titus andronicus - the monitor

rise against, fuck yeah

but then, i came to this record with absolutely no idea what it sounded like and literally nothing to go on but

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.

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

(so i think maybe you're not so otm about them not being great in a warped tour type venue. could be excellent)

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

like, getting hit with patrick stickles's beard sweat and then smoking cigarettes with him after intimate

stickles is a dope last name

united palace theater last jan

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

like its legit hard to play something so emtional str8 & i guess i can admire or ~get~ acknowledging it and trying anyway

like, getting hit with patrick stickles's beard sweat and then smoking cigarettes with him after intimate

sounds like torture, tbh

rong

stickles seems like one of the nicest dudes

this band is far too unattractive for me to ever listen to their stupid music

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

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.

well for starters they sound exactly the same

Um, no, they don't, at all.

gr8080 showing his hand a little by posting immediately after a slightly superior troll-job

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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grongyongdy

they both made an album about the suburbs

that's the main one

but the tone an voice of the albums are so, so different

have to admit LJ is OTM

for real though there is little difference

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

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

ftr: i like arcade fire ok and i like this album ok

could do without the fake old-timey spoken word recordings

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

8+ min*

2nd time through "the monitor" and all i can think about is Neon Bible

tbh, i think that says more about you than either of these bands

sure, blame the messenger

this band is prolly really popular w/ child molesters

oh you

at least Arcade Fire can manage to do a whole album of Springsteen inspired emo without actually name dropping him in the lyrics

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think moving to virginia suburbs/getting an awful office job really clicked something in me but i totally ~love~ this album now

time to relisten to that last the national album too

careful now!

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

"imagined concept" is a great way to describe this band

saw this come up in my bookmarks and was like I bet a hoos bumped this

hahaha

My roommates just got a gig opening for them this month? Ironically not at their Montreal show but tomorrow at Brandeis.

congrats to your roommates band imo

easily my most listened to album of the past 3 months. really perfect on headphones when i'm at work.

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/06/pogues-titus-andronicus

Ha ha every quote from this dork is a classic

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