what is dance bobbins?
― johnnyo, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mybooks4charity.com/images/indie-kidd.jpg
― Moka, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i think everyone who wants to like this album more than they actually do and especially everyone who wants to hear some sonic boom influence should check out DELOREAN
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys I am listening to this album on whoismgmt.com and it is *really* bad.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yup
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems kind of amazing that these guys are *headlining* Red Rocks outside of Denver this summer. Are they really that popular?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm is this a recorder solo I hear
― armando white (dyao), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Congratulation on the 6.8 in Pitchfork, MGMT
― Brooker T Buckingham, Monday, 12 April 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
So weird that nobody is saying "Congratulations" the track could be a single. It's pretty badass, if a slow jam...
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 12 April 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
This time out, MGMT aren't crafting pop; they're Creating fArt.
― dazzle shjips (Future_Perfect), Monday, 12 April 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Missed opportunity for poop/fart 2x joke.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
congratulation to mgmt and columbia for needlessly pressing a 43 minute album on 2 lps and charging $30 for it.
― mizzell, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
If I wrote for some online music mag I'd be tempted to refer to MGMT, in my review of this new album (to which I've listened exactly once), as "Spacemen Twee" -- tell me that's not an apt description!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
SPACEMEN TWEE!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 16 April 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Oracular Spectacular is still such a great album. It's a really warm summer'y day over here and I've been blasting it all day and it's been perfect.
― Mordy, Friday, 30 April 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Congratulation MGMT on booking three nights at brixton academy (that's 15,000 people) before people realise it's time for you to disappear.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 30 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
You mean, ATP is hosting MGMT for three nights at Brixton?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 30 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
We're not that cool unfortunately
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 30 April 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Congratulation to MGMT on being too cool for ATP.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 30 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
So while I still think the album mostly sucked, being exposed to it again made me realize there are some cool "moments" sprinkled throughout... but none that add up to a cool song.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Been listening to "Congratulations" a bit more. I think I like it even more than the first album. It's really grown on me. The title track is still my favorite but "I Found a Whistle" and "Lady Dada's Nightmare" are my current fave jamz. This record is far better than it gets credit for.
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 June 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Also about 70% of "Siberian Breaks" is top notch!
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 June 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWawd9Vvpb8&feature=player_embedded
― Cunga, Monday, 21 June 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, Virginia, they are covering the Clean.
covering the Clean's not making them any more credible
― tres vorbei Bestie (micarl), Monday, 21 June 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
As predicted, MGMT's oddball album isn't exactly tearing up the charts-- it currently sits at number 166 on Billboard's Top 200, three spots behind Ariel Pink's Before Today. Weird times.
― mizzell, Monday, 21 June 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Not making whom any more credible: the Clean or MGMT?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
congratulation to mgmt for covering the clean
― kaká flocká flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
well, considering The Clean have about 30 great songs as appose to 1 ok one, who do you think?
― tres vorbei Bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
mgmt late night tales has an excellent track list... v impressed for them including the bix
― the men who stare at gotye (electricsound), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
wow yeah Laughing Boy by Copey! love that one.
― piscesx, Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
New album coming out. I re-listened to "Congratulations" recently and while it didn't wow me as much as when it came out I still really really like it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Congratulation" in this thread title always made me lol
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Aw hell, "Someone's Missing" is probably my fave track of theirs. But mostly just for the Jackson 5-style ending.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15334-alien-days/
Hard to tell if this is a proper indicator of what the next LP will sound like since it was a Record Store Day release, but it's, uhh...pretty lame.
Whatever, though. Not going to begrudge these guys for going down the road of their choice, but I have better things to do.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:59 (eleven years ago) link
I like it it's good
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
i like it too. i'm glad they are building on their last album instead of retreating back to a more accessible sound. tbh, i loved congratulations from the start and i didn't understand what people were talking about when they said it was "weird" or "challenging." to me it seemed like a really great psych pop album. i listened to it a zillion times.
― Pat Finn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
i mean "plants...as far as i know/ are still bending...towards the light!" is a classic lyric.
― Pat Finn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
This sounds alright. Could do without the Fridmann/Lips drum sound, but it's nice that it isn't a double back to what made them cake early on.
Liked the last album quite a bit... never really enjoyed the first album.
'Congratulations' is the 'Neither Fish Nor Flesh'/'Beauty Stab' of the p4k era, right?
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
more like the Don't Stand Me Down
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
The last album was really great. Hoping they come up w more good melodies/psych-outs.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
yea congratulations is a sick record, hope it gets another chance as time goes on
― yellow jacket (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
not optimistic about new record though, getting slammed/poo-pooed/ignored for going out on a limb and making a weird(er) album after a pop smash seems to do a number on a band's head... (blue album to pinkerton to green album, mellon collie to adore to machina). they'll either over or under compensate
― yellow jacket (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
it sounds like these guys are desperate to be weird. which sucks because they can actually write some great pop songs but they don't do the weird thing very well imo.
― wk, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
^ this
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm fine with weird/outsider stuff when it doesn't sound labored.
i love congratulations, but this song sounds very dull
― mizzell, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
it's like they want to be ariel pink but are going about it backwards. they should write a whole bunch of great catchy songs but perform and record them in a weird amateur bedroom kind of way instead of writing weak meandering songs and then doing these big slick productions around them.
― wk, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
bleah, this song is horrid. did the last album sound like this, like doilied-up indie psych?
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
wk otm
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link