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De_El:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Jan 2008, 16:46 ---What the fuck, man. Vampire Weekend.
Pitchfork gave the album an 8.8 today.
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Clell Tickle probably had something to do with it.\
Alex C:
I love The Mollusk too much to make anything remotely resembling an unbiased defense of Ween. Some of the songs on that one are like if someone took prog and removed all the pretension and suck. Plus, it's pretty concise for a Ween album. Also, Ocean Man makes me inexplicably happy in the most uncomplicated way possible, which counts for a lot.
Jackie Blue:
I'll say that The Mollusk is the Ween album I've listened to the least out of everything up to and including it, but that I do recall loving it the last time I had a copy (which was in the neighborhood of 10 years ago).
Still, there's just something about all the albums before that that are just timelessly awesome. I think The Mollusk can be seen as the point at which Ween began to at least flirt with the idea of being a little bit serious, though it's nowhere near as straightforward as, say, Quebec (my least favourite of theirs).
I do really love the Friends EP in all its gay glory.
pinkpiche:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 28 Jan 2008, 14:57 ---Radiohead got famous for writing downbeat but very catchy rock songs. They then went on to make sure that every album was different enough from their last that they would be seen to be progressing but also similar enough in its approach that their fans would not be disappointed by something totally unfamiliar. They are a massive stadium rock band who have a critical reputation good enough to mean nobody would feel embarrassed about liking something with such mass appeal, as is sometimes the case for some individuals. They appear not to be dicks in interviews which also helps, one of them even volunteers for the Samaritans (I have no idea why I know) which makes him sound like a pretty nice guy. Their liberal politics appear well-meaning and genuine but also not very radical so are unlikely to upset many people.
I think that's the thing with Radiohead, there's nothing there to put people off and they write songs with a mass appeal, often very anthemic. Even people like me who don't really care for their music usually don't dislike them as such. My mum had Amnesiac and when she stuck it on it would just fade into the background, inoffensively.
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So Kid A and Amnesiac were just style variations on Karma Police? I think not.
Btw. Dean Ween just might be the most underappreciated talented guitarist out there.
a pack of wolves:
No, but they didn't sound to me like records I was completely surprised that the band who had written Karma Police would make. The Argument isn't just a variation on Repeater but it makes sense to me that the band that wrote one eventually ended up making the other, it's a progression.
--- Quote from: TheLetterM on 28 Jan 2008, 19:48 ---What's the deal with The Blood Brothers? Terrible motherfucker of a band, and yet Guy Picciotto produced their last album.
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They started out playing fairly straightforward hardcore and then added more and more different influences to their sound until there wasn't much hardcore left in it. I think it makes sense that Guy Picciotto would have an interest in a band like that. The last couple of albums might have been pretty uninteresting but Burn, Piano Island, Burn was fantastic, taking that GSL/31g kind of approach to hardcore and then making a catchy pop record out of it. March On Electric Children (released, unsurprisingly, by 31g) was a really great record as well.
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