Anticipation for this record is bringing out my inner Mike Love. I don't want them to fuck with the formula. There better be plenty of cat and weed references and at least 8 combined minutes of OOOOOOOOO.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
whenever I hear them it only makes me wish that amy linton or linton was not retired or designing houses or whatever.
― keythhtyek, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
The title track is now available for free download. The California tourism board will be very pleased. I'm going to have to give it a few more listens, but I'm not happy about no cats/pot/ooooooooos. The production makes it very easy to understand the lyrics, which could be a problem.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
look what i found tonight:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Theonlyplace.jpg
The Only Place is the second studio album by duo Best Coast. It is to be released on May 15, 2012 on Mexican Summer Records.
Track listing:
No. Title Length1. "The Only Place" 2:402. "Why I Cry" 2:173. "Last Year" 3:334. "My Life" 2:125. "On One Like You" 3:026. "How They Want Me to Be" 3:527. "Better Girl" 2:548. "Do You Love Me Like You Used To" 3:169. "Dreaming My Life Away" 3:2210. "Let's Go Home" 2:3511. "Up All Night" 4:37
― Bee OK, Friday, 27 April 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
I think the band's alright but reading this makes me realize I pretty much have the exact same thought every time I give them a listen.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Friday, 27 April 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
This is streaming at NPR
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
thanks
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
CTRL + F "whiney" = 0 results
what the hell, this is like a gimme for whinehate™
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't into the first single, maybe I'll check out the second if they release a video. liked their first few 7" a lot.
― UnderControl, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
Can we talk about this record? All my worst fears are confirmed. No pot, cats or ooooooh.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 18 May 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
i really dislike the sound, it's bizarrely muffled and tubby with harsh resonances all at the same time
makes it difficult to focus on the not-bad songs, despite their cat-free qualities
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Friday, 18 May 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
I actually kind of like this new one, I was subjected to it while browsing at a bookstore. Her lyrics are still awful and rhymes painfully obvious, but I think Brion's production kind of fits it. I don't love it or anything, but it wasn't as terrible as everyone is trying to claim.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
is this the record that will finally let everyone know how terrible jon brion is?
i mean the songs are no great shakes but my god
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
no no no it's terrible xp
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
didn't realise it was a brion thing, i think his ego might have taken over his ears
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really have deep evidence to back this up but everything i've ever knowingly heard that he's been involved with has sounded really, really bad
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
dude has more vintage wank equipment than vincent gallo and this is the sound he gets? he should be drawn and quartered
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
haha
posts very much in character /\/\/\\/\
― www.gbokchoymail.com (admrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
Almost afraid to stick my head over the trench here but Bachelor No. 1 was great and that was a Brion joint i think.
― calstars, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
bachelor no. 1 is......ok and not because of him
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 07:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
CTRL + F "best coast" on spin.com = 1 result under "SPIN ESSENTIALS"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 18 May 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
The production isn't helping her at all. Plus She has a tendency to draw out the last syllable of every line which makes the banality of her rhymes even more glaring.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 18 May 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i wanna withdraw whatever "maybe it'll be good! jon brion isn't so bad is he?" remarks i made earlier itt. she should do super early-eps fuzzy stuff or should go all out & do the full band fleetwood mac thing that some of these songs want. it sounds so clean and terrible, with its little jaunty indie movie drumming.
some of the songs are okay though.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Friday, 18 May 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to pick it up earlier this week, but the shop had the new Sinead on LP so I grabbed that instead, trusting my gut vs my hipster elbow..anyway I think I can safely say I've already clocked more hours with "How About I Be Me (And You Be You)" then I have clocked with any album with the words Coast, Best, Bells or Broken in it...funny thing about Sinead is she can still write a smoking tune despite being obviously mad as shit...I know, this is not a Sinead Mad as Shit or Still Writing Bangers thread, but it is all I got....NP: Dr Dee
― Napo, Friday, 18 May 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
im into this 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujf_aZmOO-U
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 June 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's probably the best track
― molly olsen (electricsound), Sunday, 3 June 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
i think this one is pretty fab (previous distorto version of same song notwithstanding):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONFhWHkp6lk
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/V8SxgZMcBX/
― markers, Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
:3
― rave revue (electricsound), Saturday, 23 February 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know why the sun's in the sky the rain, it falls down down onto the ground
goodbye cruel world
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
opening track on the new EP is ace imo. mind you i liked a few tracks on the last album just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKm0Ve56E8
― piscesx, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
so ready
http://pitchfork.com/news/58133-best-coast-announce-new-album-california-nights/
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah me too, should be fun.
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 February 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
this album fucking rules
― katherine, Friday, 1 May 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
I remember overrating the last album at the time so there's a chance that might happen with this, and I am a philistine who prefers studio gloss to lo-fi in the majority of cases, but anything that reminds me simultaneously of Palmdale and Tanya Donelly's _Lovesongs for Underdogs_ (same producer) will always fucking rule
― katherine, Friday, 1 May 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
feels underwhelming to me but I shd prob get stoned and listen to it w/ my cat before passing judgment
― johnny crunch, Friday, 1 May 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
I mean I also wish I had a talking cat
― katherine, Friday, 1 May 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
the production on the songs i've heard is really just right, lovesongs for the underdogs is a great analog. don't know if the songs are there
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 1 May 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
I've been putting off listening to this new one based on the last one being a bit disappointing but if it sounds like Lovesongs For Underdogs I'm sold already.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 1 May 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
(for references that producer is wally gagel, also notable for not being jon brion)
― katherine, Friday, 1 May 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
I really like this album.
― Greer, Friday, 1 May 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
Like many others I loved the debut but really didn't like the second album at all. I've only heard the title track so far which I thought was great. Looking forward to giving the album a go.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 1 May 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
i'd argue that this is the strongest collection of songwriting they've put out to date, especially compared to the last record
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 1 May 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
lol "songwriting"
also if this is the kind of music you want to listen to when you "get stoned" I think you may need a new dealer
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 1 May 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
J.D.: Harshing mellows and killing buzzes in 2015
― Walter Galt, Saturday, 2 May 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
I loved the debut so much. I hated polished follow-up even more. The middle ground EP was a nice rebound.
Where does this fall? Anything even vaguely "mature" is a death knell for this band. She should stay in bed and smoke pot with her cats all day.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 2 May 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
I have to agree with myself from 2012...Anticipation for this record is bringing out my inner Mike Love. I don't want them to fuck with the formula. There better be plenty of cat and weed references and at least 8 combined minutes of OOOOOOOOO.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 2 May 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
this falls somewhere around this year's colleen green record (which this also reminds me of)
― katherine, Saturday, 2 May 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
High praise to compare her to Colleen Green. That's one of my favorites of the year.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
And Colleen Green will never stop smoking weed.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link