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cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 03:22 AM Feb 2021

The 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:

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Good stuff
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The Decemberists - Calamity Song (Original Post) cemaphonic Feb 2021 OP
Nice selection. cayugafalls Feb 2021 #1
I've posted this song a few times ... and it's not coincidence it sounds like REM mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #2
lol, should have known cemaphonic Feb 2021 #3
Here's a fave from it, and this live version is killer ... mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #4
The Ds can be an acquired taste for some... MissLilyBart Feb 2021 #5
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. I've posted this song a few times ... and it's not coincidence it sounds like REM
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 04:26 AM
Feb 2021

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)
3. lol, should have known
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 02:13 PM
Feb 2021

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)
4. Here's a fave from it, and this live version is killer ...
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 02:15 PM
Feb 2021

The lines where he seems to be talking to a boy (Henry), it's to his autistic son ...

MissLilyBart

(96 posts)
5. The Ds can be an acquired taste for some...
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 06:38 PM
Feb 2021

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:

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