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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: jeph on 18 May 2008, 19:13
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n/t
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Consider yourself lucky that you avoided them for so long. They're a pretty good summary of everything that's wrong with indie rock.
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I still have not listened to more than one song by Of Montreal. I can't say I'm motivated by that one song to change this either.
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I am listening to Hissing Fauna... right now and enjoying it immensely, although I can also see what would turn some people off about it.
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Just now? Really? Wow. But they're so fantastic and Kevin Barnes is so sexy.
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I am usually a fan of most of the Elephant 6 related crowd, but I really do not like Of Montreal at all.
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I wouldn't call you a tool, you're just a little slow. We'll let it by this time.
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You don't realy have an excuse but meh, whatever
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I am usually a fan of most of the Elephant 6 related crowd, but I really do not like Of Montreal at all.
Same here.
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It took me two tries before I liked Hissing Fauna, but I pretty much agree with Jeph.
They're the sort of band that I like immensely but I won't hold it against someone if they don't.
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I actually only like their last three realeases, the rest of their stuff just hasn't really done anything for me. That said, I fucking love Hissing Fauna.
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I could understand people not liking Of Montreal, but I really don't see the absolute hatred that has so far run rampant in this topic.
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I haven't listened to them yet, but I don't really listen to much indie in general. This is why I subscribed to Paste.
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I just got into them too. I absolutely adore The Gay Parade, I haven't heard much else. Unfortunately, I kinda overplayed it the first week I had it (more than twice some days...), So I haven't listened to it in a while.
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Listen to Coquelicot!
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This band is the worst. Basically epitomizes everything I hate about bullshit generic indie rawk.
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Bullshit generic indie rawk? They are basically like two entirely different bands with two entirely different sounds. The only thing that has stayed the same from Cherry Peel to Hissing Fauna is Kevin Barnes' voice, and even that is stretching it.
My favorite song is Let's do Everything for the First Time Forever. It is stupidly twee and ridiculously sweet.
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Of Montreal are so far away from being rock guys, so don't say they're "everything wrong with indie rock".
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I'm not sure how indie they are either. They are just good stuff.
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Sod genres. I like them because they write music that engages my brain* (that's why I also like, say, NMH). They're a bit samey when taken in too large a quantity at once, though. My preferred album is Aldhils Arboretum, but Satanic Panic in the Attic shows some development; I've not heard later than that yet.
Paul
* My musical brain, that is. Remember I'm a classical musician looking around here to broaden his mind, so I appreciate the way music is constructed as well as how it sounds.
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They used to be on Kindercore but now they are on Polivinyl.
I don't think it is even possible to say they are everything wrong, if only because the incredible difference between their stuff.
Hissing Fauna was almost my favourite album from last year. Everything about it seemed right, even now. It is an album I can relate to in many ways, most of them depressing.
edit: to the dude above. Listen to The Gay Parade and then to Hissing Fauna and you'll see development.
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Of Montreal was my first indie rock experience. From there I went to E6 and then branched out further.
I find it strange and foreign that a man who I thought of as an authority on indie is only now experiencing them.
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That's nothing.
Just this last week I heard this band, The Pavements? Apparently they're pretty famous.
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Caspian and Kai pretty much got it.
I can't stand Of Montreal, never could.
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Hissing Fauna was almost my favourite album from last year. Everything about it seemed right, even now. It is an album I can relate to in many ways, most of them depressing.
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You should probably label that link NSFW, tommy.
Some of us do have to worry about that sort of thing. Good thing I'm at home right now and haven't gone into work yet.
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It's a good thing that my little brothers and any other family members didn't come into my room when I left to go to the bathroom while the image was loading.
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There are numerous photos of black metal guys with their cocks hanging out, either accidentally or deliberately.
I doubt that's what it's a reference too, though.
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Guys, I don't see anything wrong with Of Montreal. I just downloaded Hissing Fauna... last night and I enjoyed it a lot. I'd had Satanic Panic in the Attic before that and I didn't find anything wrong with that either.
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There's always a price for referencing something. (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01252002)
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Are Of Montreal the band that actually has nothing to do with Montreal but is like from Maine or something but they called themselves Of Montreal so people would think they were canadians and buy their shit?
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That list of bands is pretty long dude.
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@ Khar
I didn't belive that a band called Of Montreal would actually have the audacity to call themselves that and not actually be from Montreal, but I searched wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Montreal) to find out for sure. They are actually from Athens, Georgia. Fucking Georgia. According to wikipedia, Kevin named the band after a failed romance with a girl from Montreal.
Poor show Of Montreal.
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I am usually a fan of most of the Elephant 6 related crowd, but I really do not like Of Montreal at all.
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I think they sound like The Beatles in their early years. Which is good but no wonderful.
But they start doing drugs and come out with something like "I am the Walrus" well, then I have to like them.
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I think they sound like The Beatles in their early years.
Eh?
Paul
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Maybe he was thinking of Deerhoof
Also,
Just this last week I heard this band, The Pavements? Apparently they're pretty famous.
sig'd
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I just got into them as well.
Love 'em. Especially their cover of the Yoko Ono song "Smashing My Face Through a Clear Glass Window."
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@ Khar
I didn't belive that a band called Of Montreal would actually have the audacity to call themselves that and not actually be from Montreal, but I searched wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Montreal) to find out for sure. They are actually from Athens, Georgia. Fucking Georgia. According to wikipedia, Kevin named the band after a failed romance with a girl from Montreal.
Poor show Of Montreal.
Hey guys, did you know that I'm From Barcelona is not from Barcelona? That the B-52s weren't actually trained as Bomber pilots in WWII?
Guys, soon you're going to tell me that the Sea and Cake is not just a microphone held up as a dude throws some Devil's food into the Adriatic.
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hey guys of montreal are pretty cool i like them they rock :evil:
No but seriously they need to make more tracks like The Past Is A Grotesque Animal.
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I can't help but be reminded of steak whenever I hear them.
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hurrrr my post. quote tunnels are lame.
Hey guys, did you know that I'm From Barcelona is not from Barcelona? That the B-52s weren't actually trained as Bomber pilots in WWII?
Guys, soon you're going to tell me that the Sea and Cake is not just a microphone held up as a dude throws some Devil's food into the Adriatic.
People don't think it's cool to listen to music made by people in Barcelona, people who were WWII bomber pilots, or devils food cake like how they think it is cool to listen to music made by people from Montreal.
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First time I heard them was that Outback Steakhouse commercial.
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No but seriously they need to make more tracks like The Past Is A Grotesque Animal.
The driving melancholy on that track is just fantastic. Unfortunately, I completely overplayed Hissing Fauna... the first week or two after I got it, and haven't listened to it much since
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i think The Past Is a Grotesque Animal is my least favorite track on that cd. which isn't saying much because i fucking love the entire thing but it's not really something i can actively listen to because it's so repetive and goes on for, what 11 minutes or something?
it's absolutely fine if i'm driving because i can sing and along and not be even be aware that's it's one long track but i tried to show a friend a certain part ("i'm ronking out/i'm gonking out" [?] or whatever he says) and it made me realize how absurdly boring and slightly annoying that song is.
I think they sound like The Beatles in their early years.
Eh?
Paul
he's probably referring to The Gay Parade which does sound alot like the Beatles when they were on lots of drugs. it's alot different from their newer stuff which is more conventional poppy stuff. personally, i like The Gay Parade more than Hissing Fauna but that might just be because i heard it first so it has sentimental value...plus i know all the words and i like to sing along.
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I just like how proggy the track is, how it builds on minor variations over time. And the driving melody is, indeed, fantastic. When the background vocals ("ohhhh-ohhhh-ohhhh, ohhhh-ohhhh-ohhhh") come in I feel tingly inside.
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yes, it's a great song. it's actually a really great song. i'm actually listening to it right now and i think my real problem with it is that i can't listen to it with other people (none of my friends like the same music as me) but i can listen to it by myself fine; actively or not.
my first post was a little poorly worded.
also, i don't think it's my least favorite track like i said...it's not my favorite and i can't explicitly name a track that i like less than it but i'm sure there is one because i can't even think of how the last three tracks go so maybe i don't like those ones very much? i don't know.
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I think Of Montreal's name is the least offensive thing about them. I'm pretty sure nobody ever thought they were actually from Montreal. Just like nobody thinks Architecture In Helsinki are from Helsinki, or that I Am the World Trade Center are a post-9/11 New York band.
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I actually thought they were from montreal. Sue me.
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Man, you'd probably think I'm From Barcelona is from Barcelona too
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Or that Boston and Chicago were from Boston and Chicago.
Oh, wait...
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Man, you'd probably think I'm From Barcelona is from Barcelona too
Well no but that's probably because I'm swedish. Besides, it doesn't really affect their music where they're from anyway so why would it matter?
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I don't quite like the way the guy writes, but I more or less agree with the gist of it. I'd probably agree more if I never saw the guy's junk. Thanks, Tommy.
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exactly.
p.s. does that girl in your avatar have a fish on her head?
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Hey guys, that is how you live in a capitalist society. Conformity and abuse of socio-economic positions are really the only major problems of one.
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nothing about this adds up
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I... think it is, at least.
Guys I am fucking up every single part of the forum and spoiling interesting discussions. I am going to bed now.
Now back to the pressing issue of the suckitude of Of Montreal.
And Jeph's Big Tool.
Or something.
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The role of Peter Pan is played by a woman
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(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s168/pilsner888/kevinistotallytheman.jpg)
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FINALLY MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE
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Kevin Barnes really just wishes he was Dr. Frank-en-furter
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Listen to Coquelicot!
Yes yes yes. Yes yes yes yes. Coquelicot is like nothing I've ever heard before, a truly original album. I hated Hissing Fauna... though, and I'm hesitant about their next one.
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First time I heard them was that Outback Steakhouse commercial.
well im awfully glad im not the only one to own up to that :-)
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I remember being pissed that this band called Paris, Texas weren't from Paris, Texas. I was also pissed that they sucked.
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Not as pissed as Emilio was.
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So, this didn't seem that far back, and I was wondering why nobody else brought it up before.
Let's go Outback tonight!
Taking my favorite song from Of Montreal and associating it with steak (my favorite food). GENIUS.
Also, it's ok, Jeph. I only got into them in February.
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Did you... actually... you know, read the thread? That was mentioned in a handful of posts, and it's not like it's a large enough thread to gloss over...