The Dismemberment Plan: Classic Or Dud?

x-posting and annoying like hell, but yeah, travis morrison disses the clash today: http://www.whatwasitanyway.com

and my two cents is that emergency & i is a fantastic record but not as far and away from anything else he's done as most people act. "as we proceed" and "you make me feel like a freak" could've gone on the plan's fifth album, and it would've been a totally natural progression from change.

They were just teeing it up with 'Change' and then they broke.

Sorry, but just been listening to that last album. They were on to something.

Maritime are/were OK btw. Morrison solo was pretty poor and he's now 'retired'

I was seeking recommendations similar to the D Plan, on here about five years ago and now I'm back again after 24 more failed relationships.

Should I take up caravanning?

WHen I first joined ILX, it seemed like EVERYONE was all about this band.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/07/travis_morrison_and_the_dismemberment_plan_what_it_s_like_to_marry_a_rock_star_.single.html

He worked at the Washington Post and then the Huffington Post, where I met him. I asked him about his albums, and he told me that I should just listen to the one he considered the best, Emergency & I. When I asked about the others, he said he didn’t have any copies, and that I would have to buy them on iTunes. So I downloaded and listened. I enjoyed them, although I didn’t memorize any lyrics or listen to them on repeat. But that chapter of his biography didn’t play much part in our lovely blossoming romance. At the time, Travis got his singing joy largely from an Episcopal church choir.

Aw, that's kind of a sweet piece.

ya totally. she seems nice, & both of them v.levelheaded about the whole thing, hope their marriage is a happy one :)

I kinda like the fact he didn't have copies of the other ones around.

lol the dc-board of old school indie-crowd types i post on are SO OFFENDED by this article and think she's the worst person ever, like they can't even past her referring to him as a rock star

it's a cute article but i def would not have told her "yeah sure publishing that is a good idea, go for it" if i was him

B/c it reflects badly on him, or?

i think travis has given up on pleasing old school indie-crowd types except in a "give me money, i give you hits" capacity

i don't think referring to him as a rock star is like a we-r-so-indie sticking point, it's just that she sort of structures the article around that thought ('omg, a rock star?!') in a way that is kind of out of touch with the inappropriateness of referring to a moderate turn-of-millennium indie rock success as a 'rock star'. the response is like, guh? what are you talking about?

she does admit up front that she knows nothing about music and doesn't care. she also uses an analogy to a leather mini-skirt wearing fangirl from Almost Famous not once, but twice.

right. it's almost in no way about music, being a musician, a rock star.

'omg, my fiance used to be a porn star', 'omg, my fiance used to be a stripper!', 'omg, my fiancee used to play arena football!'

haha I go to bed at 10 o'clock too

B/c it reflects badly on him, or?

― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:59 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

not at all. i'm just like, i COULD write an essay about my wife's cool job, or encourage her to write one about mine, but i wouldn't.

wonder if Zooey is gonna write one of these when she realizes Ben Gibbard used to be an indie-rocker too

...wait fuck ABANDON JOKE

Ira and Georgia writing endless recursive songs about discovering one another's dark musical pasts

what level of actual (indie) rock celebrity would the fiancee have to have achieved before this would be an article to write? like, obviously it couldn't be 'omg my fiancee was in slint'. but 'omg my fiancee was in pavement'? or?

well i mean this kind of article could be written about pretty much anyone who's not a household name and might plausibly work a day job outside the music business but could sell out clubs and bring out fanatical fans if they got the old band band together. and that represents a really wide spectrum of different levels of success.

travis morrison was such a babe

i remember being crushed when he went all neo-con post-9/11

I like the idea of Trav Morrison singing in an Episcopal Church choir!

I have tickets to see them on/in a boat in Bristol. Excellent.

i remember being crushed when he went all neo-con post-9/11

Wait, this was a thing?

yeah i remember at least one long idiotic blog post advocating war in iraq etc.

this appears to be some morons discussing it but the meat of morrison's argument is roughly (and as abuard) as i remember it.

to be fair, i knew a lot of previously intelligent people who turned into chest-beating morons on September 12.

http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/10/28/the-dismemberment-plan-emergency-i-round-56-nicks-choice/

They are so awesome and dorky live.

yup

aren't they shitty at this stage?

they're basically as good a live band now as they ever were. even if you hate the new songs, they sound better live and aren't the whole show.