blogotheque grizzly bear made me realise this
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Knife isn't even in the top tier of the songs on Yellow House.
― jed_, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i think my favourite of theirs is the alternate version of Easier. they are incredible live.
― jed_, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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In the context of what most closely approximates popping 4 Tylenol PMs, I'd have to agree
― skygreenleopard, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The "each day / spend it with me yeah / all my time / spend it with you year" bit was perhaps my favourite thing in all music from 2006 that I heard.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Knife is like a hit but surely there are a lot of other great stuff, it's just not stuff of hits, it's something else. great band
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 9 August 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone feeling dept. of eagles?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Friday, 7 November 2008 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i like it fine. it's no yellow house, but I think it stands on its own just fine. it's more of an exploration of dan's styles, which is cool. i'm really really looking forward to the next grizzly bear album though.
― Kevin Keller, Friday, 7 November 2008 06:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the record because it's a sunny pop album that you can listen to as it gets cold without feeling perverse
― barack husession (J0rdan S.), Friday, 7 November 2008 07:09 (fifteen years ago) link
So apparently they had a guest star or two today.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
a grizzly bear?
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that what they call him these days:
http://twitter.com/skeetonmytwitts/statuses/3653814003
http://twitpic.com/fwg04
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I like Maura's take:
http://twitter.com/maura/status/3653827386
Haha. Beardos and Beyonce.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo don't do it jay
― fo shza my tza (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
already fucking around w/coldplay but grizzly bear? don't give them any more undeserved legitimacy
― fo shza my tza (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Future Jay-Z collaborators: Foghat, Air Supply, They Might Be Giants.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure there are one or two last remaining mashup artists out there who will oblige you.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually Jay-Z/Air Supply has potential.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 31 August 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, never mind.
if only jay-z would consult w/ ilm before deciding which indie rock bands he's supposed to like
― iatee, Monday, 31 August 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
No, no; I was just clowning. I like the new Grizzly Bear disc, and the Jay-Z collaboration sounds cool.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 31 August 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
So sick of hearing about this mediocre indie dribble.
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
ya your life must be pretty tough
― iatee, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHA
― Turangalila, Monday, 31 August 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, August 31, 2009 2:24 PM
Yeah, because it's not like there are any currently updated threads on the front page about Neil Young, Mariah Carey, Chris Brown, Kraftwerk, Rush, Womack & Womack, Bert Jansch, ZZ Top, James Brown and Terence Trent D'Arby that you could visit instead. ILM = All Grizzly Bear, All The Time!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like --> enthusiasm for indie + disdain for what you used to spontaneously like --> disdain for indie + enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like + enthusiasm for obscure/difficult music and pop music --> enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like, conditioned by a deeper appreciation of many genres + disdain for what you genuinely dislike
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Spinspin Sugah is probably somewhere in the "disdain for indie + enthusiasm for what you spontaneously like + enthusiasm for obscure/difficult music and pop music" stage.
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone heard the version of "While You Wait For The Others" with Michael McDonald on vocals? Fairly WTF.
― Number None, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I was just looking for that. Guess I'll have to wait until I get home to download it from iTunes.
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I streamed it from herehttp://volume-knob.blogspot.com/2009/08/jay-z-hearts-grizzly-bear.html
― Number None, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
this sort of sounds like the band can't count
― a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Monday, 31 August 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Excellent, thanks, NN!
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Michael McDonald really singing about 'the perfect cleft' in that chorus?
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Monday, 31 August 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, I wish Michael McDonald did this more often
― iatee, Monday, 31 August 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, I guess I was standing about 15-20 yards away from Jay-Z yesterday, then.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Heard "Two Weeks" on Conan recently and the song is like a jammier version of the Rascals' "Beautiful Morning."
I think that a lot of the Nu-Pagan bearded animal bands sound like the kind of music mid-60s pop bands made around 1968 or 1969, when they were trying to adapt to the hippie-era before their popularity ran dry, and hiring an Eastern guru was a sound business decision. The touchstones seem to be the Hollies' Butterfly, Notorious Byrd Brothers, the Beach Boys' Sunflower et al.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got back from seeing them with the london symphony orchestra. Epic amazingness.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 1 November 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Bear's drumming, it never ceases to amaze.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Sunday, 1 November 2009 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I had built this up too much in my mind, but i was a little disappointed. It was still very good though. I liked the way that the orchestration added more details to some of the songs, but at times I struggled to hear the orchestra under the band.
Owen, were you there? I thought I saw someone who looked like you.
― Jill, Sunday, 1 November 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it depends on where people were sitting; i was on front row so got a lot of drums and guitar, but thought maybe further back the mix would be more balanced? Regardless of that they seem to get better every time i see them and the orchestra was a big added bonus
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 1 November 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
That's probably true. I was at the front last night too. For efterklang I was sat halfway up in the stalls and it sounded a lot better
― Jill, Sunday, 1 November 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup, I was there. I loved it... the band was in great form.
The problem with band+orchestra style performances is that the audience will tend to expect massive changes and rearranges from all the additional personnel. In cases like Grizzly Bear's, where the band is already so fully formed, there's really no room for all that much orchestral embellishment.
Most of the time, it worked great. Every song had a moment of transcendence... "Foreground" and "Ready, Able" especially were pretty special.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Sunday, 1 November 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
the latest album is my least favorite of their releases, I think, or at least, the one that sticks in my mind the least.
― akm, Sunday, 1 November 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
did they do little brother, owen?
― Turangalila, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i could imagine them drawing out foreground quite a bit with the help of an orchestra. it's so full of space, and that rare type of melody you can just play forever.
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i still love veckatimest, but i'm starting to wonder if it actually is better than yellow house or horn of plenty. i really like the idea of a more compact and precise grizzly bear, but they've maybe lost too much of their glowing, silverey atmosphere to the cause. i suspect their next album will take a half-step back towards their earlier strengths. or they could do something totally different that they've never done before, which so far seems to be the their game plan.
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 1 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Never listened to Friend before -- cover of He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss) is fantastic.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a good grizz sounding record that's better than actual grizz records (& it's prod by one of the grizz dudes)
http://www.seizurechicken.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bigecho.jpg
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 May 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
even tho it's a pretty airy record it feels less hollow to me than grizz's songs -- also prob part of it has to do with hype (sorry), like i can meet morning benders on a "this is a cool, mellow, sunshiney record with good singing and some nice arrangements" & leave it at that where with grizz i'm like "what do people here in this? i guess it's okay but... what?" and i kind of reject it & move on to something else cuz i don't see myself ever meeting it on that level
ppl should listen to this morning benders thing tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 May 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link