East Hastings
10.04.10 | Do you like metal? |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | Why does the artwork for 28 never show up? |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | And I fucking love metal. See #25 and, well... a lot of the rest of the list. |
East Hastings
10.04.10 | I was kidding. This list is pretty bangin' |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | damn, I feel dumb... Well, I'm tired. Been staying up late watching Arrested Development lately. I think that's a worthy excuse. |
Emim
10.04.10 | ( ) has two spaces I think |
Douglas
10.04.10 | yeah double space |
East Hastings
10.04.10 | (.)Y(.) |
AnotherBrick
10.04.10 | 13 is not pretentious.
and ya put 2 spaces in ( ) |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | It worked, and my OCD/ADD/WTF has been appeased. |
tombits
10.04.10 | tell me how music with no lyrics is "pretentious as fuck". |
BigTuna
10.04.10 | Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site |
Emim
10.04.10 | "tell me how music with no lyrics is "pretentious as fuck"."
I could easily understand why that would make someone think it is pretentious though... |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | Hey, I love the album, but let's face it: it IS pretentious as fuck. The songs are 20 minute pieces of pretentious, breathtakingly beautiful awesomeness. |
Emim
10.04.10 | And the fact that they're all 20 minute songs doesn't help anything.
js |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | He speaks the truth. |
Relinquished
10.04.10 | YOU'RE WELCOME |
Deviant.
10.04.10 | The fact that you found The Devil Wears Prada through Sputnik is interesting |
Eko
10.04.10 | same on 4, 6, 28 all of which are amazing |
tombits
10.04.10 | so basically if a song surpasses the 10 minute mark it becomes pretentious? |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | No. Go away. |
tombits
10.04.10 | protip: if you don't understand what you're saying it's a bad idea to say it at all |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | You're really annoying, aren't you? |
tombits
10.04.10 | i'll tell you what's annoying? the way you spout bullshit statements about things you don't understand. sure, art can be self-aggrandizing in the most straight forward sense (kanye west's lyrics, for example) but it honestly baffles me how you can claim instrumental music is pretentious. give me a clear-cut argument as to why and i'll stop posting in this list. |
Jesuslaves
10.04.10 | i think corny's a better word than pretentious |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | Instrumental music in and of itself is not pretentious. For example, 12, 15, 24, and (maybe) 32 are barely pretentious, if at all. It's just when the instrumental songs are 23 minutes long that gets to me. It's completely incredible music in every aspect, but it remains pretentious.
And bro, I'm seriously not trying to antagonize you or anyone else. I just stated my opinion that it's a pretentious album. No need to attack me for it. |
bailar14
10.04.10 | maudlin of the Well
listen to it |
tombits
10.04.10 | It's a pet peave of mine when anyone calls any form of art "pretentious" without a solid argument behind the statement. Firstly, art is inherently pretentious; it's a visual expression, a physical manifestation of an artist's emotions or visions. I struggle to see how any album is more or less pretentious than another. In this case, it seems like because Godspeed have written music that breaches the boundaries superimposed by what has become "the norm" in western culture (long song lengths, which begs the question: have you ever heard classical?) you've tagged them with the "pretentious" label. Does that mean that every album that diverges from the musical mainstream is also pretentious? What does that say about experimental and avant-garde? Lastly, the way that Godspeed themselves went about their music is anything but pretentious; they hardly gave any interviews and promotion of their records was next to non-existant.
I'm not trying to attack you, I'm just honestly intrigued. |
Emim
10.04.10 | GY!BE is pretentious.
There.
End of story.
Let's move on with our lives. |
Satellite
10.04.10 | I was going to go off on a tangent about how people constantly misuse the word "pretentious," but tombits nailed it. |
tombits
10.04.10 | I miss the days where it was okay to have a musical discussion on Sputnik. |
Jebull
10.04.10 | Yeah, agree completely there.. |
Jebull
10.04.10 | Oh and also, nice list. Lol Josh D, it is! |
Satellite
10.04.10 | I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this list rules.
Listen to this album, OP: http://quoteunquoterecords.com/qur026/qur026.zip
Trust me. |
tombits
10.04.10 | yeah there's some good stuff here. |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | yeah, maybe "pretentious" was the wrong word.
But honestly, listen to 32 if you haven't already. The song "Mammon" in particular. |
wyankeif1337
10.04.10 | And thanks for the link: I'm liking it so far.
But Jesus Christ, being used to hour+ pm albums, 19 minutes...? wow. |
Winsomniac
10.04.10 | 4 is greatness incarnate.
I rec you:
The Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots
A Lot Like Birds - Plan B
La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
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