before album release you had several reviews suggesting the album was a huge departure for the band, and that this was their Nevermind album or the album that would make them one of the biggest bands in the world.
Did it live up to the hype? Have things changed at all?
I also heard endless reviews talking about how this was an album about growing up and finding onesself. Upon first listen i cant decern many lyrics that deal with either.
For me, trans and plans defined and define a period in my life that continues. They are albums where I feel like they completely encompass my feelings and ideas.
This album lacks the first listen and love songs, songs that grab your heart (Tiny Vessels, Title and Registration, Summer Skin, Brothers on a hotel bed)
I hate to say it, but I dont know if I love the album.
Originally posted by radiohead: I also heard endless reviews talking about how this was an album about growing up and finding onesself. Upon first listen i cant decern many lyrics that deal with either.
Growing up: No Sunlight Finding onesself: Bixby Canyon Bridge
Posts: 56 | Location: Kent, England | Registered: 26 March 2008
Originally posted by radiohead: just listened for the first time
For me, trans and plans defined and define a period in my life that continues. They are albums where I feel like they completely encompass my feelings and ideas.
I hate to say it, but I dont know if I love the album.
Were you able to discern that Trans and Plans encompassed all of your feelings and ideas from just one listen of each of those? If so, that's pretty remarkable, but I don't think I've ever been able to tell that from one listen. It takes a few rotations....give it some time to stew in your brain a little...light a candle and turn the lights down and just let it wash over you. And then if you still don't like it-maybe it's not the album for you. *shrugs*
I don't know about the hype, but I can say that I didn't find the album to be the huge departure than some of the early reviewers (particularly the MTV guy) said it was. At the time, I was seeing some "I don't like Death Cab, but I love THIS Death Cab!" and it had me worried. If I love Death Cab already, will this be such a large departure that it won't incorporate those elements I love about the band?
In the end, the only song that really felt like much of a departure was "Pity and Fear", with a little bit of it in "I will Possess" and maybe "Bixby Canyon Bridge". Otherwise, the rest of the album definitely feels like Death Cab to me. I like it.
Originally posted by radiohead: just listened for the first time
before album release you had several reviews suggesting the album was a huge departure for the band, and that this was their Nevermind album or the album that would make them one of the biggest bands in the world.
Did it live up to the hype? Have things changed at all?
I also heard endless reviews talking about how this was an album about growing up and finding onesself. Upon first listen i cant decern many lyrics that deal with either.
For me, trans and plans defined and define a period in my life that continues. They are albums where I feel like they completely encompass my feelings and ideas.
This album lacks the first listen and love songs, songs that grab your heart (Tiny Vessels, Title and Registration, Summer Skin, Brothers on a hotel bed)
I hate to say it, but I dont know if I love the album.
I agree with what has been said already about listening to it more. And to add on to that, how the fuck do you expect a band to completely encompass your feelings with every album>? I'd say that's a ridiculous expectation, unless you yourself happen to be the songwriter for the band...That's great that you identify with Trans and Plans, but surely you can still appreciate an album that doesn't precisely articulate your own emotions? You can still get something from it. Just because I've never been to Bixby Canyon, it doesn't mean I can't still connected to the themes presented in the song about it. I dunno... I guess I do know what you mean, but I think those songs grab our hearts in part because we associate them with our memories and they elicit nostalgia, heartbreak, joy, longing etc, because the song's depth is coupled with the depth of the emotion you have for the song. So yeah, give this one some time as well.
Posts: 58 | Location: CHI-TOWN | Registered: 14 May 2008
I'm kind of surprised by all these people talking about how unrelateable these lyrics are. That's not completely the case for me, but even if it were, there are plenty of songs out there with lyrics I don't relate to, and it doesn't make me enjoy the songs any less.
I think The Ice is Getting Thinner encapsulates the love in a relationship fading away quite well.
And others of the songs are relateable as well.
I don't think anyone is meant to identify with the lyrics to I Will Possess Your Heart, by the way
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Posts: 1144 | Location: Seattle | Registered: 10 June 2005
Originally posted by SIMPAK.: I used to know somebody who definitely identifies with the lyrics to I Will Possess Your Heart. Actually, I still do know another person who would.
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Posts: 2645 | Location: Lincs, UK | Registered: 29 May 2005
Originally posted by SIMPAK.: I used to know somebody who definitely identifies with the lyrics to I Will Possess Your Heart. Actually, I still do know another person who would.
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