Comments on: battleships http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/ Plan B writers' blog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Sean http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-440 Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:59:17 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-440 Frances - Indeed. I hold my Stars of the Lid records close to my heart, but in general the random-and-spooky is not a genre I have spent much money on. Frances - Indeed. I hold my Stars of the Lid records close to my heart, but in general the random-and-spooky is not a genre I have spent much money on.

]]> by: Jefferson Alpen http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-439 Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:16:50 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-439 What-ever. Tell ya what... let's all just listen to the Small Faces, or - if we're being like, rilly, rilly adventurous - Gang Of Four! Woo! What-ever. Tell ya what… let’s all just listen to the Small Faces, or - if we’re being like, rilly, rilly adventurous - Gang Of Four! Woo!

]]> by: Frances May http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-438 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:08:21 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-438 what's wrong with 'indulgent "spooky", random-noises music'? Nothing - it forms the most part of my record collection! But I guess Sean's point was that he isn't really into the above, and thought Liars might be like that, and then they weren't, and that was good. Or something! Anyway! it is a really good single, whichever way you look at it. what’s wrong with ‘indulgent "spooky", random-noises music’?

Nothing - it forms the most part of my record collection! But I guess Sean’s point was that he isn’t really into the above, and thought Liars might be like that, and then they weren’t, and that was good.

Or something!

Anyway! it is a really good single, whichever way you look at it.

]]> by: Jefferson Alpen http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-437 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:36:24 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-437 Pardon me but what's wrong with 'indulgent "spooky", random-noises music'? Pardon me but what’s wrong with ‘indulgent "spooky", random-noises music’?

]]> by: Sean http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-436 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:08:28 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-436 Er, you totally misunderstand. <I>They make, and have always made (as far as I know), music that's good to dance to and not in the least bit random. </i> But that sure didn't sound like what they did from the reviews I had read, see? Easy examples from some brief websurfin': http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1752 http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1753 http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/liars-theywerewrong.shtml http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/liars/they-were-wrong-so-we-drowned.shtml My point is that I had imagined one thing, and then Win's interest made me shake that all up in my head and actually put it on. Er, you totally misunderstand.

They make, and have always made (as far as I know), music that’s good to dance to and not in the least bit random.

But that sure didn’t sound like what they did from the reviews I had read, see?

Easy examples from some brief websurfin’:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1752
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1753
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/liars-theywerewrong.shtml
http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/liars/they-were-wrong-so-we-drowned.shtml

My point is that I had imagined one thing, and then Win’s interest made me shake that all up in my head and actually put it on.

]]> by: Frances May http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-435 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:14:29 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-435 "indulgent "spooky" random-noises music"? Erm, no. They make, and have always made (as far as I know), music that's good to dance to and not in the least bit random. "indulgent "spooky" random-noises music"?

Erm, no. They make, and have always made (as far as I know), music that’s good to dance to and not in the least bit random.

]]> by: Sean http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-434 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:20:15 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-434 Well Win never used to listen to anything vaguely avant-garde (by contemporary standards) - he was always a Pixies/Cure/Dylan kind of guy. And then when we were talking about music in March (I think the subject was really The Killers and Coldplay), he mentioned that he was really loving the last Liars record. I have no idea -who- put it in his hands... It was very strange to me: I imagined Liars as indulgent "spooky" random-noises music, esp. with all the pans they had gotten recently. And Win was so concerned with good song structure - Liars were in my head kinda the opposite of Smokey Robinson. But anyway, long story short I then listened to the music properly, and really liked it. The scariness sort of faded away - like it was the veil over a deeper and more complicated thing. I'm keen to hear the new single. Well Win never used to listen to anything vaguely avant-garde (by contemporary standards) - he was always a Pixies/Cure/Dylan kind of guy. And then when we were talking about music in March (I think the subject was really The Killers and Coldplay), he mentioned that he was really loving the last Liars record. I have no idea -who- put it in his hands… It was very strange to me: I imagined Liars as indulgent "spooky" random-noises music, esp. with all the pans they had gotten recently. And Win was so concerned with good song structure - Liars were in my head kinda the opposite of Smokey Robinson.

But anyway, long story short I then listened to the music properly, and really liked it. The scariness sort of faded away - like it was the veil over a deeper and more complicated thing.

I’m keen to hear the new single.

]]> by: Frances May http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-433 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:07:35 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-433 What did he do? What did he do?

]]> by: Jefferson Alpen http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-431 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:35:01 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-431 I may have to reconsider my opinion of Liars. I may have to reconsider my opinion of Liars.

]]> by: Sean http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-432 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:24:07 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2005/10/17/battleships/#comment-432 Win Butler, of all people, made me reconsider my opinion of Liars. Win Butler, of all people, made me reconsider my opinion of Liars.

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