Guest Patrokles Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 There was a thread about best albums of 2006 so far, but I'm telling you now that there won't have been and will subsequently not be, a better album than the new one by The Hold Steady, if what i've heard of it so far is anything to go by. It's called 'Boys & Girls in America' and it's out the start of next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15347 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 If it's not as relentlessly bleak and gloriously miserable as iLiKETRAiNS' "Progress Reform", I don't want to know, sista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I wasn't really won over by Separation Sunday which everyone seemed to be spunking over. I'll give it a whoyle though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I wasn't really won over by Separation Sunday which everyone seemed to be spunking over. I'll give it a whoyle though. Yeah, SS is just okay, but when it was good it was very good. (Cattle & Creeping Things, Yr Little Hoodrat Friend, Don't Let Me Explode) Lyrically it was still the best album of the last year- 'we didn't go to dallas. 'cause jackie onassis said that it ain't safe for catholics yet. think about what they pulled on kennedy. and then think about his security. then think about what they might try to pull on you and me,' eg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 http://www.vagrant.com/holdsteady_listeningparty/ For those interested, that's the full album to stream. I'm almost scared to listen in case it's rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 http://www.vagrant.com/holdsteady_listeningparty/ For those interested, that's the full album to stream. I'm almost scared to listen in case it's rubbish. The fact you ain't heard it rather negates your original position of "best album '06". You seem to have a tendency to critique stuff you've not experienced first hand like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 http://www.vagrant.com/holdsteady_listeningparty/ For those interested, that's the full album to stream. I'm almost scared to listen in case it's rubbish. The fact you ain't heard it rather negates your original position of "best album '06". You seem to have a tendency to critique stuff you've not experienced first hand like. Entirely untrue. I'd heard enough of it, as stated in the original post, to be excited. Add to this the fact that the Hold Steady seem to be improving all of the time, plus the interviews I'd read with Craig Finn about the album, got me looking foward to it. I listen to, on average, 600-700 new songs every month, so I'm fairly confident in my musical savoir faire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 There was a thread about best albums of 2006 so far, but I'm telling you now that there won't have been and will subsequently not be, a better album than the new one by The Hold Steady, if what i've heard of it so far is anything to go by. It's called 'Boys & Girls in America' and it's out the start of next month. Emphasis added for clarification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44110 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Any chance we can have one thread for Ben's Crap Music Recommendations? These are becoming almost as regular as smeeagains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I must've misunderstood.... "I'm almost scared to listen in case it's rubbish." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 http://www.vagrant.com/holdsteady_listeningparty/ For those interested, that's the full album to stream. I'm almost scared to listen in case it's rubbish. The fact you ain't heard it rather negates your original position of "best album '06". You seem to have a tendency to critique stuff you've not experienced first hand like. Entirely untrue. I'd heard enough of it, as stated in the original post, to be excited. Add to this the fact that the Hold Steady seem to be improving all of the time, plus the interviews I'd read with Craig Finn about the album, got me looking foward to it. I listen to, on average, 600-700 new songs every month, so I'm fairly confident in my musical savoir faire. 700 new songs every month? You spend nearly 50 hours a month listening to NEW music? Unless you're in the industry, I'd suggest you're talking bollocks. Where do you get all this new music from by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 700 new songs every month? You spend nearly 50 hours a month listening to NEW music? Unless you're in the industry, I'd suggest you're talking bollocks. Where do you get all this new music from by the way? An album a week, that's not hard going for anyone into their music, I know people who would listen to a lot more, and I think Patrokles is a student/isn't gainfully employed at the moment. Having said that, anyone who makes bold statements about music they haven't even heard yet is painting themselves a bit of a gobsheen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I've made a very bad mathematical calulation somewhere there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 2 New albums a day. Not difficult, but I couldn't do it. I've ended up with hundreds of albums I couldn't comment on because I've listened to them so infrequently, and that's just getting 2 or 3 new albums a week, tops. I don't think it necessarily follows that doing something lots makes you any better at it. Look at Shola Ameobi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol 0 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 But it's 2 new albums of NEW music every single day. I'm sorry, I think that's bollocks. Listening to 2 albums a day is no problem, but listening to 2 albums that he's never listened to, every day for months on end is a different matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 But it's 2 new albums of NEW music every single day. I'm sorry, I think that's bollocks. Listening to 2 albums a day is no problem, but listening to 2 albums that he's never listened to, every day for months on end is a different matter. Maybe Patrokles has short term memory loss and actually only owns one album, each time is like a whole fresh and exciting new experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 But it's 2 new albums of NEW music every single day. I'm sorry, I think that's bollocks. Listening to 2 albums a day is no problem, but listening to 2 albums that he's never listened to, every day for months on end is a different matter. It would all blur into one for me and be a bit counterproductive but we're all different I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15347 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I work from home so probably listen to about 10 hours of music a day. I guess I could cope with a couple of new albums a day if I were adventurous enough, but I'm not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Lazaru 0 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I could and indeed do often listen to two albums a day, but not every day of the year and certainly when i listen to a new album, hearing it once isn't enough to form a definitive opinion. I like to give it a few listens in a short space of time, become familiar with it and see what i really think. That's not to say Patrokles is lying about what he listens to just personally i wouldn't have fully formed opinions on albums hearing them once and that many new ones at a time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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