the Cigarette Girl EP pointed toward a weird groove-based sound, but most of the music here is just listless midtempo rock. and the lyrics are all clever concepts and lazy cynicism with no payoff, Clark is still kind of on his game with the wordplay but it just doesn't engage me, except on "Terrible Things" and "Won't You Be Mine" when he sounds sincerely pissed off.
I'm gonna go see BP open for Q And Not U in a couple days, hopefully their live show will turn me around and keep me interested in them.
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― matt king, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
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― tony dennison, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I was turned onto this by a friend a few years back -- it's such a great record! Funny, sharp songwriting; terrific hooks; songs that tackle political & cultural topics without becoming didactic or overbearing. It hits an "arch indie-pop" sweet spot for me -- all I can really think to compare it to at the moment are a few fairly obscure bands from a decade earlier, like Chevy Heston and Sexy Death Soda; though I'm sure there are better points of reference (the general approach also hits a Red Krayola vein for me, though it doesn't sound anything like them).
It feels to me like a overlooked indie-rock classic... although judging from this somewhat bummer thread, maybe it wasn't overlooked, it just didn't hit most people the way it hits me!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
think I tried to listen to this but found their new album much more to my taste (and its thread has more posts than this)
― imago, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
I gave that one a few listens, but wasn’t feeling it so much. Maybe I’ll try again...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm really not hearing the "songs" on the recent (2015) one... that's cool, guess this band has something for everyone!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
(Postscript: I'm listening to some Red Crayola now; tracks like "An Old Man's Dream" actually aren't too bad a reference point for this album.)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link