Random Music Talk LXXV: Party at Pappy's Snatch Palace

[LemonMelon]

It's bullshit that you can't have GIFs in your signature. A change is due.

 

[cobl04]

Laz might be drunk.

All, I had a fantastic steak tonight at dinner with a few friends. You needed to know.

Are these two things related?

 

[No spoken words]

I hope not.

 

[bono_212]

Aw did Laz get NSW a steak?

 

[cobl04]

Aw did Laz get NSW a steak?

Well, it wouldn't have been the other way around.

 

[bono_212]

 

[LemonMelon]

Still a better love story than Twilight.

 

[PhilsFan]

On some colder nights I wonder if I should have bought sweatpants. But at the end of the day that money was probably better spent on some soulful booze.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

It's bullshit that you can't have GIFs in your signature. A change is due.

Does anyone still use the website?

 

[Hewson]

Still a better love story than Twilight.

With far more chemistry.

 

[bono_212]

Oh my god, I just noticed the reference to Nirvana in blink 182's Adam's song.

 

[u2popmofo]

All, I had a fantastic steak tonight at dinner with a few friends. You needed to know.

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[IWasBored]

A change is due.

 

[lazarus]

So El Mel, no thoughts on your recent listen of Brighten The Corners?

 

[u2popmofo]

Is the formatting of the left side of the forum looking weird to anyone else this morning (on PC / Mac)?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Is the formatting of the left side of the forum looking weird to anyone else this morning (on PC / Mac)?

Yes. The whole message board has seemed off since yesterday morning. I use Firefox, but I had to switch to fucking Internet Explorer yesterday for a while to even view a thread.

I could use Chrome, but I'm not nearly cool enough for that.

 

[iron yuppie]

The site has only worked on iPad for me for the last few days. So yeah, I would say they are having some technical difficulties at the moment.

Also, requiring someone to use Internet Explorer should be some kind of crime.

 

[bono_212]

I associate the songs "Keeping the Faith" by Billy Joel and "Jammin Me" by Tom Petty for two reasons:

1) Joe Piscapo
2) I can not figure out why, of all the other minor hits they have, I hear these two song so-ooo frequently.

 

[LemonMelon]

So El Mel, no thoughts on your recent listen of Brighten The Corners?

What did I say before, that it was a sort of career retrospective that didn't break as much ground as the first three? I will still say that is true, to some degree. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing now though. The digressions on Slanted and Enchanted/Crooked Rain are part of what make them such charming records, but they aren't essential to my enjoyment. Brighten the Corners lacks a 5-4=Unity to really knock you back on your heels, but its songwriting is extremely consistent and shows maturity.

If I have any complaints, it's that the album is much stronger at either end, with a weak middle. Stereo, Shady Lane and Date with IKEA are my favorite tracks and they're all up front, and Starlings of the Slipstream and Fin are no slouches either, holding up the back. Not much from the middle has broken through for me yet.

 

[LemonMelon]

Man, how fucking good is Pop? The opening trio in particular is a real trip. I can see why the Hive eats this up with two spoons.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Man, how fucking good is Pop? The opening trio in particular is a real trip. I can see why the Hive eats this up with two spoons.

i was thinking the same thing reading those survivor threads. I love every song on that album, Playboy Mansion and Miami included. It helps that it was the soundtrack of my summer when I was 19...

 

[BoMac]

I mention this on a semi-regular basis, but the fact that they refuse to play anything off that album (or have since 2005), is extremely disappointing to me.

 

[LemonMelon]

The more I think back on it though, the more disturbing the "Pop is undercooked" thing becomes. Listen to this motherfucker on headphones. They don't have a busier album. The only thing they could have done is re-write the whole thing, which would have taken far longer than "a few more more months." It would have been impossible to listen to had they further tweaked what we have. On IGWSHA, it sounds like every piece of Larry's kit was panned to a specific channel. Crazy shit.

Edge is at his most adventurous on here too. There are no less than four different guitar effects used on SATS.

 

[PhilsFan]

Feel like I drank a thousand beers last night, you guys.

 

[IWasBored]

I walked into best buy, couldn't find what I had originally gone in there for, but walked around aimlessly looking at stuff for a few minutes longer because just as I was about to leave the store, thunder road started playing and I had to wait til it was over.

There are about 14 different versions of thunder road on my iPod, but I'll be damned if I'm walking out of a store where the studio version is playing, apparently.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Would it be fair to say you still haven't found what you're looking for?

 

[corianderstem]

Feel like I drank a thousand beers last night, you guys.

Please tell me more.

 

[Cactus Annie]

You filled up my senses like a night in the forest

 

[Danny Boy]

Please tell me more.

I drank a cup of coffee about an hour before bed and still fell asleep really quickly.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

You filled up my senses like a night in the forest

I do believe it's "you fill up my senses" not "filled" in the past tense. Anyway, my mom really likes that song.