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Title: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: yesno on April 12, 2009, 06:08:03 PM: The eight most pretentious lyrics from the new Decemberists album.

http://www.slate.com/id/2215819
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: Big Plastic Head on April 13, 2009, 11:58:21 AM: Overheard on Twitter:

"You wanna know what's wrong with the new Decemberists' album? It rhymes with 'schmarpisichord'."
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: xdeadx on April 29, 2009, 09:15:58 PM: I'd be amazed in Colin Meloy wasn't reading Calvino's Invisible Cities when he wrote "The Infanta."
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: dave from knoxville on April 29, 2009, 09:43:57 PM: I listened to their live version of The Hazards of Love. It's as if Jethro Tull was fronted by Mo Rocca. I liked some of it.
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: Gilly on April 30, 2009, 03:44:20 AM: Haters. I absolutely love this album and I've never really loved the Decemberists.
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: yesno on April 30, 2009, 02:32:16 PM: Quote from: Gilly on April 30, 2009, 03:44:20 AM
Haters. I absolutely love this album and I've never really loved the Decemberists.

You're like one of those thermophilic bacteria that live around deep sea vents. You thrive where others perish.
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: Pidgeon on April 30, 2009, 02:39:42 PM: Their music just doesn't seem very...sincere, to me. Ya know what I mean?
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: DoodleJump! on April 30, 2009, 03:43:54 PM: Quote from: Pidgeon on April 30, 2009, 02:39:42 PM
Their music just doesn't seem very...sincere, to me. Ya know what I mean?

Does all music need to be sincere? Sometimes I am not so sure it does.
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: Pidgeon on April 30, 2009, 03:58:28 PM: Quote from: g-stampgirl on April 30, 2009, 03:43:54 PM
Quote from: Pidgeon on April 30, 2009, 02:39:42 PM
Their music just doesn't seem very...sincere, to me. Ya know what I mean?

Does all music need to be sincere? Sometimes I am not so sure it does.

Why wouldn't it?
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: yesno on April 30, 2009, 04:00:06 PM: Sincerity is a motivation, not a result.
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: Pidgeon on April 30, 2009, 04:21:03 PM: Oh really?
Title: Re: When Rock Stars Read Edmund Spenser
Post by: dave from knoxville on April 30, 2009, 07:08:53 PM: Quote from: Gilly on April 30, 2009, 03:44:20 AM
Haters. I absolutely love this album and I've never really loved the Decemberists.

Hey, you're reading me wrong, I loved The Crane Wife. But listen to three of their songs, then listen to three-five minutes of Mo Rocca commentary, and tell me anyone's actually ever seen Mo and Colin in the same place at the same time.