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Shinboners
18 May 2003, 21:50
Believe the hype.
"Fever To Tell" is a great album - 2003's answer to the Strokes, although with more Velvet Underground weird bits.
Also on the Shinners CD player of late:
"Spend The Night" by the Donnas
"Soultrane" by John Coltrane
"#4 Record" by You Am I
"Storytelling" by Belle and Sebastian
"A Cat Escaped" by Pipas
"How I Learned To Write Backwards" by the Aislers Set
had 'fever to tell' in my hands at jb hi-fi today.... but put it back in the last minute...
i kazaa'ed their ep (5 songs), and had it on constant rotation.. enjoyable stuff... so, was tempted to get this...
now that the bigfooty's mr music gives it the thumbs up... i'm going back to grab it... :)
wheres the 'bands u wanna put a bullet thru' thread?
i cant stand 'the donnas' !
Not bad, but the White Stripes "Elephant" is still album of the year for mine.
Be like the squirel girl, be like the squirrel.
CarterS
19 May 2003, 16:28
Yeah i'll be looking to pick this up before too long.
White Stripes "Elephant" is album of the year for mine as well, Metallica will go close by the sounds of the first single too.
Strike West
19 May 2003, 21:29
y control owns.
I was umming & arring about gettign this one, I loved that song off the EP I dunno what's it's called but it has the chorus '..it's our time to be hated...'-what a great line:D .
I had a quick listen to the album in the record shop on the headphones just skipping though but I kind of thought it sounded a bit too cliched early 80s New Wavey.
Maybe I'll have to go back for a second helping.
mattyc2422
19 May 2003, 23:00
I'm right back into The Smashing Pumpkins : Machina at moment.
Originally posted by DIPPER
I was umming & arring about gettign this one, I loved that song off the EP I dunno what's it's called but it has the chorus '..it's our time to be hated...'-what a great line:D .
'our time'...
currently playing:
the flaming lips - 'the soft bulletin'
and.. deciding what cd to burn for tommorrows car trip...
Rocco Jones
20 May 2003, 13:32
2003's 2nd best album by a band without a bassist.
Originally posted by mattyc2422
I'm right back into The Smashing Pumpkins : Machina at moment.
Same.
In fact i'm going through a massive Smashing Pumpkins trip at the moment.
I think it was the Zwan album that did it.
Machina was an album i didnt give a heap of time to when it was released. I bought it out of habit and only because i'm a completist.
Certainly not their best work, but i'm actually really digging it the second time around.
Havign a bti of trouble with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs though Shinners. But i went in with some pretty bad pre-conceptions so maybe i just need to listen to it for what it is.
Shinboners
21 May 2003, 11:11
It will be interesting to see if I'm just as enamoured of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs album in six months time as I am of it now.
To my ears, it is very catchy, but the problem with catchy is that I can get sick of it.
I loved the Strokes album straight off, and a couple of years later, I still love listening to it.
You Am I write very catchy songs, but I never get sick of listening to them.
Watch this space. By the end of the year, I could declare the YYYs as the most overhyped band since the last one.
Strike West
21 May 2003, 17:09
Originally posted by Shinboners
"Spend The Night" by the Donnas
donnas blow man, seriously.
Big Red
21 May 2003, 22:26
A bit disappointed with the Yeah Yeah Yeah's album. Maybe they wasted all their great songs on the first EP!
White Stripes 'Elephant' gets my vote for album of the year too.
And speaking of bands without bass players picked up a great 6 track mini album by an Australian band called the Mess Hall.
Originally posted by Rocco Jones
2003's 2nd best album by a band without a bassist.
I tell you every album I seem to buy now is lacking a bass player, I think they're becoming an endangered species.
The Kills, The Black Keys, The Immortal Lee County Killers-maybe they have to trade the word 'The' for a bass player in music land.
Shinners, I had the same thought with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I wasn't sure if it would ahve that lastability, what you said I find true & the reverse even more, I buy an album bung it on & feel let down & then I give it another spin & another & before long I love it whilst those that I initially love never seem to hold my attention.
I love the Strokes too but I reckon they just about ride that line of being catchy whilst not having that sort of disposable sound that won't keep you coming back.
I wish they'd hurry up & get their second album made though, I was geting a bit worried when they got that Radiohead producer in to work on it (I'm not a fan of Thom & his boys) but thankfully they've given him the bullet so hopefully they'll get cracking & make their autumn release date.
Shinboners
23 May 2003, 17:05
It's very true DIPPER....I reckon that most of my favourite albums took several listens before I really got into them (I'd even go as far as saying that I hated a few of my fave records on first listen - hello Belle and Sebastian's "If You're Feeling Sinister"). Plenty of records that I loved in the first few plays are now doing nothing but gathering dust in the corner (Curve's "Doppleganger" springs to mind).
Plenty of pressure on the Strokes to get a good second album out there. I still reckon they did a good job of mining the best of 70s punk, so if they go digging in that period of music again, I'm not sure whether any of us will be really warm to "Is This It Part 2". But then again, I'm not sure they could pull off a change in musical direction.
Big Red
24 May 2003, 10:28
Agreed. Not many of todays albums stand up to repeated plays. Mind you the White Stripes album is standing up well after about 20 spins! Rumour has it they'll be touring in October.
Originally posted by Shinboners
Plenty of records that I loved in the first few plays are now doing nothing but gathering dust in the corner (Curve's "Doppleganger" springs to mind).
Well it's about time you gave it another spin. And while you're at it, "Come Clean" and their new CD "Gift" are worth listening to as well.
Originally posted by Shinboners
Believe the hype.
"Fever To Tell" is a great album - 2003's answer to the Strokes, although with more Velvet Underground weird bits.
Also on the Shinners CD player of late:
"Spend The Night" by the Donnas
"Soultrane" by John Coltrane
"#4 Record" by You Am I
"Storytelling" by Belle and Sebastian
"A Cat Escaped" by Pipas
"How I Learned To Write Backwards" by the Aislers Set
Rich (track 1) is a classic. I gave it a good listen over the weekend (finally got the White Stripes, Death in Vegas and Curve out of CD player long enough), and I have to say the CD is brilliant. Reminds me a great deal of early Siouxsie and the Banshees and Nina Hagen. Two Goddesses of Early Punk.