Happy Halloweekend everyone. I’m gonna see some local bands cover the Smiths, Pixies, and Pumpkins tomorrow and a sp00ky drag show on Sunday. And get drunk, eat candy, and watch horror movies every night. Perfect weekend IMO. What are you all getting up to?
Things I haven't thought about in 20 years:
- Any of the songs on this album besides "Slave"
- John Ashcroft being traumatized by aluminum Justice boobs
- Omeleteville
Thanks for the memories.
It's hard to imagine for several reasons, but one of the big ones would be that OWS was directly in opposition to the Obama admin and very few people were cheerleading for both. Also this was after the 2010 midterm so the Tea Party was taking off, the Republicans took the House, and the best chance for progressive policy had come to an end (though pre-2010 the ACA fight was about as dispiriting for anyone who cared about such things as the current infra fights, we were just mad at Joe Lieberman and Max Baucus instead of Sinema and Manchin). This album was, for me, pure escapism, and I didn't really think it meant anything about where things were headed, which was already pretty fucking bleak by that point.
I'm sure my distaste for COD is coloring this on some level, but the first version of this song is unlistenable. I would also not want to draw attention to my lyrics if I was writing the "figures/triggers" / "mystics/picnics" couplets. Really really bad.
I agree that S=Y is overall the best record, though it also has some filler. But the highs of that record + the opening run of HUWD support a strong case that Morgan Kibby was the secret weapon for M83's pop era.
"Intro" is such an unassuming title for such an incredible song, "Midnight City" obviously one of the best songs of the 2010s, "Reunion" bangs, "Wait" is absolutely stunning. I don't hold it against the album that it can't quite scale those heights again, though there are plenty of gems in the tracklist and "Steve McQueen" might be my actual fav on the whole thing.
I got to M83 with Dead Cities and I think when this album is really on its his best work but also there's some parts that are skippable. I don't really mind the Frog Song, though I do put it in the skippable category. I am generally okay with interludes.
But I respect the Camille Paglia level intellectualization of the pop artifact here, seriously, you have certainly thought harder about this song this evening than any member of the Stones and probably every member of the Stones combined
No not all art about slavery is about its horrors sometimes it’s just schlock
And if this take made any sense at all don’t you think Mick himself would have trotted it out at some point in the last 50 years? No he would say (and has said) it’s dumb horny shock rock to its core
Brown Sugar slaps but trying to defend it as a "a song about the horrors of slavery"? Not even Keith Richards has done enough drugs to really think that makes sense.
I found the video engaging but I don't how stimulating I'd find the song on its own. Feels like so often now the lead single from an anticipated album is more like an announcement that songs are coming, and maybe also an introduction to an aesthetic, than a satisfying song in its own right.
"shoegaze/industrial paula cole vibe" is going to be rattling around in my brain all day today. unfortunately, this song won't be, as I already forgot what it sounded like :/
*Probably* won't happen because you're not a man marrying a man but you might want to ask the DJ not to play "Same Love" and like try to make a whole moment out of it because I thought that could just go unsaid but I was wrong I was so wrong
Anyway congrats, happy for you, have a ball, it goes by fast so just have fun and try to take it in!
If people aren't stealing your riffs then you've utterly failed as a rock musician. If they're still stealing your riffs forty years later than that's legend status. And "brutal" is the most persuasive case for Rodrigo's whole thing, IMO. "I'm so sick of seventeen / where's my fucking teenage dream" - that's good shit, people. Couplet of the year.
It's just a trailer so not going to read too much into it but having the police tackle the kid at "laaaawman beating up the wrong guy" was sort of eyebrow raising. That said, I'm kind of here for PTA doing something a bit less esoteric for a change.
I almost wish I hated it because it would mean there was anything to have a strong reaction too lol
But I'm sorry to derail into Kacey hate, it gives me no pleasure, and the point of this sub-thread is LNX appreciation!
I was worried by the lukewarm reviews for Kacey, but I gotta say, if anything, critics were too nice to her! It's a huuuuuuuuuge letdown after Golden Hour! And the movie thing was actively bad! The Crystal Light of Lemonades.
After Billie, Lorde, and Kacey decided to reinvent themselves as snorelords I'm just so happy to have a big tent pop album that's actually fun to listen to!
It's going to be like everything else St. Vincent does which is that everyone here will pre-emptively freak out about how cringey/insufferable/tryhard it is, and then it will probably be, at worst, decent.
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