It just happens that I was in a Macy's picking up some makeup for my wife and someone over at the Bobbi Brown counter put on the original of "Hold On, We're Going Home"...and you're right, the kick just destroys the track. It's terrible crunk-'n'-B of the sort that should have gone away five years ago.
This ain't bad at all.
Speaking of funk-inflected alt-rockers of the era, I really hope the Afghan Whigs actually put an album out, because the Twilight Singers discography just doesn't do a very good job capturing the vibe that Dulli captured so amazingly well on 1965.
This is definitely going to be a very "adult" album, but that's not necessarily a bad thing from a bunch of dudes who are all around 40. Superb rhythm section work, but you expect that from these guys.
This was fun, but really, someone in the band should have been wearing those awesome short-shorts like Bernard Sumner had in the iconic live-in-studio version (where he flubs the stone-simple guitar intro, probably because he was obviously coked out of his mind).
I listened to this album all the time back in '03. Hearing it now takes me back to sitting in my room in my parents' huge, tacky house on the exurban edges of Chicago's sprawl, playing "Civilization 3" and wondering what the hell I was going to do with my life after my post-college-graduation plans had fallen apart.
There's some really killer slide work on this disc, BTW.
It's odd, but effective. We're probably not going to get another "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" or "You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus" out of this record, but even getting to the level of "Throwing Bricks at Trains" or "Lapsed Catholics" would be great. What I'm hearing here suggests that Falkous still has it in him.
The whispered female vocals are a nice touch, BTW.
Pleasant song. The singer's voice bears a more than passing resemblance to Travis Morrison, which is probably going to invite a lot of lazy (and inaccurate) Dismemberment Plan comparisons.
It was. I loved him even after he got traded to the Yankees; he flipped off a Yankee Stadium crowd, which is basically the equivalent of exposing yourself at a giant festival concert.
Is he still writing for Yahoo Sports?
I don't think I've ever heard that accent before; it sounds vaguely Celtic, but th'hell do I know?
I think a lot of the Joy Division comparisons that Savages have gotten are a bit lazy--not as lazy as the ones Interpol got, but still pretty lazy--but Savages' drummer certainly is in the same league as Stephen Morris. Very, very impressive.
The great thing about this song, and most Motown singles for that matter, is that they were so damned good on their own that a minimalist arrangement like this can still be interesting.
It's the most beautifully ridiculous thing I've seen in months, if not years. Also, anyone else think that Bowie looks disturbingly like Ronald Reagan in this vid?
Good track, too.
Twin Shadow's last record didn't have a "sun-dazed Californian studio-pop sensibility?" And here I thought he wrote and recorded it in Silver Lake and spent every day doing yoga and riding his motorcycle on Angeles Crest Highway; I didn't know that it was actually recorded in a cabin in the woods of northern Wisconsin in the winter.
This reminds me of that line in X1's "New York Is So Cool" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqbNJHm23w) about seeing 50 Cent hanging out with Interpol. Although in this case, it seems more likely that Banks has been hanging out with Mr. Muthafuckin' Exquire.
I can't wait for the next Twin Shadow album, so I can try to figure out which song is about shagging Ferreira and then desperately trying not to get into a relationship with her.
I can't believe nobody picked up that "selling blowjobs and meth at a mud pit downstate" is a reference to Gathering of the Juggalos. Come on, people, you're falling down on the job here.
Yeah, that's good stuff. I've got Runner on pre-order, and it's looking like I won't be disappointed--not that I would be given how consistently superb Prekop & Co. have been for the last 18 years.
I've pre-ordered my copy!
Not to get all spammy, but there's a song about him on my new EP. I think he'd appreciate it: http://soundcloud.com/giantkudzu/jens-lekman
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