Unbelievably bad band. So-bad-they-shouldnât-have-a-career bad.
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Liked him initially but sick to the back teeth of his production style now. Fair play for having an identifiable sound though.
Pond were quite good fun live 10ish years ago. Havenât heard anything by them since.
Was sitting at a tapas bar before Primavera this year looking vaguely into space and not really thinking when I realised Iâd been inadvertently staring at some guy sitting at the bar on the other side of the street. He gave me a warm smile and nod and went back to his food and I spent the rest of my meal looking absolutely anywhere else out of abject embarrassment. Found out the next day when Primavera put a picture of him at that bar on Twitter that it was Tame Impala, and that I must have looked like some creepy fan peering at him from across the street, sorry about that, Tame.
Have never knowingly heard his music so was surprised he has a song on Spotify with a billion plays, which is a number I only thought stuff like Gangnam Style ever achieved. Just listened and itâsâŠfine I guess? Not really for me. I didnât see his set because it coincided with us leaving the site to get drinks but some of our group absolutely loved him. The same people thought Pavement were dull, so different strokes and all that. A lot of words for an abstention but here we are.
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Dunno the first album, Lonerism is great, Currents is great, the newest one is awful, but this is the most important thing:
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Plate a lama
If everything they did was as good as Let it Happen and Nothing That Has Happened So Far Could Be Something Or Other, theyâd be 5, but they arenât, so yeah⊠4.
Just love the bit where Melody has a chat with him in the middle.
Also, is this an okay thread to post this? I donât want to imply itâs a Tame Impala song or whatever, but itâs hard not to like MEC with them at that particular moment, and I just love the guitar line in it
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Iâm a metal pa
Got real shit, real fast.
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Yeah that MEC album is brilliant - think itâs fair enough to link them - pretty sure that I read both Lonerism and Melodyâs Echo Chamber are mainly about their relationship together (and Currents is mainly about their break up). His drumming on that album is pretty great too
Got into them when Lonerism came out so would call myself a fan. I like the opening two tracks on that album a lot, and the tentpole tracks like The Less I Know The Better, Breathe Deeper, Eventually and Feels Like We Only Go Backwards are really great. Theyâve definitely lost something though - Kevin Parker is a really, really shit lyricist, properly insipid. Maybe 3.
Melodyâs Echo Chamber > Tame Impala
Heâs a good producer but ought to work with other songwriters/singers imo
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Really donât like this band.
Donât go shopping very often, but they seem to always be on in shops when I do. This makes me want to go shopping even less than I currently do.
1.5 rounded down to 1 (because I can).
Very boring to me. I really gave Currents a chance too but it was pretty much the antithesis of everything I like about music - not into that slick, sterile light funk / psych thing at all.
Pitchforkâs review of Currents was extremely embarrassing too. It felt like they decided he made a leap and wrote a masterpiece before even listening to it. Either that or Ian Cohen was secretly his manager.
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Leighton Baines was/is a fan.
Itâs the only thing that disappoints me about Sir Leighton Baines.
I find them really insipid and i continue to be completely baffled by their huge success.
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Maybe he thinks their songs are about him
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Youâre so Baines
Leighton Baines, i bet you think this song is about you, was a popular Everton chant for many years.
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Lovely. Definitely felt like too much of an open goal as I typed it
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How do you get less than not voting
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heard a few songs that sound alright but can never be bothered to dive deeper
was interested in the idea of the earlier psych albums but they sound a bit lightweight compared to other current psych bands so lost interest quickly