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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: redsock on March 20, 2006, 11:24:00 am
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No one mentioned this on the board, which I won't go into, but the show was fucking great, without a doubt one of the better shows I have ever seen at the Black Cat. The audience was way into them, they were so full of energy, so on, it was great.
This is in stark contrast to their SWSW performance, which my girlfriend didn't really like, though poor sound may be partially to blame for that one. She concurred with the loving of last night though. They need to come back on a night i can dance.
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sorry I missed it - I really like the album
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Had I known Medications were opening before it sold-out I would have gone. I didn't find that out until too late though. Glad to hear it was a good time.
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Had I known Medications were opening before it sold-out I would have gone. I didn't find that out until too late though. Glad to hear it was a good time.
Um, yeah, Medications are good and all, but you could not have found a band much further away from the sound of Go! team. I'm not saying it has to be a perfect bill, but this was a pretty bad mismatch, and no one there was really into Medications, so it sucked for them no doubt.
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I don't know. I was a little dissapointed in the Go Team show last night. I was really excited to finally see them, and really like the album, but I felt it worked better on the recording than live. It may have been where I was, but a lot of the more subtle recorded sounds were obscured by a lot of noisy guitars and drums. Maybe if there were a better balance, I would have enjoyed it more. But I also (and I am probably the only one at the Black Cat that thought this) could not really get into Ninja's act. Again, I think this is just me, but I've seen so many better frontmen and found her shtick kind of boring and unexciting. The whole show I felt like I was a part of a massive celebration, but I had no idea what we were supposed to be celebrating. For the two other acts preceding the Go Team, both bands opened up with great songs, but then got kind of repetitive. Although I thought the Medications had some amazing musicianship and Talkdemonic could have taught the Go Team a thing or two about blending recorded music with a live set.
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Originally posted by conorh98:
I don't know. I was a little dissapointed in the Go Team show last night. I was really excited to finally see them, and really like the album, but I felt it worked better on the recording than live. It may have been where I was, but a lot of the more subtle recorded sounds were obscured by a lot of noisy guitars and drums. Maybe if there were a better balance, I would have enjoyed it more. But I also (and I am probably the only one at the Black Cat that thought this) could not really get into Ninja's act. Again, I think this is just me, but I've seen so many better frontmen and found her shtick kind of boring and unexciting. The whole show I felt like I was a part of a massive celebration, but I had no idea what we were supposed to be celebrating. For the two other acts preceding the Go Team, both bands opened up with great songs, but then got kind of repetitive. Although I thought the Medications had some amazing musicianship and Talkdemonic could have taught the Go Team a thing or two about blending recorded music with a live set.
Interesting. It's funny, i found myself not caring about the differences between the set and the CD. They are quite different, but that happens when you have a CD that is full of as many samples as theirs, and you then try to replicate it with lvie instruments. The bottom line is, you can't. I felt that while it was different, in many ways it might have even been better. Wht might have been lost in the translation was easily replaced by their full live sound. To my ears anyway.
Ninja's act got a bit old, i admit, but it was par for the course.
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Originally posted by conorh98:
But I also (and I am probably the only one at the Black Cat that thought this) could not really get into Ninja's act.
Nope, you weren't the only one...
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No one mentioned this on the board, which I won't go into
Are you implying that we're all aging hipsters who were more excited last week about a Pogues reunion tour than a concert by The Go! Team?? :p
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Go Team are better on album than live. Live, there is extra rapping by Ninja and this has proven to be a major distraction, imho.
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Originally posted by brennser:
No one mentioned this on the board, which I won't go into
Are you implying that we're all aging hipsters who were more excited last week about a Pogues reunion tour than a concert by The Go! Team?? :p [/b]
Not so much aging, no. Just seems as my taste in music continues to grow and change, the same bands get talked about time after time on this board. Not that I still don't like many of the same bands, but there is so much more out there. And whether the reasons be age, maritial status, musical snobbery, financial, laziness or otherwise, I feel like many of the board folks just aren't interested in trying out new music as much as they used to be. Hence why I don't post much, as I have nothing new to add to age old conversations about Ted Leo or Bright Eyes. I still like Ted and hate Conor, just as i always did, but I guess the saturation of music i get because of BY gives me a bigger musical palet to work with, or at least an easier time creating the palet.
Nothing negative meant by this, just that it wouldn't surprise me if many on this board could care less about the Go! Team, even if this was their first time ever in DC. Yet another Pixies or Modest Mouse show would shake the whole place loose. I never thought I'd say this, but i agree with Rhett, this board has gotten way too Pitchforked...
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Originally posted by redsock:
I never thought I'd say this, but i agree with Rhett, this board has gotten way too Pitchforked...
pitchfork's top albums of 2004
08: The Go! Team
Thunder Lightning Strike
[Memphis Industries]
I tried to escape. They opened throttle in pursuit with amphibious helicopters, talking cars, and TV fanfares. I said that music with so many antecedents couldn't possibly sound this refreshingly original. They poured chocolate milk on a bowl of Froot Loops, turned up the Saturday morning cartoons, and thwacked me over the head with an army of crime-fighter trumpets-- taunting me all the while with old-school rhymes, cheerleader chants, and old Jackson 5 melodies. I accused them of not playing their own instruments-- only sample-based party-favors like The Avalanches or Rjd2 could hopscotch genre so capriciously! Ian Parton punched me with piano keys and gelded me with guitar chords before plunging a recorder through my windpipe. A rainbow appeared in the sky, a dance party broke out in Brooklyn, and someone handed me a lollipop. I never drank Mountain Dew after midnight again. --Marc Hogan
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Originally posted by BookerT:
Originally posted by redsock:
I never thought I'd say this, but i agree with Rhett, this board has gotten way too Pitchforked...
pitchfork's top albums of 2004
08: The Go! Team
Thunder Lightning Strike
[Memphis Industries] [/b]
Ha! Well, it is fair to say there is some overlap :)
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none of my top artists are pitchfork approved let alone acknowledged...
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
none of my top artists are pitchfork approved let alone acknowledged...
Good for you?
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I'm a bit surprised people weren't more excited about the Go! Team show. Then again, you can count me in as one of those not-so-excited folks.
They have a very bizarre sound that I wasn't really sure they could pull-off live. It sounds like I was wrong, but it wasn't a far-fetched assumption at all. That made me a bit hesitant to pay-up and head out on a Sunday night. That's what prompted my earlier comment about Medications. Had I known they were playing, I wouldn't have really cared how good The Go! Team were. I knew it would be worth my money and time.
Then there's the fact that March is just an insanely busy concert month. My calendar currently lists 11 shows over the next 2 weeks. 5 of them are definites. The rest depend on how tired I am. No matter how hard I try, I have to pick and choose. It's not that I'm not interested in discovering new music, but sometimes I prefer to stick to a sure-thing.
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i'm not a fan of what i've heard by them and have heard from others they weren't very good live...
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
I'm a bit surprised people weren't more excited about the Go! Team show. Then again, you can count me in as one of those not-so-excited folks.
I missed The Go! Team at SXSW, though they were on my list to catch, but it was a melee and you could see only a fraction of your "to catch" list. And I was still out of town for their DC gig. I probably would have been 40% likely to check them out had I been in town.
Though I'm not disagreeing 100% with you, redsock. I think generally I'm more 'mainstream' indie in terms of having a niche I am in to and tend to stick with, but I think across the board (no pun intended) there's less talk of new bands, etc., here. You're one of many who post less and, hence, impart less info on what's going on.
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Originally posted by Bags:
Though I'm not disagreeing 100% with you, redsock. I think generally I'm more 'mainstream' indie in terms of having a niche I am in to and tend to stick with, but I think across the board (no pun intended) there's less talk of new bands, etc., here. You're one of many who post less and, hence, impart less info on what's going on. [/b]
Fair enough. Honestly though, it's not like my musical tastes are in left field either. I still have 'The Heart' programed on my XM radio, and I still listen to many of the same bands other folks do. I don't think Kosmo's likes are out in left field either, he just tends to find bands others don't. Lord knows Jaguar, Kurosawa and certainly Snailhook listen to a lot more off the beaten path than I. Friends of Guy Chadwick gave me a mix CD the other week, and I knew 6 of the 19 bands. But I really like a few of the others. I really try to have BigYawn cover stuff you don't read abou here or on DCist for this very reason. Obviously we overlap, and we cover plenty of the same stuff Pitchfork does or WOXY plays, but I honestly feel like no one pays attention. Hence why we sometimes have crappy turn outs at some of our shows. No one wants to take a chance on new stuff. And it's not like in this day and age you can't find a handful of mp3s of a band before you go out to see them. Take Love is All for example. They will be playing big shows here in DC within the year. It was like pulling teeth to get folks to come see them at DC9 last Fall.
The bottom line is, I'm not preaching anything, I don't care what people are listening to as long as they are listenting to something. But my comments just came from the fact no one mentioned a band like the Go! Team, who are pretty damn mainstream when push comes to shove. But there will be 100 posts about Stellastarr*, who are about as orignal as toast. It's fine if you like them, not passing any judgement, but for me, the board has turned too benign, and people who post about bands doing something different, myself included, get no reaction. So I just kinda stopped, and I know others have too. And it did not use to be this way.
Anyway, sorry for coming off as some self-rightous prick, not my intention. Hey, I really like the Editors!
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So none of you danced and had a damn good time like the other 96% of the people at the BC last night?
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It's fine if you like them, not passing any judgement, but for me, the board has turned too benign, and people who post about bands doing something different, myself included, get no reaction.
What's that saying about leading a horse to water? :D
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I thought it was a fantastic show last night. I was right in front of the stage dancing with the rest of the crazies. Incredibly fun. I liked both of the other bands, too.
Here are some pictures from last night:
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Great pictures!
That last shot says so much.
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thanks for those pictures!
i always wish there were more post-show picture threads on the board here.
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Random, I am alerting the RIAA of your illegality and poor attitude. I will probably change my mind if you give me a review of Powder Burns.
I just heard the Go Team for the very first time on XM this morning. It reminds me of when David had the meeting about Spinal Tap's new visual direction:
"Is this a joke?"
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Originally posted by the Pharmacist:
Random, I am alerting the RIAA of your illegality and poor attitude. I will probably change my mind if you give me a review of Powder Burns.
:)
Still don't like "Forty Dollars," which was featured on the TS MySpace page a couple of weeks back. "Bonnie Brae" is OK...but in some ways, it feels as if Dulli is trying to write another "Faded," which I doubt will happen.
I'm also still trying to figure out what the hell a "Hooo-ride" is. :o
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Originally posted by redsock:
Hey, I really like the Editors!
i hope this was a joke ... i haven't heard a more derivative band this year than Editors ... and The Go! Team is about as mainstream indie as it gets, weren't they nominated for a mercury prize?? it's not like they're some avant-garde collective that people here are missing on
i absolutely love their album, it's been in the cd changer for months, i heard from a friend who saw them in NYC that it wasn't a great show and i didn't get on the ticket front before it sold out
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Originally posted by Roy Hibbert is Tall:
Originally posted by redsock:
Hey, I really like the Editors!
i hope this was a joke ... i haven't heard a more derivative band this year than Editors ... and The Go! Team is about as mainstream indie as it gets, weren't they nominated for a mercury prize?? it's not like they're some avant-garde collective that people here are missing on
i absolutely love their album, it's been in the cd changer for months, i heard from a friend who saw them in NYC that it wasn't a great show and i didn't get on the ticket front before it sold out [/b]
I LOVE the Editors after seeing them down in Texas. Can't recommend them more - I don't think its derivative or uninteresting.
I also saw the Go! Team. And frankly, I thought they were incredibly sloppy. High energy, a lot of fun...but not tight at all. Their loops often didn't match what the band was doing, and the two drummers seemed to be out of sync a fair amount of the time.
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Originally posted by callat703:
I LOVE the Editors after seeing them down in Texas. Can't recommend them more - I don't think its derivative or uninteresting.
i enjoy their music, they just sound like every other 00s post-punk revival group (interpol in particular) ... and in the context of redsock's emotional plea for more musical diversity on the board, it smacked of sarcasm ... that is all =)
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The show was so good. I love when a band gets the entire Black Cat on their feet. I'll definitely see them again next time they come to town.
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Originally posted by Roy Hibbert is Tall:
Originally posted by callat703:
I LOVE the Editors after seeing them down in Texas. Can't recommend them more - I don't think its derivative or uninteresting.
i enjoy their music, they just sound like every other 00s post-punk revival group (interpol in particular) ... and in the context of redsock's emotional plea for more musical diversity on the board, it smacked of sarcasm ... that is all =) [/b]
It wasn't really a plea for musical diversity, more just a wake up call that there is more out there is you feel moved to listen to it.
I actually really like "Munich," the rest of the album is just ok. But sure, it is wildly derivative, though there isn't much that isn't at this point. Some sarcasm, a little truth. Sounds like every conversation I've ever had.