Search results

Thank you.

I can understand being a little bored by The Suburbs -- it's something of an intellectual exercise, and as such, is a lot more clinical than their previous albums. I can chalk that up to personal taste. But Arcade Fire is anything but generic indie music. I wouldn't think of writing them off...

Honz, what do you make of the new Bright Eyes? Personally, I like it, but it gets hard for me to listen to. I may not be in the right head-space. I'm tired of things being so fatalistic. I want one of these bands I like to release an album that sounds positive. I keep hearing it's the end...

I thought you meant the raping of your personal favorite songs. I saw Arcade Fire, and the singing was solid. I have seen videos where his voice wavers -- it sounds like his throat is raw. He does have a sort of rough singing style, at times. I mean, you can see how it would be rough on his...

EVERY time? That's wild. In the dozens of times over the years that I've searched for Arcade Fire live performances on youtube, I've never once come across something like that.

Also, a note to my Utah brothers and sisters: do not miss Arcade Fire live. Don't do it.

I haven't enjoyed an REM album since Monster. I'm fond of a few songs from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, then I liked their single from their next record, Imitation of Life, and then I stopped listening to them. Caught a song here and there, and thought to myself: mental note, REM seems to suck...

Check out Neon Bible. It's my favorite Arcade Fire album. The Suburbs took a long time to sink in with me. I didn't like it at first, but then I understood.

Follow up -- just received another neg from the gentleman, from the post I just quoted, this time accompanied by the following comment: I'm pretty sure this is the guy who negs me every couple of days for completely innocuous posts. It's clear he just waits for his rep cache to clear and...

Maybe I'm wrong. I haven't followed the Bucks this season. For some reason I'm under the impression that Salmons' contract isn't a good value and he's having a terrible year. For some reason it seemed like it would be simpler to type this than to actually look up his stats. My heart's in the...

Honestly, what would even be the point?

Hey, I like West Valley*. Living there feels real, at least. You never run into anybody who smiles at you when they'd much rather spit in your eye. Give me a run-down working class town any day.... *I lived there, once upon a time, for a year.

Listening to The King of Limbs online right now. First impression? Deeply unimpressed. Sounds like 37 minutes of leftovers from In Rainbows that weren't good enough to be on the B-sides disc. Has the same skittering disco-cymbal patter drumming as In Rainbows, the same wavering high...

Under the template laid out by Kaufman, most people missing the point is what makes the whole thing awesome. Yet I should also point out that, though much of her eccentricity is an act, at the core of this performance art piece there is something very sincere -- this message she carries of...

That place was a total dump.

A fraud how? Musically? She writes her own songs and is a classically-trained pianist with a fantastic voice... Culturally? Lady Gaga is a character, a performance-art piece, a complete fake. But I'm not sure how it's fraudulent when she openly tells us that it is so. It's a kind of...

This.

Will the Jazz win 10 more games this season?

That's fair. But I disagree. I think she's a kind of Andy Kaufman-meets-David Bowie figure, personally.

I like Lady Gaga. I'm not sure if I'm thrilled about her songs, taken individually, including and maybe especially this new one, but I'm still hoping the album will be something I can enjoy. I like her philosophy and creativity and attitude. She also has a tremendous singing voice. I think...