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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:04
Originally posted by Evolutionary_Sleeper Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Yoko Ono was much more pop than I was expecting, but some parts of it were good.

The Hazards of Love is unbearably twee so far. I think there's a part in every song that has made me cringe. And I don't understand why he likes the word taiga so much.


Everything about that band should annoy me...the themes, the singer's voice etc. but it doesn't.


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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

The Hazards of Love is unbearably twee so far. I think there's a part in every song that has made me cringe. And I don't understand why he likes the word taiga so much.


Tried the Crane Wife and found it meh, so didn't bother with HoL.
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Colin's voice is okay, but I cannot stand Margaret, and the melodies and words she sings don't help either.

Can we at least blame a rhyming dictionary for lines like  "Wasn't it a lovely breeze/that swept the leaves of arbor eaves/and bent to brush our blushing knees"? Because I would be appalled if he came up with that on his own and thought it was a good idea.
 
Back to listening, let's see if I can make it through the reprise of the stupid wanting comes in waves theme.


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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:08
Well, you've picked a song where Colin himself sings like a donkey, so no wonder...

It's not a mindblowing album for me (at least Crane Wife was, in comparison), but I still can't pick more than 15 albums arguably better than it. Shape of opera > songs individually.

What the hell of a prog year was this? *sob*


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Rhyming goes like this: 1 with 2 phonetically, 2 with 3 syllable unit end.

Even genuine folklore doesn't play the straight card with rhymes.


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I received the score from Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto earlier today and I don't know what to do with it, because I don't like Rachmaninoff's 2nd PC at all.

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It would be one thing if the whole thing was written in heroic couplets, then at least he could fall back on Chaucer being awesome, but all those rhymes out of nowhere is just urk.
 
Oh no, now I know about Anoaur Brahem and I want to buy that album too.
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Hazards of Love was awesome live.
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Oh, and that 4-D rubik's cube is insane.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:18
There is something about The Decemberists that compels me to like them. I do wish he'd stop saying taiga so much though.
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hooked for life

In related articles, I'm reading the titles "Knut The Bear awaiting Italian Female Companionship"/"Knut ready to go on first date". What th...


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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:21
Squarepusher is the coolest stage name ever.

And the music rocks.
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Points: 66442 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:22
Are you listening to Dick Heath's program? LOL  He just played a track from Squarepusher.  Now he is playing Larks Tongue in Aspic Part 2. Heart
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:23
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

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In related articles, I'm reading the titles "Knut The Bear awaiting Italian Female Companionship"/"Knut ready to go on first date". What th...


What the heck? LOL
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:23
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Are you listening to Dick Heath's program? LOL  He just played a track from Squarepusher.  Now he is playing Larks Tongue in Aspic Part 2. Heart


Oh, no, I just got home and started playing a Squarepusher album; I didn't know his program was on right now.

What track was it, do you know? Did you like it? His stuff is pretty awesome from the few albums I have.
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Welcome to Europe.  Yes, it was pretty good.
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I remember Knut when he was in his diapers, but he's a grown man now!  Going on dates and all that grown-up stuff...
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:28
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Welcome to Europe.  Yes, it was pretty good.


Can't say I've heard that; must be on one of the albums I don't have.

Dang, I need more.
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Points: 66442 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:30
He's now playing a track from Kevin Gilbert.  This is pretty cool.  I really am not familiar with much Kevin Gilbert. 
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2009 at 16:31
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

He's now playing a track from Kevin Gilbert.  This is pretty cool.  I really am not familiar with much Kevin Gilbert. 


I remember loving both his albums.
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