The Liars - Drum's Not Dead (2006)

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I think they'd sound completely average & really normal with better production values. I love the production on this record, even if the record itself didn't leave as lasting an impression as I'd hoped.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link

never heard the last one but listening to the Other Music samples now and there's a definate This Heat vibe going on...minus the prog drumming though. Sounds really good.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan, last one even more so

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

you'll love it dan. i think it's totally yr kinda record. (i adore it)

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

this is what i wanted the new tv on the radio album to sound like. instead that album sounded like shit. drums not dead is great.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"All these Animal Collective comparisons baffle me. Same w/ Black Dice."

that's funny. listening to it with people last night who hadn't heard it yet, the comments all were along the lines of "when did beck join black dice?" and "so, these guys have been hanging out with the animal collective, huh."

― prince rupert, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

this album continues to grow on me....so hypnotic and just seems to occupy its own little universe...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

this album totally won me over, in the end. live it was a lot more INYRFACE and PIERCING though. and a lot of fun

― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

no liars no credulity

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

tru dat.

have you guys heard ft(The Shadow Government)? their album Guns of August I could see appealing to Liars fans...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i luv the cover art

― meth lab for doug flutie (sanskrit), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

to echo various people upthread, if you like this and haven't heard they were wrong so we drowned, check that out too. it's about as good as drum's not dead, if not a little better.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i definitely didn't hate the last record...but i never found a compelling reason to put it on repeatedly. i've probably already listened to drum's not dead more times than they were wrong... and i've only had the former for like a week.

― m.c. (clikatowi), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone else had ploblems playing this on a computer (PC)? I played it before, but now a couple of days later, my computer won't even recognize it as a cd.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

T. Weiss, maybe you have the vinyl version like I do?

― mikko (mikko), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you in Europe? I heard that Mute's Can reissues were copy-protected, at least in Europe (my US copies work fine). Hopefully this isn't the case; it would suck and suck hard for an indie to start putting copy-protection on their releases.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 3 April 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm in the U.S. It's really weird because I played it like three times then a couple of days later I insterted it and its not even recognized (its a version with the dvd). Its pretty maddenning since this is how I listen to most of my music. Any advice?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

do all other cd's play fine?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

suck hard for an indie

owned by EMI

― jeff rosenberg (pukeandburn), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

owned by EMI

Really? Did not know that. That's worrying, then.

Is there a Philips Compact Disc logo anywhere on the packaging? And does anyone else have this issue? I was going to buy Drum's Not Dead over the weekend, but if it's at all copy-protected then I'm going straight to p2p.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

mine wasn't copy protected at all. there's probably something wrong with the weiss guy's pc.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

there's probably something wrong with the weiss guy's pc.
if this is the case, does any one have any suggestions, as its my primary use for playing music. all of my other cds play fine.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Only after the first time I took it out of my computer did I have any problem, I didn't however notice any Philips logo.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

isn't this some "enhanced" cd with a billion videos on it? (not a DVD?)

not to get tech support on you but some exact details of how it's going unrecognised, error messages & such could be useful. also, do they have a forum or anything? I'd expect more than one person to have had this problem, you might want to look there.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 07:43 (eighteen years ago) link

when i put it in my computer, i can see that there is, apart form the audio files, also a jpg of the cover on the cd. i guess that's a way to make it copy-protected.

― thomas, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 07:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Depends what ripping program you use, I have no problem ripping the audio (but not the data files) with Exact Audio Copy. How iTunes etc handles it all I have no idea...

I'm surprised you can't see the video files (got "show hidden files" unticked in tools>folder options?) but I've had problems myself on some discs being able to access multimedia stuff with obscure ways of presenting itself.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i ripped mine with creative media source or something like that. i listened to it in itunes a few times, too.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i've had no problems playing/ripping my copy in my pc. there's no compact disc logo anywhere to be found, but i think "brilliant box" packaging generally doesn't have the logo in its usual place (the disc tray). oh, and no videos on the cd -- why would there be when the album comes with a dvd?

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

The CD won't even be recognized in my drive. When I get info on my D Drive, it says 0 mbs free and 0 mbs used. Very frustrating.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe your cd is damaged?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

just buy it on vinyl geniuses

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

The only way to tell is to try it on another drive or another CD player. It's the scientific method. Observation: disc is unrecognized. Hypothesis: the disc is fucked. Prediction: the disc will fail on any CD player. Experiment: Try disc on another CD player. If disc works, disc is not fucked. New observation: computer disc player is inconsistent at best.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"My room has been plunged into darkness. Is my light bulb dead?? What should I do????"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Well I tried it other cd players, and it works fine. Just won't play on my computer anymore (haven't had a chance to try it on other computers)

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Are we really through with this album already? Really? I'd say Radiohead have some competition when they return.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 23 April 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

aren't they touring now or very soon?

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 23 April 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, they're playing Seattle June 10.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i love this album.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 30 April 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think they're going to trouble Radiohead much in the songwriting department...

But sonically, I hear what you're saying.

I'm v.much hoping Radiohead have some surprises left in them, but also fearing they won't :(

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Of all the comments on this thread, Dog Latins original take is spot on.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link

swinging through australia this week. they're playing new stuff in their set which is of a more sraightahead rock direction, according to street press interview I read.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I would just like to say that I still don't think this album can compete with Tago Mago or Can in general, and for that reason I appreciated Melissa's post above (along with an awful lot of February posts above - I really missed out!). But it's still pretty damn cool. Whoever first said it was related to Flowers of Romance, I can see that too, without Lydon's stamp of individuality, that is.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

from radiohead's blog thingy...

happy easter

liars >drums not dead
berlin must be a good place to work

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 1 May 2006 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Are we really through with this album already?

not at all. my album of the year by some way, so far. mind, i don't feel i'm doing a good job keeping up with new stuff at all right now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

parts of this album seem to have a coil-scatology influence.

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Thom often has suspect taste in music. Kinda want to shake him for seeing anything in this album. But ah well.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

why? this album's great!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

One of my favorites this year. Still listening to it almost weekly. That Thom's got a good ear, Mel! Even the EPs are decent. (Great artwork, too:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000E5L8BQ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V57053822_.jpg

RAHHHHH!!!)

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's a really great album, with Booka shade it's one of only two new albums I've listened to extensively this year.

That EP cover seriously rocks.

― jimnaseum wastes the taxpayer's money, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link

yes awesome cover

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

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