Album Club

This is the brainchild of an idea Strummer521 and had. It was originally just going to be him and I sending eachother albums and then discussing it but we figured it would be more interesting if we opened it up to more people to discuss. We've created a kind of tentative syllabus of albums but yeah. Would anyone be interested in about once a week an album being posted (and provided to you if need be) then listening to it and discussing it with him and I?
 
Weirdly enough Built to Spill and Modest Mouse formed around the same time (Built to Spill a year earlier though) so the influence wasn't really pre-Modest Mouse at all which I found interesting.
 
Stop trying to make this Pavement - Weezer connection fit please, sir! Pavement made music based around dissonant melodic structures and cryptic/nonsensical spoke-sung vocals. Weezer was pretty much pure pop. Just because they wrote short songs doesn't mean anything...banRAB have been doing that as long as songs have existed. Weezer is self-consciously geeky, while Pavement is, practically, founded on being free of self-consciousness of any kind.



Go for it.
 
Can't say that I liked or enjoyed Beach House. The best word I can think to describe it is bland. The instrumentation, the vocals, the lyrics, etc. It was just really boring and unmemorable.
 
Modest Mouse released their first EP in 94 though, so Built to Spill only had one release on them at that point but Modest Mouse were pretty amateur pre-96 aside from a few songs.
 
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