NO AGE

yeah. i'd respectfully disagree with that.
maybe superficially slightly diff at times (we used contact mics... not drums!), but very much cut from the same cloth.

the energy is gone, and i think that was at least half of what made them good.

I can see somebody finding that an issue, but they've been playing the fuzzy melancholy hand (via 80s indie heroes) pretty hard for awhile now.

yeah i know, their "quite" record were never my cup of tea..

Seems like people stopped talking about the new album the second it came out! Anyway, I wrote a bunch of words on it (and even more about the Urinals) here:

http://www.spin.com/articles/no-age-an-object-urinals-another-ep/

i love no age. the new album isn't as good as the others but i still like it

they haven't broken up, have they?

MY LIFE'S ALRIGHT WITHOUT YOU!

― I know, right?, Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:57 PM (7 years ago)

except you

not you guys

i forgot about no age! i probably need to give their most recent one more chances, but i really didn't like it compared to all of their other stuff for some reason

me too! i don't even remember listening to "an object" even though i probably did.

it kind of worked better live, but I haven't returned to it much at all.

i only listened to them from nouns and after, due to being moderately less cool than ppl who are way cool

weirdo rippers is nice to go back and get comfy with

ah, they played a secret show here last month or so, i guess they're still going. glad

everything in between is pretty good, even if nouns and weirdo rippers are better

I adore EiB, Nouns, and the Losing Feeling EP is amazing too if you haven't heard it.
Saw them play some great shows during that era with a third member in the band, but when I saw them for An Object it was just Dean and Randy.

i only listened to them from nouns and after, due to being moderately less cool than ppl who are way cool

weirdo rippers is nice to go back and get comfy with

― j., Thursday, August 20, 2015 5:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weirdo rippers precedes nouns though

right there was a narrative there, about what i only did, versus what i went on to do and in fact am doing right now

sorry man i aint proust

oh i guess read going back and getting comfy with as revisiting

weirdo rippers rules imo

it seems like turning down the riffiness worked a bit better for them

sorry man i aint proust

this is my new excuse for every one of my posts that are missing key things, like subjects or predicates or pronouns or reasons for existing

~~~~modernism~~~~~

into it!

I have never been cooler than when I knew about Weirdo Rippers when it came out.

how have you handled life since

Well I've listened to less indie

Which made me less cool? Never really thought about this one before

no, that doesn't sound right

Yeah good point. Cool album though

I didn't care for their last album that came out years ago, but this new song is excellent.

https://noage.bandcamp.com/album/snares-like-a-haircut

I loved that album, would rank it 2nd behind Nouns, super psyched they're back, was worried for a while they'd given up.

That 'Losing Feeling' EP and 'Everything In Between' still blow me away.
Maybe I should give 'An Object' another chance.

yeah I love it & don't know why the reception was so lukewarm at the time. I saw them play a month after it came out to a depressingly sparse crowd. they'd oversold the same venue 5 years earlier. Still super sweet guys.

Listening to the single now. I dig it, seems like an odd choice for a first single, & honestly not as good as anything on An Object. Looking forward to seeing them in November.

I wasn't blown away by the 'An Object' material live-it seemed tentative.
saw them play a Thurston Moore SXSW showcase that blew my mind.

'fever dreaming' at a deafening volume is maybe one of my fav songs ever

Yes, Fever Dreaming is my favorite too.

Maybe I need to listen to An Object more. I just remember when it came out, all the talk was about how they created all the artwork and hand-assembled the CDs themselves. When you're more excited about the packaging than the music, it's rarely a good sign.

yeah I remember that, it was bogus. though I imagine there is a pressure/expectation - when you're a plain old rock n roll band - to gussy up your press releases and promo sheets with something other than "Another collection of superb rock songs by No Age!" which is all An Object was- a really great collection of songs.

also the production was really great & kinda makes this new single sound weak in comparison. idk, maybe I need to listen more, but that shit sounds paper-thin. I mean I know they're Hüsker Dü superfans but

revisiting An Object today. as much as I love it I didn't listen to it after 2013. no fucking idea why, because now I'm convinced it's their best album by a long shot. heavy production, all killer no filler, that feedback loop refrain in "C'mon Stumming"? good god

possibly an unpopular opinion but if everything in between would have been released in 2003 and had more mainstream production values and dean and randy looked like strokes, they would have been bigger than the strokes

which is a really dumb way of saying that almost the entire album is catchy as hell, just full of earworms

no that's pretty much otm, & goes for all their other albums. like imagine if Weirdo Rippers came out in 1999

i like these points :)
really digged all their stuff other than 'an object', will give it a relisten or two in lieu of you guys' posts

don't know why the reception was so lukewarm at the time

some of the reviews were all 'why does NA not want to rock'

listening to it this morning it was very resonant, i wonder how much the lyrical/thematic content a la 'stimmung' was part of a design w/ the sound

I can't believe this band is ten years old now

"I Won't Be Your Generator" and "An Impression" are still stunning... I think they finally achieved the perfect synthesis of loud guitar rock & electronics on this record. if nothing else it's the best sounding of all their records - like I said upthread, Nouns is great but sounds too thin, very much like HD's Warehouse.

New album sounds great.

Very psyched to hear. Is it streaming anywhere?

oh whoa i forgot that it comes out today. i had a ticket to see them a couple months ago but didn't end up going, was kicking myself as i stayed at home and still am... so im a little sore

seriously though fuck this narrative of An Object being a 'failure' or a disappointment. I don't know why it got such tepid & negative reviews, that's their best record, if not a close second behind Nouns. I already talked about why upthread but goddamn, how many rock songs are as thrilling as "C'mon Stimmung"?

If you like An Object you will probably not like this as much, it's more direct.

"more direct" = stripped down/less melodic? because An Object sounds pretty direct to me, particularly the rock songs