Los Campesinos

never understood why you post entire lyrics to songs

-- blueski, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:14 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rHt2CveSXqE

"Calvin Johnson never meant anything to me"

HEY THIS BAND ARE FUCKING AWESOME TALK ABOUT THEM YOU GUYS

Yes, they are awesome. When's the full-length?

February 08

Someone mentioned Envelopes here, they are much better than the Campesinos.

I never cared about Henry Rollins either.

The commercial potential for "You! Me! Dancing!" is off the charts, isn't it?

They're like a not-humorless Arcade Fire, with better production and funner songs! And Welsh! Yesssss!

Xpost. "off the charts" is where it'll stay.

I hear Gruff Rhys is playing with them on tour next year.

Wasn't Hugh Pooh-Stick available?

Xpost. "off the charts" is where it'll stay.

I knew I set that up as soon as I hit "Submit Response."

:)

mang have the retards in this video ever seen this video ?
surely they must die

Track listing for the album (Wichita, 25th Feb)

1. Death To Los Campesinos!
2. Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
3. Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math(s)
4. Drop It Doe Eyes
5. My Year In Lists
6. Knee Deep At ATP
7. This Is How You Spell ‘HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And Dreams of A Generation of Faux-Romantics’
8. We Are All Accelerated Readers
9. You! Me! Dancing!
10. ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes in Unison
11. Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks

Nice, but no room for "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives"...?

I still like them, but hoo boy they need to work on the live show - when nine out of the ten songs in your set prominently feature glockenspiel, headaches arise.

this has leaked

Listening now.

"I am not Bonnie Tyler/ And I am not Toni Braxton"

7. This Is How You Spell ‘HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And Dreams of A Generation of Faux-Romantics’

^^^What's really great about that track is that that is the chorus, it's not just a fucking instrumental they've slapped a great title on.

My copy has a track 12, called "2007 The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)"

Anyway, so yeah, 2008 album of the year.

I can't wait to listen to this, but as hungover as I am, I'm not sure my head will be able to stand it just yet.

I relented, it's as wonderful as I'd hoped.

guitars on this are great

sadly, much as when live, this is boringly samey. you can interchange vocal lines between most of their songs.

when seen live

I was really hoping they'd have some new tricks up their sleeve for the lp. sadly not.

guys this album is so good

Anyway, so yeah, 2008 album of the year.

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, January 4, 2008 1:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

^would agree w/ this if not for hot chip

This album is great. I just can't wait to hear the mastered version.

so you think is an early leak?

the only two weak songs on here are 'knee deep at atp' and 'this is how you spell hahaha'. everything else is great. love how it's sequenced, too.

worst album cover of 2008 for sure

"I cherish, in fondness, the day before I met you" is such a great line.

My favourite on the album is "If you catch me with my hands in the till, I promise SUGAH I wasn't trying to steal"

this is the best album of 1998

makes me want to kill

The correct line is 'god help us if there's a war' but 'makes me want to kill' will do.

http://www.summersdale.com/images/You-Know-Youre-Getting-Old-.jpg

Still pretending to like Busted, eh?

Would have been shit in 1998 as well.

Hepburn represent!

This album is awful.

Dom--M S T U have reformed.

Seriously?

This album is brilliant and you all have taste in your arse - 3000 posts to follow.

haha at this whole thread

"I never got my ears pierced, and look how I turned out"

liveblog: im listening to 'We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives' on youtube.

the male vocalist in the verses... ah, are all their songs like this?

except for him, it isn't noticeably worse than other indie records that i have heard.

oh shit though the male vocalist just came back in. gotdamn, dom.

how was their album from last year? i've been meaning to check it out (since, uh, last year).

it's really good, their best since Romance is Boring, but it doesn't quite deliver the youthful jolt most people probably expect from this band

they had a really incredible run with those first three albums

Reissues of HONY and WABWAD out in Oct to celebrate the glorious anniversary!

http://www.loscampesinos.com/news/2018/4/11/hold-on-now-youngster-and-we-are-beautiful-we-are-doomed-to-be-remastered-and-repressed

On Saturday October 13th we’ll be playing our biggest ever UK headline show at the O2 Forum, London. MISERABILIA, as we’re calling it, will be unlike any Los Camp! gig before as we’ll be playing two sets, supporting ourselves.

The first set will be made up solely of songs from the above mentioned albums (plus maybe some other tracks from the time…) and then once we’ve towelled down and sprayed on some deodorant we’ll be back out on stage again to play another set, made up of the rest of our catalogue from the past decade of being the UK’s premiere DIY/punk/emo (delete as applicable) band.

😻

picked up a ticket, may be US shows as well:

We're really excited that you're excited, thank you.

AMERICANS - please don't do anything rash and fly over like you say you're going to. We're looking into the affordability of/getting the time off work for US shows. We'll keep you posted...

— Los Campesinos! (@LosCampesinos) April 11, 2018

the above show was very excellent

i mean:

This Is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"
Death to Los Campesinos!
Ways to Make It Through the Wall
Drop It Doe Eyes
Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown # 1
You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing
We Are All Accelerated Readers
Knee Deep at ATP
My Year in Lists
Frontwards
Miserabilia
...And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison

I Broke Up in Amarante
What Death Leaves Behind
Romance Is Boring
By Your Hand
A Slow, Slow Death
A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte
5 Flucloxacillin
For Flotsam
Songs About Your Girlfriend
Here's to the Fourth Time!
We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
The Fall of Home
Baby I Got the Death Rattle
Straight In at 101
I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future
Avocado, Baby
Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State

Heart Swells / Pacific Daylight Time
Hello Sadness
You! Me! Dancing!
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks

greatest to ever do it

Thanks for the setlist, was also there and it was fantastic.

Goosebumps when they played “...Sooner State”.

holy shit

my only suggestion is they should always play “the low”

the low and in medias res would have been welcome but honestly the best show i've ever been to.

also great was the scalper outside kentish town tube station trying to sell tickets to the peasants

I was impressed the show was a big enough deal to have bootleg t-shirts on sale outside.

We were discussing it after and despite playing for about 2.5 hrs there were still at least half a dozen big tunes left out.

for once in my life i can say i have valentine's day plans

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our third album, ‘Romance Is Boring’ we will be repressing the sold-out album on vinyl, plus playing a lusty double header of shows in London, on Valentine’s Weekend 2020

You can pre-order your remastered copy of Romance Is Boring on gatefold gold vinyl now, as well as getting hold of it's companion, the ‘All’s Well That Ends’ EP. ‘All’s Well That Ends’ is limited to just 500 copies on 10” vinyl and features brand new artwork by LC!’s own R N Taylor. All pre-orders come with a Valentine’s Card signed by the band.

Also up for grabs is ‘Romance Is Boring: an Oral History’ — an extensive ‘zine featuring conversations with Los Campesinos! members past and present over the last decade, as well as exclusive photographs and illustrations.

furloughed as of this morning so have been sat here ranking their songs

https://isthisyoursanderling.tumblr.com/post/617366942035116032/furlough-special-los-campesinos-ranked

very much agreed with the top 2 but i have never liked "baby i got the death rattle"

new album finished, out this summer

all hell out July 19th, based on the first song and that it's 15 tracks I'm hoping this is RiB II.

I can’t see anything about it other than your post devvvine.

went out yesterday evening in a newsletter, think should go public this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwEUnBmcE4

https://loscampesinos.substack.com/p/all-hell-the-new-los-campesinos-album

this has the details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwEUnBmcE4

this is the single. not really romance is boring 2, sounds like they've been listening to like, foxing?

That makes me excited to check it out. Foxing is exactly what they shoulda been listening to imo! (But also Romance is Boring is my least favorite one so I'm a weirdo)

a second new one, in classic lc! stomper mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN0ZaXKBFYg

You’re all in agreement that the police are useless
They want them emboldened, Baby, you want them bootless
The punks on the playlist, are crooning for kindness
Asking “why can’t we all just get along?”
Me and my friends are sadists, backbreakers for spineless
Wish ‘em dead and then we’ll put it in a song

I'm not all that familiar with their earlier music but their new one is the best record I've heard in 2024.

for a band yet to record a bad song, it's still a surprise how essential this feels. they've managed grasp a scope and ambition they maybe lost hold of for a little bit.

it's quite good, definitely better than the last, but it's still not on the level of their best material. i'm a bit surprised at how positive the reaction has been overall. might be able to make a case for 'best since romance is boring' though idk yet

I know I'm a Bernard Sumner fan at all, but several lyrics had me rolling my eyes.

nothing new there unfortunately

yeah i'm happy to say this is their best since romance is boring, and their best-produced album

finally got around to all hell which triggered a discog run. no blues remains insanely underrated. and all hell is nearly as good as romance is boring :)

but i'm a weirdo who thinks the first to lc! albums are mostly like... fine. first three tracks of we are beautiful are the greatest songs ever made but it's hard for me to inhabit the rest like i did when i was in college

first two*

likewise, the first two are kind of inseparable from being 16/17. whereas I've aged alongside the others more so. if i was making a list of the greatest twee/indie pop records I would put HONY in there with a bullet though.