no wait I take it back, brief reopening for final point on list5. emerson, lake & palmer
― censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
i see you've come around somewhat to the "i miss you" video
― jag goo (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
5. emerson, lake & palmer
now THAT was a strictly formal A+
― da croupier, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
what did everyone think of his bonnie raitt cover/rework? shit was pretty moving imo
― goole, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
gotta admit i'm curious to hear this thing
I thought it was truly great - I mean, that song is a monument, start with that you'll have to work to go wrong, but he killed i
― censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
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i must admit i hadn't heard the orig in so long, i couldn't work out how he had changed it!
i need to a/b them a little more, there's some shit that's not even in the raitt version? like i don't know what he's pulling from at all
― goole, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda cringed when i heard he covered it but damn i thought he knocked it out of the park
― ☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
The Bonnie Raitt (almost typed prince billy) cover was giving me an "old man hat" vibe for some reason.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
RIP steven tyler -- first ryan dunn & now this
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
To me the 9.5 translated to "Well, that Radiohead album was a bit disapointing and we need to give a relatively high score to something at this point in the year..."
― MarkoP, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh for fuck's sake
― goole, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, i read some of the lyrics & yeah they were pretty dumb in places, but it def seems like an album that
a. is rich enough in texture/arrangement/vocals etc that the lyrics don't HAVE to matterb. works from a lyrical standpoint if you stick to the phrases that make sense out of context & sorta let the other ones go in one ear & out the other
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
nb i listened to half of the album once, but that was my impression
I tend to look at the number rating as an enthusiasm meter, which works perfectly fine for me.
It's like, Pitchfork has a ton of different ways to use itself as a resource, and the number system is just one method of entry, along with Best New Music, The Playlists, the news stuff, and the reviews themselves-- which I feel like mostly serve to put music (even throwaway bullshit albums) into a musical/cultural context that they've created. So for me, it works incredibly as a resource for finding new music, which is I think what it's intended for, right? They have a lot of access points that they're really great about cultivating, developing and maintaining. I think it's a great site that I frequently disagree with, and some bullshit sneaks in through various individual personalities.
But if you can't figure out how to use it, I don't know what to tell you. Cuz that ain't them, that's you.
― Parenthetical Grillz, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
goole: Last night, Justin Vernon brought an iteration of Bon Iver to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that sounded neither like the muted folk of his 2007 breakthrough or the layered majesty of his forthcoming follow-up. Instead, he sang beside pianist Phil Cook--his best friend and former bandmate in DeYarmond Edison, and now a multi-instrumentalist in Megafaun--to play a beautiful and simple medley of hits by other people: "A Song for You," by Leon Russell via Donny Hathaway, and Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me." It was one of the smartest television appearances by a band I've seen in a bit.
― all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Monday, 20 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I saw him perform the Raitt cover on ... Fallon, probably? ... and was bothered that he seemed to be deliberately avoiding the melodic line. But I really love the original song, so.
― Don Rickles on the Dime (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, that was actually an xpost.
It also seemed so left-field to me, because all I really knew about this dude before this album was "Skinny Love," but it makes way more sense in the context of "Beth/Rest."
― Don Rickles on the Dime (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I can't get past his voice, and I'm not that fond of Asia.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 June 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
cool geebs thx
― goole, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
the vocals remind me of tvotr, theyre a bit more annoying in this context of less cool sounds but not the worst
― flopson, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
In reply to sickmouthy:
I thought long and hard about this and came to the conclusion that the album was more like a 9.6 than 9.5. These Pitchfork dudes know nothing.
― yugi ex, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
i was kinda disappointed that the new tvotr was missing the p gabriel 80s synth-rock vibe but this gets pretty close to hitting that spot
― ☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
why don't you just marry peter gabriel already
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
you should stand outside his house with a boombox
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 20 June 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
and play a toto song.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 20 June 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
or just beth/rest
― ☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
bon iver's cover of "come talk to me" is kind of sweet, not nearly as good as the raitt cover tho
― ☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
Prefer his cover of "Big Time" with Four Tet and Grizzly Bear tbh
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me of the South Park episode where someone told Stan was told to win Wendy back he'd have to stand outside her house playing a Peter Gabriel song on a boombox. Cut to him standing there with "Shock the Monkey" playing.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
^ poor structure, but you get it.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
after making an "experimental" and at least half successful attempt to get into this record a month ago, i haven't once been tempted to return to it.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
you made an experimental attempt to get into the album? did you listen to it while hanging upside down or what
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
fuck, this is def filling the TVOTR void -- i didn't pick up on it until i put it on headphones
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
the way he sings that bonnie rait song should be a dealbreaker but then it is somehow the complete opposite of a dealbreaker and the song breaks through and i'm crying either way so.
never listed to for emma, from the forest but i will check this guy out on the strength of the cover.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
yes
xx
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, June 20, 2011 7:09 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is encouraging cause new tvotr is a snooze
― call all destroyer, Monday, 20 June 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
yes it is
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
His phrasing is exquisite, but, wow, that Raitt cover (which I just heard) left me cold. Rather appropriate that he stretched out the "Don't patronize me" line.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
i've never liked tvotr like at all.
― goole, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
youre just not trying hard enough, probably
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
to me his only serious misstep there - Raitt's delivery of that line sets a ridiculously high bar though
― frog in a bs place (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
I can't get past his voice, and I'm not that fond of Asia.― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 20, 2011 5:47 PM (Yesterday)
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 20, 2011 5:47 PM (Yesterday)
^I have no idea how I feel about this album yet, but this is an excellent sentence.
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
Colbert interview right now is lolz. Gonna do "Calgary" after the commercial break.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
a second opinion
― Davey D, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
Hrm. Can see that getting replaced down the road.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
do we still use enya as a generic stand-in for "shlocky aural wallpaper"?
and geez, two-and-a-half? that's a one-star review if i've ever read one. "overblown debacle," ouch. sounds like someone didn't get what they wanted for christmas.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah overblown is pretty lol considering one of the first things that jumps out is the careful arrangements
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:34 (twelve years ago) link