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I HEART this album so much!!!!
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enjoy bell woods
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Great post, man.
Star Power
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Meh.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Meh x2. Thought it was quite bland and uninteresting.
I love The Postal Service, but it is evil. The Postal Service is a gateway band. You know how they say that marijuana is a gateway drug? How it leads to more drugs? Yeah. That's The Postal Service, only they lead into more emo.
I now can officially say, without any remorse, that I like emo. And emo? Yeah, it led into indie. I'm still shaky on indie, and I kind of hate myself when I listen to it. Oh well.
I now can officially say, without any remorse, that I like emo. And emo? Yeah, it led into indie. I'm still shaky on indie, and I kind of hate myself when I listen to it. Oh well.
Forgotten Ancient
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Never listened to "I am a world trade Center" before. However, I just checked into them a few seconds ago and noticed their CD came out just a few months before 9/11. Also, one of their songs on that CD was called "September". Another was called "The Cover up".
This band is both prophetic and full of conspiracy theories.
Also...the genre they were listed under is "cuddlecore". WTF is Cuddlecore? I'll check em out anyways. Just a few observations beforehand.
This band is both prophetic and full of conspiracy theories.
Also...the genre they were listed under is "cuddlecore". WTF is Cuddlecore? I'll check em out anyways. Just a few observations beforehand.
I think that The Postal Service can be construed as emo. But it's connection with DCFC (Gibbard) led into liking them, and then from that into more.
tt_deeb: I can feel comfortable saying that I like emo. It's like when you have an embarrassing secret, and slowly start to come to terms with it. You'd have to understand my position on this subject. All throughout high school, I listened to punk rock nigh-exclusively. When people would mention emo, I'd laugh at them. I'd tell them to take their acoustic guitars and shove it. I bought into the whole "cheer up, emo kid" campaign.
Then along comes this band, The Postal Service. I liked it, but I kept it secret. I thought people would think, "Hey, look at that kid. He' s the one that made fun of me for liking Bright Eyes. What a fucking hypocrite." I was scared. I know, I know, it was stupid, but what did I know? High school was all about popularity, it was all about fitting in. And if you spoke out of your stereotype, you're ostracized by your friends.
Slowly, it started to show more and more in my life. I would put it in my car and listen to it. When people asked about it, I said it was there for "rainy days". I started to buy different albums. And suddenly, I liked emo. The deal was sealed when I bought a Bright Eyes album at a Target.
Zilch: Yeah, I've said this before, in the last Postal Service thread. I thought it was relevant... is repetition of relevence equal to a bad post? Sorry, dude.
tt_deeb: I can feel comfortable saying that I like emo. It's like when you have an embarrassing secret, and slowly start to come to terms with it. You'd have to understand my position on this subject. All throughout high school, I listened to punk rock nigh-exclusively. When people would mention emo, I'd laugh at them. I'd tell them to take their acoustic guitars and shove it. I bought into the whole "cheer up, emo kid" campaign.
Then along comes this band, The Postal Service. I liked it, but I kept it secret. I thought people would think, "Hey, look at that kid. He' s the one that made fun of me for liking Bright Eyes. What a fucking hypocrite." I was scared. I know, I know, it was stupid, but what did I know? High school was all about popularity, it was all about fitting in. And if you spoke out of your stereotype, you're ostracized by your friends.
Slowly, it started to show more and more in my life. I would put it in my car and listen to it. When people asked about it, I said it was there for "rainy days". I started to buy different albums. And suddenly, I liked emo. The deal was sealed when I bought a Bright Eyes album at a Target.
Zilch: Yeah, I've said this before, in the last Postal Service thread. I thought it was relevant... is repetition of relevence equal to a bad post? Sorry, dude.
MetatronM said:
Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That your're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over...
I will block the door like a goalie tending the net
In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry
And, uh, I don't think I need to say anything else.
I am the World Trade Center is awesome. There's nothing political about their music or anything, they just happened to have an awesome name... and then someone crashed planes into the WTC.
I don't know if "cuddlecore" is the word. Before Kindercore records went out of business, people pretty much ignored every record that came on the label because it was too cute. Dressy Bessy is about the greatest pop band around, and they were a Kindercore band, and the lack of attention they receive is ridiculous. IatWTC & Japancakes are also excellent bands from Kindercore, and Japancakes are the farthest thing from "cuddly." I don't consider postrock cuddly... IatWTC is dancy, fun, laptop-pop records. The song "Me To Be" is fucking amazing, and is definitely my favorite track they've done. The Cover Up is their new album, which was made while the 2 members of the band were going through relationship turmoil (they're married, I believe), so it's super emotional, but it never weighs you down. It always comes across sincere, but it perks you back up. They're a fantastic band.
I've certainly got my albums/bands I listen to when I'm sad, but The Postal Service or DCFC or any of the "emo" bands that are in that same scene are what I listen to. Okkervil River, Xiu Xiu, The Meadowlands, and Black Heart Procession, pls.
I don't know if "cuddlecore" is the word. Before Kindercore records went out of business, people pretty much ignored every record that came on the label because it was too cute. Dressy Bessy is about the greatest pop band around, and they were a Kindercore band, and the lack of attention they receive is ridiculous. IatWTC & Japancakes are also excellent bands from Kindercore, and Japancakes are the farthest thing from "cuddly." I don't consider postrock cuddly... IatWTC is dancy, fun, laptop-pop records. The song "Me To Be" is fucking amazing, and is definitely my favorite track they've done. The Cover Up is their new album, which was made while the 2 members of the band were going through relationship turmoil (they're married, I believe), so it's super emotional, but it never weighs you down. It always comes across sincere, but it perks you back up. They're a fantastic band.
I've certainly got my albums/bands I listen to when I'm sad, but The Postal Service or DCFC or any of the "emo" bands that are in that same scene are what I listen to. Okkervil River, Xiu Xiu, The Meadowlands, and Black Heart Procession, pls.
=W= said:This part is dumb, the rest of it I like, so F U
And that song where he sings about Lee Harvey Oswald has some lame lyrics too.
That line made me turn off the album. It's horrrrrrible.
Pretty much every song has some terrible lyrics:
I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
True, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home
CavemanLawyer
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Lambtron said:That line made me turn off the album. It's horrrrrrible.
Pretty much every song has some terrible lyrics:
I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
True, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home
I agree that a lot of their lyrics are pretty awful.
But I love the lyrics in "Such Great Heights" especially the part you just quoted.
Lambtron said:I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
True, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home
This lyrics is one of the reasons I hate Gibbard. The bigger reason is that Death Cab sucks. If Chris Walla ever started his own band, I'd give it a shot though. He's recorded some hot gak for other bands.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
I second the Kindercore love. I went head over heels for that stuff when they released Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies and sent a sampler with it.
Anyways, I always thought the charm of The Postal Service was how fucking bad the lyrics were. I mean, come on. The intro to Sleeping In is completly disarming to me. It's so fucking absurd. I can't get past how it could have been written by anyone but a twelve year old girl and thus I see at as nothing but trashy fun.
Anyways, I always thought the charm of The Postal Service was how fucking bad the lyrics were. I mean, come on. The intro to Sleeping In is completly disarming to me. It's so fucking absurd. I can't get past how it could have been written by anyone but a twelve year old girl and thus I see at as nothing but trashy fun.
Trashy fun is fucking an Olsen twin. This, this is an abomination. Shitty lyrics are okay when the music is loud or interesting enough to drown out the problems, but The Postal Service is neither. Imagine if that first Interpol album had Muzak-style backround music. . .it would be completely unlistenable!
Son of Godzilla
Banned
You mean it's not?@?
Anyways, I went back and listened to some of Give Up because of this and I agree with you completely. I guess I never paid attention because of how fucking bad the lyrics are, or assumed the reason I got disgusted with it (And I do, every time I get the urge to listen to it) was because of the lyrics.
Anyways, I went back and listened to some of Give Up because of this and I agree with you completely. I guess I never paid attention because of how fucking bad the lyrics are, or assumed the reason I got disgusted with it (And I do, every time I get the urge to listen to it) was because of the lyrics.
Postal Service threads always devolve into complaints about the lyrics.
I don't really get it. There are so many boring, lyricists out there...Ben Gibbard sticks his neck out with what I see as risky, earnest, heart-felt lyrics and people chop his head off.
Go back to your Xiu Xiu, Sufjan Stevens or whatever passes for suitably detached lyrics these days.
I don't really get it. There are so many boring, lyricists out there...Ben Gibbard sticks his neck out with what I see as risky, earnest, heart-felt lyrics and people chop his head off.
Go back to your Xiu Xiu, Sufjan Stevens or whatever passes for suitably detached lyrics these days.
I definitely have Jamie's back in this fight. I mean "Hives, Hives" pretty much sums it up. Particularly the fantastic shuffle-y IBOPA version.
I don't need my lyrics to be super fantastic deep or anything like that. I listen to lots of bands with what are pretty laughable lyrics. Something just strikes me wrong about Gibbard's. The subject matter he's writing about is always a fine line in my eyes, because love/breakup songs are pretty much awesome, or terrible, there isn't a lot of middle ground. Hey, he's not as bad as Chris Carrabba from Dashboard Confessional, but then again, who is?
I'm a huge Ween fan. They wrote the song "Put The Coke On My Dick."
Those lyrics, while fucking incredible, aren't particularly deep.
I don't need my lyrics to be super fantastic deep or anything like that. I listen to lots of bands with what are pretty laughable lyrics. Something just strikes me wrong about Gibbard's. The subject matter he's writing about is always a fine line in my eyes, because love/breakup songs are pretty much awesome, or terrible, there isn't a lot of middle ground. Hey, he's not as bad as Chris Carrabba from Dashboard Confessional, but then again, who is?
I'm a huge Ween fan. They wrote the song "Put The Coke On My Dick."
Those lyrics, while fucking incredible, aren't particularly deep.
Cerebral Palsy
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The Postal Service sucks balls
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