Grizzly Bear - 'Veckatimest' - May 26

[elevated_u2_fan]

fifthed!

 

[onebloodonelife]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss

Seriously, that song is so epic. I love it to pieces. Plus, live, it just kicks all kinds of ass.

 

[impy13]

I prefer the Michael Mickey D version.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Boooooooooooooooo

 

[impy13]

Not really. It just gives me a good chance to do my excellent impression.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Haha, yeah, I sort of assumed you were joking. You do a good impression of him though?

 

[impy13]

Like you wouldn't believe.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Nice. Do you do a lot of impressions?

 

[u2popmofo]

I prefer the Michael Mickey D version.

I'd like to once again quote one if iTunes' first reviews of that version of the song:

Like hearing your dad sing Radiohead, 1 star

 

[impy13]

Nice. Do you do a lot of impressions?

Actually, yeah. For some reason, manipulating my voice is something I've always been really good at.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Actually, yeah. For some reason, manipulating my voice is something I've always been really good at.

Very cool. People who are really good at them have always intrigued me a lot.

 

[cobl04]

they're playing at one of the new years festivals over here, sadly it's the one that costs a trillion dollars and is extremely hard to get tickets too... i'm kind of shattered, i hear they are good live.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I heard the hype, and I tuned in, and I liked. A lot.

They're playing near where I'm going to be but I think I won't be able to go, sadly.

 

[onebloodonelife]

I'm seeing them again a week from tomorrow. Can't wait, as they are, in fact, absolutely incredible live.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

For the record, I think 'Two Weeks' is outstanding.

I could listen to it on end for like, two weeks or something.

 

[u2popmofo]

I could listen to it on end for like, two weeks or something.

Classic Yertle.

 

[impy13]

This performance is mesmerizing and deserves to be brought up again

 

[onebloodonelife]

That's the only response I have to that performance.

 

[u2popmofo]

I'm liking this album more than ever lately. I can't remember if I've seen that performance yet or not, I'll watch when home.

 

[onebloodonelife]

I'm liking this album more than ever lately. I can't remember if I've seen that performance yet or not, I'll watch when home.

That's right, you weren't as hot for it, right? Oh man, it's a fucking killer performance, seriously. The strings section is incredible.


Less than one week 'til my Grizzlies show! And, as long as FedEx is sort of on the mark with their tracking, I'll have a sweet new camera with a massive zoom to bring along.

 

[Saracene]

I really enjoy the album, though I do wish the vocals had a bit more personality to them.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I'm liking this album more than ever lately. I can't remember if I've seen that performance yet or not, I'll watch when home.

I think its cold weather music and the weather here is starting to suit the album. I'm starting to like it more too. Its kind of like Fleet Foxes for me in that way.

 

[LemonMelon]

I really enjoy the album, though I do wish the vocals had a bit more personality to them.

Eh, there are more than enough quirky, slightly irritating vocalists out there. Hearing people like Ed Droste who can really fucking sing is refreshing.

 

[Saracene]

Eh, there are more than enough quirky, slightly irritating vocalists out there.

I don't necessarily mean quirky, just someone with a bit more charisma and presence. This guy can sing, but he's rather colourless IMO.

 

[onebloodonelife]

I think its cold weather music and the weather here is starting to suit the album. I'm starting to like it more too. Its kind of like Fleet Foxes for me in that way.

I don't know, I've spent a ton of my summer cruising around, listening to the album. Yellow House, yeah, I think that's cold weather music for sure. Bon Iver's the same way for me. But, I get a way warmer feeling from Veckatimest than a lot of people here, I guess.

 

[LemonMelon]

I don't necessarily mean quirky, just someone with a bit more charisma and presence. This guy can sing, but he's rather colourless IMO.

It's one of those vocals-as-instrument situations IMO (see: Kevin Shields, Elizabeth Fraser). I just feel that his voice suits the music extremely well, so much so that it may come across a bit wallpaperish as you listen. I don't mind that at all, but hey, it's all a matter of taste.

 

[impy13]

I think its cold weather music and the weather here is starting to suit the album. I'm starting to like it more too. Its kind of like Fleet Foxes for me in that way.

Yellow House to me is a big time cold weather album, considering that's when it really emerged from me (September-November 06). Vecky looks like it doesn't really have a season since I haven't stopped listening to it since its release and am unlikely to any time soon. But some of my better memories with the album go with driving from Austin to DFW to Austin this summer, so it might end up as a hot weather record. Fleet Foxes, though, is completely summer what with me seeing them in July 08 and being really into them around that time. Definitely agree with Cass that For Emma is completely made for cold weather, but that's only fortified by the mythology behind its creation. Sure, I really got into it last winter, but JV trudging into the snowy woods to make it often overshadowing the music itself makes it especially well suited for the cold.

It seems like the seasonal associations we make with albums often coincide with when we really get comfortable with the tunes.

 

[Jive Turkey]

It seems like the seasonal associations we make with albums often coincide with when we really get comfortable with the tunes.

Funny how that works. Although I think vocals are a big part of it personally. Its the reverb soaked vocals that give me the cozy, warm inside while its cold outside vibe. White Winter Hymnal might as well be a Christmas carol for me. Not all the Veckatimest songs are that way, but that performance of Ready, Able definitely does it

 

[u2popmofo]

That's right, you weren't as hot for it, right?

Nah, I liked it since day one, i just liked Yellow House considerably more for quite a while there. The gap has been closing.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Nah, I liked it since day one, i just liked Yellow House considerably more for quite a while there. The gap has been closing.

Ah, okay. Yeah, I'm at the point where I can't say which is my favorite anymore. They're too close overall.