sounds like i might be chatting w/ him tomorrow. commence pants-shitting
― alpine static, Saturday, 8 August 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.journalmpls.com/news-feed/first-avenue-ceiling-collapse-injures-three
oh no, he was supposed to be on for saturday :(
get well soon, theory of a deadman fans
― goole, Thursday, 13 August 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
bummer
― marcos, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
wow I'm high and listening to "NWA" very good activity
― drown zoowap (The Reverend), Sunday, August 2, 2015 10:29 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol yes sounds like a very good activity.
i really dig NWA but sometimes kurupt's verse kind of grates, it is a little corny maybe?
not super into his album as a whole tbh, def rank it below the first two
― flopson, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
yea
― Spottie, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
ditto, but the highs are excellent
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 August 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
the highs are nice but none come close to "coffee" imo, I think I'd feel way differently about this album if it didn't have "coffee"
― marcos, Thursday, 13 August 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
but yea there are a fair amount of tracks I skip
This was a disappointment in the end. I thought Coffee would be the conventional really good-but-nice middling track amongst other truly great things that stretched out his sound. As it turned out, it was the best song and the strongest hook. Offputting production and session muso rock guitar sounds didn't help.
― paulhw, Friday, 14 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
yea a lot of the rock touches on this just don't appeal to me
― marcos, Friday, 14 August 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
boooooo @ everyone
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 14 August 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
coffee is sublime though easily one my favorite tracks of the year
― marcos, Friday, 14 August 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link
I'm having this weird relationship with the album right now where on one listen I'll really like it, and then on the next I'll find its spotty and trying.
"Coffee" still among the best tracks of the year, if not THE best.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 14 August 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
coffee takes me places :D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 August 2015 01:33 (eight years ago) link
otm
― marcos, Friday, 14 August 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
i love the rock touches on this!!! still as wonderful as ever for me
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 August 2015 09:22 (eight years ago) link
idk i never really liked "coffee" that much
i do find the album lacking somewhat compared to kaleidoscope dream but it still has a few great songs
― dyl, Friday, 14 August 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
this album is so warm and glowy idk
― 龜, Friday, 14 August 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
First Ave show was moved to State Theater. A somewhat less exciting prospect but I'll be there. He talks about the venue change here: http://www.citypages.com/music/miguel-talks-first-ave-racial-expectations-sex-7567982
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Saturday, 15 August 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
great url lol
― marcos, Saturday, 15 August 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
I was at the State Theater show in Minneapolis last night. People were not kidding how incredible his band is. One of the highlights was the guitarist spinning around really fast whilst playing The Thrill. One of the best live shows I've been to.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 16 August 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:32 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yea me too, i listened this morning and i was like "okay this is awesome there are only like 2 tracks i don't like"
― marcos, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
"the valley" is really bad imo, i'm just not feeling that tune at all
"flesh" on the other hand is great
"leaves" i've always liked but this morning it's been especially powerful, that tune is amaaaaaaaaaaaazing
― marcos, Monday, 17 August 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i know who geoffreyess is???
i was at the minneapolis show. i had a great time, but in recollection my feelings are kind of negative, i'll have to think about it
― goole, Monday, 17 August 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
it was kind of a marathon; he gave songs i liked less real workouts, stuff i liked he just kind of breezed through.
and maybe i totally lost the plot but i don't think he played arch & point?
i was into how douchey is band was though
― goole, Monday, 17 August 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
man that opener though, wtf was that even
― goole, Monday, 17 August 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
these guys? they sound pretty um.https://soundcloud.com/dorothytheband
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
i really like them
― maura, Monday, 17 August 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
(i wrote about them for RS six months ago! thanks whiney)
first two songs not doing anything for me but i respect yer opinion so will try again
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
i mean if you're not into the whole deap vally/dead sara/loud ladies over crushing blues riffs thing then it might not be your cup o tea
― maura, Monday, 17 August 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
yyyyyyyyeah, this may be a case of diverging tastes. they sound to me like a faster pussycat cover band with a female lead.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
you say that like it's a bad thing
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
if you had asked me twenty years ago!
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
Dorothy was not my cup o tea at all but I admired the commitment and sorta understood why they might have been invited to open. In a month that has already brought much worse opening acts, I had some mild affection for them.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Monday, 17 August 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
I didn't hear "Arch and Point" played, though the boundaries between songs were somewhat indistinct at times, the music restructured to address and engage the audience.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Monday, 17 August 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
Anyway I had a great, smiley time at the show. Thrusting, come-ons, long-winded monologue about celebrating your individuality, the "How Many Drinks" processional to the balcony, then brief disappearance (where's Miguel??) and triumphant return to the stage. It was all good.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
discovered the flow of this record would be improved slightly if "coffee" and "what's normal anyway" were moved after "hollywood dreams"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
i guess if you want the back half of the album to completely destroy the first half instead of merely outshining it
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
eh i love the first half of this record
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
The Valley isn't Miguel's greatest moment, but it def suffers a bit because I get an itchy trigger finger to get to Coffee.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
long-winded monologue about celebrating your individuality
i found this really moving
― goole, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
i was, like, so close to him when he came up the aisle. tastefully kept my phone pocketed.
― goole, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Me too!
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
he was quite smothered by phones
a modern malaise if any
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
DEAL is such a jam
― marcos, Thursday, 20 August 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Although kinda subtle and not awfully dramatic, "what's normal anyway" has increasingly revealed itself to be the beating heart of this record. Sleeper deep cut. Is that manipulated vocal hook that occurs throughout sampling anything? Sounds awfully familiar...
― vmajestic, Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
I accept "What's Normal Anyway" as the heart of this record but I really don't fuck with it at all. I mean, I used to do the "I'm mixed, woe is me, nobody understands me" thing but then I recognized it for the internalized manifestation of white supremacy it is and can't stand when other people get in their #MixedFeelings. Like it's really fucking shitty to monoracial black people.
― drown zoowap (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link