Okay, I totally get where are you coming from wrt to the "underwritten" now, yeah, this isn't something I come to looking for big sing-alongs (thats been this year's Superchunk, My Chem, and Against Me records), but I still feel a good sense of catharsis in it. I wasn't trying to be harsh with my post, I was just struck by your posts because I had pretty much the exact opposite reaction! I can see where you are coming from now, though I'm still not sure I agree with you on all of it.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm really stunned by the idea that this record, with its doubletime breakdowns and gang chorus singalongs and fuckin bagpipes and multiple-guitar-solo epics is lacking for any kind of oomph, and i too am coming out of a 90s power punk background
~~confused~~
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCKING
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
BAGPIPES
IT'S STILL US AGAINST THEM, IT'S STILL US AGAINST THEM
― markers, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
hoos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEIxbO7g10g
ya mean?
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
srsly when i saw them they closed w/that one and the whole club was going apeshit screaming along it was like O_____________________________________________O
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
if I went to a Titus Andronicus show, I hope I would be doing the same!
― markers, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo yes just like that, i feel like titus is the anthemic high energy feel of am! given a stately lit snob strut, or if you like that they have more in common with the pogues than (say) flogging molly or dropkick murphys have in common with the pogues. what they lack in melodic momentum they more than make up in sonic & emotional fury, i think.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
and plz do not let my previous post imply that i was not screaming along tbh
^______________^ may have been more appropriate but after that many beers it was more like \m/ >_________________> \m/
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
haha hoos see titus andronicus comes nowhere near close to AM! on that front. I think my fondest show memories were seeing AM! around the reinventing axl rose period and climbing on stage and doing the sing along and getting the shit kicked out of me by all these other meathead punks. somehow I just can't see a Titus Andronicus show descending into that level of dionysian formlessness
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
for one thing, it's much too midtempo and mannered
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i love these guys, but the show i saw of them was kinda lacking in a real sense of power at least from the audience's end. that said, they were opening for vampire weekend, and i bet if they were playing warped tour it would be explosive
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha man i cant ever imagine these dudes playing warped tour
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
which maybe says everything i'm trying to say
that like that would never happen, and thats acceptable to me, cause that's not why i listen to them
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7AgIaF_o40
^^ gives me chills
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
titus are playing here with the pogues in march and i am amped beyond words to see em again
and AM! is already plenty lit snob stately fuiud
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to break something
UP THE PUNX
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i love Against Me (and Gaslight Anthem) even more than Titus and I think the Warped Tour unnamed dynamic thing might have to do with it
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i feel like dayo is totally right that what these guys do lacks the melodic momentum, the gasp-out-every-word-from-the-depth-of-the-mosh-pit-ness, of someone like an am! or even a rise against, but again: i think what they lack in that kind of immediacy they make up in richness and attention to detail.
but then, i came to this record with absolutely no idea what it sounded like and literally nothing to go on but
http://i11.tinypic.com/4bfnofo.jpg― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:52 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark
so i didn't have a lot of preconceptions or expectations.
plus the whole 'my breakup was totally just like the civil war, i swear' narrative had more than a few personal resonances for me, what with having a breakup that was totally just like the civil war (i swear) like the week i bought & over the ensuing two months that i processed this record.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
rise against, fuck yeah
yeah same here other than I knew it was j0rd's fave record of the year and seemed to be popping up in year end lists.
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that's otm, and i first saw them at that vampire weekend concert. i don't even know that they lack gasp-out-every-word-from-the-depth-of-the-mosh-pit-ness, just that my experience of them lacks that xp
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
(so i think maybe you're not so otm about them not being great in a warped tour type venue. could be excellent)
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
where were they playing when they opened up for vampire weekend? i cant picture them in the large, possible open air venue that warped tour would necessitate, but maybe that's just because when i saw them it was an intimate as you can get
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
like, getting hit with patrick stickles's beard sweat and then smoking cigarettes with him after intimate
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
stickles is a dope last name
― markers, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
united palace theater last jan
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ive only seen them in tiny spaces too they were p great live
think this album has tonnes of momentum & bombast when it needs to but theres a idk self-reflective quality to it that maybe prevents it from ever getting truly unhinged. like i have a feeling that even when hes screaming his heart out hes half thinking how ridiculous hes being yknow?
maybe thats why i love 'theme from 'cheers'' so much that knowing half-abashed quality adds a layer of sweetness and complexity to it like ur both sharing a joke thats also rooted in the truth
― HTML 5-0 (Lamp), Thursday, 30 December 2010 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
like its legit hard to play something so emtional str8 & i guess i can admire or ~get~ acknowledging it and trying anyway
― HTML 5-0 (Lamp), Thursday, 30 December 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like torture, tbh
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
rong
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
stickles seems like one of the nicest dudes
― just sayin, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this band is far too unattractive for me to ever listen to their stupid music
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
late to the game on this but: if you like this band and front like you hate the arcade fire you are full of shit imo
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
You're going to have to explain that one to me, because other than them both using similar types of instruments I don't see a whole lot of similarities between the two. I mean, yeah, both are white indie bands prone to half-baked concept albums, but, uh, thats about it.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
well for starters they sound exactly the same
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, no, they don't, at all.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
gr8080 showing his hand a little by posting immediately after a slightly superior troll-job
― vampire weekend fan (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, this honestly feels like me popping into a goon thread and saying "if you like Waka and front like you hate B.o.B. you are full of shit imo". I mean, they sort of share a genre, but unless you've never heard indie rock before I can't imagine how you would think they sound so similar.
(xpost)
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
grongyongdy
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
they both made an album about the suburbs
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the main one
but the tone an voice of the albums are so, so different
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
have to admit LJ is OTM
for real though there is little difference
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh I think it's pretty good and even voted for (& nominated) its best track in the 2010 poll, coz christ fuck me what a song
― vampire weekend fan (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
obviously a band sounds like itself but to front like you are SO ABOVE arcade fire and then call this one of the greatest albums ever made is totally indefensible imo
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ftr: i like arcade fire ok and i like this album ok