Oblivions

Sold two. A few still left. Thanks!

With that Reddit PSA, I think they're just trying to make 87% of their fan base sweat for a few days.

2 hours ago, nancy_raygun said:

Anyone know if the Crate & Barrel clearance is in-store too?

IF they carry vinyl in your local store, yes. But my local C&B told me that the only place they knew of that had vinyl in store was their outlet store like 70 miles away.

I re-washed both records and did a better job of drying them and almost all the surface noise is gone. Still a tiny amount but much better.

My black copy has a bit of surface noise. Not enough for me to deal with the hassle of a return/replacement but its there. Anyone else?

Just listened to Dear Life. Thanks to the poster who shared it here.

Much much better than Dreams and Wow for me. It was nice to see that guitar in there and that brief bridge reminded me of that sound he was playing with in those 12" singles he released before Morning Phase. I might have to just buy this and have faith that Dreams/Wow are the outliers as far as sound/genre.

Also LOL at the $13 cassette. I love the idea that large labels and bands are pricing cassettes like they are CDs and this is 2003.

I love Beck but the two songs I've heard so far are tough for me. Even with his voice and fingerprints on them, they are the most straight-forward radio pop songs he's done. Wow is kind of bananas but it still feels very top 40 in its production and aversion to getting too weird. I hope there are still a few vinyl options available when the album goes up for streaming.

I would bite on a $17 Amazon prime copy. More expensive than that and I'm happy here in the cheap seats watching y'all play the game.

Also, I re-listened to Deja and Devil/God yesterday and this is Brand New's best record, IMO. I forgot how many cheesy (but fun) moments are on those albums. Despite 147, the baritone voice, and the Modest Mouse singing moments, this album is pretty air tight when it comes to letting in that adolescent cringe. I tip my hat to the band. This is a legit solid send off.

My 3-month sub ended right before the Boxer AOTM. I'm going to wait a few months' worth of albums to trickle out before I dive back in and start again.

Is it a party where everyone is stomping around telling each other how important the blues are? 

27 minutes ago, januarytwenty said:

Favorite songs: Can't Get It Out, No Control, Batter Up, Out of Mana

 

Least Favorite: 451, Desert

Can't Get It Out and No Control are the standouts for me.

451 is the only one I really really dislike. It's unpleasant in a way that is not entertaining or engaging and the mental image of the band *really* getting into it and a random guy running on stage and playing discordant trumpet during the climax doesn't move the meter for me. The fishes song makes me cringe but sometimes I zone out and miss the specific moments that give me that cringe, so it's not as frustrating as 451.

14 minutes ago, zuck said:

 

Haven't seen a lot of people listing Can't Get It Out as one of there favorites, but it's easily mine.

is that the 2nd track? If so, that is perfect BN to me. Moody but still fun. Grungey but still nu-emo/pop-punk whatever you wanna call it. I wish they'd release a whole album of just upbeat Nirvana-Morriss-emo fun songs.

This record has grown on me over the last few days.

Track 2 is still the standout for me and the Daisy-ish moments still bug me (mainly that 'blues-y stomper' near the end) but the slower middle section is pretty solid Brand New. This is a perfect follow up to Devil and God. Just a bummer that it took 11 years to happen.

2 minutes ago, jrodan said:

feels like summer is on pacific daydream. that and Mexican fender are the only two song titles released so far.

That is good news. I want all of Rivers' silly pop frankensteins to be concentrated on one album. Hopefully, the Black Album will be closer to Do You Wanna Get High's darker, more serious tone and be absent of any song whose chorus is "summer oooo summer ooo".

24 minutes ago, ethanpricington said:

Good stuff here.

 

Fully agree that although I didn't like "Feels Like Summer" at all, "Mexican Fender" had some likable qualities that hopefully will make it similar to how I felt about TGFG once the entire White Album dropped - a brief detour from the overall albums feel sonically. 

 

That said, I'm not encouraged considering we already have two singles that I'm not crazy about. At least when DYWGH was released it gave me a lot of faith. 

Thanks for checking it out!

Has a track listing for the album been announced? My co-host Dan dropped the twist on me late in the conversation that Feels Like Summer might be a single for the Black Album, rather than single #1 from Pacific Daydream. That sounds too dumb/confusing to be true but this is Weezer, so  who knows.

On 3/17/2017 at 0:08 AM, richardsurf said:

My friend, comedian Matt Harbert, and I tried to unpack and make sense of "Feels Like Summer" on my podcast. If you don't have time to listen, my one-line review is "It sounds like a Maroon 5 song written for a baseball video game."

http://www.surfacenoisepod.com/episode-11

No one cares but we recorded a sequel to this Feels Like New Weezer sub-podcast for 'Mexican Fender' and posted it today.

‪https://www.acast.com/surfacenoise/feelslikenewweezer-2?autoplay

Sounds like this album is all the songs that were too Hurley/Raditude to fit on a decent upstanding Weezer album, like White. Surprised they didn't save Thank God for Girls for this one.

9 minutes ago, richardsurf said:

If BN would release a whole album of songs like Track 2 (straight-forward grunge wannabe melodic guitar rock) I would bend the knee and swear loyalty forever. I'm 16 minutes in and hoping for at least 1 more song like that.

A whole album of deep voice backup vocals a la "BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN" would also cause me to pledge allegiance to Brand New. I was bummed when that voice didn't come back and share ocean facts or recite a sea-themed limerick in the vein of a There Might Be Giants cut.

If BN would release a whole album of songs like Track 2 (straight-forward grunge wannabe melodic guitar rock) I would bend the knee and swear loyalty forever. I'm 16 minutes in and hoping for at least 1 more song like that.

I'm impressed by how hegemonic Brand New's influence over their fans is. They don't have to use any aggressive marketing tactics or pressure and fans will trip over themselves to buy some very expensive merchandise with no info. Maybe I've been keeping poor track of things or I'm misreading the crowd but haven't the last few releases by the band been underwhelming, even by the standards of passionate fans? Have the last few EPs/singles been strong enough that there'd be a mass hysteria even without the forced scarcity and long lead-in times? Daisy was the last music I have heard from them and I thought it was a big drop off from TDAGARIM.

14 minutes ago, aopps42 said:

I just went on there and see all of the bemoaning.  I just checked this album out, and it's really not for me.  You just now checked this out?!  I feel extremely embarrassed for those "hip hop heads" over there who have never heard Ready to Die.  

Some users, not all, on VMP are relatively new to digging into music. It's tempting to poke fun at the mix of enthusiasm and lack of knowledge but, IMO, it's also very cool that more people are diving into the insane treasure hunt that is working backwards into the history of rock/hip hop/modern music. We all start somewhere and, after 22 years of collecting music, there are well known bands/genres I'm still naive towards. I didn't really get into Talking Heads until last year, I have zero knowledge of Jazz, etc. I tend to keep quiet about genres/bands I am barely getting to know while maybe some VMP posters can be more quick to assume the role of expert but I think that's just, as I said, the enthusiasm. Also, I consider myself a very young 31 year old man but I have to remember that still means I might have 13 years of more music listening on some other adults. Anyway, thanks for reading my novel.  

Ahh. I had the hot topic yellow and sold it. Then I got a black copy, which I still haven't opened. Part of me wants to keep the revolving door going and upgrade to this 2 LP edition.

21 minutes ago, deltadon said:

nah, kid a is FANTASTIC

Agreed! I meant if there was one more album in between OKC and Kid A.

I finally had a chance to listen to all 3 records last night. Quite a bit of surface noise but, hey, I'm easy and it is probably due to needing a quick cleaning. I enjoyed the b-sides disc more than I thought I would. I wonder what we'd have if Radiohead released one more semi-straight-forward album in the vein of those b-sides before they did Kid A.