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Post by snowfyre on Apr 30, 2016 4:20:25 GMT
Man, I love me some Josh Ritter. Some of his newer stuff is pretty good, but I still enjoy the earlier songs best. Here's Kathleen:
All the other girls here are stars, you are the Northern Lights They try to shine in through your curtain, you’re too close and too bright
They try and they try, but everything that they do Is the ghost of a trace of a pale imitation of you I’ll be the one to drive you back home, Kathleen
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Well, I know you are waiting and I know that it is not for me But I’m here and I’m ready and I saved you the passenger seat
And I won’t be your last dance, just your last goodnight Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied I’ll be the one to drive you back home, Kathleen, yeah
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Post by Melifeather on Apr 30, 2016 11:52:38 GMT
I really liked the Josh Ritter Wolves song!
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Post by snowfyre on Apr 30, 2016 13:36:53 GMT
I really liked the Josh Ritter Wolves song! That song's from The Animal Years. Great album. Ritter's just a really talented song writer, IMO.
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Post by snowfyre on May 13, 2016 14:07:24 GMT
Pop culture media reviews of new music... are sometimes over the top. This paragraph here, for example, comes from Pitchfork's original October 2000 review of Radiohead's album, Kid A - which was then brand new. Of course, to be completely honest - I probably had the album already, and was playing it on loop in my dorm room. And I don't disagree that it was an amazing record - love it to this day (though I haven't pulled it out to listen to it in a while). But the paragraph above still cracks me up. Anyway. Was perusing old Radiohead reviews, because the band just put out its first studio album in five years - and I've been a fan for almost twenty. The new album is good - mid-tempo, haunting and complex. Multi-layered. A lot to pay attention to, I can tell right away; should reward repeated listening. Right up my alley. And my wife would absolutely hate it. (We have different tastes in music. ) Here's a video for the first track - Burn the Witch - which, actually, does not sound much like the rest of the album:
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Post by snowfyre on May 13, 2016 14:51:52 GMT
After just a couple spins, this comment from the NYT review seems about right as a description of the new album, A Moon Shaped Pool:
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Post by Ser Duncan on May 13, 2016 18:10:22 GMT
Here's a video for the first track That Radiohead video got a like on several different levels -- 1. it's Radiohead 2. it's claymation 3. it's got two film references I happen to like, Hot Fuzz (note the model village) and Wicker Man (I prefer the older version, not the Nicholas Cage bollocks). 4. it's claymation!!! 5. YARP!
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Post by snowfyre on May 14, 2016 1:42:30 GMT
Random: Sometime this past year, the seven year old claimed my old iPod mini. I've had the thing since before she was born, and long ago moved on to more contemporary hardware. But whatever, right? I mean, she wants what everyone else has: some kind of portable device to call her own, and somewhere to plug in her headphones.
Only, I realize after she's claimed it... I really have no idea what music I last loaded into that thing. Today, she made me guess what song was running through her head. "Uh, I don't know," I said. Which she found completely exasperating. (She's a little dramatic, in general.)
"It's 'A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard!'," she sighs. And proceeds to recite lyrics.
Well, I'd swear I've never heard of the song. But I'll be damned if it wasn't on my iPod mini. (It's sung by Jeremy Messersmith, just FYI.)
For a while, she was navigating music through the "Songs" list - where music is sorted by song title. And lord knows why, but she got stuck in the 'G's. Fell completely in love with 'Gronlandic Edit' (by Of Montreal), and also knew 'Goodnight Laura,' 'Got Nuffin' (both by Spoon), and 'Growin Trade' (Levi Helm).
Still hoping there's nothing too inappropriate on there. Worst I can think of, there might be some Madvillian, or something by The Bug. Maybe some Metallica? RHCP? (Oof...)
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Post by Maester Flagons on May 14, 2016 21:03:00 GMT
Recieved a notification this morning from Pandora for the new Radiohead album. I click and find myself in my existing Radiohead station with the KID A song, Optimistic, playing. Here I was expecting a sample or short-lived playthrough of the new album.
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Post by Weasel Pie on May 15, 2016 13:37:48 GMT
pleasant ear candy
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Post by Melifeather on May 15, 2016 14:05:34 GMT
I love the Lumineers!
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Post by Weasel Pie on May 15, 2016 14:12:20 GMT
the man has a voice! Funny, the girl @ .16 looks like Maisie.
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Post by Melifeather on May 15, 2016 14:20:45 GMT
the man has a voice! Funny, the girl @ .16 looks like Maisie. She does a little bit!
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Post by Weasel Pie on May 15, 2016 14:22:06 GMT
the man has a voice! Funny, the girl @ .16 looks like Maisie. She does a little bit! Arya, young Tormund, and a young Matthew McConaughay heh
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Post by Ser Duncan on May 16, 2016 0:17:37 GMT
+ One! Hey Ho always cheers me up if I'm feeling a bit down. Love the little Dancing in the Rain bit he does.
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Post by snowfyre on May 19, 2016 12:32:13 GMT
Recieved a notification this morning from Pandora for the new Radiohead album. I click and find myself in my existing Radiohead station with the KID A song, Optimistic, playing. Here I was expecting a sample or short-lived playthrough of the new album. So I finally pulled out KID A for a listen, late last week. Had to find a CD player, because I lost most of my digital music library when my personal computer died last year. (Nah, I've got it backed up somewhere... just haven't replaced the computer, so I don't have anywhere to put it all yet.) Anyway... the only CD player left is in my wife's car. So there I go - blasting KID A on my way to the grocery store... to the pharmacy... to pick up one of the kids. Kinda jarring, juxtaposing my young adult rock immersion against these mundane, settled parental errands. (C'est la vie!)I'd forgotten how dark Optimistic is. In my head, National Anthem and Idioteque were the tracks that stood out most. (I like it!) On the new album, the song Identikit reminds me of Idioteque - not in style, so much as in the way it twists a danceable tune into something paranoid and creepy. As background music, if you're not paying attention, you find yourself grooving along and enjoying it; stop to listen more closely, and you briefly wonder if you were wrong to be tapping your foot. After a week or so listening to A Moon Shaped Pool, my impression is that Radiohead took this bunch of beautiful melodies/songs (many of which include gorgeous piano, guitar, choral and string arrangements) and intentionally infused each one with an instrumental element designed to induce a subtle low-level background anxiety in the listener. That sounds horrible, and if you don't know Radiohead then reading that would probably make up your mind not to pick up this album. But the key phrase there is "low-level"... because in many of these songs the paranoid instrumental shift is subtle, and only finally noticeable right at the end. Like in Daydreaming... when the receding sound reveals a very low, pitch-shifted, unintelligible vocal muttering that you suddenly think/fear must have been there in the song all along. Or in Identikit, where the electric guitar solo toward the end suddenly seems too shrill and metallic... only you can't tell exactly when that happened, and it's subtle. It's not amusical, or out of place; it's just... slightly off, somehow. And intentionally so. Or in Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar..., that sound towards the end that's either static, or bubbling, boiling water - or maybe both. Maybe the one case that seems a bit different to me is the fifth track - Ful Stop - where the paranoid tell is right up front in the percussion: a spare, insistent rhythm that sounds immediately like a heartbeat, making you feel like your head is pounding and you might need some water. It's not until halfway through the track that we get an actual guitar, and then its melody never quite pans out - it's just a suggestion, really - before that low-level head-throbbing sound swells back again. Best new music I've heard in a while. Lol.
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