Evil Urges = Smart Rock

[kydiddle]

NPR Music named Evil Urges in their Top 10 'Smart Rock' Albums:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97706627

Genius or dreck? Here's the album that launched a million blog rants, mostly from fans of the old jammy version of this Kentucky-fried favorite. You could easily get hung up on the literal—from thick classic-rock riffage and Prince-style delirium to James Brown funk and Flaming Lips' electro-perversions—but then you'd be missing the point. Evil Urges is what happens when innovative musicians decide it's just not enough to be thought of as "innovative"; if you want to avoid self-parody, you've got to stick in the knife and twist it good and hard. This CD is more than merely hook-happy and devastatingly joyful: It's an object lesson in musical creativity (and the inherent risks thereof). Smart rock? Ha. It's solid-gold genius.

[BH]

SOLID GOLD GENIUS!

[Ruckus]

I personally cannot stand this list and the absolute, limited term of "Smart Rock".   >:(  I'm not going to even attempt to be intelligent on this post.  I like dude rock (whatever that is).

This is everything that I despise of self important, over intellectualized NPRism.  Don't get me wrong.  I am a fervent public music radio listener but this kind of title does no one justice.  

MMJ is rock n roll as they prefer to be categorized and no further.     ::)  Still can't tell the difference between most Okkervil songs post BSB.

For an intelligent audience????  What????

I must admit though, that Fleet Foxes album was superior to EU for me

[lasvegas]

it's only rock and roll, but i like it...

[Grateful Chabo]

WHAT THE FUCK IS DUDE ROCK???

[lasvegas]

WHAT THE FUCK IS DUDE ROCK???

this:


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[kydiddle]

WHAT THE FUCK IS DUDE ROCK???

Ohhhh, you just busted out the Hey Dude circa 1989-1991.

So start your horse and come along
Cause you can't get a ride if you can't hold on...

[purvis9876]

Yi-pe-ky-i-a.... Like the cowboys say
(get along little dogey)

[kydiddle]

Yi-pe-ky-i-a.... Like the cowboys say
(get along little dogey)

They just don't make quality shows like that today.

 :'(

But seriously. What is 'dude rock'?

[Ruckus]

WHAT THE FUCK IS DUDE ROCK???

I think it means you are not allowed to have any androgynous looking members in your band.  That is why Will Sheff heads the list of "Smart Rockers". ;) ;D

[Ruckus]

Aha!

The secret is to utilize the same resource that NPR used.  

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dude%20Rock

One could argue that EU falls under the category of dude rock....

AND there is nothing wrong with a good high five

[Penny Lane]

a few good albums but on there but i don't get it, either...

NPR lists are about one notch down from pitchfork lists---

[Grateful Chabo]

Good ole urban dictionary,  DUDE ROCK:
A genre of music that targets 13-21-year-old males who seek a Hard Rock sound, yet still seek such music through MTV-type outlets. Such music is given great care and concern when appealing to such an audience; thus it is often produced, analyzed, and marketed down to the finest deltail, giving it an air of high-production fakeness that one gets when watching a Hollywood Sitcom.

Tom thinks he's so cool with all those vintage clothes and that spiked hair; he's always claiming to be the king of underground music. But when we were in his car, he only played Dude Rock.

- that tom is a trickster... :D

[Ruckus]

- that tom is a trickster... :D

Oh Tom Oh Tom...what to do with you? ;D ;D ;D

[Jon T.]

Good ole urban dictionary,  DUDE ROCK:
A genre of music that targets 13-21-year-old males who seek a Hard Rock sound, yet still seek such music through MTV-type outlets. Such music is given great care and concern when appealing to such an audience; thus it is often produced, analyzed, and marketed down to the finest deltail, giving it an air of high-production fakeness that one gets when watching a Hollywood Sitcom.

Tom thinks he's so cool with all those vintage clothes and that spiked hair; he's always claiming to be the king of underground music. But when we were in his car, he only played Dude Rock.

- that tom is a trickster... :D

-see Nickelback


There hasn't been any good Chad bashing lately.

[kydiddle]

Good ole urban dictionary,  DUDE ROCK:
A genre of music that targets 13-21-year-old males who seek a Hard Rock sound, yet still seek such music through MTV-type outlets. Such music is given great care and concern when appealing to such an audience; thus it is often produced, analyzed, and marketed down to the finest deltail, giving it an air of high-production fakeness that one gets when watching a Hollywood Sitcom.

Tom thinks he's so cool with all those vintage clothes and that spiked hair; he's always claiming to be the king of underground music. But when we were in his car, he only played Dude Rock.

- that tom is a trickster... :D

-see Nickelback


There hasn't been any good Chad bashing lately.

I loooooooathe Nickelback.

[tomEisenbraun]

- that tom is a trickster... :D

Oh Tom Oh Tom...what to do with you? ;D ;D ;D

:-[




[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7F3O6WYfHQ[/media]

[bold99]

I don't really like any album on this list beside MMJ so I guess I'm not really into Smart Rock.  Where is the Dumb Rock list?

[tomEisenbraun]

I don't really like any album on this list beside MMJ so I guess I'm not really into Smart Rock.  Where is the Dumb Rock list?

Right here:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Qm-CK67Rk[/media]

[Grateful Chabo]

Do we have any Nickelback fans in Portugal?  Guess not

- i like portugal  ;D