The Pop Open Group A - PASSION

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's group has as its theme PASSION! The usual rules apply - listen to the tracks, pick your favourites of the ones' you didn't know, vote for them before noon on Monday.

Unfortunately due to home internet issues I've not got the sendspace file sorted out - just the streaming tracks on FT: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/07/pop-open-week-6/

Piratemoggy has put the individual tracks up here: http://www.box.net/shared/fvduhkv3af

I will try and zip them tonight.

[Poll #1022950]

Thanks to this week's players - atommickbrane, cis, credoimprobus, mcatzilut and ms_bracken.

Comment away! (And - what would YOU have submitted?)

Comments

[cis.livejournal.com]

"Pull my hair": it has this huge clattery drum noise, guitars of 1994, and sounds like it was recorded in a bucket.

(Had I been in group Death I would definitely have submitted 'arc of time'. well, almost definitely. it has pretty guitars and stuff! it's about the importance of maintaining yr personal relationship with jesus! what is not to love, i ask you.)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's one of the few ones I'm lastingly fond of pre-'Digital Ash...' (which blew everything he'd done previously so far out of the water, for me, that I lost interest in nearly everything else he's ever done bar Desaparecidos, who I am very partial to when am in a bad mood/writing an essay)

I think there is probably a Bright Eyes song for every group (or at least, Conor Oberst in his various forms since I feel Desaparecidos would be better for Injustice or indeed Love but that's just personal preference) -I might have suggested one of the Cassadega tracks for death cus they are all about ghosts innit but 'Arc Of Time' is probably his best thing on the subject.

Bright Eyes are such a guilty pleasure, in the sense that even he sounds guilty about having made the music so you can't help but feel you shouldn't quite be listening to it even if you suspend all social shame.

I am going to go and finish getting drunk and stop rambling crap now.

[cis.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I'm perhaps the total opposite -- I didn't much like Desaparecidos, or digital ash/wide awake (in fact i deleted my copies of those two due to hard drive contraints, keeping only arc of time): the earlier stuff has held my attention much more successfully. I kind of lost interest in Bright Eyes until a friend had tickets to his last tour, where I went and possibly cried when they played 'laura laurent' what of it rediscovered the love of resentful alt-country indierock.

There probably is a Conor Oberst song for everything! I don't know if it's cos of a wide range of topics or cos, you know, there are just that many songs.

I don't know if Bright Eyes are a guilty pleasure or what: they're one of those groups I'm noisy about liking because all these people whose taste I respect don't like them, so, you know, maybe I'm making a point. In a sense it's guilty because it's so easy to use for wallowing and wallowing until the absurdity of the situation gets too much for you; the records appeal to all the inner lameness of my soul, but then I'm quite proud of my lameness (idk i think it makes me a better person or sth? every second I spend listening to bright eyes is a second I'm not spending kidding myself that I'm cool). So, yeah, complicated relationship, possibly more complicated than the records themselves deserve.

(I don't even have the excuse of drinking for the rambling! oh dear.)