"Thinking of a Dream I’ve Had" is so underrated. They hardly play it nowadays but I still believe it's the best song they've ever written. It should have the same status that "The Rat" has.
Let's agree to disagree, shall we?
1. Sinister
2. Tigermilk
3. Push Barman
4. Life Pursuit
5. Arab Strap
(big gap here)
6. Write About Love
7. Fold Your Hands
8. Dear Cataatrophe Waitress
9. Storytelling
(Waitress at #2 is just insane. Mediocre songs, terrrrrible production. Ugh)
In light of how many of those reunion albums turned out to be absolutely fucking terrible (Stooges, Big Star... seriously, the list is endless. Dinosaur Jr. and Mission Of Burma are probably the only exceptions) i'm totally fine with acts who just keep on touring and not releasing anything new. Remember Bam Thwok?
They've now got the same problem as Spoon. They reached that certain plateau where ir's kinda difficult to get yourself excited for a new album by them because, literally, their whole output is so consistently great.
speechbubble's top 25 most anticipated releases for spring/summer:
lotus place – spooky action at a distance
zammuto – zammuto
black dice – mr. impossible
spiritualized – sweet heart sweet light
allo darlin’ – europe
moonface with sinaii – heartbreak bravery
actress – r.i.p.
lower dens – nootropics
here we go magic – a different ship
squarepusher – ufabulum
beach house – bloom
japandroids – celebration rock
saint etienne – words and music by saint etienne
ursprung (pantha du prince/stephan abry) – ursprung
sun kil moon – among the leaves
dntel – aimlessness
liars – tba
the walkmen – heaven
hot chip – in our heads
the tallest man on earth – there’s no leaving now
peaking lights – lucifer
flying lotus – until the quiet comes
mission of burma – unsound
aesop rock – skelethon
So why is this only available as a stream? People do realise that I'll buy the 7" only if I'm able to listen to the song while i'm on the bus/bike etc. with my mp3 player, right?
very good:
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tennis
destroyer
cut copy
times new viking
bill callahan
gang gang dance
also good:
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tune-yards
tv on the radio
sbtrkt
elbow
pains of being pure at heart
gil scott-heron & jamie xx
thao & mirah
lia ices
dale earnhardt jr. jr.
tyler, the creator
Of course it's kinda unfair to expect a huge musical evolution with every album but this for me this is the first Radiohead album that's just "another Radiohead album". The cool thing about Radiohead was always that they're trying to incorporate as many electronic sounds as they find while still being a guitar band underneath.
I see Thom Yorke's DJ-Set and it's obvious that he's really into Dubstep, Four Tet etc. and i don't know why but i kinda expected that Radiohead will experiment with Dubstep (sub-bass) sounds on their Post-In Rainbows record or maybe let their sound evolve even further in anonther direction. It didn't happen. Well, nothing happenend at all. "The King Of Limbs" is just another collection of Radiohead songs that we've already heard at some point in their career.
Why The Happening or Avatar? We already know that these movies are very bad, relax guys. My Nominations:
A History Of Violence: Viggo Mortensen at his worst, it looks like he's reading his lines off from a piece of cardboard next to the camera. The very interesting question of the movie "IS HE OR IS HE NOT?!" gets an answer mid-film and from this point on it's not only a dumb movie with horrible acting, it's also very dull.
The League Of The Extraordinary Gentlemen.: Someone did not the read comics/books or has no basic knowledge of the world (A car race through Venice?!). See also: Horrible acting and a very stupid ending.
Sin City: Looks wonderful from the outside, totally hollow from the inside. Worst dialogue of the last 10 years.
i recommend another film for the hunt: BASIC. A 2003 thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. Currtently holds a 6.3 at ImdB/21% fresh at RT and the writers focused on THOUSAND PLOT-TWISTS instead of a good story. I'm really looking forward to Gabe trying to explain the story to us.
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