Topic: How big a tool am I for having JUST gotten into Of Montreal? (Read 20521 times)

Caspian · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 May 2008, 19:15 »

Consider yourself lucky that you avoided them for so long. They're a pretty good summary of everything that's wrong with indie rock.

sean · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 May 2008, 19:18 »

I still have not listened to more than one song by Of Montreal. I can't say I'm motivated by that one song to change this either.

jeph · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 May 2008, 19:19 »

I am listening to Hissing Fauna... right now and enjoying it immensely, although I can also see what would turn some people off about it.

squawk · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 May 2008, 19:39 »

Just now? Really? Wow. But they're so fantastic and Kevin Barnes is so sexy.

Kai · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 May 2008, 19:42 »

I am usually a fan of most of the Elephant 6 related crowd, but I really do not like Of Montreal at all.

Liz · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 May 2008, 19:44 »

I wouldn't call you a tool, you're just a little slow. We'll let it by this time.

Tom · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 May 2008, 20:05 »

You don't realy have an excuse but meh, whatever

KvP · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 May 2008, 20:14 »

Quote from: Kai on 18 May 2008, 19:42

I am usually a fan of most of the Elephant 6 related crowd, but I really do not like Of Montreal at all.

Same here.

IronOxide · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 May 2008, 20:22 »

It took me two tries before I liked Hissing Fauna, but I pretty much agree with Jeph.

They're the sort of band that I like immensely but I won't hold it against someone if they don't.

Tom · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 May 2008, 20:23 »

I actually only like their last three realeases, the rest of their stuff just hasn't really done anything for me. That said, I fucking love Hissing Fauna.

RallyMonkey · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 May 2008, 20:53 »

I could understand people not liking Of Montreal, but I really don't see the absolute hatred that has so far run rampant in this topic.

Lines · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 May 2008, 21:08 »

I haven't listened to them yet, but I don't really listen to much indie in general. This is why I subscribed to Paste.

Juxtaposition · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 May 2008, 21:16 »

I just got into them too. I absolutely adore The Gay Parade, I haven't heard much else. Unfortunately, I kinda overplayed it the first week I had it (more than twice some days...), So I haven't listened to it in a while.

michaelicious · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 May 2008, 21:25 »

Listen to Coquelicot!

aeroledzepp · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 May 2008, 21:48 »

This band is the worst. Basically epitomizes everything I hate about bullshit generic indie rawk.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 May 2008, 23:05 »

Bullshit generic indie rawk? They are basically like two entirely different bands with two entirely different sounds. The only thing that has stayed the same from Cherry Peel to Hissing Fauna is Kevin Barnes' voice, and even that is stretching it.

My favorite song is Let's do Everything for the First Time Forever. It is stupidly twee and ridiculously sweet.

Tom · « **Reply #17 on:** 18 May 2008, 23:40 »

Of Montreal are so far away from being rock guys, so don't say they're "everything wrong with indie rock".

gardenhead_ · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 May 2008, 00:04 »

I'm not sure how indie they are either. They are just good stuff.

pwhodges · « **Reply #19 on:** 19 May 2008, 00:10 »

Sod genres. I like them because they write music that engages my brain* (that's why I also like, say, NMH). They're a bit samey when taken in too large a quantity at once, though. My preferred album is Aldhils Arboretum, but Satanic Panic in the Attic shows some development; I've not heard later than that yet.

Paul

* My musical brain, that is. Remember I'm a classical musician looking around here to broaden his mind, so I appreciate the way music is constructed as well as how it sounds.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #20 on:** 19 May 2008, 00:22 »

They used to be on Kindercore but now they are on Polivinyl.

I don't think it is even possible to say they are everything wrong, if only because the incredible difference between their stuff.

Hissing Fauna was almost my favourite album from last year. Everything about it seemed right, even now. It is an album I can relate to in many ways, most of them depressing.

edit: to the dude above. Listen to The Gay Parade and then to Hissing Fauna and you'll see development.

Mars · « **Reply #21 on:** 19 May 2008, 01:37 »

Of Montreal was my first indie rock experience. From there I went to E6 and then branched out further.

I find it strange and foreign that a man who I thought of as an authority on indie is only now experiencing them.

Johnny C · « **Reply #22 on:** 19 May 2008, 02:09 »

That's nothing.

Just this last week I heard this band, The Pavements? Apparently they're pretty famous.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #23 on:** 19 May 2008, 02:51 »

Caspian and Kai pretty much got it.

I can't stand Of Montreal, never could.

gardenhead_ · « **Reply #24 on:** 19 May 2008, 03:02 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman on 19 May 2008, 00:22

Hissing Fauna was almost my favourite album from last year. Everything about it seemed right, even now. It is an album I can relate to in many ways, most of them depressing.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #25 on:** 19 May 2008, 03:13 »

You should probably label that link NSFW, tommy.

Some of us do have to worry about that sort of thing. Good thing I'm at home right now and haven't gone into work yet.

Tom · « **Reply #26 on:** 19 May 2008, 03:16 »

It's a good thing that my little brothers and any other family members didn't come into my room when I left to go to the bathroom while the image was loading.

Caspian · « **Reply #27 on:** 19 May 2008, 05:48 »

There are numerous photos of black metal guys with their cocks hanging out, either accidentally or deliberately.

I doubt that's what it's a reference too, though.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #28 on:** 19 May 2008, 06:47 »

Guys, I don't see anything wrong with Of Montreal. I just downloaded Hissing Fauna... last night and I enjoyed it a lot. I'd had Satanic Panic in the Attic before that and I didn't find anything wrong with that either.

öde · « **Reply #29 on:** 19 May 2008, 06:48 »

There's always a price for referencing something.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #30 on:** 19 May 2008, 08:49 »

Are Of Montreal the band that actually has nothing to do with Montreal but is like from Maine or something but they called themselves Of Montreal so people would think they were canadians and buy their shit?

pinkpiche · « **Reply #31 on:** 19 May 2008, 09:57 »

That list of bands is pretty long dude.

sean · « **Reply #32 on:** 19 May 2008, 10:15 »

@ Khar

I didn't belive that a band called Of Montreal would actually have the audacity to call themselves that and not actually be from Montreal, but I searched wikipedia to find out for sure. They are actually from Athens, Georgia. Fucking Georgia. According to wikipedia, Kevin named the band after a failed romance with a girl from Montreal.

Poor show Of Montreal.

Misereatur · « **Reply #33 on:** 19 May 2008, 10:21 »

Quote from: Kai on 18 May 2008, 19:42

I am usually a fan of most of the Elephant 6 related crowd, but I really do not like Of Montreal at all.

MrSteevo · « **Reply #34 on:** 19 May 2008, 11:47 »

I think they sound like The Beatles in their early years. Which is good but no wonderful.
But they start doing drugs and come out with something like "I am the Walrus" well, then I have to like them.

pwhodges · « **Reply #35 on:** 19 May 2008, 15:07 »

Quote from: MrSteevo on 19 May 2008, 11:47

I think they sound like The Beatles in their early years.

Eh?

Paul

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #36 on:** 19 May 2008, 17:20 »

Maybe he was thinking of Deerhoof

Also,

Quote from: Johnny C on 19 May 2008, 02:09

Just this last week I heard this band, The Pavements? Apparently they're pretty famous.

sig'd

RedLion · « **Reply #37 on:** 19 May 2008, 20:15 »

I just got into them as well.

Love 'em. Especially their cover of the Yoko Ono song "Smashing My Face Through a Clear Glass Window."

IronOxide · « **Reply #38 on:** 19 May 2008, 20:48 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 19 May 2008, 10:15

@ Khar

I didn't belive that a band called Of Montreal would actually have the audacity to call themselves that and not actually be from Montreal, but I searched wikipedia to find out for sure. They are actually from Athens, Georgia. Fucking Georgia. According to wikipedia, Kevin named the band after a failed romance with a girl from Montreal.

Poor show Of Montreal.

Hey guys, did you know that I'm From Barcelona is not from Barcelona? That the B-52s weren't actually trained as Bomber pilots in WWII?

Guys, soon you're going to tell me that the Sea and Cake is not just a microphone held up as a dude throws some Devil's food into the Adriatic.

imagist42 · « **Reply #39 on:** 19 May 2008, 20:59 »

hey guys of montreal are pretty cool i like them they rock

No but seriously they need to make more tracks like The Past Is A Grotesque Animal.

volatile · « **Reply #40 on:** 20 May 2008, 03:14 »

I can't help but be reminded of steak whenever I hear them.

sean · « **Reply #41 on:** 20 May 2008, 14:07 »

Quote from: IronOxide on 19 May 2008, 20:48

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 19 May 2008, 10:15
hurrrr my post. quote tunnels are lame.

Hey guys, did you know that I'm From Barcelona is not from Barcelona? That the B-52s weren't actually trained as Bomber pilots in WWII?

Guys, soon you're going to tell me that the Sea and Cake is not just a microphone held up as a dude throws some Devil's food into the Adriatic.

People don't think it's cool to listen to music made by people in Barcelona, people who were WWII bomber pilots, or devils food cake like how they think it is cool to listen to music made by people from Montreal.

the Goat · « **Reply #42 on:** 20 May 2008, 14:24 »

First time I heard them was that Outback Steakhouse commercial.

Noct · « **Reply #43 on:** 20 May 2008, 14:33 »

Quote from: imagist42 on 19 May 2008, 20:59

No but seriously they need to make more tracks like The Past Is A Grotesque Animal.

The driving melancholy on that track is just fantastic. Unfortunately, I completely overplayed Hissing Fauna... the first week or two after I got it, and haven't listened to it much since

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #44 on:** 20 May 2008, 16:21 »

i think The Past Is a Grotesque Animal is my least favorite track on that cd. which isn't saying much because i fucking love the entire thing but it's not really something i can actively listen to because it's so repetive and goes on for, what 11 minutes or something?

it's absolutely fine if i'm driving because i can sing and along and not be even be aware that's it's one long track but i tried to show a friend a certain part ("i'm ronking out/i'm gonking out" [?] or whatever he says) and it made me realize how absurdly boring and slightly annoying that song is.

Quote from: pwhodges on 19 May 2008, 15:07

Quote from: MrSteevo on 19 May 2008, 11:47
I think they sound like The Beatles in their early years.

Eh?

Paul

he's probably referring to The Gay Parade which does sound alot like the Beatles when they were on lots of drugs. it's alot different from their newer stuff which is more conventional poppy stuff. personally, i like The Gay Parade more than Hissing Fauna but that might just be because i heard it first so it has sentimental value...plus i know all the words and i like to sing along.

imagist42 · « **Reply #45 on:** 20 May 2008, 16:47 »

I just like how proggy the track is, how it builds on minor variations over time. And the driving melody is, indeed, fantastic. When the background vocals ("ohhhh-ohhhh-ohhhh, ohhhh-ohhhh-ohhhh") come in I feel tingly inside.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 May 2008, 16:57 »

yes, it's a great song. it's actually a really great song. i'm actually listening to it right now and i think my real problem with it is that i can't listen to it with other people (none of my friends like the same music as me) but i can listen to it by myself fine; actively or not.
my first post was a little poorly worded.

also, i don't think it's my least favorite track like i said...it's not my favorite and i can't explicitly name a track that i like less than it but i'm sure there is one because i can't even think of how the last three tracks go so maybe i don't like those ones very much? i don't know.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 May 2008, 08:39 »

I think Of Montreal's name is the least offensive thing about them. I'm pretty sure nobody ever thought they were actually from Montreal. Just like nobody thinks Architecture In Helsinki are from Helsinki, or that I Am the World Trade Center are a post-9/11 New York band.

Gurkburk · « **Reply #48 on:** 22 May 2008, 14:58 »

I actually thought they were from montreal. Sue me.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #49 on:** 22 May 2008, 15:05 »

Man, you'd probably think I'm From Barcelona is from Barcelona too

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