Are you saying they copied saves the day
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Basically a repeat of my experience with 1989. Album that I've been looking forward to basically since the last one came out, been dreading since the first awful single, and landed in my iTunes on release day, probably never to be listened to again. A halfhearted attempt at radio-friendluness that leaves behind all the stuff that that made them melodically and lyrically interesting. They did it so well on the last record! Everything on that one felt like a single. Everything here feels like a b side.
New S-K today takes away some of the sting, but this record is a bummer.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:05 (nine years ago) link
:|
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
:(
i'm going to buy a physical copy of it today #grandma
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
Maybe everybody else will like it! I hope they do. It's definitely not for me though.
Just realized that this is the first album since FUCT to not feature any stunt casting.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Eh, I dunno. I'm giving it a second chance on the trip home. Not as bad as I thought this morning. Still feels a little awkward in places. Gonna load it up on my kid's ipod when I get home. He'll probably love the hell out of it.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Favorite Record annoys the shit out of me though. No compunctions about saying that.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
oof "Uma Thurman" smh
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
do not know how any band capable of producing american beauty / american psycho could be worth thinking about for more than 5 seconds much less listening to :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
thanks haters
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
i trust u brad
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
i like the album, but "Uma" is bad idea skinny jeans
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
idk i think it's weird and exciting, love the way patrick sings the verses
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
I don't like "Uma" or "Favourite Record" but I remain pro- this album in general
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
just doing an actual faux surf rock Pulp Fiction thing with the music makes it all way more on-the-nose than the usual FOB lyric pop culture potpourri imo
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/OhL1DgbY3va
Me
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
um I have comd here to say that brad is still more otm than the rest of u mopes
uma thurman is fking great!munsters theme cmon are you KIDDING me it's super fun
fourth of july is where the big hooks really kick in, i was kinda waiting for something to rly hit & goddamn yes
favorite record too
def loving thismaybe not as much as SRNR but still it's p dope
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
cosigning dayo
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
"uma thurman"'s resemblance to "misirilou" and "chick habit" makes it pretty much exclusively intertextual about tarantino soundtracks but i think it makes for a really invigorating and strange song, plus the munsters sample is p inspired idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think if I hadn't at some level decided that "more on the nose" = "better" I probably wouldn't have become such a FOB stan.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah but like...."Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner" didn't have a bow tied on it with an "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" interpolation or something.
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
imagine how awesome that would be
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:40 (nine years ago) link
or she's like the wind! omg
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Hungry Eyes FTW IMO
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
oh shit
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
I just watched them do Centuries on Fallon...how can such a nothing song have such a monstrous chorus? FOB are confusingly magical.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
THE BEST
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
What's the melody at the beginning of Centuries? Wanna say it's Dido's little ditty at the beginning of Stan but don't think that's quite right
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
lol
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
suzanne vega, "tom's diner"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
No, that's not quite it. I think it's the I Dream of Jeannie theme.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Tim
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link
after how's life's post I assumed I had missed some kind of joke
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link
I admit, I never know which way 龜's going with a post.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Haha I honestly don't know who Susanne Vega is
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Not even "Marlena On The Wall"? "Luka"?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:28 (nine years ago) link
I will check those out
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
Actually dan it is entirely possible that both you and FOB were thinking of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffdWUvxyB_c
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
it's the version of it i first encountered
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
watching the fallon performance, seems they figured out the way to make the dropped key not sound awkward is just to play it really fast
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/Ucxl4K2LlTY
― maura, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucxl4K2LlTY
hey look it's suzanne vega
― maura, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
haha nice
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Would have preferred Blood Makes Noise anyway.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
I wish I could get into this band because so many of the critics I respect and agree with more than any other are into them, but my aversion is so visceral and immediate.
This album does sound less like having locker room jocks ask "why do you keep hitting yourself?" than the last one, though, so I guess that's something?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Really? I'd say it's precisely the opposite.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Their opening act on the upcoming tour is frat-rapper Hoodie Allen.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
I think this one scales back the mock-Bon Jovi, beer can crushing production a little bit
― Evan R, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
the video for AB/AP is repulsive
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link