Dealer is still so good and I don't listen to it enough. I feel I didn't give The Albatross quite a fair shake so I'll revisit that one too
I never go back to the Albatross besides the A side. Everything through Rory is good but I never listen to the last few. Dealer front to back is so so so good. I can't wait to hear a follow up.
I really took the guitar work on dealer for granted, the tones and lead parts are incredible. So many great melodies and effects spread through out
Bringing this thread back to life because I'm listening to Dealer and I'm just so consistently blown away by this band.
I feel like "Laundered" is an underrated track when it comes to this record. Never heard it being talked about. I absolutely love it. It was my favorite off the record for a while.
Watched a bunch of Needle Drop reviews on YouTube earlier out of boredom and the one for Dealer got me all kinds of upset haha. Opinions are opinions I guess, but man, I feel like that guy is way off base with some of his remarks
This is a message board and his reviews are something to talk about. Obviously most people here don't like him, the moratorium on even mentioning him that I've seen come up recently is pretty ridiculous
He's a moron who does not know what he's talking about like 95% of the time and he has some serious issues about the way he talks about and to POC and women.
Well yeah that's true, even so, I don't really get the "he who must not be named" mindset about him around here
The more annoying thing is when people yell at the people who bring him up just because they don't know that *everyone* hates him. It is productive to point out his more substantial flaws^^(like Ryan did) though
That's what I'm saying, clearly there's a lot people don't like him so talk about that. There's a productive discussion there
We have had the discussion literally dozens of times. I do not blame anyone who doesn't have the patience to hold hands through why he's actually worse than useless every time he's brought up.
I just think that we're so removed from the original argument (like, it was literally on a closed-down website) that these angry responses are not getting the message across anymore. I mean I get why people are sick of it but
So, unless I just totally forgot, I'm pretty sure I didn't even know he existed until last night. Random google searching about Pianos Become The Teeth led me to a video of his. I don't need my hand held to figure out why he sucks, I'm obviously not trying to support or endorse him. Just making conversation. Spent a lot of time on AP, I guess somehow any previous conversations about him flew under my radar.
Perfect night for this record in jersey, real cool. Can't wait until fall, lots of great albums to revisit.