Dear god this is so shit and there's 67 minutes left
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
it's a fantastic band name, but the guy is a nubbin and his music blows. this thing made me want to open my veins: http://pitchfork.com/news/70175-car-seat-headrest-reviews-kanyes-repulsive-beautiful-life-of-pablo/
It’s also one of the best albums I’ve heard in a long time — and one of the most beautiful. It’s very strange. My younger self would never have tolerated an album this reprehensible, this unrepentantly egotistical, yet I’ve probably listened to it more times this year than anything, aside from David Bowie’s Blackstar. Why? Well, it’s just good.
fuck off
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
just good music
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
he's like 19 years old, right?
― flopson, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
oh here's an eight minute song. we all needed this
age is just a number man
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
i just mean, i'm glad no one was putting 19 year old me's ilx posts on p4k
― flopson, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
oh totally. i posted the most colossal amount of shit when i was nineteen (and thereafter) as you're all aware, but the fittingly hardline response has meant that my idiot quotient is nowadays limited mostly to irascible liveblogs of indie rock. in a similar way i hope car seat headrest guy reads my posts and maybe changes how he makes music, or even gives up entirely
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
'destroyed by hippie powers' is ok though i guess
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
oh god
he's 24
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
i hate this record. once in a while it's pretty decent power pop but the songs are endless
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
I'm on the same boat... no sound dynamics at all... some good moments but no fun at all to be had.
― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
this............isn't bad
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
wtf
good band name, absolutely loathe what i've heard
― splendor in the ASS (rip van wanko), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
the opening track was trite and melodically non-existent, the second track almost got a good groove going but faltered and forgot to go anywhere. since then there has generally been decent quality music. definitely turned from a hate-listen into something else, not sure what though
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
feels like this year's The Monitor (right down to an epic track equating emotional upheaval to a famous nautical event), and of comparable quality too
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Cmon now this is not anywhere near the quality of The Monitor... but yeah I liked this well enough when I came across it earlier this year. Knocking round with 20-something North American blink-182 survivors recently sent me scrabbling around for potential common ground and this was pretty much the best we came up with. I liked the lyric about there being a Van Gogh picture on the wikipedia page for clinical depression because I checked it out and right enough, there is. Could do to be ruthlessly trimmed down though. I like these sorts of albums 12 songs long (tick) but leave your cup in the sink and be out the back door within 32 minutes or so, this one still has it's feet up on my coffee table smoking all my cigarettes and ignoring my subtle hints to leave. 70mins... oh you had a shit time at college? Get tae fuck, I got grownup matters to attend to... like factchecking your shitty lyrics, yeah I know, I'm pathetic.tbf The Monitor also suffered from this, yeah I don't think your breakup was QUITE on the scale of the American civil war OH IS THAT THE TIME? but I preferred their brand of overemoting for some reason. Maybe beard- and Springsteen- and alcohol-related reasons. Prolly just alcohol-related actually.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
iirc he was a /mu/ poster so his early championing came from there and i imagine some of his popularity comes from the ONE OF US mentality
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
i should like this stuff in theory but i just never really understood what he was trying to accomplish. it's like an indie rock equivalent of someone translating a book from english to french and then 100 years later someone else translating it back into english.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 3 December 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
.....oh
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah that explains things way better than the cult backstory
I do like a couple songs on this tbh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:22 (seven years ago) link
the single version of "drunk drivers" released today is terrible. it loses all the charm and power of the album version.
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
i agree with flopson, basically, about how this band is interesting mostly because they show a lot of potential.
i also get call all destroyer's complaint that these songs do seem like weird re-imaginings of not so long dead indie tropes that no one asked for and that feel much less natural than their source material. i kind of like this friction though. the album feels sealed off from the rest of 2016, like it's some album from 2004 that i missed somehow.
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
it's like an indie rock equivalent of someone translating a book from english to french and then 100 years later someone else translating it back into English-speaking.
Actually if there was an actual indie rock album of this I would be well into it, that sounds awesome.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
that was Blueberry Boat iirc
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:11 (seven years ago) link
i like the part where he takes acid and jesus shows up and calls him the "scum of the earth" after singing "ooooooooooooooooooooh"
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
the songs are endless
True. And also why I disliked the War on Drugs album everyone shat themselves over.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
that one i at least get that "red eyes" song or whatever, that's a jam
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:53 (seven years ago) link
It's not that they're endless, it's the dynamics, there's no tension and no 'groove'. The war on drugs comparison is otm but I found their songs more 'catchy' and at least there was a 'groove' to sone of their songs. I'm not sayig this record is awful but it's very unremarkable, certainly not worth the top album of the year hype it's getting amongst some critics. Meanwhile the Thee Oh Sees record which is actually good and sort of fit the same taste is getting better ignored.
I've no idea what the backstory for the band is but backstories are bullshit that make for cool trivia not cool music.
― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 08:23 (seven years ago) link
Autocorrect fucked pieces of my comment but I hope it makes sense.
― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 08:24 (seven years ago) link
Going off topic but I was just talking to a friend earlier about the influence of Spotify. We've noticed - and it might be a coincidence - that when a new album is not on Spotify it tampers its "influence". Thee Oh Sees album is not on spotify, per example, and almost noone is talking about it but those that have heard it (and are into that sort of music, obviously) love it. In previous years I noticed it happened with Courtney Barnett, there were some critics enthusiastic about her album, great scores overall but it sort of faded out. Another example is Kanye West this year... it seemed like a 'huge' event album, then there was the Tidal fiasco and people's interest in it sort of waned. Rihanna almost suffered the same fate but at least she had a memorable single to keep the album afloat.
― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 08:47 (seven years ago) link
"Buffer nabber binkity boo" isn't english no matter how many passes through babelfish it's had
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 3 December 2016 11:46 (seven years ago) link
Meanwhile the Thee Oh Sees record which is actually good and sort of fit the same taste is getting better ignored.
― Moka, Saturday, December 3, 2016 3:23 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Oh Sees also have the unfortunate luck of having been around a long time, and indie rock is increasingly fickle and obsessed with novelty. It's like seniority in reverse or something. Barring some cosmic coincidence (like a high profile collaboration and / or a scandal) I can almost guarantee this thread won't be revived when this dude releases an album in 2019.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
I love that Oh Sees album and even I almost forgot to list it cause I was scanning my master 2016 Spotify playlist when I was making a list on another board
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
I guess that sorta proves Moka's point about Spotify
― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
I'm running a poll with some friends and I'm p sure tracks off Spotify will do worse than those on
the game is rigged
― niels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
That's a shame. I realize I'm a relic but I'm still surprised by the amount of people who use Spotify that I would never expect to use Spotify. Last week I was at a record store and I asked what was playing and the dude actually said "You know, I don't know - it's Spotify." Sigh
― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
oh it's totally a shame - but it is also a pretty handy tool
I'm still buying cds and lps, but Spotify lets me do some cool explorative listening
anyway, I'm voting for Burial's new ep in this poll I'm running, but since it's "only" on Bandcamp (can't even put it on a Youtube playlist) I'm not sure many of the other voters will give it a listen
― niels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
same
it would be cool if bandcamp let you make playlists
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
listening to it again today i've gone off it again somewhat
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
this is the musical equivalent of alt-lit
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
courtney barnett is on spotify though??? and she def 'broke through' this last year or so
are you guys talking about the new thee oh sees or the newer thee oh sees? they are both great
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
this thread is making me want to give this another try now
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
Xpost: Courtney is now in there but same as kanye, took like 9 months to get her album there.
― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Also her song "Avant Gardener" which was sort of her breakthrough song (best new song in p4k if that means anything) was released in mid 2013 and it most definitely wasn't in Spotify until late 2015. Is there a way to check when Spotify added each album?
― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
listening to this now and really into it. the end of "not what i needed" is kind of a blatant rip-off of their own "something soon" -- but it works, so i'm fine with it
― k3vin k., Saturday, 3 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
whoa "drunk driver/killer whales" is good shit
― k3vin k., Saturday, 3 December 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah, it really is. "joe gets kicked out of school for doing drugs" is the other highlight for me.
― Treeship, Saturday, 3 December 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
Also, the new Arctic Monkeys album is one of their finest yet - it's been a decent year for this kind of stuff.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
'this kind of stuff' - would you seriously call the CSH album the same 'kind of stuff' as the AM album ffs
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
No, but I'd call you a dull cunt.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
GOAL TURRICAN (Turrican)
Turrican 1 - 1 imago
The Northerner responds just a minute later, in identical fashion - a scrappy equaliser, but they all c(o)unt!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
Like, keep hinging your entire existence in presenting to the internet how esoteric you think your tastes are in order to draw attention to yourself in some sort of "please love and respect me" exercise and perhaps one day - you can only hope - some poor deluded fucker will ram their tongue straight up your shitpipe.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
Buoyed by the goal, Turrican knocks it around confidently in midfield. The crowd have started to find their voice!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
^ Imagospeak for "Look at me, internet people! Please tongue my shitpipe. Anybody!"
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
It's starting to get a bit repetitive and momentum has been lost. The crowd starts to drift out, unsatisfied
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
^ Your lasses glittering review of your bedroom technique.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
omg just make out already
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
Those Boys
― imago, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
Anyway, while I can't help but wonder what happened in his life that he ended up like this in the first place, I wish LJ well in his quest to convince the entire internet to kiss his arse, I really do.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
(Not holding my breath, though.)
I <3 a good Britfight
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link