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The Decemberists — Don't Carry It All
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: May 17, 2013 - 15:18
 
 

drivingunit103
(around the 4 western provinces)
Posted: May 04, 2013 - 08:24
 
 stackarukk wrote:


kinda reminds me of Blue Rodeo or Hootie and the Blowfish...

 
...and we need more Blue Rodeo... IMHO

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: May 04, 2013 - 08:23
 
This tune is about as regular and routine as a good, under rated bowel movement. Only difference is the BM is usually slightly different for each appearance. This tune?....not so much!

Thin_Air
Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 03:08
 
Sing don't shout.

TrixieUpNorth
Posted: Mar 31, 2013 - 19:38
 
Nice addition to the mix. Something not heard on a regular basis. 

Pezz9
Posted: Mar 06, 2013 - 16:55
 
Juvenile lyrics, try hard music- I'd rather listen to Billy Paul
offroadbiker
(gooder 'n grits)
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 08:56
 
So what if these lyrics evoke the memory of a 19th century poem.  It's poetry, and it's beautiful. 

SOME things that fly there be,—
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be,—
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this behooveth me. There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies! - Emily Dickinson

handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 08:42
 
 lbeaton wrote:

I like the song, but a vessel that has a head?
 
I think he's using the word metaphorically to mean "person" or possibly even "sentient being."

PLC
(London)
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 08:40
 
I like the poetic lyrics.  It's certainly more interesting than "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah"...

d48m02h1918
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 08:39
 
{#No}

lbeaton
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 08:39
 
 dig wrote:
A monument to build beneath the arbors
Upon a plinth that towers towards the trees
Let every vessel pitching hard to starboard
Lay its head on summer's freckled knees

So Annoying. Enough already.
 
I like the song, but yes. A verse that I thought started off pretty well ends in a solecism worthy of Neil Diamond. Surely they can do better.



oldsinger
(Wexford, PA)
Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 08:38
 
Very rare for me to have to hit the mute button on RP music

dig
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 14:47
 
A monument to build beneath the arbors
Upon a plinth that towers towards the trees
Let every vessel pitching hard to starboard
Lay its head on summer's freckled knees

So Annoying. Enough already.

Rafter101
(Davis, California)
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 14:45
 
Decemberists have one good album, and the rest is gag-me.  I wish they'd go away.

ezzyme
(Now in Santa Barbara, CA's suburb, Goleta.)
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 20:14
 
So, let's compare this with the Avett Brothers. Not too gimmicky, simple but honest, but with a bit of sophistication. Is that why I can still almost find pleasure listening to it?

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 20:12
 
Just finished a marathon washing up session (haven't joined the dish-washer era yet) and everything from Vince G to this number has had us grooving. Well done Bill.


jkamm14
(NJ, USA)
Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 10:13
 
Personally, I put all my Decemberists songs away in early January. 

ChicoCyclist
(Chico, CA)
Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 10:00
 
Quite like this one.  May have to go to a 9 to offset some of the haters.

Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont)
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 07:28
 
 KTransue wrote:
Hate the one-note harmony.  PSD.
 
{#Eh}

jaybax
(Melbourne, Australia)
Posted: Jan 21, 2013 - 15:44
 
First couple of plays I thought it was ok...but not now...PLEASE take it off the playlist for a while...TOO much.
Other than that, I love what you guys do! 

poetista
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 12:10
 
Like.

cShaggy
(..inna state of being..)
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 00:57
 
..this dude swears alot..8!..

abahilel
Posted: Dec 25, 2012 - 00:25
 
great song great band - play more songs of them

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Dec 24, 2012 - 23:36
 
very nice!

coyote620
(Near the river, USA)
Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 07:20
 
 
Agreed!
KTransue wrote:
Hate the one-note harmony.  PSD.
 



KTransue
(Halfway to everywhere)
Posted: Dec 02, 2012 - 16:10
 
Hate the one-note harmony.  PSD.

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 08:45
 
 MsJudi wrote:
8 ~> 9
 
I'm close to doing the same. Don't get the hate some seem to have for this one.

Quasita
(Omaha, NE)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 08:44
 
 Proclivities wrote:

It has a very similar drum-beat and a harmonica at the beginning - there are probably no notes in common, though.  It wouldn't surprise me if they were influenced by that tune, and it's not as if no one would point out the similarities.
 

and I was sitting here thinking this song reminded me of Bare Naked Ladies "broke into the old apartment, this is where we used to live" it's very similar.

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 08:43
 
Not a great song, not a bad band...but P U L E E Z....don't play this so often. SO SICK OF THIS!!!

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 15:16
 
The PSD button sure is getting a workout..

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 11:28
 
Been trying to figure out who had comparable vocal styles—the Continental Drifters with Peter Holsapple (dBs), Susan Cowsill (yes, of those Cowsills), and Vicki Peterson (Bangles). Their Vermillion is terrific.

Amarissey
(Between here and eternity)
Posted: Oct 06, 2012 - 08:44
 
 Donaldinho wrote:
One of my favourite live bands. They have a cultish following here in the UK, so the venues are always pretty small. Loved them on the Hazards of Love tour where they played the whole album straight through in the first half, then came back out for a back catalogue second half. The King is Dead is knowingly derivative in places - check Calamity Song (featuring Peter Buck) vs REM's Talk About The Passion - but it all works. Great stuff.
 

Re: the R.E.M. connection...sometimes it confuses me when Calamity Song comes up on shuffle on my iPod. I wonder if it's a different version of Talk About The Passion...and then I remember. It's not problematic for me, though. I enjoy the song completely.

jchrise
(Nebraska)
Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 14:25
 
 leafmold wrote:
I never used to like this band, but somehow they grew on me.
 
I never used to like this band, I still don't like this band, but somehow they grew an inflamed, puss-filled boil on me.

Donaldinho
(Winchester, UK)
Posted: Sep 18, 2012 - 02:08
 
One of my favourite live bands. They have a cultish following here in the UK, so the venues are always pretty small. Loved them on the Hazards of Love tour where they played the whole album straight through in the first half, then came back out for a back catalogue second half. The King is Dead is knowingly derivative in places - check Calamity Song (featuring Peter Buck) vs REM's Talk About The Passion - but it all works. Great stuff.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 08, 2012 - 11:27
 
 TJS wrote:

Yeah it was pretty much a note-for-note ripoff of "You Don't Know How It Feels".
 
It has a very similar drum-beat and a harmonica at the beginning - there are probably no notes in common, though.  It wouldn't surprise me if they were influenced by that tune, and it's not as if no one would point out the similarities.

minimole
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 19:19
 
Thank you RP, for the "PSD" button ...

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 08:49
 
Had to stop this nonsense.  Wow, I thought I was listening to top 40 mush instead of alternative radio.

KaiT
(Toronto Canada)
Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 08:45
 
 hayduke2 wrote:
quik mute to this crap 
 
Hear hear! Or not to hear hear.... = mute. Agreed! 

MsJudi
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Aug 26, 2012 - 08:40
 
8 ~> 9

ERERER
Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 13:46
 
Volume = zero

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 14:52
 
Like this

sheeelaaa
(where great wine begins)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 15:54
 
OUCH!!! My ears hurt from that segue.  outch, ouch.

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 15:53
 
God damn nattering nabobs of negativism.  {#Arrowd}

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Jul 07, 2012 - 13:46
 
Love the PSD button..LOVE

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Jul 07, 2012 - 13:45
 
 hayduke2 wrote:
quik mute to this crap 
 
here here

Patti
(the 'burbs of so cal)
Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 12:09
 
Count me in the "Like" column. 

leafmold
Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 12:09
 
I never used to like this band, but somehow they grew on me.

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Jun 24, 2012 - 12:34
 
quik mute to this crap 

ski19570
(Northern Sierras, California)
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 08:30
 
Just don't see the draw to this band.. Nothing special at all as far as I'm concerned..

Ljenny
Posted: Jun 05, 2012 - 19:29
 
Love the song, love the collection.