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Bloc Party - Silent Alarm The Arcade Fire - Funeral they're both great, check em out! |
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Isnt The Arcade Fire emo? |
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welcome back! |
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bloc party is also very "emoish". i don't like the singer's yelps. |
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They're both shit, Jonathan Coish. |
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what's good about them? |
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Excellent avatar good sir! |
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You have made some terrible Mistakes with your musical choices there, Mr Coish. |
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don't really know much about what is emo really... I just like these two albums... check em out if you want, if you don't want to then don't... |
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the horse there is always. :) |
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maybe in your eyes, but not in mine... |
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ok so don't bother telling anyone whats good about them then. just expect people to just go out and buy them just because you said they were good. |
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to be fair to bloc party, the album is not complete shit. it has a few good moments. that first single they brought out, can't remember the name, the slowish one is very nice (one of the reasons i bought the album). i prefer the version of "banquet" from the e.p, it's not as polished and much edgier. overall it didn't really hold up. i lent it out to someone and don't really feel like asking for it back. this is of course how i perceive the album. i probably don't have to say that. |
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what, people here actually buy albums? I don't expect anyone to... most people download, so I figured if they wanted to check it out they can download a track... tracks I recommend are Banquet by Bloc Party, and Rebellion (Lies) by The Arcade Fire... why do I like them? I don't know, I just like the tunes, music, etc... they're rock music, and while it's nothing mind blowing, I like it... |
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"what, people here actually buy albums?" Yes, and maybe more than you expect. Browse through the record bags and you'll see. |
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i enjoyed the arcade fire for a couple days. haven't listened to it since. maybe i will. |
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yeah, the arcade fire album is pretty good. i like that song that goes "if you want something, don't ask for nothing! if you want nothing, don't ask for something!" "c'mon alex, you can do it!, c'mon alex, there's nothing to it!" it's like a cheerleader song. |
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You are of course right. |
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And it would also probably be more useful if you could recommend things that aren't overhyped everywhere. Hey guys have you heard that new Autechre album? It's awesome IMO |
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not emo. people here are just ready to dismiss anything with the slightest emotional resonance and label it accordingly. |
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i've not heard of either, he refuses to tell me any infomation about how it sounds or anything about the bands, and wants me to go and listen to them, what a fuckwit. |
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this thread has to be a joke |
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I dismiss shit, especially shit that's trying too hard to be really emotional with violins and terrible singing and all. |
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You might like to read this . |
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i absolutely love that Arcade Fire album! |
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I think 'Funeral' is great. it reminds me of maybe a cross between late 70's David Bowie, and that Broken Social Scene album "You Forget It in People." it's probably my favorite rock album since Interpol's "Antics"! |
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I really could careless if you download it or not, asswipe... I posted this thread for anyone who might be interested in checking out a couple bands they haven't heard... I figured most people have probably heard OF these bands, because yes they are a bit hyped... and for some reason hype on a band seems to mean the band is guaranteed to suck... but yeah, I didn't really post the style of music cause I figured anyone not living under a rock have at least heard these band names before... but yeah, thanks for acting like a prick... it reminded me why I quit posting on this message board in the first place... now I can go back to not wasting my time here... |
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is pitchfork media actually any good? they gave drukqs 5.5 so they clearly don't know top shit when they get thier hands on it. |
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yeah so because they gave drukqs a bad review that means that you must assume from now on that anything pitchfork says is the opposite... so if they give something a top notch review, the album must be bad... I mean it makes perfect sense! |
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yeah but drukqs was a load of lazy shit |
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nah, only about 30% of it was. |
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"not emo. people here are just ready to dismiss anything with the slightest emotional resonance and label it accordingly. " oh, i'm sorry, but that is simply a huge misunderstanding of the genre "emo". |
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drukqs is worth 9.2, they gave it 5.5 untilted is worth about 9.0, they gave it 7.4 confield is worth 9.8, they gave it 8.8 ok computer is worth 3.0, they gave it 10 nuff said about that |
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let's get this straight: "emo" does NOT equal "emotional". this idea is an outright lie. emo music has as much emotion as any other commercial pop schlock to any listener who isn't a faggy 12-22 year old with thick black glasses and overly-stylized hair. second, emo music makes me want to fucking puke. that's the emotion i get from it - nausea. it represents the culmination of everything that's awful and wrong with commercial rock all squeezed into one trendy green and brown package. how on earth anyone can come onto an idm messageboard and say the fans of aphex twin don't understand emotional resonance but emo has emotion--- fuck, that's the most bizarre shit i've heard all day. |
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opinions |
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good. fuck of then, and don't come back. because i can guarentee nobody will miss you, you fucking stuck up monkey brained nonse. |
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what i find bizzare is that emo is now pop. when like 5 years ago emo was just a bunch of greasy haired kids from the midwest! |
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what's bugging you? I know you as a reasonable guy, now it seems like you are kicking against users their opinion/comment no matter what they say... |
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neither of these albums are emo... they are both just indie power pop... straight up... haven't heard enough of either of them to vouch for their good/badness though... given their general popularity with "open-minded" people, i'm sure they would appeal to a reasonable percentage of people here... maybe... |
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i totally know what you're saying. i remember it literally was four or five years ago when emo started gaining popularity and i noticed people started dressing like idiots. i swear, the whole hipster/emo look is the sweatbands, shoulder pads and hairspray of the noughts. one day, those people will look back and go, why the fuck did i dress like that? but i really do insist on mentioning that emo is inherently pop. there's no distinction. pop-punk = emo = commercial pop rock. blink 182 = emo band = ashley simpson. same exact shit. |
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and for the record, i haven't heard either band/album mentioned in this thread and i'm sorry for taking it over a bit. if it doesn't apply, please ignore what i've said. |
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it really doesn't apply... to set the record straight. this stuff didn't strike me as fabulous, but it's got neither the snotty-nosed indulgence of emo, nor the artificial snotty-nosedness of the present brand of emo-tinged rock-pop... from what i know of your tastes, i don't think you would like it... but you're weird... and so am i. (and that's not a backhanded insult to people who do dig it... if you can, you should... i have a lot of friends with good taste who absolutely love it... ) |
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your reply was redundant of mine. |
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I still don't know what emo is, nor would I want to. Isn't it just fey indie, like Coldplay but even duller with a tincher more awkward, muted "rocking out". Well that's what I imagine anyway. |
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Now that's the sort of Emo I can dig. But where is he know? |
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the arcade fire album is one of the best albums of the last year, i think. i keep listening to it, once a week since 3 months and I'm still not tired of it we'll see how their concert turns out in May but The Arcade Fire rocks!!! |
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great new album: seymour bits - hit me with technology his voice reminds me of prince |
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None of the new ''emo-pop'' is emo, though. There's nothing wrong with REAL emo, the term's just been abused and misused. Oh well. On topic, the Arcade Fire album is pretty good, but it's so hyped up and sorta popular that naturally any topic about it in a forum full of hardcore music fans is going to illicit snarling and cynicism. Haven't heard the Bloc Party thing. |
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emo is overwrought punk music about the singer's girlfriends. |
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