Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumThe Decemberists - Calamity Song
I never quite got the hype behind them, but here's a song that sounds like Life's Rich Pageant-era REM, and has an amazing video recreation of the best part of Infinite Jest:
Good stuff
cayugafalls
(5,629 posts)They have some good music. Here is a great video of a live performance.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Since Peter Buck plays on it, and two others on the album.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this entire album. Every single song is very good to great.
If you've never heard it ... you should
I don't love all their songs (and I've heard them all), but The King is Dead is an amazing album. Esp. the song June Hymn.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Of course, so many guitarists over the years have copied Buck's style that it's just one one the building blocks of rock at this point.
Hmm, looking at track listings, it looks like Gillian Welch & David Rawlings played on a few songs on this album too. Maybe I should give it another shot.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)The lines where he seems to be talking to a boy (Henry), it's to his autistic son ...
MissLilyBart
(96 posts)especially their earlier work. (Me, I love some tunes about brigands, waifs, odalisques, and wastrels! And they are a KILLER live band.)
At their most REM-esque: