Bandito and Morph are great.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
"they suck but the basic materials they work with could be good." from brad about their earlier material was completely otm, but i didn't expect them to ever actually deliver on that potential, this album is pretty good!
kinda surprised that this album has been pretty ignored critically, like this band is massively popular and clearly has enough going on that surely critics would have something interesting to say about them.
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
"Nico and the Niners" is still pretty dreadful though and I don't think "Pet Cheetah" really works for me either
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sO-Y1Zbft4
they're good now
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
Solid mainstream band I think
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
relistening to trench today, even better than i remembered, probably better than i characterized it upthread
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9Kf0D5BTs
aiight maybe i've done the full heel turn, i love this song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
"bandito" is so good, i nearly forgot
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
also i will halfheartedly defend most of blurryface at this point. i... like "ride" now?
here let me ruin vampire weekend for you *slowly turns up volume dial on twenty one pilots "ride"*
most 21 pilots superfans would tell you that blurryface is a mainstream concession and vessel is the real shit but i find vessel real juvenile still. some of the hooks are wonderful ("ode to sleep") but many of the almost-good songs are still like rube goldberg machines of bad decisions. what's worse than the rapping? nearly every time this band breaks out the ukulele
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
of course, trench is >>>>>>>>>>
even the uke tracks work
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
"shy away" is underwhelming, just feels like part of that small wave of major label pop rock bands who tried to sound like the strokes (neon trees etc.)
it's not bad but kinda forgettable and uninteresting which is the last thing this band should be. even when they've been horrible they were at least interestingly horrible making the worst musical decisions possible etc.
― ufo, Saturday, 17 April 2021 06:20 (three years ago) link
on the plus side: no rapping!
idk it’s a really well-written song imo. everything a hook
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 April 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
been stuck in my head for a week
I will rep for blurryface. Great songs, great visual aesthetic too. Saw them twice live in this time (w/ my teen kids) and the energy start to finish was impressive (band and crowd). Surging quasi pit filled most of the room. Many backflips were flipped. Show climaxes with Tyler on a 30 foot steel pillar above the crowd singing Car Radio.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Saturday, 17 April 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
i really like blurryface at this point. even lowlight “lane boy” has a sick dnb freak out
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBRnnnZyFw
really good imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
it's good until the second half where it goes into half-time and then the outro rap is dreadful
― ufo, Friday, 30 April 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
god what a weird record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
like in many ways it is deeply unweird, cf. "saturday" is just a groovy song about the weekend! until it consumes itself pixel by pixel
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
they largely make the weirdness work for them for this time instead of making you go "that is one of the worst musical decisions i've ever heard"
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
"bounce man," tho... i don't hate it but they gotta lock the uke in the closet
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
and his rapping too, though it's not quite as bad on this one as it's been in the past
"bounce man" isn't good but it's not like bafflingly in the way say the "guns for hands" bridge is or anything
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
i think dude's rapping majorly improved between blurryface and trench, so for the most part i think it's rad, another tool in the unexpectedly deep toolbox this band's working with. still a few lines that make you clutch your forehead and wish you didn't know what words are
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
in mood/songwriting/everything else this feels like a complete photonegative of trench and i'm really about bands that make these kind of hard right turns between records
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
"mulberry street" -> "formidable" is the part of the album i could credibly describe as sophistipop
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 May 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
it's mostly just i hate the sound of his rapping, he just sounds like a less technical eminem or something and it's not pleasant
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
his rapping is more pleasant than his singing
― Left, Friday, 21 May 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/fQn4050/21pilots.png
― StanM, Saturday, 2 July 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
no security or anything - just now on Rock Werchter (Belgian festival)
― StanM, Saturday, 2 July 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
the grin when he walks back to the stage at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9UOzYPu24
― StanM, Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link