting better, imo
― alpine static, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
the album is good but not necessarily good for you
― Mordy, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Her voice really does carry this weight of sadness. Incredible singer and songwriter.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
why date Ryan Adams in the first place? I've liked his music off and on for 20+ years but at no point during that time did he ever seem like the kind of person you'd want to spend any time around.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
Idk she is young. I dated worse people than that.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
― Mordy, Friday, January 11, 2019 1:15 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Believe I was the only voter for "Funeral" last year in the songs poll. It was my #1. Still hits me like a ton of bricks every time.
― Indexed, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
why date Ryan Adams in the first place?
idk, why would ryan adams date someone twenty years younger than him
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 11 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
Ryan Adams being that kind of skeeve shouldn't be surprising... but it is.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 11 January 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
haha yeah no it's not
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 12 January 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
gfvmic
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:44 (five years ago) link
co-sign the excellence of "Motion Sickness." a 2017 song that i kept randomly returning to in 2018.
― jaymc, Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:13 (five years ago) link
the first two lines of Scott street have been stuck in my head all fucking day
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:32 (five years ago) link
That song is so good
― marcos smart (Spottie), Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
similarly this is a 2018 album for me albeit i did listen to it after they played a clip of funeral on the popcast and immediately thought it was stunning
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 13 January 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
a popcast year in review thing i mean
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 13 January 2019 11:24 (five years ago) link
no boygenius thread I gather but FULL ALBUM coming
https://i.imgur.com/wi9bIVF.png
― abcfsk, Friday, 13 January 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
Every time I see this thread title my mind posits a very lame non-existent Seinfeld but
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 13 January 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
Bit
I like how this thread title evokes a Seinfeld-ish stand-up bit...
“First there was Courtney Barnett... she was pretty good! Like if Sheryl Crow had a few Nirvana CDs and a reliable weed connection! Then there was Soccer Mommy... when I first heard her, I thought Liz Phair was trying to sneak back into the industry under an assumed name! And now this Phoebe lady... what’s the deal??”
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Sunday, November 15, 2020 7:00 PM (two years ago)
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Friday, 13 January 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
There appears to be a song on this record titled "Leonard Cohen"
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 13 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Bring it on, the EP is glorious, and each one of them has gotten better since then. Phoebe is opening for Taylor Swift, right? She's gonna get a lot of new fans this year.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 13 January 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
it should be cute but it's actually annoying. this may be because i am a 46-year-old member of the Phoebe Bridgers subreddit.
this reminds me of a friend of mine telling me he got annoyed at the boygenius show he went to because there were so many young people and I was like "dude, I too wound up being a 50 year old greyhair at a phoebe bridgers concert and that is just something you have to accept"
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
Phoebe is opening for Taylor Swift, right?
That has got to be either the best or the worst opening slot in the world.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
she'll do great but if you were annoyed by her fans now, just wait until she picks up more swifties
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
I wish her luck convincing those people that she is more than the only thing standing between them and Taylor.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
man, I think they took it down, but there was a boygenius pitchfork live set from brooklyn on youtube for a few years that I watched about a thousand times, the version of Me and My Dog in it is one of my favorite live performances ever I think.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
Interscope, huh? I guess they outgrew Matador. I wonder if Julien and Lucy are still there as solo artists.
(Old Matador BBS interests die hard.)
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 14 January 2023 06:23 (one year ago) link
the pitchfork live session is def now gone from youtube, I wonder if that's because of the band changing labels or something...or maybe they're going to release that session in some other way. I hope it comes back, it's something else. there are a few audience shot videos of the same show but they're not as good obviously
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 14 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
phoebe's set that preceeded theirs does appear to still be online though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLYlYwoqeFI
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
Genuinely excited for the album. The EP is magnificent.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 15 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
Yep, love the EP and optimistic that they’ll all bring good material for the album.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
Heard her on a Sirius XM radio show playing lots of melancholy rock ballads by Big Star and others and she was enthusing about Alex Chilton from Box Tops days to Big Star and solo
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFaEfwu6J8
they sound fucking amazing together, once again
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
Three tracks (including the above) on Spotify. All lovely but True Blue stands out as a Dacus masterclass.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
I like them all, "$20" best because I always like when Baker rocks out a little. Hope there's at least a bit more of that on the album.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
I think there should be a boygenius thread, really. Any objections?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
make it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
boygenius: Baker Bridgers Dacus LLC
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
I absolutely love Phoebe Bridgers, but even as a huge Phoebe Bridgers fan, I would be very good with seeing about 65% fewer "artist X releases a new single featuring Phoebe Bridgers" headlines every month. Seems like they are hitting every few days right now.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 May 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
🤑
― treeship., Friday, 12 May 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
Phoeturing Phoebe.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 May 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
The National one is fucking ridiculous: 'contains tincture of Bridgers'.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Friday, 12 May 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
What prompted this was realizing that today's Pitchfork headline about a new song with Rob Moose was indeed not the same headline as the one from two days ago about a new song with Arlo Parks.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 May 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
clearly a Bridgers too far
― jaymc, Friday, 12 May 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
It won't last, you're only the new cool kid for a while, but she seems like she's having fun.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 May 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
Also she obviously loves collaborating.
"Rob Moose" is killing me for some reason what a hilarious name
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 May 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
Mortal enemy ofhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71EytrCqVML.jpg
― jaymc, Friday, 12 May 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
In the photo accompanying the pfork article, HE seems to be the one wearing her trademark "skeleton costume" garb... unexpected switcheroo!
― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Friday, 12 May 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link
Lol every Pitchfoyk article about this Rob Moose guy has Bridgers’ name in the headline
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 13 May 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link