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Plus, I do like tons of music that doesn't strike me as "weird" at all, obviously; I am hardly a weirdness fetishist, I don't think. I just like some normal sounds more than other normal sounds, I guess.

― chuck, Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

nah, you aren't JUST a weirdness fetishist, but when I think about the ends of the spectrum you guys seem to dance around, stuff like the YYYs kinda falls too far in the middle. Add universal acclaim and the contrarian jones is bound to build.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

For me, foxy noise pop is a big hole-in-one.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i like pop a whole lot though. big shiny brassy pop.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i should really listen to the radio more though. i'm so out of it where the top 40 is concerned.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Is amy grant still on the charts?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the Yeah Yeah Yeahs not only aren't weird enough; they're not pop enough*, either! Which is how I feel about a lot of artsy bands trying to be pop bands, obviously. Though I guess that was Anthony's point. (And though my relative ambivalence about them has *nothing* to do with being contrarian, being *vocal* about it might. Though I've never been vocal about it at all until this thread, I should note; I've barely mentioned them one way or another before this.)

― chuck, Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't either, i don't think.

(chuck, check out that Tarentel album if you get it in the mail)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Amy Grant is not on the charts, but Ashlee Simpson is. Skye Sweetnam may or may not be (my Billboard subscription ran out, dammit.) (Almost all the other pop I love these days is on the country charts.)

― chuck, Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I remained respectfully silent when Nina Simone died too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I stay off of Soft Bulletin AND Smashing Punpkins threads out of respect for others.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I leave GBV fans in peace.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, I don't really care too much about Jay-Z OR Nas, but you won't hear a peep out of me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Scott, you are a much better man than me, as I have said many times.

― chuck, Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

But if anyone messes with one of my favorite bands!! Ooh, brother, I'll let them have it!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

They can mess with my fave bands all the time! You get exercise patience. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never understood the "Maps" love either - it always sounds like it's missing a bridge or another verse or something. One of these days I'm just going to burn "Black Tongue" onto a mix CD, and sell Fever to Tell back.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel ya scott. I put on the new Ghostface and this dude I know said "rap has really fallen a long way since de la soul" and I got this serious intense look in my eyes like I imagine CeCe's friend had and said "Dude, this is Ghostface. What the fuck are you on about?" and he looked sorta freaked out.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 27 August 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"Maps" love is easily explained:

Bombastic drums + open fifths + arpeggio-heavy melody = HEAVEN.

It is missing a verse but hey put that fantastic false instrumental verse in there instead.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I like "Maps" a lot, but part of my ectasy over the new "Y Control" video is based on the fact that I don't want people to think that song sums up the YYYs.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link

btw I would like to amend my YYYs description to "foxy noise pop-rock" lest people who bothered to read my AC Newman review point out that I used pop as a noun rather than a prefix.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually did see the video but to the soundtrack of the new Bark Psychosis album. It's a lovely contrast!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha, nice try Cece. Too late, the pop-suffix jig is up.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

hahaha. my second excuse is that while I said that "pop as prefix" is MORE interesting than as noun, I never said that all pop-as-noun was bad.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Northern State are unbearable.

I enjoyed the YYY's pretty much and when I heard "Maps" right after the album came out I knew it was going to be big...its got the yearning melody etc. I don't care much for the rest of the record aside from "Y Control" probably for the same reasons Chuck doesn't like the group as a whole - except I think Maps and Y Control are exceptions.

― djdee2005, Friday, 27 August 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I liked Sahara Hotnights more, too. My favorite song of theirs is on their debut record and sounds like 80s Heart or romantic UK Lita Ford. ("Quite A Feeling.")

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

As for Northern State, I liked them, thought they were funny ("I'm Italian like my mother, skin that eggplant like no other"), but I'm not dying to hear the new album. I'm just like "meh, I'll get around to it I'm sure."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

If you got a sweat-suit, and you're dripping with diamonds
Tell me are you a rapper, or a mom from Long Island?

looool

― gabbneb, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Had a weird urge to revisit their music. They are definitely wince-inducing.

― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Sunday, 19 October 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link

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