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I like it! I didnt care for massudection even tho it wasn't really that bad... it felt very wannabe pop and the couple bad songs were awful. This feels like really solid Rock. And we have precious little of that nowadays.
+1 | 5/14/21 1:26 PM
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hmm man IDK. I love St. Vincent but this album roleplay has been all 70s Bowie cosplay without much new so far? Pay Your Way In Pain sounds almost identical to Fame. Her fashion on her looks great but not quite enough Lynchian weirdness to push it somehwere new, imo. And her backing back looks kinda lame with all the weird problematic 70s tropes intact.
+8 | 4/4/21 10:49 AM
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Yeah seriously wtf. Plenty of black people and women have been "cancelled" as well.
-3 | 8/12/20 3:56 PM
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i came here to snarkily say this, im glad you beat me to it
+2 | 7/5/20 6:43 PM
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seriously. this shit is hard as fuck
0 | 7/5/20 6:43 PM
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agreed. i did prefer her as a human. an absurdly talented human but still humble. it was unqique.
0 | 6/10/20 9:51 PM
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same. def her best. shes moved too far away artistically to beat it at this point imho. there is something so artistic and non-pop about thus album and its so introspective and just slays the whole way through. also the last time she recorded to tape and it kinda shows, just a great mix. top ten album for me.
0 | 6/10/20 9:50 PM
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vynl version tracklist is def better
0 | 6/10/20 9:47 PM
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I agree about Sleep Well Beast man. Its insane the run The National have been on. Its possibly overwhelming. Spoon changes up their sound more dramatically. Naitonal kinda evolve slowly and have less range in their songs. But damn National also just hit that sweet spot so well.
0 | 1/31/20 12:23 AM
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He sounds great live all the time doing that though. I have no. idea. how he does it practically every night. He has real amazing control over his Lennon screams. I think hes probably better at it then Lennon was at this point, esp since Britt actually takes care of himself
0 | 1/31/20 12:22 AM
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ugghh if Radioheads Hot THoughts is anything like Spoons its gonna be an album with a few great songs, a couple decent ones, and a bunch of cringey clunkers. Only not great Spoon album.....
0 | 1/31/20 12:19 AM
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Love Merchants of Soul. More relevent now than ever. Ralph Reed lives on.
0 | 1/31/20 12:17 AM
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No way. GImme Fiction is their magnum opus. Its when everything really came together and none of the songs sound like Demos, its completely fleshed out with subvertly political lyrics. The entire album hangs together great as a concept and then they pull down the curtain at the end and the Religious Right is there waiting with sharpened knives.
0 | 1/31/20 12:15 AM
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loooovvvvee the bass in that song. Sooo simple but it hits the groove just perfectly.
0 | 1/31/20 12:14 AM
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People are their own worst critics. This is probably my most-listened to Spoon album. Gagagaga is good but kinda boring and a retread of Gimme. Transference is a mighty and necessary breakdown of Spoon so they could build themselves back up again.
0 | 1/31/20 12:13 AM
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Im a big fan of early strokes but your not wrong. They honestly turned out to be mor eof an Oasis than a blur. Bunch of solid rockers but nothing innivative or lyrics good enough to really stabd the test of time. They were more important for their references than their lyrics or music per se. Just like Oasis copied John Lennon with none of the substance, Strokes copied lou reed and television with no innovation. But bith Oasis and Strokes still mena a lot to people who were right time/right place
-1 | 4/10/19 9:39 PM
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its all just PR
0 | 4/6/19 3:11 PM
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for serious, yeah.
+3 | 4/1/19 11:09 AM
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Seriously. There's just nothing really there
+1 | 4/1/19 11:08 AM
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So boring... up there with Bon Iver's elevator roc debut on SNL
+1 | 4/1/19 11:07 AM
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