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Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
Scandanavian War Machine:
actually, i just remembered that Black Moth Super Rainbow is the only music i ever need forever.
thanks for the suggestions though.
Plasticity:
Black Moth Super Rainbow is both some of the best music, and probably the best band name, ever.
I like this album okay? I do not really understand what is so great about Okkervil River, and would love it if someone could explain it to me. I think the guys voice sounds like Jens Lekman, but I do not like it as much as Jens Lekman.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: squawk on 16 Jul 2008, 03:19 ---i listened to the stage names just before this and they're both amazing but this one is superior oh my god
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Nicely done. The Stand-Ins is the companion record to The Stage Names, for those of you who don't know; it was originally planned as a double album.
Tom:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 16 Jul 2008, 09:33 ---
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 16 Jul 2008, 03:34 ---There is also something ironic about "Pop Lie", "On Tour with Zykos" and Meiburg's recent departure.
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How is it ironic? Meiburg and Sheff had different ideas as to where they wanted the band to go, just as they did with Shearwater, so each man took his own project and both got better in the process. Seriously, if you haven't listened to "Rook" yet you are seriously missing out.
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Just seems really bitter
--- Quote ---He gets close, but I choke
Take your shit, take your clothes
And get out of my home
I want you to love me
Or I want you long gone
You say your real name is John
Hey, thanks John
Go sings songs, go rock on
Roll your crew on down the road
To the next sold out show
Think you can get up above me?
Well, I want you to know
You're a figure of fun to everyone
Beneath the lone star, neon blue broken sign
They wish they were you
Like I wish you were mine
What a dumb thing to do
How come I shout goodbye when god knows I just want to
Make this white lie big enough to climb inside
With you
Another day, lost and gone
Clipping pages from the news for the senator's son
Well, he just strolls through the lobby
And glad hands everyone
Another day, tossed and done
I go home
Take off clothes
Smoke a bowl
Watched a whole TV movie
I was supposed to be writing
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The most beautiful poems
And completely revealing
Divine mysteries of cloaks
I can't say that I'm feeling all that much at all
At 27 years old
I'm disgust with desire by the guys who conspire at the only decent bar in town
And they drink MGD's
And they wish they had me
Like I wish I had fire
What a sad way to be
What a girl who got tired
So, I wonder who you got your hooks in tonight
Was she happy to be hooked and on your arm?
Did she feel alive?
Her head all light
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considering, to quote Shearwater's publicist released the following statement:
--- Quote --- Jonathan Meiburg, frontman for Shearwater, has announced that he is leaving Okkervil River to focus exclusively on Shearwater. Meiburg says the split is "completely amicable," and that Shearwater has grown to the point that it excludes his further participation in Okkervil. "This is just a logical extension of the way things have been going since Palo Santo," Meiburg adds. "Shearwater's increasingly demanding schedule has meant that I've performed with Okkervil less and less over the past two years, and with Rook coming out in June, we all felt that it would be best if I completely disengaged from Okkervil rather than stretch myself too thin."
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imapiratearg:
Sounds more like Sheff was writing from a woman's perspective than his own or Meiburg's.
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