The more exposure they get, the more I am amazed that the Fiery Furnaces ever got a record deal. I like kooky, low-fi, but c-mawn! Udder pooh.

If the girl-singer Eleanor hadn't dated half the world and wasn't pretty, nobody would care about them. She started with Brit Daniel of Spoon and was last with the smuck from Franz Ferdinand.

Total hangers on.

so bad, man. CRAP songwriting, CRAP everything except the sound of hte recordings.

I didn't dig their website either.

All that noise! And for what?

FOR WHAT, GODDAMNIT??!!!

not crap. they are creative and fresh. blueberry boat has some solid, good songs.

and i don´t think she´s really pretty... she´average at best.

Blueberry Boat. Saw them at radio City with the Wilco. Strange. I wanted to like them, I really did.

But the record just could not stay down. My body and mind rejected it. Too damn all over the place. I was on this kick of just putting it on in my car whenever someone who had never heard it before was with me, and not say a word. More than any other album ever, everyone would eventually say, "What the fuck is this? Turn it off" It just angered people.

For me it just failed to make any lasting impression other than the reaction to turn it off.

Ours is Gas, but it pumps up the flames big time over the artificial coal. I don’t mind that it’s not real. Very cosy in winter, with a good book and a nice glass of shit.

DefinitelyNOTtheSWEDE wrote:Blueberry Boat. Saw them at radio City with the Wilco. Strange. I wanted to like them, I really did.

But the record just could not stay down.

I understand what you're saying.

These guys obviously have a great deal of talent and creativity. They are really discursive and verbose, which is kind of cool in a time where many "underground" bands have abandoned lyrics altogether.

What fucks it up for me is this NPR/This American Life style self-satisfied quirky cleverness that they have to display constantly.

And Blueberry Boat has a bunch of really stupid guitar solos. I usually like stupid guitar solos, but the ones on that record drive me up the wall. Self-conciousness again.

I accidentally bought their record called "Bitter Tea".

I say accidentally because I was at a party, and heard some very nice, slow, reserved rock with a young lady singing. I liked it, in that Yo La Tengo sort of way. Someone told me it was Fiery Furnaces.

After listening to "Bitter Tea", I am quite sure it was not the Fiery Furnaces that I was listening to at the party.

I have tried to like this record -- I have listened to it all the way through a few times. And still, I do not like this record.

Probably crap, although they sounded like nice people while chatting with Terry Gross on Fresh Air.

this band is great fun.

it's the bad era of the who playing disney theme tunes for the ipod generation. i don't know why it works for me, it just works for me. it's like i heard this music when i was a kid and have just started to remember it again.