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Dear Rolling Stone,
Thanks for a non-partisan article where obvious side-choosing doesn't happen.
Also, thanks for spelling their names correctly, which MTV and NME (eta: and Spin /eta) seem to find difficult.
Love,
Me
Aside: Weeks later, RyRo's Peter Gabriel/Ray Davies comparison still comes off as an insult.
And finally, I have to be honest: Changes sounds like more of a rip-off of The Who and The Kinks to me than anything new. Maybe I'll like it more on repeated listening? IDK. It suits Ryan Ross's voice, but if they record an entire album that is so clearly derivative, I will be disappointed.
Thanks for a non-partisan article where obvious side-choosing doesn't happen.
Also, thanks for spelling their names correctly, which MTV and NME (eta: and Spin /eta) seem to find difficult.
Love,
Me
Aside: Weeks later, RyRo's Peter Gabriel/Ray Davies comparison still comes off as an insult.
And finally, I have to be honest: Changes sounds like more of a rip-off of The Who and The Kinks to me than anything new. Maybe I'll like it more on repeated listening? IDK. It suits Ryan Ross's voice, but if they record an entire album that is so clearly derivative, I will be disappointed.
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Date: 2009-07-29 01:03 am (UTC)Different, yes, in the sense that it's been done before by infinitely more talented artists. I just. Ugh. It leaves me with bad taste in my mouth.
New Perspectives, while it's hardly groundbreaking or DEEP, isn't trying too hard. And is stuck in my head. Dammitall.
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Date: 2009-07-29 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-29 01:17 am (UTC)Oh, look, I've stopped making sense...
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Date: 2009-07-29 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-29 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-29 01:10 am (UTC)That's pretty much what I think. But whatever. I don't know what he meant by it, and they obviously went different directions.
I actually like both songs a decent amount, so I don't have any qualms.
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Date: 2009-07-29 01:25 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2009-07-29 01:51 am (UTC)I'm still laughing at the AP post title here (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=1220572). Because, seriously, I had a smirk-inducing moment of imagining Ryan Ross shooting up when I saw the band's name.
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Date: 2009-07-29 01:55 am (UTC)I don't know where this idea that Ryan and Jon are the real musicians and Brendon and Spencer are the makers of bubble gum pop came from, but I really wish both sides would stfu about how much better their side is. It's making me want to punch babies... and babies are so cute. They don't deserve that. :(
*points at journal's subtitle*
Date: 2009-07-29 02:03 am (UTC)Do not get me started on why people look down on what is popular and the culture of elitism. (Why are people who like opera "aficionados" but people who like rock are just "fans"?) I have had this entire discussion with my sister over "literature" vs. genre fiction, and pretty much the same ridiculous comparisons can be made with pop vs. indie music.
There's nothing wrong with Changes. It just... sounds like old stuff to me. So it's not going to ever be in my most-played list. But neither is Pretty.Odd, really. I like individual songs on it a lot, but I don't play it straight through the way I do AFYCSO.
Re: *points at journal's subtitle*
Date: 2009-07-29 03:07 am (UTC)Re: *points at journal's subtitle*
Date: 2009-07-29 03:18 am (UTC)/rant
Sorry, you totally didn't deserve that, but I get so frustrated sometimes!