http://i11.tinypic.com/4bfnofo.jpg
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
the airing of grievances is such a dope album hope this is even 1/2 as good
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
their last album had this perfect balance of sloppiness/messiness & classic rock fist-pumping released at the perfect moments, and this album... one ups it by being amplifying all those qualities (lots of long tracks) and expanding their sound to include horns & jamming pianos & stuff
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i'm going to be the only person who thinks this is a super-flattering comparison, but this album is like if green day grew up in new jersey & then decided to write '21st century breakdown' at the age of 24
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
lamp, it's so good
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
iirc there were two mindblowingly awesome super rocking songs on 'the airing of grievances' but i was mostly bored by the rest. and they were right next to each other on the album.
― make tha trap say hay (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
they're fun live, too, bulging neck muscles etc.
*tho
― make tha trap say hay (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
the middle third is the hardest rocking partic the s/t and "upon viewing..." but i like the whole thing a lot. even the cheesy narration of the camus novel @ the end is p dope
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
prediction: i will spend a lot of friday nights getting drunk by myself and listening to this album
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
shout-singing along to the "your life is over" ending to the s/t song is a joyous 08 party memory of mine that i will treasure always
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked that its underneath a p tuneful and introspective album despite the rocking
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
xp- yes! my live titus andronicus experience was at a bbq at sxsw and there was one 14 year old kid who was just absurdly into it, arms flailing around and screaming along to every word. it really loosened up the crowd and everyone moshed and sang along at that part.
― make tha trap say hay (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
when i saw them at pfork 08 i thought they were one of the worst live bands i had ever seen, but then i saw them in a lil club opening for los campesinos! & they were really cool
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
the middle of this album ("a pot in which to piss" & "four score & seven") is some http://i1.tinypic.com/833rrc8.jpg shit
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
also the climax of the 14 min final track
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
k i'm downloading this
― make tha trap say hay (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
between this & the real estate album, new jersey has put out two of my favorite indie records in a while -- i like that they're pretty much total polar opposites soundwise -- i guess in reality they're both about suburban malaise (lol new jersey)
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:34 (fourteen years ago) link
this is kind of far and away the best album i've heard this year
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:46 (fourteen years ago) link
btr than vmp wknd???
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it might be a bit of afterglow but i think so! it's possible that vampire weekend will be better over a long run but this album is honestly just O_O
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah idk i love the VW album... this is A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
the recording on this is also way more hi-fi which i think is cool
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is super EPIC
― just sayin, Friday, 26 February 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i keep jogging to this but i sort of distrust my motivations
― thomp, Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
jordan s were you a fan of the bright eyes album lifted, or: the story is in the soil, keep yr ears to the ground
― thomp, Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
?
your motivations for jogging???
― no chapo (Lamp), Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
those too, actually
― thomp, Saturday, 20 March 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
liking this album a lot more than the debut so far, but i gotta say
your life is over >>>>> you will always be a loser
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Diggin this album
― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― thomp, Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:34 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark
i've never heard this, but i dig bright eyes in general
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney! i actually thought you might
maybe i'll go out & buy this later today
― ksh, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
:D :D :D
still not really feelin this as much as u dogg but im going 2 see them i think next week or smthn hype
― Lamp, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think this band is my thing but they're playing a super small venue here soon (like less than 50 people), could be fun.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
j0rdon did you like Desparacidos (bright eyes dude's rock band)?
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
saw these dudes a year or so ago, nothin' wrong w/ them but they just played totally straight ahead rock, like bar band shit, so I wasn't expecting all the indie hype
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
that will absolutely be a lot of fun xxp
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Chris Richards in the Washington Post Clicktrack blog says:
They sound like the Pogues filtered through the Boss and then doused in gasoline, sweat and Red Bull.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/03/sxsw_choc_quib_town_yelawolf_c.html
I keep meaning to give them a listen, not sure if that description encourages or discourages me.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
really dig this album but cringe at the bright eyes comparisons, oberst is fucking torture for me
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hope it's more WIDE AWAKE Oberst than, say, any other Oberst
― ksh, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
altho i do like some Lifted and, uh, some of his other tunes too
ha... was listening to this the other day and my girlfriend asked if it was new Bright Eyes.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard some of this, and it sounded great.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
never heard anything by them, if it sounds like this album i will check it out tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure if it's exactly like them, but it has a certain ants in your pants anthemic type vibe
http://www.myspace.com/desaparecidos
(BTW go down to the comments and stop some weird embedded video that autoplays)
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― ksh, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
ehhhh kindof. more like oberst when he's at his most explosive.
― borntohula, Thursday, 25 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly, I think the main thing reminding anyone of Oberst is actually about something Oberst does well -- the singer's voice here has that same kinda nervy, manic quaver at the ends of phrases, that shaky on-the-edge sound from the earliest Bright Eyes stuff. if not for that in particular, this record would "sound like Bright Eyes" only to the same vague extent it sounds like dozens of other things that sound like that. umm.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 25 March 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i sort of felt like it was something the guy could have learnt off of the oberst records. i think that's one of the reasons i don't trust it
― thomp, Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(also this record and 'lifted' both have this thing where they kind of go: let me explain my angst to you in the most earnest and thorough and complete way possible! which i sort of am starting to feel too old for.)
― thomp, Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
idk, haven't listened to much bright eyes but mr. titus andronicus' delivery is in a more tuff, cool and as a result ...detached (?) way than anything i've ever heard oberst sing. not that it's not emotionally potent, but not to the same extent. like, his veins and muscles bulge out of his neck and his face turns all red when they perform live, but then he looks up and he's just a dude having fun playing rock and roll.
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
OH SNAP JORDAN PROJECT LODGE AWESOME
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Its just the voice. Don't let that make you think there is any other reason to compare them to Bright Eyes.
― Evan, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^this.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like "lover i don't have to love" is kind of histrionic enough to be a titus andronicus song
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah what evan said, there's an unmistakable similarity but they strike much different chords imo, though they're probably going for something similar. oberst to me is whiny as hell and super self-loathing (and his lyrics...) and mr titus, who i'm just now getting into, is much more brash and confident and (lol) "punk"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"connor oberst and the e street band perform an opera by craig finn"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"craig finn as walt whitman" gave me chub tbh
that first description is actually kinda otm, lol
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 March 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
agree w/ matt that this reminds me of Desaparecidos
― just sayin, Friday, 26 March 2010 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yep (but there is one song that sounds like sped-up Pogues)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yup, love the lodge.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 26 March 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i stayed awake on the road last night singing along to this as best as i could
my only quibble with it is that despite some gang vocal moments its not as immediately sing alongable as i'd like for a record i'm feelin so much
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
totally fucking love this tho
'not looking for a new new jersey/cause tramps like us baby we were born to die'
like i don't think there would be a faster way to win my heart than with those two references right next to each other
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
followed by SOLO
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i've thought about this album a lot. I don't normally like this, never felt The Hold Steady at all and I'm not a Springsteen fan, but this album has struck a chord with me heavy. it feels very very real to me, like it's the closest thing to ever even approach a feeling or an amalgamation of feelings that are felt by a wide swath of young people right now.
This feels like the underside of all the whimsical, detached embrace to American cultural roots that we see in everything from fashion to tumblr-blogs that glorify anything khaki or wooden; it feels like a real working American man's despair in 2010, filled with nostalgia for stuff he doesn't know and smothered by more stimuli and "art" and relationships than any man should have to filter in one lifetime.
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i cannot believe this album came from that dude.
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing sounds better while sitting in one's car at 8:27 a.m., drinking coffee and waiting for the bank to open on a Saturday morning, than this album.
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it feels like a real working American man's despair in 2010, filled with nostalgia for stuff he doesn't know and smothered by more stimuli and "art" and relationships than any man should have to filter in one lifetime
see i kind of feel like they're reaching for this as a totally accessible and pre-existing mode
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
HOOS just out of curiousity what are you taking 'not looking for a new new jersey' as a reference to? it's not billy bragg, is it?
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
haha n/m i just saw you revice the other thread
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp of course it's pre-existing, isn't everything? but to reach for it and actually give it life as a compelling articulation that isn't trite or affected is pretty rare. they're not the first to try of course but their approach to it - references, self-awareness, guests, allusions to music ingrained in our culture, the speech samples - is so reflective of it that it creates this kind of subliminal resonance
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ok maybe i should have just said "one band doing a 'tramps like us' joke was enough already"
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i think maybe if i was a car owner i would like this record more
just read a blurb by hurricane fennessey in spin where dude says this was basically written about the relationship w/his boston gf falling apart as she went to bed early every night while he stayed up late watching Ken Burns' Civil War and being lonely and nostalgic about jersey
thats probably already on the wiki or something but i thought it was pretty illuminating
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:33 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
THE FUCKIN DRUMS MANTHE DRUMS
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
digging this so far
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Sunday, 28 March 2010 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
on first listen i am preferring the first one, like, a lot
― thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
thomp i am v confused
i thought you had already been listening and not-especially-digging all throughout the thread?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i had been l. and n.-e.-d. the first one throughout; out of curiousity, today, i have l. and somewhat d. the first
― thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
...
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i1.tinypic.com/833rrc8.jpg
this band is playing for free in my town tomorrow night, thanks ILM!
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
starting 2 really cum around on how this album is really corny & overwrought & knows its bein corny & overwrought but is just like fuk it man theses are ~feelings~ & i got em
theme from 'cheers' is the 1 i like the best
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
fuk it man theses are ~feelings~ & i got em
otm i figured out this morning its an epic breakup album by a drama queen who doesn't know wtf he wants but he knows he's in PAIN and unhappy and doesn't want to leave this chick behind despite all her faults but also hates boston so much that he can't fuckin stay
^ that's characterization of our narrator, not a shot at dude
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
about the relationship w/his boston gf falling apart as she went to bed early every night while he stayed up late watching Ken Burns' Civil War and being lonely and nostalgic about jersey
^^^ wonderful imo
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
idk if wonderful is how i wld describe that????
also makes the line abt if theres a girl in this college who hasn't been raped even more ...
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yah i have ~problems~ with that line
― thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
likewise
i think he's trying to use it as a shot at boston frat boys or something but its like ummmm
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean it made a little more sense when on the 1st coupla listens thought dude was going 2 college in the carolinas
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
like i think in context its a little clearer
the things i used to love i have come to rejectthe things i used to hate i have learned to acceptand the worst of the three you now have to expectsatan aint hard to see without craning your neckhe'll be 70 some inches tall he'll be chugging a beer and grabbing his ballshes the remote explosive waiting for someone to callhe's just 18 for now but hes going to murder us allsome days wanna give a little less than it'll takeis there a girl at this college who hasn't been raped?is there a boy in this town thats not exploding with hate?is there a human alive aint looked themself in the face without winking or saying what they mean without drinking without leaving something without thinking what if somebody doesnt approve?is there a soul on this earth that isn't too frightened to move?
he'll be 70 some inches tall he'll be chugging a beer and grabbing his ballshes the remote explosive waiting for someone to callhe's just 18 for now but hes going to murder us all
some days wanna give a little less than it'll takeis there a girl at this college who hasn't been raped?is there a boy in this town thats not exploding with hate?is there a human alive aint looked themself in the face without winking or saying what they mean without drinking without leaving something without thinking what if somebody doesnt approve?is there a soul on this earth that isn't too frightened to move?
he's trying to use it as a symptom of the soul killing hellhole version of boston he's painting
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
obv its still a questionable proposition to point to rape as a reason a town suxx insofar as it could trivialize it ("boston sucks, lots of girls get raped there") but idk like i think he's trying--if a 24 year old dude is allowed to do this?--to like invoke the emotional trauma of rape as being similar to his own level of unhappiness?
maybe
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
well yeah that's kind of how i took it, which is kind of where i start having a problem with it
― thomp, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
right
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't understand the problems with the rape line, it's a bit brash but makes sense in context and isn't insensitive i don't think
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda feel like this positions rape as sum personal flaw or smthn tho? idk & its probably not worth getting into really but that line is just on sum which 1 doesnt belong here which 1 isnt the same tip
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
my reaction was always just *rolls eyes at strawmanning frat boys*
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, March 28, 2010 3:14 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
whenever i listen to the last track, i yearn for two banners to fall from my ceiling, one that reads FUCKING and the other that reads BAGPIPES
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
this is my fav part i think
and so now when i drink im going to drink to excessand when i smoke i will smoke keep it in hold it in my chestand when i scream i will scream until im gasping for breathand when i get sick i will stay sick for the rest of mydays peddling hate at the back of a chevy expresseach one will fly into the face of your idea of successand if this be thy will then fuckin' pass me the cupand im sorry dad no i'm not making this up!
and when i smoke i will smoke keep it in hold it in my chest
and when i scream i will scream until im gasping for breath
and when i get sick i will stay sick for the rest of my
days peddling hate at the back of a chevy express
each one will fly into the face of your idea of success
and if this be thy will then fuckin' pass me the cup
and im sorry dad no i'm not making this up!
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe the actual line is "each one a fart in the face of your idea of success"
i only correct because it made me lol so hard
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
also <3 "my enemy is your name on my lips" or w/e the next line is
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lol if it is fart, i was just pulling that off songmeanings
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
titus andronicus will fart in the face of your idea of success
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"half the time i open my mouth to speak its to repeat something i heard on tv" absolutely kills me fwiw & its kind the heart of whats so rad abt this album? for me?
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
see for me its all the last 4 lines
But my enemy--it's your name on my lips as i go to sleepAnd I know what little I've known of peaceYes I've done to you what you've done to meAnd I'd be nothing without you darling, please don't ever leave
like that broke the whole thing wide open for me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
coupled with lincoln "mystic chords of memory" piece and the title its like yo we just fought this climactic battle and seem to have reached this point of no return and i'm leaving town to go back to jersey cause i can't fuckin stand it here anymore but i hope this isn't it cause my life would suck w/o u in a k clarkson stylee
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
that is true
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
and the self destructive self loathing coping mechanisms are not gonna do me any favors ("when i smoke i will smoke gaping holes in my chest" = so fucking awesome) but yo i'm a drama queen this is how i deal xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
it's great that he wrote an allegorical album that compares his relationship w his girl to the civil war and he is able to note how ridiculous it is, and yet he still goes at it full-throated, and he doesn't undercut either sentiment -- i think maybe the solos help
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yah its just that i like that parts of the album where a more generalized kind of uncertainty & self-loathing & raw emotionalism take over from the relationship stuff & its like hes t-t-t-talkin baout my generation or smthn (xp)
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah exactly i love that it wholeheartedly embraces this absurdly grandiose idea and just goes the fuck in on it. i texted a friend this morning "shoulda been called "The Montior, or How My Breakup Was Just Like The Civil War" xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
right i feel u xp
whenever i listen to the last track, i yearn for two banners to fall from my ceiling, one that reads FUCKING and the other that reads BAGPIPES― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:36 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:36 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I made a podcast of rock songs that have bagpipes in them about three years ago, and the link appears to be in working order. So enjoy that, Jordan
http://www.allez-allez.co.uk/2007/10/parts-labor.html
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
@ j.sarge since this thread i cant help but hear parts of fevers & mirrors in this but i think the sheer stompin madness of the ~music~ on this album help makes it less pained & inward & more cathartic
tbh im really hopin enuff ppl are into this that at the live show "the enemy is everywhere" breakdown will be ~righteous~
― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
neurosis – the last you’ll know
yeah but but purify
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to like stand and salute u or something xxp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lj wrong thread dogg lol
nah man i was quoting whiney's bagpipeathon
but yeah wrong thread fundamentally until i hear this record
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
y'all selling it well, kiu
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is that like, tons of people, in the deepest depths of a fucked up relationship, obv totally identify with the idea of relationships as war, and then eventually realize how ridiculous that notion is, but in the back of their mind are still like "yeah totally" -- and this dude wrote an album
yeah lamp it's totally cathartic -- and bcuz he intertwines his relationship w/ moving to a new city after college, he's def able to make it a sort of generational catharsis too (lol first world problems)
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
j0rdan, your enthusiasm for this is almost persuading me to download it from emusic. the bright-eyes comparisons make me very wary of this act, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
listen to "a more perfect union" or "no future part III" (the mp3s they released beforehand), they're pretty indicative of what the album is like
i think if you like the hold steady then you have a bit of a predilection towards digging this, as long as you have some tolerance for melodramatic youthfulness
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm a big fan of the hold steady.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i know
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"no future part iii" is one of the best songs imo
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
its funny yall i warmed to the mid-album stuff real slowly, for a while i just had the first two on repeat and would skip no future and pot/piss and even 4 score. i'm still tending to skip theme from cheers, but the others have totally crept up on me. richard iii totally sounds like flogging molly, and i think that means i have to admit i like flogging molly.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
btw sarge i assume u r familiar with this kickass song which may or may not have bagpipes but kinda sounds like it has bagpipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
DUH
cmon son, i've watched "the departed" like 15 times
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 March 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i know this tbh i just wanted an excuse to find it on youtube
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 March 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
my roommates are all gone so i listened to this on our big speakers, and dang -- i might've thrown my ps3 out of my living room window at one point
i love that this is such a formless album -- if i never saw it broken down on itunes i'd have a tough time figuring out what the tracks are -- it's like moments of triumph and calls to arms amongst a bunch of sprawling, growling mess and that really feels right
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 March 2010 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
so on "the battle of hampton roads" it hit me that he is driving the fuck away from her flooring it screaming out of boston back to jersey and as he's driving he starts howling "please don't ever leave"
fuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
word -- i listened to this str8 thru in the car -- some real shit
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so hey y'all
Saw this band rock the fuck out in a house party basement setting just now. Real nice folks with a great tight vibe. I heard a little bit of Springsteen maybe, but a lot more Mekons circa Rock & Roll with a dash of Fugazi sweaty group mindmeld. Lotsa anthemic chord progressions, and the electric violin also really recalls Mekons stuff. Great moments with three gtr players all hammering some simple 3-or-4-chord thing, several times I could have listened to them keep it up for ten minutes (usually it was over in 1 or 2). Typical basement PA garbage meant most of the vocals were lost, but the passion shone through loud and clear.
Also, they sounded nothing at all like Bright Eyes, who I have seen as well.
Conclusion: all hype is deserved.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It is important in this life to sound nothing at all like Bright Eyes.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it's more the vocals that do remind me a lot of earlier bright eyes..i can ttly i.d. w/ that comparison, also i dont dislike bright eyes
lol'd at the line 'prepare to be told that shits gay dude'
beginning of 'to old friends and new' sounds like loving cup
2d half of this album is my fav
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The video reminds me of the Replacements and the Gaslight Anthem. Perhaps I will investigate further.
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
...though i gotta say i ain't feeling that beard
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
am listening to this...not bad at all
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard of these dudes but yalls enthusiasm is contagious
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been driving around looking at apartments all day just leaving hampton roads on repeat
when they go back in doubletime on "cause my enemy" i go the fuck OFF in my car
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
motherfuckers at stoplights be like O_O
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
motherfuckers behind keyboards be like :D
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
really tho i havent been this happy about a rock album since like, gaslight anthem
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"IT's NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!" *sky falls*
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
^slays me
can't be said enough.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
incredible vocal doubletracking at the end of "four score and seven" - about halfway through the "it's still us against them!" chants the second voice becomes increasingly wearly, signifying for me this amazing detached sentiment saying basically "i'm getting fucking tired of this"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
weary*
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yes -- this might be my fav moment on the whole album
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
And I know it won't do much goodGetting drunk and sad and singingBut I'm at the end of my ropeAnd I feel like swinging
dope lyrics
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been thinking about this album a lot in the context of, like, sufjan's 'illinois'
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yessssssssssss i feel like swinging made me O_O when i got it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
and yeah like this is that rare record where it gets at me emotionally on a personal level and also is really Saying Something Important and also has really rich music that i can get all cerebral about and be like "man did you hear the way those horns went into counterpoint and do you feel the emotional resonance of that minor thing they're hitting"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it would be so dope if they made a video for this song and it was like ""IT's NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!"" *fireworks" -- would be the most heroic shit ever
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
like the horns in the leadup to the bagpipes on hampton roads fuckin KILL me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
xp yeah i think it's easy for the straight musicianship to get lost in how intentionally messy the album is -- something like "a pot in which to piss" builds so well, it doesn't rely on the monster solo as a crutch or anything & they don't introduce the pianos as signposts, it all really builds throughout the song
& something like "to old friends and new" has the same sort of release of tension as the songs w/ big solos even tho it doesn't have anything like that -- stickles is p much a genius tbh
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
hoos, last night i realized that a dude shouting "gimme a whiskey!" over classic bar band riffage is the biggest hoosnip ever
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lol otm
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 April 2010 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
looking forward to my local getting this on the juke so i can jam out with overpriced jameson & coke
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 April 2010 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
just bought this due to all the positive stuff I've heard. vocals definitely sound like a mix of Conor Oberst/Will Sheff.
― ksh, Friday, 2 April 2010 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i'm only as far as "you'll always be a loser" and it resonates, so
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Friday, 2 April 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Smoking’s been okay so far, but I need something that works faster,So all I want for Christmas is no feelings, no feelings now and ever again
― k3vin k., Saturday, 3 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, I have surrendered what made me human and all that I thought was true,So now there’s a robot that lives in my brain and he tells me what to do.And I can do nothing without his permission or wasn’t part of the plan,So now in Rock Ridge pharmacy I will be waiting for my man.
^love the delivery here
― k3vin k., Saturday, 3 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
IF I CAME IN ON A DONKEYI HOPE I'M GOIN OUT ON A GURNEY
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"theme from 'cheers'" is the song that has grown to knock me out once i've got accustomed to all of the heart-exploding solos & stuff
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:36 (fourteen years ago) link
So let's get fucked up, and let's pretend we're all okay.And if you've got something that you can't live with,Save it for another day, all right?Save it for another day.
i mean, let's get it imo
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's just, maybe i haven't listened to my fair share of anthemic rock music or w/e, but this album comes off as some raggedy, stream of conscious gut spilling, but it's such a well orchestrated album -- every song is long for a reason and pays off every single time & all of them have great musical moments, & as much as i love the last album, this album def strikes me as the work of a dude who is a super talented musician with as many good ideas as the touted indie bigwigs
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
like, "to old friends and new" shows that he doesn't have to resort to the heart-exploding solos to have a payoff that's affecting & cathartic -- in fact, the rising guitar squall + horns in the middle of that song probably hit harder than the solos & guitar codas depending on what mood you're in, and it's a very restrained and beautiful climax (not to mention the sing along) that really stands out amongst the rest of the songs
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm also super glad that they had the wherewithal to do the whole cheesy sax solo + piano solo routine on "...and ever"
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i haven't been this glad at a decent # of ilxors really taking to an album in a long time
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i would like to personally apologize to patrick stickles for being too broke to purchase your album
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to see this album played straight through live, preferably w/ big hoos doing slam poetry as the opener tbrr
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't tell if i would try and mosh during the climax of "battle of hampton roads" or if i would just collapse into someone's arms
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22fucking+bagpipes%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 08:01 (fourteen years ago) link
my mans here has really good quality live video here http://www.youtube.com/user/ZacMagnum
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U52u-UtWd1Y&feature=related
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 08:04 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda disappointed this dude has a beard tbch
― k3vin k., Sunday, 4 April 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
idk tbh i get that a dude has to play it safe with his voice while on tour cause he has 4 billion songs to sing but imo without the unhinged ott delivery that song is not as fun to me?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 4 April 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
also was not expecting that spoken voice to go with that singing voice
yeah agreed xp
― k3vin k., Sunday, 4 April 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm all for the idea of wordy, triumphant anthems via Springsteen-Neutral Milk Hotel-Arcade Fire-Hold Steady, but that voice wore me out before half the album was done.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
too bad b/c the 2nd half is the best part. start from "a pot in which to piss" if you try again.
― Moreno, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah seriously
― maderator (k3vin k.), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"for the glory of the Newark Bears"
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Monday, 5 April 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I didn't give up, I made it all the way through the last 14 min track. Still wore me out, kind of like Meat Loaf does. Yeah, there's greatness in there, but maybe the kind you only need to hear once. A decade. Now if they had Meat Loaf do guest vocals, I'd see that.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
stream of live in studio set by Titus Andronicus on 89.3 The Current here in mpls:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/05/titus-andronicus-live/
― kulinary gangsta (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
In all honesty, Titus Andronicus was probably too big for the Project Lodge. Stickles became a bit frustrated as the crazies up front kept disconnecting his mic cable. There were several “oh shit’ moments when the P.A. system was almost knocked over entirely, to the point that one of the Lodge’s employees felt the need to jump up front and hold the speakers up. During “Titus Andronicus Forever,” kids were even attempting stage dive off of the Lodge’s one-foot stage. During the heart-wrenchingly powerful “Richard II,” a kid crowdsurfed under the relatively low ceiling, in danger of kicking down a projector box mounted up there for film screenings and art shots. Then again, that's probably how a fucking punk show should be.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
y'all convinced me to buy this -- and i'm really enjoying it
― "excellent sound-of-a-generation indie" (ksh), Monday, 19 April 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I really dig this album, and I enjoyed seeing them live (opened for Vamp Weekend when they played Washington Heights), but for some reason they often seem to be cribbing off this Springsteen/NJ thing more than advancing it, and when I hear something like, "Baby we were born to die," I'm 50% thrilled cause I'm a huge boss fan but also 50% put-off because it feels cheap (much in the same way that NJ band Thursday sings Needle and the Damage done in 'Understanding in a Car Crash' and I'm momentarily in love cause Neil Young <3<3 but then it feels less like a homage and more like heavily relying on the sentiment I already have for these lyrics and not creating new sentiment). Also, it feels weird to be championing 2003 emo music in 2010.
― Mordy, Monday, 19 April 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
this music isnt 2003 its timeless
i thought they were dope live too but they need a hype crowd 4 the manic group catharsis moments 2 really hit
― Lamp, Monday, 19 April 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I am liking this, mostly because it is so loose and ragged
― MPSIA (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay fuck this has totally clicked with me and I love it so much.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just coming here to post that, this album is fucking great...
― Neil S, Friday, 30 April 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I take back any reservations I had -- tho Gaslight Anthem is getting more plays than this now for me.
― Mordy, Friday, 30 April 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto but i really played the shit outta this for a month
― brandon softerserve (k3vin k.), Friday, 30 April 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
unless the-dream's album is fucking titanic, i'm not sure if anything will surpass this on my year end list, prob not even lcd
― ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 April 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
This over Gaslight + Against Me for you, J0rdan?
― Mordy, Friday, 30 April 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually have only listened to gaslight twice so far, which is far less than AM! and titus, so not sure about that -- right now titus is my top 1, with against me! in the 3-5 range -- i just dig the total overblown epicness of the titus album which encompasses a bunch of really awesome musical moments -- also titus is a bit more identifiable to me, since i'm about to me drinking in my parents (non-) basement (lol miami) and was never actually a teenage anarchist
― ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 April 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember just hating this band when i saw them a couple years ago, but i'm absolutely loving this. such an unbelievably well-sequenced record!
i've also just moved to dc after almost ten years in boston, and this is hitting me on this emotional level that music that sounds like this rarely does. i also don't know if stickles is bemoaning or wallowing in all that emotional isolation half the time, which is something i never wondered about, say, bright eyes (who i never really liked) - ultimately that makes this record so much more confusing and exhausting to listen to, which is of course the point
― Sandwiches That You Will Like.(2002).XviD.torrent (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 2 May 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i would like to add to matt's point upthread that it's also perfect when you're hungover and alone in your room on a sunday morning in a city you don't know very well yet, dealing with unresolved Boston Issues and trying not to romanticize the idealized version of boston that doesn't exist - obviously this is a symptom of my own experiences but there's something specific about having lived there (and having had so much exposure to that "soul killing hellhole version of boston") that drastically affects my opinion of this record
i didn't articulate that very well at all but you know what i mean
― Sandwiches That You Will Like.(2002).XviD.torrent (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 2 May 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
god damn this album rules so much
― de jong and the restless (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
When I'm an old man, I can be the quiet type,and I can go without a moment of fun for the rest of my life.I can read a good book, and I can be in bed by ten,and I can get up early, go to work and come home, and start it all over again.
But while we're young, boys, everybody raise your glasses high,Singing, 'Here's to the good times, here's to the home team.Kiss the good times goodbye, oh yeah,Kiss the good times goodbye.'
― de jong and the restless (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
btw um
they played for 2 hours
i fucking love them
― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i peed next to stickles in a trough urinal and i said "does this make you feel like a horse too" and he said "i always feel like a horse"
― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
for all fucking time
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is top 10 ever for me
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like i need to find stickles and hug him but i don't think he showers at all
me and my mans handed our glasses off to our dates to go into the pit during titus andronicus forever
lol
― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
CONTACTS, SON
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
glasses define my face dogg there is no doing without
otherwise i can't even be seen ~while~ craning your neck
― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
*glasses fall down on a photo of h*os*
DEAL WITH IT
is what you're saying
well
― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
talk about our grandkidsstroke our grey beardsfunny we're still doin car bombsafter all these years
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 October 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
busy tonight with the excerpts, hoos
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
'car bombs' urgh
― thomp, Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
so irish
just want to reiterate: one of the best sets ever seen by a hoos
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is still pretty cool now I'm giving it another listen
― acoleuthic, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean I only gave it a listen coz hoos' current girl sitch reminded me of his posting itt but it's kinda synching up with me too in some weird way
― acoleuthic, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
love.
― definatelypoopsmcgee (chrisv2010), Monday, 18 October 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
me + one of my bros are seeing these dudes tonight! PSYCHED
― just sayin, Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i figured out what was bugging me about "Richard II" which is that the melodic/harmonic structure is like a perfect imitation of old Okkervil River songs. plus the singers sound somewhat similar too.
but yeah anyway this album finally clicked for me and it is glorious
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 December 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm three songs in but what's the diff between this shit and stuff like flogging molly or dropkick murphys
guess I should hear the album all the way through first
― dayo, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
racist
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
more than halfway through and I guess this just isn't my thing
was trying to think why this rock band was getting indie acclaim, and then yeah ppl nailed it upthread, this is who the crits are crowning as the next hold steady, indie palatable bar rock
I guess I like my emotional punk harder/with stronger hooks and more abrasive instrumentation. this album is kind of polite and underwritten.
― dayo, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
damn i don't think that describes it at all
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i would not call this album polite
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I should qualify that by saying it seems polite when you consider what they're trying to achieve, this balls out catharsis, the singer gets into it but doesn't really get into it, that's cool, but the instrumentation doesn't really pick up the slack
there's not really any aggression
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm wondering now if dayo is even listening to the right record, because I don't hear any of his criticisms when I listen to it. If anything, the record seems a little overwritten to me, there are a few places when things could have been a little streamlined to pack more of a punch. And I'm not sure just how much more you are wanting the lead singer to get into it, I mean, dude seems to be throwing a whole lot of himself into it. There are plenty of valid criticisms of this record - a little too precious at times, a wee bit overbearing with the whole Springsteen-indebted rock, among others - but I don't hear any of dayo's complaints among them. But, I'm sensitive because I really love this record and I want more people to discover the exuberance I hear in it.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah jon I realize that I come at this from a diff background, having grown up with super emotive power pop punk. when I say underwritten, I mean the sing along parts aren't really worth singing along too - they're not hooky enough. I guess I wish the songs were tighter, or made up for their sloppiness in some other way. like a good counterpoint to this record I feel would be the drones, whose songs have that same sort of rambly quality but their's a lot more base-level aggressiveness and viscerality that justifies it
this album seems polite as in it's something that seems like you should be able to mosh to and dance around to, but when you try to jump in there's just not enough sonic OOMPH to carry it
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, I totally get where are you coming from wrt to the "underwritten" now, yeah, this isn't something I come to looking for big sing-alongs (thats been this year's Superchunk, My Chem, and Against Me records), but I still feel a good sense of catharsis in it. I wasn't trying to be harsh with my post, I was just struck by your posts because I had pretty much the exact opposite reaction! I can see where you are coming from now, though I'm still not sure I agree with you on all of it.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm really stunned by the idea that this record, with its doubletime breakdowns and gang chorus singalongs and fuckin bagpipes and multiple-guitar-solo epics is lacking for any kind of oomph, and i too am coming out of a 90s power punk background
~~confused~~
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCKING
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
BAGPIPES
IT'S STILL US AGAINST THEM, IT'S STILL US AGAINST THEM
― markers, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
hoos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEIxbO7g10g
ya mean?
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
srsly when i saw them they closed w/that one and the whole club was going apeshit screaming along it was like O_____________________________________________O
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
if I went to a Titus Andronicus show, I hope I would be doing the same!
― markers, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo yes just like that, i feel like titus is the anthemic high energy feel of am! given a stately lit snob strut, or if you like that they have more in common with the pogues than (say) flogging molly or dropkick murphys have in common with the pogues. what they lack in melodic momentum they more than make up in sonic & emotional fury, i think.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
and plz do not let my previous post imply that i was not screaming along tbh
^______________^ may have been more appropriate but after that many beers it was more like \m/ >_________________> \m/
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
haha hoos see titus andronicus comes nowhere near close to AM! on that front. I think my fondest show memories were seeing AM! around the reinventing axl rose period and climbing on stage and doing the sing along and getting the shit kicked out of me by all these other meathead punks. somehow I just can't see a Titus Andronicus show descending into that level of dionysian formlessness
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
for one thing, it's much too midtempo and mannered
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i love these guys, but the show i saw of them was kinda lacking in a real sense of power at least from the audience's end. that said, they were opening for vampire weekend, and i bet if they were playing warped tour it would be explosive
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha man i cant ever imagine these dudes playing warped tour
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
which maybe says everything i'm trying to say
that like that would never happen, and thats acceptable to me, cause that's not why i listen to them
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7AgIaF_o40
^^ gives me chills
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
titus are playing here with the pogues in march and i am amped beyond words to see em again
and AM! is already plenty lit snob stately fuiud
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to break something
UP THE PUNX
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i love Against Me (and Gaslight Anthem) even more than Titus and I think the Warped Tour unnamed dynamic thing might have to do with it
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i feel like dayo is totally right that what these guys do lacks the melodic momentum, the gasp-out-every-word-from-the-depth-of-the-mosh-pit-ness, of someone like an am! or even a rise against, but again: i think what they lack in that kind of immediacy they make up in richness and attention to detail.
but then, i came to this record with absolutely no idea what it sounded like and literally nothing to go on but
http://i11.tinypic.com/4bfnofo.jpg― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:52 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark
so i didn't have a lot of preconceptions or expectations.
plus the whole 'my breakup was totally just like the civil war, i swear' narrative had more than a few personal resonances for me, what with having a breakup that was totally just like the civil war (i swear) like the week i bought & over the ensuing two months that i processed this record.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
rise against, fuck yeah
yeah same here other than I knew it was j0rd's fave record of the year and seemed to be popping up in year end lists.
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that's otm, and i first saw them at that vampire weekend concert. i don't even know that they lack gasp-out-every-word-from-the-depth-of-the-mosh-pit-ness, just that my experience of them lacks that xp
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
(so i think maybe you're not so otm about them not being great in a warped tour type venue. could be excellent)
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
where were they playing when they opened up for vampire weekend? i cant picture them in the large, possible open air venue that warped tour would necessitate, but maybe that's just because when i saw them it was an intimate as you can get
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
like, getting hit with patrick stickles's beard sweat and then smoking cigarettes with him after intimate
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
stickles is a dope last name
― markers, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
united palace theater last jan
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ive only seen them in tiny spaces too they were p great live
think this album has tonnes of momentum & bombast when it needs to but theres a idk self-reflective quality to it that maybe prevents it from ever getting truly unhinged. like i have a feeling that even when hes screaming his heart out hes half thinking how ridiculous hes being yknow?
maybe thats why i love 'theme from 'cheers'' so much that knowing half-abashed quality adds a layer of sweetness and complexity to it like ur both sharing a joke thats also rooted in the truth
― HTML 5-0 (Lamp), Thursday, 30 December 2010 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
like its legit hard to play something so emtional str8 & i guess i can admire or ~get~ acknowledging it and trying anyway
― HTML 5-0 (Lamp), Thursday, 30 December 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like torture, tbh
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
rong
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
stickles seems like one of the nicest dudes
― just sayin, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this band is far too unattractive for me to ever listen to their stupid music
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
late to the game on this but: if you like this band and front like you hate the arcade fire you are full of shit imo
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
You're going to have to explain that one to me, because other than them both using similar types of instruments I don't see a whole lot of similarities between the two. I mean, yeah, both are white indie bands prone to half-baked concept albums, but, uh, thats about it.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
well for starters they sound exactly the same
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, no, they don't, at all.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
gr8080 showing his hand a little by posting immediately after a slightly superior troll-job
― vampire weekend fan (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, this honestly feels like me popping into a goon thread and saying "if you like Waka and front like you hate B.o.B. you are full of shit imo". I mean, they sort of share a genre, but unless you've never heard indie rock before I can't imagine how you would think they sound so similar.
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― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
grongyongdy
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
they both made an album about the suburbs
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the main one
but the tone an voice of the albums are so, so different
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
have to admit LJ is OTM
for real though there is little difference
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh I think it's pretty good and even voted for (& nominated) its best track in the 2010 poll, coz christ fuck me what a song
― vampire weekend fan (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
obviously a band sounds like itself but to front like you are SO ABOVE arcade fire and then call this one of the greatest albums ever made is totally indefensible imo
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ftr: i like arcade fire ok and i like this album ok
could do without the fake old-timey spoken word recordings
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the tone of each album is different in an important way
like, to me, 'the suburbs' vacillates b/w really infantile songs about "the kids" & this kinda gross, almost elitist misanthropy about suburban life that just rubs me the wrong way, esp coming from grown 30 year olds
'the monitor' is an album that uses suburban life as a frame for a very thorough and oftentimes lacerating -- yet inspiring! -- look at one dude's life, and at times the lives of people his age -- it's a much more honest album imo
also there are no 8+ songs on the suburbs
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
8+ min*
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
2nd time through "the monitor" and all i can think about is Neon Bible
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh, i think that says more about you than either of these bands
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, blame the messenger
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
this band is prolly really popular w/ child molesters
― plax (ico), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
at least Arcade Fire can manage to do a whole album of Springsteen inspired emo without actually name dropping him in the lyrics
― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/hae48.gif
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://teslastaging.com/forums/images/smilies/Gestures/userArmsCrossed.gif
― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
think moving to virginia suburbs/getting an awful office job really clicked something in me but i totally ~love~ this album now
― Gukbe, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
time to relisten to that last the national album too
― Mordy, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
careful now!
― Gukbe, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to 'richard ii' right now and remembering last summer at the show being the remarkably drunk dude in the second row shouting imagined countoffs into the silences ("we've never seen the glory of the coming of the lord" "ONE TWO THREE" "THERE WILL BE PARTIES THERE WILL BE FUN" etc)
they're playing here next month and i'm super super amped, and then apparently they're playing that pfork show in NY where they're playing all Replacements songs and i might ahve already died and gone to heaven just imagining the concept of that
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"imagined concept" is a great way to describe this band
― gr8080, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
saw this come up in my bookmarks and was like I bet a hoos bumped this
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
My roommates just got a gig opening for them this month? Ironically not at their Montreal show but tomorrow at Brandeis.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats to your roommates band imo
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
easily my most listened to album of the past 3 months. really perfect on headphones when i'm at work.
― Gukbe, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yeah, they're pretty psyched. i have not been listening to the monitor as much as i feel like i should but when i do it's still a fucking titanic record of awesomeness.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/06/pogues-titus-andronicus
Ha ha every quote from this dork is a classic
― Gully Foyle is my name (Matt #2), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Playing in support of the Pogues "raised a lot of questions about the intersection of punk rock and commerce", Stickles said. "This is the greatest punk band from my ancestral homeland of Ireland, and it makes me sick."
shit that looks like an onion article but isn't
― 1000 Vults Of Nult (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
srs irishman there has a song that goes 'still drinkin' car bombs after all of these years'
― thomp, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
titus andronicus - the hall monitor
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
file under "quotes that sum up why i can't listen to this band"
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao at that pogues shit -- i don't listen to them and feel zero desire to, especially after reading that
THERE'LL BE NO MORE COUNTING THE CARS ON THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY
― markers, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Patrick Stickles.
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
how in the fuck did this dork expect the pogues to act?
1st 2 pogues albums rule markers, seems like something u might digg if you can hang w/irish jiggyness
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
like honestly these dudes have been touring for fucking ever you think they really want to hang with you?
shockingly, it's not like playing some fucking basement in new jersey
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not real shocked by this
'young dude who believes in authenticity gets naive dreams shattered when he hangs out with his heroes'
like, that's actually kind of why i listen to this band
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ for the above plz read 'that was some stupid shit to say but i want to continue uncompromisingly liking this band so i'll pretend he didn't say it'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i was thinking "this is totes why a hoos feels this band" when i read that article
― gr8080, Thursday, 7 April 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh it's only the bit about 'punk rock' and 'commerce' that actually slays me; I don't think it's unreasonable to expect some degree of courtesy given that I'm pretty sure lots of bands bigger or more establishment than the Pogues manage it
― 1000 Vults Of Nult (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 April 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and "ancestral homeland of Ireland" o'course
true but i don't even listen to the pogues and it's totally evident that they'd be dicks!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 April 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
So "punk".It's exactly as Michael Azerrad recounts Ian MacKaye's fury and disappointment when Minor Threat supported PiL in DC, and Lydon turned up, did the show, and left. And didn't tell Minor Threat YOU GUYS ARE MY TRUE HEIRS!fwiw The Monitor was my favourite album of last year, and Stickles' unembarrassed striving for ecstasy is what makes them great. He reminds me a lot of a young Jonathan Richman.
― Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Thursday, 7 April 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean like part of what they do is rage out at the apparently inevitable shattering of their beliefs, like damn this whole adulthood gig is not what i thought it was at all, what the shit, that makes me mad and confused about what's supposed to happen now.
with a certain kind of cynicism their anger can seem to come out of naivete--"of course life isn't fair, you fucking baby"--but i think it comes out of an earnest place and is really exactly what they're about, throwing themselves on the gears of acceptable cynicism even if it kills them.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
they believe, and if it turns out that belief is wrong they get mad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
they also write and perform horrible music
― gr8080, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
there it is
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Friday, 8 April 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 u grates
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
What I hated most about this band was a review I read that tried to portray them as one of those "fits right in with the 90's" bands. No they don't fit right in with the 90's. Most post-90's music with trendy contemporary scene/indie/EMO singing/singers/choruses fits in more closely with their own despicable decade. I know EMO started during the 90's but that's more of a footnote. EMO post 90's gets a whole chapter because it is much more prevalent and it's leaking like crazy into all sorts of other generes. And you've to be kidding yourself if think Titus Andronicus isn't borrowing most of their sound from post-90's EMO/scenesters/indie-tard music.
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
/punk rock
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
somehow feel this would happen less w/ more moneyed bands who don't have to haul their own gear around, be so exhausted by the time they get to the venue. shane macgowan is a horrible drunk but the rest of the band seem rel lucid & probably have luxurious accommodations shaken some hands ffs
i played two shows supporting touring bands in the past couple weeks & only one dude out of five full bands was friendly and hung out with us. second show the other bands didn't even come out of their van between sound check & their set & this is, like, small venue/loft shows so maybe they are even too naive for diy world & r just being unrealistic?
it was kind of surprising but i can understand not wanting to hear a full night of loud music every night for so long personally i would hate it
― flopson, Friday, 8 April 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
seein dudes (again) in like 2 weeks btw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
my lady of the moment has promised to hold my glasses when i go into the pit, life is good
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, April 7, 2011 8:51 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
lmao i am really tired and when i read this i thought i was reading the OK Cupid thread and was like <<raises eyebrows>>
― Oink Administrator (gr8080), Friday, 8 April 2011 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lollll
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM1sQhMGGS8
dang
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 29 April 2011 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
missed their show last night, but i did run into stickles on the street and fist bump him
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 April 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser
― markers, Friday, 29 April 2011 06:15 (twelve years ago) link
lord, i imagine it would be amazing to be at a show of theirs and shout that with the crowd
correct
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 April 2011 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha otm
― Turn Off the Cold (Lamp), Friday, 29 April 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
And thats okaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy
― just sayin, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
officially bored with this album.
― impeccable suit shit stained underwear (thebingo), Friday, 29 April 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
a year will do that. i'm def ready for the next one.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 April 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
after watching that video i really feel like i know what New Jersey is all about
― gr8080, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), miércoles 24 de marzo de 2010 13:43 (1 year ago) Bookmark
ha, cosigned a year later. dunno where puff puff is from but from discussions on other boards i feel this is the general opinion of a lot of people in the east coast hardcore / indie circles.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
<3 this video
stickles is so great despite seeming like the most unbearable human being on earth
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 April 2011 06:51 (twelve years ago) link
there still hasn't been a better album released since this one -- a full 417 days & counting
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 April 2011 06:53 (twelve years ago) link
did anyone link their they might be giants cover itt yet
― thomp, Saturday, 30 April 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
what is it with these people and billy bragg, anyway
― thomp, Friday, 10 June 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
billy bragg rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
i will never understand americans
― thomp, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
haha really i'm just about him for 'new england,' total Song of My Teenage Years, and the nice harmonies on 'mermaid avenue'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, billy bragg is alright i guess, i just listened to 'life's a riot' for the first time in oh let's say three years, this is about as often as i want to listen to it, i always enjoy it
anyway i got to "there will be parties" etc on 'richard' and went 'oh that is where i have heard that before' and it just seemed ... odd. like there's three tracks i think where patrick stickles drops in bits of billy bragg songs and i do not understand. it just seems a curiously unprovoked piece of bricolage, what did billy bragg ever do to new jersey
― thomp, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
dude drops awful lot of borrowed lines in. i like it. highlight is the new new jersey/tramps like us bragg-boss one-two.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
tramps like us were born to quote Brits like Bragg.
Titus were fun opening for Okervill River in DC a little while back but most of the crowd was there more for the headliners.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i heard it was less than rowdy. i only want to see them if it's rowdy.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
They were fucking rowdy and fucking great the free Seaport Show in NY tonight. Well, the event used to be Siren@Coney Island, now called "4 Knots." The setting is good though: hot but lots of room, surprisingly loud, an energetic crowd. Anyway, only the 3rd time I've seen this band, but tonight they were so galvanizing. So much passion and energy, it really took a lot of the crowd by surprise I think, after so ho-hum schmindie.
― paulhw, Sunday, 17 July 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
what was the most lol thing said during between song banter
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 17 July 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm out of breath, out of shape. So why do I get athletes foot. That's a joke."
― paulhw, Sunday, 17 July 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
:-/
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
p terribly formed
― g++ (gbx), Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
It was a low point, sure. His banter makes you think his songs won't be interesting, admittedly.
― paulhw, Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
. . .
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 17 July 2011 07:08 (twelve years ago) link
this guy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 July 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
hoos i meant to text you a titus lyric tonight but i forgot
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 July 2011 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
^these guys
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 17 July 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 18 July 2011 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
amy klein left the band
http://stereogum.com/854822/amy-klein-quits-titus-andronicus/news/
― markers, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IiH4e.png
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
the stickles show
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 October 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
guess that NYT article was right
― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
So last spring, she sublet her room in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn and toured the country in an old Chevy minivan.“I’m fulfilling my artistic goals,” Ms. Klein said.
“I’m fulfilling my artistic goals,” Ms. Klein said.
artistic goals: fulfilled
ok just put this on for the first time in a while and:
slays
new album lets go u fucks
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
they were awesome tonight in baltimore - opened with a very faithful version of "the boys are back in town" while wearing matching sweatshirts, the overall success of which was a surprise to say the least
played a bunch of new stuff too - whatever the new song is with the "built to last! built to last!" chorus is a killer
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:16 (twelve years ago) link
you were at that show!!! i am so jeal
d planet opened right??
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, they were really great too - to quote one over-enthused underage kid to another over-enthused underage kid in front of me, "they're SO MUCH MORE than 'ghost with a boner!'"
i wanted to see em in august when they played asefu's but there was some complicated reason why i couldn't (iirc the girl i was dating at the time's old boyfriend was in one of the opening bands and there was a non-zero chance i was gonna get bonked with a guitar if we showed up - or something)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
the girl i was dating at the time's old boyfriend was in one of the opening bands
lol i think you told me this at the time
"they're SO MUCH MORE than 'ghost with a boner!'"
otm though i gotta admit the record kinda disappointed after i'd seen them & spent weeks listening to the shea stadium show on soundcloud
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtu.be/z_KgDBCvAPE
― nose, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
i have always been uncomfortable with jordan's animated gif at the start of this thread
― j., Monday, 21 July 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=0dX6LL7b8Y0
― een, Friday, 1 May 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
great song, v excited for the new record
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 1 May 2015 00:56 (eight years ago) link
fire
― nose, Friday, 1 May 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
streamin' and as a result prob leaked somewhere (or already leaked and motivated them to stream it) http://www.npr.org/2015/07/20/423220507/first-listen-titus-andronicus-the-most-lamentable-tragedy
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
This kind of puts me in the same position as the last Arcade Fire, where I honestly can't tell whether I like it, think it's stupid, or like it *because* it's stupid.
(And don't even get me started on my dating life...)
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
titus are def kind of cheesy and painfully honest/earnest but also have such a sense of humor about themselves that they should get a pass, imo. this record is exhausting in a way the monitor wasn't even, despite its length, but the highs are really high. (things like the 5-minute silent intermission are...not among the highs although i get the intent)
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/TitusAndronicus/status/623842678913007616
― Cory Sklar, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
btw i listened to "the monitor" again (for like the 20th time) on a road trip recently and man, this album is just so, so so good. perfect driving album too, it must be said
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
they are p good at being an anthemic rock band and really bad at being anything else
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
this is fucking great
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
"look alive" just came on and i'm
so
in
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
wait that was "lost my mind" ok but u get me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
ilx is the only place in my life where this band is revered and not endlessly mocked.
― Cory Sklar, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
i don't even know what it was i don't even care
this is so good
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
hoos i meant to text you a titus lyric tonight but i forgot― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:36 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:36 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was just thinking this revive needs a sarge
:/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
I'll give this a listen, but I've never heard the first record and I listened to Local Business once. I sort of feel that The Monitor was a perfect album for me at the time and it remains a beloved favorite of recent years, and I'm okay with this band being just that for me.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 July 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
That's very much how I oriented myself after I heard (maybe twice?) Local Business--'they were there when it counted'--but the strong tracks on this new thing are really doing it for me.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 23 July 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
w/e part-timers, local business is awesome
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 23 July 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah i have friends who swear by it but idk
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 23 July 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
well i'm fucking in
this is gonna do me just fine
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 08:10 (eight years ago) link
Anyone daunted by the album's length would be advised to skip ahead to "Fired Up" which, well, I don't wanna throw around superlatives, but I really love it
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 27 July 2015 10:33 (eight years ago) link
I'm getting goosebumps listening to this. 30 minutes in and loving it—but I guess I have another hour to go!
― Benjamin-, Monday, 27 July 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
I Lost My Mind ---> Lookalike is fucking perfect
also Lookalike alone makes the album for me, i almost don't need the rest
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
haha wait
i keep fucking this up
I Lost My Mind (t@) ---> I Lost My Mind (DJ) i guess is what i mean?? the tracklisting keeps confusing me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
oh its a daniel johnston cover wow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
man that little signal riff that goes between lookalike and the johnston cover gets me
this should have its own thread? idk
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
uhhhh what the heck is stickles doing http://uproxx.com/music/2015/07/titus-andronicus-the-most-lamentable-tragedy-pitchfork-patrick-stickles/3/
― extremely lag∞n postings voice (slothroprhymes), Monday, 27 July 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
guy sucks
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
seems like maybe he is attempting a parody version of controversial response tweets? at least i hope so?
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
seems p obv
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
complete album stream was a bit much to take in all at once, but I went back for "Dimed Out" & it felt like watching a dozen skateboarding videos at once
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 27 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
THE MOST LEGIT MUSIC SITE IS @STEREOGUM SHOUTS OUT THE GOD @TOMBREIHAN #BadReligions THEY ACTUALLY LISTEN TO ROCK AND ROLL SOMETIMES +@
— Titus Andronicus (@TitusAndronicus) July 27, 2015
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
if you asked me if i wanted to hear some sped-up bruce with a guy yelling over it, i'd probably say okay. but i'm not really getting this atm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
"fired up" was the first of the emo street band cuts to really click with me i think
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
also i know ugh genius and everything but stickles himself has been annotating the lyrics which is sorta fun, sorta feels like reading in the margins of a precocious high school kid's notebook
http://genius.com/albums/Titus-andronicus/The-most-lamentable-tragedy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
between the piano, the harmonies, the strings & sax Mr. E Mann really has a great Born to Run feel to it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
the bigger moments really nail that feeling better than they ever have imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
also am i crazy or is "fired up" ganking from glory days
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
i'm officially in love with the whole first half of this, but i can still barely hang on past the intermission
i'm gonna try like i did with the monitor & start listening to it from the end backwards
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Dude was such a doofus in the Replacements doc
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
Beginning and chorus of Lonely Boy sounds suspiciously like Havets Blå by Danish band Kliché...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh i didn't actually see that, should i?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
craig finn on fb:
I had the pleasure of attending the final of five shows Titus Andronicus played at Shea Stadium to celebrate their fantastic new record The Most Lamentable Tragedy. I had actually stopped by Shea Stadium for a visit about a week earlier and saw a bit of rehearsal, which ended up being like a private concert from one of my favorite bands. At the end I got up and we jammed on some covers and Patrick put forth the idea of possibly coming on stage during one of the shows that week.I wasn’t able to attend until Tuesday eve, but what a show I saw. It was so so so hot. Possibly one of the top 5 hottest shows I’ve been to. (THS at Buffalo Mohawk still might be the hottest. Or Hi Tone Memphis. Or….) Titus played for 2.5 hours and it was glorious. They are such a great band and are firing on all cylinders. Patrick had texted me that I should be prepared to help sing “You May Be Right” by Billy Joel and “Bastards of Young” by the Replacements. Before the show I reviewed the lyrics.When I got on stage we did pretty well with “You May Be Right” and a surprising amount of the crowd knew every word! Then Patrick said they were going to do some “Old School Minneapolis shit”, obviously introducing the Replacements song, right? He then hit the opening riff for THS song “Stuck Between Stations”. it was awesome. We did that one and then “Bastards” and then I got off stage and they continued to tear the place down. Ted Leo got up there shortly after me and they did an amazing Pogues cover as well as “Dancing in the Dark” by Springsteen. The whole show ended (of course) with the best, and punkest, version of “Freebird” that I’ve ever heard.It’s an honor to be friends with Titus Andronicus, and it was amazing to be a part of one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Go see them play live this Fall, you won’t be sorry.Stay Positive, cf
When I got on stage we did pretty well with “You May Be Right” and a surprising amount of the crowd knew every word! Then Patrick said they were going to do some “Old School Minneapolis shit”, obviously introducing the Replacements song, right? He then hit the opening riff for THS song “Stuck Between Stations”. it was awesome. We did that one and then “Bastards” and then I got off stage and they continued to tear the place down. Ted Leo got up there shortly after me and they did an amazing Pogues cover as well as “Dancing in the Dark” by Springsteen. The whole show ended (of course) with the best, and punkest, version of “Freebird” that I’ve ever heard.
It’s an honor to be friends with Titus Andronicus, and it was amazing to be a part of one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Go see them play live this Fall, you won’t be sorry.
Stay Positive, cf
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
the first half is pretty solid & up there with The Monitor for me but I always lose interest with the second side somewhere after Come On Siobhan.
― ufo, Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-09-17-titus-andronicus-twitter-rocks-just-as-hard-as-the-bands-does
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Avoided the new one ever since it came out on the grounds that a) the last one sucked, and b) I figured that I didn't have time in my life for 90+ minute album by a band I mentally file as like-not-love. A few months later, I have even less time in my life for a 90+ minute album, but I finally broke down and am playing it now anyway and it's...pretty good! Could definitely use an editor--as much as the formless ten minute track I've listened to tries my patience, the sheer number of minute(ish)-long interludes feel like an even greater waste of time--but "Lonely Boy," the *first* "I Lost My Mind" (there are two songs by that name here) and especially "Fatal Flaw" are great Springsteen-by-way-of-early-Clash punk.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 November 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, April 4, 2010 3:37 AM (seven years ago)
dag
― k3vin k., Monday, 30 October 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
haven't got into anything they've done since but this still goes hard
― devvvine, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link
^^^
Pulled this out last week. Still great.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 2 November 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
I was trying to figure out what the new album (A Productive Cough) was reminding me of and the surprise answer was Dexys' Don't Stand Me Down.
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
oh my god A Productive Cough is so good
just did a quick first listen, but <3 <3 <3 "Crass Tattoo"
― sleeve, Friday, 16 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor - The Poll
― devvvine, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
I'M REAL HYPE RIGHT NOW
― j., Monday, 3 September 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
I cannot praise this record enough.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
New Bob Mould-produced album comes out in a couple weeks.
It's quite good! It fits the "return to form," cliche since the balladry of the last one is conspicuous with it's absence. Punk storytelling at its finest regardless. I think it will be well-received when it comes out.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
It is with a heavy heart that I announce to you the sudden and untimely death of Matt "Money" Miller, founding keyboardist of Titus Andronicus, cover model of "A Productive Cough," lead vocalist of "Home Alone (On Halloween)," my beloved cousin and the dearest friend I ever had pic.twitter.com/im7ioAFN3p— Titus Andronicus (@TitusAndronicus) March 17, 2021
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS676430-01A-BIG.jpg
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link