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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Will on 21 Nov 2006, 08:32
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I don't know if this is old news or not, but I just read that Explosions In The Sky has posted a new song from their upcoming album. Here is a direct link to the file (it's an mp4 file)
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/mp3s/explosions_welcomeghosts.mp4
I'm trying to decide how I feel about this so far. I guess I like it, but it sounds hells of similar to "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place."
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Thank you.
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Yay! :-D
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love the new song. i'm seeing them in february and i'm aready extremely impatient. actually, i see them the day the new album comes out so i'll be getting it at the show. so far the new album is looking fantastic.
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I will never understand what the appeal of this band is (saying "it's great to sleep/make-out to", like everyone I know that justifies their listning, is ridiculous).
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I will never understand what the appeal of this band is (saying "it's great to sleep/make-out to", like everyone I know that justifies their listning, is ridiculous).
Philistine! *pause* Just kidding. I think it's an aquired taste, just like Agalloch, Mastodon, and the likes aren't palatable to me but I love me some Explosions in the Sky and GY!BE and such. I actually listen to this kind of stuff a lot, i.e. beyond making out and sleeping.
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Explosions in the Sky are pretty cool. They will most likely hit Minneapolis on this tour (finally), and I will most likely be at their concert. Unless it is at First Ave. and is 18+ (which it most likely will be). Goddammit.
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I like bands that are well orchestrated such as Godspeed and the like, but Explosions (and bands similar them, i.e. Saxon Shore, Unwed Sailor, etc.) just seem so medial to me.
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I can understand someone disliking them because their songs sound extremely similar to one-another.
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I really liked The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place, but I hope that this new album is different, and not just The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place AGAIN.
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I really like EitS' first two records and think they're supremely good live and from what I can tell, really nice dudes too.
But GODDAMN do they need to explore some new sounds. And I don't even necessarily mean different instrumentation or songwriting styles or orchestration*, I just mean CHANGING THE SETTINGS ON THEIR AMPS. I swear to God, ever since The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place it's like they welded the knobs into place.
All I can really think about is how much better their sense of melody would get highlighted if they used something other than that one tone over and over again.
*: Of course, if you hired me to produce an album of theirs, I would hold them at gunpoint until they agreed to use some frigging acoustic guitars and piano or something in their songs.
I always feel like such a dick saying things like this though, I know they bust their ass to write and play their music and it's shitty to have some tard on the internet get all would-be-rock-critic about it. I just wish they'd broaden their spectrum a little bit.
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I like it and I love this band!
MORE!
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*: Of course, if you hired me to produce an album of theirs, I would hold them at gunpoint until they agreed to use some frigging acoustic guitars and piano or something in their songs.
Oh, so you want them to become Coldplay?
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Yeah, because coldplay are the only band in existance to EVER use an acoustic guitar or piano.
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Relax, don't get so defensive. I'm just making fun. You have to admit, though, the pacing for most of both bands' songs sound similar. Ah, forget I said anything.
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They have a similarity to Coldplay only when they add some distortion to their guitars.
Oh irony.