A 9/10? With the reviewer fighting the impulse to give it 10/10?
What am I missing with this band?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 April 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, it's only one review, obv., but the disc is getting pretty good reviews overall, and I just don't get it.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 April 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
It's you! It's me! And there's dancing!
Yes it's twee indie rock/pop but it's done very well. Love this song.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/142724-los-campesinos-to-release-another-album-already
Yaaaaaaaay!
― maciej recognizing trill, Friday, 1 August 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa :D :D :D
― J0rdan S., Friday, 1 August 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
10 All Your Kayfabe Friends
Oh Dompaws
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 1 August 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Ucchchctsch,.
― mei, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.fabchannel.com/los_campesinos_concert/
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 August 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Four sweaty boys with guitars tell me NOTHING about my life
this lyric always makes me think about the lex
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
So many threads this could go on....
Are you fucking listening, Pitchfork’s [nabisco] [.]?
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
He only said "white" three times. Disappointing.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
But he said paedo upwards of 600.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
loooooooooool musical politics
― Just got offed, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Stars Of Track & Field >>>> The Drugs Don't Work.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's true though, everyone who likes this band is actually a paedo. No exceptions.
― Matt DC, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I had a really good zing I was gonna write here, but I'd get a pissy facebook message if I did.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I've not heard a single note by them. I think I like them because Swells doesn't, though. Although I do kind of agree with his statement of Doran's idea - basically "it's 2008 and the world's ending, why are you dressing as a 7-year-old", only I think it ought to be "It's 2008 and the world's ending, we might as well dress as 7-year-olds".
Do it, Dom.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if Swells/Doran is getting one after Swells slagged off a DiS sponsored tour?
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cdn.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/9/9780061117169.jpg
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2005/03/11/image679617x.jpg
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a sub-board you could post that jpg to
xpost
― Just got offed, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Sounds like someone is super jealous of Nabisco.
(Who wouldn't be? Oreos! Liking which makes you a pederast, too, obvs.)
Momus to thread.
― marc h., Monday, 18 August 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Surprisingly, the second album sounds a lot like the first.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 12 September 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
oh shit if this has leaked my day stands still
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
^This
― If you really need a 00's album I'd say go for 'in rainbows'., Friday, 12 September 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I just got a copy from my hip indie swinger friend, Don Load.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man oh man oh man
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i need lyrics but yeah they've still got it
sounds a little rawer but maybe its just unmastered or something
my fav part of this band now (besides gareth duh) is maybe the violin player
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously though how are they so good
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
lyrics already up on songmeanings XD
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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Because late 90s Lamacq indie is the greatest fucking genre ever and they're the only band still doing it these days (whatever bands Gedge and Hayman are playing in to crowds of 20 people nowadays don't count)
― Kanye raps about stuff other than shoes on the radio, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Another 40 minutes on this torrent.
i figured you liked them cuz they take the piss out of super serious kooks fans or what have you
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
for a while i thought i'd get annoyed by how busy the instrumentation is but they just write so many hooks
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
seems like there's lots of earnest love songs on here
lyrics predictably hilarious and great
And she said, "Tell me darling, do you think we have a future?"Well, maybe, kinda, pretty sure we do between usBring over pictures of your dead pets and relativesAnd we'll just say it's over if I don't shed any tears
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
As if I walked into the room to see my ex-girlfriendWho by the way, I'm still in love withSucking the face of some pretty boyWith my favourite band's most popular song in the backgroundIs it wrong that I can't decide which bothers me most?In the forefront of my mind it's the thoughtNot of you underneath, but me coming out looking worse
i mean seriously
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Because late 90s Lamacq indie is the greatest fucking genre ever and they're the only band still doing it these days
OTM, sorta. See also: Art Brut.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Art Brut are a little... too much, I think. Art Brut are clearly a band from north of Derby, you get me?
― Kanye raps about stuff other than shoes on the radio, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Although Jordy you should check out 1999 indie noisemakers Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi who are clearly LC's big influences.
― Kanye raps about stuff other than shoes on the radio, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
art brut don't write better pop songs than los campesinos!
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
or as many at least
yeah i will dom
my fav part about LC! is that they have their cake and eat it too. gareth is obv an emo but writes an album where he basically makes fun of ppl who are super serious emo. they write songs about not taking yourself seriously but gareth clearly kind of does? idk, im stumbling here
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, they're a _fun_ band. It's like that thread from a few months back, how many bands actually sound like they're enjoying what they're recording? LC have gotta be one of, what, ten bands left who actually sound like they're having a blast.
― Kanye raps about stuff other than shoes on the radio, Friday, 12 September 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha there is a cd copy of this album somewhere in the huge bin outside my flat. i had to get it out of here asap cuz its presence was grossing me out
― lex pretend, Saturday, 13 September 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
this is a weird record kinda! way more gareth heavy with less interplay b/w him and aleksandra, though im okay with it cuz it seems obvious that he went through some shit and decided to write an album about it (in which case should we expect 2 a year?) so the fact that it's not as planned out or intricate as hony (i.e. the way that "this how you spell" morphs into a totally diff song at the second half and basically changes the record) is okay with me. its not as good as hony (though at times i wonder what is) but for a very personal and almost selfish record i'm not mad at it all. and "we are beautiful, we are doomed" and "you'll need those fingers for crossing" stand up with much of the first record.
im still trying to decide if "we kid ourselves there's future in the fucking/ but there is no fucking future" is the corniest or my favorite lyric of all time.
― funky house truther (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2008 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
― Kanye raps about stuff other than shoes on the radio, Friday, September 12, 2008 3:17 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
also ^^this
― funky house truther (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2008 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
dom can you school me on what he means when he says he'd be tony cascarano circa 1995
― funky house truther (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2008 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Voila!
― Bill E, Monday, 15 September 2008 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
ha well i googled his name and shit so i know that he's a footballer (lol british thread) but what's the significance of the circa 95 part also why him besides that he was a good soccer player
― funky house truther (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
having barely heard anything by this band before, i am really really liking the album. christ, it moves at about 300 mph (in a good way), full of drama, great shouty bits, etc
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link