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
like, getting hit with patrick stickles's beard sweat and then smoking cigarettes with him after intimate
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.
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― 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
could do without the fake old-timey spoken word recordings
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the tone of each album is different in an important way
like, to me, 'the suburbs' vacillates b/w really infantile songs about "the kids" & this kinda gross, almost elitist misanthropy about suburban life that just rubs me the wrong way, esp coming from grown 30 year olds
'the monitor' is an album that uses suburban life as a frame for a very thorough and oftentimes lacerating -- yet inspiring! -- look at one dude's life, and at times the lives of people his age -- it's a much more honest album imo
also there are no 8+ songs on the suburbs
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
8+ min*
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
2nd time through "the monitor" and all i can think about is Neon Bible
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh, i think that says more about you than either of these bands
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, blame the messenger
― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
this band is prolly really popular w/ child molesters
― plax (ico), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 20 January 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
at least Arcade Fire can manage to do a whole album of Springsteen inspired emo without actually name dropping him in the lyrics
― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/hae48.gif
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://teslastaging.com/forums/images/smilies/Gestures/userArmsCrossed.gif
― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
think moving to virginia suburbs/getting an awful office job really clicked something in me but i totally ~love~ this album now
― Gukbe, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
time to relisten to that last the national album too
― Mordy, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
careful now!
― Gukbe, Monday, 24 January 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to 'richard ii' right now and remembering last summer at the show being the remarkably drunk dude in the second row shouting imagined countoffs into the silences ("we've never seen the glory of the coming of the lord" "ONE TWO THREE" "THERE WILL BE PARTIES THERE WILL BE FUN" etc)
they're playing here next month and i'm super super amped, and then apparently they're playing that pfork show in NY where they're playing all Replacements songs and i might ahve already died and gone to heaven just imagining the concept of that
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"imagined concept" is a great way to describe this band
― gr8080, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
saw this come up in my bookmarks and was like I bet a hoos bumped this
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
My roommates just got a gig opening for them this month? Ironically not at their Montreal show but tomorrow at Brandeis.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats to your roommates band imo
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
easily my most listened to album of the past 3 months. really perfect on headphones when i'm at work.
― Gukbe, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yeah, they're pretty psyched. i have not been listening to the monitor as much as i feel like i should but when i do it's still a fucking titanic record of awesomeness.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 18 March 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/06/pogues-titus-andronicus
Ha ha every quote from this dork is a classic
― Gully Foyle is my name (Matt #2), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Playing in support of the Pogues "raised a lot of questions about the intersection of punk rock and commerce", Stickles said. "This is the greatest punk band from my ancestral homeland of Ireland, and it makes me sick."
shit that looks like an onion article but isn't
― 1000 Vults Of Nult (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
srs irishman there has a song that goes 'still drinkin' car bombs after all of these years'
― thomp, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
titus andronicus - the hall monitor
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
file under "quotes that sum up why i can't listen to this band"
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao at that pogues shit -- i don't listen to them and feel zero desire to, especially after reading that
THERE'LL BE NO MORE COUNTING THE CARS ON THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY
― markers, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Patrick Stickles.
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
how in the fuck did this dork expect the pogues to act?
1st 2 pogues albums rule markers, seems like something u might digg if you can hang w/irish jiggyness
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
like honestly these dudes have been touring for fucking ever you think they really want to hang with you?