ah, nostalgia. i'm going with nothing feels good
― psychgawsple, Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Get Up Kids
― Keep Carmody and Carry On (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
get up kids.the best promise ring album was obv 30degrees everywhere. braid, well.
― ian, Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, did I love the Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile and Braid - The Age of Octeen when I was a teenager.
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
one nine nine five! when we were ten past nine!
i can't believe ian is choosing get up kids
― cutty, Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
god i hated this shit
― da croupier, Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
well don't you win
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, with the grad students off Thrill Jockeyin' and the kids with pants that actually fit at these basement poetry-punk shows, I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under my alt-rock ass.
― da croupier, Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
man i almost forgot making this-- i can be a pretty serious poster when drunk!
― ♪㋡♫㋡ (gr8080), Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah i was going to have a jimmy eat world one on here too but Static Prevails seems too early and Clarity seems too late
PS- Promise Ring by a country mile
― ♪㋡♫㋡ (gr8080), Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
man i didn't remember the promise ring record until i clicked the image of the cover...i loved that album too!
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, with the grad students off Thrill Jockeyin' and the kids with pants that actually fit at these basement poetry-punk shows, I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under my alt-rock ass.― da croupier, Saturday, January 3, 2009 5:37 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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LOL
― cutty, Sunday, 4 January 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey Mercedes.
― CarlosRamirez, Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
promise ring felt the most pretentious at the time but the least embarrassing now.
― gr8080, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
wrong.promise ring still more embarassing than get up kids, ESPECIALLY the two albums being compared.
― ian, Friday, 30 January 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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― gr8080, Friday, 30 January 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Frame and Canvas robbed against 4MM
― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 30 January 2009 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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This is interesting. I need to reappraise all three.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 30 January 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
YOUUUUUUUUUYOU'RE ALWAYSYOURALWAYSSDRESSSSST AND BUUUUTONED UP
― (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^
The results of this poll are fine, but should have been Something to Write Home About tbh. That should have also won.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
BA BA BA DA BA BA BA BA DA BA DAADOO DOO DOO DO DO DO AND YOU
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
i love all of these goddamn fucking records
The only one I can even imagine playing now is PR. I put "Red and Blue Jeans" on an Important Mixtape
― I'll be interesting in 20 years (rip van wanko), Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
dudes at work have been jamming Nothing Feels Good a LOT lately.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
i like 'b is for bethlehem' a lot
― based god #swag #lilb (Lamp), Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
GOT A COUGHMY THROAT KILLS FROM SINGINGMY EARS ARE RINGINGAND THE STAGE IS SLOWLY SINKING
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
i will fuck w/ all three of these albums for the rest of my life-- they're getting close to being weird old guy music already
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
PR is the obvious choice here, I say. But then, I think Very Emergency is better than Nothing Feels Good.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
might hit a pr reunion tour show in the neighborhood. tough calls...
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
enjoy all these far more than 99.99% of current indie rock
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
The drumming on the Braid album is incredible. The songs are, too, really! I saw a whole hell of a lot of these bands in that '97-98 stretch. I was always a big Dischord fan and people I knew who were also into more arty punk just HATED this stuff. But all of these acts had some tunes!
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
Love all these. Kinda. Not going to listen to them again to find out.
Best heard on cassette in a smokey little hatchback en route to see your mate's hardcore band support the latest Tim Kinsella travesty. Other cassettes included Native Nod "Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World", Cable "When Animals Attack", Chisel "It's 8AM All Day" and Kill Rock Stars compilation that never got listened to. "Twoism" by Boards of Canada would soundtrack the ride home.
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
i listened to the 2nd Piebald record last nite to see if it held up as well as these three.
it didn't.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
I just did that with Piebald lately as well. You are so right. Did not enjoy.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
I am totally going to see them next month. lol.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
i think i'm going to see Refused in 2 weeks
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Nice. I saw them once many years ago.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
I think Very Emergency is better than Nothing Feels Good.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
EMO
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
xpost I do. But it's close. NFG is great.
Hmm, well, maybe I should go back and listen and make sure I stand by that.
Did not expect a Promise Ring-related crisis of opinion today.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
very emergency is cute and all but its no NFG
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
same goes for "something to write home about" - its a great album tied up w/ a lot of late teens nostalgia for me, but it just doesn't ~fit~ with Nothing Feels Good and Frame and Canvas the same way Four Minute Mile does.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
i left Static Prevails and Clarity off this poll for the same reason
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
new thread:
the emo canon
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
The higlight of Four Minute Mile, though, is the least emo sounding song - the total Weezer one where he goes "Oh Amy / Don't hate me / for running away from you" or whatever with that synth riff. Didn't the synth player break apart and form Reggie & The Full Effect?
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
I saw The Get-Up Kids reunion show on their Euro tour last september. They were still quite good but had gotten significantly older. They ended their set with that Oh Amy-song and Ten Minutes from Something To Write Home About.
I recently found out that Rop Pope, TGUK's bassplayer, is also playing bass in Spoon (who are one of my favorite bands since the last two years).
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
frame and canvas STILL sounds good imo
some of the best and most consistent drumming, also. wholehearted recommendation to young drummers looking to be awesome
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:01 (ten years ago) link
Aye.
"You're painting floors while your pals are renaming the stars / get up, get up, and go do what you started / if you want to be a martyr - try harder!"
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 07:48 (ten years ago) link
love this:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21125-nothing-feels-good/
The world of Nothing Feels Good doesn't pinpoint specific, identifiable emotions. It is a state of being, one where an overactive mind and overstimulated body are aren’t exactly at war, but struggling to attain common ground. It’s feeling like your heart is pumping Mountain Dew straight to your brain and your central nervous system can’t be trusted. Davey von Bohlen himself is at a loss for words to describe it: many of Nothing Feels Good’s inscrutable, quotable lyrics are a result of internal miscommunication: "I got my hands on the one hand, and I don’t know where to put them", "I married a room, where I’ll at least keep my hands in order", "how do I explain your body to the rest of my day?"
― gr8080, Friday, 6 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
of these three records, frame and canvas
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 6 November 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link