Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing

January 29, 2007 at 4:35 pm

I made this list because I want to have the ultimate generic retro/pop-punk list circa 2006. Somewhere between Clash and the latest Shins album. One list that I can listen to droningly without feeling a thing. To be frank I am kinda over with pop-punk and everything just pass right through my head. The Shins seems to have incorporate everything there is into retro punk without turning it into something else. (eg. Tortoise , ambient/electro rock such as Album Leaf or dream pop even)

Here is my question for you my brave readers: 1. Is the Shins all that? 2. Is it the tail end of 2006 or giving us something new for 2007? 3. Is this retro-punk style even exist?4. Am I the best looking contributor at MdM? more ketchup? What’s your take? Discuss.

“Today’s Household Pop”

1. The Album Leaf - See In You
2. Tokyo Police Club - Be Good (web)
3. Love is all - Talk Talk Talk Talk (web)
4. Tortoise - Some Say (I Got Devil)
5. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
6. Dirty Little Secret - Hush Your Lips (web)

see also: the Clash, the Shins
image: “Just What Is It That Makes To-day’s Homes So Different, So Appealing“, “My Marilyn” by Richard Hamilton


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9 Comments »

  1. bulut said, January 30, 2007 @ 5:45 am

    Shins is a pop group, radiofriendly kinda stuff…short time satisfying. If they created a music similar to Tortoise, they wouldn’t be so popular. Btw, Shins can’t even make music similar to Tortoise. Teenage kinda stuff, you know.

  2. LOW said, January 30, 2007 @ 7:37 am

    jaaja squashed… I think you are the best looking contributor in MdM

  3. LOW said, January 30, 2007 @ 7:38 am

    of course.. after Kahlo…… and me…. LOL!
    :P

  4. squashed said, January 30, 2007 @ 8:36 am

    buluth - yeah, I just can’t see the Shins write something beyond what they are doing now without sounding like nasty mash up of styles. The songs feels like “lego” being stacked instead of say tortoise’s bigger work with solid beat. …who knows.

    LOW - hah!

  5. Makrugaik said, January 30, 2007 @ 10:55 am

    Ooooh ooooh, surely Moka! lol.

  6. squashed said, January 30, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

    I see. the music people. I need opinion about the music. pfff….

  7. Sam said, January 30, 2007 @ 2:24 pm

    There’s nothing to discuss, the shins will change your life.

  8. squashed said, January 30, 2007 @ 3:34 pm

    … my breakfast this morning also change my life. that’s kinda too vague isn’t it.

  9. al said, February 7, 2007 @ 4:25 pm

    j’avais manqué Richard Hamilton,
    c’était dommage

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