She shone up bright like a knife...

[ForeverAutumn]

Be prepared to for a proper thrashing from the likes of Slosh and Davey. Actually OIW may be better than Chutes, or at least it's equal IMO. Not as poppy or accessible, but very good.

As for Crowded House, it's been pretty common when these old bands get back together and put out crappy music. I think the creative fires dwindle and the need to be 'vital' just isn't there any longer. I don't know. I think most bands put out their best music in the earlier years as opposed to later on. Look how crappy bands like the Eagles and Aerosmith have become, not that I ever cared much for them. And even really good bands like the Who were more prolific in their earlier years. Ditto the Beatles.

Swish

OIW is a huge borefest, with a couple of song exceptions. Bring on the thrashing...my opinion stands.

Neil Finn had a couple of really good solo releases so I don't think that the creative juices stopped flowing. I just think that he got all macabre after the CH former drummer offed himself.

[Swish]

OIW is a huge borefest, with a couple of song exceptions. Bring on the thrashing...my opinion stands.

Neil Finn had a couple of really good solo releases so I don't think that the creative juices stopped flowing. I just think that he got all macabre after the CH former drummer offed himself.

...'Arriving on a wave of pre-release hype in 2001, The Shins' debut record, Oh! Inverted World, immediately established itself as one of the most uniformly and universally likeable records of that year. Though not nearly the second coming of The Beach Boys as described by its most vocal proponents, the album was forged in melody and drenched in atmosphere, casting a thin but palpable haze over a beautifully arranged landscape of sincere hooks and sparse instrumentation. It was an immediately inviting formula, if one that ultimately proved limiting; the blurred sonics that blanketed the record also often smothered it, dulling the focus and clarity that frontman James Mercer skirted during the album's most powerful passages.'

Yeah Fall Girl, it was just a total mess.

Swish

[ForeverAutumn]

...'Arriving on a wave of pre-release hype in 2001, The Shins' debut record, Oh! Inverted World, immediately established itself as one of the most uniformly and universally likeable records of that year. Though not nearly the second coming of The Beach Boys as described by its most vocal proponents, the album was forged in melody and drenched in atmosphere, casting a thin but palpable haze over a beautifully arranged landscape of sincere hooks and sparse instrumentation. It was an immediately inviting formula, if one that ultimately proved limiting; the blurred sonics that blanketed the record also often smothered it, dulling the focus and clarity that frontman James Mercer skirted during the album's most powerful passages.'

Yeah Fall Girl, it was just a total mess.

Swish

It's so strange that you like this CD and I don't...because you and I never disagree about music.

[jim goulding]

I think that PJ Harvey has a lot of guts. Her new record probably isn't going to be a best seller for her. But I admire her putting out something so unadorned and personal.