That's pretty much the exact story arc of the album, Osis, only they leave again in the end.

They aren't singing from the perspective of teenagers on this album. They're singing from the perspective of prospective parents. And what good has appreciation for the hard work underlying any lifestyle ever done for art? We don't need more socialist or libertarian paeans to the set jaws and near-sighted squints of…

No links. It leaked last Thursday. It's out there, at 320K. I excused it by pre-ordering a copy. Dig a little; you'll find it.

If you don't think "kids in art school" say things like that about businessmen, you've probably never known any art students.

I wrote the review I linked above. I'm writing again, looking for an apartment, and hoping to get a call back today from the bookstore I always thought would be a perfect subsistence job to keep me fed while I write. So, yes, I'm very busy. Not qualified for the AVC job, though, because I've got no journalism…

Every Arcade Fire album is a concept album on some level or another. Funeral is made up of two interlocking EP-esque sides that thematically complement each other. It's all about coming of age in a repressive environment. Neon Bible is a description of a country that has been transformed by history and politics into…

Pre-Emptively Dismissing?!
I'm too drunk and too tired to defend the album at length here, but in my opinion it's the best by far in this rare year.
http://www.assault.it/2010/…

I think that's less profound, Robuttnik. Even if you are wasting away, you're still living.

???, put on Live at Leeds. Then put on Between the Buttons. Or, in fact, put on any Stones album not made between 1968 and 1972. That's all the evidence you need.

"'MORE MUSIC MORE MUSIC MORE MUSIC'?!"

"'MORE MUSIC MORE MUSIC MORE MUSIC'?!"

I think it says the same thing the remakes of The Vanishing, Everybody's Fine, and, well, most everything else say: We are oblivious to ourselves.

If Life Is for the Living,
…is death, then, for the dying?

With a few exceptions from both bands, The Who's work has aged much better than The Rolling Stones'.

I've not heard everything by the band, but I'd rank what I have heard as follows:
1. Live at Leeds
2. The Who Sell Out
3. Quadrophenia
4. Who's Next
5. Tommy
6. My Generation

"Substitute," definitely. After that, the cover of "Young Man Blues," "Tattoo," and "Love, Reign O'er Me."

I think it's actually their overexposure that makes The Who hard to access today. When a band is associated with something as loathsome as a car commercial and a procedural's opening credits, plenty of people will assume that it's just as base as the stuff its work is used to shill.

http://www.assault.it/2010/…

Rose Petals.
Rose Petals on the sheets. Rose petals on the floor. Rose petals on her boobs. One rose petal scotch taped to the head of your dick for Wiseau-approved protection.

Best album of the year, and considerably better than Neon Bible. "Empty Room" is probably my second-favorite song by the band, and "The Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) is close.