That wasn't the song from that musical "Once"? It's pretty but it's a very studied and calculated pretty, which really negates it for me. For a song like this to work it needs to feel like it's going to fall apart at any second (IE Like the marriage they're describing), but this just lopes along at a steady pace and…

I watched the livestream, and really liked how "Copy of A" and "Came Back Haunted" sounded. The other new one I forget the name of but it was a total snooze with awful lyrics.

VHS can be an aesthetic choice, though. I mean, look at Tim and Eric's sketches and Trash Humpers, or hell, the V/H/S series of movies. There's a certain visual appeal to the fuzzy, blurry hell that is VHS.

He also played bass on The Good, The Bad, the Queen's one album, which was pretty sorely underrated when it came out. It's an overcast, moody album if there ever was one, but I go back to it pretty regularly.

Yeah, this album was instrumental in me finally coming to terms with punk rock. After years and years of listening to NOFX and Guttermouth and all these other Warped Tour bands, hearing The Clash and realizing that punk rock wasn't all just snot nosed juvenelia was a breath of fresh air.

I think it's just my aversion to ska in general. I listened to an embarrassing amount of it back in my late teens, and now it just sends a chill down my spine.

So let's talk about the FedEx arrow in the song in the form of that boing noise. Do you think it destroys the song, or is it essential to your enjoyment? I think I like how audacious it is, though I flip flop back and forth on this all the time. Still, I can't ever not hear it when listening to the song.

Wrong Em Boyo is definitely my least favorite of the bunch. Guns of Brixton is a stone cold classic, jaw harp boing noise and all.

Like when I think of what their recording booth looks like, it's Apple White all around.

I couldn't agree more. Both of their singing styles are so affected, the production is so clean and antiseptic, and the song writing is so painfully normal that I can't help but think there's zero real emotion within, interviews be damned.

Really hoping for Herzog for that show.

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Some misguided rage here, man. Surely you have something you geek out about? For a lot of us that happens to be music. That doesn't make them a hipster, it makes them genuinely excited to discover new tunes and try to share them with like-minded folks.

I was really hoping he'd just keep it bleeped at the end so we'd never know.

When you start a song with the line "Have you ever felt", regardless of what comes after that, it's assumed the singer HAS felt whatever they're singing about. It's a valid complaint in this case.

@avclub-ce6c92303f38d297e263c7180f03d402:disqus and @avclub-e0a1578b57e32929a77892fadf0d0b40:disqus, you're taking a literal interpretation of artistic works to try to prove a point, but you're basically suggesting that if a work isn't autobiography, it's inauthentic. I guess now I understand why you think it's…

Man, I've been trying to get into Siouxsie and the Banshees for what felt like ages and never had anything click. Saw you guys talking up Juju on here and gave it a listen and, wow, pretty awesome stuff. So thank you!

What the fuck is going on with his voice? Why is he warbly like Lil Wayne the whole time? I could only make it to right when the synth started.

Come on, wanting an artist to be at least somewhat authentic is not ridiculous.