Grandaddy: opinions please...

the beards are also a negative.

I've always "kinda like them". But when I saw them perform live, I went home and listened to Sophtware Slump and it clicked with me. Well, for about a week it did. This is the kind of album I can put on for 7 days straight and not listen to it for months, and then repeat cycle.

That said, I was pretty taken with Under the Western Freeway and enjoyed The Sophtware Slump, so I have hope that they'll pull together something a little more solid in the coming years.

J

I really was completely bored by them when I first heard them. I think it might have been the beards. Then I fell in love with a band (Black Nielson) who inhabit a very similar sort of genre (spacecountry) but did it with a very pastoral English bent. Everybody told me "But how can you like them, they're just Grandaddy rip-offs" which made me go back and listen to Grandaddy, and you know they've actually grown on me.

I really think it was a case of... I'm glad that I didn't listen to them when everyone was telling me to, cause they never would have lived up to any hype, but having discovered them on my own, and having come to them on my own terms, they're a nice little treasure.

i like this song i'm listening to, first song i've heard by them

He's simple, He's dumb, He's the pilot?

i think there's real sincerity to this band that adds measurably to the charm and listenability of the songs and records. i like it how there's frequently a very poised sense of humour and light-heartedness at the core of even the most melancholy tracks.

The song from the first album that they use as the theme to Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe plays over and over in my head.

They were ahead of the curve on the beards front.

"He's simple, He's dumb, He's the pilot?"
A highlight in their output, Sur.

yea it was one of those who the fuck is this moments

listened to sumday last week and it was awesome

I like them too, can't really understand the hate. Maybe the proggy elements, or the slight air of twee?

Someone emailed via my site regarding albums missing from my list. Regarding Under The Western Freeway, they said, "Better than any Radiohead album except Kid A (their masterpiece)."

Odd thing is I'm sure I heard it, and it made zero impression on me. Could I have been that wrong? I guess I can gamble $9 on it for a used copy after work today.

I really love grandaddy but I think that is an overstatement

the last album is dope

lol @ this band

Under The Western Freeway is pleasant - in places - but it's really insane to imagine it being the best anything, even the best Grandaddy record. It's been a while but I feel like it has a lot of in-betweeny type songs, with only three or four tracks really coming into focus at all. Search "AM 180," "Go Progress Chrome," and uh...that could kind of really do it for me. "Nonphenomenal Lineage" is nice I guess.

"Summer Here Kids" was I guess a big deal of some kind in some circles, but I never really warmed up to it. I think it would sound like a real time capsule at this point but I could be wrong.

It's been a few years since I listened to Grandaddy. I remember really loving "Summer Here Kids".

In-betweeny songs? No way. The title track is something of an interlude but it's still pretty. "Poisoned at Hartsy Thai Food" is the only dud and overall I'd say it's almost, almost the equal of The Sophtware Slump. I prefer "Everything beautiful is Far Away" to the thematically similar "Miner at the Dial-a-View", and "Summer Here Kids" is perhaps the best rock song they did, better than Chartsngrafs, maybe pipped by "Now it's On" off "Sumday".

sumday is my favourite from them

am 180 crystal lake and nature anthem are good but most of the rest is just too depressing and fill in noises!

i just listened to the first 3 releases and if i had to continue with anymore i would want to shoot myself!

can't argue with depressing and noises, but these are some of the qualities i enjoy. you might want to give Sumday a shot, as there's an uptick in energy. also perfectly fine to not enjoy grandaddy.

sumday is what sealed my decision but i would like to see a greatest hits to include what i like but i would not buy the whole release for just one song or the singles as they cost too much!

keep ur freak flag aloft xzanfar but Sumday is a masterpiece of depressing noises