which maybe says everything i'm trying to say
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
(xpost)
― 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