OMG... The Decemberists' new album.... HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIP IT!!!! - Page 9

Kneel B4 Zod · #81 08-22-2006, 11:38 PM

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first impression: 7:29 into "The Island" is the best music moment of the year. two tracks into it and I'm not sure it isn't the best album of the years so far, wow.

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that section reminds me of Jethro Tull

Flow73 · #82 08-23-2006, 12:04 AM

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btw, wtf is a crane wife?

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The lead character is a sad, lonely depressed man who strolls along the shores one day and discovers a wounded crane. He takes the crane in, nurses it back to life, and then the bird turns into a woman. He marries the woman, but then breaks some of the rules of their union, so she leaves him and he is once again sad, depressed, and alone.

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How can anyone not like a folk song with lyrics like this?

cwsiggy · #83 08-23-2006, 12:26 AM

hmmm - I'm embarrased to say I've never heard of them.
What are they like? Describe them with a mix of two or thrre bands - maybe I shoul djust go to Amazon and listen to some snippets. trip report in two minutes......

hmmmm - meh - sorta like a Robin Hitchcock meets Syd Barrett meets XTC - potential - must investigate further......

I'm still on the lookout for the next Verve oh well.....

CallMeIshmael · #84 08-23-2006, 12:28 AM

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hmmm - I'm embarrased to say I've never heard of them.
What are they like? Describe them with a mix of two or thrre bands - maybe I shoul djust go to Amazon and listen to some snippets. trip report in two minutes......

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Neutral Milk Hotel + old tyme' - some of the personal tone - some talent = the decemberists

astroglide · #85 08-23-2006, 12:29 AM

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btw, astro, you should check this out

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So instead, here are Meloy's awesome lyrics for "Los Angeles, I'm Yours" from an earlier record

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"hey check this out, he covers morrissey!" followed by "hey check this out, he tries to write songs like morrissey!"

i don't understand the chortles about some kind of accent, are you guys claiming his voice isn't affected?

astroglide · #86 08-23-2006, 12:30 AM

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that section reminds me of Jethro Tull

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the album is clearly prog-influenced, but i think that part is specifically lifting from radiohead's paranoid android. ok computer was proggy too.

just blind polled the gf as i typed and asked her what it reminded her of...she said radiohead's paranoid android [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

cwsiggy · #87 08-23-2006, 12:35 AM

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hmmm - I'm embarrased to say I've never heard of them.
What are they like? Describe them with a mix of two or thrre bands - maybe I shoul djust go to Amazon and listen to some snippets. trip report in two minutes......

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Neutral Milk Hotel + old tyme' - some of the personal tone - some talent = the decemberists

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wow - never heard of Neutral Milk Hotel... I think I need to get Sirius or XM and start listening to indie stations.

Still no next Verve out there though.......

CallMeIshmael · #88 08-23-2006, 12:49 AM

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i don't understand the chortles about some kind of accent, are you guys claiming his voice isn't affected?

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I would call it more of a whine than anything.

Though, fwiw, I dont think accent is that far from reality.

CallMeIshmael · #89 08-23-2006, 02:55 AM

btw, joker...

if you had to give an answer: in which form of art are you more of a hipster: music or movies?

private joker · #90 08-23-2006, 03:19 AM

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btw, joker...

if you had to give an answer: in which form of art are you more of a hipster: music or movies?

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Man... that's tough.

I really like to champion non-hipster stuff in both categories. Maybe it's overcompensation for having tastes that really align with a lot of hipsters, but I really think that a lot of kids from my generation are shunning mainstream stuff just because it's not cool to like it.

On OOT alone I have written a long defense of Tom Cruise as one of our best working actors (very non-hipster), and I've defended blink-182 as a truly great band (ditto).

I've written raves about Love, Actually and American Wedding. I've admitted to owning several albums by Sir Mix-a-Lot, and I also really like the new Dixie Chicks single that rips on the pro-Bush red-staters (hipster attitude from a non-hipster band).

In the last 2 years, my top 10 movies lists have included films by Chan-wook Park, Terrence Malick, Michael Showalter, Michel Gondry, Lars von Trier, and Noah Baumbach (super hipster), but they have also included the likes of Brokeback Mountain, King Kong, Million Dollar Baby, and Munich.

My favorite albums of recent years definitely reek of hipsterism: New Pornographers, Go! Team, Death Cab, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah... but they also include Rob Dickinson, Green Day, and The Killers (the Killers are a hipster's favorite rock band to bash -- because they try to be hip but are actually mainstream as hell).

So I dunno... I think I'm the worst person to answer that question.

Go to my website (privatejoker.org) and you tell me. I just like what I like. I don't care if it's as mainstream as "Mission: Impossible" (a masterpiece by any definition -- film geek or idiot) or as gag-inducingly indie as Rilo Kiley. If I think it's great, I'll say it's great.

EDIT: I guess the answer to your question is Music, but it's very close. I'm more passionate about film, since it's what I "know" the best, so my tastes have gone beyond the hipster phase.

EDIT #2: I really come off as a pretentious c0cksucker in this post. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]