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High-Context Discourse / Re: Worstcon 10
« on: October 19, 2009, 11:14:34 AM »
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distortion doesn't blow out their precious microphones.
Never could get into Silversun Pickups. They sound like Cave In, turning up their amps but not without any kind of force behind it.
It's challenging, engaging music but it takes more than a passive listen to really appreciate. It's not a pop, single band that you appreciate because of a hook in one song.
MY HUMBLE COUNTER-POINT
Sonic Youth already is what I consider to be a perfect band.
Noisy, textured with intricate riffs leading one of the most powerful rhythm sections, all pinned underneath the caterwauls of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo, none of which could be described as professional singers but who amplify the tonality and force of the music.
Silversun Pickups is a band that takes whatever texture and sonic uniqueness in noise and math rock and compresses it down so it's as generic as the next. Taking shots at being M83, Mogwai or My Bloody Valentine while removing the creativity, social commentary and expansiveness of any of them lands the band squarely in the realm of generic top 40 bands with a fitting "alternative" label.
I'm just going to aim these guns at you, and if you get killed by them it's yoooooour fault!
a small animal a family dog had fatally injured out of its misery.
Mirror Playing
- Immunity to Boson Darts' blast radius is probably the best thing since dancing toasters.
- Max Von Sydow as Vigo. Oh, yes. [spoiler]I get why they'd keep the Sorrow of Moldavia in the firehouse, but isn't it bothersome that he's reverted since the boys' victory in Ghostbusters II? I can only assume they hose him down with positively-charged slime from time to time...[/spoiler]
bending Kylie over the counter