I have been promoting the shit out of this band to my friends since "Trials of Van Occupanther" came out. I cannot believe how shafted that album got. Total classic for me -- yet ahead of its time. Now we've got Fleet Foxes and other great bands doing what Midlake was already doing two years ago. Good for them! Now if Stereogum can find the good bands at the time they release a great album, that'd be awesome.
The string quartet one is really good even though it seems to only feature the lead vocal track. Then again, I downloaded this and Nude just so I could get the lone vocal tracks. Amazing.
I liked it a lot until the strings got more prominent, which usually the opposite of how I feel. It could grow on me though.
And I agree with Vin, I realize they went to college on Manhattan island, but they shouldn't try to be so post-modern.
You only figured this out on September 3? I thought it immediately: http://twitter.com/factory_worker/statuses/903002149.
Good call on Lorraine Bracco though, safetybear.
I don't think biopics are *that* bad. I'd rather see an honest documentary, but I disagree with this:
"Biopics Do Not Add Anything To Art
When biopics deal with an artist, such as Ray Charles, they do absolutely nothing to increase one's appreciation of the artist's work. If anything they're distractions."
Before I saw "Ray", I didn't understand why critics and fans referred to him as "genius". I still don't fully agree, but I certainly do understand because the movie showed me some of his work I was not familiar with. Some with "Walk the Line".
Ok, so I'm totally outside and have never even heard of Smiley Face, but that clip made me ROFL. See, I'm so out of it I still use chat words from 8 years ago. Meta.
I watched a few episodes of that very strange program with Tiki on MSNBC and I could not get over the weird chemistry between Tiki and that chic. Every part with them was an argument about something. Totally awkward.
This new stuff sounds fantastic. I totally expected a soft album, as his pattern typically goes, but I'm glad he's surprising us yet again.
But dude's looking like someone dressing up as Beck for Halloween in 1995.
As bad it sounds today, that was the stuff that got me into music! I still remember C + C Music Factory on Arsenio Hall explaining the controversy of not putting the real female singer in the video for "Make you Sweat". It seems so trivial now! And my god, I don't think I've seen or heard Stevie B's "Because I Love You" since it fell off the charts (thank goodness). But Deee-Lite are still fun to listen to. It all reminds me of NBC's Friday Night Videos. I didn't have MTV, so it was my only mean of getting vids.
Well, I'm off to my closet to cut the boobs out of my jackets.
Sterogum has now affirmed that the three biggest albums of my high school life are three of the biggest albums of so many lives. Does that make me a stereotype?
P.S. I have nothing good to say about the covers album this post is actually about.
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