Had no idea they had a new album coming out:
Had no idea they had a new album coming out:
Something recently made me swear off the Strokes. I had them previously pegged as too milquetoastish for the weird genre, but then I full on decided upon abstention. Yes, now that I reflect, it was my homophobia. Don't ask for the details, but I decided they were raging queers and that ruined it a bit. I like my queers anemically raging, or passive-aggressively raging, or ultra-over-the-top raging. But just not raging.
Originally Posted by Sting
Is This It is and always will be a perfect album.
I like the production values and the particle physics aluminum chromate cover art.
But it was super boring. Moments, but never a wow. Tepid. I listened a bunch, but it was almost forced. It never took.
Like a revamped version of whatever NYC thought should sell to the art prog crowd. The next Sonic Youth or Jesus and Mary Chain, but with market appeal.
Soma is a super nice song tho.
Originally Posted by Sting
It is time to bring back the funk.
Originally Posted by Sting
Saw them in the Spring of 1998 at the Ogden (small venue in Denver) and their levels were all off, fog machine was way too much, and they had a weird little laser show that was blinding the audience. Sounded like a sound distortion sound check and we couldn't see shit. I had seen them live before in 1994 or so and they were great, so it was more of a comedy of errors than the band themselves.
EDIT: Found the setlist! https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/sonic...-7bd91a28.html
Might listen to that today since it might make my memory of that show better.
Watched Scott Pilgrim for the millionth time the other day and have been on on a Metric kick lately. Lucky enough to see them open for Smashing Pumpkins on their last big tour:
For Valentines Day, a song that makes me think of my Mrs. Always loved Roxy Music in any event. And, as a bonus, a superb violin solo from Lucy Wilkins at the end. She just kills it
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