The Liars - Drum's Not Dead (2006)

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There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think there are two kinds of people and everyone else.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Sunday, 18 December 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Ouch, I think Liars are great. But for some time I've been ranting that the Beach Boys and Radiohead are among the most overrated bands ever.

Hope there aren't any harmonies

― bendy (bendy), Sunday, 18 December 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Stupid person in "saying stupid things about the Beach Boys and Radiohead" shockah.

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 December 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Stupid people, sorry.

Anyway, Liars seem to have been saddled with a press office that keeps banging on about how they're not part of a scene ever since they started. It doesn't stop their music being consistently wonderful. I'm hyped for this one.

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 December 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

this is very Animal Collectivy

― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 18 December 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

really, it's not

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 18 December 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

oh it is

― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 18 December 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i hear it a little more after your comment. but there isn't hardly any guitar on this album, and so much of animal collective's sound is that heavily effects laden guitar shit.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 18 December 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah that's true but its more the tribal percussion vibe that reminds me of them

― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

implying your previous work was "cliched" doesn't do a lot for your credibility, really.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

well, when you "shred" all past "reference points" nothing else matters, really.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm so sick of animal collective and i haven't even listened to them that extensively.

― the people are such untight s wads (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Does that mean you also don't believe in Peter Pan?!?! Merry Holidays indeed!

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link

inspired by the band's relocation from NYC to Berlin.

maybe this is the first installment in a TRILOGY OF CLASSIC COCAINE PARANOIA ALBUMS!!

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter Pan loves The Coke--Fairy Dust?!?!

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~csakuda/tinkerbell.jpg

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish that was the cover.

― bob abernethy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

http://prodtn.cafepress.com/nocache/2/20260022_F_tn.jpg

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

on first listen, this is pretty cool. it strikes me as being a little like the raincoats' odyshape, if the last record was like a slates/flowers of romance combo. i mean, whatever. i guess i dont NEED to find it an antecedent. i sort of wish it were a little more *bracing*, like the last one. but im totally into mumbly.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm so excited for this! i dearly hope it's good. they were wrong...is one of my favs of recent years.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"perversely conventional"!

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

If you did not like No Flashlight, it might sound better after you listen to this.
worst 2006 leak so far.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

though No Flashlight sounds bad no matter what.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Other Side of Mt.Heart Attack" really does sound like Radiohead.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

no, spacemen 3

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

If spacemen 3 are supposed to sound like radiohead + coldplay

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

supposedly a split with oneida coming in 2k6, too. itll be weird to hear how different they both sound than they did on atheists, reconsider, which by the way TOTALLY RULES and is one of the best releases by either band (though probably not the absolute best release by either band).

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i gave in a downloaded this.

i must say that it's really, really, really fucking awesome.

that is all.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm hugely impressed by this on first play. It's what I've spent about three years wanting Animal Collective to sound like

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I like it. A very interesting band.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 December 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link

please, animal collecitve. keep doing what your're doing. this new liars albums is shit.

― juno crunch, Thursday, 22 December 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah leave animal collective out of this.

multiple bands already own what concept the Liars attempt with this flippant "effort."
i.e., this shit has been done before, only, shit was done well.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Band names better than "the Liars": "Art Brut," "Arctic Monkeys," "Ice Testicles," etc.

Album names better than 'Drum's Not Dead': 'Bang Bang Rock and Roll', 'For Screening Purposes Only', etc.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

what are band names better than "Liars" then

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

The three I mentioned above.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"ice testicles"....

that just makes me feel a little icky.

― wolves (wolves), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It's actually "Test Icicles," which, I think you'd agree, is actually much better. My bad.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

tim, wtf are you talking about

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

he's obviously on dmt

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000CNFB0O.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

i guess that's the cover?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

so are Liars becoming The Cripples then?

― Dom iNut (donut), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, this reminds me of feels, but more interesting on the surface. Also, vocals remind me of arab strap and a little bill ding

― Barbara Capsloch, Monday, 23 January 2006 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i gotta ge tto the postoffice and see if i have the album..but the single is pretty damned alright.

quitit with the animal collective...

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

beautiful record.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Seconded.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 23 January 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Other Side of Mt. Heartattack" is beautiful, and "It Fit When I Was a Kid" is great too - that's all I've heard, but I am loving them.

The "It Fit/Kid" melody in the verse is totally similar to some 1980s R&B/pop song, and it's killing me - anyone? The real sing-songy up-and-down verse?

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i think it's the turtles song "you showed me," later covered by the lightning seeds

― marc h. (marc h.), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep. Bet these guys have some advice for the Liars about that.

http://muzyka.onet.pl/_i/info/duze/d/de_la_soul2.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

'let's not wrestle mt. heart attack' opens with some shit (falling multi-vocals) bitten straight from boredoms' super ae album. or they arrived at the same point unconsciously.

― palpttean mists, Monday, 23 January 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i find it hard to really get into this one. it feels so empty.

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

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Of all the comments on this thread, Dog Latins original take is spot on.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link

swinging through australia this week. they're playing new stuff in their set which is of a more sraightahead rock direction, according to street press interview I read.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I would just like to say that I still don't think this album can compete with Tago Mago or Can in general, and for that reason I appreciated Melissa's post above (along with an awful lot of February posts above - I really missed out!). But it's still pretty damn cool. Whoever first said it was related to Flowers of Romance, I can see that too, without Lydon's stamp of individuality, that is.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

from radiohead's blog thingy...

happy easter

liars >drums not dead
berlin must be a good place to work

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 1 May 2006 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Are we really through with this album already?

not at all. my album of the year by some way, so far. mind, i don't feel i'm doing a good job keeping up with new stuff at all right now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

parts of this album seem to have a coil-scatology influence.

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Thom often has suspect taste in music. Kinda want to shake him for seeing anything in this album. But ah well.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

why? this album's great!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

One of my favorites this year. Still listening to it almost weekly. That Thom's got a good ear, Mel! Even the EPs are decent. (Great artwork, too:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000E5L8BQ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V57053822_.jpg

RAHHHHH!!!)

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's a really great album, with Booka shade it's one of only two new albums I've listened to extensively this year.

That EP cover seriously rocks.

― jimnaseum wastes the taxpayer's money, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link

yes awesome cover

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

it seems someone has been listenig to Byzantum per mayhaps?

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I had this playing quietly while driving at about one in the morning and the others in the car thought it sounded like music to sleep to. It's kind of true, though.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

still love this album.
i found a pretty sweet video of them doing a nirvana cover, but can't seem to find it now.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

argh, thanks for reminding me that I still haven't gotten my copy back from the friend I lent it to

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i still can't get into this album but they were absolutely great live a month or so ago

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I like this a lot, and hated all their previous stuff.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Still really glad I heard this but that whole weak concept-instead-of-songs thing got underwhelming real fast. Pretty easy to delete.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"It Fit When I Was A Kid" excepted...

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I really did not enjoy their live show at all. it was basically identical to the record, except with a really smelly dude somewhere in close proximity to me

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

live show I saw was just so-so until the encore, then "Broken Witch" blew my head open ... made the whole thing worth it

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

def. one of the best records of the year. all NY hipster post-punk bands need to move to Berlin and record in old communist radio studios and become infatuated w/ the idea of "the drum".

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

The DVD with it, which I initially assumed to contain videos for three different songs, actually contains three different videos for the entire album!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:26 PM

i thought the same and had totally forgotten that disc was there until the other day when i skimmed through it. very ambitious, so used to getting lame bonus shit with cds (lol interactive cd-roms?) and this really pisses on all that

― am0n, Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

(face with heart-eyes emoji)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAz_9GX-hsI

― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link

think emojis work here, don't they? let's give it a go.

😍

― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link

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