flipperstired Basic Member Posts:103  
| 1/31/2005 5:43 PM |
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"please can you stop the noice i'm trying to get some rest, from all the unborn chicken voices in my head,........ whats that?, whats that? When i am king you will be first against the wall, with your opinion which is of no consequence at all.... whats that?.... whats that?.....
*$!**"" wakes up..... s**t guys sorry i wuz dozin.... all this radiohead head talk is making me .... well ya know. While we're at it, can i ask the question what would people like from the next Radiohead album? I would love a return to a more "making a little more sense of it all" radiohead with regard to their tunes. I anticipate this because I felt "Hail to the Thief" gave a more structured content. Perhaps their leading down the garden path again.
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Pilchard Advanced Member Posts:699
| 1/31/2005 5:50 PM |
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that Ray LaMontagne review is spot on. read a review of it in The Ticket before Xmas and bought the album on the back of it. been playing it every other day since. wonder willhe be as good live? he's in whelans in mar, i think.
another one to pick up on if u like that is MICAH P HINSON - country-noir with growls and great songs about good love gone bad or bad love gone worse.
Also got a few tracks from two great new albums out in Mar - ARCADE FIRE and ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS. i think someone here was raving already about Arcade Fire and its all i expected and more. The Antony & The Johnsons one is even better - New York cabaret scenester singing frail songs in a voice which will break your heart, one part Jimmy Scott, one part Nina Simone and two parts Tim Buckley round "Starsailor".
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Unicron Veteran Member Posts:1696
| 1/31/2005 5:51 PM |
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Originally posted by mick
its probably because i'm in a band that i get annoyed about use of comparisons... i do realise that they are definitely necessary to give an idea of what a band sound like, especially a relatively small time band. i guess i cant reallysee the radiohead thing... definite similarities in style alright but i think 66e azre doing it very differently, with many more influences... personally i'dve cited sigur rós as one of their influences.
"Their compositions are shapeless, they seem more concerned with sonic landscaping then thinking about the soil below that needs to be healthy in order for that landscape to blossom."
i think 66e arent trying to go the "song" route if ya get me? more landscaping as you so rightly put, instrumentals with words as they even describe themselves.
anyway, sure tis all opinion, i do think its a well written review just have a thing about comparisons however needed they are 
Well even if they're going for the landscaping route I think they are still missing the basic blocks required to build on. Like I said the only thing that I really liked is "I died in a movie" (and I do really like that tune, it's going on a mix I'm compiling at the minute) and it's built around that really nice and simple guitar part. The thing is that Radiohead are my favourite band and I know their material like the back of my hand so if I hear anything that sounds like something they've done I'll usually pick up on it, I might go along with you on the Sigur Rós thing though. Out of interest was it just the use of the the overused Radiohead cliche that you objected to or do you take issue with me using a relatively obscure Texas post-rock group as a reference as well?
Anyway, thanks for complimenting the writing even if you disagreed with what I said.
Ian |
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 1/31/2005 6:00 PM |
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Originally posted by Pilchard
another one to pick up on if u like that is MICAH P HINSON - country-noir with growls and great songs about good love gone bad or bad love gone worse.
Also got a few tracks from two great new albums out in Mar - ARCADE FIRE and ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS. i think someone here was raving already about Arcade Fire and its all i expected and more.
I like that Micah P. Hinson album, "The Day Texas fell into the ocean" is opening every crappy mix cd that I give as a gift when I'm broke from now on.
As for the Arcade Fire, I have the album, I'm very impressed (sound nothing like radiohead  ). I was in contact with their booking agent regarding the itinerary for their March tour and they said that Ireland wasn't on it but there is a good chance of a Dublin date when they come back in May for a more extensive European tour. |
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mickBasic Member Posts:411
| 1/31/2005 8:46 PM |
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Originally posted by Unicron
Out of interest was it just the use of the the overused Radiohead cliche that you objected to or do you take issue with me using a relatively obscure Texas post-rock group as a reference as well?
nah that touched the elitist inside 
honestly man, as i said up above i gets to me everytime a journalist compares bands but i can see why it is needed too. its a very difficult thing to describe what a band is like musically with words.
people often ask me what our band is like, and i can never tell them, what do i say, rock music? indie music? it just doesnt work. i guess comparisons are a necessary evil, still very very evil
an example of writing that i thought was very good...
" Unfortunately following this was a distasteful serving of sleepy melodic rock missing a melody and some decent lyrics. " - gar
describes his view of the song real well and it forms a good picture of the song in one's head. just wish it wasnt a negative one because twas written about one of our songs |
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 1/31/2005 10:33 PM |
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As long as the journalism is honest and well written, then most people will be happy. I wasn't being harsh for the sake of it or anything. But I'm liking the new single so I'll see what I can rustle up on that. Cheers by the way.
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delorentos New Member Posts:57
| 2/1/2005 1:15 PM |
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I enjoyed the 66e set, its a well written and witty review though, even if i don't entirely agree.
Some of the crowd were w**kers though, talking on mobiles and shouting and stuff during the quiet parts.
(i broke my never smoking ever again ever ever new year resolution after though...)
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 2/1/2005 1:51 PM |
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Originally posted by delorentos
its a well written and witty review though,
Ah, you only like it because I said something nice about your band.
Ok, a quick small concession on a point. I know we're talking about different platforms and audiences but the principle is similar. I wrote the review on Saturday afternoon and then stayed in a friends flat that evening. At 2AM, following a few libations and other things a guitar was produced and when it got to my turn I banged out a few tunes (not my own) and to my surprise got a fairly good reaction, particularly about my voice (funniest being, "you ever think about going for You're a Star?".) before one guy commented that I sung in a Tom Waits-ish style, that annoyed me a little for 2 reasons.
- I didn't set out to ape anyones style, I just opened my mouth and whatever came out did.
- I actually thought I sounded pretty decent for once, and much as I love ol' razorblade larynx it's hardly a compliment to be told that you sound like him.
So anyway; Mick, I get what you're saying. |
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 2/1/2005 1:53 PM |
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What's wrong with Tom Waits' vocals?
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bonzoBasic Member Posts:364
| 2/1/2005 3:40 PM |
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I love comparisons to other bands rather than the reviewer giving his own interpretation of inner meaning or whatever Mick described it as above. When you say to me 66e sound like Radiohead I know exactly what you mean. When you say Polar sound like "a distasteful serving of sleepy melodic rock missing a melody and some decent lyrics" - I don't have a sausage what you are on about.
Actually, and Im not trying to annoy you but from the stuff on your site Polar do sound a little like Radiohead/Coldplay/Mercury Rev. Sorry!
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 2/1/2005 5:59 PM |
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Originally posted by Gar
What's wrong with Tom Waits' vocals?
Nothing as such, I think they are perfect for what he does, but I don't chain smoke camels the way he did in the 70's so I'd like to think that my voice wasn't completely shot.
If I sounded like him on Closing Time I'd be satisfied. |
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| 2/3/2005 6:10 PM |
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I get Mick and the whole comparisons malarky.
I don't get the radiohead thing anymore.....no band wants to sound like Radiohead-they'd fail. The point is that Ed's voice has a great range and he sometimes sings high-i think that otherwise the Radiohead comparison is a bit misleading. 66e are about melodic, layered, instrumental sounds (and I include Ed's lyrics with instrumental) if any comparisons are needed then Explosions in the sky is much better as well as Mogwai and other loud guitar driven music. I suppose the best advice to anyone unfamiliar with the band is get the album or go to a gig and make up your own mind. They seem to have a weirdly wide appeal seeing as they are not all that radio directed- I had a mix of friends at the gig, including fans of regular chart music and hard rock who I had dragged along and they all loved it and ran to buy the album the next day. So I figure you can be surprised by what other people think of a band.
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