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Least favorite song(s) off of your favorite albums?
supersheep:
Then you wouldn't like Irish traditional songs.
THEY'RE ALL ABOUT THE IRA KICKING THE BRITSES' ASS.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: whitman on 27 Oct 2007, 22:12 ---Regardless of what I think of the other man's opinions on songs, even if they're shooting down my favorite song, I am not just gonna come out and respond with the blanket statement, 'how could you possibly enjoy that load of bull?' it's just not polite.
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I guess I am just not a polite person.
MysticalChicken:
"Teclo" from PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love.
That's one of my most favorite CDs of all time, but I just do not like that song.
Tom:
--- Quote from: mediumrare on 23 Oct 2007, 16:22 ---
--- Quote from: Hat on 21 Oct 2007, 14:35 ---Also I think the Shankhill Butchers on The Crane Wife, by the Decemberists really slows down that album at the point where it seems like it is just picking up heaps of momentum and just kills it again.
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That song pisses me off for a more specific reason, in that the subject matter is very sensitive and extremely politically potent, but Meloy strips it of ALL that to make some retarded coy nursery rhyme out of murders from a period of Northern Ireland's history that is still fresh in people's minds (that has shaped the following generation(s), ie. me).
It's arbitrary, exploitative and lazy.
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Yeah but that's what nursery rhymes are and he succeeds in doing that. I agree that it does slow the album down. How about taking it out and placing Culling of the Fold in there. Or just go straight into Summersong.
mediumrare:
Do you mean that you think he was aware of what he was doing by using the form of nursery rhyme to approach the subject? Would you say there is an intentional irony to it that I am missing out on?
If not, I'd say the "yeah but it is what it is, and because it's that, it's okay" defense is unsuccesful.
--- Quote from: supersheep on 28 Oct 2007, 13:56 ---Then you wouldn't like Irish traditional songs.
THEY'RE ALL ABOUT THE IRA KICKING THE BRITSES' ASS.
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Are they?
I saw a guy in the photo thread on this board wearing a "Stereotype me, I'm Irish" t-shirt. I wants it. I'm also hoping to avoid mentioning where I'm from in other threads in case people begin thinking of me as "the whinging Irish twat."
ANYWAY
On topic, I was thinking about two albums. First, No Heroes by Converge. What a ferocious and energetic and rhythmically dazzling album, eh.... apart from the poorest attempt at an angst filled sludge epic I have ever heard. "Grim Heart/Black Rose" is a 9 minute smear of shit across the face of that album and it renders it barely listenable in one sitting, I find.
On a less extreme note, "God Is In the House", from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part. I like the concept, and lyrically I like the execution, but the melody is boring and Cave's "character" that he uses is irritating and silly. Maybe. Still, I don't mind it, I just fucking adore the rest of the album.
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