spiritofjazz

Isn't it time you wrapped this one up now? Like, before we get several thousand day trippers from the Ten Club forums signing up with usernames like VedderWife371 and StevenFlow12.

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon......

Seriously?! I'm Spiritoffuckingjazz...and I just bust a nut from looking at that photo of the signed cover. This band is all I ever talk about on this site!! Ctrl+F my posts!! I have their logo tattooed on my frickin arm!! Aaaaaargh - if I don't win this I'm going to get seriously petulant on yo asses!!

I mean, Yankee fucking Stadium?! Daft Punk?! Come on!!!

you managed to write an album that's worse than Make Believe.
Can someone go back and correct that Julian Casablancas review from yesterday with added 'Raditude weighting' now please - the poor guy is going to get a massive complex if he listens to this steaming turd and thinks his album is anywhere near as bad.

but just checked out the clips on iTunes and they're selling a version with 3 extra tracks - one of which is a Christmas song!

He hates Oasis because he considers them to be derivative, unimaginative bores who string the same four open chords together ad infinitum. He also thinks their lyrics are consistently shit, and Liam's singing is like running fingernails down a blackboard to him. Fair enough.

He does not dislike Oasis because of Kasabian or The Enemy. That would just be plain silly of him.

No - what grates is the tired, worn out, cliched reasons these people tend to give. A constructive argument regarding the quality of the music I can accept - and, yeah, they're definitely not going to appeal to everybody in that respect, to say the least.

they now shill for Target.

I spend a lot of time defending this band on these boards, and I can't be bothered making the same points again and again, so here's an oldie...
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4160740

I misinterpreted "haven't delved into very deeply" as "I haven't paid attention to most of what they've done since 1993 and only really know the singles off of Ten...y'know...the ones where he sings in that exaggerated barritone and wears flannel in the videos", rather than the altogether more obvious "I'm not familiar with all their b-sides". My mistake - you're clearly qualified to make those judgments.....carry on.

and things only got worse from there. My personal favourite bit was where you completely (and voluntarily, without provocation) rendered your own argument null and void. I'm talking about this bit here, see: "In fairness they're one of those bands I haven't delved into very deeply, because I know I just won't get it". That bit was CLASSIC. Thanks for doing all my work for me. Right, who's next?

Seriously. If you couldn't get into them through that Greatest Hits (which was rammed with classics) then I strongly doubt this new one will do the trick. Not that it's a bad album - I'd say it's the best thing they've released in over a decade. 'Got Some' is a tune.

It's a turd of a song. Ditto the 3 others I've heard so far. This doesn't bode well.

although I have a sneaking suspicion it'll be more of the same, in a 'Is This It/Room On Fire' kinda way. Which is fine.

...a damn impressive feat considering I (and quite a few others, from what I've read) didn't/don't know a single person who would identify themselves as 'a Muse fan'. I'm just saying that there's been another big shift in their fanbase's demographic in the build-up to this album - one that finally takes them over the mainstream tipping point. I always saw their Wembley shows as a bit of an anomaly - but obviously their hardcore fanbase (along with a fair few casual fans, admittedly)came good for them. I guess my point is that there are different degrees of mainstream and this album looks like its going to send them to that next level. I mean, the MTV VMA's last night anyone?

Their weakest album but also the one that'll push them fully into the mainstream. There were a LOT of red-faced, rotund, prematurely greying men in pinstripe suits buying this in HMV at lunchtime.

I have no idea who Tom Mortello is either.

Say what you will, but nothing gets the blood pumping like a full-on Tom Mortello riff.

I can't think of many other British albums that have been reviewed so positively across the board in the last 12 months. Kasabian and Glasvegas can just fuck off.

"Yeah, Pearl Jam are so,like, irrelevant... *snort* stadium rock *snigger* dinosaurs *guffaw*".

"if Nobody's Daughter isn't a strong candidate for the worst album of the decade, it will only be because a) America's Sweetheart was released this decade and b) Nobody's Daughter probably won't be".

:-D

The woman is BATSHIT, and if she reads this you'll be ON HER LIST!!

It's a solid 6 for me too.

Just saying ;-)

Like chrispower pointed out, these are all songs that the band have played countless times over the last 5 years since the reformation. If Kim Deal walked up to me with a pen and paper and asked me which Pixies songs I'd like to hear, I'd like to think that I'd stray a little from the 'Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of The Pixies' tracklist.
But if these really were songs that people requested then fair enough I suppose! But it takes away slightly from what lukowski writes about them being "rehearsed enough to take requests".

I mean, that looks like a pretty standard Pixies 'hits' setlist to me.

but there's no way in hell that this is an 8/10 album.

Damn you Amazon!! I listened to it on Spotify though, and it sounds pretty good. 'Black' sounds especially great, and I'm so glad they toned down that phased vocal effect on 'Oceans' - that always used to really bug me.

I know all seven of their other studio albums are getting reissued over the next couple of years, but does anyone know if they're all getting remixed, or just remastered? 'Binaural' is in dire need of a remix.

the gangs of Brixton

His worst album since 'Human Touch'/'Lucky Town'. I'm a huuuuuuge fan, but it's blatantly a collection of the songs that weren't good enough for Magic. 'Surprise Surprise' makes me want to cut off my ears.

Sort it out

Highly Evolved - 8
Winning Days - 6
Vision Valley - 5

And having listened to this new one a few weeks ago, I'd say that 2 is about right. Some of it is just plain embarrassing.

It's becoming almost as predictable as Noel G hailing a new Oasis album as "the best one since Definitely Maybe".

is his best. I haven't listened to Dust in ages - think I'lll give that a spin when i get home tonight :-)

Fuck off and die, now.

kthnxbye

First time at V97 (great), second time at the O2 last November (not so great). They're just a cabaret act these days, aren't they? Seeing Dave Grohl presenting a bunch of links during the MTV awards show was the final nail in the coffin for me.

who has any pretensions that this is a good album, let alone the best thing they've done since Pinkerton isn't a real Weezer fan and should fuck off and listen to their Sum 41 and Kid Rock records.
Either that or they're seriously in denial. The Green Album and Maladroit - as mediocre as they were in places - both piss over this abomination of an album from a great height.

, but unless the un-leaked tracks are Pinkerton quality, then 5/10 really is a bit generous.

I'm glad it's not just me having problems with that fucking Field Day advert. It's either that or some page about Notting Hill Arts Center.