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I like this a lot. Dig sort of ruined their reputation, and they can't be mentioned at all without reference the film. This is a really nice track. Feel a tiny bit of Monkey House vibe in here. Come Down.., 13 Tales, and Monkey House are a trifecta that I think any band would generally be extremely proud of. Monkey House was a retro leaning band being too far ahead of the curve- Pfork gave that album a 3.3 remember. It is a great, extremely listenable album. The arc of their discog for me is: 1) 13 Tales (album 3) 2) Come Down (album 2) 3) Monkey House (album 4) 4) Dandys Rule OK (album 1) 5) Odditorium and the Warlords from Mars (album 5) ------ 6) This Machine (album 7) 7) Earth to the Dandy Warhols (I didn't get this one- ) They are worth listening to.

Call me when someone does No Joy In Mudville

I like I think all of it except Babyface. Stay is the standout, Lemon is new and different. Numb is dated but Ok for that time. Dirty Day excellent.

bloc, it is good. I think it is more interesting that Achtung Baby for sure- AB is considered by many to be their classic, and all the songs are quite good if you are into them, but I'd say that Zooropa is their last interesting very good album. Pop might be interesting but I could never listen to it I found it boring. I really do love Zooropa.

I don't love Juicebox, but it is a 4 star track easily. It is pretty good. VoD is great

Ok, guys. I just need to say for the record- I was thinking about exactly this two days ago because I listened to "Macchu Picchu" from Angles, which is one of my fave Strokes songs. There is no doubt in my mind that FIOE is the third best Strokes album- I have a lot to disagree with here from Michael, though I of course respect his opinion. In my personal Pitchfork I have Is This It as a 10.0, Room on Fire as a 9.5-9.7 and the critical wankery about that album was astounding. I really don't remember as much of an echo chamber of critical imposition of personal desire on why that album was disappointing. It was sort of scary in that it felt like maybe there was something in the water. It really was awful. It was backlash for the sake of backlash. You really could tell that the response completely f*cked them up for recording their third album, plus they have very difficult band dynamics. Well, I have FIOE as an 8.0. It doesn't kill for every single song, but it is very strong. YOLO, On The Other Side, Vision of Division, Ask Me Anything, Electricitscape, Fear of Sleep, 12 Minutes, Ize of the World- Ize of the World is amazing. Red Light. If Hawaii had been on there as a bookend for YOLO Angles has at least three great tunes, and I would stack Macchu Picchu with almost anything. I'd give that album a 7.2. Comedown Machine I just can't spend time with. If Phrazes for the Young were recorded as a Strokes album with Strokes sound, I'd have it as a 9. I think that FIOE is so tainted by preconceptions that it might be impossible to revisit for some- really- it is just so poisoned.

The entire VC album plays like a suite- and Death is the final movement. So good.

That was my fave Beach House from the two albums as well.

I love love love "My Girls"- I feel like "Summertime Clothes" was really amazing but somehow there was backlash against it for being too easily good or popular, and we settled into "My Girls" being the epic jam from that album because it seem more untouchable. If REALiTi is in that airspace, that is massive praise.

I'd replace Dead and Bloated with Wicked Garden, and put Plush at 11 to get everyone off my back.

What I wanted to say was: I don't think they sounded anything like Pearl Jam, save for vocal phrasing on one line of one song. Ringing/distorted guitars on Wicked Garden, etc. - you could maybe say some of Weiland's tone had affinity to Layne Staley, but the Pearl Jam thing was based on FEELING and that is it- anything else is revisionist history. Sad to hear about Scott's passing. For a band to emerge beyond the hole of Sex Type Thing and be recognized for some really good rock radio singles was a testament to his charisma and talent.

What is going on with Fbook commenting ugh. Tom, I blame you.

I would add The Cure to that So Cal profile, maybe even more than The Smiths. Boingo's live rep was just huge. Extended East maybe to Utah? I can name maybe 15 Boingo songs that got played on the Modern Rock station. They were definitely fun. What was the Estevez/Moore movie with "Home Again" on the closing credits?

Ronson working with some awkward collaborators that is for damn sure.

Never Been to Spain is a jam, but Mama Told me not to come is also a jam

Bloc- sort of surprised about St. Vincent. There are really sort of more than one pile for St. Vincent songs. If there were a mix tape of "Marrow"/"Your Lips Are Red" style tunes I feel like you would be feeling it a bit more. The DUMBO session "Your Lips Are Red" live video- how does that not get to the bloc????

I think that people that have seen them a few times and have maybe gotten more of the normal type shows are fine with this stuff, while people that maybe only have one shot would be bummed out. I'd be super bummed out if I only saw the second set.

I wonder where she's from? Maybe Tom knows. *grump*

The coveted Sports Walkperson. Oh to be 12 and at the pool.

Space Song bloop bleep bloop boop goes my heart. Oh god I don't know who will dry my eyes when it falls apart. Oh my god she was never found. Jesus Beach House I can't take it. I love it so much.

Can everyone just confirm that when Depression Cherry was out, many loved it but felt they didn't LOVE it but since they always grow and embrace you with tendrils of atmosphere that emanate from some far off mystical place that of course Depression Cherry is amazing and we all really knew it before but some only realized that in the present. I feel like Depression Cherry is my second favorite Beach House album and if this one is similar I will be extremely happy.

Fluorescent Grey is one of my fave EPs of all time.

Every time, Tom, every time. Someone says "hey, Tom, she's Norwegian" and then maybe Tom reads the comments or maybe he doesn't care, or maybe she IS secretly Swedish, but then we go round and round. If you want to take mantle of journalist, whatever the value of that, run a correction. Don't just erase it or disappear it. Just run a correction!

It is weird that "Peace Frog" gets sort of novelty treatment, but it feels like a "shut the door" on the 60s type of song sometimes. Loved listening to my dad's scratched LP of this one. "The End" playing in the dark late at night with cracks and pops fits the song. Some songs need those crackles for me because that is how I was introduced to them. See also, Stones "Monkey Man" and "Sympathy for the Devil". If the Doors had played Altamont, the world would have burned down.

Bloc- he said he loved the Smiths. Moz asks him to produce after Smiths are over, meaning Johnny out of picture. Pete replacing Johnny here is like Pete stating he'd maybe like to play with Moz, Andy, Mike. Great not meaning Smiths weren't great, probably "great" meaning "great hypothetical new album not in existence". Didn't think it was shade. In fact I think shade court would not say any of this is shade.

Sort of feel like if they wanted to go retro, it should be in the vein of this track- when was the last time they were really charging in this mode? I remembered what was really good about them listening to that (the first one above- the third one=awful)

It really is great. Wasn't there a Passengers song in the movie Heat but it wasn't on the soundtrack? At one point I wondered if I hallucinated the entire Passengers album existing.

The Three Sunrises- phenomenal Lady with the Spinning Head- definitely the flip feeling of The Fly and more fun than some of songs off AB. Original Sweetest Thing and Spanish Eyes were the amazing twofer off the Joshua Tree b-sides All the Passengers tracks. Those are all very good calls. I can barely listen to them these days, and find their latter day albums off-putting. I like Zooropa more than Achtung Baby, and they are so uncool now that nobody else has commented, but I really really like the songs listed above.

I love "Life is Sweet"- personally I like it more than "Alive Alone", but "Alive Alone" I think is better maybe? I really do love "Let Forever Be" and even while "Hey Boy Hey Girl" seems on the nose, it is a BANGER. Definitely "Out of Control" is my have, but I always wait for the two "out of control"s on the outro that are not multi tracked on the vocals- they are the best out of controls.

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Well, the author edited the article- it originally stated that it "even included a cover of…" as if it were a random event, and not a well known FNM cover. My comment seems out of place now that the article has been edited. Thanks, Rettig.

I love that drumming and damn Pete Shelley sounded great on "Ever Fallen in Love"- one of the best songs of all time

Oh geez. They played "Easy"? You mean the cover that they released as a single during the Angel Dust promo cycle?

I would have died if they did 23 Minutes in Brussels but I already died because they did California (all the way). They are so good!!!!!!

OK, so blochead, YOU DIDNT THINK THAT I COULD SIT AROUND and let you say that YOU DIDN'T THINK THAT I COULD SIT BACK AND LET THAT GO

Sometimes I feel Very sad

Hahaha. I would have laughed even harder if you had said "I might check it out if it is streaming somewhere"

Her songwriting is phenomenal. I don't like when people put her in some slacker pile just because she's unbelievably witty and sly. She is an outstanding songwriter. "History Eraser" and "Out of the Woodwork" on the same EP? Wow. Oh, "Ode to Odetta" - she can do no wrong in my book. Her cover of INXS's Kick Album might seem like a jag, but it is mesmerizing and she spins the entire album in her oeuvre.

Stutter and Car Song were so much better than Connection. Stutter is totally gigantic. Is it something you lack when I'm down on my back, tell me is it the way that I touch you? Oh whoa oh whoa uh oh oh. It is the inverse of PJ Harvey's "Dry". It isn't that the sung about person does nothing for her, it is that he's totally not up to it. Ice. Cold. Phenomenal track. Stutter was rightfully the lead off UK single but alway felt like the followup because Connection blew up. And it's two minutes long. That would be a marathon against such overwhelming odds.

I'm not giving thumbs up to chronic depression- but that feeling that there is music that is specific to your life in unique and personal ways. Really nice comment.