Danny Boy
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I often wonder how much of the footage people shoot on their phones even gets watched.
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cobl04
45:33
That's exactly why I stopped, some time in 2010. I never watched what I filmed.
bono_212
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The last thing I filmed with my phone was Lindsey Buckingham performing "Big Love"...I watch it every now and again, which was why I filmed it in the first place.
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
I limit myself to a single picture (no flash) throughout an entire show. I've never taken a video.
I love the douche-whistlers who fancy themselves as "journalists", and push to the front to take three dozen pictures in a 5 minute time frame with the world's brightest flash, blinding everyone else who'd waited patiently to get their spot. I've had fantasies of grabbing their cameras and throwing them as far towards the back of the crowd as I can and then just turning back to the show without saying anything. Not even jail can stop me.
scrumpyjsk
The Fly
My conclusive opinion on this album is it's fantastic. It's a form record - consistent, energetic and with some genuine tunes.
All the Rage Back Home is a classic single; Anywhere and Ancient Ways are top rock songs; My Desire, Same Town, New Story and Tidal Wave all lock into a wonderful groove. The rest of the songs are solid and enjoyable enough to carry the album through to conclusion.
A band reinvigorated. Four stars.
All the Rage Back Home is a classic single; Anywhere and Ancient Ways are top rock songs; My Desire, Same Town, New Story and Tidal Wave all lock into a wonderful groove. The rest of the songs are solid and enjoyable enough to carry the album through to conclusion.
A band reinvigorated. Four stars.
last unicorn
Blue Crack Addict
I'll never forget seeing them open for U2 back in 2010. They were boring and the audience was underwhelmed. I really felt that everything I liked on their albums totally got lost in that live setting. I've never seen them play smaller venues, but I guess they're better there. It's the fate of most of U2's support bands to not come across very well in a stadium environment.
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
I thought they were very good opening for U2 and the audience never gave them a chance.
cobl04
45:33
the band, not just this album, got absolutely savaged by Pitchfork in their review.
scrumpyjsk
The Fly
Ridiculous review. Spent more time on the band themselves and their history than the album.
djerdap
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I wish people would stop paying attention to that silly website.
intedomine
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
That is the formula. They so very often only seem to start addressing the album itself and the songs after the halfway mark of the review. Odd approach,
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iron yuppie
ONE love, blood, life
This is maybe the worst-written review I've ever read on Pitchfork. The author goes so far as to suggest Turn on the Bright Lights was only well-received because of 9/11. When you start attributing cultural movements to 9/11, you've officially run out of ideas as a writer and might as well hang it up.
djerdap
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Now you've done it iYup. I have to read it now for the same reason one wants to watch The Room.
cobl04
45:33
What annoyed me was he pretty much shat on Bright Lights as well. He seemed to be saying that if hadn't come out the year it did it would be a terrible album. The whole thing was just smug garbage.
iron yuppie
ONE love, blood, life
Yeah just spectacular bullshit. Why commission a review to someone who so clearly has an axe to grind?
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bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
Because now you're all talking about it.
iron yuppie
ONE love, blood, life
Not all web hits are good. Pitchfork is practically begging for a challenger to usurp them at this point; the more of these bullshit reviews they post, the easier they make it for that to happen. I'm sure probably all of us here already have sites we favor over Pitchfork; I sure as hell do.
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
No one seems to care about the long game anymore. The chase for page hits only incentivizes writers and the like to worry about today.
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
Drowned in Sound
My favorite part about the above site? User Scores posted next to the reviewer's score.
And they also gave El Pintor a 9/10, so that's a big plus in my book.
iron yuppie
ONE love, blood, life
AV Club is my favorite.
People will probably laugh at this, but I like Anthony Fantano a lot as well. He's great for left-field recommendations I would never have heard of otherwise.
People will probably laugh at this, but I like Anthony Fantano a lot as well. He's great for left-field recommendations I would never have heard of otherwise.
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
I can't stand the AV Club. At least for film and television. They are so far up their own ass, it's ridiculous. It's not really their reviews I don't always care for, though, it's some of their round-table discussion type stories. There are other things I absolutely love, Like Undercover, but even that's kinda marred by the host, who seems to think that everyone doing these covers is doing them ironically and couldn't possibly like the artists. I especially enjoyed him getting schooled a few weeks ago when someone covered "In A Big Country" and he tried to insinuate that the band couldn't seriously like the band, to which he was promptly proved wrong.
phanan
Blue Crack Addict
I've held out listening until tomorrow. Looking forward to this.
Same here!
scrumpyjsk
The Fly
Looks like My Desire will be the next single.
http://instagram.com/p/stWC4BnpYH/
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http://instagram.com/p/stWC4BnpYH/
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bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
Oh shit, 
, I thought I was in the U2 LP thread and couldn't believe they were going to name another song Desire 
....too much Blue Crack for one day.
, I thought I was in the U2 LP thread and couldn't believe they were going to name another song Desire ....too much Blue Crack for one day.
Phantom Dreamer
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Interpol on Letterman tonight.
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