Testing the Waters of ILM...

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If:

A) Picaresque has been the most enjoyable Decemberists album for you by miles and miles and... just a lot better than the others.

B) Elevator is to you a highly enjoyable pop album, and a fantastic progression and development of Hot Hot Heat's songwriting.

C) A Ha Shake Heartbreak is a great second step for a still young band, with a fantastic lead singer

Then you're a lot like me~ Nice to meet you all!

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Monday, 25 April 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there are many people here that are a lot like you...but HI!

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 25 April 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

HI DERE

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 25 April 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

you lose me after A), but one out of three ain't bad.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Monday, 25 April 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Hi!

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Hi Yoshinorimike,...

(A) From what little I've heard of theirs, I don't the word "enjoyable" should be used in the same sentence with "Decemberists" unless there's a "Not" in front of it.

(B) I haven't heard the new Hot Hot Heat album, though I found a free copy of it on the discard pile here at work. It currently sits here on my desk, wrapped and unplayed....a condition in which it will probably remain. I enjoyed their last album -- and even went to go see them (an evening I remember very little about -- they were fine, but left no huge impression on me). As much as I liked that album, I'd be telling a brontosaurus-sized fib if I said I've played it in the past two year or so. I can't imagine why anyone would need more than one album by this band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

...but hello and welcome anyway.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

From what little I've heard of theirs, I don't the word "enjoyable" should be used in the same sentence with "Decemberists" unless there's a "Not" in....

That should've read: I don't think the word... blah blah blah. Sorry, not enough coffee this morning.

Also, Yoshi....forget testing the waters. If I'd done that back in 2001, I never would've stuck around (cue whistful cries of "if only" from the ILM upper galleries). Dive right in. Make a big splash. Throw a few needlessly declarative statements around. See what happens.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Hola etc. Wot Alex said, and so long as you know that everyone's right for themselves (if you will), y'all do fine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Do people actively follow retro bands, or do they retro follow them. Do they dress up like groupies from the 70s, and mime enthusiasm? Do they notice when you turn the volume all the way down?

― HeadyLiquors, Monday, 25 April 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

if alex in nyc disagrees with you then you are on the right track.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Rewind on point A) The Decemberists have gone from GREAT to AVERAGE to DISMAL over the course of three albums.
B) I really hought HHH's first single was called 'Panda Jizz' for a long while.
C)If you had ever heard an annoying 6 year old (my son) singing the chorus from 'The Bucket' you'd never want to hear KOL ever again.
But hey welcome aboard - your money's as good as anyones.

― peter d (peter dee), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

A. I like the Decemberists, but I think "Picaresque" is a little spotty and "16 Military Wives" is fun but hamhanded in the extreme. OTOH, "We Both Go Down Together" is great.

B. I liked their first album, but I don't think I've played it in aboit a year, so i don't think I need the second one.

C. Still haven't heard the Kings of Leon. Oh wait, once, on MTV2, but they didn't make an impression.

And hi back.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I think Yoshinorimike's gotten a good introduction to ILM magic, right, fellas?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Keith M. should be shot out of a cannon into a septic tank of his own filth.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

why does the Kings Of Leon guy sing like that? was he shot in the face like 50 Cent?

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

hi Yoshinorimike. i know nothing at all about the artists/records you mention so i neither agree nor disagree. i quite like this way of introducing oneself to ilm though, and would like more people to adopt it.

welcomes.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

A is right on...B-I never liked Hot Hot Heat C-Kings of Leon lost me at the car commercial...

― Jabberwocky (Jabberwocky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

WELCOME!

― Jabberwocky (Jabberwocky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

that was rude.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

b) Elevator is a better band then HHH.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

if alex in nyc disagrees with you then you are on the right track.

And that wasn't?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

you lose me after A), but one out of three ain't bad.
-- Lee F# (fsharpashar...), April 25th, 2005.

At least you made it as far as A)

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

b) Elevator is a better band then HHH.
*ding ding ding*

― Aaron Ef. (aaron ef.), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

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