Ronald Thomas Clontle article.

[Jon Solomon]

http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/289_200703.html

Today I am full of links. And canollis.

[kenkwan]

Sausage Links?

[Amplituden]

How did you get so good at jumping nutty?

I can't figure it out.

Jeremy.

[kenkwan]

I cannot play Funky Pong at all.

As far as the Jumping Nutty, I think it's my hatred of Crows that fuels me. You have to want to smash the crows more than you want to jump.
 
Nathan

[Mark]

Brooklyn Vegan steps into the octagon: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/03/bloc_party_rot.html

[Laurie]

I cannot play Funky Pong at all.

As far as the Jumping Nutty, I think it's my hatred of Crows that fuels me. You have to want to smash the crows more than you want to jump.
 
Nathan

But they're the smartest birds in their class! No, seriously. They're arguably the smartest members of the Aves class. Crows can drop a nut onto a crosswalk, sit on the traffic light wire, wait for a car to run over, and wait for pedestrians to start walking and/or cars to stop at the light. That's their cue to swoop in and retrieve the cracked open nut. They don't make nutcrackers for crows' feet, you know, so they have to improvise.

[kenkwan]

I cannot play Funky Pong at all.

As far as the Jumping Nutty, I think it's my hatred of Crows that fuels me. You have to want to smash the crows more than you want to jump.
 
Nathan

But they're the smartest birds in their class! No, seriously. They're arguably the smartest members of the Aves class. Crows can drop a nut onto a crosswalk, sit on the traffic light wire, wait for a car to run over, and wait for pedestrians to start walking and/or cars to stop at the light. That's their cue to swoop in and retrieve the cracked open nut. They don't make nutcrackers for crows' feet, you know, so they have to improvise.

Sometimes hate isn't logical, it just is.

[Laurie]

Oh man, I just got the chance to read this, and I smiled the whole way through. I hope they do this every month.

Oh, and David Cross reviewed YLT's "I Am Cowering in Fear of Your and Will Run and Hide" for the same site. It's cute.

[John Junk]

Oh man, I just got the chance to read this, and I smiled the whole way through. I hope they do this every month.

Oh, and David Cross reviewed YLT's "I Am Cowering in Fear of Your and Will Run and Hide" for the same site. It's cute.

I think there are so many joke reviews of this album because no one has enough nice things to say about it.  Seriously, this album's fucking weird.  It's like a bunch of pastiches.  It's like Wowee Zowee or something, but it doesn't even have the bad timing to make it "legendary".  YTL starts with an old YTL pastiche, moves on to a  Beach Boys/Donovan pastiche, later on does a Silver Apples pastiche, even does a rockabilly song, a few twee songs.  Holy Canoles.  I still like half of it, though.  Which means I like about 8 songs.  Which would be almost the entirety of a normal-size album.  I guess what I'm saying is I agree with David Cross's review.

[moonshake]

The first few times i listened to that album, I didn't know what to make of it. Nowadays when I want to listen to it, I skip the boring tracks and stick to the ones I like. Mr. Tough, in all its bizarre glory, is my fav. track in it.

[JimmyKustes]

I agree with you there moonshake. It's about the only non-weird song on there.

David Cross did a fake Pitchfork review awhile back.