The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

[a Nick O!]

I put the topic here, because it has nothing to do with the content of the album, really, but rather a review of it on punknews.org.

The album gets a glowing 5-star review and is full of fawning, thick paragraphs that are way too long to bother reading, considering I'm not a Decemberists fan. (It's not that I don't like them; they're just too literary and indie for me to take much interest in.)

Anyway, for the purposes of posterity, here's one of the comments one of the users posted afterward, which will be the funniest thing I'll read all day:

"I was worried at first because it is hard to break the flow of the album. However, this interaction with the album is something that is all a part of the experience. By changing the sides of the records, you become a part of the album and that's what it wants."

F**k you.

I'm still laughing my ass off, reading it back.

[oscillations.]

Apr 9, 2009 14:41:47 GMT -4 a Nick O! said:

I put the topic here, because it has nothing to do with the content of the album, really, but rather a review of it on punknews.org.

The album gets a glowing 5-star review and is full of fawning, thick paragraphs that are way too long to bother reading, considering I'm not a Decemberists fan. (It's not that I don't like them; they're just too literary and indie for me to take much interest in.)

Anyway, for the purposes of posterity, here's one of the comments one of the users posted afterward, which will be the funniest thing I'll read all day:

F**k you.

I'm still laughing my ass off, reading it back.

I am laughing my ass off too Nick. Clearly the Decemberists are too sophisticated for people like him! I can only hope that he will see the light once he has grown older and learned more things about his developing body!

Anyway, this album is beautiful and thrilling in a way that I could not even try to articulate. It makes me get that hollow pressure in my chest like before I'm about to cry. I want to drive around aimlessly at 3 AM while listening to this album, get out of the car and run into a field, tumble into a ball and roll and then just sit there in dark moonlight and cry. Cry in a cathartic, everything-is-confusing-right-now-but-will-eventually- work-out kind of way because I still have time to discover what I want from the world. Their day is coming sooner than you think!

[Pipa]

Um...yeah. oscie is definitely fake.

[Mega248]

LOL I was just about to say "Oscillations. and penance anyone?" before I scrolled down.

I have a few songs of theirs on my computer. They're decent, but yeah, I've had a hard time getting super into them too.