Goddamn this album is incredible
Also, Pull Up The Roots
― Davey D, Friday, 13 April 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
"I Get Wild" needs more luv
It's amazing
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:18 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^this
― that's not my post, Friday, 13 April 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
pull up the roots deserved more love in this poll, and moon rocks especially. moon rocks fukken rules. the three song end of album sequence it kicks off is among my favorites in music
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Thursday, 24 August 2023 23:36 (seven months ago) link
I agree. Pull Up The Roots is very high up in my favourite TH songs
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:00 (seven months ago) link
If we're just going off a song-for-song basis, this is clearly the best TH album too. RIL might be a bit more daring but it has fillery moments whereas Tongues is just bangers beginning to end
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:03 (seven months ago) link
This album is the soundtrack to the summer I graduated from high school. It didn't grab me immediately like the others did, but it's a grower.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:05 (seven months ago) link
Y'all are mad.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:06 (seven months ago) link
"Pull Up the Roots," "Moon Rocks," "I Get Wild" -- instant skippable.
Will still rep for I Get Wild like 5 years again during the last thread revive. Great album.
― that's not my post, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:08 (seven months ago) link
^ago
xxp Hard disagree, Alfred. Those are all solid tracks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:08 (seven months ago) link
TMBTP the clear and deserving winner. The Stop Making Sense version is even better.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:09 (seven months ago) link
Pull Up The Roots SLAYS
― Davey D, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:10 (seven months ago) link
controp: I've never found TMBTP very exciting.
― peace, man, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:11 (seven months ago) link
I asked my guitar teacher, who has a really good grasp of music theory and whatnot, why This Must Be the Place pops out for everyone as the sentimental favorite, and he observed it's the only track on the album that isn't more or less blues-based.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:12 (seven months ago) link
Well, and it's Weymouth on guitar strumming the same couple notes for five minutes
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:13 (seven months ago) link
― that's not my post,
Cool bass line.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:14 (seven months ago) link
It's Byrne's vocals on that song that do it for me. "When you're standing here beside me/I love the passing of time/Never for money, always for love/Cover up and say goodnight, say goodnight" is pure magic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:17 (seven months ago) link
Also "And you love me till my heart stops/Love me till I'm dead" is such a surprising couplet from David Byrne.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:20 (seven months ago) link
Pull Up The Roots is fantastic. Not sure if it’s a remix I like best or the original but what a song.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:21 (seven months ago) link
Listening to this album rn. I keep expecting the "Whoaaa!" In "Swamp."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 03:34 (seven months ago) link