Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

I don't know how these guys can wake up in the morning and feel that they can possible improve upon their impossibly wide and consistently terrific back catalog
It must be tough

i guess i have to listen to this

this is gonna be the best summer ever

i really like how on the top level all these songs are the same. like there are no vocal melodies. it's like six notes looped for 77 minutes with all this stuff happening underneath it.

except here and there. like "hello my name is david" suddenly cutting through everything.

Only seventy-seven minutes, eh?

25% more music than the gaga album for the same price, alfred. if not for fucking amazon.

See, I never want "more" music.

you should pretend this is about david foster wallace

!

This is good.

this is so my album of the year so far not that i really hear all that many albums

I've never liked Fucked Up, but "Queen of Hearts" is phenomenal. Gonna try to hear the whole thing asap.

Okay, it starts to all blur together in a distorted and screamy sameyness by the midway point, so I don't know if it's AOTY material...but I do think "Queen of Hearts" is pretty rad.

(note: I had the same impression of the Gaga album my first time through, so who knows.)

^ basically what i came away with, given the same (awesome) entry point

Concept reminds me a little bit of Alasdair Gray's Lanark.

"A Little Death" and "The Other Shoe" are both the little bits I've heard from this band are great, but 75 mins of Fucked Up = no thanks.

Okay this David's Town thing is really pretty fun.

Especially the one that sounds like Fleetwood Mac and the one with Carl Newman providing vocals.

Someone needs to make me a Fucked Up P0X. They're a band I root for and want to like more, but, as stated upthread, their discography is impenetrable. I have something called Year Of The Pig, and recall favorably reviewing their first album many years ago, and I have various other things here and there on my computer. Haven't disliked anything.

Is it ethically wrong to listen to this album on shuffle? Or should I be listening to each suite at a time in order for it to make sense?

(semi seriosu about this question)

unless you're carefully following the lyrics, the story is imperceptible, and it's not like there's an important musical structure to the album as a whole (???), so i'd say go ahead and shuffle

Yeah, I'd say enjoy it however you want. The story really only comes through if you are sitting with the lyrics book in hand, so I'd say just enjoy them in whatever order you want.

After listening to all of the David's Town thing, I'm pretty sure no one in Britain in the late 70s was saying "O!M!G!".

shuffle it. I have. Dunno why it needs a concept holding it together. Not sure it's really going to improve its worth seeing as its what I've been hoping they'd do for ages.

the first two tracks are great openers but after that yeah do what you feel. i haven't parsed any of the story at all.

Initially disappointed that there's no Crooked Head here, and definitely not an album to listen to on headphones (ear fatigue!) but it's growing on me. After a bunch of listens, Ship of Fools definitely reminding me a lot of shoutier Archers of Loaf, and "Nostalgia" in particular, probably coincidence.

p. clearly album of the year material for me

huh never heard these dudes, i guess now is the time

oy, this is awesome

huh i was wondering how long it would take for god to come into it

Pink Eye: We talk about God more on this record than a Christian band.

Are you religious?

Pink Eye: Not at all. Not. At. All.
10,000 Marbles: We ran out of metaphors.
Pink Eye: We exhausted all those metaphors about moshing and friends and the pit. So now we were like, "God, what’s left?”
Concentration Camp: God!

(2006.)

yeah the majority of the imagery and use of metaphor that Damian is kicking around on here is pretty much the same as what was on Hidden World and probably some stuff before that

on 'chemistry' the majority of the lyrics are by 10,000 marbles, whose real name i do not know; i do not know, also, if this is the case for their other records

they've had the metaphysical bent since hidden world at least

10,000 Marbles = Mike Haliechuk (sp.)

just started listening to this

'queen of hearts' is almost a little tailor-made for ~interests~

my interests

haahaha

i never disliked these guys - but i really am not enjoying "The Other Shoe".

I swear that the track "A Slanted Tone" is the hidden track on Husker's Zen Arcade. And it is a gem.

this is one of those recs where my favorite song is gonna change like 10 times. right now it's "running on nothing" for the 12-string guitar and the fact that it's straight up arena rock.

That's exactly what's happening for me. I still can't make it through the whole thing start to finish, but am also having trouble paying attention to any other albums (which all seem kind of pasty in comparison...)

one of the major moments for me the last few times i've played this has been the outro on "remember my name" followed by the twenty-five or so seconds of acoustic respite before getting back into things

holy wow at this album.

Loving the "David's Town" compilation.

I just got my copy of David's Town (prices on eBay seem to have dropped pretty quickly) and was mildly disappointed that the packaging didn't go a little farther with the idea. Like I really wanted to be completely convinced that it was an artifact. And an insert would have been nice. Like maybe a fake "join our mailing list" for some non-existant label, etc. So much for that cheap thrill.

At the moment it's reminding me of any number of 90's indie comps that I don't remember anymore (not that there was anything wrong with them). And that's really not putting it down. You can kind of see how the need to contend w/Pink Eyes' voice is what brings out the best of this band, though, and it makes me wonder how future stuff without him might fare...

...words of doomy portent

"F-word Up" love u Greg Kot

This is still so great.

hahaha kot