The Shins - Chutes too Narrow

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well to me it's just a matter of being invested in the song rather than having it tossed at me, but like i said, that was just a first or second impression of a few of their songs

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Just picked this up on recommendation from a friend, and it's lovely. I've been pretty bored with indie, recently, so it's especially good to find a record so charming and so likely to make me dance in my seat and air-drum on the bus. And 'turn a square'! Just so perfect and bouncing, that jigsaw guitar, the way the drum drives the final coda forward, and the 'just a glimpse of an ankle and / react like it's 1805' line. Makes me almost remember why I love indiepop.

Is it true that they're Sub Pop's biggest current band at the moment?

(I didn't think much of the last new Pornographers record, bar 'the laws have changed', so it kind of kept me from looking further into them - from this thread, I'm guessing it would be worth it?)

― cis (cis), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

last year, i was so excited about the shins, and all of a sudden, for no reason whatsoever (even after seeing a really good show of theirs at CMJ), i just stopped caring. for whatever reason, my opinion of the new pornographers has stayed high and stable for much longer. i feel like theres more chemistry in the NP's sound than in the maybe slightly enervated pop of the shins. but yeah, electric version is great. the new ac newman record is good, too, but i think bejar and nekos voices are too essential to the NP's sound for me to like the ac newman as much as them... we'll see, though.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

is this about anal

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link

it's about the struggle with anal suppositories when you have a tight catholic arse

― calzino, Friday, 14 February 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link

Shit's too narrow

― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link

kissing the lipless, get it?

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 14 February 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link

the shits - shoots poo arrows

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 14 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link

The Shins will change your toilet habits

― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link

is this really what this place is becoming? not even a fan of this band but this is just so unnecessary.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link

where have you Bee n for the last 18 years?

― calzino, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link

on here, i have been on this board since 2005.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link

time served eh?

― calzino, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link

early footage of Bee from 2005

https://blog.sonos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Scene-02-Moview-Clip.gif

― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link

Make to run a series of polls about it

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 February 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link

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