The Indie Thread (2)

I'm planning on looking into all of those, Jacob and Phil, particularly the new Streets album.

Has anyone seen the Caribou/Manitoba DVD? I watched about 4 videos at a friend's place and was blown away.

Oh yeah. I'm also loving this video by the Avalanches:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6841493556378167046&q=avalanches&pl=true

blackwasp said:

Has anyone seen the Caribou/Manitoba DVD? I watched about 4 videos at a friend's place and was blown away.

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I grabbed a few of the website a while ago and I really liked them. Pretty cool animation.

Next CD I'm gonna buy would probably be

- Saves the day: Through being cool or the other one before Stay what you are

- Dashboard Confessional- dunno which one

- or Something Corporate- "

I am soooo much into emo since I just randomly started listening to my Saves the day (stay what you are)- CD I was actually gonna sell on ebay (I'd bought it like 4 years ago)

The New Sufjan Leaked. Check Your Local Torrent Sites Or Im Me Or Whatever.


this was sposed to be in all caps but w/e

The New Sufjan Leaked. Check Your Local Torrent Sites Or Im Me Or Whatever.

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!!!
I can't download torrents or get on soulseek on campus.

Can you send it to me...or upload it to yousendit.com or something?

I could try AIM, though I haven't had much luck with filesharing over AIM. I guess it might work.

phil, i've said it once... i'll say it again.

Do you really want to hear it before you actually get the package in hand? I mean, seriously.

Arnold_Philips said:

The New Sufjan Leaked. Check Your Local Torrent Sites Or Im Me Or Whatever.


this was sposed to be in all caps but w/e

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I don't see an AIM icon by your username. Any way you send it, that's the way I need it.

Also, I've been wasting lots of time on www.youtube.com . It may be old news to the rest of you, but I'm having a blast with it. You can stream a handsome selection of videos. My favorites from the past couple days:

The Avalanches -- Frontier Psychiatrist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0SpQqMDPQ&search=frontier%20psychiatrist

and

Gnarls Barkley -- Crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPiIIckeGY&search=gnarls%20barkley

Sorry guys. I just listened to it and it was a false alarm. It was simply a comilation of a lot of B-sides I had already heard. Some stuff I hadn't heard though.

FUTUREHEADS LEAKED.

I haven't been this happy since I discovered pants with button flys.

Isn't the new Sufjan just the b-sides and stuff...sorta a rip-off if you ask me.

Well initially, Illinois had enough songs to be a double album. So the b-sides aren't really like crappy leftovers, they are more like songs that didn't make it on the record because of space limitations.

Apparently Seven Swans was a b-sides record. And that is by far my favorite of Sufjan's releases. So, who know's, maybe it'll be really good.

^Hopefully it will be good, since Sufjan seems to be in the can-do-no-wrong point in his career.

Illinois DId have enough songs to be a doubt album. Of course, i'd feel preeeettty gyped if i got an album with 11 songs and the whole thing was only 21 minutes long.
I love the thing, don't get me wrong but the tracks on that album were SHORT. There is one epic, one or two around 3-4 minutes...the rest, well under 2mins

And I dunno about SS being at the can do no wrong.

I have had half a dozen friends claim that his album was overplayed and hefell far out of favour with them all.
He has built up this hype around a virtually impossible project that he basically has assigned himself to for the rest of his life. And while it's cool and i'm sure it'll be an amazing project the dude is stuck with it....unless he gives up.

ps..in case y'all didn't know about them, SS fans would prolly do themselves well to listen to "Iron and Wine".
They're a fine fine band.

^Illinois was in fact on 4x vinyl.


And the new songs that I've heard (just a couple) sound pretty good.

rambot said:

Illinois DId have enough songs to be a doubt album. Of course, i'd feel preeeettty gyped if i got an album with 11 songs and the whole thing was only 21 minutes long.
I love the thing, don't get me wrong but the tracks on that album were SHORT. There is one epic, one or two around 3-4 minutes...the rest, well under 2mins

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Actually, 15 of the songs on Illinois are over two minutes in length. And most of those are in the 3-6 min. range.

And I dunno about SS being at the can do no wrong.

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I tend to agree. A Sun Came is hit-or-miss the whole way through. Though there are definitely a few keepers on there.

I think Enjoy Your Rabbit and Seven Swans are pretty tight as they are. I'm not sure if those could be improved on.

Illinois and Michigan have their weak spots (moreso the latter than the former), but I still think they are both pretty strong releases.

I have had half a dozen friends claim that his album was overplayed and hefell far out of favour with them all.

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Well that's not really his fault that your friends over played the album. Moderation people, c'mon.

He has built up this hype around a virtually impossible project that he basically has assigned himself to for the rest of his life. And while it's cool and i'm sure it'll be an amazing project the dude is stuck with it....unless he gives up.

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I really don't think he's stuck with anything. As I understand it, the concept of a fifty states project came after the Michigan album was recorded. He just decided it was something to aim for. He's not contractually obligated to make an album for every state. If at some point he decides, "hey, i've exhausted this fifty states thing enough" and then leaves and writes short fiction in rural New York under a pseudonym or something I don't think people are going to feel betrayed. It's an impossible task -- any rational being can ralize that if he puts out a different state album every other year, that would be a 100 year project. And the probability of him living that long is slim, let alone living that long and still making relevant music.

If anything, I think the fifty states project is a framework. Many great musicians use constraints to challenge themselves and likewise gain inspiration. I think the 50 States Project is not an actual goal that he is hoping to accomplish, but a means of challenging himself to write good music with a relevant message that captures the essense and atmosphere of a specific place.

At least, that's how I see it.

ps..in case y'all didn't know about them, SS fans would prolly do themselves well to listen to "Iron and Wine".
They're a fine fine band.

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I agree. Sam Beam is a great songwriter. I saw him on the Iron & Wine/Calexico tour a few months back. The show was four hours. I don't know how they can play that long every night of a tour. It must be exhausting.

philN said:

I agree. Sam Beam is a great songwriter. I saw him on the Iron & Wine/Calexico tour a few months back. The show was four hours. I don't know how they can play that long every night of a tour. It must be exhausting.

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The songs are whispered.

A download of a song off of the upcoming "Avalanche" album by Sufjan. Which, I believe, proves that a "b-sides" album does not have to suck.
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002531.html

The song "Dear Mr. Supercomputer" is up on the main page of that same site right now.

thanks for that tip, Phil. Both songs are top-notch.