If they can't come up with 1, let alone 11 songs better than 'Invisible', they might as well pack it in now.
I was just going to post 'excellent aussie music news: after ten (!) years, Pappa vs Pretty have decided to call it a day to pursure other interests'.
And just btw, what the fuck is it with bands who can't stick it out for the long haul (even if, as in this case, I rejoice at the split)? Some 'unearthed high' outfit called Snackadackyl quit basically as soon as they'd formed. Like, whatevs, dudes.
I genuinely had no idea Papa Vs Pretty were still together, or that they'd been around for ten years. Though personally I think their main problem was not their music, but their band name. Good grief, try harder. Snakadaktal too, which is meant to be a portmanteau of "snake" and "pteradactyl" but instead sounds like a lame treat marketed at harried parents who want to put something "cool" in their kids' lunchboxes.
I GOT MY HOPES UP THINKING MAYBE IT WOULD SOUND LlKE "HEROES"
I really love Total Control's new record Typical System. It's an excellent throwback to icy European new wave like Kraftwerk, Republika, Ultravox and so on.
This is one of the more guitar-driven tracks, but it's a good primer for the album:
Total Control - Safety Net - YouTube
Even though we already briefly talked about it, anyone going to make a mid year 2014 best of thread?
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I really love Total Control's new record Typical System. It's an excellent throwback to icy European new wave like Kraftwerk, Republika, Ultravox and so on.
This is one of the more guitar-driven tracks, but it's a good primer for the album:
Total Control - Safety Net - YouTube
Can I title it "Fartbarf and Lesser 2014 Albums of Note?"
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Can I title it "Fartbarf and Lesser 2014 Albums of Note?"
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quiet life is fucking amazing. that applies to both the title track and the album itself. and the follow-up, gentlemen take polaroids? total perfection. i could write one of those huge long-winded posts about what i think of their music, including a lot of the members' post-japan stuff.For now, the closest I've gotten is late 70s Roxy Music and Japan's Quiet Life album.
quiet life is fucking amazing. that applies to both the title track and the album itself. and the follow-up, gentlemen take polaroids? total perfection. i could write one of those huge long-winded posts about what i think of their music, including a lot of the members' post-japan stuff.
not to mention the band life without buildings everyone's been talking about on here was named after one of their songs.
YEEEEEES. i started with quiet life and went forwards, and then checked out their first two albums.Japan is definitely one of my favorite bands. Started with Tin Drum and worked backwards from there.
David Sylvian's solo work is so smooth. Secrets of the Beehive is one of those classic albums that everyone should hear regardless of their tastes.
god yes. the entire first side of the album in particular is so great.I listened to Gentlemen Take Polaroids recently. Individual stuff I'd heard by Japan, I'd not cared for, so I was hesitant, but I enjoyed the album very much.