Comments on: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Make “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” Even More Awkward

By: science vs romance

science vs romance — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:55:43 +0000

OK, this is bad, but nowhere near as trainwrecky as I thought it was going to be. the unfinishedness seems to fit with fallon's "embrace nerdtech novelty" angle, and as others have said vocals have never been cyhsy's strong suit.

oh, and leave Wolf Parade out of this.

By: Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:55:12 +0000

@Thesemodernsocks: Heh. You're helped by the fact that I couldn't agree with you more. Low energy, mushy sound, terrible singer hidden beneath a bad mix. (Also, I don't mind earnest comments at all, just persistently unfunny dicks.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:49:55 +0000

I thought the second record was pretty forgettable (and I haven't touched the first in ages), but have found them to be much much better on record than live. Live, they stink.

@Bob Loblaw: I hope this was amusing.

By: Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:24:03 +0000

@Weezy F Baby: It's getting mad tiresome, bro.

Like the never funny, pseudo-insider, only occasionally on-point, angrybro commenting schtick? Say something amusing or piss off. Bro.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:32:56 +0000

@Weezy F Baby: Sorry you see it that way. It's something I do, and it's a part of who I am...perhaps even a big part. Plenty of people around here insert their personal lives into their writing, and so I wanted to put something in the article to say that, hey, a lot of us are guilty of doing some bad singing. I don't want to end up in a glass houses situation, so it was more of a disclosure than anything. I have experience as a former publicist and as a not-so-successful musician that I feel is sometimes relevant to the stuff I'm writing. Maybe it ain't. Our experiences inform what we do and how we perceive events.

I'll try to be cognizant of it in the future, but I wasn't doing this (or other mentions) out of self-promotion.

By: Tauwan

Tauwan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:25:48 +0000

@blueeyeddevil:

Neither do I. At Mt. Zoomer on the other hand? Sorry, but you are no Apologies to Queen Mary.

By: Weezy F Baby

Weezy F Baby — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:33:42 +0000

Another Lucas Jensen article where he references being a musician himself. It’s getting mad tiresome, bro.

By: kicking222

kicking222 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:31:19 +0000

I really, really liked CYHSY’s first album. The second one was OK- it at least had moments, and “Satan Said Dance” is a great track. But this? Dear god, Alec, you’re only good when you hop in and out of quivering falsetto- see also “Upon This Tidal Wave…” and “Over and Over Again”- and you’re horrible when you stay there for an entire snog. The instrumentation on this song was fine (nothing to write home about, but definitely adequate), yet the song was completely killed by those godawful vocals.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:20:47 +0000

@Halfwit: I will keep my thoughts on Wolf Parade to myself except to say that I was unmoved. It's a style of singing that came to the fore around 2005, though, you would agree?

I like CYHSY okay, so I'm not trying to diss them outright, just this performance and that singing style. Good God, that singing.

@blueeyeddevil: Yeah, it's not a total atrocity like it was portrayed at the time, but I don't think it's the direction you want to go in, right?

@righteousmaelstrom: Thank you.

By: Halfwit

Halfwit — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:10:03 +0000

You shut your mouth about Wolf Parade...

I will run color guard on the parade that carries the head of the lead singer of Cold War Kids on a pike, though.

I burned myself out on CYHSY's album, but actually do play a couple of songs off the second album once in a while.