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Post by dolly on Oct 6, 2006 10:53:52 GMT -5
Brandon Flowers is perhaps one of the biggest idiots in rock but man the Killers write catchy tunes.
Well put.
Regarding the Killers new song - Is no one else hearing Meatloaf?
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 6, 2006 12:00:52 GMT -5
YES! I thought the very same thing!
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 6, 2006 12:02:29 GMT -5
Man, I don't get the Lovely Feathers thing. I think they are god awful. I will have to try that one again.
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Post by luke on Oct 6, 2006 12:47:17 GMT -5
I think it's a perfect singalong pop album, pretty all over the place, really shaves time off a commute. All I ask for.
New Sloan came in the mail today. Didn't realize it was a single album! Felt like the glory days of No Limit, where they'd somehow manage to cram 38 tracks on a single album.
Was listening to it in the truck just now, and you'd swear it was their first album since Between the Bridges. Picks up exactly where that one left off.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 6, 2006 13:26:22 GMT -5
Whohoo! I'm trying to get one of my Canadian friends right now to try and track it down on vinyl for me.
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Post by Ryosuke on Oct 7, 2006 2:24:54 GMT -5
*still waiting for luke's thoughts on bonobos, Eastern Youth, and Quruli*  Really, just an "I dug it, man" or "nah, not really my thing" would do. I'm just curious if you liked them or not. |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 9, 2006 13:09:18 GMT -5
My award for best album title ever goes to Yo La Tengo for "I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass".
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Post by Fuzznuts on Oct 25, 2006 13:23:32 GMT -5
Cannot wait for this (Nov. 7)-->  Product Description (From Amazon):
Originally released in April 1995, fresh off the success of "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain", the band recorded a deliberately chaotic and eclectic album that sounded nothing like its predecessor. With influences from the Groundhogs to the Frogs, Captain Beefheart to the more obscure mid-'80s central California hardcore bands, "Wowee Zowee" confused critics and alienated fans. Yet it became a fan favorite over time. The songs have a darkness that now seems appropriate and with Bryce Goggin at the mixing desk, the production was the band's most rocking to date. This super-deluxe re-mastered comp contains an embossed slipcase with two CDs and a 64-page perfect-bound book, fifty tracks total; eighteen unreleased recordings, nine non-album b-sides, four compilation tracks, five BBC Evening Session tracks and much more. |
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Post by Galactus on Oct 25, 2006 14:05:57 GMT -5
I have a uh...special in store copy...yeah that's it...and it's as good as the other two reissues. Though the packaging is really nice with those so I'll still have to buy it. Does anybody know if they plan on doing all the albums? I know Malkmus has said that he thinks Wowee Zowee is the "last classic pavement album"...he could mean it was the last album they actually made as a band, as the last two were largely just Malkmus at wheel.
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Post by Fuzznuts on Oct 25, 2006 14:10:59 GMT -5
Dunno about all that, but I think (hope) they'll probably do the last two as well. This is the way reissues should be done.
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Post by riley on Oct 29, 2006 6:56:02 GMT -5
I can't put these in order at the moment, but here's what I'm thinking for possible 20 best of 2006 candidates so far...
Tv On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Augie March - Moo You Bloody Choir
The Dears - Gang of Losers
The Horror The Horror - The Horror The Horror
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Raising The Fawn - The Maginot Line
The Roots - Game Theory
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Sloan - Never Hear The End of It
Portastatic - Be Still Please
Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
Maritime - We, The Vehicles
The Lovely Feathers - Hind Hind Legs
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Guillemots - Through The Window Pane
Amusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Built To Spill - You In Reverse
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
The Rapture - Pieces of The People We Love
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Post by Dr. Drum on Oct 29, 2006 8:44:59 GMT -5
Pretty cool list, Riley. It's a strange year. You wouldn't on the face of it have said it was an spectacularly outstanding one - good, but not outstanding - but still I think I'm going to have something like a 20 car pile-up for the top 10 slots.
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Post by riley on Oct 29, 2006 9:09:18 GMT -5
Well said Doc.
There's also a handful of "pleasant surprise" or "return to form" type releases this year, as well is the standard disappointment and relative indifference quotient.
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Post by Galactus on Oct 29, 2006 10:45:38 GMT -5
I'm having trouble getting past my top three or so this year...lotta stuff I liked but only a few that I loved...
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Post by Ryosuke on Oct 29, 2006 11:08:14 GMT -5
The trouble I'm having is whether to put Natsumen or bonobos as the top album. I'm in mind to just stick both at the top as a tie, though I might give the edge to Natsumen because they fucking went on hiatus.
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