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Post by ganews on Mar 1, 2024 17:49:35 GMT -5
The coin flip winner is They Might Be Giants, "Apollo 18". Post your thoughts below!
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 4, 2024 9:23:45 GMT -5
There’s a couple of luminaries lurking about the "Fingertips" suite. Pete Stampfel of the great folkie-scene oddballs The Holy Modal Rounders plays banjo. Also, Laura Cantrell (apparently an old friend of the band) sings vocals. I guess she’s mostly known as a country artist but she’s had a significant side hustle as a DJ on WFMU and sings on a range outside of the country-sphere. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 5, 2024 16:55:03 GMT -5
There’s a couple of luminaries lurking about the "Fingertips" suite. Pete Stampfel of the great folkie-scene oddballs The Holy Modal Rounders plays banjo. Also, Laura Cantrell (apparently an old friend of the band) sings vocals. I guess she’s mostly known as a country artist but she’s had a significant side hustle as a DJ on WFMU and sings on a range outside of the country-sphere. Ooh, nice info. I really like Laura Cantrell. I'll try to give this a listen over the weekend. I do actually know this band, but I've never heard this album. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 5, 2024 18:39:16 GMT -5
The first one of these in a while that I actually know.
Fingertips is one of my favorite musical things ever - I love putting all of them on a mix, hitting shuffle, and having one pop up randomly. And Space Suit is one of my favorite rock instrumentals of all time, and I've grown to love it more and more over time.
This might be my favorite TMBG album.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 6, 2024 18:51:04 GMT -5
I'll have more actual thoughts on this album later, as I am obliged to have as both the one who nominated this one and a person who thinks this record is probably TMBG's best, but I would like to start this thread by saying that I took a shower a few minutes after I saw this album won the poll, and while in there I sang pretty much the entire first half of this album from memory, interrupted only by running out of hot water.
I sincerely hope my next door neighbors didn't hear me bellowing SOMEDAY MOTHER WILL DIE AND I'LL GET THE MONEY.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 6, 2024 21:21:26 GMT -5
There’s a couple of luminaries lurking about the "Fingertips" suite. Pete Stampfel of the great folkie-scene oddballs The Holy Modal Rounders plays banjo. Also, Laura Cantrell (apparently an old friend of the band) sings vocals. I guess she’s mostly known as a country artist but she’s had a significant side hustle as a DJ on WFMU and sings on a range outside of the country-sphere. Ooh, nice info. I really like Laura Cantrell. I'll try to give this a listen over the weekend. I do actually know this band, but I've never heard this album. Cantrell also sings the choruses on "The Guitar" iirc. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 11, 2024 5:29:47 GMT -5
I'll put up a proper coverage of the album at some point but I just want to say that seeing Fingertips played live by TMBG is absolutely one of my favourite concert things ever.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 16, 2024 18:26:39 GMT -5
I'm late in listening to this. But I am listening to it today. I'm about 6 tracks in. So far, I am really enjoying it. The lyrics are quite fun. I am enjoying how they are somewhat silly, yet a bit dark. I like the shifts in musical tone, also.
Edited to add: I've now finished it. I enjoyed the eclectic nature, and experimentation on the back half.
It was also nice to hear an album that isn't terribly overproduced.
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Post by monodrone on Mar 22, 2024 7:25:39 GMT -5
I am aware of the pop group They Might Be Giants. I remember seeing them play Birdhouse in your Soul on the TV as a youngster and it got stuck in my head for about a year. I also appreciated their contributions to Tiny Toon Adventures with Particle Man and Istanbul.
Dig My Grave - it's good that it speeds up. The synthy strings sound bad to my ears.
I Palindrome I - nasal man.
She's Actual Size - yeah, see, this is the grating part. Don't want this honking stuff. Good drums though.
My Evil Twin - I have beef with this kind of production. I know this album came out in 1992 but it reeks of the nineteen hundred and eighties but there's something about this era of music, the time immediately before I became really interested in musi, that is total anathema to me. Ah well, what can you do? It's still a fine song if I pretend it had been recorded differently.
Mammal - makes sense that they made those albums for kids.
The Statue Got Me High - now this is interesting to me in that it feels like a transitional sound where I can hear both elements of early Blur in the guitar tone and melody but it's still got the 80s sheen in the keys and drums. The results aren't for me but I do appreciate that it's something different.
Spider - no. too wacky. nope.
Didn't realise there were 18 songs when I started this. See you at the end, probably.
Ok. I did it. To sum up, this album is very annoying and my head hurts. I don't have to post this but here I am, doing it anyway.
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