10 Album Reviews in 10 Days - #2 Destroyer

[MEbenhoe]

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Okay, I'm listening to this now. The first song is absolutely horrible, pretty much because of his lyrics and singing. EDIT: No, the whole song is complete crap.

Sounds very contrived, pretentious, fake. Who puts a 9 minute song at the start of an album? Okay, Zeppelin did. Alright, who puts a crappy 9 minute song at the start of an album? These guys do. They need to work on presentation.

THE SINGER HAS GOT TO GO!

Anyways, that's all for my review. I give it a 3 of 10. Bad.

WAIT: YOU GAVE THIS AN 8? joke.

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I can say you're pretty unique in your viewpoint of the singer being awful. Unique does not equl awful. Now did you actually listen to any of the album beyond the 1st song? and if so did you just have your mindset so much that you were gonna rip on it that you didnt give it a chance?

If neither of these are true, well then maybe it's just not your type of music, or you were expecting something different? I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one.

[Jack of Arcades]

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Sounds very contrived, pretentious, fake. Who puts a 9 minute song at the start of an album? Okay, Zeppelin did. Alright, who puts a crappy 9 minute song at the start of an album?

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Zeppelin did.

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Okay, I'm listening to this now. The first song is absolutely horrible, pretty much because of his lyrics and singing. EDIT: No, the whole song is complete crap.

Sounds very contrived, pretentious, fake. Who puts a 9 minute song at the start of an album? Okay, Zeppelin did. Alright, who puts a crappy 9 minute song at the start of an album? These guys do. They need to work on presentation.

THE SINGER HAS GOT TO GO!

Anyways, that's all for my review. I give it a 3 of 10. Bad.

WAIT: YOU GAVE THIS AN 8? joke.

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I can say you're pretty unique in your viewpoint of the singer being awful. Unique does not equl awful. Now did you actually listen to any of the album beyond the 1st song? and if so did you just have your mindset so much that you were gonna rip on it that you didnt give it a chance?

If neither of these are true, well then maybe it's just not your type of music, or you were expecting something different? I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one.

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I finished the album. I don't like the way he sings, mostly because his lyrics do not mesh well with the rhythm of the song. His voice isn't horrible or anything. There are several instances where he starts jamming words in, and it ruins the rhythm. That is at least one thing I remember. I also don't like his lyrics, but lyrics aren't really that important to me anyways.

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Sounds very contrived, pretentious, fake. Who puts a 9 minute song at the start of an album? Okay, Zeppelin did. Alright, who puts a crappy 9 minute song at the start of an album?

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Zeppelin did.

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Alright, I get it. You don't like Zep. It's one of their better songs, if you're a fan. Self-indulgent? Sure.

Anyways, I did like Neko and New Pornographers (a lot), so I'm not just indiscriminately bashing everything you like.

What else would I like if I like the above two performers?

[snowden719]

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Sounds very contrived, pretentious, fake. Who puts a 9 minute song at the start of an album? Okay, Zeppelin did. Alright, who puts a crappy 9 minute song at the start of an album?

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Zeppelin did.

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[Jack of Arcades]

It's actually funny that you like the New Pornographers. Numbers like "Jackie Dressed in Cobras" was performed by... dun dun dun, Destroyer.

Didn't you like Pretty Girls Make Graves? They have a new album.

PS: I don't mind Zep, but they get too caught up in their own [censored] sometimes.

[MEbenhoe]

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Sounds very contrived, pretentious, fake. Who puts a 9 minute song at the start of an album? Okay, Zeppelin did. Alright, who puts a crappy 9 minute song at the start of an album?

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Zeppelin did.

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Alright, I get it. You don't like Zep. It's one of their better songs, if you're a fan. Self-indulgent? Sure.

Anyways, I did like Neko and New Pornographers (a lot), so I'm not just indiscriminately bashing everything you like.

What else would I like if I like the above two performers?

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yeah Jack, already hit on this, but the lead singer of Destroyer is also a New Pornographers member. He's written and been the lead on the songs "Jackie, Dressed in Cobras", "Broken Breads", and "Streets of Fire" from Twin Cinema. And a few songs off of each of their other two albums, which if you havent heard yet btw, I highly recommend getting Electric Version and Mass Romantic.

[Jack of Arcades]

also AC Newman to get the trifecta.

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It's actually funny that you like the New Pornographers. Numbers like "Jackie Dressed in Cobras" was performed by... dun dun dun, Destroyer.

Didn't you like Pretty Girls Make Graves? They have a new album.

PS: I don't mind Zep, but they get too caught up in their own [censored] sometimes.

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I had a reply typed up to this. I'm pretty sure it went through and someone deleted it??? I don't know, maybe not. I was going to say I like the singing on the song you mentioned that was written by him. It doesn't break up the rhythm like some songs on the Destroyer album. I also checked the wiki page for The NP, and it seems like that one guy (Carl?) writes most of the music. I don't think The NP are anything like Destroyer. For one thing, NP's songs have good rhythm/drumming, something I think Destroyer lacks. NP have much better melodies/riffs as well. So you can't catch me in a contradiction like you were hoping. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Also, I will check out the Pretty Girls Make Graves. I'll let you know if I like it.

I'm guessing you don't like the epic songs.

[Jack of Arcades]

Carl "AC" Newman writes most of the stuff, yeah. He's got a solo album, look for it, it's under the name "A.C." Newman.