MONSTERS OF FOLK!!

[BH]

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/monstersoffolk/monstersoffolk

That should read "Universal Acclaim except those idiots at pitchfork"

[ALady]

and samples drums from "Is There Any Love", a cut from the Numero Group's Good God! collection

I thought it was from Trevor Dandy...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ_5NC2ZpwQ[/media]

That's correct.  The performer is Trevor Dandy, and the song appears on the Good God! compilation, which is issued by a company called the Numero Group.

Ward, now Oberst's labelmate, has since released four albums of retro distillations

Try three

If you keep the quote in its context, it's correct; four albums including the She & Him record.

Ward, now Oberst's labelmate, has since released four albums of retro distillations, including Volume One, the debut of his project with actress Zooey Deschanel known as She & Him.


I have to say the Pitchfork review doesn't bother me that much.  

[Ruckus]

I'm still in a tizzy over "decoupage."

The album has grown on me slightly but the love for check yo head is curious to me.  I mean, it is the Pop iest song I've ever heard.

Post it again

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitchfork_gives_music_6_8

[BH]

I'm still in a tizzy over "decoupage."

The album has grown on me slightly but the love for check yo head is curious to me.  

?   ;D

[capt. scotty]

Overall Im really digging this, but Magic Marker, Baby Boomer, Goodway, and Slow Down Jo hold it back from being 1 of my few favorites of the year. Its up there though  :)

Please please give Slow Down Jo a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chance. I wanted to hate it when I first heard it but I can't. I wanted to hate it like I wanted to hate Radio Cure by Wilco, but if you just press the headphones tight against your head, or turn up the volume on your stero super loud, you will melt.

The rest you mentioned, I'm pretty "meh" about, especially "goodway" and "magic marker" though Baby Boomer is slowly growing on me more and more

Oh, I'll give it a chance...Im not saying Im going to start skipping any songs anytime soon, just that those ones didnt seem near as strong as the rest of the album to me.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Pitchfork

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13501-monsters-of-folk/

Since that tour (2004), Oberst released three successively weak albums as Bright Eyes

I'm Wide Awake weak?  It's commonly thought of as his best. :-/

Ward, now Oberst's labelmate, has since released four albums of retro distillations

Try three

Very few of the tunes here are flawless

What the fuck does that mean?

Oberst's "Temazcal", for instance, fumbles through a listless decoupage of pagan and Spanish images and lands more than once on maudlin lyrics that seem like Facebook status updates.

Good one. Pffff.   ::)

and samples drums from "Is There Any Love", a cut from the Numero Group's Good God! collection

I thought it was from Trevor Dandy...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ_5NC2ZpwQ[/media]

They gave the Inglorious Basterds Soundtrack a better rating than this.  Why do I even bother?

"I'm wide awake it's morning" is the only album of conors I can get into.  I really dig it a lot, I can't understand why his other stuff is so much more.. emo?  his debut as conor oberst was pretty lackluster as well.   that one album though, he definitely made some great music on it.  same with M.O.F.  

I'm sure these critics will say anything now that the internet is diluting any kind of good opinion.  marketing and money.  fuck the critics, always.

lovin me some monsters of folk right now.  good stuff.

[Kenny76]

I'm two songs into the album, and I'm lovin it so far, more than I thought.   I just wanted to post that now in case I hate the rest.   :)

[Kenny76]

Track 3... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  This is GREAT!!!  I'm positively giddy right now.  That song was fucking cool as hell.

Track 4... OK, here's something not as good.  There are things about Conor's singing I like, and things I don't like, but there is excellence in the background.  No need to skip this track whatsoever.

[el_chode]

Track 4... OK, here's something not as good.  There are things about Conor's singing I like, and things I don't like, but there is excellence in the background.  No need to skip this track whatsoever.

Until you really listen to Temezcal and you find you can't get Yim singing "There and then you're gone" echoing in your head for the next 2 days

[Paulie_Walnuts]

Based purely on one listen to the whole album I'm distinctly underwhelmed. I always rate songs on my mp3 player and I found myself issuing a lot of 3 stars, some 4 stars, and no 5's.

It got me wondering. These albums where kindred spirits / friends collaborate....how often do they really work?

What are the best examples of collaborations / side projects that produce classic albums?

[Sidus]

Mad Season, Temple of the Dog, Gutter Twins were/are really good collaborations I can think of (don't know much about music before the '90's  :-[ ).

I listenend to MoF one and a half time and I like it, but I don't think it's a masterpiece or something.  

[el_chode]

Based purely on one listen to the whole album I'm distinctly underwhelmed. I always rate songs on my mp3 player and I found myself issuing a lot of 3 stars, some 4 stars, and no 5's.

It got me wondering. These albums where kindred spirits / friends collaborate....how often do they really work?

What are the best examples of collaborations / side projects that produce classic albums?

Depending on your tastes and beliefs, Queens of the Stone Age come to mind first, and from there Eagles of Death Metal (at first). QOTSA being the side project from Kyuss until it evolved into its own thing. EODM being a side project of QOTSA into it evolved into its own.

The more important question is what were the only truly great SNL spinoffs? Wayne's World and Coneheads, that's what.

I think what makes the MOF so unique is that (a) it's not really folk, and its not supposed to be folk, (b) it's "pop" music in the classic sense of the word, and (c) the sum is more than its parts, at least in my opinion.

[weeniebeenie]

The Right Place
Baby Boomer
Man Named Truth

One after the other, it's almost too much goodness.

[Bigsky]

Temazcal is so hot...

"A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge which originated with pre-hispanic Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. The word temazcal comes from the Nahuatl word temazcalli ("house of heat")."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temazcal

[BH]

Based purely on one listen to the whole album I'm distinctly underwhelmed. I always rate songs on my mp3 player and I found myself issuing a lot of 3 stars, some 4 stars, and no 5's.

It got me wondering. These albums where kindred spirits / friends collaborate....how often do they really work?

What are the best examples of collaborations / side projects that produce classic albums?

If you change your mind later do you add additional stars?  Or once it's a three, you have your mind made up.  NO MORE STARS FOR YOU! Like the Star Nazi?

I'm not sure about other albums but I'm not sure that's really relevant.   When you listen to it, does it make you feel good, or no?

There really are not that many examples of albums that were created by three singer songwriters.  Can anyone name some?  The criteria is that there needs to be three or more singer song writers that had at least one significant album prior to the collaboration.

1.  Travelling Wilburys

[Penny Lane]

Based purely on one listen to the whole album I'm distinctly underwhelmed. I always rate songs on my mp3 player and I found myself issuing a lot of 3 stars, some 4 stars, and no 5's.

It got me wondering. These albums where kindred spirits / friends collaborate....how often do they really work?

What are the best examples of collaborations / side projects that produce classic albums?

If you change your mind later do you add additional stars?  Or once it's a three, you have your mind made up.  NO MORE STARS FOR YOU! Like the Star Nazi?

I'm not sure about other albums but I'm not sure that's really relevant.   When you listen to it, does it make you feel good, or no?

There really are not that many examples of albums that were created by three singer songwriters.  Can anyone name some?  The criteria is that there needs to be three or more singer song writers that had at least one significant album prior to the collaboration.

1.  Travelling Wilburys

BH-you just blew my whole work day. now i have to spend all day doing this. !!!!

[ALady]

Based purely on one listen to the whole album I'm distinctly underwhelmed. I always rate songs on my mp3 player and I found myself issuing a lot of 3 stars, some 4 stars, and no 5's.

It got me wondering. These albums where kindred spirits / friends collaborate....how often do they really work?

What are the best examples of collaborations / side projects that produce classic albums?

If you change your mind later do you add additional stars?  Or once it's a three, you have your mind made up.  NO MORE STARS FOR YOU! Like the Star Nazi?

I'm not sure about other albums but I'm not sure that's really relevant.   When you listen to it, does it make you feel good, or no?

There really are not that many examples of albums that were created by three singer songwriters.  Can anyone name some?  The criteria is that there needs to be three or more singer song writers that had at least one significant album prior to the collaboration.

1.  Travelling Wilburys

2. Golden Smog

[BH]

Nice one ALady!  I don't own that yet although it's on my list.  Do you?  How is it?

[el_chode]

Nice one ALady!  I don't own that yet although it's on my list.  Do you?  How is it?

There are two albums (that I'm aware of but there may be an emerging 3rd or one that was recently released)

They are both great.

[ALady]

Nice one ALady!  I don't own that yet although it's on my list.  Do you?  How is it?

I think their records are brilliant but I'm biased as I loved the Jayhawks and am currently in love with Wilco.   ;D

chode, there are actually three proper albums, an EP, an unreleased/rarities record, and a best-of:

On Golden Smog
Down By The Old Mainstream
Weird Tales
Another Fine Day
Blood On The Slacks
Stay Golden, Smog

I'd also add the New Pornographers to the list.