Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil

yeah I was kinda lukewarm on "Katrina", too... but they rocked it out pretty well on Conan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrNiPYl5ecM

and this is just great
http://vice.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/11/blacklipsonconan.jpg

ehh, i don't know. the first two songs are great, but after that it falls off a little for me. the country song and Navajo are both pretty stupid songs.

Yeah, I'm still not too sure how much I like this one. Mr. Que OTM about the dropoff.

conan performance was raw. album's whatever.

yeah i saw them a week after this came out and they played Lean and then Katrina right after one another, it was magic. katrina--especially at the end--was noisy cosmic awesomeness

I should note that I haven't heard it outside of "Katrina" and some live stuff. Was going to wait on the vinyl, but perhaps I should sample it before plunking down the cash.

so they're still good live, and LOL did not play any of the songs that i hate on the new record.

none of their records are that great but they are reliably pretty ace on stage

^^party line.

Silly talk, Katrina is the best song on the album!

I'm a latecomer to GBNE, mainly b/c I didn't want to hear another garage-rock band. But I've grown to like this album quite a bit -- good mix of Reigning Sound and the Dead Milkmen. And Katrina and How Do You Tell a Child are standouts for me. I hated Child at first, when I thought they were joking, but the fact that they're sincerely concerned about death and innocence made it kinda touching.

Yeah you guys realise it's about their old guitarist who died a couple of years back? I actually think the lighthearted aspect of it is really well handled and don't see why it's a 'silly' song at all. I'm into the album and rate it a fair way higher than the In The Red one

^^^ correct.

good mix of Reigning Sound and the Dead Milkmen

Totally otm.

I think this new one is their best.

I liked the last album better but this one is still good. Maybe it will grow on me when I've listened to it a few more times. They seem to play here every other week yet somehow I've still not seen them live.

anyone else excited about the new album, due in feb apparently

i am fucking excited

I think this new one is their best.

the fake-live-in-Tijuana record on Vice is their best by a mile imo

I'll check the new one tho, the promo single "Starting Over" is pretty good

yeah the 'live' album is their best work i think, some songs actually sound better than the recorded versions

this album is terrible

listened to it today for the first time in years and was astounded at how bad it was

http://pitchfork.com/news/54493-black-lips-cole-alexander-calls-lorde-naive-and-mediocre-labels-drake-fake/

ugh

And it’s not that you have to. I grew up in a decent suburb in Atlanta, but I do think sometimes in hip-hop, you can hear it in his voice. He didn’t have that pain in his voice, but it’s a subtle nuance. I’m sure he has some struggles in his life like everyone does, but I just don’t like Drake. He seems kind of fake to me.
I like my rappers more ghetto and ratchet sounding. Personally, I like more melodramatic, ignorant rap where they’re talking about violence and anger and it’s just evil. I don’t like when it’s too conscious, I don’t like it when it’s too smart. To me, it’s just like a gangster movie. In a gangster movie, you don’t want to see polite guys; you want to see them do horrible shit. It’s a movie, it’s entertainment, and, at the end of the day, music is entertainment. It might reflect what has happened, but a lot of times it’s an art form of telling stories.

There’s that one line where they’re like, “That’s a cold-ass honky.” I really don’t like that line. First of all, it’s a racist word. I feel like white people, when someone says something racist against them, they’re not very offended. They’ve never had to deal with racism so it’s almost a kind of white guilt, or a subtle kind of action.

uuuuuuuuuuuugh

I like how he starts in on the pretty racist assumptions of "Royals" through...some pretty racist assumptions

weren't they the ones who went to India and like got naked on stage and stuff and basically contrived a 'got run out of the country' stunt out of the whole thing

This could be another one, I guess? Didn't know they were even still going

Haha. My friend just posted this article on Facebook. There are so many good quotes, it's hiarious.

"I LIKE MY RAPPERS MORE GHETTO".

He honestly sounds like an ILX troll.

This guy's response to people being mad at him is truly impressive for its use of both the "maybe YOU'RE the racist ones" defense and the "let me tell you about my black friends and acquaintances" defense

http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2014/03/26/black-lips-cole-alexander-weighs-in-re-av-clubs-hatesong-remarks#more

Yeah, I guess Lorde and Macklemore are great hip hop artists after all. j/k