Varg may be a repugnant ass but these charges are thin at best. Arresting because of ideology or ties is baseless "justice."
Make no mistake though, Varg is still a vehement bigot.
Consider this: It's a scathing criticism of the base materialism that has permeated the rap/hip-hop scene. It's an illustration of tropes and absurdity come to reality. I may not be a huge Kanye fan but he does pull some rather thought provoking moves sometimes.
I think he is so grossly apologetic here for two reasons:
1.) It is Morrissey, after all.
2.) He's had so many health issues plaguing his tours lately that it must seem like he is in fact dying. Really, it's just shit luck. I'm sure that Morrissey does feel guilt about the whole debacle as well.
Takes balls to make a list like this, Doug. So hats off for that in the first place. It's a very, very strong list. The only real wish I had, and I'm sure it's not a popular pick, but "High Hopes" is such an amazing song. I feel it is one of their strongest.
Again, great list and hats off for having the gall to make one in the first place.
Or, you know, it could be because they wanted their band to show up in search results rather than the bloated religious hierarchy that exists. Oh wait. It is exactly why.
Not at all. That was the first Low album I heard last year when I was searching up slowcore bands. It floors me to this day. I do think Long Division is a better album though. Truthfully, I'm not really big on Low past The Curtain Hits the Cast. They just lose some of that melancholic somberness that really "did" it for me. I still love the band and it's new efforts, I'm just not as big of a fan.
I Could Live In Hope at #9 is just horrible to me though.
I truly don't care about up or downvotes. I was having a bit of fun with the GIF. It happens.
I expressed an (apparently) unpopular opinion. That's fine. If other people like this album, hats off to them. I still find it to be bland and nowhere near worth the hype it's gotten. There's no substance here for me. If it hadn't have had an ad campaign as prolific as some politicians I don't think my expectations would be anywhere near as high. It's produced extremely well but that just doesn't save it for me. A lot of these tracks just sound like generic disco. if I had come into this record without seeing and hearing all of hoopla, there is a pretty high chance I might have a different opinion.
In my defense as well, I never once said it was a "bad" album by any means. It's definitely solid, there are some danceable tracks and some really good "sit and listen" tunes ("Touch", for example). I just don't believe it was worth making about 6 different trailers and teasers over. I'm sorry if that's not substantial enough reasoning. If I'm at a party and I hear ""Giorgio by Moroder" I'm apt to probably get into it. Hearing it at home on my speakers or my headhones? Ambivalence.
In short, these just aren't my jams. If they are yours or anyone else's, cool. We'll agree to disagree. For the record, I'm not robotic.
Anyway, enjoy whatever it is you may be listening to, be it this album or something else.
Metacritic is a gross (as in disgusting) standard for valuing something. A lot of those numbers are almost arbitrary. When there is an absence of a numbered score in an article, metacritic assigns one based on the "feel" of the article. Highly questionable.
Eh, Typical. Get sarcastically chastised for having a different opinion than getting on ones knees and worshiping this album, sarcastically respond with despondent Patrick, get down votes.
Bunch of plebes (sarcasm).
I gave up on Spotify awhile ago. Rdio is my current service. It may not have the extensive catalog that Spotify has, but to be fair, Rdio is adding new albums every day. More over, it's UI isn't a disgusting, unwieldy brick. Their mobile apps are pretty amazing as well.
All that said, I may be a bit of a Google fanboy, so odds are I will try this and if it proves to be anywhere near as good as Rdio/Spotify, I'll more than likely switch.
Google are like the Borg, you'll get assimilated eventually.
All GIFs and such aside, this is an amazing album. It's incredibly dark and moving. Their most aggressive (and arguably best) effort to date. Aggressive in lyrics and in nuanced melodies/backbeats. I love this album and I love The National.
I may have a been a bit...shall we say..."under the weather" when I typed that. Might've been a bit egregious with that whole statement. Sorry fellow Gummers.
I was going to make the same point. I seriously doubt that they would play the 3 1/2 minute version for six hours. It would seem to make the most sense to have an evolving, cathartic playing of "Sorrow" over six hours. With a live performance anything is possible.
I sincerely doubt a band as great as The National would play a studio version of a song for six hours. They aren't Pharrell.
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