Red Mosquito

stip wrote:

spike wrote:that was painful.

the album, or my posting?

yes

arcade fire would do well to learn how to economize the way you do.

man, when the guitar kicks in on it's never over (oh orpheus). fuck.

best riff i've heard in awhile, pal. AF's good for one or two of those a record.

I know what you mean. It packs a similar punch to that guitar line in "Power Out" on Funeral.

This is what happens when you solicit an opinion from someone who doesn't like songs over 3:00, on an album where the songs are all over 5:00.

It can be simplified further by stating that he still likes Pearl Jam. Nothing to see here, folks.

i stopped liking pearl jam before they were uncool.

i never liked them

I still like Pearl Jam. I also enjoy Stip's writing, lyrical interpretations and enthusiasm. But I also recognize that he incorectly doesn't like songs to have any length, or jams, or space, or anything that isn't concise. So I don't see him liking Arcade Fire despite their obvious eliteness.

So i probably shouldn't bother introducing him to stoner rock?

Or doom/sludge/drone. You're tearing us apart, Stip!

stip wrote:

Thus far there are musical elements in pretty much all the songs I like quite a bit, but these nice little moments keep getting bulldozed by heavy handed self important passages and musical choices I don't like.

This is pretty much how I feel about Lightning Bolt.

BurtReynolds wrote:Toldja he'd love it.

Look at those normals go.

man, Oh Orpheus is still kicking my ass.

And "Flashbulb Eyes" & "HCTNT" together is just great.

This was a wonderful mess of a record. I can't place it in their catalog yet in terms of what I like best, but they really pulled it off.

This band is building a nice little catalogue.

Reflection wrote:I still like Pearl Jam. I also enjoy Stip's writing, lyrical interpretations and enthusiasm. But I also recognize that he incorectly doesn't like songs to have any length, or jams, or space, or anything that isn't concise. So I don't see him liking Arcade Fire despite their obvious eliteness.

to stick with the pearl jam theme, Infallible is my favorite song on that record, and it clocks in at 5 minutes.

I also like Tool.

And Reflektor, for 5 minutes, anyway, was quite good.

So it's not the length, necessarily.

Really it's the vocals more than anything else.