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Band: Decemberists
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:29 am
by mooliachi_Archive
Noah wrote:they're a total shitfest. i listened to one of their albums once. they'd be kind of cool if they just took a lot of pictures of themselves, but they record also.
-noah
I think there should be modeling groups, that don't make music, just take pictures of themsleves, and at shows in between bands, they can do runway posing for those of us less fashionably inclined. I vote yes to pillow biters with frilly hats. That latino pirate look is long overdue for a comeback. honestly.
Wasn't there a Janitor Joe record with a fake black eyed member on it?
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:23 pm
by Angry_Dragon_Archive
slowriot wrote:when i first heard them i thought they wrote really effective pop songs, but the more i listen to their albums now i have this image of a guy huddled up writing lyrics that are trying too hard to be smart and ironic/funny. but they come off sounding a triffle banal. like when he's really emoting and singing the line, "my mother was a chinese trapeze artist?" i don't know- maybe it's supposed to be tongue in cheek- but mostly it's just pretentious indie nerds like pitchfork that take pleasure in it.
I think the tongue in cheek thing is more apt especially when talking about that line you quoted. Oddly enough, it's mainly pretentious indie nerds who don't like them that I run into. There are also a few who can't get past that voice which i can totally see.
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:12 pm
by ing curtis_Archive
ooh fucking fuck this band. the nmh comparisons warrant death. the opening track on the lp is so fucking pretentious with no substance, i actually will go out of my way to give this band an anti-plug. fuck em.
CRAP.
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:28 pm
by robert thefamilyghost_Archive
well...i haven't HEARD them actually...but some things you can just tell...(oh yeah, and CRAP)...
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:13 am
by tipcat_Archive
I agree with the They Might Be Giants comparison. Colin Meloy sounds like John Linnell, and the choices of chord progressions are strikingly similar. That doesn't make it crap. Linnell is a gifted songwriter in the way that Adam Schleshiger from Fountains of Wayne and Ivy is gifted. Colin Meloy is in that tradition. NOT CRAP.
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:36 am
by Champion Rabbit
Meh.
Not crap.
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Pleasant, if not essential.
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:08 pm
by Surfrider_Archive
Not heard them so no vote.
But what an absolutely terrible name for a band. Really awful. Tsk.
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:14 am
by bumble_Archive
http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=101152&highlight=decemberists#101152
I disliked them so much this weekend. So very, very much it was actually sort of a joy - I can't remember another time when I stared at happy people around me, knocked back another beer and wondered aloud (and, um, a little too loudly), "What the fuck?! These guys are fucking
terrible! GAH!"
Whee.
Thanks for the good hatin', The Decemberists!
CRAP!
(yay!)
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:29 am
by stevenstillborn_Archive
I heard "July July" and I thought, "well, here's a band to fill the NMH void," but then I bought that album,
Castaways and Cutouts. Holy CRAP (wf: 2). Just too pretentious for its own good, and I like some pretentious stuff. Luckily, most of the people I know have no connection to indie rock and are still hung up on Dave Matthews, so I'm spared the Decemberists-worship.
Band: Decemberists
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:32 am
by kerble_Archive
My God.
CRAP.
No Waffles.
Like a less fey, sixth-rate Belle and Sebatian band replete with "Strings for the Sake of Strings," cloying arrangements, nary a memorable melody. Totally unexciting and not in the least bit captivating.
Dreck.
Faiz