Kinda skipping around on the stream, "Brian Eno" is pretty funny but I could really go for some more huge hooks.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
good music is BORING
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not even really sold on these guys her, but thank god someone is doing something that's ambitious AND humorous.
Could just as easily have appeared in a Joanna Newsom thread.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
mgmt have never been funny -- they're cynical at best but aren't clever in expressing their cynicism at all
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but that's why they're funny. who are they supposed to be - warren zevon?
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think joanna newsom is doing anything humorous. pure pretention.
it's not bold to be a pop band that releases an album that has no singles but has a bunch of songs like "flash delirium" that flail around in the name of "unexpected stylistic curveballs" -- it's just self-defeating and self-hating
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, hold on -- mgmt aren't pretentious? aaalright
good fucking god i hate the 60s
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think it's self-defeating. obviously a lot of work went into these songs, they're pretty elaborate. it's self-defeating to just declare something a "fuck you" because you don't get it all right away. i'm not saying their geniuses, but this album is hardly intentional career suicide. just use your imagination or something.
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
thin-sounding, derivative, twee, joyless, sexless, rhythmless, hookless "retro pastiche" that really "highlights their influences"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
for fucks sake at least e6 bands were sincere when they played shit like this
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
this doesn't sound anything like elephant 6 bands. lazy comparison.this album sounds exactly like the last one minus the three electro-pop singles. hardly mind-blowingly different.
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's pretty hard to read it as them intentionally trying to pull back from the sort of fans that they've amassed -- they said that they don't want people to download their songs, they want people to download the album and listen to it in full, blah blah -- for people who only heard "kids" or "electric feel" and then here "flash delirium" or w/e, i'm not exactly sure that a lot of them are going to be enticed into hearing the whole album! that sounds as pretty close to "intentional career suicide" as a major label rock band can get
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty hard NOT to read it as them*
"this album sounds exactly the same as the last one minus the three good songs"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
actually it's been a long time since i tried to struggle through the first one but this sounds like way, way more affected
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ok maybe if Kings of Leon had followed up their huge piece of shit with this, you could say it was reaching and/or a fuck you album. but this sounds EXACTLY like MGMT. if you heard this and had to guess who's new album it was, would you really get it wrong?
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
But it doesn't sound EXACTLY like GOOD MGMT. The whole thing sounds like the laziest album tracks from the last go-round.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 March 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
commiseration to MGMT
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, i just think it's going to be annoying to read every review because they will all have the same meme, which is what you're saying now. An unexpected left-turn, intentionally difficult, in thrall to the sixties. anytime a band makes a record with harmonies and reverb, people start talking about the sixties. or elephant six. it's lazy.
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
anytime a band makes a record with harmonies and reverb, people start talking about the sixties. or elephant six. it's lazy.
― mizzell, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ha!
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for MGMT
― that new wave hippie disco shit (herb albert), Monday, 22 March 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm sure the jurnalistz have it harder.
― johnnyo, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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^OTM
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't help but imagine that all of this "we aren't writing poppy songs anymore" business is just to impress a handful of arty girls in Brooklyn.
― Back Like That (makeitpop), Monday, 22 March 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
hey looks like another thread where i'm going to have to suggest ban people who mention "brooklyn" "hipsters"!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
it's interesting to see how makeitpop trolls in threads that he didn't start for the express purpose of trolling
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 March 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't see how that's trolling. Is that opinion so outlandish that it seems like I'm baiting you? C'mon.
― Back Like That (makeitpop), Monday, 22 March 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
these dude were probably out for like a year smashing lapsed weezer fan poon by the truckload and you think they are making a whole album to impress five chicks in brooklyn?
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 22 March 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
smashing post
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
+2
― shite new answers (cutty), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, why else would a band decide to do something so retarded. I'm guessing arty chicks in BK because I think this band is way too calculated and self-conscious to make this album for purely artistic reasons.
― Back Like That (makeitpop), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
you are guessing arty chicks in BK because you have nothing meaningful to say
― shite new answers (cutty), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh if these guys actually have made an album that in any way ends up being commercial or critical self-sabotage, more power to them. it seems like every alt/indie band that gets to about their stature these days gets rubber stamped "they did it again! 7.9!" reviews all around, it'd be refreshing for someone to actually shit the bed and/or piss everyone off for once.
― iggy figgy pudding pop (some dude), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The song where you go on about how ace Dan Treacy is in the style of one of his recent appalling songs is surely post modernism reaching its lowest ebb.
^^^probably the most depressing three minutes of my life this year
― "Where's Momus? He could clear all of this up" (Tape Store), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"Someone's Missing" is easily my favorite song of the disc so far. It's over far too quickly, they should have just looped the whole thing once more. The rest is fun but less tuneful than the debut. I still don't understand how these guys got such tremendous hype power so fast.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
because "Time to Pretend" was a monster tune
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
so is what u all are saying is 'mgmt is over'? pheww was a crazy ride but im frankly kinda relieved
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
is it 'time to stop pretending'
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i think these dudes got tired of the ex-raver poon and are trying to get some of that 16-year old pittsburgh art school "i tried to get into sonic youth but i dunnnooo" action.
― johnnyo, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"Time to Pretend" was great, but I liked "Kids" far less. "Weekend Wars" and esp "The Youth" were my fave tracks on the debut. It's a good second album, if you listened to the whole first one and not just the singles, you'll probably like it. I think they have a really amazing colossal record in them and this is "Congratulation" is definitely not it.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah see i like this new album because it sounds like a more realized "weekend wars".
― johnnyo, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
btw seriously dudes don't waste your time handwringing about MGMT for fuck sakes. this is the only life you will ever have.
this band has only ever been good for clowning on.
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Joanna Newsom was in the "Kids" video, and the two singles I heard, including "Kids," were alright. that's about it.
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's like that song was cool...it's just some song that will make it on TV late night CD "best of the 00s" type shit...like "sex and candy" or "steal my sunshine" and shit...
just let it go, this band will never amount to shit, they had one good quasi hit
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah we should talk about good music. i'm sure that will make us feel better.
― johnnyo, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
xp except the 90s were flush with music like that ("rock" bands with an alternative or indie sensibility of some kind that could produce mainstream singles that lots of people enjoyed) and the 00s were....not. that to me is the frustrating thing about mgmt--they had three legitimately good singles and rather than pursuing that sound they're pretty much making bullshit afaict.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link