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New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album Show Your Bones
Gryff:
--- Quote from: NosLycn ---I believe they made the album for the sole purpose of letting Karen's voice have a bit of a break.
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I believe that that is a dumb reason to make a record. If she needed a break, she could, like, stop singing for a while. They wouldn't compromomise what they're doing for the sake of giving Karen a temporary break.
How about: they wanted to try something a bit different after doing an album and a half of wild 'n' crazy stuff?
Chesire Cat:
--- Quote from: Gryff ---How about: they wanted to try something a bit different after doing an album and a half of wild 'n' crazy stuff?
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They didn't do something different. They just capitalised on the least expressive aspect of what the first albums was. And as such, what most people loved them for. Its still at the top of my play list atm though.
NosLycn:
--- Quote ---I believe they made the album for the sole purpose of letting Karen's voice have a bit of a break.
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This was a joke. I know it is a silly reason to release an album. Still, vocal nodes are nasty.
--- Quote ---They didn't do something different. They just capitalised on the least expressive aspect of what the first albums was. And as such, what most people loved them for.
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Quite correct, this statement. It is a way of getting into the pseudo-mainstream from their spot on the back burner. Think of all the places Maps has played, like The Jimmy Kimmel Show. It is obviously something that a larger audience would have heard first and identified with. Some people maybe even bought the album for that one song (or downloaded that one song). If they release an album that more people enjoy, even though it was completely nothing like most of the rest of their songs, they will have more record sales and performances. It is a simple marketing strategy. Quite frankly, I respect them for it. I just hope they switch back to their better music again, after having achieved a larger audience.
Chesire Cat:
Click the Suicide Girls banner (an amused WTF for that one) add up top there, and read the interview with Karen O. There wasn't a huge issue with her lack of fame and money and whatnot. The interview left a feeling of her being completly awed by the level of success they achieved.
They didn't make this album to pander to a larger audience, they made it because its what they wanted to write. But it does feel over-produced, and that is something that their fame got them, a 4thmember of the band(or you know, a producer) sitting behind the control booth adding shit that doesn't add too the sound.
I am not holding the album against the band personally, I just lament the fact that this album wasn't what I, and likely many like me, wanted in a new YYYs album. I suppose what I wanted was Fever to Tell: 2, what we got was Show Your Bones.
Rubby:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat ---This seems about an album or two too soon for them, as many of their fands(me) really liked the rawness of the first album, and are looking for something thats a little more similiar in a followup. I dont deny the progression of Show Your Bones, I do question the timing. It would make a great 3rd album but makes for a lackluster second.
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So you’re saying that music is only good within the proper context? So, say, The Beatles were all still alive today and put out Abbey Road just two weeks ago. Due to the fact that the album no longer holds any historic or cultural relevance it no longer contains good music? That's a little strange.
(Feel free to replace Abbey Road with some older album you like, that was just the first one I saw when I turned my head.)
edit. Please don’t think I'm comparing the two albums. I haven’t even listened to Show Your Bones. I was merely questioning your method of judgment.
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