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« on: 20 Dec 2007, 16:09 »

Just heard a few of their songs of the latest album An End Has A Start. I really like what I've heard. Any other opinions? Good, bad or indifferent?
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Re: Editors
« Reply #1 on: 20 Dec 2007, 16:12 »

I liked their first album. I actually preferred it to what Interpol was doing at the time.

Haven't heard the newer album, but I kept hearing comparisons to Coldplay. I'd be willing to give it a shot, though.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #2 on: 20 Dec 2007, 16:31 »

I'll have to check out their first album, maybe after my finances recover from the holidays i'll be able to pick it up along with the new one.

The few songs I heard made me think "Wow, this is what bands like the Killers are trying to sound like, but don't manage to". I read somewhere that they're compared to joy division, but theres another band I'm not to familiar with.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #3 on: 20 Dec 2007, 16:34 »

Oh man, I was just listening to them half an hour ago and thinking how great this new album is.

Ew, Coldplay comparisons.

This band is hard to pin, but this is what it would sound like if Den Bejar and Matt Bellamy started a band. They're really epic sounding indie pop.

The Racing Rats is an amazing song.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #4 on: 20 Dec 2007, 17:10 »

I've been meaning to listen to them since I got a free 7" single of theirs but my record player has no needle.

"epic sounding indie pop" seems like something worth checking out though
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Re: Editors
« Reply #5 on: 20 Dec 2007, 19:28 »

Haven't heard the newer album, but I kept hearing comparisons to Coldplay. I'd be willing to give it a shot, though.

Editors are maybe comparable to Coldplay if you've only heard two rock and roll bands in your life, and they are Editors and Coldplay. Um, they both have guitars and drums and singers?

I really want to see this band live, just so I can see how the guitarist handles tremolo picking for an entire set. Jeez, even tech-death-metal guys take a break every now and then.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #6 on: 20 Dec 2007, 23:10 »

They are boring live.  I saw them at a festival, which waiting for them to clear the stage so Blonde Redhead would take it.  Absolutely nothing interesting that I could heard.  If they sound anything like that on record, I'll pass on them.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #7 on: 21 Dec 2007, 00:28 »

They just rub me the wrong way. There are only a couple of songs by a handful of bands that make me turn the radio off, and Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors is one. (also, recent silverchair, but that's a topic for another day).
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Re: Editors
« Reply #8 on: 21 Dec 2007, 11:19 »

I greatly prefer their first album, but that's probably something I could say about a lot of bands.  They're absolutely dynamite onstage, though, and as much as it pains me to admit it, a lot more engaging than Interpol live.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #9 on: 21 Dec 2007, 11:22 »

I've heard a single off their first album, I think it was called Munich, and I've heard their cover of Orange Crush by REM.
Not too bad. The guy's voice is slightly on the annoying side but other than that they're a decent band in my opinion.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #10 on: 21 Dec 2007, 11:46 »

I like his voice. It reminds me of Nick Cave, and Nick Cave is fucking badass

also, the very beginning of "The Weight of the World" by the Editors reminds me of the beginning of "We Belong" by Pat Benatar. If it ever becomes popular enough that they play "The Weight of the World" on the radio I predict that somewhere, sometime, I will be driving and absently half-listening to the radio and think that "We Belong" is coming on, and then it won't be and I'll be momentarily pissed.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #11 on: 21 Dec 2007, 12:55 »

So what you folks (collectively) are saying, is that if I have a chance to see them for $13, I should? They're opening for Hot Hot Heat who, screw you people who will instantly hate me for this, I actually like.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #12 on: 21 Dec 2007, 13:27 »

for 13 bucks, heck yeah. Theres not too many shows I wouldn't go see for 13 bucks. Go with some friends and have a good time!
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Re: Editors
« Reply #13 on: 21 Dec 2007, 13:43 »

Man, Hot Hot Heat. There is a band that suddenly took a left turn into mediocrity.

Still, thirteen bucks isn't bad and the show should be pretty decent.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #14 on: 21 Dec 2007, 13:44 »

Theres not too many shows I wouldn't go see for 13 bucks.

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Re: Editors
« Reply #15 on: 21 Dec 2007, 16:28 »

Man, Hot Hot Heat. There is a band that suddenly took a left turn into mediocrity.

No kidding man.

The only Editors song I've heard was a cover of Feel Good Inc. I'd always play it to my friend to bother him.
I've been meaning to check them out for a while now. Guess I will.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #16 on: 22 Dec 2007, 01:38 »

So what you folks (collectively) are saying, is that if I have a chance to see them for $13, I should? They're opening for Hot Hot Heat who, screw you people who will instantly hate me for this, I actually like.

Damn, half as much as the Terminal 5 show (which, to be fair, is about as much as their Webster show in September).  What venue?  HHH are definitely the openers, though.

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They also covered Stereolab and Calvin Harris (!).  +cred.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #17 on: 22 Dec 2007, 13:34 »

So what you folks (collectively) are saying, is that if I have a chance to see them for $13, I should? They're opening for Hot Hot Heat who, screw you people who will instantly hate me for this, I actually like.

I'm saying you shouldn't.  Spend the money on a dinner and go out with friends.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #18 on: 22 Dec 2007, 20:00 »

I don't have an opinion on Hot Hot Heat but Editors alone are worth your $13.

Where the fuck do you live where $13 will be enough for a night out with your friends?
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Re: Editors
« Reply #19 on: 22 Dec 2007, 20:37 »

Their first album is decent. Nothing great, but it's worth a listen. I haven't really heard anything off of their most recent CD.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #20 on: 22 Dec 2007, 20:38 »

Which Calvin Harris song did they cover?
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Re: Editors
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Re: Editors
« Reply #22 on: 23 Dec 2007, 16:22 »

FUCK YES
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Re: Editors
« Reply #23 on: 23 Dec 2007, 16:35 »

Um... it just worked fine for me, in a non-expired manner. Try it again?

On a more general note, I'm really not sure what to make of these guys. I've got both their albums now and honestly I'm not sure whether they're really genuinely interesting without having to try too hard or just plain boring. Maybe it'll take a while. Either way, I'm still going to that show for HHH and  a couple friends (and the other opener, a local band that's more and more engaging every time I hear them).
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Re: Editors
« Reply #24 on: 23 Dec 2007, 16:36 »

Yeah, I didn't realise that the "alt link" text was actually a seperate link. MusicSlut has confusing linkage D:
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Re: Editors
« Reply #25 on: 23 Dec 2007, 16:39 »

Ah. Well, it certainly is a nice cover, so everyone else should go download it too. It does the bit of convincing me it's a good track much more effectively than most of their songs on record, anyway.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #26 on: 23 Dec 2007, 17:02 »

Oh, I remember these guys. They were an NME flavour of the month band back in 2005, I pretended to like them for some friends. I couldn't tell them apart from any of the other things that were being played.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #27 on: 23 Dec 2007, 17:26 »

I like that the guy from Editors has two singing styles:

Ian Curtis impersonation, and nasal Ian Curtis impersonation
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Re: Editors
« Reply #28 on: 24 Dec 2007, 06:42 »

They're one of those bands that I thought was okay and fairly listenable at first that I just got completely fed up of because of the unrelenting radio play they got for a while.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #29 on: 24 Dec 2007, 09:07 »

Whaaat? Radio play for them? I didn't think I hated them enough for them to get radio play. What station is this?
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Re: Editors
« Reply #30 on: 24 Dec 2007, 09:10 »

In the UK, pretty much any mainstream radio station around the times they released singles. I know they got played to death on BBC Radio 1.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #31 on: 26 Dec 2007, 08:51 »

I love the disparity between the left- and right-hand sides of the big blue wet. People are talking about the Editors and other such bands, and they are being discussed like they are seriously unfamous, and I am confused because I have been hearing about them for seventy grillion years, but then I remember that the overhere is totally different from murka.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #32 on: 26 Dec 2007, 09:01 »

The result of this is that the independent press in the UK brazenly embraces MOR pop music as visionary, and popular bands in the UK get embraced as underground icons in North America. It'd be charming if it weren't so obnoxious.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #33 on: 26 Dec 2007, 13:56 »

I really, really don't like Interpol but I genuinely enjoy Editors.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #34 on: 26 Dec 2007, 23:12 »

Weird dude, it's supposed to be the other way around.

I mean, I like cheeseburgers but I greatly prefer steak.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #35 on: 03 Jan 2008, 13:12 »

Would that make Snow Patrol Taco Bell during the E. Coli outbreak?
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Re: Editors
« Reply #36 on: 03 Jan 2008, 23:49 »

FACT: I work at neither of those vastly inferior franchises.
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Re: Editors
« Reply #37 on: 06 Jan 2008, 23:51 »

Do you work at a place called Blackbeard's Swashbucklin' Fishsticks where they make you wear a hat and eyepatch?
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