Comments on: Strokes, copy protection, AMG

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:21:04 +0000

I bought Chutes Too Narrow last night. I've only had one chance to listen through, but I like. Thanks for the recommendation!

By: euqsam

euqsam — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:53:14 +0000

Perhaps. Perhaps they act just like the CD does in your player – play over and over and over and over…

…if the album’s good enough, it doesn’t always matter. ;)

The Shins’ Oh, Inverted World is my favorite album of the past few years. I’ll make sure you have a chance to hear it some time.

By: sensitive_one

sensitive_one — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:13:39 +0000

haha exactly!

i’m definitely going to check it out. thanks for including it in your post. i know i took you off topic, sorry. ;)

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:59:14 +0000

I had exactly the same reaction. Also, "Is this the latest? It doesn't look like the latest.. ah, 2003, ok, guess it is." It's apparently his first Blue Note album, too.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:56:46 +0000

I’ve heard of the Shins but have never heard them. They’re sort of lo-fi pop punk, right? I’d expect something like that, or, say, the Minutemen maybe, to have EP-ish albums. But The Strokes aren’t exactly an indie band. Write a whole album, dammit!

I mean, how could they put on a live show after their first album — four opening acts? They must have had more material.

By: sensitive_one

sensitive_one — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:23:25 +0000

i love van morrison. i didn’t realize he had a new album out. i followed your link and the first thing i thought after seeing the album design (which i love) is hey, that’s a blue note cover if i ever saw one! haha where have i been, he’s on bluenote now?! yay! that should prove pretty interesting.

mark this date on your calendar and see how much you and your fanbase, er friends have mellowed out thirty+ years from now. haha, damnit, it happens to all of us! i desperately like to think of it as becoming older and wiser. ;)

By: euqsam

euqsam — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:06:21 +0000

I picked up the new Strokes CD, Room on Fire, yesterday….I don’t get why it took three years and two discs to release one CD worth of material.

Are you also a fan of The Shins? Their second CD, released 21 Oct 2003, brings their total on-CD record time to 01:07:12, easily fitting on a single 74 minute CD as well. Even with one of their EPs, three tracks from a radio interview and three tracks that I haven’t a clue as to the source, I have a whole 86 minutes of their music.

I also treasure most every moment. (There are a couple of tracks on the new disc I’m not completely sold on, but even those songs are fantastic in their own right….)

I’ll never understand why a site that presumably makes money off of people reading their reviews and then buying the CD through their referral links does not want people deep-linking, though.

They may just be dumb! I think the tendency to inadvertently shoot self in foot is inherent to all humans. I konw I make a few dumb mitsakes every day.