The Liars - Drum's Not Dead (2006)

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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

aw no willem, it's not empty. it's just floaty

― rizzx, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link

that's what i thought at first, joris. but now if feel it's not really floaty at all, it's as though they forgot to raise the anker. it's too self-aware to float, imo.

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i know what you mean about the self aware thing, they are indeed very self aware but it doesn't bother me at all. they're just trying to push their limits. i think they're able to craft a masterpiece but they aren't there just yet

― rizzx (rizzx), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this album is beautiful.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

this album is awesome

― prince rupert, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i like this album at least as much as anything i heard last year.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf does that mean?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

'be quiet mt. heart attack' reminds me a LOT of my bloody valentine, circa 'isn't anything' era. specifically -- 'no more sorry'. both songs also have vocals that could almost be considered pretty if they weren't so creepy.

― 6335, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i know it was said upthread, but this album is Flowers of Romance pt II

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Man, this is one of those promos that I wish we'd gotten at the mag. It's one of the few new albums I'm excited about, though I'm at least a bit wary. The Drum and Can song didn't excite me all that much, but I really liked their last album a lot (especially after I felt pretty damn burned by buying their first album, which I thought was really boring).

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i like this album at least as much as anything i heard last year.

-- Matt McEver (mattmc38...), February 8th, 2006.

wtf does that mean?

-- cutty (holle...), February 8th, 2006.

of that albums that were released last year, that is.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

still doesn't make a bit of sense

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

no, i'm afraid you're wrong. it means, in other words, this album ranks with what are in my opinion the best albums of last year. except i didn't want to say it that way because i think that sounds too confident/permanent. i wanted to leave room for albums i hadn't heard, as well as for my changing opinions, etc.

i'm not sure why that had to be spelled out.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

you said anything you "heard last year," not anything you heard last year that you considered to be one of the best albums of last year.

i heard tons of shit music last year and for me to say that i like the new liars at least as much as anything i "heard last year" doesn't mean a fucking thing to anybody.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

only a moron wouldn't assume i am referring to the best of what i heard last year. or a prick who wants to nag people posting on a music message board for being slightly vague.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"slightly" vague. slightly fucking retarded.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Jesus, Cutty, take it easy.

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

does anyone want to save this thread?

i feel bad for helping this guy ruin it.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link

"at least" and "as much as anything I heard" makes some sense.
i.e. this album >= the sum of "anything I heard"

you're both morans though

Seriously, what's with Liars moving out of the country and doing weirdo festivals and shit? I'm never going to see these fuckers in the midwest, am I?

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i just wanted some clarification and "this guy" calls me a moron.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, and a prick.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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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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