Comments which don't warrant a thread.

[Epic Reine 0]

I can't wait for the STP "Army of Anyone sucked and was a terrible idea since day 1 and Velvet Revolver is out of steam" tour!

[Kinetic 0]

In the spirit of Necrobucket, here's two fake song titles and band names:

 

Hip Hop/R&B: Jung Billz (feat. Lil Wayne & T-Pain)- "We Ain't Did Nothing (We Ain't Sposed to Did)"

 

Punk: The Krust Kids- "Crust Never Sleeps"

 

Pretty lame.

[justsoyouknow 0]

Re: Coachella: There's only about ten of those bands that I have any interest whatsoever in seeing (Black Kids being one of them, Tegan & Sara, My Morning Jacket some of the others). I always say I'm going to go, but I never, ever do. Perhaps I'll get around to it this year.

 

Re: Sage Francis: He started out incredibly promising, and Personal Journals is where he began to make a marked descent into almost parody. And he's a vegan, so fuck him.

[Retard Girl 0]

[Mik 0]

Still no takers on the Vampire Weekend CD? I figured some of you would have listened to it by now with all the buzz it's getting.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Is that MC Serch playing the dad in that video?

[Retard Girl 0]

my research on the topic has come up inconclusive.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Went over to my parents' house today. Mom was at work, and dad was BLARING Iron Butterfly while fixing the sink. I surprised him while his head was under the sink and scared him. Surprised he survived. Hilarious.

[Copper Feel 0]

The Little Miss Sunshihjne Soundtrack is enjoyable to my ears.

[Copper Feel 0]

You may think the film is hyped more than it should be, but that Russain dude;s goodsm.

[RepoMan 0]

The Little Miss Sunshihjne Soundtrack is enjoyable to my ears.

So they bothered to re-release IlliNoise plus the stripper music.

[Copper Feel 0]

That's what it's?n

[C Dubya 04 0]

Still no takers on the Vampire Weekend CD? I figured some of you would have listened to it by now with all the buzz it's getting.

 

I think I need to give it a few more listens, but I like it just fine for now. They seem a bit like an indie version of Paul Simon, which isn't as good as I expected it to be when that inevitably happened. I think that leads to some of my disappointment. If that makes sense.

 

 

Also, has any other band ever gone from pretty much underground hype to mainstream MTV hype in less time?

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I just listened to it and it's not particularly interesting. Most of the album sounds effortless to a fault, and the vocals have a certain Paul Simon is assfucking the guy from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah un-charm about them (which I mean not in the sense that he sounds like Paul Simon, which a lot of people seem to be suggesting, but that Paul Simon is actually forcibly violating Alec Ounsworth and not letting him get up until he puts a calliope and three xylophones on a given track). "Blake's Got a New Face" is really lame. I like "I Stand Corrected," which is one of the only songs to get away from all the dithering "we use bongos and steel drums and flute-sounds" shit. I think these guys could do something pretty cool if they dropped a lot of the extraneous twiddling and didn't so actively push that to the forefront of their songs.

 

 

[The Man in Blak 0]

Who gets the blame for starting the trend of tasteless over-arrangement in recent indie music anyway? Is that a Sufjan Stevens thing?

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Could be. On the topic, check out this miserable excerpt from the horrible review of the album up at Pitchfork today:

If there's anything the happy New York kids in this band have learned from listening to African music, it's the difference between "pop" and "rock": Vampire Weekend's debut album announces straight off that it's the former. The first sound on the first song, "Mansard Roof", comes from Rostam Batmanglij's keyboard, set to a perky, almost piping tone-- the kind of sunny sound you'd hear in old west-African pop. Same goes for Ezra Koenig's guitar, which never takes up too much space; it's that clean, natural tone you'd get on a record from Senegal or South Africa.

I just want to teabag this guy into submission for so many reasons.

[MrRant 0]

Who has big balls? Edwin has big balls.

[justsoyouknow 0]

Who the fuck listens to old West-African pop?

[Kinetic 0]

Old West Africans, presumably.

[Kinetic 0]

I've listened a few songs from this so far. It's fun. It's jaunty.

[Mik 0]

Wow. I had a hard time reading that whole review. It's on that funny level of bad where you can't tell if any of it is supposed to be ironic.

 

Unrelated... here's the new Gnarls Barkley. It's no Crazy, but I like it ok.

 

http://missionfreak.com/2008/01/28/justify...kley-exclusive/

 

[snuffbox 0]

Oh boy another snuffbox Vs hipster showdown. I can't begin to tell you how (not) excited I am to witness this.

 

You've figured me out, Kamala.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Last night was the best Morrissey gig I've been to thus far.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

I kinda like that Vampire Weekend album. It's not mind-blowing or anything, but it's pleasant enough and definitely less deserving of hate than a lot of other "blog-rock" (ughh) shit.

 

[Nighthawk 0]

In my old age, I've found I prefer the Stones to the Beatles. It didn't use to be that way.

 

I'd still say the Beatles are better, but the Stones are more awesome.

[Copper Feel 0]

I've prefered the Stones ever since I accepted that, yes, they were a good band. Paul McCartney is still my favourite songwriter from either group though.

[justsoyouknow 0]

The Stones have really just started to grow on me as well. They're much grittier, and once you realize that they're actually a rock band and the Beatles are a pop group, it makes the decision much easier.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

I fell asleep halfway through the Vampire Weekend cd.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I really dig Local H cover of Britney Spears Toxic. I was baffled at first that Local H were still around when someone told me it was them doing the cover.

 

I like Nickel Creek's "Toxic" cover.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Here's your 2008 Bonnaroo lineup: