Comments on: Rock Plaza Central – At The Moment Of Our Most Needing, Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren’t Alone

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:29:56 +0000

Hmm… I wonder when fiddles and spanish guitars joined the rhythm section.

Must be an Americana thing.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:12:45 +0000

I thought it was me he was trying to lure into grumpiness? Are you collateral damage?

C&B – I don’t think the whole album sounds much like O’Death, personally. Maybe I haven’t chosen the songs all that well, in that they may not be all that widely representative, but in general there is more straighforward indie rock than O’Death tend to produce.

By: Tart

Tart — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:08:44 +0000

O’death!!! Thank you C&B <3 and thanks for the giggle over the Waltons comment too.

Yeah, true Matthew, it was Dylan who made me go grumpily off in that direction.

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:33:21 +0000

Makes a good first impression. The Handsome Men tune is top notch. It reminds me a lot of O'Death, but with a dash of Fairport Convention in the fiddles and DeVotchka in the horns. The Foes one sounds like a good Bonnie Prince Billy tune, and the horns make me think of the theme music to The Waltons. Comforting somehow.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:07:44 +0000

Voldermania – I have held myself back so many times from making sarcastic comments about the album title. Come on, people, is it really necessary? But the flip side of that is the excellent album from the Vancouver band called Women. And what did they call their album? Yes, ‘Women’ too. You try Googling that fucker!

Tarticles – I said that for all the embellishment on the top, the underlying rhythms were more straightforward. So you’re right, those bands didn’t use a lot of fiddle flourishes etc.., but I was talking about the foundations of the song, not the cherry on the top.

By: Tart

Tart — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:30:01 +0000

geeze that all came off harsh, didn’t mean it too. Matthew, when I hear the phrase Americana I always think people mean folk music. But maybe I’m just not thinking widely enough?

By: Voldermania

Voldermania — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:46:22 +0000

I am currently enjoying the second track.
And appreciate the first for its sentiment, but what really sold this to me was the pretentiously long album title. At 20 words it completely blows Le Loup’s ‘Throne…’ out of the water.
Thanks for the songage!

By: Tart

Tart — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:17:48 +0000

oh and to be fair to Matthew, it is really difficult to come up with something to say about music after writing a few hundred of these things so try not to pick on his phrases too much, darlings! I sympathize, … go write your own blogs then come back and slag him off for pretentious sentences, if that’s what you were doing…

By: Tart

Tart — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:15:40 +0000

uh…. on what track of ANY Mac, Skynyrd, or CCR production is there the fluttering of a violin or spanish sounding guitar or whatever that is at the beginning of this song? Or the repetition of the phrase over and over for that matter? The emphasis in the lyrics I’ll grant you, and certainly the acoustic harmonies, but this is all modern to my ears. Perhaps a modern take on those classic rockers but no way is this a retro sound, to me. It is all modern folk-inspired and polished to my ears, and there’s not a thing wrong with that, I like it very much. I like it more on the third listen than the first. It reminds me of something that I can’t put my finger on, but I’m sure it will come to me as I drive across town to the club where I left my freakin drivers license on Saturday while dancing like a mad woman to Prodigy. I’ll be back later to hear the abuse you all heap on me for this comment :p *insert sarcastic winky face here

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:11:42 +0000

Dylan in sensible comment shocker.

Thank fuck I was sitting down when I read that.

And I think you’re spot on actually. Imagine that.