Can we talk about how awesome Parquet Courts are?

To me, it feels like the wit & poetry have largely been stripped from his lyrix, and replaced with awkwardly expressed rage (with, yes, some good lines here & there), and oblique sloganeering that doesn’t even have the directness & appeal of good hardcore (although I guess “Fuck Tom Brady!” qualifies).

Of course, if I liked the song themselves more (music, melodies), I could probably overlook this...

confession... i thought he was saying Fuck Tom Petty

lyrics on the new album are so great

yeah lyrics are the best they have been, for both guys really.

total football makes some (mostly superficial) allusions to soccer and the line "swapping parts and roles..." is a specific reference to the title concept in soccer. i'm pretty sure the fuck tom brady line is about football (soccer) vs football (nfl), underscoring which the song is referring to, and probably revealing a personal preference too.

you know, there's a US band from the 90s who also had a thing for soccer...

I don’t think the song’s about soccer at all, it’s about the NFL protests (and related issues, I guess)

the line "swapping parts and roles..." is a specific reference to the title concept in soccer.

Ok, I see

So it’s using this soccer technique as a metaphor for political action?

Collectivism and autonomy / Are not mutually exclusive

yeah it is. the song is about collective action in general, and the nfl protests as part of that. i didn't mean to suggest the nfl wasn't also being referenced.

What U.S. band from the ‘90s are you referring to, Polvo?

the other P band, who we're discouraged from mentioning on this thread

Pavement?

those would be they

I think you can talk about pavement. They’re not a NSBM band last I checked

just having some fun "treeship"

When did Pavement mention soccer? (I know they had football lyrics...)

https://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+malkmus+hull+city&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS801US801&oq=ste&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i61l2j69i65l2.2011j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Feel like stephen makmus would be down for a kick around, maybe if he happens to be in a park on a crisp autumn day and others are playing

I thought Pavement was all about betting at the horse track

Weezer are more closely identified w/soccer... maybe Parquet Courts are the new Weezer!

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/29/popandrock

https://consequenceofsound.net/2010/06/weezer-releases-unofficial-u-s-soccer-song-represent/amp/

It was those lyrics about "Using" in Freebird 2

malkmus is def a jock but he’s way more into basketball as I understand

still like the new one a lot, but if the ones i’ve heard, “light up gold” is still their best to my ears

new interview with a. savage: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-interview-with-parquet-courts-a-savage

Hahahahahaha

10 minutes in. they are talking about The Strokes

had no idea he was in Wiccans, that band ruled

Of course lel

the chapo interviewers are talking at them a bit too much. i like his talking voice + he seems very nice and chill, a bit ilxian in his opinions if i dare

brutal hearing chapo rap opinions for like 15 mins

AS has a great vocabulary, just said “tantamount”

painful discussion founded on a misunderstanding of poptimism

That was among the worst Chapo episodes ever imo.

I liked how he immediately threw them off with We kinda thought the Strokes were poseurs, and they had to recalibrate

painful discussion founded on a misunderstanding of poptimism

― flopson, Monday, August 20, 2018 7:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the least surprising thing ever

I liked how he immediately threw them off with We kinda thought the Strokes were poseurs, and they had to recalibrate

― President Keyes, Monday, August 20, 2018 9:28 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of many volleys in a rousing match of boring opinions pong.

Chapo sucks; podcasts are terrible & i wish it was the 90s; I don’t want to be put off this band by a lame interview; this band is great

yeah I got a few minutes into that podcast but it was unlistenable

the band before us just covered Parquet Courts and a dude started skanking, so yes my night is going very well thank you for asking

— noey wrong (@_josephwright_) September 26, 2018

why you gotta be so ruuude

Their new single is atrocious… sounds like 3rd-tier Franz Ferdinand.

Kind of low energy for FF, more Kasabian IMO

Blur

Yeah I'm not feeling the song, but the cover art is amazing as usual

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/611c6367b8f9347b25a1e100/master/w_1600,c_limit/SympathyForLife_cover_web.jpg

Hopefully the rest of the album can make up for it.

This band sadly is becoming less and less my thing as time goes by.

Yeah, Wide Awake was the first single from the last album (shitty song, good album) , so there's hope.

That's my take on it, yes. The track is alright, Joe Strummer fronting The Fall, a bit.

Weird how, in my estimation at least, funky post-punk is pretty easy to make sound cool. Plenty of bands do it. I'm in a band that does it. But they somehow make it seem so corny. Both Wide Awake and this. They have the straight-ahead wiry punk formula down so well. They excel at it. But when they try this type of thing it's somehow so awkward.

They premiered some other track a couple months ago that was pretty exciting I thought. More like Can or something, blurry and low key with lots of delayed-out organ, but I only heard it once a couple months ago I don't remember much about it. I was stoked on the new direction. This new one is yuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaQCiiKxypg

Not feeling his singing with this one at all.

I'm on the fence about the vocal, but I dig the video.

I like this new album and I like Black Widow Spiders. Album vacillates between more traditional rock numbers and downtempo Remain In Light funk

Among other things, Byrne had interesting commentary on modern life... Savage's lyrics at this point are like grumbly tweets by a guy you keep meaning to mute.