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1. The Fiery Furnaces album is SO VERY GOOD - You may remember I was asking about them on a thread about a month ago, and I heard one song - "Athsma Attack" - and was pretty into it. I signed up to get a review copy of the album and I've been listening to it all night. It rules.

2. The review of Damien Rice's "O" on Pitchfork is so off the mark. And I've only heard three songs from it (which are good, not great) but don't you just hate when the reviewers project their skepticism of what they imagine to be a "genre" and review accordingly?

3. I don't 'get' Giddy Motors at all.

4. Robert Plant's "Tall Cool One" rips off more songs in four minutes than the Strokes will in their entire shitty career.

5. The Stones's "Black and Blue" is an underrtaed record. Agree or disagree?

6. Man, Mogwai are boring as shit. I've been known to spend whole afternoons listening to Eliane Radigue, Charlemagne Palestine, even Labradford and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. But boy oh boy are Mogwai the most mind numbingly boring band ever or what?

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

6) No, they're not. They require a long attention span but the rewards are good.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

4 Which ones other than "Black Dog"?

6 Was it Come On Die Young you were listening to? I thought so too when I listened to that. I actually didn't really mind Rock Action when my roommate put it on though.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

See, no, you're wrong too, because Come On Die Young is the best of the three (CODY, Rock Action, and Happy Music) that I have heard.

(Although I have to admit it was the first album that made me realise I could care about Music With Guitars In as much as I cared about Music Without Guitars In.)

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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― trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Goddamn, Mogwai is boring. Picking one album over another is much like choosing to eat dog shit or cat shit.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My Answer for # 4- At least half of the things that Robert Plant is ripping is his own band, which mind you ripped half of theirs from Willie Dixon.

My answer for #6- I've got a few Mogwai CDs, but even after a few years have not set my world on fire, at least I picked up the Matadors as promo sleds out of the used bin. I do like the slow one with the football sample the ig sample on 'Come on Die Young' and that one that they say fxck it and rock out on 'Young Teen' is pretty good. Labradford is hit and miss. I really liked 'Mi Media Naranja' and 'E Luxo So', but 'A Stable Reference' and the last one are pretty dull and just don't have the melody.

My answer for #5- I've been curious about that one as it one I have never had. After finding the Virgin remaster of It's Only Rock and Roll' in the used bin, I found it better than I remembered it being. "Fingerprint File" is one good coked up, paranoid disco tracks. 'Goats Head Soup' I didn't like as much, as there are a few tunes that kind of drag out.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

rough trade is officially the best record label in the world right now

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Goats Head Soup a lot.

Rough Trade are responsible for as many sins as they are miracles

#4 - "Bang A Gong," "Real Wild Child"...I guess at the time it was really 'innovative' or whatever for him to sample himself, especially with the turntables and all, but jesus, that song blows.

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Rough Trade are responsible for as many sins as they are miracles

i guess i'm predominantly referring to their current amazing streak of releases. when a release featuring Jarvis Cocker is the worst thing they've put out all year they must be doing something right.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

right on. But what about fucking Kimya Dawson?

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

point taken. worse than Relaxed Muscle by a long shot

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

5. The Stones's "Black and Blue" is an underrtaed record. Agree or disagree?

Ehhh, I love the Stones, and have heard every album but could care less that the album ever existed...

"Bang a Gong" rules

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What Enuff Znuff song should I download?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

fly high michelle

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

5) Maybe, but not as underrated as "Dirty Work."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

On the subject of Victoria Roc-A-Fella become a valued resource at Roc-A-Fella... Damon Dash is basically the 21st century equivalent of that American guy that bought London Bridge, isn't he?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I have new email address. Look down.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever happened to Evan Dando?

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, that was my own random thought. Regarding #6, skip the records but the live show is definitely worth checking out.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny...I just d/l'd Enuff Z'nuff's 'Fly High Michelle' last night.

Also worth getting: 'New Thing' and (if you can stomach the lyrics as stupid as the title,) 'Hot Little Summer Girl.'

I never heard anything past that first record, but for a hair-metal Cheap Trick, they weren't half-bad.

Mogwai's "Young Team" is my fave, though I enjoy the new one as well. I find "Come On Die Young" boring, and haven't heard the others.

The Strokes, unfortunately, have at least one more record to inflict on us before Plant's record can be declared safe.

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

1./3. I don't "get" The Firey Furnaces at all but I still have a lot of time for their record. I just let myself be dragged along by its peculiarity. In fact I recommend you do similar with the excellent Giddy Motors.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

#5- All three Stones studio records between Exile and Some Girls are underrated.

I also only half agree with Rickey Wright, that Dirty Work is underrated, but not as severely as those three. "One Hit To The Body" belongs on any comp.

― southern lights (southern lights), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

kimya dawson single album is really boring.
but waht about new works from the moldy peaches?

― Marcel Grospig Jr. (grouffman), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

#1. I haven't heard the album, but the Fiery Furnaces' live show was a very, very welcome surprise for me last summer. See them if you get a chance.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

#2, The album is ok. Nothing special but that guy was a cockfarmer.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the first mogwai cds are much better

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

is damien rice famous now?

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in a movie theater the other day and the preview for the new Peter Pan movie came on, and I was listening to the soaring piano arpeggios in the background and thought to myself, "This sounds pretty good." Then later I heard the same piano arpeggios on the radio and it turns out to be the intro to a Coldplay song. Does this mean I like Coldplay now?

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. That's what did it for me, at least.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

trife is OTM this time.

― Al Andalous, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

3. and they don't get you!!!!!

― reo fordecor, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

o.nate, I don't really like Coldplay that much, but I like that song. Especially the dance remixes - especially the Royksopp remix. Honestly I don't even have the original version, but I have five remixes. Random thought not worthy of thread: Should I bother download the original?

I have not downloaded Enuff Znuff yet, but I'm about to. I look forward to it.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai consensus on recordings-ZZZZ-but how bout the live show??
Sing-Sing should I hear this? Like Lush lots till their last album.

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Is "Stuck" by Stacie Orrico:

a) The first sign of the next 'bopper generation, far too innocent and LizzieMcGuireesque to be able to relate to Neptunes beats, Avril or Xtina?

or...

b) Five years behind its time and the last huzzah of semi-wholesome pop music, bought mainly out of nostalgia reasons?

Also how does that Rolling Stones t-shirt fit into all of this.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Having heard the Stacie Orrico album I'm afraid it's b)... she's actually an xtian artist who admits she doesn't listen to much xtian music coz it shuns hip hop and R&B, which are the kind of thing she relates to. The album sounds like a time capsule from '00/'01, when teen-pop was flirting with R&B and hip hop, blissfully unaware that it would soon swallow it whole. Stunning piece of pop art it ain't, but I've been listening to it a lot coz I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for that era.

― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i like Sing-Sing a lot, but they're quite removed from Lush.. a lot more pop-electronic leaning..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Life comes full circle quite a few times. Thats when you realize that you are really not going anywhere.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Teach me more, sir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Email subject line:
"Don't Miss Wynton Marsalis"

First line of email body:
"Welcome to your weekly ticketAlert. There are no events that match your interests. "

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Kelly's Clarkson's "Low" is still my fave single of the year.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

that pfork review of 'where's the love' is horrible, but i still don't want to revive one of the 849 pfork hate threads.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

today's country teasers review is even worse, it ends with:

I realize this was a particularly ostentatious review, written by some haughty upstart who thinks he knows about music, but I honestly think I could make a better album than this, even though I currently suffer from poor eyesight, bronchitis, and a sizeable gash that precludes the use of my right hand.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

a cool thing about the allegory of the cave is that a cave is very womblike, a gate between darkness and light.

― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:08 (seven years ago)

Fawn Hall's life story is pretty bonkers

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:15 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

since Shaggy eats Scooby Snacks on Scooby Doo, that means he eats dog food

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 18:38 (four years ago)

he be illin'?

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 20:27 (four years ago)

"Playing Hot Revolver by Lil Wayne at night is pretty much the most you thing ever" most depressing thing i've ever been told by a fucking app

― Left, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:49 (four years ago)

It told me that playing "High" by Miley Cyrus in the evening is the most me thing ever, and I found the total inaccuracy of that reassuring: evidence that the machines are still a few years away from actually knowing us.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:04 (four years ago)

since Shaggy eats Scooby Snacks on Scooby Doo, that means he eats dog food

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal),

rOFL!!

― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:08 (four years ago)

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