― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 30 June 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
About language? I dunno. Certainly they use language in a fascinating, complicated, almost singular way, but I wouldn't say they're about it. At least not in the formalist/gestural way the word "about" implies to me.
I think there's really dense, rich thematic stuff going on in LP's ouvre -- stuff about the way subcultures work, about a certain kind of millenial American sadness... Anyone wanna start a thread on thematic strands that run through Craig Finn's work?
― Ess, Monday, 30 June 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 30 June 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
"He said, 'My name is Corey - I'm really into hardcore - People call me HARD .... COREY!"
I had to go sit down after hearing that because I was laughing so hard.
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 30 June 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
― nick georgiou, Thursday, 17 July 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 17 July 2003 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.thebrokerdealer.net/
is the still functional website for Craig Finn electronica side-project mentioned above. The site has 4 mp3s available... are they others out there??
There is some other band called broker/dealer out there too now.
if anyone is willing to share a copy of a LP live show, please let me know.. thanks.
― Matt Sab, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:17 (twenty years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I KNEW you'd like that album, 'Twan, and I'm glad you do.
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
You don't live here anymore so maybe you've got "perspective", but I just playing the B.S. old skool Mpls fanboy syndrome "oh you should have seen them back when" crap when I think LFTR is better than Hold Steady? cuz I really do.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
the LP record I played Jess was Fiestas + Fiascos, preceded by "To Live and Die in LBI" and "Nassau Coliseum"
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link