Author Topic: What Are You Listening To 2011 - Grefter's Grotto Edition (Read 40291 times)

VySaika · « **Reply #200 on:** April 10, 2011, 05:13:13 PM »

Gaelic Storm - What's the Rumpus?

This song has no point to speak of, but man does it do a great job of getting stuck in my head.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #201 on:** April 10, 2011, 06:30:29 PM »

Allo Darlin' - Dreaming

The eponymous song by Blondie is obviously superior, but this is certainly charming on its own merits.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #202 on:** April 10, 2011, 08:27:20 PM »

Arcade Fire - The Well and the Lighthouse

Grefter · « **Reply #203 on:** April 10, 2011, 10:17:38 PM »

Augie March - Here Comes The Night.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #204 on:** April 10, 2011, 11:05:00 PM »

Allo Darlin' - My Heart Is a Drummer

This song is the highlight of the album. There's this marvelous little guitar and "oooh-aaaah" ditty that starts at 1:40 and then sweeps my pop senses off my feet. And that's not to mention the adorable "my heart's as strong as a drummer" vocal hook.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #205 on:** April 11, 2011, 12:01:37 AM »

Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues

Sierra · « **Reply #206 on:** April 11, 2011, 12:44:56 AM »

Probably my least favorite thing on Neon Bible right there. That and Windowsill are the tracks I don't really dig. Intervention/No Cars Go/My Body Is a Cage > others. Speaking of:

Peter Gabriel: My Body Is a Cage

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #207 on:** April 11, 2011, 12:56:13 AM »

Quote from: El Cideon on April 11, 2011, 12:44:56 AM

Probably my least favorite thing on Neon Bible right there. That and Windowsill are the tracks I don't really dig. Intervention/No Cars Go/My Body Is a Cage > others.

Windowsill is excellent. Antichrist Television Blues is the odd little duck, though. Would be right at home in a Bruce Springsteen album, and isn't Arcade Fire in any sense of the word.

Arcade Fire - Rococo

Wait a minute this isn't rococo.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #208 on:** April 11, 2011, 03:12:47 AM »

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Preliminary Assessment: Funeral > The Suburbs > Neon Bible. I sorely need to work out The Suburbs further, though, especially since it's -too goddamned long-.

EDIT: The album namer is amazingly strong, however. Win Butler just gets better at modulating his voice and playing it into the hook game, and it remains just as emotionally piercing and characteristic as it always was. The arrangements are also more elegant than Arcade Fire's ever been while still being diverse - a bit further away from the wall-of-sound mentality they often sport, but still clearly in line with the layered, rich sonic textures I fell in love with in the first place.

superaielman · « **Reply #209 on:** April 11, 2011, 02:59:37 PM »

Halestorm- I'm not an angel.

Grefter · « **Reply #210 on:** April 11, 2011, 10:36:51 PM »

A Perfect Circle - Passive.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #211 on:** April 13, 2011, 01:39:00 AM »

Arcade Fire - Black Mirror

Sierra · « **Reply #212 on:** April 13, 2011, 05:59:15 AM »

Northern Kings: We Don't Need Another Hero

Ciato if you're looking for campy metal you should totally listen to this.

Grefter · « **Reply #213 on:** April 13, 2011, 10:59:30 AM »

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Wrong Time Wrong Planet.

Cotigo · « **Reply #214 on:** April 13, 2011, 11:34:19 AM »

Our Riotous Defects - Of Montreal

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #215 on:** April 13, 2011, 06:01:02 PM »

Arcade Fire - No Cars Go

I'm still not sure what I think about this CD, but it is good paper-reading music.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #216 on:** April 14, 2011, 01:29:38 AM »

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Still heavily mulling over this album. The Suburbs (the CD itself) is uneven, way too long and somewhat hard to digest in the short term. However, this is the work that -intrigues- me the most, and it has a chance of being my special AF album, even though Funeral's still cleanly the best. Not to mention The Suburbs (the -track-) and Ready to Start are, in my opinion, two of the fundamental tracks to -get- Arcade Fire in their nucleus. Amazing mood and pop sensibility within their musical proposal (Ready to Start, for starters, at the very least borders on immaculate in terms of pop craft). Not a small feat for an album that's supposed to be the ugly little duckling.

Grefter · « **Reply #217 on:** April 14, 2011, 08:56:16 AM »

Bjork - Headphones.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #218 on:** April 14, 2011, 05:27:33 PM »

Arcade Fire - Intervention

Probably my favorite song on the CD~

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #219 on:** April 15, 2011, 01:21:07 AM »

Intervention is pretty good stuff. That organ taking the forefront sets the mood very well.

Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait

Annnnnnnnnnd here's the third all-time gem in the album.

Grefter · « **Reply #220 on:** April 15, 2011, 08:46:32 AM »

Pulp - Glory Days.

Sierra · « **Reply #221 on:** April 15, 2011, 10:41:36 PM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on April 14, 2011, 01:29:38 AM

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Still heavily mulling over this album. The Suburbs (the CD itself) is uneven, way too long and somewhat hard to digest in the short term. However, this is the work that -intrigues- me the most, and it has a chance of being my special AF album, even though Funeral's still cleanly the best. Not to mention The Suburbs (the -track-) and Ready to Start are, in my opinion, two of the fundamental tracks to -get- Arcade Fire in their nucleus. Amazing mood and pop sensibility within their musical proposal (Ready to Start, for starters, at the very least borders on immaculate in terms of pop craft). Not a small feat for an album that's supposed to be the ugly little duckling.

Yes to pretty much everything about The Suburbs (it is definitely too goddamn long, yes. I really don't think you need more than a dozen tracks to make a great album. Ten's usually plenty, really). I gave it the first listen in a few months last week and I like it better than I did at release, but it could still easily lose three or four songs (I'm looking your way here, Rococo). The album is basically nostalgia in a can. I don't mean that in a bad way. I dislike nostalgia on principle, but The Suburbs never feels like a cheap cash-in on childhood memories. It's more general amazement along the lines of "This is where we came from, I wonder where it all went? Let's get it all down in writing before we forget." At it's best, the album feels like sincere contemplation of how times change by people who are now old enough to have seen it happen. We Used to Wait is really the shining example of that (who writes letters anymore?)

And yes, you've picked out the best tracks on the album there. I'm quite partial to Suburban War as well, but otherwise agreed.

~

Daft Punk: Superheroes

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #222 on:** April 15, 2011, 11:09:18 PM »

Funnily, Rococo is one of the tracks I wouldn't lose. The weirdass Radiohead/Cocteau Twins/The Cure acid trip sonic density going on they do there is cool. I'd personally yank both Half Lights, The Suburbs Continued and Wasted Hours. Maybe Sprawl I, but I hesitate on that. I feel cutting Sprawl I would cause the loss of Sprawl II by default, which blows because Sprawl II is gorgeous and gaudy like only Arcade Fire can be and I will take any opportunity to hear Régine taking the helm of a song I can.

Speaking of which!

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Will Be Mountains)

EDIT: Also, agreed on the assessment about The Suburbs being a nostalgia trip. I'd also add that it has a very contemplative, somber mood that mixes in with colorful undertones. Very intriguing result, and worth studying and deciphering.

EDIT 2 (I am Grefter's ex-wife): I believe God himself passed down that the heaven-touched pop masterpieces last somewhere between 40 and 45 minutes, 50 at the very most.

EDIT 3 (holy shit I have nothing better to do): Suburban War is quite good, yes. I think it's hurt by being slammed in the middle of the most poorly paced lump of the album, though. But for other music:

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

I could listen to this song on repeat for -years-.

Grefter · « **Reply #223 on:** April 16, 2011, 12:53:31 AM »

New song calls for a new post.

Michael Jackson - This Place Hotel.

Sierra · « **Reply #224 on:** April 16, 2011, 01:35:09 AM »

It really does.

The Alan Parsons Project: Damned If I Do

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Author Topic: What Are You Listening To 2011 - Grefter's Grotto Edition (Read 40291 times)