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[roadrunnertwice]

Boy howdy, do all of Hot Hot Heat's songs sound alike. I should just delete most of 'em and forget that they ever did anything besides "Goodnight Goodnight."

EDIT: Also! The gunshots in the intro to Snoop's "Murder Was The Case" sound like a fucking manual typewriter!

More rappers should do this. Real-er gunshot noises make me grind my teeth, and they spike my blood pressure. (You know "Slam Pit," by the Beatnuts? I don't even know what that song sounds like, 'cause the intro bugs me so much.)

EDIT 2: Okay, I actually liked "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," but "On Avery Island" seems to be 90% weak sauce.

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[lexicology.livejournal.com]

I fully believe that Aeroplane is one of the most amazing and terrible and glorious albums created ever, ever. but I just can't get into anything else they ever put out.

I heard Aeroplane my first year, when I was just starting to get my indie kid groove on. my first year was also the one and only time I took a ceramics class (or an art class, period). I never got anything done on time and the really great thing about the art department was that as long as you showed up before midnight they'd pretty much let you stay as long as you wanted (or until the security guard came by), as long as you turned the lights off when you left. so I was always showing up at 10 minutes till midnight and staying until 3 and 4 in the morning. and the ceramics room had this sort of high mysterious ceiling and very odd lighting and there were all these hidden crevices and shadows and angles and whatnot, and then there was the huge wall of windows, which was nothing but window, but I was nearly always in there after dark at which point the only thing you could see in the huge wall of windows was yourself and the room reflected, because it was so dark outside. and I would turn on this radio in the corner and listen to WMCN, and I remember this one night I was working on something and listening to the radio and this guy came on and said this next song is called "oh comely" - it'll break your heart. and it did.

[roadrunnertwice]

Likewise to a silly extent—I was introduced to the album in my first and only art class. (Except this was in my senior year.) Anyway, I actually hated it for like a minute and a half—King of Carrot Flowers pt. 1 was doing its thing, and I was like "God, what a wanker." Then pt. 2 kicked in and all was forgiven. (Now I'm okay with pt. 1. I think for that song to work, you need to already have the weird, hallucinogenic conciousness of the rest of the album internalized; otherwise, it means something entirely different than it does, and sounds hackneyed and unadventurous.)

My friend Robert hates the band, but I say he's letting his personal bias against the guy he heard 'em from overwhelm his ear for songwriting and good sounds. Then again, he's got little patience for singer-songwriters in the first place, so eh.

Anyway, I maintain that Two-Headed Boy is one of the most daring rock songs of all time.

[lexicology.livejournal.com]

I should just clarify one small part. I was actually introduced to the album somewhat earlier in my first year, by someone who would probably be upset if she thought that anybody thought otherwise. the art class occurrence was just a particularly memorable NMH experience. and I heard it in pieces to begin with, so I'd been sitting with King of Carrot Flowers pt. 1 for a long time before I ever got hit with pt. 2, and my reaction was just the opposite of yours. but then, I was a naive little first year, hadn't even heard of deconstructionism yet. lo, these many years.