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11/29/2008 10:11:53 PM

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"Smashing Pumpkins' Anniversary Tour is a Shitshow"

witnessed the shitshow tonight. i thought it was pretty awesome... it helped that i was about 10 feet from billy though. pretty solid setlist, but they did a couple new ones and the gossamer jam (which has been slimmed to ~15 minutes). i think what probably would bother people (or a pitchfork reviewer) was the ending... it was like 10 minutes of weird percussion jamming with all kinds of maracas and whistles and stuff. anyways, good time.

12/1/2008 2:17:14 AM

your least-favorite online music mag has begun its 2008 reader poll

you could win either a Smiths or New Order compilation set for voting

12/1/2008 7:50:49 PM

i as really hoping that pitchfork would really wow me with their "Chinese Democracy" review

but it came off more tired and predictable than what they were accusing axl of being

12/1/2008 7:55:57 PM

i don't think i read it - i think they were one of the last sites to review it

i was bowled over by chuck klosterman's self-important review over at the AV Club

edit: oh duh, they just published it today.

[Edited on December 1, 2008 at 8:10 PM. Reason : ..]

12/1/2008 8:06:01 PM

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""You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent. This is the vision I will embrace. But only on that one line! The rest of it will just be sung like a non-dead human." "

LOL

[Edited on December 2, 2008 at 5:10 AM. Reason : .]

12/2/2008 5:08:08 AM

^^ The unicorn of albums. I love Chuck K.

12/2/2008 11:47:58 AM

I actually like Chinese Democracy. I think if Axl had billed this as a "solo" record, it would be getting much better reviews. Is it an "important" record? Probably not. Is it a good record, especially in a relatively "down" year like '08? In my opinion, yes.

It seems that some people feel like praising that record in the slightest would be some sort of disservice to Slash. Now, I'm not saying that everyone who doesn't like it is hating on it for that reason, but some of the reviews I've read dwell on their impetuous relationship far too much.

12/2/2008 7:47:50 PM

Oh, and here are some leaks

Common - UMC
hxxp://www.zshare.net/download/521068015d6261bd/

or
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=AKK2Z8B5


Cat Power - Dark End Of The Street
1. Dark End Of The Street (James Carr, Aretha Franklin) *
2. Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
3. Ye Auld Triangle (The Pogues) *
4. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (Otis Redding)
5. Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Sandy Denny / Fairport Convention) *
6. It Ain’t Fair (Aretha Franklin)

hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/168148438/CP-DEOTS.zip


Black Mountain : Lucy Brown/Shelter 7" (Sub Pop Singles club Nov 2008)
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/168536765/Lusi.rar

[Edited on December 2, 2008 at 8:03 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2008 8:02:37 PM

I just recently came across it, but I am digging the shit out of Supercontinents "Vaalbara."

In fact, I've been listening to a lot of stoner/doom/sludge/whatever metal. Any other fans on here?

Sur Lune's "Nausicaa EP" is fantastic.
El Paramo's self-titled is rad as shit.
Come Sleep's "The Burden of Ballast" is also good.

12/8/2008 12:39:45 PM

big fan of Mastodon, which is about the only stoner-ish metal band I can think of. I still play Kyuss like it's middle school, so I'll have to check those out.

12/8/2008 7:39:37 PM

Those bands I mentioned are nothing like Mastodon.

12/9/2008 7:34:35 AM

Stereogum winners: http://stereogum.com/gummys/2008/index.html (click for other categories)

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"Best Album of 2008 1 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) 2 TV On The Radio Dear Science (Interscope) 3 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) 4 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) 5 Deerhunter Microcastle (Kranky)"

vampire weekend also won most overrated act, fleet foxes came in 5th

[Edited on December 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM. Reason : add Ø]

12/9/2008 10:39:07 AM

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"2 TV On The Radio Dear Science (Interscope)"

Wat? I love TVotR but, there is no way in hell.

12/9/2008 1:03:53 PM

blur reuniting, playing hyde park

fuck the atlantic ocean

12/9/2008 1:16:50 PM

anyone listen to the new Army Navy album?

I dig that song Thin Sides that plays on alt nation. its so catchy and upbeat

12/9/2008 1:57:41 PM

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"1 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)"

This band bores me. They are like My Morning Jacket, but boring and just not as good.

In fact, #3 and #5 are the only albums on that list worth a damn.

[Edited on December 9, 2008 at 2:44 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2008 2:43:36 PM

^yup. that list is awful. although i did like the fleet foxes album, it grew old in about a month so i gave it to my dad.

12/9/2008 3:57:48 PM

lol not a single album from my top 5 made the Stereogum top 50

12/9/2008 4:53:15 PM

Microcastle is light years better than vampire weekend.

12/9/2008 6:03:18 PM

from the pitchfork worst album covers of the year



Can Brian Dennehy crack the Da Vinci Code?

12/13/2008 9:57:09 AM

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"This band bores me. They are like My Morning Jacket, but boring and just not as good."

I like both... and I've loved My Morning Jacket for almost a decade now, but Fleet Foxes are much better, imho. (at least in terms of potential... I think MMJ are great, but Fleet Foxes are special).

I honestly don't get the constant comparing between the two. Now, if you want to talk about Band of Horses ripping off MMJ, I can see that, but not so much with Fleet Foxes.

I thought Fleet Foxes live performance was the best show I've seen this year, and that includes being 2nd row for Radiohead. I also thought their self title LP and Sun Giant EP were the best records I had heard in almost a decade, but, to each their own.

They were far and away #1 on my personal list for 2008.

[Edited on December 13, 2008 at 11:03 AM. Reason : .]

12/13/2008 11:02:13 AM

So I guess I'm supposed to give a shit about the TV on the Radio and Fleet Foxes records? Because those are 1 and 2 on pretty much every published list so far.

12/13/2008 12:36:45 PM

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"lol not a single album from my top 5 made the Stereogum top 50"

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"So I guess I'm supposed to give a shit about the TV on the Radio and Fleet Foxes records? Because those are 1 and 2 on pretty much every published list so far."

12/13/2008 12:40:01 PM

apparently

dear science is good but it's nothing special

the fleet foxes record is the same

12/13/2008 12:40:17 PM

^^ yourself


doesn't change the fact that this was the worst year for indie music in a long time and that everyone's slobbing off the same two or three thoroughly average records

[Edited on December 13, 2008 at 3:19 PM. Reason : .]

12/13/2008 3:18:54 PM

I haven't listened to all of the music released in 2008, but the Islands album Arm's Way is my favorite so far. I would say that Ladytron's Velocifero is my least favorite album that I have heard.

[Edited on December 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM. Reason : n't]

12/13/2008 5:19:32 PM

i liked that Fleet Foxes record for like a week, but i never need to hear it again

didn't like TVOTR at all

12/13/2008 5:25:29 PM

the ladytron record is just above mediocre

and i didn't like any of the tilly & the wall other than "pot kettle black," which fuckin rules

12/13/2008 5:40:00 PM

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"but the Islands album Arm's Way is my favorite so far"

I didn't like it at all, and I was really forward to it even.

12/13/2008 5:43:28 PM

anyone listen to Evangelicals? i just copped their 2008 album (if it means anything, pfork gave it a 8.3). pretty good, the singer reminds me of Black Kids.

12/14/2008 1:19:06 PM

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"Ernie All American 25963 Posts user info edit post Hey, this Evangelicals album is really good. 10/30/2008 11:32:20 PM "

12/14/2008 1:35:33 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQklSwHVhuI

W
T
F

12/15/2008 12:29:29 PM

weezer live has become weirder than flaming lips live (though part of that is that the lips have been on autopilot every night since around 2003)

12/15/2008 12:50:09 PM

I think my idol may have finally lost his marbles

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"Energy we can do something with. Apathy we can’t work with. Who’s above us? Who’s lighting the culture on fire? Nobody. We don’t have to live in that world. We have the biggest manager [Irving Azoff] in the world. He tells us we can get there, we will get there. We will crack the egg like we did in ‘92, without doing something embarrassing like working with Timbaland. We will find how to do our thing and make it work. I can write songs. We’re big boys. We’ll do it. Last time I talked with you, I said we’re going to come back and make a better album. The album we made surprised us. We kept going back to this primitive thing. We wanted to do “Siamese Dream II.” Elaborate, orchestrated, but it wasn’t coming from me. "

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"You take a milquetoast middle-of-the-road fake-tattoo band, we can out-write them. If you come up with the songs, the fans will show up. We found with “Zeitgeist” that the alternative audience isn’t alternative anymore. They’re a pop audience that listens to Nickelback. So doing a 10-minute song, nobody will listen to it. We have to come up with singles like “1979,” and come up with songs that sound good on the radio. We have to write those kinds of songs. "

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" People don’t even listen to it all. They put it on their iPod, they drag over the two singles, and skip over the rest. The listening patterns have changed, so why are we killing ourselves to do albums, to create balance, and do the arty track to set up the single? It’s done."

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" Let me be blunt. When Bruce Springsteen puts out a new album I pay attention. Same with Neil Young. Because they’re major artists who have something to say. I consider us in that category. When we do something it should be taken seriously, even when we’re off."

words . . .

Then where is my Siamese Dream II Billy? Seriously man you need to shut up and let the music do the talking. I would love him if Zeitgest had actually been a great album and he came out dissing Nickelback or band's who collaborate with Timbaland and think its cool but he's gone off the rocker. Timbaland is more musically relevant than you are right now. And people don't listen to albums anymore? We all know people who really care about music still do.

12/17/2008 3:42:07 PM

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"They’re a pop audience that listens to Nickelback."

okay this is a serious question, not a jab at nickelback:

do people really listen to nickelback?

12/17/2008 4:07:43 PM

unfortunately

12/17/2008 4:13:29 PM

That Arcade Fire DVD weirded me the fuck out, because there is a very brief shot of the band singing along to Intervention in front of a run down castle that I recognized instantly as the old castle at Heritage USA near Charlotte. I would really love to know how the hell the band ended up there.

12/18/2008 10:45:52 AM

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"I would really love to know how the hell the band ended up there."

How they ended up in Charlotte? They play in venues all across the world, why is it surprising that they'd be in Charlotte?

12/18/2008 12:03:31 PM

the important thing about this charlotte picture

is that even when the color is drab and the photo is out of focus

sarah neufeld is still devastatingly hot

12/18/2008 12:09:31 PM

swedish band Mando Diao just put a dance-rock track on their myspace, supposed to be on their new album out next year, but its on the myspace now. called "dance with somebody," i wish i were kidding.

still dig it though, catchy as always with those guys.

12/18/2008 12:17:28 PM

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"How they ended up in Charlotte? They play in venues all across the world, why is it surprising that they'd be in Charlotte?"

For one thing they have never played in Charlotte. But that wasn't really what I meant. This isn't some landmark or tourist attraction or something you would stumble upon. That they would be there suggests to me a back story that I would be very interested in hearing.

12/18/2008 12:36:03 PM

i don't know, usually bands stories are as exciting or interesting as you might think. then again you never know.



also, i don't know.

[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM. Reason : not knowing]

12/18/2008 12:51:00 PM

Now I'm looking at a site where a guy snuck into the Heritage Tower years after the park closed.

Good times.

12/18/2008 12:54:58 PM

There are some great pictures here from a friend of mine: http://tommyandjames.net/heritageusa.html

I just found it interesting because the fact that they sought it out means someone in the band must have been really intently into reading about all of that stuff, which would make sense with Neon Bible.

12/18/2008 1:12:03 PM

so i'm catching up on everything i missed or ignored in 2008.

-don't know how the FUCK i ignored m83. "kim and jessie" is so fucking good.

-that ponytail album is pretty good also.

-cut copy is pretty meh.

-TVOTR is good but not great.

12/22/2008 1:26:05 PM

I love that Friendly Fires song, Paris. the rest of their stuff isn't bad either.

12/22/2008 3:35:12 PM

Does anybody have another link to the new Common album?

12/23/2008 5:55:56 PM

i like MGMT's new album

12/23/2008 11:59:17 PM

uh.. you mean the one that was released last year?

12/24/2008 1:08:27 PM