If Tegan & Sara ever do a song with Imogen Heap then Stereogum will implode under the massive influx of fanatical unregistered comments.
http://stereogum.com/archives/album_art/new-imogen-heap-first-train-home_078841.html
Yeah, I absolutely love Built To Spill and have no doubt that this album will kick ass, but that cover looks like a late 90's nu-metal album. It's giving me Korn flashbacks.
I'm ending every paragraph I write from now on with that little sentence fragment, so thanks for the inspiration. Rock Star.
*drops mic, throws up hands*
If it is Radiohead this song is basically them in "b-side" mode. And I do not mean that in a bad way. Their b-sides are killer; "Palo Alto", "The Trickster", "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", "Bishop's Robes", "A Reminder", "Kinetic"; all brilliant. Who else has b-sides that can compete with that? Pavement, maybe, but.....
Wait. What were we talking about again?
I feel like "The Future Will Come" hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. It's easily one of my top ten records of the year, and with a year like we've been having that's saying something.
If anyone's interested in actually playing this monstrosity (and who wouldn't be?), you can get it here:
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Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground and Joy Division.
Okay.
Did you just get into punk last month? Because there is a whole world beyond those three you just mentioned.
And I would wager that certain early 70's Krautrock releases by bands like Neu!, Faust and Kraftwerk were a pretty big influence on Joy Division and the production styles of Martin Hannett. Does that mean Joy Division were just "regurgitating" the past?
Every band has influences, certain bands take those influences and do something great with them. Kind of like every band on that list I wrote above. Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Hüsker Dü, Pavement and countless others have contributed more to music and culture than you have or ever will.
Why all the spaces between before your punctuation marks ? Was that supposed to signify something ? Or do you just really enjoy hitting the space bar ? ? ? ?
Learn my music history? Really?
Just for kicks, let's take a little stroll through my post-1980 music collection:
This Heat - Deceit
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
Television Personalities - ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It
Black Flag - Damaged
The Clash - Sandinista!
Kraftwerk - Computer World
X - "Wild Gift"
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
Mission of Burma - Vs.
The Human League - Dare
Bauhaus - Mask
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
The Cure - Pornography
Madness - The Rise and Fall...
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
ESG - Come Away With ESG
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
REM - Murmur
THE THE - Soul Mining
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine
U2 - War
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Meat Puppets - II
Minor Threat - Out of Step
The Replacements - Let It Be
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
Big Black - Atomizer
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman...
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
XTC - Skylarking
Bad Brains - I Against I
And that gets us to about 1986. I could go on, but typing that much was enough. Enjoy your "Eagles: Their Greatest Hits" or whatever it is you grade papers to.
My inner-child loves the idea of flying the Millennium Falcon more than the idea of flying around on a broom. But whatever, I probably should have just kept that comment to myself.
Now where did I put that lightsaber?
An album isn't defined by the amount of tracks on it, but by it's running time.
Most LPs fall between 30-80 minutes, while an EP would generally be 15-30 minutes. There were a number of Krautrock and Prog albums in the 70's that were only three or four tracks but the tracks themselves would be over 20 minutes, making the albums pretty damn long. Look at at any mid-period Yes album for instance, or anything by Sunn O))).
Also, Wolf Parade's "At Mount Zoomer" was only 9 tracks but two of them were 6 minutes long and the last one was over 10.
Plus, it ruled.
My point is: Shut up.
Julian wakes and rises from his bed as he runs his left hand through his perfectly distressed hair while reaching for his cheetah print silk underwear. He feels the shag carpet in between his bare toes and smiles. Graciela raises her head from the pillow as he walks towards the solid gold dresser to grab his cigarettes and sunglasses. Out of the corner of his eye he catches his reflection in the full-length mirror and he whispers,
"Who do you think you are?"
He turns to Graciela as she brushes her hair and says,
"Julian Casablancas, bitch."
He actually hates Mastodon, and he's more of an old school Slayer/Morbid Angel/Cannibal Corpse kind of guy, which I can understand and respect.
I have no problem with metal at all, I love it and always have, I just get annoyed by anyone who sticks to one genre of music and disregards the rest.
Just for fun now, my top 5 favorite metal albums:
5. King Diamond - "Abigail"
4. Death - "Symbolic"
3. Mayhem - "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas"
2. Carcass - "Heartwork"
1. Slayer - "Reign In Blood" (duh)
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