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 Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:25 am 
Just look at these song titles, the guy is right: "I wasn't prepared (for teddy to go in the wash)" "Kaleidoscope Eyes" "Brightly Wound Slinky" "Marvelous Playthings" "Plenty of paper for drawerins" "One day my balloon slowly floated away" "Play just like we do"  _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:41 am
Quote: Plenty of paper for drawerins I want that song.  _________________ "A little less love, a little more common decency." - Kurt Vonnegut |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:57 am
TheAntrider wrote: Just look at these song titles, the guy is right:
"I wasn't prepared (for teddy to go in the wash)" "Kaleidoscope Eyes" "Brightly Wound Slinky" "Marvelous Playthings" "Plenty of paper for drawerins" "One day my balloon slowly floated away" "Play just like we do" hahaha, jamie, you rock so much. |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:13 pm
nevernever wrote: TheAntrider wrote: Just look at these song titles, the guy is right:
"I wasn't prepared (for teddy to go in the wash)" "Kaleidoscope Eyes" "Brightly Wound Slinky" "Marvelous Playthings" "Plenty of paper for drawerins" "One day my balloon slowly floated away" "Play just like we do" hahaha, jamie, you rock so much. i concur. haha. _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:58 pm
I like the album. It's quite wonderful. Of course I would have liked more songs that hadn't been on the 2 eps, but that's okay. And I prefer the older recording of Telescope Eyes, but doesn't everyone? Yeah, so other than that, the album was a superb first album. I can't wait to hear the next one! _________________ - Jessica ------------------------------------------------------- "So many bands are like painters standing in front of their paintings going, 'Look at me, I did this.' It's like, 'Get out the way, I can't see it.'" - Dougie Payne, bassist of Travis ================================ http://www.xanga.com/madsenfan35 |
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Post subject: I don't feel quite so unsimilar... Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:03 pm
I had that experience with Room Noises. I loved Eisley's stuff I heard before it, such as Telescope Eyes, Memories and Marvelous Things. I was excited for the album, but once I heard it, I kind of got turned off. My like for the band persisted after it. Once I did hear some of their older(and still better now, I think) songs, like Head Against the Sky, Mr. Pine, and dear god, Laughing City!!(one of the most beautiful songs), was when i became like...a FAN. and that's only when I started to like Room Noises better and saw some of the really cool lyrics and stuff like One Day I Slowly Floated Away, Golly Sandra, Lost at Sea, and Just Like We Do. I still think some of their decisions are too label influenced and the album is over produced. The songs of the Room Noises era are also very vocal based, rather than musically(instrumental) based, which is not the direction they were in/are headed. Eisley are lucky to have the musical synchronicity that they have, something they didn't showcase much on Room Noises. I've heard Many Funerals and effing love it, and am confident I will like Eisley's new album if they're allowed to make the album they have the potential for. |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:19 pm
All i've learned about and from this band and other bands is that it's very difficult to connect the dots. From early ep's to Room Noises, from notions of label tampering to overproduction, from understanding the past to forecasting the future, from home spun recordings to 4 different producers in 5 different studios...it's a labyrinth of complexities, a conundrum of emotional, physical, accidental variables... I see it up close, from the inside, I form my own opinions, have my own fears, am in touch with theirs...present and past. Expectations are all over the map, depending on your vantage point and self interest. All I know for sure, is that Eisley is in charge. It may or may not mean we'll all get what we want out of the next record. I'm convinced they'll do their best to make a great record...a record that's theirs. I can't say that "raw" is at the top of their list... I can't say they want it to "rock" more... I can't say that "Many Funerals" is at the center, I know "head against the sky" is not even in the circle, I can't say they're up for "dreamy/magical #2", I can't say it'll be a logical next step, I can't say it'll be their "ok computer" - especially since they don't have a "The Bends". As frustrated as I am over the words of critics who wield their words like swords, there is some truth to the fact that the band was very young when they wrong many of the songs on Room Noises. In no way was it immature; but in every way, they are older... and I know they see the world differently. Their experiences in this unforgiving industry are part of them. I think this record will be be slightly more literal, more direct, more honest... One thing is for sure, Stacy will be contributing more than on the last record. Both Stacy and Sherri will weigh in equally and together... that means, there will be some of Stacy's weirdness and much of Sherri's classic emotion...and there's the chance that a 3rd writer has awakened the dawn. I'd expect a uniquely catchy, indie-pop record with hints of the past, present and future. But like I said, it's impossible to connect the dots. It's impossible to understand and get a working model for how this has come about and where it's going. I think there's much riding on this record for Eisley. But they're not green and naive anymore; they're tougher, tighter, less inhibited. I think you're going to see changes... evident in the next record and in their live shows. _________________ EisleyWebGuy "The industrialists never saw the fruit of their own labor - Post Moderism, which I now proclaim as dead. Their forefathers digital revolutionists, have accelerated the final resolve by punctuating an end to our chaotic journey with a new manifesto and a new era: The Age of Meaning." (manifesto's sold separate) Welcome: Illuminists |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:40 am
boyd wrote: All i've learned about and from this band and other bands is that it's very difficult to connect the dots. From early ep's to Room Noises, from notions of label tampering to overproduction, from understanding the past to forecasting the future, from home spun recordings to 4 different producers in 5 different studios...it's a labyrinth of complexities, a conundrum of emotional, physical, accidental variables... I see it up close, from the inside, I form my own opinions, have my own fears, am in touch with theirs...present and past. Expectations are all over the map, depending on your vantage point and self interest. All I know for sure, is that Eisley is in charge. It may or may not mean we'll all get what we want out of the next record. I'm convinced they'll do their best to make a great record...a record that's theirs. I can't say that "raw" is at the top of their list... I can't say they want it to "rock" more... I can't say that "Many Funerals" is at the center, I know "head against the sky" is not even in the circle, I can't say they're up for "dreamy/magical #2", I can't say it'll be a logical next step, I can't say it'll be their "ok computer" - especially since they don't have a "The Bends". As frustrated as I am over the words of critics who wield their words like swords, there is some truth to the fact that the band was very young when they wrong many of the songs on Room Noises. In no way was it immature; but in every way, they are older... and I know they see the world differently. Their experiences in this unforgiving industry are part of them. I think this record will be be slightly more literal, more direct, more honest... One thing is for sure, Stacy will be contributing more than on the last record. Both Stacy and Sherri will weigh in equally and together... that means, there will be some of Stacy's weirdness and much of Sherri's classic emotion...and there's the chance that a 3rd writer has awakened the dawn. I'd expect a uniquely catchy, indie-pop record with hints of the past, present and future. But like I said, it's impossible to connect the dots. It's impossible to understand and get a working model for how this has come about and where it's going. I think there's much riding on this record for Eisley. But they're not green and naive anymore; they're tougher, tighter, less inhibited. I think you're going to see changes... evident in the next record and in their live shows. Bravo, Boyd. Just remember paragraphs, =P _________________ EisleyForever wrote: you're A-list in my heart! MAKECOLDPLAYHISTORY |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:41 am
Kappa962 wrote: I agree with the point about Room Noises being slightly overproduced, but it is still a really freakin good album. I have maintained that stance from the beginning. JD _________________ "Well, hopefully that's our job, to strap rockets onto everything." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:45 am
jdstories wrote: Kappa962 wrote: I agree with the point about Room Noises being slightly overproduced, but it is still a really freakin good album. I have maintained that stance from the beginning. JD Yes. We kill the poor thing with overanalyzation. Maybe we'll give it an easier time when they (hopefully) have three other albums out or something. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:48 am
TheAntrider wrote: jdstories wrote: Kappa962 wrote: I agree with the point about Room Noises being slightly overproduced, but it is still a really freakin good album. I have maintained that stance from the beginning. JD Yes. We kill the poor thing with overanalyzation. Maybe we'll give it an easier time when they (hopefully) have three other albums out or something. I'd like to think that I'm not so fickle. JD _________________ "Well, hopefully that's our job, to strap rockets onto everything." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:50 am
jdstories wrote: TheAntrider wrote: jdstories wrote: Kappa962 wrote: I agree with the point about Room Noises being slightly overproduced, but it is still a really freakin good album. I have maintained that stance from the beginning. JD Yes. We kill the poor thing with overanalyzation. Maybe we'll give it an easier time when they (hopefully) have three other albums out or something. I'd like to think that I'm not so fickle. JD Same here. I like it now, and I'm going to most likely like it in five years. I like albums for what they are, and not what I wanted them to be. I think that's the problem a lot of people have. Personal expectations ruin a lot of great music for people. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:30 am
good talk, boyd. It's the small insecurities I pick up on the album that make me think the way I do about it. It's all subtle. But when you listen to a lot of good music, the subtleties matter. jamie: (maybe) It's not that I was expecting something different from what they gave me. It's that I was hearing something that wasn't them. (who am I to decide what IS eisley? right?) no. not like that. I have a friend who spent months teaching himself Beethoven's "Fur Elise", but because he's never played a piano in his life (he DID learn the song), I could pick up on the subtle lack of inflection and dynamics that told me he's doing something he's not knowledgeable (comfortable) with. (the metaphor's there, don't take it literally, i shouldn't have used a music example) I hate trying to put this stuff into words. It's all just a feeling thing. To a close friend, feelings matter, and everybody listens to each other. Nobody knows me, but I care about eisley. |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:00 am
Kappa962 wrote: But the idea that songs written by young girls can't be worth listening to is ludicrous. One of the primary beauties of art is that it allows you, a little bit, to see life from someone else's perspective. C.S. Lewis wrote "I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee" I think this is an excellent point. How can you completely undermind an entire stage of life and act as if the artistic expression that comes from that time is not "real" enough or worthwhile because it isn't "adult" enough. I like Room Noises...I do think it has a bit of an over-produced fell in some songs. I do favor the more mystifying older stuff anyway, and I look forward to all these sounds meshing and swirling and new things coming in and then hearing what the future has in store. _________________ -Brooke |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:23 am
I don't agree with that article at all. It's the most wonderful album ever created. And I think he should learn how to spell Stacy's name. |
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