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Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
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jdemmers
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: Mar 28, 2013 - 11:01
 
For some reason (I suspect the irritating quality of their harmonies) these guys bug the hell out of me.  Highly overrated.

cShaggy
Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 03:51
 
..why do i catch undertones of Simon & Garfunkel from these cats?..prolly just me, and they don't measure up to That standard (yet, at least)..still nothing wrong with this one..nothing overwhelming either, but not every tune is a magnum opus..
xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone)
Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 22:05
 
 Stingray wrote:

Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days? This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.


 

 

I AGREE WITH THE ORIGINAL COMMENT!

200%

 
Big red font doesn't make it any less ignorant, Ray.



Stingray
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 04:14
 

Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days? This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.


 jhorton wrote:


I nominate this for the most ignorant comment ever posted on RP.
 

 

I AGREE WITH THE ORIGINAL COMMENT!

200%



Stingray
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 04:11
 
SUPER SUCKO!

kdarwish
(Turku, Finland)
Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 00:14
 
Ohh...Brave New World... Aldous Huxley would be pleased too, much thanks!

dig
Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 17:02
 
 bjesch wrote:
Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days?  This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.
 
Fleet Foxes came first. Mumford & Sons sounds like the same crap as Fleet Foxes. Just kidding. Fleet Foxes way better.

jhorton
(Trailer Park on Cape Cod)
Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 16:50
 
 bjesch wrote:
Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days?  This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.
 
I nominate this for the most ignorant comment ever posted on RP.

gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 09:42
 
 Relax. It's the next generation coming up, full of energy and melody, ready to blow us away and replace us.
The new Dylans and McCartneys are coming up. We are the old Perry Comos. Step aside.
bjesch wrote:
Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days?  This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.
 



helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 09:42
 
Help me search the Blues here!!  I hear no Dylan, no Mc Cartney!! For me its only boring!

bill-1956
(The Greater Moncure Metro Area, NC)
Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 05:29
 
 bjesch wrote:
Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days?  This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.
 

Agreed. Although, I did bump up my rating from a 2 to a 3.

bjesch
Posted: Dec 24, 2012 - 08:51
 
Why is frantic string-strumming the 'coolest' thing going in music these days?  This sounds like the same crap as Mumford & Son.

Spiderwoman
(Lake Chelan, North Central Washington)
Posted: Dec 24, 2012 - 08:48
 
Shout out from orchard land

Kanuffen
(Trelleborg, Sverige)
Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 00:18
 
hmmmm.... do I really love it or really hate it......  damn I really can't decide....  {#Think}

testpilot
Posted: Nov 17, 2012 - 16:35
 
the first album blew me away and, naturally, I was eager to see them when they finally came to my city

sorry to report but they sounded like a tired cover-band... I didn't even bother to stay through last two songs

most of the songs were as forgettable as this one 

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Nov 17, 2012 - 16:34
 
 docuplate wrote:
Really really good lyrics.  Thanks, Bill, for the LINK to find lyrics on the songs you play - its a feature I have just discovered and it opens up so many paths for me.  Once I heard the first line...

     "I was raised up thinking I was unique..."

I knew I had to know the rest...  As a forty-five year old who is struggling with a life-changing illness and a second-career "dream job" gone terribly sour, these lyrics speak directly to me.

     "...And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me.

     But I don't, I don't know what that will be.

     I'll get back to you someday soon, you'll see."
 
 
Nice post, thanks.

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Nov 17, 2012 - 16:29
 
 mrgus wrote:
Loved most of 1st "Fleet Foxes". Nothing on this CD connects with me.
 
Yeah, it sounds more like reading than singing.

mrgus
(Salt Lake City)
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 11:31
 
Loved most of 1st "Fleet Foxes". Nothing on this CD connects with me.

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 11:28
 
BLAH..

:+:_DL
(RVA)
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 11:28
 
This band is the epitome of everything I'm against in modern music. 
Post-My Morning Jacket mediocrity. 
1

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 11:26
 
 colt4x5 wrote:
John Denver meets Graham Nash.
 
 

I like it{#Bounce}
Well said

Derecho
(A Land Without Traffic Lights)
Posted: Nov 11, 2012 - 17:28
 
Fleet Foxes >> Mumford & Sons

colt4x5
(under the scree field.)
Posted: Sep 09, 2012 - 19:22
 
John Denver meets Graham Nash.
 

fingerpin
(oHIo)
Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 08:00
 
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes made Geddy Lee's top 13 albums list. I got a kick outta' this as I love them both (Fleet Foxes and Geddy, that is). :)

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 20:38
 
this isn't one of my faves but I've made a Fleet Foxes station on Pandora, and it's been good. At first I only really liked "Your Protector" and "Blue Ridge Mountains" but have started to love more of their songs. I like the middle part where it gets slower and majestic.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 20:36
 
 docuplate wrote:
Really really good lyrics.  Thanks, Bill, for the LINK to find lyrics on the songs you play - its a feature I have just discovered and it opens up so many paths for me.  Once I heard the first line...

     "I was raised up thinking I was unique..."

I knew I had to know the rest...  As a forty-five year old who is struggling with a life-changing illness and a second-career "dream job" gone terribly sour, these lyrics speak directly to me.

     "...And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me.

     But I don't, I don't know what that will be.

     I'll get back to you someday soon, you'll see."
 
 
Yes music speaks to us and sometimes custom made for us to hear!

Really interesting song lyrics.

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 15:31
 
Anybody else getting a "Taxi" by Harry Chapin vibe from this? And I don't mean that derisively.

djblitz
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 15:28
 
Certainly not their best......this is fairly mediocre.  

docuplate
Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 17:26
 
Really really good lyrics.  Thanks, Bill, for the LINK to find lyrics on the songs you play - its a feature I have just discovered and it opens up so many paths for me.  Once I heard the first line...

     "I was raised up thinking I was unique..."

I knew I had to know the rest...  As a forty-five year old who is struggling with a life-changing illness and a second-career "dream job" gone terribly sour, these lyrics speak directly to me.

     "...And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me.

     But I don't, I don't know what that will be.

     I'll get back to you someday soon, you'll see."
 

MrRedwood
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 17:10
 
Very nice, but I strongly suspect their style won't age well.

Robbiem65
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 22:50
 
Took my 12 year old daughter to see them at the Sydney Opera House in January. Superb.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: May 17, 2012 - 22:46
 
bad, as in, not good 

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 15:32
 
 sirdroseph wrote:


No go, I tried.  I think NMH is just a little too strange for them!{#Lol}
 

What was the tally?  Thanks for doing that.  I suspected the same.
There is not a bad song on the CD, but I would try loading "Ghost" again.  That might just engage Bill and the rest.   Then again, they might just hate it.  I think the King of Carrot Flower pt 2 and 3 is the best, but that could be misconstrued as offensive.  That one, oh my, what a song...        

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 13:04
 
 msymmes wrote:

Sounds like Boy and Bear :)


Laughing

KaiT
(Toronto Canada)
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 12:39
 
I like this. 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 19:28
 

 

This is cool...  love it...



msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 19:25
 

Sounds like Boy and Bear :)





vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Feb 27, 2012 - 07:25
 
meh

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 07:01
 
 BillG wrote:

I don't find NMH too strange, just unengaging.
 

Fair enough, to each his own. That is the beauty of music, there is no right or wrong.{#Cool}

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 08:33
 
I like it. The lyrical structure and themes remind me a little too much of Harry Chapin's "Taxi" however. Not necessarily a good thing.

BillG
(Paradise, California)
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 12:04
 
 sirdroseph wrote:


No go, I tried.  I think NMH is just a little too strange for them!{#Lol}
 
I don't find NMH too strange, just unengaging.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 08:34
 
 rdo wrote:
I hear a lot of Simon and Garfunkel and Neutral Milk Hotel.   Someone needs to upload NMH's In an Aeroplane over the Sea.   One of the most glaring RP omissions I think.   I can't understand why they are not played.  Bill?  
 

No go, I tried.  I think NMH is just a little too strange for them!{#Lol}

bev
(Reno, NV)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 08:34
 
{#Yes}  Agreed!

 Derecho wrote:
I'm impressed!  More of this, less Mumford & Sons.
 



Derecho
(A Land Without Traffic Lights)
Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 03:39
 
I'm impressed!  More of this, less Mumford & Sons.

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 14:28
 
I hear a lot of Simon and Garfunkel and Neutral Milk Hotel.   Someone needs to upload NMH's In an Aeroplane over the Sea.   One of the most glaring RP omissions I think.   I can't understand why they are not played.  Bill?  

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 14:25
 
A welcome change from the usual one-paced Fleet Foxes sound, but I'm not sure it's for the better. Maybe it'll grow more interesting on further listens. A nailed-on Ho-hum from the Nottingham jury.


meinthecorner
(Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries)
Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 14:23
 
Wow! I'm first!

Well, it's my first listen - this pulled me from what I was writing and carried me away! Kinda' mesmerizing, really. 
Definitely want to hear this one again!