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Title: The Decemberists
Post by: ASturge on 26 Jan 2005, 14:00: i love everything that the decemberists have done (except red right ankle) and i cant wait to get the album.

is it any good and will it live up to my expectations?

sturge
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: kilconey on 26 Jan 2005, 19:10: i got "her majesty" right around christmastime. and yes, it is really incredible (and what's wrong with red right ankle? that song is pretty :)
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: swordskill on 26 Jan 2005, 19:11: the only one I have is The Tain which I am in love with.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Benu on 26 Jan 2005, 19:21: The tain is awsome. (+ all their songs)
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: El Opium on 26 Jan 2005, 20:03: I might try and go see em in Iowa city with Okkervil River should be a good show if I can make it.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: lazarus18 on 26 Jan 2005, 21:15: I only have Her Majesty The Decembersists. How do the other albums compare?

-Rob
Title: Re: The Decemberists
Post by: Psiogen on 27 Jan 2005, 00:52: "Red Right Ankle" is great! One of the highlights of Her Majesty.

The new album is excellent. I think Castaways & Cutouts is still my favorite, but their stuff is all very close in quality. I've never heard of anybody who likes one of their albums but not the others.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Spencer on 27 Jan 2005, 08:04: by "new" do you mean the The Tain EP? Or have they finally put out thier next full length?

Anywho, I've got Castaways, Majesty, and Tain, and they all just rule my face so hard. I used to feel sorta dirty for liking them, but I eventually came to embrace them whole heartedly. They currently reside in near permamnet rotation in my disc man, and have become one of my favorite artists of late.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: ASturge on 27 Jan 2005, 08:29: well, i think they got a new one out called "picaresque" it sounds good.

the tain is absolutly amazing!!!
i wiosh they'd hurry up and tour england. its ages till their next one =/
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: munga on 27 Jan 2005, 17:52: Quote from: El Opium
I might try and go see em in Iowa city with Okkervil River should be a good show if I can make it.

saw them at grinnell about this time last year... for free! excellent show.... they even performed ALL of the tain ep.

april 6th, the mill. i will be there.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: kilconey on 27 Jan 2005, 20:02: the decemberists are one of those bands that always seem to have an infinitely large back catalogue. i apparently haven't even begun with them...
And so far they're not coming anywhere near Michigan or Ohio on this spring tour of theirs. So not cool.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Psiogen on 27 Jan 2005, 22:37: Quote from: Spencer
by "new" do you mean the The Tain EP? Or have they finally put out thier next full length?

Their new piratelicious album, Picaresque, going to be out in about a month. Though the Tain EP is great too!
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Samedi on 27 Jan 2005, 22:43: The Mariner's Revenge Song is handcrafted with only the most awesomest of awesome. I could listen to that forever. Or at least a few times on repeat anyway.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Johnny C on 28 Jan 2005, 19:51: Quote from: ASturge
i wish they'd hurry up and tour england. its ages till their next one =/

I wish good bands would hurry up and tour Canada, but they never do. We have to make do with... with...

Dammit.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: ASturge on 29 Jan 2005, 01:44: aye, tisnt fair

*smashes face on wall
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Post by: Spencer on 31 Jan 2005, 10:55: listened to Picaresque this weekend. My first impression is that I will need to listen to it a few more times for it to grow on me. There wasnt anything that stood out to me right away other than the seemingly anti-america song, which I didnt enjoy. Gotta listen to it a few more times before I make a final judgement.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Staplegun on 31 Jan 2005, 18:25: I think I'm the only person on the planet that doesn't like these guys.

I saw them in concert with the French Kicks and thought the FK were MUCH better.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Kai on 31 Jan 2005, 19:22: Quote from: Johnny C
Quote from: ASturge
i wish they'd hurry up and tour england. its ages till their next one =/

I wish good bands would hurry up and tour Canada, but they never do. We have to make do with... with...

Dammit.

I think Rush toured Canada once. :D
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Sturge on 01 Feb 2005, 03:28: Quote from: ASturge
aye, tisnt fair

*smashes face on wall

haha, 'good' gigs, when you went to see greenday.

lots of good bands tour, you just wont/can't go and see them.
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Post by: Cpt.Fantastic on 01 Feb 2005, 12:13: Hmm... I went to see Green Day but I'm not elitist so I don't care. Get out of that one Alex...
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Post by: Apathy on 01 Feb 2005, 12:35: I heard Greenday's Manchester gig last weekend was really good actually. I didn't go but a few of my friends like a bit of Greenday, and the feedback has all been positive.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: ASturge on 01 Feb 2005, 13:54: whats wrong with green day!?

theyre a good band and American Idiot is a pretty darn good album
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Post by: grumpy's on 29 Apr 2006, 00:10: i heard about this band today are they good ..? my frend said they are good but he lies a lot. Thanks!
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Post by: Microfilm on 29 Apr 2006, 05:57: Definitely a big bump, I was really confused because I was like "New cd? There were no announcements... Picaresque came out already!"

Anyway... I love The Decemberists. They're my favorite band. I've had the worst luck this year, though. When they were here, it was on a Wednesday and I couldn't go to their concert and I couldn't go see Colin Meloy's solo tour either because it was on a Monday.

They're an excellent band. I have a lot of respect for each member just for their talents.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Microfilm on 29 Apr 2006, 21:18: School. I'm 16.
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Post by: Hat on 30 Apr 2006, 00:17: School? Jeez. If I need to see a band, and I can't get the next day off work, unless they are a band touring from overseas, I usually don't bother, because I'll be able to see them again in the next year or so, but when I was back in school I would just go to a gig, and then to school and sleep all day.

You just cannot get fired from school for sleeping, no matter how hard you try.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: eternie on 30 Apr 2006, 02:27: I actually didn't like them when I listened. Maybe I was in the wrong mood.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Hat on 30 Apr 2006, 06:42: I find the only time I really find myself in the mood for the Decemberists is when I stumble in late at night, after spending the night in a shitty dive, trying to hit on sleazy women.

That is, I am constantly finding myself in the mood to listen to the Decemberists. They add a touch of baroque romance to the filthy squalor in which I live.
Title: The Decemberists
Post by: Garcin on 30 Apr 2006, 09:34: I've listened to Picaresque so many times that I've developed a slight whale phobia. Has anyone purchased the Colin Meloy solo EPs?
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Post by: pip_helix on 30 Apr 2006, 20:17: i just got the colin meloy solos today, and i really don't know what to make of them. the morrissey one is really good, but the other one is...eh. it's okay, but i only like it cos i like colin meloy.

kind of a shame.