Finally an
of DCFC/Decemberists’ Fleetwood Mac encore at Summerstage. Thanks You Ain’t No Picasso for the link. And Jeff for this img:
Say what you will about Plans as a whole, but “Soul Meets Body” is a fantastic single. Despite the shitty title.
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Plans is great. First comment, bitches.
i agree. even though ‘plans’ turned out to be a pretty weird album, that song alone makes it worth buying.
I think there should be a Photoshop contest where people replace the mic stand in this picture with something else.
My first attempt would be a hoagie.
Or even better, a plate of spaghetti, Lady and the Tramp style.
I think Soul Meets Body is one of the weakest songs on that whole album. I saw them at Lollapalooza in Chicago and I really didn’t like the way the new stuff played, but after having listened to the tracks now for over a week and a half, I love Plans, but it is def. not perfect.
Soul Meets Body is too spare, too clean sounding than the rest of the album, so much so, that it is almost as if they purposefully made it that way as the first single, so that it would sound different than anything on Transatlanticism.
And I could without The Stable Song, skip it everytime.
Not a fan.
Oh man, are we hitting a second wave of half ironic/half sincere Fleetwood Mac appreciation?
I thought we’d seen the end of that sentiment for at least my lifetime with the whole Courtney Love showing up at the MTV comeback special circa ’97.
“crooked teeth” is another awesome song off the new album.
Hahaha Topher, my thoughts exactly.
I’d like to submit for the court, this evidence as Exhibit A; “what is wrong with indie music.” That modern, so-called “independant rock groups” find inspiration and camraderie in Fleetwood Mac is a disgrace.
(The least they could do is cover something from the Peter Green era)
Now I’m absolutely convinced that they were separated at birth.
And I would have preferred something from “Tusk” or perhaps that temporary-but-fruitful 80′s collaboration between Stevie and Tom Petty.
I think Plans is pretty good, does that mean I hate America or something?
No, I think it means you still like America. But it also means you’re indifferent to Seals and Croft and are unsure about Bread.
You definitely think Loggins and Messina are crap.
I have to disagree on Soul Meets Body and Crooked Teeth. Good god people these are BORING songs! This album is like Death Cab’s “Maladroit”.
Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard, the most similar looking men in rock!!!!
First of all, Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard are very different. Colin Meloy writes and writes and most of the time it comes out right and then there are lyrics and he pushes his band behind the lyrics he creates. Somehow he’s a historical/mythologicical/lyrical genius. Ben Gibbard, on the other hand, is OCD. He’s anxious and afraid. Any new lyrics that might offend, even those on his new CD, are going beyond for him. He’s nervous, and wants none to be offended. He has thoughts. They might be bad. But somehow in his new album, he was trying to be OK with this. I admire it. Both are talented, but Ben Gibbard is still experimenting with his emotions. Colin Meloy is sticking to his lyrical cleverness and pretentious knowledge of many things. Who cares what you’ve experienced, when what you have experienced can be made into a song that’s simple and captures the souls of many?
I agree. The first time I listened to the album this is the only song that stood out to me. I didn’t even know this was the single and it still was easily the best song…hell I didn’t even know what he was saying but the chorus is awesome.
Ew, chubby indie rock boy orgy.
Oh Stereogum. I love you almost as much as I love DCFC. And that’s a whole lot of love, sugar.
The best thing about this whole Death Cab new album good-bad-backlash-antibacklash doing the rounds is that the album hasn’t even been released yet. This is the modern world.
heres one due out today…listen first then buy;) at least its ROCK & ROLL
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl (2005)
Part 1 (tracks 1-7): http://rapidshare.de/files/4261428/Part_1.rar.html
Part 2 (the rest): http://www.qfile.de/dl/199488/Part_2_19.rar.html
Aww! I think they’re great. They’re both talented in their own ways, and I only wish I’d been there to see it.
(And they’re not *that* chubby. And any potential chubbiness on their part is nullified by talented-cuteness)
‘right: Plans is great. Soul meets body is greatest. Fleetwood Mac, ehm … oh, they’re so embarassing!
I think it says more about you than it does the bands to immediately assume there’s some irony meant in a couple of indie POP bands covering a great goddamn pop song.
What, did you expect Death Cab and the Decemberists to cover Kraftwerk or the Stooges?
As for a liking for Fleetwood Mac being somehow representative of “what is wrong with indie music”… well, you’d have to be an idiot to be concerned about the state of something so amorphous and ill-defined to begin with. Why not pinpoint the problems with “world music” next (perhaps a preoccupation with that fucking mainstream sellout, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan?)?
ben gibbard ate his band.
however the ‘go your own way’ cover was fucking awesome. shut up, you overjaded soulseek-addicted nerds.
(anyone who’s seen the decemberists’ video for ’16 military wives’ has hopefully seen the flash of a piece of paper taped up in the locker that says ‘fleetwood mac rules’)
mmmh. serious people all around!
Horrible! They shouldn’t have sang that song. They sound retarded.
Soulseek? Um, no. It’s all about Oink’s Pink Palace, sweetie darling.
I’m sure Oink loves the off-site advertising.
Yep, because it’s a big secret.
We posted the Presale Password for these guys over on our blog, if anyone is interested.
http://bluebucstickets.blogspot.com/
I guess I’m stupid…
But I think the Decemberists, Death Cab and Fleetwood are all great bands.
Easy to please, I suppose. Or perhaps I’m everything that’s wrong with indie music.
ok, people, simmer down.
i only posted it b/c i have a serious colin meloy cover crush. anytime the man does someone else’s song i try to snag it and share it. which is odd, considering how much i love his own work.
anyway, cheers, dear, enjoy it. (it’s ripped from some DC groupie’s video, so the quality is just what it is)
also, i am honored to be on SG (even if it is just a little linky), almost as much as when i was linked on Largehearted.
Even though I like a couple of Fleetwood Mac songs, especially if you include the theme from “National Lampoon’s European Vacation”, (Buckingham solo), I think that they do in fact represent a lot about what made the 70s one of the worst decades for mainstream pop music, other than the 90s. I personally blame emo and Fleetwood Mac for the rise to power of very very bland indie rock like DCFC and Iron & Wine and suchits.
And these are my opinions.