Just picked this one up on a whim a few days ago for $4. I must say the enjoyment to cost ratio is amazing. What do you all think?
― Ian Johnson, Sunday, 22 September 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)
Oh, it's a great, great record. And that's a great focal point record as well, because I STILL haven't heard a rock record that is able to balance the sloppy and loud with the intricate and pretty, since. It seems underground rock had to choose a fork in the road... Sloppy Loud or Intricate Pretty.
Actually, that's a good analogy for Love As Laughter and Red Stars Theory, respectively.
― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 22 September 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)
classique. i discuss it briefly in my upcoming piece on FT about 90s hardcore, et al.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)
oh, I think I'll dig this out as well as pony express record for late night listening tonight...
― simon 803 (simon 803), Monday, 23 September 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)
one year passes...
I STILL haven't heard a rock record that is able to balance the sloppy and loud with the intricate and pretty, since.so, SO true. this has been one of my favorites for ages; i pulled it out recently, and i'm thrilled to find it sounding as great as ever.
after discovering it back in college, i kept delving into "related" stuff, hoping to find other bands that had something similar going on. but i've never heard anything remotely like this, probably because lync's greatness wasn't a question of genre or scene, but rather... the incredible songs, the rickety drums, and sam jayne's amazing guitar playing. (his note choices trigger some gut-level response that sends me spazzing and reeling.)
still, i keep hoping to find something else, whether (uh) '90s "indiecore" or from an entirely different time & place, that has a similar mix of spastic intensity and extreme poppiness. i'll sometimes check out something like Rites of Spring, hoping that THIS is the missing 'lync,' but whatever its actual merits, it's always a nope on that question.
(funnily enough, the big, meaty riffs at the beginning of some of these songs remind me of pearl jam, of all things. but i loaned 'fall colors' to my roommate, who loves both pearl jam and all this 'melodic post-hardcore san diego'-type stuff, and he didn't go for it!)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 13 March 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)
four years pass...
this album is terrible, like all mid 90s emo
― abanana, Saturday, 7 June 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)
five years pass...