Joined: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:06 am Posts: 3146 Location: Orange County, California
This album deserves its own thread.
_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:29 am Posts: 2014 Location: Atlanta, GA
I like it as well. I really enjoy how it flows so well and has a story to tell. It works better as a whole for me then as individual pieces.
Only a couple songs really stick out to me though so I don't put it up in my top 10 fav albums this year, but i think it is really nice. Just not so sure how much i'll go back and listen to it a year from now.
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what's this album like? would i like it? do the members of the band wear antlers while they perform?
The album tells an explicit story (in first and second person narrative) of a man losing a loved one to bone cancer and watching her die in the Sloan Kettering Cancer Ward while he is beside her. Memories, regret and grief occur throughout the album.
Epilogue
Bear
Sylvia
_________________ need you, dream you, find you, taste you, fuck you, use you, scar you, break you, lose me, hate me, smash me, erase me, kill me....
Joined: Wed May 24, 2006 5:23 pm Posts: 12793 Location: Tours, FR Gender: Male
psychobain wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what's this album like? would i like it? do the members of the band wear antlers while they perform?
The album tells an explicit story (in first and second person narrative) of a man losing a loved one to bone cancer and watching her die in the Sloan Kettering Cancer Ward while he is beside her. Memories, regret and grief occur throughout the album.
Clearly ripping off PJ's The End
_________________ There has never been a silence like this before
i've seen them live. they do not wear antlers on stage.
also, this comment showed up on what.cd (peter is the lyricist, front man):
Quote:
if anyones cares, the songs are about peter and his longtime childhood girlfriend who was diagnosed with cancer when they were kids, he stuck by her side through out her illness, they got engaged, she got better, then she cheated on him and left. makes the album MUCH more intense to listen to knowing the background in my opinion...hes a friend. just thought id share since so many of the reviews have gotten it wrong (cough cough pitchfork) and it makes for a much more intense and intimate album.
take that for what it's worth, but it makes sense given the narrative of the album.
what's this album like? would i like it? do the members of the band wear antlers while they perform?
The album tells an explicit story (in first and second person narrative) of a man losing a loved one to bone cancer and watching her die in the Sloan Kettering Cancer Ward while he is beside her. Memories, regret and grief occur throughout the album.
Clearly ripping off PJ's The End
and both The End and Hospice clearly rip off The Freshman by formative 90's supergroup The Verve Pipe.
Joined: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:06 am Posts: 3146 Location: Orange County, California
this album absolutely destroys me. Kettering and Shiva are brutal...i can't help but get choked up.
_________________ I waited all day
you waited all day
but you left before sunset
and I just wanted to tell you
that the moment was beautiful
just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv
should have stayed for the sunset
if not for me
I saw these guys in Boston a while back and they played a few (four, I think) of the new songs. All sounded pretty different from Hospice, but they were also all promising. For what it's worth though, the Hospice songs don't sound anything like Hospice either when played live.
Joined: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:50 pm Posts: 1663 Gender: Male
They couldn't really make another hospice. Thematically it would be kind of silly, oh my uncle got real sick too, and the sounds are really tied in to the subject too.
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David wrote:
You've gained weight, that beard doesn't suit you, you need a hair cut and I'm not entirely sure I like your new songs
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