Whoa there man - Now though I agree that How It Feels is a fantastic
album, I have serious troubles calling either Built to Spill or Radiohead
"corny and lame" Built to Spill and SDRE are so far apart musically - how
can you compare them/ It's like trying to compare apples and oranges -
the sounds are far too different to really be compared. As for Radiohead,
all I have to say is if you find them "corny and lame" then I'd suggest
you see an audiologist. OK Computer is the "Dark Side of the Moon" for my
generation - its unbelievable, a consummate work of art. Where I find
SDRE limited is in cohesion - and though this is only a slight failing, it
still exists. Radiohead is the best band around today, and SDRE, though
one of my favourite bands, really cannot compete.
Just my thoughts.
Kanishka
KanishkakhsinaK
"Umlaut schwa circumflex"
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jed Thorn wrote:
> Yikes, I thought he was talking about LP2 as the mediocre album, not How it
> Feels. LP2 was mediocre by sdre standards, but awesome compared to any other
> band's. How it Feels is like one of the top 2 or 3 albums I've ever heard, and
> even if you didn't get into the music (which is barely conceivable), you can't
> deny that it's some really original shit, any way you look at it, and that it
> makes alternative bands that draw comparisons (like Built to Spill and Radiohead)
> seem corny and lame.
>
> sdre rules
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > my goodness, my brothers and sisters....
> > how it feels to be something on...Its not called "i wanted to be them/but
> > instead i destroyed.." its not called "christ has risen." the album by the
> > reformed sunny day real estate, missing one original member, following the
> > almost secretive implosion of LP2, and a bunch of whooey as far as what
> > would happen put out an album. a fan base that personally experienced the
> > magic that first turned our hearts in a unique way towards the songs of the
> > group found it weird if not a little unnerving upon first listen to the album
> > when the volume knob was turned up, but the noise remained clear and
> > distinct. it was not another album, it was a new one that came out at a time
> > when i needed it-an album that came out when a lot of people were praying for
> > it- when a lot of todays music had hit the NEW level of mediocrity. now i
> > wasnt around for the seventies, and the eighties seemed cool because thats
> > when i grew up to be a boy. but come the fuck on man, the music people are
> > being FED today(creed-anyone that may in some bleak way remind all of alice
> > in cahins-matchbox 20-hootie-the verve pipe-any band intent on calling
> > themselves progressive rock when all they do is rewrite hits form the
> > seventies-stone temple pilots)
> >
> > hiftbso- a beautiful album of barely controlled emotion, pushing at times so
> > hard against the ear and other times so inviting its sexual-how it feels to
> > be something on --==--not dead or alive or sad or happy or fucked up or
> > completely in control or out of it or on it or in it. its about being on.
> > not off.
> >
> > --ben
> >
> > "try to smile as...."
>
>
