This was inspired by picking up the new 7" ("Younger Us" b/w "Sex and Dying in High Society") today, along with their No Singles compilation. The new 7" is great, but its been the comp that is the real revelation for me. It doesn't reach the highs of Post-Nothing, but I feel like it might just be a consistently better record than the debut. We'll see how it holds up over time though.
Still feels a bit too early to call them a solid "classic", but both 2010 singles point to good stuff yet to come.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i haven't heard "Sex and Dying." Is it a X cover?
― /\/K/\/\, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
It is. But this is where I have to hang my head in shame, as I'm unfamiliar with that particular X song (and most of their discography, to be honest - before my time I guess) so I can't tell you how it stacks up. I like the song for sure.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is my favorite current band by far. I've been trying to push Post-Nothing onto lots of people, and so far I've heard nothing but praise.. However ILM doesn't seem to care.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well I can tell you that there were three ILXors including myself at a Japandroids show last summer but none of us knew the others were there at the time - we figured it out later. So yeah, there is definitely some love for them around here.
<3
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
enbb otm
seems like theyve been touring like nonstop? would like 2 see them work on a new full length
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
japandroids r c
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
the cool thing about this band is how lovely the guys in it are. i saw them in montreal, last year? i think? and their presence on stage was great, and hilarious. the guitarist behaved more like a rock star than i think any band i have seen. he had a fan pointed at him, so that when he stood up front with his foot up on the amp, his hair would be blowing in the wind. hi-lar-i-ous.
as for their music, it's good but it's true that the album isn't *consistently* good. but they have enough good material from before the album, and the album, that i'm optimistic of them BECOMING classic. atm it's too early for them to be labeled as such.
certainly they are not a dud, though!
― marc iv, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
didn't care about this band b/c the whole deal seemed super lame, then I listened to "Young Hearts Spark Fire," the music spoke for itself, and now I'm thinking of buying the record
― markers, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
if there's anything close to as awesome as "Young Hearts Spark Fire" on the record, I'm sold
― markers, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
― markers, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
get it, it's good
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok cool!
― markers, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
watching that video, i am struck with how canadian they sound.
― marc iv, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Post-Nothing has the best Side B I've heard in a long time.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
would love to see them and No Age tour together. that would be a really fun show!
― markers, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
good band & fun live (i was with marc iv at that show he's describing and the fan/hair effect was actually fucking hilarious) but imo there's a lot of quite a bit better rawk music that came out last year. all lies ep is the best 'droids release and i think they put those songs on no singles
― gold bullion logic (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Wet Hair" and "I Quit Girls" are the songs that will stick with me the longest, I think.
― Evan, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 04:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Crazy/forever is the shit .. I love how so many of their songs are just 1 or 2 lines of lyrics on repeat.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sovereignty for me. "I'm leaving Vancouver, and I don't give a fuck, cos I'm far from home tonight" pops into my head at least a couple of times a week. Saw them in Brighton and they were really good although the venue was shite. Second half of Post Nothing is blistering.
― pandemic, Thursday, 29 July 2010 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can't stop playing Younger Us. Its a rush.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 30 July 2010 10:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
"darkness on the edge of gastown" off their older ep is grebt if anyones not heard it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 July 2010 13:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know this was leaked like a month ago but sometimes it takes me that long to get into their songs. Also cool PJ Harvey cover.
http://pitchfork.com/news/40006-new-japandroids-heavenward-grand-prix/
― billstevejim, Thursday, 7 October 2010 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Heavenward grand prix" might be their best yet.
― billstevejim, Friday, 5 November 2010 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Once again I'm bumping with no real insight, but the "Sex And Dying In High Society" cover is A+.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok so it's a TWO PIECE from CANADA called ""JAPANDROIDS"" who write songs with EMO titles like YOUNG HEARTS SPARK FIRE and it's not THE YEAR 2000???
― amazing disorder (rip van wanko), Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Extremely easy DUD. Like the name tho.
― Good news, everyone! (kelpolaris), Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
ilm is pretty worthless today
― billstevejim, Saturday, 20 November 2010 21:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
TS: Japandroids v Japancakes
― Gukbe, Saturday, 20 November 2010 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Japandroids > Japanther >>> Japancakes
And, uh, these guys aren't emo. Try not to completely dismiss a band when you haven't heard 'em.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love this album fwiw.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 21 November 2010 02:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I still love Younger Us. What a rush.
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 21 November 2010 05:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
It really is a rush.
Rush. Rush. Rush.
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 21 November 2010 05:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
New one is like Hold Steady meets Husker Du. Or vice versa.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
New one is really, really good.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 20 April 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
if the formula contained only Hold Steady and Husker Du it was better. the problem is the emo vocals imo.i like the loud,never ending guitar chords and the Gun Club cover is awesome.
― nostormo, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno who these guys are before, and i didn't like the original song, but i like this cover.
also, kexp sounds really good for college radio. i'm used to college radio live recordings sounding like boomboxes.the dick dale one sounds great, too.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just got their new 7-inch in the mail... I love how the packages always come with airheads candy. It's such a nice little bonus.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, the song is cool too.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
the Gun Club cover is awesome
Where can I hear?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
― nostormo, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Streaming over at npr
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/27/153301078/first-listen-japandroids-celebration-rock
― pandemic, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Saw them live last wek in Bristol, great fun.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 13:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was all excited seeing the Pitchfork review, thinking it was out today, but have to wait another week still. The stream will do for this week.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 13:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh boy the last track on this, Continuous Thunder, is terrific.
― pandemic, Thursday, 31 May 2012 14:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
the first song is a good 'un.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 May 2012 14:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
Is the version of Younger us same as that released earlier?
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 1 June 2012 02:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
sounded it to me
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 1 June 2012 02:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
there a few joints on this but pretty meh to me all around
i find their stuff to be way too earnest -- i need some cynicism, some self-depreciation, some humor
hearts colliding on a fire highway does nothing for me
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 02:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
Normally I'd agree, but they sell it so well
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 1 June 2012 02:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
I hear that in "Art Czars"
― billstevejim, Friday, 1 June 2012 05:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
celebration rock is the 'bleed american' of 2012 imo
― bleeding brainblow (electricsound), Thursday, 3 January 2013 08:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
"The House that Heaven Built" made a lot of 2012 tracks ballots and polls
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:53 (4 months ago) Permalink