Sonic Youth Gossip - No Age is slowly growing on me

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- - No Age is slowly growing on me (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=29119)

sarramkrop

01.26.2009 08:05 PM

i like one song. The rest is background rock.

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 09:44 AM

"boring mundane mediocre rock shit" does not describe NO AGE

it describes Counting Crows, or the wallflowers or soul asylum, maybe, but not a skronk loving rock band like No age.

atsonicpark

01.27.2009 09:52 AM

No it applies to No Age. Counting Crows, the Wallflowers, and Soul Asylum are all soft rock though.

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 09:59 AM

No age rules. yr ears are jaded.

atsonicpark

01.27.2009 10:00 AM

I guess I'm just not as easily impressed as most people.

Decayed Rhapsody

01.27.2009 11:04 AM

And the vocals are goddamn annoying. I have a high tolerance for 'bad singers' but that dude is completely tuneless.

chairman of the bored

01.27.2009 11:45 AM

"boring mundane mediocre rock shit"...pretty much. see i love punk stuff so i gave them several listens to all these claims about them being an awesome punk band. so wrong. and they're even less skronk than they are punk. but lets not deteriorate into genre discussion.

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 12:37 PM

stop worrying about labels
it's just a band
and I, and lots others, enjoy their RAWK

Bollocks_to_Pop

01.27.2009 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

stop worrying about labels
it's just a band
and I, and lots others, enjoy their RAWK

Here here!

uhler

01.27.2009 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

sure dude, especially fucked "we're innovative because we write 6 minute punk songs that are boring as shit" up.

early fucked up are amazing. they are great live too.

uhler

01.27.2009 01:32 PM

mika miko>>>>>>no age

SYRFox

01.27.2009 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Bollocks_to_Pop

The thing I like about No Age is that they're totally not pretentious. I've seen them live twice now and they put on a really good show, but afterwards they're totally cool about talking with people. I've talked to Randy twice for a bit and he's a real cool guy.

In regards to their music, I'm not going to try and argue that it's really "original". However I find for me that it's just really fun to put on one of their records and rock out to it. I like how some of their songs are high energy punk songs and then there are the more ambient noise tracks (for lack of a better term) as well. Brain Burner is one of my favorite songs of theirs but Everybody's Down is their best to see live.

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Originally Posted by uhler

mika miko>>>>>>no age

I like Mika Miko, but I don't think they're as good as No Age to be honest. Business Cats and Capricorinations are amazing songs, but overall their album is weaker than both No Age CDs

uhler

01.27.2009 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SYRFox

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I like Mika Miko, but I don't think they're as good as No Age to be honest. Business Cats and Capricorinations are amazing songs, but overall their album is weaker than both No Age CDs

i think their overall releases and live show are a whole lot better than no age. "nouns" was good upon first listen, but now i can't listen to it.

it's a sleep over fest without the party. just the sleep.

the "666" ep is my favorite mika miko release.

SYRFox

01.27.2009 02:33 PM

I've yet to see Mika Miko live, I think they never came this side of the Atlantic - at least they never came near Lille. No Age however I've seen last year and they put on a very good show, though the crowd wasn't really into it (it was in a small festival, in a room, and after no age played two techno bands, which most people came to see).
I like Mika Miko's album over the 666 EP, but that might be cause I haven't listened to it too often.

I think Nouns' second half is really fantastic. Those six last songs are fulled with energy, they give me an urge to shake my head, which is exactly what i ask them - though it can be a drawback in the subway

king_buzzo

01.27.2009 03:00 PM

i dont get how people can not like this album. its epic.

sarramkrop

01.27.2009 07:12 PM

No Age died slowly on me.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead

01.27.2009 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

I just think they're boring as fuck. Boring badly recorded shit (that doesn't benefit from being lo-fi).

I felt like that at first, but then on repeated listenings and with cranked volume the hooks really started working their magic.

Rob Instigator

01.28.2009 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by uhler

it's a sleep over fest without the party. just the sleep.

that's how AC make me feel.

wellcharge

01.28.2009 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

No age rules. yr ears are jaded.

truth^

atsonicpark

01.28.2009 09:30 PM

You can probably train yourself to appreciate any aspect of a band if you want to. If you want to give any band enough time and listen 500 times and waste your life, sure, you can find plenty of little things you like about them. No Age has a few little things I like about them, but then I'm not quick to completely hate almost any band that isn't name the Mars Volta. I'm just saying, it's still boring crap that doesn't do anything special. It's fine if you like it. They're just not terribly important or doing anything terribly special, from any angle.

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