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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm seeing them open for Ok Go in two weeks. I have the CD (bought on Sebby's suggestion), but I let Mr Man take it first. I need to swap him for it.
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You like the bands that Pitchfork hates.
"From the outset, their look is positively loathsome; four clean-cut, Suburbia-ripped pretty boys aspiring to toe the line between indie respectability and commercial adulation."
"That the kind of mindless, commercial monotony that dilutes every hint of vibrancy on the record seems wholly intentional is telling, as a comparatively lo-fi collection of songs were apparently scrapped in favor of this supposedly more accessible dreck."
"For forty minutes, Ok Go drags on laboriously, with each passing song more desperately anticipating the end. Damian Kulash's lyrics are almost uniformly dreadful, but no more so than on "You're So Damn Hot", what seems to be some kind of aggravating rewrite of "Bang a Gong" with all the substance and style drained from it. Lines like, "You're a bad-hearted boy trap, baby doll, but you're/ So damn hot," are enough to make you despise the English language."
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record...go/ok-go.shtml
Those Pitchfork kids sure are snotty little pricks, but it's lines like "Lines like, 'You're a bad-hearted boy trap, baby doll, but you're/ So damn hot,' are enough to make you despise the English language," that keep me coming back.
The Louis XIV review is pretty funny, too.
