el camino

[ironmike]

New black keys album can be found over at musicconsortium.blogspot.com

[woodnymph]

That's awesome, thanks for sharing the link!!!


Pardon my threadjack, sry  :-X

Ween - El Camino


had to happen, direct orders from boognish :-X

[woodnymph]

New black keys album can be found over at www.musicconsortium.blogspot.com

Also, link fixed

[kotchishm]

"Mind Eraser" is just a straight banger.  No other way to describe it.

[Fully]

"Mind Eraser" is just a straight banger.  No other way to describe it.

I love it! Somebody add this to the mixtape thread! Oh, I guess I could... ::)

[el_chode]

Side threadjack:

Do we have enough Ween songs to make a latin album yet? New thread if need be.

[woodnymph]

Side threadjack:

Do we have enough Ween songs to make a latin album yet? New thread if need be.

Would you seh so?  I would seh so...  I count 5 songs so far!!   :P

[The DARK]

No doubt, Gold on the Ceiling is gonna be blasting in my car all throughout 2012.

[Penny Lane]

i don't think it's cool to post the link on here....

but i'm loving sister and nova baby

[oistheone]

El Camino is the latest chapter in the Keys' ongoing development into a pop-rock band. But as much as I love their early "riff-in-yo-face" rock, I find their latest to be pretty enjoyable. Musical growth is key to the long term lasting power of any band or artist, and The Keys and Danger Mouse really delivered something new to the table with El Camino, a wholly different album than Brothers. But in this case, does musical change equal musical growth?

After a few listens, I found El Camino to be bursting with hooks and grungy-yet-glossy riffs, and I'm finding most tunes to be immediately catchy. The opening trifecta of "Lonely Boy", "Dead and Gone" and "Gold on the Ceiling" may be the best back-to-back-to-back punch to lead an album this year.

"Little Black Submarines" kinda leaves me floating in the water -- a little too faux-epic for my tastes, but still undeniably rocking, and is sure to be a rager in concert. 

Never thought a talkbox solo would work in 2011, but I'm glad "Money Maker" exists to prove me wrong.

"Run Right Back" wasn't happening for me the first couple times I listened to it, but blasting it in the car seemed to do the trick -- this song is propulsive, deceptively sinister and one of the outright bluesier numbers on the album.

I found "Sister" and "Hell of a Season" to be the weakest tracks on the album. Just can't get into 'em yet, and perhaps they are placed where they are within the album for a reason. I'll happily give them another shot when my vinyl copy arrives.

The record picks back up and ends with a bang though. "Stop Stop", "Nova Baby" and "Mind Eraser" may be the most outright joyous tracks the Keys have ever recorded. The bells in "Stop Stop" are brilliant.  "Nova Baby" sounds like the Keys first stab at sounding like an "indie" band, but hell, that song is so fun and the chorus so saccharine,  it's hard to be bothered that this ain't Chulahoma.

Overall, a short, but very rockin' pop detour from the Keys. This puppy is going to sell millions.

[ALady]

This puppy is going to sell millions.

Yep.   :-\

[oistheone]

This puppy is going to sell millions.

Yep.   :-\

Isn't that all that matters? I think the working title of the album was "While The Iron's Hot".

;D

[Penny Lane]

This puppy is going to sell millions.

Yep.   :-\

Isn't that all that matters? I think the working title of the album was "While The Iron's Hot".

;D

i think even Dan would laugh at that ....  ;)

[ALady]

This puppy is going to sell millions.

Yep.   :-\

Isn't that all that matters? I think the working title of the album was "While The Iron's Hot".

;D

;D ;D ;D

It's not a bad record, but the songs don't seem like fully fleshed-out ideas.  I need to give it a few more spins.

[SmokinShootin]

This puppy is going to sell millions.

Yep.   :-\

Isn't that all that matters? I think the working title of the album was "While The Iron's Hot".

;D

;D ;D ;D

It's not a bad record, but the songs don't seem like fully fleshed-out ideas.  I need to give it a few more spins.

Yeah I agree, it seems a bit rushed.  I have only listened to five songs, but theres not much that is fresh.  Definitely a lack of the blues influence that was in all the other records.

[el_chode]

Hands down their best album. I said it.

Everything else is just a collection of songs. This flows...not a skip, not a slow moment. Perfectly crafted.

Only beef is that while Dan's guitar work has gotten exponentially better with time, Pat seems to have flatlined in his creativity.

Either way, I love the new full band sound

[bluesky]

Nova Baby loud on headphones in the rain

[e_wind]

This is good music, but it just isn't the Keys, and isn't doing it for me like Brothers, Rubber Factory, Attack and Release did...

I liked the Keys because they were "different" in the fact that they were LOUD and in your face, to the point blues rock. It was beautifully simple. This is like a new indie rock band... Brothers, imo, is their peak so far.

[el_chode]

This is just the next progression from Brothers. I think it's better than Brothers in that it flows 10x better and doesn't get sludgy in the middle.

I also think it is unfair to pigeonhole a band and expect them to play within narrow confines and never develop.

[oistheone]

Man, am I the only one getting strong vibes of Stairway and Mary Jane's Last Dance from Little Black Submarines?

Also, who would have thought that a song that sounds like Stairway and Mary Jane's Last Dance would be called Little Black Submarines?