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I can't wait until I can repeat your comment, replacing "The Pipettes" with Animal Collective. By 2019 everyone will be.
In reply to Fread's comment on Progress Report: The Go! Team at August 11, 2009 4:23 PMScore = 0
They've gone to some lengths to distance themselves from those early Radiohead comparisons with this sort of thing. I didn't think they'd be able to make me laugh as much as I did when I first heard Knights of Cydonia but they prove me wrong! Keep 'em coming you crazy bastards...
on New Muse - "United States Of Eurasia" at July 20, 2009 4:16 PMScore = 21
I know everyone is either complaining about the "transparent cashgrab" or pointing out that EMI are just doing what they do (It's not like Radiohead didn't benefit in many ways from being on the label) but what I don't understand is why don't they put out all these bonus CDs and DVDs out in a b-sides/rarities boxset? Wouldn't that make them more money? I know I would buy it but I'm not going to go out of my way to buy these albums which I've already got and I'm sure I'm not alone. Are they completely blind to the actual fan market?
on New Radiohead Song, Reissues Coming In August at June 22, 2009 1:25 PMScore = 0
I could barely hear the song over my laughter at its lameness. I love the fact that all the comments on your link to the song are about the quality of the recording. Obviously this must be a defence mechanism instilled in the Manson fans out there - the only way for them to avoid or ignore the fact that the song is just plain hilarious. And no, after managing to get to the end of the single I'm not going to click on the remix.
on Teddybears Remix Marilyn Manson at April 27, 2009 10:47 AMScore = -1
The Minotaur was half-bull you know. This smells somewhat more bovine than man though.
on Pixies Announce Minotaur Deluxe Box Set at April 21, 2009 12:53 PMScore = 6
"I would like to end by saying thank you to those who pray for me"
Something tells me that on his first draft that said "to me"
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ok that was supposed to be a reply to Ron Jenkin above but instead the system dumped me at the bottom leaving me more confused than old people at an Animal Collective gig. "I though you said we were going to the zoo?"
In reply to annoyingmouse's comment on Is Today's iTunes "Discovery Download"">The First Movement Of John Cage's 4' 33" Is Today's iTunes "Discovery Download" at April 1, 2009 10:58 AMScore = -3
Ok, since you asked (and surprisingly I agree with you saying that opinions stated in ">" form aren't particularly substantial ones, although only an opinion, your's is one I consider to be correct.)
I personally consider the experimental piece that is John Cage's 4' 33" complete with its suggestion that a musician sits in front of their instrument without playing to be preferable to the "experience" of subjecting my ears to the "sounds" produced by Animal Collective. I would rather sit for 4 and a half minutes in silence contemplating the nature of music, sound and silence, music's relationship with the musician and its audience and the world around me at that moment than put up with 50odd minutes of meandering nonsense that doesn't go anywhere. For four minutes and thirty three seconds I can wait for something to happen safe in the knowledge that eventually sound will return (not that it was ever gone) in the form of applause, conversation, debate or just plain human movement rather than spending 50odd minutes waiting for something to happen (that will justify the hype the Animal Collective recording received) only to be disappointed when the disc leaves me feeling irritated, bored and rather bewildered at my music fan peers (and I have repeated that experience a few times with little to no difference in the results). Of course, I have nothing against anybody else doing this if they enjoy it (or even if they don't). How you spend your time is none of my business.
So there you go. Rage away....
on Is Today's iTunes "Discovery Download"">The First Movement Of John Cage's 4' 33" Is Today's iTunes "Discovery Download" at April 1, 2009 10:53 AMScore = 0
April fool or not, it's still a more enjoyable listen than Merriweather Post Pavillion.
on Is Today's iTunes "Discovery Download"">The First Movement Of John Cage's 4' 33" Is Today's iTunes "Discovery Download" at March 31, 2009 6:22 PMScore = 11
Well these comments were certainly most subtle an attack on Corgan than those baseballs in the Starfuckers video.
on Trent Reznor Blasts Ticketmaster And The Artists Who Defend It at March 16, 2009 2:17 PMScore = 1
Just think how Duck is going to remember it. "Oh I missed it because rather than see if the shot president was safe, I had me some hotel sex. I mean if I waited I might have discovered that she considered presidential assassinations a turn off and... well... well, you know. So anyway, yeah I was smoking the ol' post coital"
In reply to ber's comment on mad Men S03E12: Take A Pill And Lie Down at November 2, 2009 4:37 PMScore = 1
Lee J. Cobb's character in 12 Angry Men went on about David Spade?
In reply to Nowak Attack's comment on You Can Make It Up: David Spade Dresses Up As Billy Mays For Halloween at October 29, 2009 6:00 PMScore = 27
IT TOTALLY WORKS!!!! Brilliant discovery!
In reply to bird's comment on The Very Best Pumpkin Head Halloween Dance Of All Time In The World at October 29, 2009 3:57 PMScore = 1
Do you know what guys.. I don't think that is a "pumpkin head". I think that's just a guy with a pumpkin on his own human head...
on The Very Best Pumpkin Head Halloween Dance Of All Time In The World at October 29, 2009 2:24 PMScore = 61
If that stuff gets blessed then their thirst is quenched forever!
on Videogum's Teen Korner: Cool Vampires And Werewolves Only Drink Vitamin Water at October 28, 2009 3:23 PMScore = 3
Wait a second... she thought that everyone looked much older? She's saying that Christina "The reason we all actually still watch television" Hendricks looks much older than *quick bit of web research... ooh research on her is quite distracting* 34? That's just silly!
on Martha Stewart Does Not Watch Mad Men at October 28, 2009 1:36 PMScore = 8
Haha... Psycho Clown is the new Vengeful Dead Rock Musician with Bird Sidekick costume!
on The 15 Funniest Knockoff Halloween Costumes at October 28, 2009 12:12 PMScore = 4
The Perfect Store... (one that doesn't stock The Perfect Storm)
on Best New Party Game 10 at October 27, 2009 7:19 PMScore = 6
Independence Bay... Dad and his new friend's adventures in San Francisco!
In reply to dude's comment on Best New Party Game 10 at October 27, 2009 7:09 PMScore = 21
B.A. Confidential... I pity the foo' who talks off the record, on the qt and very hush hush.
on Best New Party Game 10 at October 27, 2009 6:59 PMScore = 6
there's a good chance that you are just trying to instigate some type of confrontation, in which case I maybe shouldn't be bothering to argue this, (this is my first time ever commenting on a blog) but comparing bands like the pipettes or the go! team to animal collective is a bit weird to me because of the vast array of sounds animal collective have explored. the differences in styles between albums like "spirit they've gone" and the avey tare split w/ david grubbs, or panda bears "prayer"....blah blah terrestrial tones, vashti bunyan, pullhair rubeye etc...animal collective might not have been as adventurous with their past couple of albums, but their body of work is massive, and there really aren't many other bands going right now that have been as adventurous as they have...I don't think in 2019 people are going to have forgotten about them...
Permalink for jefrab's comment on Progress Report: The Go! Team at August 12, 2009 2:15 AMScore = 0