thread of miguel

sounds like i might be chatting w/ him tomorrow. commence pants-shitting

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

bummer

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

yea

ditto, but the highs are excellent

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"

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.

yea a lot of the rock touches on this just don't appeal to me

boooooo @ everyone

coffee is sublime though easily one my favorite tracks of the year

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.

coffee takes me places :D

otm

i love the rock touches on this!!! still as wonderful as ever for me

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

this album is so warm and glowy idk

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

great url lol

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.

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), 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"

"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

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

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

man that opener though, wtf was that even

these guys? they sound pretty um.
https://soundcloud.com/dorothytheband

i really like them

(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

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

yyyyyyyyeah, this may be a case of diverging tastes. they sound to me like a faster pussycat cover band with a female lead.

you say that like it's a bad thing

if you had asked me twenty years ago!

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.

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.

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.

discovered the flow of this record would be improved slightly if "coffee" and "what's normal anyway" were moved after "hollywood dreams"

i guess if you want the back half of the album to completely destroy the first half instead of merely outshining it

eh i love the first half of this record

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.

long-winded monologue about celebrating your individuality

i found this really moving

i was, like, so close to him when he came up the aisle. tastefully kept my phone pocketed.

i found this really moving

Me too!

he was quite smothered by phones

a modern malaise if any

DEAL is such a jam

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...

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.