Comments for Thirteen Birds vs. The Record Desk http://thirteenbirds.com/blog Words About Music Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:44:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on My Bloody Valentine, Loveless by Shaggy kid grows up, listens to his adolescent gut-pit « Hipsters United http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/07/23/my-bloody-valentine-loveless/comment-page-1/#comment-9012 Shaggy kid grows up, listens to his adolescent gut-pit « Hipsters United Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:44:20 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/07/23/my-bloody-valentine-loveless/#comment-9012 [...] July 23, 2008 Posted by jjb in analysis, blogging, my bloody valentine, siamese dream. trackback This is so great, and so central to what (for me) HU is all about, that I am going to blockquote six [...] [...] July 23, 2008 Posted by jjb in analysis, blogging, my bloody valentine, siamese dream. trackback This is so great, and so central to what (for me) HU is all about, that I am going to blockquote six [...]

]]> Comment on Courtney Love, America’s Sweetheart by Hipsters United http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/03/11/courtney-love-americas-sweetheart/comment-page-1/#comment-8924 Hipsters United Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:22:58 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/03/11/courtney-love-americas-sweetheart/#comment-8924 [...] pm // Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Posted by jjbjjbjjb in postchildren. trackback Thirteen Birds vs. the Record Desk reflects on Courtney Love and [...] [...] pm // Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Posted by jjbjjbjjb in postchildren. trackback Thirteen Birds vs. the Record Desk reflects on Courtney Love and [...]

]]> Comment on The Horrors, Primary Colours by Thirteen Birds vs. The Record Desk » Blog Archive » Dead Man’s Bones, Dead Man’s Bones - Words About Music http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/08/19/the-horrors-primary-colours/comment-page-1/#comment-8173 Thirteen Birds vs. The Record Desk » Blog Archive » Dead Man’s Bones, Dead Man’s Bones - Words About Music Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:28:05 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/08/19/the-horrors-primary-colours/#comment-8173 [...] I’m not sure if I’m the only creepy critter out there unable to let pop’s past go. As those Horrors and Pains of Being Pure at Heart records prove, backwards-glancing is popular. And one of my recent [...] [...] I’m not sure if I’m the only creepy critter out there unable to let pop’s past go. As those Horrors and Pains of Being Pure at Heart records prove, backwards-glancing is popular. And one of my recent [...]

]]> Comment on Weezer, “The Red Album” by Tyler Stoering http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/06/06/weezer-%e2%80%9cthe-red-album%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-6635 Tyler Stoering Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:28:26 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/06/06/weezer-%e2%80%9cthe-red-album%e2%80%9d/#comment-6635 Naw, fuck that. You're going over the top on this one. So they made a shitty generic record, but it had a few moments that were passable. Weezer has been doing this for awhile now. What makes this album different? Rivers still wants to write killer pop songs. He's stuck on that trip. Don't you think it's likely he'll continue to throw shit against the wall until something sticks? What makes you think he isn't capable of coming up with anything good in the future? He still knows how to come with songs like "Pork and Beans", "Keep Fishin'" and "Perfect Situation". There's still some life left in him. Naw, fuck that.

You’re going over the top on this one. So they made a shitty generic record, but it had a few moments that were passable. Weezer has been doing this for awhile now.

What makes this album different? Rivers still wants to write killer pop songs. He’s stuck on that trip. Don’t you think it’s likely he’ll continue to throw shit against the wall until something sticks? What makes you think he isn’t capable of coming up with anything good in the future?

He still knows how to come with songs like “Pork and Beans”, “Keep Fishin’” and “Perfect Situation”. There’s still some life left in him.

]]> Comment on U2, Zooropa by How Bad Can It Be?: One Eskimo, "All Balloons" | Popdose http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/09/30/u2-zooropa/comment-page-1/#comment-6171 How Bad Can It Be?: One Eskimo, "All Balloons" | Popdose Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:31:48 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/09/30/u2-zooropa/#comment-6171 [...] The larger cultural impact point here, of course, is one that’s been with us since the twinned births of recorded music and the moving picture. Music is just so goddamn big, too big and too wild to be adequately conveyed by conventional photography, too profoundly stimulative of the imagination to constrain with realism. And so animated cartoons have been a congenial fit with music, from the earliest Silly Symphonies to Fantasia and Yellow Submarine to a-ha; the medium allows for levels of abstraction, expression, and iconography unavailable to conventional representational film, bringing the emotional affect of the song front and center. Figures can stretch, transform, levitate, burst into flame, or crumble to fragments as the feelings of the moment demand. And, of course, cartoons make a perfect vehicle for the larger-than-life personas that musicians like to project — whether we’re talking stylized doppelgangers, or an out-and-out alter ego. [...] [...] The larger cultural impact point here, of course, is one that’s been with us since the twinned births of recorded music and the moving picture. Music is just so goddamn big, too big and too wild to be adequately conveyed by conventional photography, too profoundly stimulative of the imagination to constrain with realism. And so animated cartoons have been a congenial fit with music, from the earliest Silly Symphonies to Fantasia and Yellow Submarine to a-ha; the medium allows for levels of abstraction, expression, and iconography unavailable to conventional representational film, bringing the emotional affect of the song front and center. Figures can stretch, transform, levitate, burst into flame, or crumble to fragments as the feelings of the moment demand. And, of course, cartoons make a perfect vehicle for the larger-than-life personas that musicians like to project — whether we’re talking stylized doppelgangers, or an out-and-out alter ego. [...]

]]> Comment on My Bloody Valentine, Loveless by sandrar http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/07/23/my-bloody-valentine-loveless/comment-page-1/#comment-6012 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:44:31 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/07/23/my-bloody-valentine-loveless/#comment-6012 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on Nirvana, Sliver: Best of the Box by Thirteen Birds http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/10/27/nirvana-sliver-best-of-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-5326 Thirteen Birds Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:05:40 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/10/27/nirvana-sliver-best-of-the-box/#comment-5326 Martha, Don't get me wrong. The "theory" is a crock -- but a sad, telling crock. I like how conspiracy theories get at the emotional truth of a situation while being often wholly un-factual. Kurt is sadly very dead. Martha,

Don’t get me wrong. The “theory” is a crock — but a sad, telling crock. I like how conspiracy theories get at the emotional truth of a situation while being often wholly un-factual. Kurt is sadly very dead.

]]> Comment on Nirvana, Sliver: Best of the Box by Martha http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/10/27/nirvana-sliver-best-of-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-5325 Martha Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:53:38 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2008/10/27/nirvana-sliver-best-of-the-box/#comment-5325 Can we just stop and say that as much as we all love Kurt, we can not deny the fact that he, like many others, comited suicide. It is no question, unless he 'forgot' how much drugs he was putting into his body. Rivers is great and everything, but he is not Cobain. Kurt was great, and probably one of Americas music legands, and he helped inspire a whole Seattle Grunge movement, however, he was a little crazy, and did drugs becasue of it, and ultimatly, his mind is what killed him. Not to burst the bubble, but really, we can not bring back those who are gone, even if we do make up odd theorys. Can we just stop and say that as much as we all love Kurt, we can not deny the fact that he, like many others, comited suicide. It is no question, unless he ‘forgot’ how much drugs he was putting into his body. Rivers is great and everything, but he is not Cobain. Kurt was great, and probably one of Americas music legands, and he helped inspire a whole Seattle Grunge movement, however, he was a little crazy, and did drugs becasue of it, and ultimatly, his mind is what killed him. Not to burst the bubble, but really, we can not bring back those who are gone, even if we do make up odd theorys.

]]> Comment on The Breeders, Fate to Fatal by Thirteen Birds http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/04/28/the-breeders-fate-to-fatal/comment-page-1/#comment-3773 Thirteen Birds Wed, 20 May 2009 13:38:06 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/04/28/the-breeders-fate-to-fatal/#comment-3773 Dave, The Breeders albums are great, as is that Amps record. I know a lot of people who love the Breeders, but outside of that really intense Kim Deal fan base, a lot of people just don't care too much. They're a very niche, culty band. Dave,

The Breeders albums are great, as is that Amps record. I know a lot of people who love the Breeders, but outside of that really intense Kim Deal fan base, a lot of people just don’t care too much. They’re a very niche, culty band.

]]> Comment on The Breeders, Fate to Fatal by dave. http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/04/28/the-breeders-fate-to-fatal/comment-page-1/#comment-3674 dave. Sat, 16 May 2009 04:54:56 +0000 http://thirteenbirds.com/blog/2009/04/28/the-breeders-fate-to-fatal/#comment-3674 Being an indie nerd, I am surprised I never got into the Breeders much. However,I loved their side project The Amps. That was one cool record. Being an indie nerd, I am surprised I never got into the Breeders much. However,I loved their side project The Amps. That was one cool record.

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