We're in a golden age for pure songwriting, with rare talents like [Death Cab dude Ben] Gibbard, the Shins' James Mercer and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy revitalizing the four-minute pop song and making a case that, in fact, it hasn't all been done before.

I don't want to tell them their job, but I bet they could revitalize the four-minute pop song a whole lot better by shaving off another minute or so.

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA

December 2003

SEP 15, 2005 11:06 PM

10 second pop perfection:

Your ass
is like a box of gravel
Whenever I touch it
I'm rocked

Chorus:
Nana-hey-hey
ROCKED!

Da-do-doo
Da-do-doo
...
ROCKED!

followed by a 2 second moog outro.

Jimbo

Dallas, TX

August 2003

SEP 15, 2005 11:10 PM

pesh.. this speaks to me

She was a really good friend
A really good friend to me, yeah
She was a really good friend
A really good friend to me, yeah

But they took her away
Tossed her in the bin
Now she's hanging out
In East Berlin, ow-ooo

She had a very bad affair
With some cat from Hiroshima
She turned into a head of lettuce
She eats Thorazine in her farina
But they took her away
Tossed her in the bin
Now she's hanging out
In East Berlin, ow-ooo

And everytime I eat vegetables
It makes me think of you
And everytime I eat vegetables
I don't know what to do, to do ow-ooo

imustbestopped

I'm lost

January 2004

SEP 15, 2005 11:16 PM

These articles are starting to look like NMEs 'THE NEW SMITHS' declaration. I thought 'rock' was supposed to have come back when The Strokes released their debut.

Lemonkid

Canada

May 2003

SEP 15, 2005 11:20 PM

4 minutes sounds like three minutes of pure FAT to me.

gauss

I'm lost

September 2005

SEP 16, 2005 12:09 AM

Lemonkid said:
4 minutes sounds like three minutes of pure FAT to me.

three minutes and 30 seconds of fat!

benjiB

Richmond, VA

November 2004

SEP 16, 2005 05:15 AM

We didn't have it this good when I was your age, sonny.

Huck

United Kingdom

July 2004

SEP 16, 2005 05:16 AM

it always amuses/incenses me when the press announce a new revival or zenith or craze, seemingly for the sole reason that they have decided it's the case so they'll have BIG news to report.

no scene or style ever comes and goes like an explosion in the night; all that changes is the press' focus of attention.

i'm in a bad mood today.

februaryscarves

Byron, IL

April 2005

SEP 16, 2005 05:53 AM

I think it's really funny when the press jumps on a bunch of bands that have been around for years, names a revival so that they can sell issues of their shitty magazines and continue to sell soft drinks and shoes. Fuck the press.

XanderPhoto

Camp Dennison, OH

June 2005

SEP 16, 2005 06:05 AM

I think there'll be a revolution when the "mainstream" artists decide to stop caring what the corporations say the people want to hear and start to produce their own sounds again, as opposed to just sounding like every other band out there.

gauss

I'm lost

September 2005

SEP 16, 2005 07:58 AM

XanderPhoto said:
I think there'll be a revolution when the "mainstream" artists decide to stop caring what the corporations say the people want to hear and start to produce their own sounds again, as opposed to just sounding like every other band out there.

it's not that they sound like that because they're mainstream, it's that they're mainstream because they sound like that.

LL_Bean_J

Portland, ME

May 2003

SEP 17, 2005 11:34 AM

I thought this was going to be a Todd Rundgren thread.

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Oakland, CA

May 2005

SEP 15, 2005 10:17 PM

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December 2003

SEP 15, 2005 11:06 PM

Dallas, TX

August 2003

SEP 15, 2005 11:10 PM

imustbestopped

I'm lost

January 2004

SEP 15, 2005 11:16 PM

Canada

May 2003

SEP 15, 2005 11:20 PM

I'm lost

September 2005

SEP 16, 2005 12:09 AM

Richmond, VA

November 2004

SEP 16, 2005 05:15 AM

United Kingdom

July 2004

SEP 16, 2005 05:16 AM

Byron, IL

April 2005

SEP 16, 2005 05:53 AM

Camp Dennison, OH

June 2005

SEP 16, 2005 06:05 AM

I'm lost

September 2005

SEP 16, 2005 07:58 AM

Portland, ME

May 2003

SEP 17, 2005 11:34 AM