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Post by shinola on Jun 12, 2010 8:35:33 GMT -5
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Post by bschultz27 on Jun 12, 2010 12:26:52 GMT -5
Yikes, is it just me or were the keys really fucking annoying? I was wincing throughout the whole thing. I'll have to watch again when I'm not listening through laptop speakers, but Franz's talents are definitely minimized here.
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Post by doctoracula on Jun 12, 2010 22:32:49 GMT -5
is that jacket tom's costume for the song?
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Post by toastie on Jun 13, 2010 4:21:28 GMT -5
Tom looks so young there. Must be the moppish hair.
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Post by hoodrat on Jun 14, 2010 8:28:40 GMT -5
annoying? it's hard to hear them at all in that song. haters step off. and yeah, tom's got some kinda dorian gray thing going because he looks about 16 there.
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Post by caz on Jun 15, 2010 7:37:56 GMT -5
When it started I thought it was Stuck Between Stations for a second...
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Post by hoodrat on Jun 15, 2010 8:48:39 GMT -5
When it started I thought it was Stuck Between Stations for a second... heh. i twitched at the opening too . . . for the same reason. |
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Post by april81972 on Jun 15, 2010 11:21:12 GMT -5
that's awful
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Post by doctoracula on Jun 15, 2010 19:01:14 GMT -5
the first time i heard the song, i thought the same thing re: stuck between stations
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Post by caz on Jun 15, 2010 20:22:12 GMT -5
Ha ha, I wonder if Franz was tempted to just use the Station keys part...  |
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Post by highonsound on Jun 16, 2010 0:19:03 GMT -5
#1 OMGawd that band is awful.
#2 I could not hear the keys on that song at all.
#3 Come home, Franz. You are missed.
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Post by jwd on Jun 16, 2010 17:29:25 GMT -5
I saw Against Me! last night. Very rocking for sure. They opened for Smashing Pumpkins, er... sorry, Silversun Pickups.
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Post by doctoracula on Jun 16, 2010 22:23:32 GMT -5
are silversun pickups really that big that AM! is opening? that's so weird to me
i'm also completely out of touch with mainstream music
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Post by mikeflynn on Jun 17, 2010 11:39:59 GMT -5
Total misuse of Franz's talents, I will agree.
I do like the new album a lot though. One of the best of this year so far.
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Post by Rhinovirus on Jun 17, 2010 13:32:31 GMT -5
And they shoved him off in a corner. That man has far too much charisma to be that far back.
When I heard of Franz joining AM! I found it hard to picture his sound melding with theirs. Based on this song I think it's just drowned instead. Is he more prominent in any other songs on the album?
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Post by mikeflynn on Jun 17, 2010 15:05:25 GMT -5
I don't think he recorded any of the parts on the album, I was under the impression that he is only a touring member.
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Post by doctoracula on Jun 17, 2010 20:01:34 GMT -5
yeah, he didnt play on the record. but there's one or two songs that are totally piano-driven. they would definitely need a keyboard player for the live show.
i really wish the production on the record wasnt so silly
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Post by toastie on Jun 18, 2010 1:45:44 GMT -5
I really wish Butch Vig wasn't involved again. I can't name a single album ha has produced that I more than tolerate. Not even Nevermind. I hope AM don't stick with him on the next record.
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Post by parock on Jun 18, 2010 8:59:43 GMT -5
AM! is embarrassing. can anyone name a band that has so thoroughly and unselfconsciously sold out? it's a lot easier to take a band like green day (for example) who didn't start out singing fuck the man DIY anti corporation shit.
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Post by jwd on Jun 18, 2010 13:13:37 GMT -5
are silversun pickups really that big that AM! is opening? that's so weird to me i'm also completely out of touch with mainstream music I know. I was pretty shocked that the Hard Rock live was completely packed for Silversun. They are from that Snow Patrol/Wolfmother/Jet school of "alternative" rock. Not my cup of tea... |
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Post by john k on Jun 18, 2010 15:44:19 GMT -5
i dont think wolfmother or jet would consider themselves alternative. i think the press might lump them in with that scene but not themselves.
i did hear gary shithead from snow patrol describe themselves as a stadium husker du.
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Post by doctoracula on Jun 18, 2010 16:49:28 GMT -5
I really wish Butch Vig wasn't involved again. I can't name a single album ha has produced that I more than tolerate. Not even Nevermind. I hope AM don't stick with him on the next record. i totally agree. any good record he produced is good in spite of him. he blands up everything. AM! is embarrassing. can anyone name a band that has so thoroughly and unselfconsciously sold out? it's a lot easier to take a band like green day (for example) who didn't start out singing fuck the man DIY anti corporation shit. that's one of my favorite things about them! its not like they ever hid it. it's so completely honest, more so than singing the same anarchist crap over and over again. they changed as people and pretty much documented every step of it in songs. and, at least at first, it seemed like it really lit a fire under them. the whole "are you restless like me" thing and whatnot. now they just sound complacent. which is a shame |
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Post by toastie on Jun 18, 2010 16:58:50 GMT -5
I really wish Butch Vig wasn't involved again. I can't name a single album ha has produced that I more than tolerate. Not even Nevermind. I hope AM don't stick with him on the next record. i totally agree. any good record he produced is good in spite of him. he blands up everything. Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Green Day all suffered bland albums at his hands. However, his work with Garbage isn't quite as shocking. |
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Post by doctoracula on Jun 18, 2010 17:24:13 GMT -5
i'd hope he'd treat his own band a little better!!
in my own fantasy world, there'd be an albini version of nevermind. i bet that would be so awesome
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Post by ros on Jun 24, 2010 7:01:25 GMT -5
that's one of my favorite things about them! its not like they ever hid it. it's so completely honest, more so than singing the same anarchist crap over and over again. they changed as people and pretty much documented every step of it in songs. Yup, I agree with this. I don't know what's going on with the sound/the mix on that Leno recording, but it does not sound like that live. I saw them a few weeks ago and Franz was definitely in there with harmonies, that weird stringy keyboard sound was nowhere and it was absolutely phenomenal. Awesome live show. And all the Butch Vig haters out there, sure he's not exactly king of diversity now, but remember he did Gish, Siamese Dream and Dirty. |
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