Say Bad Things About Deserters' Songs

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Need, understand, vitriol, this here board, spouts, aforesaid's direction. Why? Love, it, myself.

― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

New "we hate Sonic Youth/Amelie/Deserters' Songs cos they're overrated and we're unabashedly hip" answers.

― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think some of the problem may lie in the epiphany I just had: before coming on this board I had never heard a bad word in its direction.

― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gestalt NOT:: epiphany

― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I liked Amelie, but I fail to see where most of the criticisms leveled against it (shallow, fluffy film-making was the big one) would be applicable to Deserter's Songs which was none of those things as far as I can tell. I like Mercury Rev okay by the way, although I thought that this particular album sounded a bit too polished for my tastes (although that seemed to be the quality that most other folks liked about it). Only heard it once though, so I should probably reserve judgement. Of course they are also very hip and I'm probably overrated. Woops.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's twee. "Goddess on a Highway" decent.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Deserter's songs- beware when indie band (who have come through, who have 'survived' all the drugs and fights and destruction-- give 'em a nice round of applause!) uses string arrangements. It's always a disaster.

― Julio Desouza, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pissweak pre milenial bollocks done in so many different ways by so many different bands before.

― Queen G, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sissy music just like all the crap that Fridmann (sp?) guy produces. He ruined the Flaming Lips too.

― adam, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

''Sissy music just like all the crap that Fridmann (sp?) guy produces. He ruined the Flaming Lips too.''

I suppose you're reffering to the soft bulletin. You're wrong, one of the most brilliant psychedelic pop albums evah. The lyrics are fantastic.

― Julio Desouza, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The one element I assume the producer had no hand in...?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Comparison - Amelie/DS not in production but popularity. Both "Cult Classics"/Both hated by the uber-hip/All the people who hate Amelie and DS love both the Director's and the Bands earlier work! I suppose the same may be applied to Sonic Youth.

But as regards the production - they are both furry, fuzzy, purple, rather colourful pieces of work that feel like a woman has been around the world nine times and woken up looking at her shoes.

― powertonevolume, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Say Bad Things About Deserters' Songs

no.

― jess, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I haven't been able to get excited about anything Mercury Rev has done since "Boces".

― o. nate, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Deserter's songs" gets worse as it goes on, starting off nice and dreamy for the first three or four songs, then it goes horribly wrong and Band-like in the middle section and all falls apart. That's not to say I don't like the record, I love it immensely, but if they'd managed to sustain the mood of the first three tracks over a whole album it would have been an incredible listen. As it is, it's just great. But I wish there was a whole album as good as "Tonite it shows" and "Endlessly".

― Rob M, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It sounds like the Eagles.

― RickyT, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The vocals stink.

― Arthur, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The wibbly instrumental things are irritating.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It tries too hard to be a "great album".

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It thinks it'll be allright to rip off The Band if it has some of them on it. It's wrong.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

They sound like a bunch of castrated butterflies.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It sounds like the symphonic Oasis.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

mercury rev started to slide once donahue took over all vocal duties. i mean, yerself/boces were fucking brill, shit, no? and no doubt, see you on the other side was an inspired one off. but we don't take this fey twee limey twaddle where i come from (harlem, raise up!) the new one's even worse. Your Pal,
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― Ma$e., Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That last hidden track is pointless and annoying.

― bnw, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Deserter's Song = Supertramp

― Chris Barrus, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Digital Love' by Daft Punk also = Supertramp. Nothing wrong w/ that.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

why are Supertramp *always* a critic cliche for bad things? Breakfast In America is quite a good album

― michael, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When you were young, was life so logical?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight years pass...

This is one of maybe 20 albums I can really enjoy all the way through.

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 15 May 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Been so long since I gave it an ear -- wonder what I would think now, knowing how many bands took this plus The Soft Bulletin and reduced the approach to endless, pointless sludge.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 May 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Can anyone recommend more music like the orchestral stuff at the end of "A Funny Bird"?

― Cunga, Saturday, 15 May 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Been so long since I gave it an ear -- wonder what I would think now, knowing how many bands took this plus The Soft Bulletin and reduced the approach to endless, pointless sludge.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 15 May 2010 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link

As the Rev and the Lips made their most ambitious albums yet, they simultaneously fucked and poised the rest of indie rock for the next 10-12+ years...

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 15 May 2010 06:03 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't like his voice.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 15 May 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

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