The 10th Crime
Is when I can't listen to a song for a long time because a reference has been created that isn't the same as the original. Love Will Come Through fell through the trap door and hasn't been able to climb out yet. It's been over a year. Damn.
Stupidclassraisedhandedness: Broad assumptions based on data generated through the retardedness of a generalisation created because of personal bias and experience.
The new Decemberists album is sweet. Colin Meloy and his vague but endearing stories of Japanese bird women is a lovely contrast to the emo grinding visuals that Jesse Lacey has been subjecting me to almost day and night over the last few days. Picaresque was the first experience I had with The Decemberists. Actually, Pitchfork takes that honor when they featured Of Angels And Angles in one of their usually obscure but pleasantly surprising Top Something Songs of Some Year lists. Meloy hasn't got a very distinctive voice, or any exceptional sense of music. But The Decemberists stand out as more than just a novelty. It's not the fact that you're listening to some fabled story of adventures and romance, but more that you're listening to why you should know it. I also like the way he's totally ripped off the 'riff' of When The War Came from the Cranberries, and Laura Veirs' vocals on Yankee Bayonet.
"Why aren't you Bill Gates?"
"I'm just an old man."
It's a wonder what context does to conversation these days.
Why is it that regardless of how retarded these guys look, I will always love them?
Stupidclassraisedhandedness: Broad assumptions based on data generated through the retardedness of a generalisation created because of personal bias and experience.
The new Decemberists album is sweet. Colin Meloy and his vague but endearing stories of Japanese bird women is a lovely contrast to the emo grinding visuals that Jesse Lacey has been subjecting me to almost day and night over the last few days. Picaresque was the first experience I had with The Decemberists. Actually, Pitchfork takes that honor when they featured Of Angels And Angles in one of their usually obscure but pleasantly surprising Top Something Songs of Some Year lists. Meloy hasn't got a very distinctive voice, or any exceptional sense of music. But The Decemberists stand out as more than just a novelty. It's not the fact that you're listening to some fabled story of adventures and romance, but more that you're listening to why you should know it. I also like the way he's totally ripped off the 'riff' of When The War Came from the Cranberries, and Laura Veirs' vocals on Yankee Bayonet."Why aren't you Bill Gates?"
"I'm just an old man."
It's a wonder what context does to conversation these days.
Why is it that regardless of how retarded these guys look, I will always love them?
It is described by Francis Healy as "a song about love, not in the classic context of that sort of holding with love, you know the one that you see in the pictures "I love you/I love you too" and it's not like that. It's love that you have with your mum and your dad and your friends and stuff, love that equals hope in the face of everything, the love that conquers all, and its dedicated to that love."
That man rules the world.
posted by Paperslut @ 1:43 AM
I really love the Decemberists, and I have to say that the new album is not anything like the old stuff. It's tighter and while Meloys lyrics haven't gone to waste, the instrumentation is way off compared to Castaways and Cutouts, it's missing that spacey, poetic feel. Not to mention to loss of Petra Haden, makes the album sound even more like a traditional rock band.