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New Decemberists Singles Leaked
phantompenguin:
--- Quote from: conn on 26 Sep 2008, 15:54 ---Valerie Plame is simple, but fun and catchy. I enjoyed it, but I would have cut the last minute and a quarter- it really gets repetitive and plain annoying very quickly.
I actually really like Days of Elaine. It's quick and upbeat, and I find I prefer those kinds of songs from the Decemberists.
O New England isn't bad, but largely forgettable.
I plain just don't like I'm Sticking With You. Ugh, it just rubs me the wrong way.
Record Year is pretty great, yeah.
Raincoat Song is just like O New England- not bad, but forgettable.
Overall, it's a relatively mediocre output from the Decemberists. It... sort of seems like all the songs are b songs- in that none of the songs really stand out amongst the others.
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Those are a lot of insightful comments you have there.
I don't know what you guys are on about, I don't listen to the decemberists that much but based on the first track this sounds more or less like everything I've heard from them - simple and fun to the point of feeling like powerpop, relying on unabashedly conventional and melodic composition and a whole lot of fun sounds in the arrangement. Just listening to the first track, they throw a lot of eggs into this basket but they've been doing it (again, more or less the same thing) for so long repeatedly that they know how to make it all work. Horns, keyboards, etc. all pretty well executed. The bassline is borderline-insufferably bouncy and optimistic, but that's how it goes for them, isn't it?
I find Colin meloy's voice really annoying btw.
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oh i forgot to say the one thing i really like - colin meloy writes really good tunes! and if it weren't for that this band would have zero appeal to me.
ashashash:
The lyrics to "Valerie Plame" seem really sub-par.
"I'm Sticking With You" kind of started out sounding like something the Magnetic Fields would do, but I got vaguely irritated by it and didn't listen to the end.
I don't know how I feel about these songs yet, actually. I'll listen to them a few more times and see if they grow on me I guess.
MobyDickhole:
if it wasn't already mentioned, 'I'm sticking with you' is a cover of a song by the velvet underground. it was recently featured in Juno
And I really like 'Valerie Plame'
And you have to remember, this is not the LP, these are essentially B- Sides.
The stuff Colin has lined up for the album is really good.
He's been playing some of it at his solo shows.
The song Burying Avy is probably my favorite that I've heard, because it's AWESOME.:
http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/mp3/Colin%20Meloy%2001%20Burying%20Avy.mp3
More:
http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/08/15/six-new-songs-by-the-decemberists/
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