https://vine.co/v/OhL1DgbY3va
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― 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
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, 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
?
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
DON'T YOU REMEMBER HOW WE USED TO SPLIT A DRINK?IT NEVER MATTERED WHAT IT WASI THINK
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
lol i love that line
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
our hands were just that close
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
if you knewknewwhat the bluebirds sing at youyouwould never sing along
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
^^^^^^^^
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
havent bought this yet not sure i will even, don't like centuries @ all but kids arent all right is a jam
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
ABAP hot takes:
"Irrestistible" – Great lead track, comes out swinging full power, clenched teeth, hooks for days. Something military about it, might be off-putting for some, but I'm enjoying the firepower.
"American Beauty, American Psycho" – Some fun bits, but blech, irritating as fuck. Can't imagine this succeeding as a single. To the extent that I can hear the drumming, it sounds great :D/D:
"Centuries" – The suffocating, grotesquely cloying downside of Tim's "they added too much bombast to ordinary songs until they exploded, and then they pieced together new songs out of the shards" formulation. Pushing real damn hard for an early call on the year's worst video, too. Fuck FOB.
"The Kids Aren't Alright" – Okay, this is more like it. Lovely vocal performance from Stump. Digestible bombast/content ratio.
"Uma Thurman" – The "Munsters Theme" has a deathless grip on my brain's pleasure centers, one of my all-time favorite musical anythings, so I'm stupid with happy at odd intervals during this otherwise merely brilliant song. Up there with "This Ain't a Scene" as a one-track band summary.
"Jet Pack Blues" – The mid-tempo tracks might be taking this. Just beautiful.
"Novocaine" – Is there any contemporary rock band more dependent on "weird noises" for their appeal? Not faulting the band, I like weird noises, just asking. Decent song, though I'm starting to experience boldness fatigue, a Slim Jim snapping in a human face, forever.
"Fourth of July" – Not that I was expecting a ballad…
"Favorite Record" – Like "Jet Pack Blues" a demonstration that pulled punches sometimes hit harder. Hugely welcome after two tracks of beatdown slog.
"Immortals" – Figured from the title that this would suck in the decisive manner of "Centuries", but it's goddam awesome. Music by which to make rash decisions. Hey, we should drive to Vegas, get married, and not tell anyone. Like right now.
"Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC)" – Nice closer, though not an immediate favorite. Danny Elfman soundtrack vibes.
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:04 AM (3 days ago)
yeah, it's as gross as the "centuries" vid, tho in a different way.
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
lol so "centuries" becomes weirdly seductive on repeat listens, and it definitely should if you like "immortals" ffs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
they announced a show in Concord, couple hrs from here
cmon boys, i love you but can i plz get a show closer to home?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
might skip this tour unless they've suddenly flooded their setlist with folie songs, although "ab/ap" from videos seems awesome live
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
although this is the second time in two years fob is playing jones beach two days before my birthday, just with wiz khalifa subbed for paramore :\
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 January 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
they announced a show in l.a., couple thousand miles from here
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Think this is okay, not as good as SRNR, don't look the songs where they trade in menace (hidden or otherwise) for goof like the title track
Uma Thurman is a fine track
Hope that this grows up on me
― 龜, Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link