anyone else have this experience? anyone want to contribute to a t+s s/d?
― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Thursday, 26 June 2003 18:40 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
but they have really shitty attitudes
Where does this come from? They didn't seem *that* annoying on the So Jealous documentary.
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:39 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:27 (7 years ago) Permalink
I LIKE HOW ALL THEIR SONGS ARE ABOUT WHAT FUCKUPS THEY ARE W GIRLS
― President Evil, Thursday, 5 July 2007 10:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
the last album (the con) is like fucking aural crack, it's all I've probably listened to it 100 times in the past month (it helps that it's really short and I've been working around the clock). I'm sure it's have a really horrible effect on me, it remains to be seen what that will be.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
wow that sentence was incomprehensible. sorry i've had 3 hours of sleep in two days
― akm, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
For about two weeks when Walking With A Ghost came out, I thought that it was Ween making fun of someone I couldn't identify.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 09:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
4 T&S threads but this one mentions 'The Con', which I quite like
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 21:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
ONLY this one
i listen to that album all the time. someone else somewhere on ILX said they listen to them way more than is healthy and I am probably in this same demographic. I certainly think of that quote every time I listen to them (which, lately, is every time I'm in the car).
― akm, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
I picked up "If It Was You" a couple years ago (from the dollar bin), and it kind of sat there for a long time. Recently I got stuck in a CD-only situation for quite awhile, and now I'm addicted to this CD.
― KateStand, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
I still want them to go back and de-compress "So Jealous" thereby undoing the only flaw in an otherwise amazing album.
Anyway...new album "Sainthood" is out, and man they're getting awfully consistantly good, to the point where it's easy to overlook them. My favorite thing at the moment is "The Cure" which makes me think that someone's been listening to "Oh Your City Lies In Dust." Pretty amazing production on this one as well...sometimes I'd swear that Eno (like AGW Eno) was behind some of the textures.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
love the new one, yeah
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Saturday, 14 November 2009 20:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
... even if they're just Dancing in the Dark
― wax tadpole, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is great! they are a great band. there's almost a pretenders or, uh, pat benatar feel to some of them (good thing).
i don't have the album in front of me; the ones that really impress me are the slow-burn, low-slung repetitive ones. the pop-punk songs i like a lot less.
― goole, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
the song they are playing a lot on the current is pretty dope
― mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm with you guys - it didn't grab me immediately, but on second and third listen i think it's a terrific batch of tunes. they don't sound anything like sleater-kinney, of course, but sometimes some of the vocals put me in the mind of The Girl Banned
― Edgard Varese is god (of music anyways) (outdoor_miner), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think the new single is terrific and lol the production/instrumentation reminds me of perfume
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Newer new track "I Was a Fool" would feel at home on a Fleetwood Mac album with different production and Stevie and/or Christine singing. http://soundcloud.com/teganandsara/i-was-a-fool/s-h5FKe
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 00:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
It's great! Copying my comment on the Pop thread:
Never cared much for Tegan and Sara, but The Line Of Best Fit's plug of the new single, deeming it "an epic Taylor Swift covering Kate Bush pop ballad", worked like a charm for me (even if I don't agree with the KB-part of that statement). Lovely song:
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/blog/listen-tegan-and-sara-i-was-a-fool-116066
The sound reminds me of the Young Galaxy production from Lissvik (who are also coming with a new albums soon!)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 01:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
another new one: http://stereogum.com/1237151/tegan-sara-now-im-all-messed-up-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
devastating imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
ruining the song i posted tbh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 22:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
Loving this Heartthrob album to bits.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:02 (4 months ago) Permalink
album of the year so far (i know) (but)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tegan-and-sara-continue-pop-evolution-on-heartthrob-album-premiere-20130124
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
tbh neither of them (both? dunno who sings, don't care) have the slightest bit of character in their voice so it's kinda hard to even remember what they sounded like
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:19 (4 months ago) Permalink
also i can't disagree more that this has any resemblance to CRJ, or at least CRJ did not once cross my mind while enduring it
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
can't really get with any of those impressions except for the lack of space (which i like actually, the crowdedness of it, like a mind populated with anxious thoughts but less chaotic, arranged into this brightened, icy narrative). their voices are pretty weird imo. i don't find the melodies particularly twee and the sad and worried lyrical content allows for a vertiginous effect anyway.
but i still totally get where you're coming from. i just honestly thought you might dig this record a little. ah well.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:47 (4 months ago) Permalink
also idk i feel a lot of space in stuff like "shock to your system" but maybe that's just an impression of the song's structure that has nothing to do with the actual effect of the production and mastering.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:52 (4 months ago) Permalink
lex, i don't care about you not liking albums. it's more the blithe dismissal of all of our taste in all kinds of music ever, as though none of us have ever hyped albums that you love.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
i know you often don't mean it but it just comes across as...idk.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:23 (4 months ago) Permalink
otm. I know him well enough to see his tongue in cheek but, jeez, quite a few of us are far more restrained than he about lauding our faves.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
this shitty album made me actually draw up a list of People To Remember Not To Trust When They Hype Music
― lex pretend, Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:48 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
like i mean... i know you well enough to know when to hype music TO you and when you probably won't like something? saying "I really like this" isn't the same thing as saying "i think you will really like this" and... anyway. whatever. this is silly and not worth it and i don't want to turn this into a thing.
i just got home from class and need to go to the gym and if this is coming off catty or nasty i'm really sorry. :(
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
I love LexerboleUntil it turns to descriptions of actual violence
― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 01:10 (4 months ago) Permalink
lex pretend's taste is one of the most difficult things to parse that i've come across
― monotony, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 01:33 (4 months ago) Permalink
His likes are typically good. I understand why they're likeable. His hates are where the confusion comes in.
Except for "Wut," which...idgi.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:19 (4 months ago) Permalink
New one sounds like Pink covering Phoenix.First track nice.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Saturday, 9 February 2013 00:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
"wut" being the girl unit track?
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Saturday, 9 February 2013 00:30 (4 months ago) Permalink
i like this quite a bit on the first few listens but i can kind of get why lex doesn't. the production sometimes gives me the feeling of being translated-into-pop and not pop itself.
― goole, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:23 (4 months ago) Permalink
ie it's an indie record, still. fine with me, but...
― goole, Monday, 11 February 2013 19:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
Revisiting the older albums, they all sound so DEAD compared to this new one. So little energy. They're all lifeless and soured. It's like someone came in with Heartthrob and turned on the lights.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:13 (4 months ago) Permalink
i came into this record as a fan of Greg Kurstin and not really knowing their stuff, and i think they work pretty well together on it.
― BIG REUSS aka the fun.driver (some dude), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
Greg Kurstin makes good pop songs ("Radioactive" by Rita Ora was one of my favorites last year). Does he still release music on his own, or is he just a behind the scenes guy now?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:21 (4 months ago) Permalink
otm. To those of us who like indie-pop as well as capital-P Pop, it sounds like a nice merger of the two. But if you don't have an indie-pop bone in yr body, it could be a harder sell.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:21 (4 months ago) Permalink
his group The Bird & The Bee hasn't made a record in a minute but they're supposedly doing a new one soon. and yeah "Radioactive" is dope. i may make a Kurstin poll thread, i don't think people realize yet how many jams he's done.
― BIG REUSS aka the fun.driver (some dude), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:23 (4 months ago) Permalink
Oh, ha! I'd forgotten he was half of The Bird & The Bee. I was wondering how long it's been since Geggy Tah broke up.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
unterberger did a good interview w/ him the other day: http://popdust.com/2013/02/08/from-geggy-tah-to-the-grammys-the-wild-ride-of-pop-impersario-greg-kurstin/
― BIG REUSS aka the fun.driver (some dude), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
cool interview
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:34 (4 months ago) Permalink
It would be funny if he and Linda Perry and Gregg Alexander and Dan Semisonic all started their own little Brill Building.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:35 (4 months ago) Permalink
and then the Mark McGrath cruise ship crashes into it
― BIG REUSS aka the fun.driver (some dude), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:40 (4 months ago) Permalink
Especially after revisiting the old albums for fresher perspective, the reviews of Heartthrob on RYM are an even funnier bit of schadenfreude.
WAH sold outWAH where are the guitarsWAH where are the good lyricsWAH sara hates this album and it was all tegan's idea (huh?)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
Really, really liking this record after being kinda meh on the last two, where the shift from that kind of New Pornographers-y raggedness to a more "mainstream indie" sound was a letdown. The slickness of this record works because it forces the hooks a bit more, and I've already had a number of these songs stuck in my head over the last week or so. "I'm Not Your Hero" is particularly devastating, and I kinda love them for sticking something so confessional and personal on what is meant to be their big crossover record.
Also, this record >>>> CRJ's. Need I remind y'all that Owl City makes no appearance on this one?
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 04:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
I live in a city with two alternative rock stations and never heard "Closer" once. Wonder why they didn't pick it up.
― timellison, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 05:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
would you really say "closer" is alternative rock?
― daavid, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 06:04 (3 months ago) Permalink
ppl keep recommending this to me (even tho i don't know any of their previous work) so maybe i will actually listen to it soon
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 07:21 (3 months ago) Permalink
(even tho i don't know any of their previous work)
Not a prerequisite imo.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 07:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
the airplay "Closer" has gotten has been mainly on rock/alt stations, hasn't really broken through to US pop radio (although it's their first top 40 hit in Canada, apparently).
― some dude, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've heard them on alt-rock radio since "Walking with the Ghost," so there's precedent involved with their last few albums. Considering it as something along the lines of "Pink covering Phoenix," though, it makes me wonder if its the Pink factor that's excluding them this time.
― timellison, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 21:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
i fell asleep at the wheel while driving listening to this record. not because the album is boring, because I was sleepy. but still now I don't think I will ever be able to listen to it again since I almost killed myself.
― akm, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
yikes! glad you're ok
― some dude, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:39 (3 months ago) Permalink
I had a wreck perfectly soundtracked to "Wrong" by Archers of Loaf once and I still love that song and love them. You'll move past this.
(Likewise, glad you're okay)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 March 2013 06:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
Only accident I've ever been in was a biking accident (got scratched up pretty bad, though), and that was while listening to Over The Rhine.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
I bought a used copy of their first one a couple of years ago, played it once, put it away. Took it out for a drive downtown today, and I'd agree with the first post on this thread: pretty good but very generic. But I like this one a lot (even better as soundtrack music with Spanish subtitles):
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:48 (2 months ago) Permalink
their new album is good
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 31 March 2013 04:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
i wanna hear a country version of "fool for love"
― goole, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
er shit "i was a fool"
Is there a secret to tell who's Tegan and who's Sara?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
It's tattooed on the back of their neck.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
(sry, Monty Python joeks)
Ah, just watched a current video interview. Tegan has the curls, Sara has the straight hair.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:34 (1 month ago) Permalink
Vocally, Tegan's a little throatier, Sara's more nasal.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
let's make lots of money
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've picked up on that (based on the song Sara did with Theophilus London sans Tegan), but those qualities in their voices aren't always front and center.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
also, tegan has a labret piercing and sara doesn't (though that's not always super visible)
― kaygee, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
i was a fooooool
― dyl, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 04:53 (1 month ago) Permalink