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[Nighthawk 0]

So I really like the word starfucker. There's a band called the Sneetches and that's the name of one of their albums. Even though I know absolutely nothing about them, I'm tempted to listen to them based on that alone. And honestly, Sneetches is a pretty good name for a band as well.

 

Even if I never listened to it, an album called Starfucker by the Sneetches is worth having just for the wall dressing.

[Matt Young 0]

Was that released before or after Nine Inch Nails' song, "Starfuckers Inc."?

[Nighthawk 0]

Before. It was named in reference to the original title of the Stones' "Star Star", so I suppose they deserve the credit.

Yeah, I think I'm getting this. The Sneetches sound like good stuff. They seem like the kind of band Incandenza would love. If he sees this, he should give me an opinion.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Haven't heard them. Looking for them on soulseek, though I don't think I'll have any luck.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Come On Die Young is Mogwai's best album, though the consensus has it being their weakest. It's also an album that, unlike every other Mogwai release, demands you listen to it from start to finish—each of its 67 minutes—for maximum enjoyment.

 

I should mention I like the way this album builds. The first half is all mellow and nocturnal, before launching into "Ex-cowboy"—which very subtly introduces white noise into the mix—seguing into "Chocky"—which continues the trend, albeit in a less discreet fashion—concluding with the totally awesome "Christmas Steps"—which starts in the same leisurely fashion of the songs from early in the record prior to launching into some fucking killer metal riffing.

 

Overall, the album requires great patience on behalf of the listener, but I think it is worth it.

[Nighthawk 0]

I couldn't find any Sneetches for download either, but I ordered one of their albums used for a couple bucks (not Starfucker unfortunately). Worth that much for a try. While I was shopping I also got Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid based on your recommendation.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Speaking of Stars of the Lid, one-half of that act makes up the Dead Texan. The Dead Texan has an album of the same name, an album that is a bit more song-oriented (but not really) than SOTL's stuff, and might be a bit more accessible to those who have an interest in ambient-type music.

 

Oh, the Dead Texan cd comes with a DVD of visuals to accompany the tracks. I've only skimmed the videos, but it seems a little too faggy for my liking. Not the good kind of faggy, either.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

TV On the Radio's cover of "Mr. Grieves" is superior to the original. Bauhaus's cover "Ziggy Stardust" is inferior to the original.

 

I don't blame anyone for not thinking so of the former, but anyone who disagrees with the latter is batshit fucking loony.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Also, the Circle Jerks did a better job with "I Wanna Destroy You" than the Soft Boys, but motherfuck a Circle Jerks, mostly. The Soft Boys were better than your life, not to mention Keith Morris' midget ass.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Doesn't he spell it Kieth? Whattalamer. When I saw the Rollins Band, he came in and did vocals on the first 7 or 8 songs and was pretty weak.

 

I picked up the Ultramagnetic MC's Critical Beatdown this weekend, and it's easily as good as advertised.

[Nighthawk 0]

Come On Die Young is Mogwai's best album, though the consensus has it being their weakest.

So anyway, I've never listened to an entire Mogwai album, but I get the same thing with Tom Waits. Neither are my absolute favorite, but Heartattack and Vine and The Black Rider are two of my favorite Waits albums, also commonly considered weaker releases.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

The Black Rider is pretty cool. I had the good fortune to see the theatrical performance of it while I was in London this summer. Shit's crazy, yo, and "Lucky Day" remains one of Waits' coolest numbers.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Save for "The Briar and the Rose," The Black Rider induces only comas.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

The Mars Volta sucks, but man the Pfork review of the new album is just as terrible:

 

Frances largely retains the audacity of De-Loused's lyrics.

 

"Cassandra Gemini" approaches storytelling with the same breed of macabre circumlocution that pocked the band's debut. (A grizzled, possibly vocoded voice delivers this bracing narrative: "There was a frail syrup dripping off his lap-danced lapel, punctuated by her decrepit prowl/ She washed down the hatching, gizzard soft as a mane of needles.") But no matter what your feelings for De-Loused, at least the band had a mind to curtail their most capricious jams before they lost all context. Here, they seem hellbent on making an album that's as contiguous as possible, and the result is a homogeneous shitheap of stream-of-consciousness turgidity.

 

Holy shit, this guy is just as bad as Cedric Bixler.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Maybe it was a prog review.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Save for "The Briar and the Rose," The Black Rider induces only comas.

The intro to that song, "That's the Way," is good, too. There was a period a couple of years back where I played that twofer on my show every week for about a month.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I listened to Big Star's Radio City four times today.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

I can't stop listening to Interpol lately. I finally bought Turn On the Bright Lights and have listened to it several times, yet I can't seem to understand why it was universally praised as superior to Antics. The music is great, as are the lyrics, but the vocals, I think, are awful and really bring the album down.

[Anorak 0]

I listened to Big Star's Radio City four times today.

The latest UNCUT magazine has a really good article on Big Star that's well worth a read.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I'll peruse it next time I'm at Borders or something.

 

Speaking of Big Star, the first two albums are terrific, but the sequencing's a bit off. #1 Record ends with this weird little squibble of a song, which feels more like an interlude than a conclusion. Radio City comes closer to getting it right, but still misses the mark; its "I'm in Love With a Girl"—a brief, spare piece that's just Chilton and a guitar—could pull off its closing position easily if it had followed some epic number (sorta like the calm after the storm), but it doesn't. Instead, it is preceded by another short, but far more forgettable track called "Morpha Too." Weird.

 

At least Third/Sister Lovers gets it right. "Take Care" is a fantastic closer. That the album itself is overrated is another matter.

[Anorak 0]

I love the last three songs on that album, none of them are overlong and just go together well. The album's slightly overrated but I wouldn't say hideously so like some albums are.

[Modern Man's Hustle 0]

I downloaded Lil Jon's Crunk Juice. It's probably the worst thing I've ever listened to.

[Nighthawk 0]

You have the worst opinions I've ever listened to.

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

I'll peruse it next time I'm at Borders or something.

 

Speaking of Big Star, the first two albums are terrific, but the sequencing's a bit off. #1 Record ends with this weird little squibble of a song, which feels more like an interlude than a conclusion. Radio City comes closer to getting it right, but still misses the mark; its "I'm in Love With a Girl"—a brief, spare piece that's just Chilton and a guitar—could pull off its closing position easily if it had followed some epic number (sorta like the calm after the storm), but it doesn't. Instead, it is preceded by another short, but far more forgettable track called "Morpha Too." Weird.

 

At least Third/Sister Lovers gets it right. "Take Care" is a fantastic closer. That the album itself is overrated is another matter.

Just out of interest, what's your favorite of the Big Star records?

 

I bought Sister/Third a long while back and liked it a lot, but since everyone is always saying "omgz best big star album ever it's soooo good omgz" I found it a bit overrated and was sort of turned off from checking out the other albums.

 

For the record though, I'm not a huge fan of their Velvet Underground cover.

Edited March 4, 2005 by 5_moves_of_doom

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

That "Femme Fatale" cover is lame, mainly for Chilton sounding like a woman. He's not a woman.

 

Radio City is my favorite Big Star, if only for the lack of Chris Bell. Bell's contributions to #1 Record are quality, but hardly great.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I was once indifferent to Le Tigre, but after hearing that goddamn song "Deceptacon" five times today, I hate them. I fucking hate them.

[Nighthawk 0]

Le Tigre was the name of this Mexican supermarket I used to like to go to.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

That Le Tigre song—which I never cared much for—gets played all the time at this scenester bar I occasionally patronize. Well, my gf recently bought the album from which it appears.

 

The song itself appears in two versions on the record. The album itself is very short, so I ended up hearing two slightly different, but mostly similar forms several times during the course of a couple of hours, as she would not change the goddamn CD.

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

That Le Tigre song—which I never cared much for—gets played all the time at this scenester bar I occasionally patronize. Well, my gf recently bought the album from which it appears.

 

The song itself appears in two versions on the record. The album itself is very short, so I ended up hearing two slightly different, but mostly similar forms several times during the course of a couple of hours, as she would not change the goddamn CD.

You should break up with her.

 

 

 

And by the way IDRM, who the hell is that in that image in your profile. I've read dozens of posts by you today, and each one has been made distinctly haunting every time I see that.

[Nighthawk 0]

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