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[Ernest]

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[jeph]

GOD why can't you people stay ON TOPIC this is the MUSIC FORUM for chrissakes 

[Ernest]

So, how about them Decemberists?

[jeph]

I dunno!

Could somebody recommend me some Decemberists???   

[Joseph]

The Decemberists are all sorts of lame.  Why the hell would you want to treat your ears to their brand of folk-influence rock, now with traces of prog?  Why not degrade your mind with the wonders of Anal Cunt instead?

[Ernest]

I actually agree with you. 

[Gridgm]

i've never heard any despite how hyped they are on the forum...i refuse to give in to peer presure

[Gryff]

Dudes, Funland.

I mean, Spiderhouse.

... uh I... I'm so confused.

[Johnny C]

Spiderhouse would be an incredible record.

[Iron_Fist]

guh these name mean nothing to me, I feel so out of the loop. I'm really not much of an indie guy. Try some jesse cook though, phenomenal flamenco.

[Brian Majestic]

Spiderman is the greatest cartoon theme song ever.

I agree.

[ForksOfSalvation]

The decemberists have always had an element of prog.  Just, not as pronounced as on the Tain and The Crane Wife.

I gotta tell you though, it turns me on.  A little too much.

[TheFuriousWombat]

The decemberists have always had an element of prog.  Just, not as pronounced as on the Tain and The Crane Wife.

I gotta tell you though, it turns me on.  A little too much.

the tain and crane wife is their worst work to date. they don't handle the prog influences well and sadly it seems like the bigger budget is not working in thier favor. if this is any indication, the band is done with making good music.

and i think you meant to say funland or perhaps spidunlanho. come on people, let's get things straight.

[ForksOfSalvation]

FuriousWombat:

You are a liar and you are going to hell.

Thank you.

[Spinless]

Previously the decemberists have been far too 'poppy' with short song structures to show off any prog influence they may have had. Even when they DID bust out a long(ish) track the music was far too simple and repetitive to be considerred prog influenced.
It is pretty much a fact that the Decemberists have gotten better with each full length so far, with the exception of Picaresque.
The Crane Wife is the single most interesting album that they've put out, and naysayers haven't provided a single good argument as to why it's no good/not as good. If you argued 'I don't like the Decemberists' then that's fine. But to like them and think that the new approach is anything but great you'd have to be a madman!

[Hat]

OK, I'm going to play Devils Advocate here. I loved The Crane Wife, and think the only song that isn't worth a damn on it was Shankhill Butchers, but I've started to notice a few things about it.

While the structure of their songs is quite interesting and varied, the actual makeup of the various sections on the longer songs especially, such as The Island, basically involves just riffing over and over again. Nothing new or interesting is added until they have kind of run the section into the ground, at which point they change tack, and start all over again. I find sometimes that I wish they had moved onto the next section just maybe a few bars earlier, to really nail the song. I had this exact same problem with the Tain as well.

I just really don't think that song, or the entire album is as "progressive" as people are making it out to be, and while I still love it, I would not  be particularly concerned that others felt differently. I don't think the keyboard sound they have in The Island for the 70s retro throwback sound, or the two rather long songs are enough to qualify it.

And I do not want people to think I am a Tain hater either. When I first saw it, I kind of squealed at the prospect of sections partitioned off by Roman Numerals, with 2112 and The Complete Trip coming to mind.