titus andronicus - the monitor

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

srs irishman there has a song that goes 'still drinkin' car bombs after all of these years'

titus andronicus - the hall monitor

file under "quotes that sum up why i can't listen to this band"

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

Patrick Stickles.

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

like honestly these dudes have been touring for fucking ever you think they really want to hang with you?

shockingly, it's not like playing some fucking basement in new jersey

i'm not real shocked by this

'young dude who believes in authenticity gets naive dreams shattered when he hangs out with his heroes'

like, that's actually kind of why i listen to this band

^^^ for the above plz read 'that was some stupid shit to say but i want to continue uncompromisingly liking this band so i'll pretend he didn't say it'

haha i was thinking "this is totes why a hoos feels this band" when i read that article

tbh it's only the bit about 'punk rock' and 'commerce' that actually slays me; I don't think it's unreasonable to expect some degree of courtesy given that I'm pretty sure lots of bands bigger or more establishment than the Pogues manage it

oh and "ancestral homeland of Ireland" o'course

true but i don't even listen to the pogues and it's totally evident that they'd be dicks!

So "punk".
It's exactly as Michael Azerrad recounts Ian MacKaye's fury and disappointment when Minor Threat supported PiL in DC, and Lydon turned up, did the show, and left. And didn't tell Minor Threat YOU GUYS ARE MY TRUE HEIRS!
fwiw The Monitor was my favourite album of last year, and Stickles' unembarrassed striving for ecstasy is what makes them great. He reminds me a lot of a young Jonathan Richman.

yeah i mean like part of what they do is rage out at the apparently inevitable shattering of their beliefs, like damn this whole adulthood gig is not what i thought it was at all, what the shit, that makes me mad and confused about what's supposed to happen now.

with a certain kind of cynicism their anger can seem to come out of naivete--"of course life isn't fair, you fucking baby"--but i think it comes out of an earnest place and is really exactly what they're about, throwing themselves on the gears of acceptable cynicism even if it kills them.