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- kingjulien
http://www.clapyourhandssayyeah.…
Clift Notes version: I think their album is beautiful.
kingjulien version: I've been holed up in my friend's San Francisco studio for the past 36 hours listening to their new album - supplemented in regular intervals only by Bowie's Aladdin Sane -and I must say, despite the cable car bells that are like tiny ice picks to my cranium - especially at 6:00 am, and the fact that no matter how many times I shower and change I'm covered in cat hair five minutes later, and despite the fish smell that pervades ever alleyway in Chinatown - and that yesterday I saw a half naked man running with a viking shield and helmut in the middle of Grant and Pacific asking 'what's in your wallet? what's in your wallet?' to apathetic 70 year old Chinese vegetable stand owners with silver teeth and gold rimmed EK glasses - and when the jogger passed I noticed he had his running shorts cut so his cheeks were just flapping in the foggy morning wind, and yet nobody seemed to care (not to mention that I think I saw the old man from The Golden Child who picked his nose and wiped it on his shirt before taking Eddie deep into the mountains of Tibet while I was scoring sugar donuts at 1:00 am), despite all this and more, listening to their album curled in the fetal position in this bohemian flophouse - with old typewriters and cameras and photos and paintings and bespeckled boxes with Grace Kelly magazine covers glued to the side, and my friend popping so many Zolofts and Lortabs that she became convinced earlier that the plane she saw from her back window was in fact a terrorist attack on the TransAmerica building, despite everything - my brothers and sisters, the visions have been glorious.
- mr_snuggles0
regardless, it's a fantastic record...
- Newyorkish0
Yeah, great band. I saw them live a while ago in Brooklyn Williamsburg.
- Mal0
like Radiohead on prozac
nice.
- gruntt0
i for one enjoy a well executed run-on sentence.
- horton0
see also; Talking Heads.
- flavorful0
see also; Talking Heads.
horton
(Mar 2 06, 12:14)Haha, I hear that all the time.
Regardless, I love this album and expect more great ones from them in the future.
* Throws on ... and just waits ... awhile.
- foreverwhatever0
wow, that was the best post i've ever read, next to that one time when that guy got the mail order bride...
- mg330
Glad you enjoy it, but to me it's nothing more than a representation of how cool music can be totally destroyed by a singer who can't sing. 2005 was totally the year of the odd vocal, that's for sure.
I tried listening to it, but just wanted to throw up.
- Jaline0
As for crappy singers:
I usually will like the band (for the music) for a few days, but then quickly get tired of the singer. I like it when someone can actually sing.
- Typographica0
He's actually not a crappy singer, Jaline. He has full control of his voice. It's his vocal decisions that you're disagreeing with I think.
- mg330
I can have full control of chopping up live baby chickens in a blender but that doesn't mean I'm doing something worthwhile or tolerable now does it?
- Jaline0
I mean crappy singers in general. I've only listened to one or two of Clap songs.
- gruntt0
i have not heard the band but on the subject of crappy singers billy corgan should be publically caned... everyday... even christmas.
- Jaline0
agreeeeeed
- johannes0
of the two "yeah" bands I prefer the clap
- tehgee0
kjs getting all emo on us
- kingjulien0
1. I did hear some similarities with the Talking Heads.
2. Just because a singer's voice is unorthodox or unconventional doesn't mean they can't sing. Bob Dylan and Tom Waits are great examples of this. So is Thom Yorke.
3. So mg33, you wanted to throw up to the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album but you loved Green Day's American Idiot? Wow. Okay.
4. Billy Corgan does have a horrible voice, especially live, although I still think the early Smashing Pumpkins stuff was lovely as well.
- xenicon0
turn down yr hi-fi blog is calling