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Oh poo poo; they're coming to Chicago in August with the Biths and Courtney B. If I had made it to Chicago Theatre in January during loving Omicron I would have seen The Biths and Courtney Barnett and Alvvays each twice this year.
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They were always wildly overrated but lmao https://twitter.com/brooklynvegan/status/1539328662243364866
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Hot Diggity! posted:They were always wildly overrated but lmao
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Hot Diggity! posted:They were always wildly overrated but lmao loving ewwww
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one of lcd soundsystem's first shows back was at google i/o so this does not surprise me lol arcade fire played that crypto show last year, too. this stuff doesn't seem that much worse than the average corporate gigs these bands all tend to take, just much easier to make fun of
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I guess they all needed some money since DFA is basically no longer a going concern. Where are your apes tonight?
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abraham linksys posted:one of lcd soundsystem's first shows back was at google i/o so this does not surprise me lol Most people have to hold their noses and deal with Google and Amazon on a daily basis, I was able to explain that away in my head Doing an NFT company show is a real own goal
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Hot Diggity! posted:They were always wildly overrated but lmao Lol the video https://vxtwitter.com/dgtlemissions/status/1539036089930993666?s=21&t=Wu92tpflXaTjKCSITPXVjg
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https://youtu.be/LCdeGt7mQTg Not sure Dayglow is up and coming at this point. They’ll be in all the indie movies and playing in a Forever 21, H&M, or Starbucks near you
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Big City Drinkin posted:New Alex G track. I like it Man what the gently caress. It's like an evil wizard stole his powers or something. 
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Late opinion, but gotta say first track of WE by Arcade Fire is a highlight. "Age of Anxiety I" is a peak that sadly the rest of the album doesn't reach again. Particularly the guitar riff that shows up halfway around the 2:50-3:00 mark that almost sounds like a synth
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Hot Diggity! posted:They were always wildly overrated but lmao They were actually rated correctly, dipshit
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lol gently caress NFTs and all this bullshit
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Hot Diggity! posted:E: not gonna be snarky If you can't be snarky in an indie music thread for like 7 people then when can you??
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Maximo Roboto posted:Late opinion, but gotta say first track of WE by Arcade Fire is a highlight. "Age of Anxiety I" is a peak that sadly the rest of the album doesn't reach again. Particularly the guitar riff that shows up halfway around the 2:50-3:00 mark that almost sounds like a synth It's better than their last two, but they have Weezer syndrome where they write overly earnest songs without much depth. I always found Creature Comforts from the Everything Now to be unlistenable because of that. It just sounded like a middle-aged guy trying to sound hip by talking directly to the kids. They've pulled back a bit on that. And you get some good stuff, but then you get stuff like Unconditional II where I'm left wondering what exactly are they saying by "You can be my race and religion."
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Cemetry Gator posted:It's better than their last two, but they have Weezer syndrome where they write overly earnest songs without much depth. I always found Creature Comforts from the Everything Now to be unlistenable because of that. It just sounded like a middle-aged guy trying to sound hip by talking directly to the kids. I think a lot of We is directed at Win and Regine's kid so it makes a lot more sense. It feels like, with the world going to poo poo, it's basically a reckoning of bringing a child into the world (both with depressing and somewhat-hopeful lyric turns here and there).
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I like The Suburbs. It is a good song
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I think with Arcade Fire, they're victims of their own success. They were indie darlings who created a beautiful, near perfect, first album, and gave legendary live performances. The perception of them changed though when they reached mainstream recognition with their Grammy win for The Suburbs. For many fans who had been with them since the beginning, particularly those who tend to reject things that receive mainstream appeal, nothing Arcade Fire did after that would ever really be appreciated again. If any other band was still putting out good albums 2 decades into their career, this sort of dialogue simply would not be happening. I think also, because Arcade Fire was THE band for many people who were in their early 20s when Funeral came out, people go into new Arcade Fire albums wanting to feel like they're in their early 20s again, and when it doesn't hit like that, they get upset. The strangest thing about We is on the other side of things, with everyone talking about how it's a return to form, a return to their roots in terms of sound. But it still has all the Afrocaribbean beats introduced in Reflektor that people hated so much at the time, and all the synth disco sounds introduced in Everything Now that people hated so much at the time. Basically, people hold Arcade Fire to unreasonably high standards that they don't really hold really any other band to.
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I honestly just think it's that they lost the special touch, which is fine. Part of it may be the nose up hipster rejection narrative, but more so I think they just stopped making as good of music overall. I listened to Everything Now more than We... We was so forgettable right away and I found it very hard to connect. I have a young child too.
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T Bowl posted:I honestly just think it's that they lost the special touch, which is fine. Part of it may be the nose up hipster rejection narrative, but more so I think they just stopped making as good of music overall. I think Lightning I and II and Unconditional I (Lookout Kid) stand up there with some of the best songs they've ever written.
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Arcade fire just plain sucks, their music has always been boring poo poo sorry if you liked them and are reading this now you know
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BonoMan posted:I think a lot of We is directed at Win and Regine's kid so it makes a lot more sense. It feels like, with the world going to poo poo, it's basically a reckoning of bringing a child into the world (both with depressing and somewhat-hopeful lyric turns here and there).
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Nihonniboku posted:Basically, people hold Arcade Fire to unreasonably high standards that they don't really hold really any other band to.
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WE isn't bad, it's just rather mediocre it's fine for what it is, and it doesn't have any duds like Reflektor or Everything Now did, but a lot of the lyrics are going to age really badly, and apart from The Lightning, they really don't have any other all-time bangers on there poo poo, as bloated as I found Reflektor, it had more great songs on there than WE has on the whole album, what with Normal Person, It's Never Over, and Porno being among my all-time favourite AF tunes
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever newest album is as an end to end repeater. (Sorry to c-c-combo break the arcade fire discourse)
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Hot Diggity! posted:They were always wildly overrated but lmao This went pretty ok actually 
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incoherent posted:Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever newest album is as an end to end repeater. (Sorry to c-c-combo break the arcade fire discourse) I cannot get into a single one of their songs. They are all just such a boring uninspiring drab. I mean tons of goons love 'em so I know I'm an outlier. But there's just... nothing fun there. Like a technically competent band that can't write a single ear wormy hook or melody.
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incoherent posted:Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever newest album is as an end to end repeater. (Sorry to c-c-combo break the arcade fire discourse) Yeah it is very good. I think the best songs on their previous albums are better than anything on this one BUT this one is way more consistent. Sideways in new Italy had five songs that I loved and five that I’m good never hearing again.
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I was just discovering good music in HS and my buddy was in my car and pulled out the "Funeral" CD and was like "hey check this out." Changed my life. that's my story thanks for reading
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Arcade Fire are just like most bands in music, they released good stuff and eventually creatively they faltered. It might also be I'm a lot more forgiving of them as I think The Suburbs is better than Funeral. As we get old and die their later output will be relegated to lost memories, like every Stones album after like 1980, or the entirety of David Bowie's output as Tin Machine and from Lets Dance until 1. Outside, or the four The Cure albums that have been released since Wish
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Lid posted:Arcade Fire are just like most bands in music, they released good stuff and eventually creatively they faltered. It might also be I'm a lot more forgiving of them as I think The Suburbs is better than Funeral. As we get old and die their later output will be relegated to lost memories, like every Stones album after like 1980, or the entirety of David Bowie's output as Tin Machine and from Lets Dance until 1. Outside, or the four The Cure albums that have been released since Wish Tin Machine rules that’s crazy
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BonoMan posted:I cannot get into a single one of their songs. They are all just such a boring uninspiring drab. I mean tons of goons love 'em so I know I'm an outlier. But there's just... nothing fun there. Like a technically competent band that can't write a single ear wormy hook or melody. Agreed I’m always looking for new music and whatever this stuff is ain’t it
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Reflektor had some good songs, but it was terribly mixed, sounding really blown out, and most of the songs went on for twice as long as they needed to. If someone went through and tightened up the songs and actually mixed it pretty good, I think it would be a good album. But as it stands, I just get fatigued listening to it. Everything Now was where they became a self-parody. Win started writing songs that had good and important messages, but they felt very generic and lacked any introspection or emotional depth. I mentioned Creature Comforts before, but it's a great example of that style of distorting song writing they adopted. It comes across with the weight and gravitas of the Choose Life t-shirts that Wham wore. At this stage, I'm comfortable treating Arcade Fire like I do Weezer or Smashing Pumpkins. Maybe there's the occasional good song to come, but by and large, they're done and their initial works are all I need from them.
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David Bowie only has three or four bad albums out of like thirty. He did pretty good
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Bismack Billabongo posted:David Bowie only has three or four bad albums out of like thirty. He did pretty good You could argue he doesn’t have any bad ones, just some that are worse than others.
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Hot Diggity! posted:His first and "Tonight" are the only ones with more misses than hits, imo Tonight is a bad album. Blue Jean loving rocks hard, and Loving the Alien is good, but the rest is just him trying to phone in a few hits. 1967 is okay. But it's clear he hasn't found his voice. The Deluxe Edition with the non-album singles is essential. He really comes into his own with Let Me Sleep Beside You, London Boys, and the Laughing Gnome.
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