Give me 50 words why you should have it, and it’s yours!
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give it some more time! i swear, it’s their best yet. the song “sender” is AWESOME.
wait a sec. i thought you hearted rilo kiley?
I do. But empirically, I’m probably wrong.
With a few rare exceptions, there’s a reason obscure stuff is obscure. But it’s those exceptions that keep us throwing money away on whatever crap Pitchfork decided was cool or important.
I recently re-discovered one of those exceptions after having put it away for several years: Neutral Milk Hotel, “In the Aeroplane over the Sea.” It’s more interesting now than it was in ‘98, and it was awesome then too.
oh yeah… gorj. didn’t we (and this goes to you too Gclark) decide that pitchfork doesn’t know shit about shit? i seemed to remember a post about that before.
Ms.Com-RAD! the more you get to know gorj, the more you’ll realize that he gets it into his head he has to dislike things…often against his own wishes. don’t even get me started on how he decides to ‘pre-hate’ things before ever seeing them.
3 words: Pedro the Lion.
that’s the band/CD JasN told me was worth 2 shits. well my friends . . . it wasn’t worth one. god i hate that record.
sold up the river by my pals . . .
pitchfork’s a bunch of snarky hooey. i still browse it nearly every day, though. it’s good for getting little tidbits of news about american indierock, though the reviews are hit and miss.
oh, and that Pedro the Lion rekkid was damn fine. you’re just too damn old, jp!.
Pinback is a good band, man. The fact that you like Rilo Kiley and don’t like them makes me seriously question your Americanism. Why do hate freedom?
which pedro album? there are two that are damn fine: winners never quit and control. quite a wordsmith, that guy. and depressed. saw them open for death cab for cutie. very good live. oh, and pitchfork hates them. they mentioned, in one of the negative reviews, the singer’s “neckbeard,” which apparently doesn’t apply to iron & wine.
Iron and Wine are boring.
i thought the first Iron and Wine cd was good, but it’s all the same after that.
Iron & Wine is pretty! Oh LAWS, Big Gray, of all the slow-core EMPEROR’S CLOTHES that you listen to—and you decry the prettiness of I & W??
Low has more soul in their snare drum than Iron and Wine can muster in one of his Songs: Ohia rip-offs. Which is really just a Will Oldham rip-off. And it’s not that I find Iron and Wine sucky or anything like that, it’s just that I’ve been there done that soooo much that I’ve had my fill. And I’m tired of how the red carpet of the New Dylan is rolled out every couple of years for another guy with a guitar. Not I&W’s fault, of course, but just because a guy covers (quite blandly) a Postal Service song, has a good story, and is on Sub Pop doesn’t distinguish him from the James William Hindles of the world. They are all pretty interchangeable. At least cooker cutter power pop bands have hooks. All bands like Ida and I&W have is a turgid pretty mush. Pretty is easy if you know A, E, and D.
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1880&PHPSESSID=099db7bbd903f820188867d5383811d0
How I feel about that second I&W record. Once again, not bad, but sort of listless. Joe Pernice kicks this guy’s butt. He was a Next Dylan once, too.
gclark…i will reach through this keyboard and fucking pop you on the back of the head if you’re going around telling otherwise decent folk that “Control” by Pedro the Lion is worth a damn.
Pedro the Lion is FUCKING BEAUTIFUL POP!! I adore that goddamn album
You are off yer friggin rocker. Did you like the Postal Service? D’ya like Wheat? Built To Spill? Mercury Rev? The Flaming Lips? Then you’ll fucking dig “Control”...if not, then you ain’t the one who should get it. Next time, listen to some Mp3’s or some shit before you buy so you can stop whining about that $12 you dropped 4 years ago!!
Hey, listen, I wouldn’t trust jp! as far as I can throw him. His favorite movie of all time is Solarbabies!
Bodai!
i bet if you put Sergio Mendes on the cover, he’d like it.
if i’d only paid $12 i’d have maybe loved it. i didn’t. maybe its just not my bag…i must admit…it may not be awful…just so average and forgetable as to make you instantly regret the purchase!
haw. dorks!
Not Sergio Mendes—but certainly a pretty girl with no top on laying in a polar bear-skin rug!
Then he’d always talk about how awesome it was.
ooh! if you could get elastica to come back from my 1994-5 dreams and play the songs…yeah…i could take just about any of that.