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YES. BUT. I have been saying this about U2 since I was old enough to put their releases in chronological order and it will never ever happen

Do you like Why?/anticon/Yoni Wolf? Then The Wandering Wolf is a must. Open Mike Eagle's Secret Skin podcast is my all-time favorite, and I think it transcends its indie-rap sphere of influence. Both of these are largely musicians talking to musicians/artists and they (at best) are insightful and exciting in a way that all my non-music-nerd, non-art-nerd friends could never be. Give me things to think about and a kick in the ass to get back to work on my stuff. < 3

it's their most immersive music video yet tbh

this album is disgustingly long and almost all the lyrics are absolute ass but Better is a fuckin jam

Shine on Me is a trash jingle and even without knowing what choogling is I can tell it's the best descriptor I'll hear

uhh nevermind the cheapest one on eBay is $110, and the cheapest on Discogs is $170, sorry guy :(

It was available for 24hrs online on Black Friday, along with the vinyl and posters, all in greyscale. You could probably find one secondhand on Amazon, eBay, or Discogs, but it might be expensive. I mean, it was like $25 new shipped when I got it, so somewhere around there maybe? It's worth it, it's a nice low-key physical package.

um do I want to know what blocland.com is

Do some of you guys want to post your accounts from other sites here? I need more of my pretend 'gum family with me elsewhere on the internet too. Like, twitters or instagrams or Spotifys or Animal Crossing New Leaf friend codes or whatever! If this is weird just like thumbs down me or whatever I can take it

That was really really pretty :')

wait can you really DM people here that's dangerous knowledge

Good luck man, there's some shit in there I wouldn't wish on anybody. What are the details of your record?

I'm gonna shamelessly piggyback off your first comment, if you don't mind: If anyone reading this is relating a little too much for their liking, please do talk to someone about it. I know "talk to someone about it" is almost as bad as "it gets better", but they're repeated incessantly for a reason. Seriously, just text a friend "hey I'm feeling weird and I know I'm supposed to 'talk about it' but I don't know how to start a conversation like that". That's how I do it, at least. They'll be more than happy to help in any way they can. Open communication takes away some of its power. The prospect of an untimely death is far less romantic once it's outside of your own narrow scope of experience. People need people to ground them sometimes, and that is totally okay. (Also, don't be afraid of the hospital and therapists and meds. But that's like a couple steps down the line from this. I promise your life is worth whatever bills or awkward conversations or ruined semesters or lost jobs you'll face. Love you guys, be safe.)

You're getting downvoted for making an article about the sudden death of an icon about unpopular musical opinions, (and also kinda trashing the recently-deceased's whole career), but I don't think your comment is entirely without merit. It's a lot like the "video games cause violence" thing, which any video game enthusiast will flatly deny. But... going on virtual killing sprees does make me kind of uncomfortable. This is music nerd country though, so our touchy subject is "depressing music". I know from experience that listening to Julien Baker on repeat for hours while gasping for air and crying in bed wanting/not wanting to die is cathartic as hell, but there is a case to be made that maybe in those moments I could use a dash of U2. It just... doesn't fit though. Music helps me (and probably all of us) explore and experience our emotions more thoroughly than silence, and sometimes if you're down long enough, those "depressing" albums become more important friends and comforts than the real ones. This is gonna sound pathetic as fuck, but like my iPod is always there for me. So... you're not entirely wrong; I could probably stand to become a Harry Styles fan. Might do me some good? But... you are missing a whole lot of humanity and life and pain and beauty and nuance.

The instrumental is classic RAC, but Rivers is on some borderline-ICP Miracles shit in the first few lines. Then again I've never been a big Weezer fan so whateva

Holy shit that new song is gorgeous. That "sometimes, the end is not coming, it's already here..." extended outro, ughhhhhhhhhh. When is the albummmmmmm

This is exciting

there's supposed to be a heart at the end there, why is it gone kirby help me out < 3

Nancy Whang with the two different anti-Trump shirts, and the RESIST keyboard stand

Can we talk about those two LCD songs a little more? The slow rollout kinda prematurely killed the comment party. I find myself looping them, trying and failing to find my way in. I need there to be a moment, or a hook, or a lyric that just feels really right, and it seems like there isn’t one? Something to hold onto. But they’re just… nice. And… there. Also, the mixing/mastering is weird, it’s as if no amount of turning up the volume will make them not sound muffled. This goes for Call the Police especially. I’m hoping that’ll get cleared up on the album. And lastly, does anyone else think that Christmas Will Break Your Heart is better than both of these songs? It has that classic sad funny beauty of theirs that is present in their best songs. It’s also clean and clear and memorable and touching in a way that Call the Police and American Dream, to me, simply aren’t. I hope they grow on me, and I hope this isn’t the part of James Murphy’s painfully-self-aware constructed rock’n’roll narrative where the band stumbles before settling into a comfortable, Pearl Jam-esque cult following somewhat outside the limelight. What do you guys think? I would love to be wrong. :)