Someone shared this video with me recently and it reminded me so much of @Deport Ogie 's statement about them being a social experiment, I had to share it here too...
I think honestly if I had never seen live video of them performing they would just be a band I don't care for. But jesus man, any performance is basically Buckingham and Nicks each trying to sing louder and fancier than the other. And why does Mick Fleetwood insist on making such dumb ****ing orgasm faces while he plays??!
new album is pretty sweet
My favorite album of 2019
Nice, glad that you enjoyed it. If interested you may want to check out his other band Silver Jews. Less sad, but still odd and fun. American Water is kind of their classic album, but I kind of gravitate towards their other works. (Might be bc I have listened to American Water so many times)Was a great listen. I live 35 minutes walk from my office, so took it from the top on my way back.
Knowing in advance that he killed himself later that year, one has to say it was somewhat morbid also, yet that outcome seems the least surprising thing in the world given the lyrics. A self depreciating- and aware charm throughout though - and not a little humor (Margaritas at the Mall, for one).
Surreal or somewhat disconcerting how many of the tracks carried an upbeat pleasantness, at the same time as... what... resigned despair (?)... is just flowing from the frontman. When I got through Nights That Won't Happen, I was ready for a break.
I have to say that among the indie crowd Pitchfork favorites, Animal Collective is the one that consistently leaves me cold. Very clewer and talented I'm sure, but to my ears much too talented and clewer for their own good then. This track to me is just a garbled "see what we can do" mess that never gets me invested at all.
I have had that feeling with them since Panda Bear's Person Pitch back in the day. An album I was also made to understand was a master piece. Well, suppose it's me not getting it, but there it is.
That Purple Mountain track was really neat, sad-sweet and odd-ball though, and made me want to dig into them more. Then I googled and understood that sadly this is the only album we are going to get. Will Spotify it on my walk home from work.
In honour of this tweet
I’ve been meaning to listen to Big Star more. They are one of those bands that my favorites bands have cited as an influence, but I only know a handful of their songs.
Codeine seems like a real sad drug.
Awesome, thanks! Yeah, I am familiar with In the Street and Thirteen (thanks to the Elliott Smith cover)Well luckily for you they only put out three albums, really. The third of which is damned good but probably not up to par with the first two, #1 Record and Radio City... which is where I would start as neither album has much in the way of skippers. They never had any "hits" really but you might know "In The Streets" as "That 70s Show" opening song (covered by Cheap Trick) and "September Gurls" was covered by The Bengals.
You can't really go wrong with any song off the first two. And I'd check out Third/Sister Lovers at some point, too if you end up digging the band.
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