Yeah, his voice used to really grate on me but I eventually came around. Typically they only clicked with me after they split so never got to see them live.

Converge: Dark Horse

That chorus is just immense. Keep your Jane Doe, Axe To Fall is the one to go for.


You Are All I Need by Future Islands this morning. I thought it would be William Taze Russell having had GriftegĂ„rd on in the car but Future Island have a way of always sneaking back in  :laugh:

Quote from: Carnage on February 08, 2024, 08:06:34 PMConverge: Dark Horse

That chorus is just immense. Keep your Jane Doe, Axe To Fall is the one to go for.
Class song, class album (though You Fail Me is my favourite, ATF is probably #2)

Quote from: Carnage on February 08, 2024, 02:28:01 PMYeah, his voice used to really grate on me but I eventually came around. Typically they only clicked with me after they split so never got to see them live.

Only discovered I liked a lot of their stuff in the last year or so as well. Some of it is still very twee but Shiny Happy People is never far from my mind and I don't even like it.

Or maybe I do.....

Quote from: astfgyl on February 08, 2024, 10:02:05 PM
Quote from: Carnage on February 08, 2024, 02:28:01 PMYeah, his voice used to really grate on me but I eventually came around. Typically they only clicked with me after they split so never got to see them live.

Only discovered I liked a lot of their stuff in the last year or so as well. Some of it is still very twee but Shiny Happy People is never far from my mind and I don't even like it.

Or maybe I do.....

Even the band themselves hate that fucking song

Quote from: The Great Cull on February 08, 2024, 10:08:39 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on February 08, 2024, 10:02:05 PM
Quote from: Carnage on February 08, 2024, 02:28:01 PMYeah, his voice used to really grate on me but I eventually came around. Typically they only clicked with me after they split so never got to see them live.

Only discovered I liked a lot of their stuff in the last year or so as well. Some of it is still very twee but Shiny Happy People is never far from my mind and I don't even like it.

Or maybe I do.....

Even the band themselves hate that fucking song

I wouldn't blame them but even so, they don't have anything else that sticks into the brain like that one.

I can hear those dirty little handclaps as we speak.

Fuckin animals

It's an objectively poor song but you can't help but like it. I'd bet that both the band and Pierson wish they'd collaborated on something more 'serious'.

My wee fella loves it! Man on the Moon and Losing My Religion too though. I'd be embarrassed if it were the only REM song he liked  :laugh:

I dunno if there's anything objectively poor about a song that worms its way into the psyche of all who are misfortunate enough to have heard it even the once. I know lots of people hate it and I feel like I do too but looking at it the way I am now I'm thinking it might be up there in the pantheon of the greatest songs written of all time because I don't like it and yet it's my constant companion every time there's no other sound happening.

B52s wan looks like a proper headcase in the video, like she looks off  :laugh:

I'd take a yoke with her not a bother so I would

Good call, I'd say they were wild in their day.

Quote from: astfgyl on February 08, 2024, 10:55:09 PMI'd take a yoke with her not a bother so I would

Sure let's hold that MW reconciliation party at the love shack!  :laugh: