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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Aug 24, 2009 0:16:46 GMT -5
Second single from their debut album Manners that came out in May.
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Post by halo19 on Aug 24, 2009 8:18:40 GMT -5
Cool. This kind of reminds me of some indie electronic stuff from earlier in this decade.
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Post by The Party Captain on Aug 24, 2009 9:34:59 GMT -5
Very interesting. Are these the boys Myspace is pushing?
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Aug 24, 2009 10:17:26 GMT -5
Took me a little while to get into these guys but since they are from down the street, I figured I would give them a shot. Saw them for free performing at City Hall Plaza in downtown Boston as well as on Alexa Chung and they did a good job. I bought the CD and it is definitely solid. My assessment: what MGMT tries to sound like but fails.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Aug 24, 2009 10:27:58 GMT -5
the over the top high vocals are horrible. I like this type of music but IMO this song sounds like an electronic reject from Sesame Street. I'll stick with listening to Kids and Electric Feel until I hear something better than this. In fact I'll go back to listening to older school electronic before I do this again. Time to pull out some Stereo MC's.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Aug 24, 2009 10:55:05 GMT -5
the over the top high vocals are horrible. I like this type of music but IMO this song sounds like an electronic reject from Sesame Street. I'll stick with listening to Kids and Electric Feel until I hear something better than this. In fact I'll go back to listening to older school electronic before I do this again. Time to pull out some Stereo MC's. Well, MGMT are lucky that they have those two songs, since they are really the only good songs on their album. At least, Passion Pit's album doesn't devolve into gormless psychadelic mush. |
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Aug 24, 2009 11:08:46 GMT -5
I don't disagree that some of the MGMT album is a little to experimental for my taste. It's more of a personal opinion after listening to this song a few times trying to "get it" that it just plain sucks to my ears. I'm okay with high falsetto singing but in this song its just not good at all. I'm pretty sure I could Casio this song with a couple fourth graders singing it (badly). It's cool for others to like it, I'm not knocking anyone for liking it. I just personally can't take another listen.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Aug 24, 2009 11:33:25 GMT -5
That's cool. You MAY like some other songs on the album, but then again, you may not. However, you do have quite the playlist there. I only know 5, 6 and 7 but I love them. I also am a fan of most of Pearl Jam's work and Muse is one of my favorite bands.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Aug 24, 2009 11:43:59 GMT -5
I like this song, but then again I also like music from "Sesame Street".  |
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Post by PHOBES on Aug 24, 2009 12:48:24 GMT -5
This was on a $5 dollar, 20 track Alternative Press CD I got at Wal Martthe other day. I've only listened to a handful of songs on it though, this was not one of them. I'm really starting to like A Day to Remember though, due to the CD.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Aug 24, 2009 20:08:35 GMT -5
That's cool. You MAY like some other songs on the album, but then again, you may not. However, you do have quite the playlist there. I only know 5, 6 and 7 but I love them. I also am a fan of most of Pearl Jam's work and Muse is one of my favorite bands. Well you are right, my musical tastes are all over the map and really not limited to any genre. I still have a fondness for electronic music stemming from my techno/dance days of the early to mid 90's. I'll probably try other songs from this band (I'd never heard of them before this) , I'm just not hyped on this one. |
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Aug 25, 2009 1:09:07 GMT -5
I really like this song and am rooting for it.
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Post by Physical on Aug 25, 2009 21:36:34 GMT -5
the over the top high vocals are horrible. I like this type of music but IMO this song sounds like an electronic reject from Sesame Street. I'll stick with listening to Kids and Electric Feel until I hear something better than this. In fact I'll go back to listening to older school electronic before I do this again. Time to pull out some Stereo MC's. Well, MGMT are lucky that they have those two songs, since they are really the only good songs on their album. At least, Passion Pit's album doesn't devolve into gormless psychadelic mush. Passion Pit wishes they could be as good as MGMT. "Time To Pretend" "Electric Feel" "Kids" "Weekends Wars" "The Youth" and "Pieces of What" are better than anything I've heard from Passion Pit. I can't see this song doing that well on Alternative to be honest. |
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Post by erzo01 on Aug 26, 2009 23:50:55 GMT -5
IMHO, "Moth's Wings" is the best track in the album.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Sept 10, 2009 10:06:17 GMT -5
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