my challopsy take is that I love Neko but prefer her more polished vox on the later albums
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
there are a lot of very good tracks on this list also gtf
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
also into alcoholism i went
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
Is it wrong to register a wee complaint about the production on this album?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
i'm not a production guy but i get there's a wonkiness
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
uh-huh
being a dick aside this is one of my favourite randonm sooper-groop indie kids records
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
mah mah mah mah slow dissent
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
SALVATION HOLD OUT CINTRAL
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
I love this band (although I don't seem to have listened to anything they released after 2010, oops) but never been able to get into any of their other bands, Destroyer, Zumpano, Neko Case solo etc. nothing has grabbed me. Sum greater than parts for me I guess.
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
i gHear you GColonel
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
also i gAgree
i mean this gAlbum murders everything it's constituent parts gRecorded
except pissably gNeko
gBoys gBoys gBoys
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
What's with the nasal mutations? Is this now Dw i'n caru Cymraeg?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
NV, w/ all due respect you seeem to have many wrong opinions about this band/music
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
i love "fake headlines" and i'm gonna vote for it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
'CAUSE HOPE GROWS GREENER THAN GRASS STAINS
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
but “body says no” arguably has the biggest hook.this hook is what really most impressed me when I first listened to it 19ish years ago and listening to it again today for the first time in years I am still amazed by it.
― silverfish, Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
alpine thank you for your repspect and respect for your kindness and i don't really know why this album is so otm cos it's not automaically a thing that i'd love
but i love the fuck out of it
which also makes me say daft things about it
"my slow descent" tho, that's a thing, that's a moment
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
was having a hard time choosing between tracks before i remembered "i've cried five rivers on the way here/which one will you skate away on?" and voted accordingly
― donna rouge, Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
I mean even the first couplet from that is incroyable: "I'm told the eventual downfall/ is just a bill from the restaurant"
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
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― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
loves, love to love love <3
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― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
"letter from an occupant" is the academic answer.
"the body says no" was my first love, like someone else upthread. i think it was one of the more straightforward ones when i was 16 and wrapping my head around this album.
best live memory: neko's harmony on the end of "execution day." one of the moments when you have to step back and appreciate what a pure singer she is.
personal favorite and vote: "the fake headlines." "mass romantic" tells you that the band could produce a great single, but fake headlines is such a beast of a second song. i remember listening to this album cold, and all of a sudden neko is gone, this lispy guy is singing, and it's still a total banger. you're fully onboard with the record from there. it has a great lyric. i love that lyric transcription thread, i think newman is really underrated as a lyricist.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
those are all beautiful answers and i agtee
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― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
i keel evety last one of you
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― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
lol
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
"slow descent" has slightly edged out "letter from an occupant" today
― ufo, Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
since this is maybe the most active a New Pornos thread has been in my 10+ years on ILM, i want to take the opportunity to say something i've said elsewhere: this band is responsible for the best recorded catalog of the 21st century so far. which makes this album the first all-killer-no-filler step on that incredible journey.
thank u carl, neko, dan, old drummer, new drummer, guy with the hair, guy with the beard, carl's niece whose name i really should remember, keyboard guy who looks bored as fuck during shows, new lady singer and maybe another guy if there's another guy i'm forgetting about (but i don't think there is).
luv u Noodle Vague
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link
<<3 same and apologies for being drunchenhausen
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link
it's a fucking perfect albumen tho while we're on
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
it and Electric Version, both, imo
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
sorry i said you had wrong opinions about this i guess i misread you earlier? idk
“Guy with the hair” maybe the guitar player Fancey, who put out an excellent indie summer AM gold record around this same time: https://open.spotify.com/album/0tCBKBJiuNyAzyBiVV0PfJ?si=2crCKnm9RU2OzsCEZT8xug
― calstars, Sunday, 22 November 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
If we link to stuff can we link to YouTube and Spotify versions? Not everyone has given in to the Spotify hegemon.
Are you talking about the first Fancey album from 2004?
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 November 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
Yes 04
― calstars, Sunday, 22 November 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
Whole album is great but this poll should have two fucking options:
Letter Bridge--->ChorusLetter Outro--->Chorus
Either of these smoke everything else, no fools left standing.
― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Sunday, 22 November 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Honorable mention (since no one else has?): In To Wild Homes, Neko handing the lower "to wild homes" off to the higher male (AC?) "to wild homes" then joining back in together.
― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Sunday, 22 November 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
The actually correct answer is "Letter from an Occupant" but I'm gonna throw a vote to "Jackie"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 22 November 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
it’s amazing how all these songs exist in my head as a jumble of nonsense syllables. plenty of evocative imagery but as far as i glean any meaning from them, it might as well be in farsi
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Sunday, 22 November 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
or maybe it’s more a language that i vaguely remember like hebrew or spanish where i excitedly latch onto the few phrases i actually understand
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Sunday, 22 November 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
I voted "Mystery Hours" for the line about a "sticky glavin," which I am disappointed to learn is not only not the lyric, but is not even easily mistakable for the lyric.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 22 November 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
ended up voting for the obvious one, but was tempted to toss a vote to Mary Martin Show
― Darin, Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
Want to point out that even before I knew of the anniversary this past week, I'd blasted "Mary Martin Show" because a workshop participant's manuscript mentioned Mary Martin. Weird!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
i'm going to vote for "Centre for Holy Wars" because i know "Letter" and the title track are gonna finish 1-2, and rightfully so
i am legitimately interested to see how much "Letter" wins by.
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
weird, I've been annoying the neighbours with SALVATION HOLD OUT CENTRAL for a week as I noodle around on the piano.
― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
EXACTLY WHERE WE ARRREin the center for HOOOLY WAAR
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
HOPE IT NEVER COMES DOWN AGAIN LOATING IN THE AAAFUH- AAA AAA AAA AIR
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 November 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
aw hellthat didn't work at all
Lol apologies for drunky over enthusiasm last night everybody
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Hm, what's going on with the different versions of "Hey, Snow White"?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Y'alll ready for some challops??!?!?!?!!?11
"Breakin' The Law" - 0 is the best song on this album
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
This drummer packs a wallop, sings good bg vox too.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
“Mary Martin Show” deserved better seeing the turnout.
We should keep this polling on to “Electric Version”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 07:09 (three years ago) link
I love that this conversation exists and wish there were more bands containing multiple songwriters of equal skill with distinctive-but-complimentary qualities
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
wish there were more bands containing multiple songwriters of equal skill with distinctive-but-complimentary qualities
Sloan?
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
I mean, I love Sloan, but couldn't guess the authorship from song-to-song with much (or any) accuracy
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
Agree with that. I bet hardcore fans could, though.
Uncle Tupelo comes to mind. And the DBTs.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Is Rolling Blackouts this way? Or do they write everything together and just trade off lead vocals?
sloan to me are more solid workhorses than "holy shit that song" type songwriters. which is not a dis!
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link