Wow, listening to new REM music is like trying to focus on a senile grandparent trying to re-tell the great glories of his or her past. Not a comment on their age, but ever since they changed drummers they have sounded like a bad tribute band to themselves. That was another awful piece of nothing... Man, I guess I get pretty grumpy in the morning... Time to get up. Oh, and this clip seems pointless
Craptastic I can't decide if that song or the standard Guggenheim pamphlet Pitchfork write-up are more infuriating. Give me The Pixies every time.
Also I think her acting is good. When I think Hillary I dont think vivacious. She could be honed. This is sketch comedy we're talking about after all, not Oliver Stone's NIXON 2: PANTSUIT.
The whitening strip thing is genius. The flat midwestern thing is a little overdone, but who cares, that is hilarious. Because, deep down, she is really shallow.
Posted by TomCodyPleasedtameetcha at February 6, 2008 11:40 PM
To be fair to REM RE: The Pixies-comparisons, if the Pixies ever manage to make that fifth album it will probably sound as stale as REM. I saw them twice on their reunion tour and withing a month of a great first show the spark was completely gone second time around. REM should probably call it quits, they are spoiling their legacy every year of their existence
I'm Pixies all the way as well. I have a German bootleg from '91 where they start playing "Broken Face" and you hear someone next to the recorder say, "Broke...face?" One of the funniest things I've ever heard.
Bottom line on this video... it's not funny. Her voice is funny because of its accuracy and that's about it.
The REM v. Pixies argument. It's like cats v. dogs. Here's a news item for you....You can like BOTH!
It's like Radiohead's Thom Yorke said at Coachella: "In college Pixies and REM saved my life"... or something to that effect.
And for all you lazy bastards that missed it in the theaters, "The Assasination of Jesse James By the Sniveling Pussy Robert Ford" is out on DVD. See it!
MAGGA, if you want to hear that Pixies album, pick up last year's Black Francis solo album, Bluefinger. This is not confirmed, but rumor is that Bluefinger was the new Pixies album, but when Frank couldn't work anything out with Kim Deal for the royalties, he took his songs and recorded them with session players.
It is certainly the most "Pixiesish" of his solo stuff. And it is nothing like the empty shit that REM is pumping out.
The bang-bang-bang of REM's "Green", "Out of Time" and "Automatic For the People" is hard to beat. It was a band at their peak, and those are three bonafide masterpieces. I know the purists yelled "sell-out" when they signed to Warner Bros., and they like to say that it was all down hill after "Chronic Town" so they can sound hip, but fuck em. For as great as "Reckoning" and "Life's rich Pageant are, (and they really, really are), REM truly peaked during that '88-'92 period.
For me they were THE band of the 1980's. More so than U2, who are usually given that title.
Agreed, Walter, those albums are near-masterpieces except Automatic, which is bona fide. But U2 are far from the best band of the eighties in my view. Even with only two and a half records The Pixies pummeled them, and to me Sonic Youth were the band of that decade, before going on to be the band of the nineties and the best guitar band of this decade (yes, I love NYC Ghos And Flowers). Right now electronic music is where the greatest innovation and best music happens (Aphex Twin is on par with Dylan in my book) but the eighties were an incredible time for guitar music, even if I was to young to get it at the time (I loved Bon Jovi at the time, but hey, I turned ten only after the decade passed). With all the political posts on this site it might be fun to indulge in some musical debate as well...
no offense christian, really, but where i came from it was mostly teenage girls mooning after simon le bon, who was nothing if not pretentious. you're right about the college rock, but we only seemed pretentious because we were insecure.
i hated DD when they were popular, but got into them after their heyday. i liked lebon's pretensions and he inspired me to read poets like Blake. they wrote great pop songs.
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BurmaShave
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Best impersonation of her I've ever seen. SNL needs to snatch this person up immediately.
Posted by BurmaShave
at February 6, 2008 8:42 PM
comment #2
D.Z.
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Beyond A Reasonable Doubt remake. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117980298&cs=1
Is New Line splitting w/ TW?
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980292.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Posted by D.Z.
at February 6, 2008 9:17 PM
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Wrecktum
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She's got Hillary's flat Chicago accent nailed but she ain't funny.
Posted by Wrecktum
at February 6, 2008 9:17 PM
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Craptastic
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The voice is perfect but the acting and the content is flat as hell. Seems like she's focusing on the voice so much she forgot to act.
In the meantime... rock out to the new R.E.M. song. It's as if Peter Buck thought it himself, "Wait. My amp has a distortion option?"
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/48521-rem-supernatural-superserious-stream
Posted by Craptastic
at February 6, 2008 10:12 PM
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The Winchester
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Peter Hyams didn't direct Robocop.
Posted by The Winchester
at February 6, 2008 10:21 PM
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MAGGA
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Wow, listening to new REM music is like trying to focus on a senile grandparent trying to re-tell the great glories of his or her past. Not a comment on their age, but ever since they changed drummers they have sounded like a bad tribute band to themselves. That was another awful piece of nothing... Man, I guess I get pretty grumpy in the morning... Time to get up. Oh, and this clip seems pointless
Posted by MAGGA
at February 6, 2008 10:59 PM
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BurmaShave
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Craptastic I can't decide if that song or the standard Guggenheim pamphlet Pitchfork write-up are more infuriating. Give me The Pixies every time.
Also I think her acting is good. When I think Hillary I dont think vivacious. She could be honed. This is sketch comedy we're talking about after all, not Oliver Stone's NIXON 2: PANTSUIT.
Posted by BurmaShave
at February 6, 2008 11:14 PM
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TomCodyPleasedtameetcha
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The whitening strip thing is genius. The flat midwestern thing is a little overdone, but who cares, that is hilarious. Because, deep down, she is really shallow.
Posted by TomCodyPleasedtameetcha
at February 6, 2008 11:40 PM
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MAGGA
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To be fair to REM RE: The Pixies-comparisons, if the Pixies ever manage to make that fifth album it will probably sound as stale as REM. I saw them twice on their reunion tour and withing a month of a great first show the spark was completely gone second time around. REM should probably call it quits, they are spoiling their legacy every year of their existence
Posted by MAGGA
at February 7, 2008 12:30 AM
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Craptastic
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Burma...
I'm Pixies all the way as well. I have a German bootleg from '91 where they start playing "Broken Face" and you hear someone next to the recorder say, "Broke...face?" One of the funniest things I've ever heard.
Bottom line on this video... it's not funny. Her voice is funny because of its accuracy and that's about it.
Funny about Nixon.... and the tie-in.
Posted by Craptastic
at February 7, 2008 12:35 AM
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Josh Massey
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Wow, that was remarkably unfunny. It had to be from the writers of Meet the Spartans. "Somebody doing an imitation is funny in itself!"
Posted by Josh Massey
at February 7, 2008 3:43 AM
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JHRussell
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That would be funny if it were only...funny...
Posted by JHRussell
at February 7, 2008 4:28 AM
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Josh Massey
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Now this is high comedy.
Posted by Josh Massey
at February 7, 2008 4:45 AM
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Rob
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Sorry, Jeff. Not nearly as funny as this shit:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BHEO_fG3mm4
Posted by Rob
at February 7, 2008 8:25 AM
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Walter Sobchak
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The REM v. Pixies argument. It's like cats v. dogs. Here's a news item for you....You can like BOTH!
It's like Radiohead's Thom Yorke said at Coachella: "In college Pixies and REM saved my life"... or something to that effect.
And for all you lazy bastards that missed it in the theaters, "The Assasination of Jesse James By the Sniveling Pussy Robert Ford" is out on DVD. See it!
Now, back to Obama-Elsewhere.com.
Posted by Walter Sobchak
at February 7, 2008 8:43 AM
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Bocephus
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MAGGA, if you want to hear that Pixies album, pick up last year's Black Francis solo album, Bluefinger. This is not confirmed, but rumor is that Bluefinger was the new Pixies album, but when Frank couldn't work anything out with Kim Deal for the royalties, he took his songs and recorded them with session players.
It is certainly the most "Pixiesish" of his solo stuff. And it is nothing like the empty shit that REM is pumping out.
Posted by Bocephus
at February 7, 2008 8:48 AM
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SlipstreamStarling
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nice burn, Rob!!
Posted by SlipstreamStarling
at February 7, 2008 9:54 AM
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christian
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All my hipster friends loved REM and the Pixies equally. Not me. But I grew to really like REM later.
Posted by christian
at February 7, 2008 9:58 AM
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christian
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And I love their 1999 disc UP. My friends hated that one. But it's pretty great. And for a great year.
Posted by christian
at February 7, 2008 10:01 AM
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Zimmergirl
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Na, this one is the best:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EAcxgP077rw
DRAINAGE!
Posted by Zimmergirl
at February 7, 2008 10:31 AM
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christian
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I couldn't make it past the first two seconds.
Posted by christian
at February 7, 2008 10:47 AM
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Zimmergirl
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Oh come on, the ending is the best part.
Posted by Zimmergirl
at February 7, 2008 10:58 AM
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Walter Sobchak
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The bang-bang-bang of REM's "Green", "Out of Time" and "Automatic For the People" is hard to beat. It was a band at their peak, and those are three bonafide masterpieces. I know the purists yelled "sell-out" when they signed to Warner Bros., and they like to say that it was all down hill after "Chronic Town" so they can sound hip, but fuck em. For as great as "Reckoning" and "Life's rich Pageant are, (and they really, really are), REM truly peaked during that '88-'92 period.
For me they were THE band of the 1980's. More so than U2, who are usually given that title.
Posted by Walter Sobchak
at February 7, 2008 11:39 AM
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MAGGA
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Agreed, Walter, those albums are near-masterpieces except Automatic, which is bona fide. But U2 are far from the best band of the eighties in my view. Even with only two and a half records The Pixies pummeled them, and to me Sonic Youth were the band of that decade, before going on to be the band of the nineties and the best guitar band of this decade (yes, I love NYC Ghos And Flowers). Right now electronic music is where the greatest innovation and best music happens (Aphex Twin is on par with Dylan in my book) but the eighties were an incredible time for guitar music, even if I was to young to get it at the time (I loved Bon Jovi at the time, but hey, I turned ten only after the decade passed). With all the political posts on this site it might be fun to indulge in some musical debate as well...
Posted by MAGGA
at February 7, 2008 1:12 PM
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christian
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I prefer Duran Duran and the New Romantics music movement of the decade. More melody. less noise.
But then, I'm not a birkenstock wearin' dirt childe like Walter...
Posted by christian
at February 7, 2008 2:57 PM
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polevod
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Duran Duran???? I will never read your posts the same way again.
First saw REM in '83 in Athens, GA. Had never heard of them and they blew me away. Murmur is the best album the band put out. Ever.
But for me, in the 80's: Talking Heads, even tho they started in the 70's.
Posted by polevod
at February 7, 2008 5:01 PM
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christian
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DD puts on the best concerts around. And they've influenced a shitload of folks.
And it was Andy Taylor who rescued Sex Pistol Steve Jones from the streets. They recorded a top 20 hit together. Thas right.
REM Pixies Talking Heads were college rock for often pretentious hipsters. I like 'em, but it's not my style.
Posted by christian
at February 7, 2008 5:28 PM
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polevod
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no offense christian, really, but where i came from it was mostly teenage girls mooning after simon le bon, who was nothing if not pretentious. you're right about the college rock, but we only seemed pretentious because we were insecure.
Posted by polevod
at February 7, 2008 9:17 PM
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christian
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i hated DD when they were popular, but got into them after their heyday. i liked lebon's pretensions and he inspired me to read poets like Blake. they wrote great pop songs.
Posted by christian
at February 7, 2008 10:52 PM