Comments | lordbagandtally: Ok ok ok ok, i give in.

lordbagandtally

Ok ok ok ok, i give in.

Jun 09, 2009 09:38

Ok. i don't know why it always happens like this, but when ever i liked a band when they were not commercially popular, there always a little part of the affliction that dies when they get popular. This, i feel, as many irrational fears i have identified before, is a tough one to get over, even though it makes no goddamned sense. And i think ( Read more... )

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matthewmckinley June 9 2009, 21:51:14 UTC

Kings of Leon are fucking terrible now. and it's not because the songs are bad, it's because they are self consciously trying to imitate the shitlicking garbage nearly every station on the 101 band plays. it's a competent band parodying itself.

case in point: when bat for lashes sings it, it sounds classic. when they sing it, it sounds awful.

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matthewmckinley June 10 2009, 12:51:07 UTC

and why not? is it because i've been voted "person with the worst taste in music" on facebook?

lordbagandtally June 10 2009, 13:44:09 UTC

yeah, i miss that nasaly whiney blood curtailing screeaching lisp. It was a good rock voice.

I am concered about double standards. i said the same thing (Mimicking shitlick garbage) about The Hold Steady when they moved to Vagrant and Craig Finn stated taking voice lessons (around the time of Boys and Girls in America, adding a bunch of whooa oohs and the like. Now they're more acclaimed than ever. Don't get me wrong, what THS is doing now is probably the top of the pickens, but is is objectively good?

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lordbagandtally June 10 2009, 13:37:34 UTC

i can jive with that. i really can. It's kinda hard to appreciate a Casio Keyboard after the Tungsten Mylar Blend made women's pants melt right off their bodies with their hit "Applesaucestache."