Beautiful Short Attention Span Pop Rock

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By Fredescu on Sunday, February 15, 1998 - 05:17 pm:
    A Night Like This by the Cure would have to be one of the most perfect 3-4 minute pop songs ever written. Robert Smith really knows what he's doing. Lullaby, Trust, Like Cockatoos... sigh...

    Pavement's Newark Wilder tends to smack me in the face and bruise my knees on the ground, too. Recently their stuffs not been that brilliant, but Crooked Rain Crooked Rain and Slanted and Enchanted are wonderful.

    There's a little band down here in Australia known as Bluebottle Kiss, and they really know how to pen a good Pop song. Requiem for the Holden, Autumn Comes Too Soon, Barbed Wire Star, To Think I'd Ever Disappoint You...

    Mazzy Star's Fade Into You and Five Strign Serenade are the ultimate make-out music.

    There's nothing like a good slice of guitar pop for those of us of the younger generation...
By Dave on Monday, February 16, 1998 - 05:35 pm:
    My 3 favorite Australian bands:

    Hunters and Collectors, up through "The Jaws of Life" were dark and tweaky with way-up-front bass and drums. Now, they're mediocre bar rock.

    The Saints. First 2 or 3 albums were awesome proto-punk. Also rather boring these days.

    The Birthday Party. Nothing was or ever will be as gnarly. Nick Cave is one of a kind. Great novelist, too.

    I guess none of this is beautiful pop. . .
By Fredescu on Monday, February 16, 1998 - 08:25 pm:
    Does "Holy Grail" come under "mediocre" or "dark and tweaky". Either way, it's fairly beautiful.

    Pretty much Everything Nick Cave has released is beautiful. Whether it be the Boys Next Door's Shivers, or something a little more agressive like the Mercy Seat.

    Beauty doesn't have to be a Barbie Doll...

    Whaddya think of Mark Seymors solo stuff?
By Dave on Monday, February 16, 1998 - 09:23 pm:
    I'm stumped. What's "Holy Grail"? Is that H&C? I stopped listening after "Ghost Nation". They had, I think 3 albums before "Jaws. . ." and I can't remember all the titles. I believe one of 'em was self-titled. Anyway, I saw 'em in '88 or '89 for "Human Frailty" and the stuff I didn't care for on the album ROCKED live. "Fate" and "Ghost Nation" were pretty boring. They showed little to none of the originality of their early stuff. I haven't heard the solo stuff. Is it good? He's got a great voice.

    I haven't been lucky enough to hear Boys Next Door. That's pre-B.P., right? And I agree that it's all beautiful in its own way but has little to do with pop. However, I lean toward not liking "Murder Ballads".

    There are some bands, like the Fall, Nomeansno, Screaming Trees, Melvins, and anything Nick Cave, that for me, blur the line between the music and the personality of the musician, meaning that I like everything they do even if it truly sucks, just because I like the personalities. Pavement's in there, too. "Brighten the Corners" was pretty lame but it's Pavement, so I like it. I get lots of shit for that. That's fine.
By Old hunnas fan on Wednesday, March 18, 1998 - 01:24 am:
    Hunters & Collectors:

    self-titled album (1981-82)
    different versions in America and
    elsewhere

    The Fireman's Curse (EP) (1982)

    The Jaws of Life (1982)

    Human Frailty (1986)

    Living Daylight (EP) (1987)

    and then, yeah, they got boring..Fate, Ghost Nation and I stopped paying attention. I saw them in '86 and they were amazing. Even the newer stuff.

    I love the Birthday Party too.
By Dave on Wednesday, March 18, 1998 - 03:24 pm:
    So what was the album with Blind Snake Sundae and Drinking Bomb and Alligator Engine and Curse and Sway? Was that Fireman's Curse? I seem to remember a couple albums from that era. Certainly more songs than would fit on an EP.
By Hunnasfan on Wednesday, March 18, 1998 - 04:11 pm:
    "Alligator Engine" was on the original H&C lp.
    The others are from Fireman's Curse...I don't know why it was usually called an EP; it was longer than EPs used to be.

    All of their releases were altered for international release.

    The Slab of Informative Juices
By Crawford on Thursday, January 21, 1999 - 07:56 pm:

    hey . . .
    i liked "brighten the corners."