MANIC PIXIE DREAM ALBUM THE THREAD
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:37 (thirteen years ago)
what?
― thomp, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:37 (thirteen years ago)
more like "manic pixie dream troll"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:38 (thirteen years ago)
yeah i retract alladin sane, good points
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:37 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
huh?
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:41 (thirteen years ago)
The 257th in the Pearl Jam bootleg series totally qualifies here
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:41 (thirteen years ago)
haha
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:43 (thirteen years ago)
waht is springsteens new jersey
― thomp, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:44 (thirteen years ago)
The River
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)
Human Touch/Lucky Town was mentioned upthread and definitely fits
― some dude, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)
not sure Springsteen fits in this category. Human Touch-Lucky Town flopped and didn't produce any big singles either. He spent the rest of the nineties after "Streets of Philadelphia" going purposefully low key.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)
Nobody ever rated or bought those two records.
xpost
As Alfred said he doesn't really fit, though you rarely hear the singles from Tunnel Of Love anymore. But people still rate it highly.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:52 (thirteen years ago)
I suppose we can debate how much his going low key dependend on a shrewd study of sales trends and market forces.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:52 (thirteen years ago)
hey um can someone explain what whiney meant w/that post? even google doesn't come up with "manic pixie dream album"...there is some band called 1976 that had an album call manic pixie dream girl, then some articles about zooey deschnel?
i think tunnel of love is too much of a purposeful stylistic shift to be a new jersey
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:54 (thirteen years ago)
Tom Petty-Wildflowers
Several hits, but only one with true staying power. And She's The One was the follow-up.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)
hey um can someone explain what whiney meant w/that post?
I don't think anyone actually cares enough to decipher, tbh
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)
Wildflowers sounds like a perfect fit but it IS widely loved (even by Petty himself).
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:58 (thirteen years ago)
Beastie Boys' To The 5 Boroughs?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:58 (thirteen years ago)
xpost: i just assumed he's making fun of people who like the pixies. so yay for him.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:59 (thirteen years ago)
"manic pixie dream girl" is a movie character archetype, coined by whiney's wu tang/simpsons stan bizarro world av club equivalent nathan rabin, which people forever argue over the definition and appropriate examples of.
― some dude, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:00 (thirteen years ago)
I don't think there was any expectation that "Boroughs" would be huge by the time that came out.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:00 (thirteen years ago)
lol xp
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:02 (thirteen years ago)
the only beasties that would even be close is Ill Communication, but i don't really think so
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:03 (thirteen years ago)
― some dude, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 4:00 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok so he doesn't like this thread or something?
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:04 (thirteen years ago)
apparently
― some dude, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:05 (thirteen years ago)
hey whiney sorry you don't like this thread also have you considered the possibility that you've disappeared up your own butt?
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:06 (thirteen years ago)
manic pixie dream ilx
― thomp, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:07 (thirteen years ago)
manic pixie dream journalism career
Is manic pixie dream really circling the drain?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:09 (thirteen years ago)
Getting butthurt about a thread like this on a place like ILM is kind of a "New Jersey" if you think about it
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:09 (thirteen years ago)
or maybe a "Neither Fish Nor Flesh"
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:12 (thirteen years ago)
okay I was going to complain about everyone turning this into a thread about Whiney but ^^^ lol
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:14 (thirteen years ago)
http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/203755-1/Water-car-jerk-superhero.gif
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:14 (thirteen years ago)
Has anyone mentioned 'Be Here Now' yet?
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:15 (thirteen years ago)
aaanyway
Helmet's New Jersey is Betty, happy now?
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:15 (thirteen years ago)
yep
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:16 (thirteen years ago)
Shania Twain - Up!George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
― prolego, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:16 (thirteen years ago)
Be Here Now was instant letdown though, I'm minded to disqualify it (though in truth I've never listened to it, boy will my face be red if it turns out it was brilliant)
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:18 (thirteen years ago)
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol.
yes!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:18 (thirteen years ago)
Listen Without Prejudice isn't a New Jersey surely
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
weren't the reviews of BHN kinda like "whoaaaa! wow!"?
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
praying for time is exactly what Sony did when Michael insisted on releasing this single first.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
Eric Clapton's Pilgrim?
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:21 (thirteen years ago)
"Fastlove" and "Jesus to a Child" were US top 10 hits??????????
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:21 (thirteen years ago)
It sold even less than LWP though (a massive Euro hit though). And why not? Look at his scary goatee on the cover.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:23 (thirteen years ago)
And George hasn't charted since
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:23 (thirteen years ago)
actually, looking at the sales stats and considering that ppl still adore "Freedom 90" but no one remembers or ever hears any of its, I'm tempted to say Older makes more sense
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:23 (thirteen years ago)
wondering why all the best examples of this are late 80s/early 90s. hmm
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:24 (thirteen years ago)
its HITS, I meant
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:25 (thirteen years ago)
Robbie Williams - Escapology
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:25 (thirteen years ago)