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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Decemberists? |
| Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:16:22 -0500 |
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From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
> Based on a few recommendations I delved into this record to see
> what the fuss was all about...but couldn't get past what I heard as a
> slightly off-key, faux-British vocal coming through an AM radio ...laid
> over mediocre folk pop. Am I missing something?
I think to some extent I've learned to navigate fuss. I read a lot about
this record, enough to be curious, but nothing made me think it would be
something I might like especially well. For example, I didn't much go for
the Arcade Fire CD or Neural Milk Hotel, two reference points that keep
coming up... I mean, I heard them, I could understand that they were good, a
"saw" the appeal-- but it was wasted on me.
Whereas when the Strokes record came out, I thought I would like it, because
I like Television. It sounds like Television to me, and I like it. I'm a
big fan of the RIYL concept.
Conversely, I've been moved to buy records based on bad reviews; I remember
Cheap Trick's Next Position Please being panned because Rundgren produced it
with a heavy hand, and so it sounded more like him then them. Being a fan
of his, I promptly went out and bought it.
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