Well, the guys have come up with what deep thinkers love to call their sophomore effort. They've lost none of their gift for making fantastic music, but they've retained their skill for bowling shoe ugly sleeves. This [left - Ed.] is my alternative, using an AI text-to-image app.
It's hard to know where to begin. They get everything right. And they make every other group on the planet sound like they're not trying. There's so much going on in here, at every level, and it's so well executed, so damn smart. "We don't need no procrastinaaaaai ..." they sing on the thumping first track, finishing the word a few beats later - "... shun". Smartasses. And then the epic chorus and the woo-woos, and a gnarly guitar solo, and an unexpected coda (is that a cello?) into the insouciant lope of the second track. If you start listening, the chances are you'll play it right through - they make it easy for you. Melody, variety, lyrical skill, imaginative arrangements using a wide palette of instrumental color, and slyly addictive vocals - this is a proper twelve-song album of great pop music, and you'll maybe even buy it, if you dig it, which would be groovy, wouldn't it?
Included at no extra cost to you, Mr. and Mrs. Freeloading-Grifter of Anytown U.S.A., is the first album you missed [at left - Ed.], both at the low, low bitrate you've come to admire for its bluecollar honesty. Wotta time to be alive!
Torschlusspanik means "bezeichnet umgangssprachlich eine auftretende Angst, etwas zu verpassen."
Babs? Are your teeth in?
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ReplyDeleteWhat's your favorite summer alcoholic drink?
A frosty suds. Preferably not from the glass you keep your teeth in!
DeleteLife is short, douchebaggery is long.
DeleteArse douchebag, vita brevis
DeleteOù sont les douchebags d'antan?
Deletefurther proof of furriners!!
DeleteIch bin eine douchebürgermeister
DeleteJD Tennessee Honey Bourbon and a BOLD ginger ale!!
ReplyDeleteI used to tend bar. I did not keep up with current liquor trends; I stopped buying booze about the time Zima was a "thing" in the mid 1990s. I am slightly baffled when I take a shortcut down the liquor aisle; while 95% of it are spirits similar to those I once poured, there's a What The Hell? aspect to a few things that makes me wonder if these are an American affectation, or if this stuff has gone worldwide.
ReplyDeleteWhich leads me to ask the U.K. contingent: do you have Micheladas in cans on your precious stone set in the silver sea? Any cinnamon flavored bourbon whisky on the scepter'd isle? Over here, cider has made huge inroads; so much so that when I witnessed my daughter take her first legal drink, it was hard cider. You couldn't have bought such a thing anywhere in the state when I turned 21.
I once got so drunk on homemade cider I spent two days and nights lying on my back in a field welcoming a death which never came.
DeleteI've never spotted Micheladas in the shops in the UK, but if I do I'll give it a try.
DeleteMyers Rum & Tonic Water with lime if you please, Mr. (or Ms.) Tarbender !
ReplyDelete"Tarbender ..." mmm ... you may see that again here ...
DeleteCruzan rum & cranberry juice - the best summer drink.
ReplyDeleteWhen it's really warm - a nice cold beer.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, the same as it ever was. A nice gazoile (pastis and coke).
My rum punch - white rum, good orange juice, cane sugar syrup, lime juice and lots of ice.
ReplyDeleteCider if it's really hot.
ReplyDeleteThe beer revolution has meant that there is often a beer suitable for summer consumption though.
Anyway - this here is the link, the link is here and here it is.
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i don't care what people drink as long as i can enjoy watching them pass out face down in their own puke. if it was good enough for me, then it's good enough for everybody.
ReplyDeleteOn a train journey to a gig a few years ago I was introduced to Gin & Tonic in a can, I thought this was another sign that civilization was doomed, but I was pleasantly surprised. Usually on train journeys to gigs we would have a couple of 'train beers' purchased in advanced, the G&T in a can was actually ideal for this, however I think we had the beers as well. Hic!
ReplyDeleteJust read another post about this band at the Burning Wood blog. Sal noted that "Torschlusspanik" literally means "gate-shut-panic." (I love the way that Germans build words.) "Apparently the term dates back to the Middle Ages in reference to the panic medieval peasants might have experienced as they rushed to make it back inside the city gates before they closed at nightfall."
ReplyDeleteA commenter added that "In modern German Torschlusspanik is said in reference to a woman dropping her standards to find a man while she can still have a child. For example, if an attractive woman in her 30s is dating a much less attractive (or otherwise desirable) man than she can, her catty coworkers might say, 'Hey, Torschlusspanik oder was?' (The metaphorical door is closing.)" How sweet of them!
https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/2022/07/whats-fernweh-part-2.html
thks fr msc
ReplyDeleteTorschlusspanik means "city gates are closing really soon ..."
Yukon Jack......IPA chaser.....
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ReplyDeletePlease do give this disc a tentative spin. You'll get out what they put in, which is many shitloads. It sends the needle on th' Swell-O-Meter® into the red.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the frequent IPA and occasional moscow mule
ReplyDeleteRight, youse lazyasses. We're not moving on to Steve's screed about The Cardiacs (an arresting read) until one or more of th' 4/5g© lissens to The Fernweh and comments thereupon. Simply pick one of the following options and copy-paste it into your comment!
ReplyDeleteA Only played the first three songs before I had to take me axolotl to the clinic/unblock the septic tank but sounded okay I guess.
b The Fernweh deliver a fine sophomore effort, referencing familiar tropes in their signature style.
3 I'm, like, meh?
D/4 I like it
ReplyDeleteJust downloaded and listening to the first track - so far so good!! How come I've only just heard of this lot?? As for drinks - well it's usually summer all year down here - but I am rather partial to a Regency (Thai brandy) and coke!!
ReplyDeleteI hear the ghost of Beatles/Moody Blues/Beach Boys/Roy Harper/David Bowie and I thank you for putting this up,both albums will get a go in the car soon.They sure flew under the ears of many a good judge of mind altering sounds.
ReplyDeleteThe first is a little softer, folkier maybe, and the second a liitle less softer and folkier maybe. What lyrics I can catch on the second suggest a bit of political anger, but it's not overt and there's no up-against-the-wall-motherfuckers exhorting.
DeleteI've just played 5 random tracks and I like it, but will need to live with them for a few days. It's a goody I recon.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoying the first album - haven't got to the second one yet.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff!
Update - I prefer the debut album. It's only marginal though. I really like these guys.
DeleteMy feelings exactly. Although I'd be perfectly happy with the follow-up if that's all there was. It's good that they changed approach for the second album, and it'll probably grow on me, as did the first.
DeleteYes agree chaps, that first album is really great on first listening, seems they've released quite a lot subsequently.
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