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Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46993 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
i had a whole tirade against Surf and Mickey's positioning of me as a deadnamer, but I got caught up in parenting stuff and then the thread got deleted. KD is maybe absorbing some of my simmering rage.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
i had a whole tirade against Surf and Mickey's positioning of me as a deadnamer, but I got caught up in parenting stuff and then the thread got deleted. KD is maybe absorbing some of my simmering rage.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46993 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Jorge wrote:
Also the first Foos album features some of Dave's best melodies. "Exhausted" is loud and fuzzy but it's also very beautiful
Yes.
Jorge wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
i had a whole tirade against Surf and Mickey's positioning of me as a deadnamer, but I got caught up in parenting stuff and then the thread got deleted. KD is maybe absorbing some of my simmering rage.
i had a whole tirade against Surf and Mickey's positioning of me as a deadnamer, but I got caught up in parenting stuff and then the thread got deleted. KD is maybe absorbing some of my simmering rage.
Ha, FWIW I did not sense rage or hostility in your reply at all, and even if you were taking a backhanded jab at my tastes I still thought the sequence of posts was funny. I didn't really think you were though.
tragabigzanda wrote:
I just meant that they leaned into the melodic stuff, with a big rawk vocal, more than the naval-gazing garage vibes of their debut, where you'd gotta squint to really appreciate the melodies.
I was 12 when the first Foos album came out, so my tastes were pretty pliable -- not every song pointed me down a path I'd follow on a micro level (i.e. I've never actively sought out bands whose entire MO was songs like "Weenie Beenie," even though I get a kick out of that song), but the patchwork quilt of the whole thing has always been very enjoyable to me.
Truth be told it was probably albums like this, Siamese Dream, etc. that trained my ears to listen through murk and feedback to find melody, craft, etc., unwittingly learning in the process to find the murk and feedback pleasurable in itself, even though I wasn't aware of it in those terms as it was happening.
But by the same token, if late-era Foos has Elvis Costello-level melodies going on, I need to listen immediately!
Truth be told it was probably albums like this [Foo Fighters], Siamese Dream, etc. that trained my ears to listen through murk and feedback to find melody, craft, etc., unwittingly learning in the process to find the murk and feedback pleasurable in itself, even though I wasn't aware of it in those terms as it was happening.
I never thought of it that way, but you are exactly right.
I've been spinning that first record this week and remembering how much I loved it.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46993 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Stickman wrote:
I recognize that it’s too soon to crack jokes, but I couldn’t help but picture Dave tearing through the giant poster on which this was theoretically printed, huge shredding guitar sound, heavy riff coming for a few bars, before the radio-friendly hook takes over. Maybe some pyrotechnics.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46993 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Ok I just listened to one verse and one chorus and I think he did a great job! Are those live drums or a plug-in?
The serial killer thing was just a lame shit post but I guess the serious mean thing I would add is that he makes the classic “I’m a sensitive male singer” face for every frame I saw.
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