Quote Originally Posted by tentoze
Call me a Luddite, or whatever- I listened to the first three cuts (which seemed to go on forever) of Blueberry Boat (the next big thing) and pulled it. Dreadful, self-absorbed nonsense underlayed by silly synths. I guess I am a one-twang pony afterall. That is BAD music.
Yeah, I don't dig this either. A boat-load of nonsense, really. Annoyingly precious vocals; songs and lyrics that seem to ramble on forever without any real point; hamfisted transitions; obnoxious, blaring synths; and a very twee, over-the-top, Andrew Lloyd-Webber thing going on. It seriously sounds like a bad Broadway musical at times. Just awful.

(Warning: Rant) And Pitchfork, along with so many others, seem to think The Fiery Furnaces are some sort of Second Coming. Nevermind that The Mars Volta made a equally ambitious and far, far better concept album last year and that got dismissed as "pretentious," while Blueberry Boat is equally "pretentious" (or more so) and everybody's creaming their pants over it. Guess what's pretentious one year is the Next Big Thing the next, given that everybody's coming out with concept albums now.

I don't care what any wanker music critic says--comparing this fruity dribble to anything The Who ever recorded is complete sacrilege. If anything, American Idiot is a far more accurate fit, and I don't understand the big hullabaloo over that album either (sorry ForeverAutumn and Jay, but when I think "Green Day" I think the first three albums, not a modern-day Kinks clone).

All completely IMHO, of course (though that should go without saying). ; )

And BTW I'm with Dusty, the Dodge Magnum ownz. I'm big on that sort of gonzo transportation, and a 400 BHP Hemi-powered rear-drive station wagon is just what the doctor ordered. Imagine the kind of fun you could have in stoplight drags with that thing (total sleeper quality). Of course, right now I've got a '98 Protege; as a poor college student paying out the arse in insurance (despite having no tickets/incidents on my record), probably the best set of wheels for the time being.