#225

A fine choice sir. Thank you

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#226

Thank you too mate.
Decent score and some very fine chat, stories and some cool videos etc for me to check out also.
Even the people who didn’t like it gave me a laugh.
Cheers to everybody, it was fun :+1:

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#227

I feel like our lobbying has got this and Idlewild a higher placing in the respective HGATR tables than they otherwise would :+1:

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#228

Nah, it’s not like we are banging on about them round the clock like some do about the bands they like.
If anything there were a few people maybe out to give this a really stinking score just because of unfamiliarity rather than dislike perhaps.
Scores are moot anyway, it’s just good to see and enjoy the memories and happiness everyone had related to the album and band.
Also it’s provided me with an idea for a potential meme :grin::smiley:

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#229

And the gif/meme we can all now use when steamrolling into a HGATR/HGIIR thread to downvote something we have never listened to before:

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#230

It’s gonna be a tiny gif I reckon
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thread for small gifs (rolling)
#231

Made the mistake of reading Pitchfork’s review of 100 Broken Windows over the weekend.

I know this is early 2000s Pitchfork, so I should be delighted that they devoted almost three whole paragraphs to discussing the album, but these are bookended by some of the most embarrassing text I’ve read in years.

I’m not sure there’s anything more cringeworthy than the desperation that seeps through the sentences of someone smugly mistaking hackneyed caricatures and over-assertiveness for edgy humour.

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#232

yeah i hate that review. i really don’t know Jake.

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#233

If I had to come up with a Jake stereotype, he would absolutely be a popular jock, or prom king

Also I’m all for trying to understand art through the lens of your own experiences, but cmon. Starting a review of a Scottish/non American band with a few solid paras based entirely on American high school tropes is pretty garbage

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#234

That really is a dreadfully written review. Conde Nast can slap that crap behind a paywall and no-one would miss it.

#235

even then, is it a common occurrence that the weird kid in american high schools randomly come to school naked one day? feels like some odd fantasy the writer has inexplicably devoted two full paragraphs to just to say “this new Idlewild album is a bit different to the last one”.

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#236

The Gertrude stein bit where he shouts it and his voice cracks

#237

bit pished, had 50 posts or so left, remembered that I’d relistened to this album when the thread started and enjoyed it so put it on again and finished the thread

the last two tracks are fucking great (not that the rest of it isn’t!)

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#238

sorry i missed this, would’ve voted 9 (downgraded from 10, saving 10s for captain and hope is important)

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#239

but they aren’t as good

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#240

Sorry, I didn’t want to explain any further for fear of ending up writing a really longwinded post saying lots of other things that come to mind about the album and some of the discussion above. I do actually agree that broken windows is better quality but as good as it is, it would’ve been impossible for it to resonate with me in the way that hope is important (and captain kind of) did. Even though I don’t bother with them so much now, I still get a kind of Pavlovian response when I hear that they’re up to something new, or even when I just see the name idlewild in that scrawny font.

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#241

that’s fair, i worked backwards through their career after The Remote Part came out so i didn’t have that early connection with Captain and Hope is Important, if anything they were both quite jarring and surprising to me at first

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#242

@Icarus-Smicarus

Lads, lads…
Those records ALL have lovely bottoms.

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#243

Still waiting on this.

#244

His name is Theo and he dances on the sand!

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