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