Danny Boy
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Hey, this is the Olympics thread.
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Edited. I always with have trouble with the apostrophes in English. It's the other way around in Dutch. Plural with ' and most possessive forms without '.
My English should be better than it is. I lived in the USA for three years. I've already forgotten a lot.
Your English is phenomenal, please.
I read so much positive stuff about japandroids, so I checked them out with much anticipation....and......meh, just didn't do it for me, unfortunately.
Yes, it is. This last trip I took reminded me of how woefully deficient Americans are with languages. I met a few Belgian guys while I was waiting for a bus. They addressed me in Italian, to which I sputtered out some broken response. They then addressed me in flawless English.
I think Celebration Rock is an album that you cannot really think about if you want to enjoy it. It's just a thirty-odd minute shot of adrenaline and doesn't seem to want to be anything else.
The most depressed I've ever been on this topic was when I had a 5 hour layover in the Amsterdam airport. I talked to about 20 different strangers from at least 5 different countries, all of whom spoke perfect english, their native language and usually at least one other language....I know like 50 words in Spanish. I can buy a fucking bottle of water and ask how much it costs, maybe ask you to close the door or window and ask why the cow is red....fucking useless.
I'm a total moron, I don't overthink music, trust me. I wanted to like it, bought it, put it on, gave it back to back listens with headphones while out on the balcony, and, it just didn't do it for me. Maybe I'll try one more time.....
Same here. I can remember various aspects of the Spanish I took in school-a few words here and there and whatnot, but I'll be damned if I can create a proper sentence and be fluent in the language. I'd like to go back and study it again, actually. Maybe someday.
I didn't know the first part, may have been able to guess the second part, and agree with the third part, now that I know the first part.Please remember he's in Belgium, he's crazily young, and his English is phenomenal.
I'm sorry I listened to music wrong.
You're doing OK, being a total moron and all
In all seriousness, while it disappoints me that a ton of people don't get anything out of Japandroids, the critics foaming at the mouth over them, trying to make sense of music that is pure adrenaline made me laugh. You either dig it or you don't, and a lot of whether or not you do depends on context. Their albums are repetitive and one-note if I dedicate my full attention to them. Put them on at the gym or something and it's an entirely different story. And they are tremendous live.