Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, they're a young band that

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Actually, this is a great description of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I am not impressed with that band at all.

Originally posted by Bags:
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just bought the album this weekend … there are some really good tracks … the "you look like david bowie" song is great, that line and the way he says it keeps running through my head … but yeah, not earth-shattering at all
I saw them last week at the 8x10 and thought they were fantastic the whole way through. I love their album.
The band themselves have said they're not very good live, so I wasn't really expecting much, and left the Black Cat pleasantly surprised.

bad bands sound worse live, and good bands sound better live. any band that admits to "not being very good live" is probably shite by my definition. i mean really, how many bands do you like that sound worse live than their album? the album is being described in this thread as demo-like for chrissakes.
OK Computer wasn't even the best album of 1997.
Just listening to them now, fantastic album! Great songs such as The skin of my yellow country teeth. Not sure why, but I really like the fact that so many people dislike them.
Lazer, I'm assuming that wasn't a rhetorical comment. Please tell me who, other than Radiohead, delivered the best album of 1997. If it isn't Bjork, then I know you either a) are lying, or b) were in middle school.
the strokes, radiohead, bjork, fiona apple … you've just got it all figured out, frenchpiece.
Best albums of 1997:

Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out

Followed closely by Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. Maybe Cornershop in third.
Welcome to my world.

Originally posted by Barcelona:
Not sure why, but I really like the fact that so many people dislike them.
Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:
best album of 1997.
Sleater-Kinney, "Dig Me Out"

'97 wasn't all that great a year for albums for me…
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Best albums of 1997:

Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out

Followed closely by Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. Maybe Cornershop in third.
dig me out, yes

i can hear the heart beating as one
perfect from now on
also candidates

edit never mind on if you're feeling sinister, looks like 1996
Best album of 1997: Too Far To Care
Hey Booker, gimme a call so we can grab a few brews and rock out to my Foghat LP's.
i like the second half of the album.

they were hyped by pitchfork so the scenesters will claim to hate them, but theyre really ok. of course theyre also not all theyre hyped up to be
Originally posted by TheWaz:
they were hyped by pitchfork so the scenesters will claim to hate them
Nah, just like them again in three years. ;)
Without going into detail, I have good reason to suspect that The Black Angels will probably be playing at Coachella next year.

Don't know anything about the Hand Clappers and couldn't care less. That has nothing whatsoever to do with Pitchfork since I have no idea what is going on there since I never bother with it. And that has nothing whatsoever to do with being or not being 'hip' as I couldn't care less what any faux hipsters think. In the end, it's all about the music.
There is a CYHSY track "In This Home On Ice" on this months Paste Magazine CD sampler and instrumentally it's fairly straight forward decent dreamy indie pop. However, once the "singer" kicked in I was ready to pull out my hair. Tuneless, limited range and unintelligible lyrics. One of the few lyric couplet I can make out is something shedding skin like a snake. If this is what the band is about then I'm not interested. Plus, At least on this track there is no evidence of a Talking Heads influence either.

Are people so desperate to find the next thing first, that one Pitchfork reviewers opinion is enough to send them into mass hysteria?

And gotta say that based on my limited exposure to Broken Social Scene that they appear to be making cacophony for the sake of making cacophony in order to cover up the weak songs. Take the track on the sampler disk "Ibi Dreams of Pavement". It would appear they decided that horns were needed to agument otherwise lazily strummed guitars, with little added effect I might add.
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Without going into detail, I have good reason to suspect that The Black Angels will probably be playing at Coachella next year.

Don't know anything about the Hand Clappers and couldn't care less. That has nothing whatsoever to do with Pitchfork since I have no idea what is going on there since I never bother with it. And that has nothing whatsoever to do with being or not being 'hip' as I couldn't care less what any faux hipsters think. In the end, it's all about the music.
if at the end it's all about the music and you don't know anything about Clap your… why don't give it a try, you might or might not like them, but listen to them, otherwise you are prejudging them based on who knows what, which probably makes you another cool indie music fan.