i think the walkmen have had a much more interesting career than some people expected them to. i remember the beginning of the decade when critics wrote them off as a bandwagon-jumping haircut group with the de rigeur joy division bass lines of the time. i'm glad they took some risks and developed a unique sound, even if that meant alienating a few hipsters.
― corn smut (get bent), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
jeez, this footage on the "i lost you" video! from a tornado in topeka kansas in 1966, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKRKppEJbLs
― corn smut (get bent), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 08:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"i lost you" is my favorite song of theirs!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 September 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i see this got "Best New Music" and a 8.6 rating on Pitchfork this week.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 16 September 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah it helped move copies at my store I'm sure haha.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Thursday, 16 September 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
saw the walkmen at shepherd's bush last night. they were pretty good. I was amazed how the singer belts out at the top of his voice so much. his vocal chords must have taken a battering. how does he do it? I was kinda morbidly curious to see whether his voice would falter or not. it didn't.
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Just posted this on another board but I don't want it missed:
The Walkmen and School of Seven Bells (and some others) are playing at Hoboken's Pier A just next to the PATH station this Saturday for free! H-mag, a local art/community magazine are putting on the show but I don't know how heavily they've been promoting it. I had to tell ohmyrockness.com about it since they didn't have it listed.
Apparently it requires RSVP:
http://www.h-mag.com/musicfest/
Look for me at the Tunes booth (wherever we happen to be set up, not totally sure yet) within the festival. Tunes is Hoboken's music store.
― Evan, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
There isn't any talk on the new one in any of the multiple Walmen threads that came up, but I didn't want to start a whole new thread. Anyway, I really like the new one. I think its a good look for them.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
I think Heaven is one of the best songs they've ever done.
― phantompenguin, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I think the new album is their best album. It has possessed me in a way none of their others have (and I say that as a big fan of their others, too).
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
this thread has me curious. i loved the first 2 a lot and for some reason haven't paid a bit of attn since (maybe i heard some of third one and wsn't bowled over? i really can't remember now)
― it's smdh time in America (will), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, same.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
i have mixed feelings about the last few albums, but their live shows are better than ever -- they've really tightened up. hamilton can sing his ass off now.
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
I saw them 2x around 2004 but not since then. Will check out.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
I can't say that this replaces either of the first two for me quite yet but, yeah, this has really grabbed me in an unexpected way and is definitely the best album they've released in awhile now. And I was also a fan of Lisbon, but this blows it away.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
ughhh need to whine for a sec: i'm a student at the college of william & mary. the walkmen were booked for a concert here last spring, and i was pretty excited, but whoever was in charge of the sound fucked up, because hamilton's vocals were way too quiet. like half as loud as they should have been. i did get to say hi to the singer though. he is very tall.
― phantompenguin, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
john darnielle opened though, and he was a lot of fun.
Damn, their first album is by far my favorite rock album of the 00s but I kind of tuned out after Bows and Arrows for whatever reason. They've been fucking unbelievable every time I've seen them live, even when the sound was bad.
― blank, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked the new one after a couple of listens but it didn't have much staying power. Still think You & Me is their best by a considerable distance.
― Number None, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
Their new 7" (Dance withYour Partner b/w Vermeer '65) is really great. I still haven't heard Heaven, but these two tracks are beautiful.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 13 January 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
New EP from Hamilton & Paul: http://open.spotify.com/album/6dTi4TJm9Ud7uwWO4nJ5yA
It is basically the Walkmen - moreso than Hamilton's hit-and-miss solo album last year was.
Still think everyone who slept on the Walkmen's later albums missed out. Heaven>>You & Me>>>Lisbon>>>>Bows+Arrows>>100 Miles Off>>Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
I'd agree with that order if you put Everyone Who Pretended first. That's still my favourite by quite a long way. Heaven was really underrated.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link