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corianderstem said:
5. Deadlines and Diets (I'm not a fan of pop ballads, but love this one)

I just think they're really fun. It's a shame not so many people seem to know about them in the US. The Spice Girls were huge, why can't these guys be, too? Instead we get stuck with those shitty R&B-flavored girl groups like Pussycat Dolls and Danity Kane. :yuck:
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:up: :up: :up: Three thumbs up from me!

I don't know if you are a drinker or not...but I am and I have found over my experiences that Deadlines and Diets is a really fantastic hangover song.

And, I think it might be too late now, but I agree that they could be big over here in the states. When I used to throw on one of their albums at a party, every girl in attendance would start dancing IMMEDIATELY...without having any knowledge of what the song was or who was singing it. That has got to say something, right?
 
GirlsAloudFan said:

I don't know if you are a drinker or not...but I am and I have found over my experiences that Deadlines and Diets is a really fantastic hangover song.
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I'm a light social drinker, but too old to let myself get hangovers. But I'll keep that in mind, just in case. :wink:
 
martha said:
I was listening to Live Bullet at the gym this morning.

Bob Seger in '77 was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
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He's actually quite underrated now, it seems. He had a run of albums that were very, very good. I obviously don't put him on the same level as Springsteen, but Seger is no slouch. I'll take him over Mellencamp and Petty any day.
 
phanan said:


He's actually quite underrated now, it seems. He had a run of albums that were very, very good. I obviously don't put him on the same level as Springsteen, but Seger is no slouch. I'll take him over Mellencamp and Petty any day.
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I'm still kicking myself for not seeing him at all (and he obviously played Detroit quite a few times) on his last tour. I have friends who saw him and said it was awesome, despite him being in his 60's.
 
For me, nothing The New Pornographers have done has matched the awesomeness of 'Letter From An Occupant'.

If I was to make some kind of "all time favorite songs" list, that one would probably show up somewhere on it. Of course, I would be completely unable to make any kind of list like that without putting months and months of thought into it. Screw that.
 
u2popmofo said:
For me, nothing The New Pornographers have done has matched the awesomeness of 'Letter From An Occupant'.
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I really want to like these guys, and I can never bring myself to like them more than just a little. That's my favorite song by them, for sure.

There's just something about the sound of the first two albums that grates on me a bit, and I can't put my finger on it.
 
Salome said:

I also haven't really downloaded anything
except for Joe Jackson's Rain which I will buy some day
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How is it? He played a small theatre in Toronto not long ago, and I wanted to go in the worst way, but I couldn't make it the night he played. :(
 
I think Mistaken For Strangers by The National is one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. I heard it ages ago, but it never sunk in until just now. It's so hypnotic. Probably the best channeling of Ian Curtis I've come across; Paul Banks, eat your heart out.
 
That one-two punch of Fake Empire/Mistaken at the beginning of Boxer is stunning. I wouldn't say the album as a whole is one of my favorites of 2007 or anything, because it runs together for me towards the halfway mark, but it's extremely coherent and doesn't really have any weak tracks.

In other news, I need to listen to some Liars albums before the Radiohead gig on 5/11. Drums Not Dead is up first...
 
corianderstem said:
I really want to like these guys, and I can never bring myself to like them more than just a little.
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I think what stops me from liking them more than I do is their male lead singer's bland generic voice. I do like Neko Case however, just started to dig into her solo output, :up:

Speaking further of purging... I really tried to get into The Smiths' first album and I just can't. "The Queen Is Dead" is one of my favourite albums of all time but apart from three or four songs, I find their self-titled a total bore. And Morrissey's falsetto on the third track makes me want to reach out and rip his vocal chords out, :crazy:
 
martha said:


Keep me posted on this. I've liked the 30 second clips I've heard on iTunes.
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I've seen Liars live twice in the last 6 months. Even if you don't like their music, they're extremely entertaining live. Hopefully Radiohead fans will be open minded, as I think a lot of people will at least enjoy watching them. They're opening because Thom absolutely loves them. I've seen him mention them in a number of different articles, and he blabbered on about them in his iTunes celebrity playlist a year or so ago.

Drums Not Dead is a great album, one of my favorites of 2006, though admittedly not for everyone (it's a concept album, and a strange one at that, but it's EXTREMELY unique musically). Their most recent self-titled album is oddly more accessible and diverse than Drums, but probably not as interesting. The two times I've seen them, they mainly played from these two albums, with a few tracks from their other couple albums/EPs.

If anyone wants any Liars track recommendations, I'm more than happy to help. Here's their awesome video to Houseclouds (not one of their best songs or even a good example of their sound, but the video is hilarious in all the right/wrong ways):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzZVvM8Dyzs
 
It is impossible to dance the way they do in those itunes/ipod commercials without the lousy earphones falling off.
 
If you're using the white Apple earbuds like the commercial, no wonder! Those things wouldn't stay in your ears if your pores secreted Krazy Glue instead of sweat.
 
In an attempt to save this thread from page 2, I will let you guys know about the three random albums I've been devouring for the last week or so:

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement - (Alex Turner, lead singer of Arctic Monkeys, side project featuring production by James Ford who has worked with Arcade Fire. Nothing too amazing here, but I'm a fan of Turner's and there are some nice James Bond movie/60's soundscapes here.)

Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity - (The noises! The beautiful noises! This band is crazy and really, really cool.)

Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch - (Tom Petty and Mike Campbell's band before they became the Heartbreakers...it's taken them 30 years to record a debut album and it doesn't fucking disappoint. Admittedly, I love me some Petty. But the stuff here is great. Really classic vibe. Sounds like the songs were written at midnight, after a few beers, on the backporch of a house somewhere in Louisiana during the 70's. And it sounds like the Allman brothers were on that same backporch playing guitar. Kickass country rock style!)


Anyone heard any of this stuff? Care to give some feedback? Cool, thanks.
 
I listened to Aphex Twin's Drukqs again today
and that album is actually even a lot better than I already thought it was
 
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