End of Year Lists

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[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Seems a lot of critics like the Thrills. I wonder why people don't like them on this board...they lack indie cred, or people just haven't heard of them yet?

they are Irish but sound like America (the band), and sing about America (the country), I gave them a chance and thought it was crap

[redsock]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Seems a lot of critics like the Thrills. I wonder why people don't like them on this board...they lack indie cred, or people just haven't heard of them yet?

they are Irish but sound like America (the band), and sing about America (the country), I gave them a chance and thought it was crap [/b]

I have to write a review about them soon, only listened to the disc once or twice, and it was right next to "Chutes too narrow" in my player, so, for a second, I forgot who I was listening to. I won't make that mistake again.

[slappy]

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Seems a lot of critics like the Thrills. I wonder why people don't like them on this board...they lack indie cred, or people just haven't heard of them yet?

they are Irish but sound like America (the band), and sing about America (the country), I gave them a chance and thought it was crap [/b]

Gomez are much better. British, don't sound like America (the band), but sing about America (the country).

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Of course I like their influences...Byrds and Beach Boys (I don't know enough about America to know what they sound like)...but something about the Thrills sounds a bit overproduced and contrived. Not an unpleasant experience, but something seems to be lacking.
 
 

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Seems a lot of critics like the Thrills. I wonder why people don't like them on this board...they lack indie cred, or people just haven't heard of them yet?

they are Irish but sound like America (the band), and sing about America (the country), I gave them a chance and thought it was crap [/b]

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by slappy:
 Gomez are much better. British, don't sound like America (the band), but sing about America (the country).

Not much of a gomez fan either, but will take them over the Thrills any day.

[redsock]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Of course I like their influences...Byrds and Beach Boys  

No wonder I thought they kinda sounded like the Shins...

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Well they'ye like the Shins without all of the creativity and interesting subtle nuances. Remind me more of bands like the Counting Crows or Wallflowers more than the Shins. Well, maybe not that bad. But certainly has a sterility to it not unlike those bands.
 
 

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Of course I like their influences...Byrds and Beach Boys  

No wonder I thought they kinda sounded like the Shins... [/b]

[markie]

The Thrills album is Ok, but the constant name dropping of US cities is a real turn off. The album is fine, but nothing else approaches how good the "one horse town" single.
 
 
 How do Gomez sing about America? Almost all the cultural and place references are the UK. I cant think of a single direct USA reference in fact, other than Detroit '66.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by pollard:
 
 Sonickteam2 -    http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=4065684  
 

screw you      
 
 And as I've said a number of times before, I think The Thrills suck donkey balls.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Yeah, shame on them for appreciating music/culture/cities that aren't their own.
 
 

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  The Thrills album is Ok, but the constant name dropping of US cities is a real turn off. The album is fine, but nothing else approaches how good the "one horse town" single.
 
 
 

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  appreciating

I don't think that is what it is.  I am sure you would find fault with a bunch of kids from Ohio who kept singing about Britain.

[markie]

Its fine to celebrate other cultures, but to immitate the accent and the style is not paying homage to America, but claiming, falsely, to be part of it. Its just a rip off.
 
 I guess it is somewhat reminiscent of Kafka's AmeriKa..... A book about a country he never visited.....

[walkman]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Of course I like their influences...Byrds and Beach Boys (I don't know enough about America to know what they sound like)...but something about the Thrills sounds a bit overproduced and contrived. Not an unpleasant experience, but something seems to be lacking.
 
   

Originally posted by pollard:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Seems a lot of critics like the Thrills. I wonder why people don't like them on this board...they lack indie cred, or people just haven't heard of them yet?

they are Irish but sound like America (the band), and sing about America (the country), I gave them a chance and thought it was crap [/b]

[/b]

America sound like a crappy, overproduced and contrived version of the Byrds.  Hence the Thrills connection.

[Celeste]

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Of course I like their influences...Byrds and Beach Boys  

No wonder I thought they kinda sounded like the Shins... [/b]

did you have a stuffy head or congestion in your ears, maybe? that might be a more likely reason