'Shindig'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Opinions, please?
Of the following bands, what would you go see/what combination would you go see?
M. Ward (16 euro), We Are Scientists (22 Euro), Gomez (31 euro), TV On the Radio (17 euro)
I still hold out hope that one Sufjan ticket will be released before the show. I have no such hope for Ryan Adams.
TV on the Radio is pretty great.
Several people in my office whose opinions I trust are mad for Gomez.
I've seen Gomez play live at Amoeba and they were excellent live. Not hopping around make show excellent - just good musicians with a warm, layered sound.
I know a few people who are mad for Gomez too, and what I've heard I've liked quite a bit. I'd go see them.
Not hoping around make show excellent - just good musicians with a warm, layered sound.
This is something else I quite like about Tool. With their particular sound it seems like it would be quite easy for Adam Jones (guitar) and Justin Chancellor (bass) to thrash and head bang, or jump around, but they are consummate musicians and are quite content to stand there and play their instruments with precision and care. Maynard moves around a little, but even he would rather sing well (I think he's one of the most incredible singers out there today), and keeps his movements to a minimum for the most part.
t /Tool likes carrots
Heh. I was at a Foo Fighters concert 7 years ago in which Dave Grohl actually asked the crowd to stop beating the shit out of each other. Didn't help much, but I certainly appreciated the sentiment.
It's very helpful when bands enable my giddy anticipation of their new release. My Chemical Romance has streaming audio of the entire new album (which comes out next week) up at www.theblackparade.com.
I really can't explain what it is about their music that has caused it to take over my brain (in much the same way that The Cure or Rasputina or Placebo did), but I've turned into a wide-eyed fan girl. It's not just that the band is terribly cute (and believe me, they're adorable and I just want to smoosh them), and it's not just that they write very catchy punk-pop-goth songs, because there are other bands that have done that, and I'm not a complete geebling loon over them.
The Black Parade sounds like the MCR boys spent the past year listening to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and a lot of Queen. Very catchy, and very melodramatic and bombastic in a grand, catch-your-breath sort of way.
(My god, I feel like I've reverted to my sixteen year-old self.)
I got tickets to go see Neko Case! I'm really excited. I've heard reports from some folks that she's one of those that gets really drunk for her shows, but still. I love her songs so much that I want to hear them performed live. I think it's a good venue, too.
I love Gomez and have seen them play live a couple of times. I think they're fantastic live - but then, I would say that.
Jilli, I refuse to be ashamed of my MCR love. And the way you describe the new album makes me want it. Um. Right now.