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David_Dovey:
Searching For a Former Clarity is probably my favourite AM! album, I honestly think a lot of people were basically looking for an excuse to accuse them of selling out, and nothing they did was gonna change their minds.
I like New Wave for that matter too, and consider it a good record let down by it's production (Butch Vig is a cunt, a serious cunt of a man.) and what seems like Gabel's need to pre-emptively react to the critics in his lyrics.
Kyros:
Laura Stevenson & The Cans - http://www.myspace.com/laurastevenson
Nana Grizol - http://www.myspace.com/nanagrizol
spoon_of_grimbo:
i'll get shit for this, but i think white crosses is against me's finest work. but then again, i prefer the later replacements stuff to the earlier stuff, and it's clear tom and co look up to the 'mats in a big way.
imapiratearg:
Tom can still write a strong song, but with each album his pop sensibilities just seem to grow even more refined, and I think people are repulsed by that. It's like people think that his music is no good anymore if he's not writing anthems about subverting the current paradigm or whatever.
leftandleaving:
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
All of Gabel's most recent songs are about events or people, never about his ideas or his feelings or interpretations, just his reactions to things happening around him. I miss him being actually angry about things and willing to stand up and tell you "let someone take our place, let them be your entertainment." I know that he said it, then he did it, but I wish he would at least continue writing more... honest songs. Since the end of Searching, no song has been even half as heartfelt as anything from earlier albums. It's all so boring. Also, without the smart lyrics, all I can focus on is how bad his annunciation is of words. SUFFOCASHUN <doodledoo>.
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