HAIM

But not HAIM freestyle rap

i'm not saying this out of smug pride over knowing their antecedents, just admitting why I don't feel much need to listen to them, despite they're obv being awesome on a lot of levels. would be eager to know what haim are offering (besides "being alive and doing it now," which means little imo when it comes to what music you play at home) that makes them more engaging for others, cuz i'd like to hook into that.

They combine the eighties stuff with harmonies in unexpected places and the occasional post-punk motif.

tbh "If I Could Change Your Mind" is the only one that screams 1987 to me. The rest is straight-er Roches.

ok "sell-out roches" might be angle i can get with

of course, this might just boil down to "taste iz taste" and nothing more to be said

on the other hand there's something funny about music that is, to a great degree anyway (and i do think it's being slightly overstated w/r/t HAIM on this thread), consciously revivalist. at first you think, "well, this is good, but what does it mean to be making [e.g.] a 'classicist' soul album in 2013. isn't that kind of redundant?" and then you listen to (say) lee fields's "faithful man," and you remember that there is always room for more, that his record is actually superior to a bunch of canonical soul LPs*, and (this is most significant I think) besides which in 200 years (should humanity still be around and listening to old music) the distinction b/t these various "waves" of a particular genre won't amount to a hill of beans.

*or let's say garage rock. i dislike a lot of garage revival stuff, but some of it is better than almost anything that came out in the 1960s.

xpost roches? i don't get it, except that they are singing sisters.

have you heard their 1989 album with the syndrums?

yeah i love plenty of consciously revivalist stuff, but it's not just because i realize more is good, but because i key into what they're doing differently - eagles of death metal earns a "lol canned heat" but there's qualities to their best stuff that're nothing like canned heat. i'm not saying that isn't the case with haim as much as what makes them distinctive has yet to make them more appealing to me. and that's a big "yet."

some day this thread will pinpoint the exact retro sound haim is aping

someday.

"Now if x = Fleetwood Mac…"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ws5XxJgmdMs/Ue6OrMEKGOI/AAAAAAAAAMo/huJfx8hWY2Y/s1600/Looking+at+Difficult+Complex+Equation+%5B146796732%5D.jpg

i honestly don't get glib defensive shit like this.

the key thing about the SNL appearance is that i now know, for absolute sure, how to pronounce their name.

at least the anglicized version

ha.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PCJb3WJm74U/UCWh36KnlLI/AAAAAAAAAHE/w9dwXJvPcVc/s1600/l'chaim.jpg

http://epicsidequest.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/holes-first-law-digging-pickaxe.jpg

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I wish HAIM sounded a little more like King Crimson Roches, I think.

i love the bass face
the drummer was making the same face and he was barely doing anything

yeah, he was giving good drummerface, but he was in the background and out of focus most of the time.

there should be a category for keyboardface. Chris Lowe perfected it: don't give face at all.

I thought Ron Mael of Sparks owned the keyboardface category.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ttT7oDZWi8/S7tybWo70uI/AAAAAAAABmE/nURhh4T_E1o/s1600/Russell+Mael.JPG

iow Sanpaku, otm.

http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-music-scene/files/2009/09/Pet-Shop-Boys_9-12-09ZSC_3349.JPG

i was so excited to see them in paris this weekend and it turns out it's sold out. despite not saying so on their FB. DECEPTIVE! grrr.

The video for "The Wire" is SO EMBARRASSINGLY BAD

I heard The Long Run on the radio today and realized that it's a tiny Don Henley in her throat, not MMcD. Same weird staccato!

they are huge eagles fans

then i think don henley is patient 0!

Stevie very much otm about that dreadful video

I heard The Long Run on the radio today and realized that it's a tiny Don Henley in her throat, not MMcD. Same weird staccato!

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:42 PM (

DON: Well, yeah.

lololol was waiting

they are huge eagles fans

― balls, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:22 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you'd have to be to eat don henley

In Eaglesland, Don Henley eats you!

Tbh, "Henley In The Throat" sounds like a euphemism for throat herpes.

that's not at ALL what i meant

and i don't mean to insinuate anything like that -- just that she sings like don henley sings

what would Don 'n' think of Haim?

*Don 'n' Glenn

Bass face, Henley throat.

DON: To hear a new artist or group, such as Haim, cite us as an influence is something of an honor. I would love to have them give a private performance for my children, who are big fans as well.

GLENN: A private performance from three sisters? Takes me back to to the grotto at 1740 La Fontaine Ct....Hey, are you sure our paternity tests for these chicks was neg?

DON: Well, yeah.

they are huge eagles fans

― balls, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:22 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you'd have to be to eat don henley

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just want to call attention to the potential triple meaning of this joke

Please, I think I've already thought of every possible graphic angle on this.

ugh

i wasn't even thinking of that honestly

Falling has a notable echo of 1901 by Phoenix.

ridiculous bassface and hype train aside, "honey and i" is quite a lovely tune