Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Fiery Furnaces
Friendly Fires
Foo Fighters

any more?

I do find their sound rather derivative of other groups - CSNY and My Morning Jacket especially - but this is breathtakingly beautiful, I may nevertheless wind up buying this album.

Looking forward to their new album.  This song is wonderful, makes me want to get into the Mountains, I think will.

And yet I think I like this song!

 vandal wrote: 

I actually like this song, but this made me laugh out loud...

 stonesmaster wrote: 

 Netto wrote: 

Yes, Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Netherlandish Proverbs

 vandal wrote: 
Liking this the more I hear it.  Up to an 8 for me.

still not liking this. . .

 Netto wrote: 
Hieronymous Bosch, I think, though I'm most definitely no art expert. What I do know is that it's way out of copyright, so it'll have cost zip to produce the cover. FF are yet another exponent of what I'd like to call Nu-Folk except that that term's been used in the past. Along with bands like Mumford & Sons and The Decemberists, this genre is starting to get a bit stereotyped and tedious, to my ears anyway.

Makes me want to be in the Appalachians on this beautiful fall day.

I saw them at the 2009 Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, CA. They came on just around sunset and it was a magical experience.

Yea, I like this band.

 choderama wrote: 
Ok, ok.  After analyzing the original post from which "in line with the critics" was excerpted in order to properly characterize the author's intent as being collinear with yours, I can conclude nothing.  So, you get the point on this one. . .

choderama: 1
vandal: 0

 vandal wrote: 
I always got your point, and I see your theory and what you're getting at with credibility by association. But there is no rule that says by saying that your opinion is "in line" with someone elses means that you're seeking credibility, it could easily be a totally unrelated and independent association, unless you felt this fellow was somehow bragging about it.

If I say that I like sandwiches just like Subway Jared, I'm just mentioning him because I know he likes sandwiches also, and it adds a current-events/witty spin to my comment. I would still like sandwiches the same even if Jared didn't exist - and I'm not trying to do it to make myself look more credible, it was just a relateable comment.

I felt that this posters comment was under the same theme that he knows from all the pop culture talk that this song was a critically acclaimed song, so he just mentioned it as a relateable side-note (I mean, this is a site where we RATE and JUDGE songs - pretty appropriate to note people who do it as a living, even if bias), not to gain credibility or confirm his adoration of the song.

A perfect 10.

 choderama wrote: 
Are you sure that's what he meant?  Did you ask? 

Allow me to clarify that point: To state that one's opinion is in line with another is to seek credibility by association; its called "The Fallacy of Appeal to Authority."  In this case, the authority is the critics.  Just because his opinion aligns with theirs does not necessarily mean anything.  Furthermore, it needs to satisfy both of two conditions in order not to be fallacious.  The first condition for credibility is that the alleged authority be competent— an expert on the subject matter in question.  I'm not going to touch this one.  The second condition is that the alleged authority be objective. Bingo!  No critic is objective - it is his/her subjectivity for which s/he gets paid. 

Back to my original point: Who cares what the critics think? 

 vandal wrote: 

I agree - but he didn't say that he did care what they think, or say that he liked the song because the critics like it. He just said that for this song in particular his taste happens to be in line with the critics because he likes the song as do they. That implied that there are times where it may not be in line with the critics, so your comment didn't make much sense as a response.

Some watercolor-rainy sound.. Coverwork is fine — Pieter Bruegel (?)

 choderama wrote: 
Who really cares what the critics think?   When it comes to art an individual should only care about what they think. 

 coolpeople_rule wrote: 

Thanks!

 ashjonesie wrote: 

You have good taste!

I am in love with this song and this band. Enough said.

this song makes me want to go there.

 vandal wrote: 

What?

I like most of their stuff and even own their LP's but the Chinese feel to the music somehow just doesn't mash with Blue Ridge Mountains to me...

 Papernapkin wrote: 
Who are you - Phil Spector?  There are plenty of great recordings which employed heavy reverb.  Like any other recording technique, it can be over-used, but I'm not so sure about it being an indicator for psychological analysis.  To my ears, it works well in this song, though I know a lot of folks are annoyed by 'heavy' reverb.  To each his own, I guess.

 vandal wrote: 
I needed a good laugh and you supplied it. Thanks Man!

Strange that we disagree so vehemently on this band. When I check your favorites there are many on your list that I love too. One thing that I'm sure we can both endorse: the idea of RP being a Justin Bieber free zone.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
yes, and they would fit nicely on your list. . .