TRACK LISTINGS:1. Kissing the Lipless2. Mine's Not a High Horse3. So Says I4. Young Pilgrams5. Saint Simon6. Fighting in a Sack7. Pink Bullets8. Turn a Square9. A Call to Apathy10. Those to Come
I download the first Track, "Kissing the Lipless" the other night and I really liked it. That is the only track I've found so far. Has anyone seen any other tracks going around?
It'll be weird having a Shins album out in the fall. Their last album reminds me so much of the summer. I guess I'll get over it...
― Adam Flybot, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
Hope that doesn't spoil it for you!!!
― Scott, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
― calstars (calstars), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
― shut up, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 10:33 (twenty years ago) link
― jason m. (jason m), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 13:29 (twenty years ago) link
standout tracks for me: so says i, fighting in a sack, a call to apathy.
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
― doug (doug), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
And don't worry about it coming out in the Fall -- the sound is just perfect for the season. It's interesting you should mention summer with their last album. I think they are just a group whose music is very evocative of the outdoors and vistas suggested by changing seasons. Look forward to it!
― Troy, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
This new album is going to take a few listens. The first track is definately a winner. I've always liked the old songs live because the vocals are more aggressive and his voice sounds great when he's losing control of it. This track captures that for sure. "A Call To Apathy" is the fav right now though....
― Charles, Monday, 15 September 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Kristin, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― John Simpson, Sunday, 12 October 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 12 October 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:08 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:38 (twenty years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:11 (twenty years ago) link
I loved the fist. I think I should.
― Debito (Debito), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:37 (twenty years ago) link
― kinski (kinski), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
Regardless, the album is quite nice and well worth the $$.
― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:49 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB, Friday, 5 December 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB, Friday, 5 December 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
― arjun (arjun), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
i never use that word for indie rock lps
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
the lyrics are a BIG improvement over the first record
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― rooz mcgooz, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
As a pop snob I do find the new one a bit bland in certain moods. Certainly more consistent than the Thrills' So Much for the City (which also contains two or three really great songs amidst some rather samey stuff).
And I don't like the production on the first one very much. They're nothing earth-shattering but nice pop. What/who sounds more like Nilsson, "Weird Divide" or Rufus Wainwright?
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
Nice guy.
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link
The New Pornographers aren't on any shows tonight, because Dan Bejar is busy being better by himself.
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:50 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:13 (twenty years ago) link
i don't know the new porns that well, but my first and second impressions were that while they were excellent, they hit the gas pedal really really hard a bit too much of the time; the shins are certainly no minimalists but they don't seem *quite* as eager to impress which makes them easier to swallow for me
― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
Every song on the new Destroyer album sounds exactly the same! (But I guess if yr a Shins fan, that's a good thing.)
The New Pornographers = much more in common with Basement Jaxx than any of these crappy indie bands. Super pop maximalism.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
Although that does beg the question as to whether all music seeks to ingratiate itself by one route or another, some routes just being gnarlier and more flattering to the subcultural vanities of the listener than others ...
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
Is it true that they're Sub Pop's biggest current band at the moment?
(I didn't think much of the last new Pornographers record, bar 'the laws have changed', so it kind of kept me from looking further into them - from this thread, I'm guessing it would be worth it?)
― cis (cis), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
is this about anal
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
it's about the struggle with anal suppositories when you have a tight catholic arse
― calzino, Friday, 14 February 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
Shit's too narrow
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
kissing the lipless, get it?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 14 February 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
the shits - shoots poo arrows
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
The Shins will change your toilet habits
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
is this really what this place is becoming? not even a fan of this band but this is just so unnecessary.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
where have you Bee n for the last 18 years?
― calzino, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
on here, i have been on this board since 2005.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
time served eh?
― calzino, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
early footage of Bee from 2005
https://blog.sonos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Scene-02-Moview-Clip.gif
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
Make to run a series of polls about it
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 February 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link