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Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
Jackie Blue:
holy shit that's intense.
that's like the "i'm sorry, and i miss you" in "Good Morning Captain" only times a million.
Liz:
It was pretty crazy.
gospel:
It's definitely my (biased) album of the year. It's a lot more immediate than its sister album, The Stage Names, which will ultimately earn it lower ratings by music critics.
I was a bit stunned at the lack of reaction at the live show i saw the other day to the new songs. I love Black Sheep Boy and Westfall as much as the next guy, but the new songs are great live too.
And, Sheff always knows how to write a closing song ot a CD.
TheFuriousWombat:
OR was among my favorite bands and then I stopped listening to them for a long time. I recently started again, mostly to older material (which I think is better than their still excellent newer stuff) and fell in love all over again. They're one of the few bands that can consistently give me chills with a lot of songs every time I hear them. Scheff is a staggeringly good lyricist, never overly complex but often poignant and beautiful. He can take a simple theme and spin out something like "when I fell on the concrete, you went white as a sheet and wished that nothing in this world would ever hurt me. Well, keep wishing" and make it sound heart-breaking. I'm sure that if I ever happened to listen to "Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas" when I was already upset it would make me weep. And so on. My point is that hearing all the hype about this new one, and seriously thinking it's terrific, has made me go back once again into their catalog and recognize how they truly are among the best bands out there right now. Congrats Scheff and co. on a job well done.
gospel:
Was trolling metacrtici's top albums of 2008 in hopes of finding a new CD. At any rate, I didn't see this CD on the top ~40 so I did a search:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/okkervilriver/standins?q=okkervil
What the hell?
Even more absurd: http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/22723970/review/22787116/the_stand_ins
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