Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
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DiceMan
September 1st 2010


7066 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

That's just it... It's almost like he never existed at all!





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Enotron
September 1st 2010


7695 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

i fucked beck in the streets

DiceMan
September 1st 2010


7066 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm like MLKJ only I stand down a few steps. I think we should all rally under the flag of our God as we did in 1776 but I don't think that I should have to follow fundamental values of Christianity like helping the poor. Social justice is just an excuse to sow the seeds of propaganda. Invest in gold. Next time I'm thinking about renting out the mosque that is going to be built (courtesy of FOX NEWS) by Ground Zero and taking my predominantly WASP crowd to take a tour of a terrorist organization. The Obama regime cannot keep us safe. We must rebel!



It was good for my pocketbook?

DiceMan
September 1st 2010


7066 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Do I be good parody?

DinoX
November 25th 2010


3582 Comments


Damn this is so well written

Romulus
November 25th 2010


9109 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

You don’t even need to listen to the music to realise this. Just look at the pseudonym that Vernon adopts for this project, “Bon Iver”, a kind of fictionalised French, carefully designed to create mystique. Take the album title “For Emma Forever Ago”. What does that even mean? That the idea of Emma has always existed? That their love belongs to the past and the future? How about those calculatingly academic and self-conscious song titles, The Wolves (Act I and II) and re: stacks with its studied lower case punctuation? Or those oh so educated references to “kumran” and “torah”? What about the carefully cultivated lyric sheet with its overfussy designation of narrator, him and her in For Emma, including the superfluous “so apropos”?




except this

STOP SHOUTING!
November 26th 2010


791 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

thanks for the compliments. i'm trying to say i find it pretentious and even the superflous stuff backs this up.



StreetlightRock
November 26th 2010


4016 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Weird. One of the biggest reasons I like this is 'cause it's down to earth. I guess what you take for absurdity I take a whimsical, so there you go.

Romulus
November 26th 2010


9109 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i really do like this review though, i just don't think your points against the album title, song titles, lyric booklet, etc. adds anything to your argument (in fact it really detracts from it). the last paragraph sums up your ideas more than efficiently enough.



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