On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:59:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated Mon, 22 May 2000 10:58:35 PM Eastern
> >>They opened for the
> >>Dismemberment Plan ( I didn't care for them though).
> >WHOA ???????????????
> >please xplain
> >how can you not like the d-plan ??????
> Agreed. With all due respect, I find it hard to see how sane people could
> not be insanely crazed about the D-Plan. At times, I think I like em
> better than Modest Mouse.
The first two times I saw the Dismemberment Plan I hated them. I
think it had a lot to do with the bands they were playing with.
The first time, they were between Rainer Maria and The Promise
Ring, and the second, they opened for The Alkaline Trio. I know
from past messages that the list concensus is these band suck.
But, hopefully, one can at least see that going to a show to see
these bands and expecting that pop-rock/punk or emo or argument
inciting label sound and then experiencing the Dismemberment Plan
makes it difficult to take them in. The sound effects, the keyboard,
the off kilter rhythms, the stuttered vocals, the violent starts
and stops aren't characteristic of most of the bands they play
with. These things stuck in my head weeks after I'd forgotten
about the Promise Ring's or Alkaline Trio's performance and I
eventually bought a copy of ``Emergency & I'' just to try and see
if the guitar riff from Life of Possibilities or the keyboard line
of The City etc. were like the stuff I had in my head. They were,
maybe even better, and the CD was all I listened to for weeks.
The crux of it, for me at least, was the context.
--
Ben Secrest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
