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carrotosaurus:
--- Quote from: Kid van Pervert on 27 Jan 2008, 15:25 ---I was looking for a link to that Onion article "Yngwie Malmsteen officially changes middle name to "Fucking"" but it's not out there :(
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Alex C:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Jan 2008, 23:06 ---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).
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Yeah, I can get behind all of those sentiments. I'll put it this way: If I'm listening to Ween at home on my PC or on my ancient iriver I end up listening to a grab bag patched together from some of the earlier albums you're mentioning. But a decade ago (Good god, is it that long now?!) when I was still dragging around a discman and a fistfull of cds everywhere it was The Mollusk that made the cut. Relative to their other albums it's just more self-contained, and it feels more complete to me whereas their other albums (especially the first two) are sprawling and held together mostly by the homebrewed aesthetic and sheer balls to the wall silliness. It's great stuff, but I don't get in the mood for The Pod like I do for The Mollusk.
Wait, shit, did I blow a whole paragraph just to basically say "I find it more accessible"?
KvP:
--- Quote from: carrotosaurus on 29 Jan 2008, 06:18 ---
--- Quote from: Kid van Pervert on 27 Jan 2008, 15:25 ---I was looking for a link to that Onion article "Yngwie Malmsteen officially changes middle name to "Fucking"" but it's not out there :(
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It links to a picture and more links, no text.
psyne:
I'll bite on a few of these.
Of Montreal: Not my favorite band, but the attraction there is sort of a fun glam thing. They're fun, extravagant, upbeat, outlandish. I think too much of them gets obnoxious, and some of their songs are mediocre, but overall I think they're pretty fun and dancey, and the lyrics are amusingly surreal sometimes. If you haven't heard it, check out The Party's Crashing Us - that's the first song I ever heard by them, and one of my favorites. It's a pretty good litmus for whether you'll ever like them or not.
Pavement: People have mostly said why they're so well known/highly regarded, I'll say my own experience getting into them, since I didn't "get it" at first either. The first time I checked them out I was unimpressed (listened to the first few tracks of Slanted and Enchanted then put it back). I gave them another shot a couple years later and listened to Terror Twilight and liked it better, but I wasn't immediately sold. Then they grew on me like crazy. Every time I listen to them I notice another line or riff that I really like, and my favorite song changes. So for me getting into them was really slow and took a lot of repeats, but now they're one of my favorite bands.
I also agree with Johnny C on what basically makes them good, and Crooked Rain is also my favorite.
Spoon: Definitely check out Gimme Fiction. Amazing album. They're an incredibly talented band. Some of their songs can come off boring at first, they're mostly pretty mellow, but give GF a good listen. I love every song on it.
I don't get the Blood Brothers either. I was hearing about them a lot a few years back, then when I listened to them I felt like my ears were going to bleed. And I LIKE some hardcore and punk.
Inlander:
Is Gimme Fiction in the Mediafire thread somewhere? Because I'm not gonna shell out good money just on spec, when my every experience with the band has been negative.
For the record, I don't mind mellow music, just dull music.
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