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Bismack Billabongo posted:
After The Earthquake and Pressed live would probably make me go super saiyan ngl.
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i burned myself out so hard on justice's singles i dont even want to listen to the album hahaha. generator and incognito are real amazing bassy stuff
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Apr 27, 2024 13:31
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cumpantry posted:i burned myself out so hard on justice's singles i dont even want to listen to the album hahaha. generator and incognito are real amazing bassy stuff 3/4 singles are the only songs on the whole LP that gently caress, so you're good.
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Nightmare Cinema posted:After The Earthquake and Pressed live would probably make me go super saiyan ngl. They slapped. Biggest crowd pops were probably for Archie and Belinda says but Not My Baby and Velveteen were really impressive too. Only song that was a little flat to me was Pharmacist which I love on record. 10/10 show though and the house was packed, definitely a bigger crowd than I was expecting
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Apr 27, 2024 17:49
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Oh, and Hey. People went insane after Hey.
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Bismack Billabongo posted:They slapped. I saw them on Wednesday (and if Setlist is to be believed, we got one more song than you, so hah!), and yeah, overall cool show. I really appreciated the camera setup. I thought it was a cool effect and led to a lot of great images. I was disappointed the people on Reddit didn’t like Spllit. I’m not going to listen to their music, but I thought it was cool. And the drummer broke his snare! They had good stage presence, and the guitarist dude filled in the blank space while they fixed up the drum situation. They engaged me for their set, which is a lot more than some other opening acts. I do remember one opening act where their music left no impact, but they were so charming on when they were just talking.
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That was amazing, but I needed it to include Laura.
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Pararoid posted:That was amazing, but I needed it to include Laura. Laura is my fave song, it's in this livestream (at 48:48 if the link doesn't work) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXgLbxYZR64&t=2928s
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CLAM DOWN posted:Laura is my fave song, it's in this livestream (at 48:48 if the link doesn't work) It's electric! (Thanks)
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Apr 28, 2024 13:55
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That Cindy Lee album is good as hell.
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Apr 28, 2024 15:28
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Cemetry Gator posted:I saw them on Wednesday (and if Setlist is to be believed, we got one more song than you, so hah!), and yeah, overall cool show. I really appreciated the camera setup. I thought it was a cool effect and led to a lot of great images.
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Just getting around to watching this. God drat, they still sound incredible live after all this time. That performance of Run Into Flowers 
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I haven't posted about boygenius in a while, so have two comments right here: First, I'm not a *huge* fan of the Stranger in the Alps album. But that first song is wonderful for starting in medias res. It starts off not only with no buildup but in the middle of the riff and even the middle of the note that she's playing. No idea how common this is but it's the only example I can think off the top of my head of an artist doing this. Though it was likely her producer that came up with the idea I would imagine, she would still have had to say 'Yeah that's not cinvebtional at all but it sounds cool' for it to end up on the album. Second, I am not sure if that two-note riff on Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle is something she came up with. It'd be pretty odd if she came up with the the idea of playing one higher note and then shortly thereafter a lower note that you let ring. But what I do know is that I hear that riff in various forms everywhere in the past couple of years.
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Sufjan's Broadway musical adaptation of Illinoise has just been nominated for 4 Tony nominations. Unclear if he would potentially get any of the Tonys since he wasn't directly involved in its production. Probably not.
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Apr 30, 2024 15:27
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He's still credited as writing the music and lyrics but the only award category he'd have the potential of winning is Best Musical.
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exquisite tea posted:He's still credited as writing the music and lyrics but the only award category he'd have the potential of winning is Best Musical. Which I imagine would be a reach. I feel like the Tonys like the flashier shows. Something like Illinoise might have a hard time, especially with no acting nominations to bolster itself
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Nihonniboku posted:Sufjan's Broadway musical adaptation of Illinoise has just been nominated for 4 Tony nominations. Unclear if he would potentially get any of the Tonys since he wasn't directly involved in its production. Probably not. I love that album but the trailer for the play looked so cringe I dunno if I could do it. Anyone been?
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It's not a super crowded year so it could win, but having not seen the stage play myself, it's a little off-kilter for what usually wins in this category. I think Hell's Kitchen by Alicia Keys is more likely for the "stage adaptation of a popular artist's ouevre" pick and Suffs is more conventional/topical.
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Apr 30, 2024 16:06
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I'm surprised because I thought by the strict sense of the term a musical has the singers dancing, which doesn't happen in this show even one time I believe, rather than it just being a narrative set to music with alternating speaking and singing parts. There's apparently a narrative and from what I hear it's not super interesting (man with writers block at a retreat tells his story of growing up then moving to the big city after not fitting in where he was from). But what I *am* interested in is how several of the songs for into this story. Especially since some seem odd to randomly throw into the mix of 'Why'd you move to downtown Chicago?' e.g. Casimir Pulaski Day, and also because the entire album is like a live letter to both big and small town Illinois so a generic 'I was bullied for being queer and nerdy in hickville' wouldn't seem to fit. I got very excited, momentarily, to see the name of the show and the theatre people pronouncing it as Illi-Noyz because I have over the years become irrationally upset when people (also) irrationally got upset and ranted that it's Illinois and not Illinoise and that people who said the latter were doing it wrong. But then I saw that the tagline for this show is 'Based on the album Illinois' so now I'm not sure. (Seriously, people were up in arms about it. In one argument someone claimed that the 'e' at the end was just creative album art and that the name on Digital files and on Amazon was erroneously taken from that mix-up. Before you ask no I was Thankfully never a party to such arguments, only a bystander.)
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Apr 30, 2024 16:16
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I can see how it might be confusing because the commonly used names for most of the songs from that album are not at all the listed tracks in the liner notes or CD case.
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I mean, if we’re going by the album art, it would be Sufjan Stevens Invites You to Come on Feel the Illinoise, and I would expect everyone to respect the title of the album! The pun in the title gets lost without the “Come on feel the” part, so I could see why the official title is Illinois.
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bows1 posted:I love that album but the trailer for the play looked so cringe I dunno if I could do it. I saw it off Broadway. Bright Bart posted:I'm surprised because I thought by the strict sense of the term a musical has the singers dancing, which doesn't happen in this show even one time I believe, rather than it just being a narrative set to music with alternating speaking and singing parts. Yes, it's not a traditional musical. There is a band on stage that plays the music from the album. The actors on stage tell the story through dance, and there is absolutely zero dialogue. The story actually works pretty well. Essentially, A group of friends gather around a campfire and share stories, such as "John Wayne Gacy Jr," (which is very sad as the dancers interpret these happy families being torn apart), "They are night zombies!" (which talks about how these men from history still haunt us), "The Man of Metropolist" (probably the most joyous dance routine, the dancers are able to facsimile Superman flying with the create use of a cape, and flying on one leg). The main story is loosely based on Sufjan's real life. His avatar (Henry) in the show shares the story of his dad remarried to a woman from "Decatur", and they moved down there, and it sucked, but he made two best friends, Carl, and Shelby. Carl and Henry get tired of small town life, and move to "Chicago," in a beautiful sequence where they use a steering wheel, and the dancers fly around with lights to show traffic, and eventually New York. There, they learn news that Shelby is dying through "Casimir Pulaski Day," and Carl wants to return home to see her, but Henry refuses, and Carl leaves without him. Meanwhile Henry meets Douglas (implied to be Sufjan's deceased boyfriend Evans), and they fall in love with "A Predatory Wasp." Carl gets home, but it's too late for Shelby, and we witness him kill himself over and over again by jumping from "The Seers Tower." It's a lot more effective than my crude language can evoke. Here's the "set list" Act 1: Three Stars Come On! Feel the Illinoise Jacksonville Zombies John Wayne Gacy Jr Man of Metropolis Act 2: Decatur Chicago To the Works of the Rock River Valley Region Casimir Pulaski Prairie Fire Predatory Wasp In this Temple Seer's Tower A Conjunction of Drones Act 3: Chicago reprise The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Epilogue (or Riffs and Variations on Out of Egypt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS7QtYFmepE Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Thank you for the synopsis! Also? I just had an important question about Sufan pop into my head: Is he the Millenial Bob Dylan? More like our Paul Simon? I don't mean in terms of talent, mainstream success, or even style although you can imagine Stevens and Simon being from the same period and on the same shelves without too much of a shock if you didn't already know who they were. I mean like the cultural role played. Who exactly is he to us? (As a neurotic Millenial I can only think of things and people by comparing them to other things or people.)
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My wife has often compared him to Kate Bush. Eclectic yet always recognizable, cornerstone albums across several different genres, highly influential yet nobody else sounds quite like him.
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exquisite tea posted:My wife has often compared him to Kate Bush. Eclectic yet always recognizable, cornerstone albums across several different genres, highly influential yet nobody else sounds quite like him. Yeah that's a good one. Comparisons don't have to be exact obviously, but when I think of Dylan I think of somebody who makes salt-of-the-earth type music that can be appreciated by anyone and easily covered, which definitely is not Sufjan's MO. Also, still waiting on Sufjan's MO album
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exquisite tea posted:My wife has often compared him to Kate Bush. Eclectic yet always recognizable, cornerstone albums across several different genres, highly influential yet nobody else sounds quite like him. Spotify thinks that because of my love of Sufjan, that I must love all sad singer songwriters, and I have to push back because Sufjan is pretty much the only sad singer songwriter I listen to, but even then the stuff I like by him the best is his more upbeat stuff. Hell, I even really enjoy his rap group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYV24IIg5w4
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Thanks for this. Looks like Gonzalez hired a completely different band than when I saw M83 like 3 yrs ago (fantastic concert btw). I think at one point he put an open call for bassists on instagram. Very James Brown of him.
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I like M83 but it's hard not to realize that a disproportionate number of their songs, the plurality if not majority, are about the near literal/supernatural magic of childhood. That's for both the songs and their videos. Which is fine. Plenty of artists make 90% of their songs about love. DCfC basically turned 'We were in love, it was passionate but the passion faded, and now things are so different I'm not sure it was actually real love in the first place' from a single to a multi-album career. And those are the songs everyone likes best. It's just... really noticeable. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 21:16 on May 1, 2024 |
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Bright Bart posted:I like M83 but it's hard not to realize that a disproportionate number of their songs, the plurality if not majority, are about the near literal/supernatural experience of childhood. That's for the songs and their videos. Which is fine. Plenty of artists make 90% of their songs about love. DCfC basically turned 'We were in love, it was passionate but the passion faded, and now things are so different I'm not sure it was actually real love in the first place' from a single to a multi-album career. And those are the songs everyone likes best. They're French.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmC2QQESN6E Willow tiny desk, she has such an insane voice, a whole lot of power in that lower range
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Bright Bart posted:I like M83 but it's hard not to realize that a disproportionate number of their songs, the plurality if not majority, are about the near literal/supernatural experience of childhood. That's for the songs and their videos. Which is fine. Plenty of artists make 90% of their songs about love. DCfC basically turned 'We were in love, it was passionate but the passion faded, and now things are so different I'm not sure it was actually real love in the first place' from a single to a multi-album career. And those are the songs everyone likes best. This is why Ween are the greatest songwriters of all time. Mostly joking
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Nihonniboku posted:I saw it off Broadway. I'm not sure about previous productions, but The Park Avenue Armory run and the Broadway run distributed programs with Henry's journal, which helps flesh out the show's narrative. Here's the program from Park Avenue Armory: https://issuu.com/parkavenuearmory/docs/paa-illinoise-program-issuu-r1
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resident posted:This is why Ween are the greatest songwriters of all time. Mostly joking No you’re right with this. Ween rule.
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interpunct posted:I'm not sure about previous productions, but The Park Avenue Armory run and the Broadway run distributed programs with Henry's journal, which helps flesh out the show's narrative. Very convenient link! I had been debating scanning my copy, but had decided it was too much work.
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resident posted:This is why Ween are the greatest songwriters of all time. Mostly joking 100% not a joke
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DC Murderverse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmC2QQESN6E Yeah, her voice is wild. I need to listen to more of her stuff.
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Rageaholic posted:This is the same "I Whip My Hair Back And Forth" Willow? Will Smith's daughter Willow? Just making sure. Yep, same one.
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i mean that song transparent soul is a goddamn classic
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I was so excited Washed Out was putting out new music and of course the first single has an accompanying music video that is proudly full AI generated Lol
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