NeutralHead Collective - In The Merryweather Rainbow over the Spectacular (2009)
 

Track by Track review:

In The King of Pretend:
Oh my god, this is amazing, there's at least 50 different vocals hooks here with great songwriting:

"I am in the king of Pretend
I like to Pretend in the King
Pretend the King of In"

Repeated over and over.

Weekend Bodysnatcher:

An instrumental track with all four band members contributing a minute of music. This five minute epic is the second longest and most interesting song on the album, there is almost a drum solo, but the drummer decided against it. The guitarist also almost played a few notes in the blues scale but again decided against it.

Arid/Threadbare:

A minimalist track, the vocalist sings about his life growing up in the slums in England despite being from the Lakes District. The guitarist plays the same note over and over and the bassist has been fired by this point in the album.

Communist Reckoner:

A tasty electronic number, the bassist by this point has been replaced with a programmer, and they've managed to make something very unique for 1970. All the band members sing here creating a lovely vocal harmony.

Venus In Furs:

The band try their hand at a Velvet Underground song with their own jangly indie guitar riff. The singer Minces about mumbling the words while the drummer decides to play in 17/2 time.

Untitled:

A 1 minute band jam with the sound of the producer shooting himself in the background followed by laughs from the entire band.

Of Jigsaw, Falling and Place:

The big leading single from the album, recorded underwater, if you listen very closely you can hear severl screams as the guitarist is shocked over and over again. This is by far his best guitar playing, he's all over the place and manages to get some very interesting sounds out.

Partake:

A ballad with a difference, not wanting to sound stale or anything they've decided to play exactly the same song that was on their last album, but with different lyrics.

Reddish:

The band tries to replay the entire album in one song, sampling also from their earlier material. This Epic closer lasts a massive five minutes and fifty seconds, a record for the band. They didn't know if they should include it in the album because "our fans might not be able to appreciate such a long song" but I'm so glad they did.

Score: 10/10 a total indie masterpiece

Thom yorke is not a tambourine

Good point, tambourines have the capacity to sound good.

Blatantly bullied by some Belle and Sebastien fans at an early age :D

Oh, aren't you the non-conformist.

I'm going to say this is the greatest album of the last 30 years and then come back next week saying it's shit.

What rating did it get from Pitchfork?

1.0

But they'll give it 9.0 in 4 years time.

Oh...but yeah I think this album sucks...for right now.

pffft

still not nearly as good as Unabashed Beatles Ripoffs by Guys with Way Too Much Time on Their Hands.

ahahahahahahahaha

i see what u did thar

:rofl:

Good man, good job. :D

It's Merriweather, not Merryweather.

Haha, fail.

not just a fail, a HIPSTERFAIL.

Those count for double you know.

oh god! the merriweather part of this mish-mash still moves!

That would have been ripping off another album! This is totally not what this band is about.

God you're a tool. You think you're so smart. You're not.

I agree.

This thread was far more successful than I ever expected :D

INDIEFAIL my friend, indie kids are in it for the independent music, hipsters are wanna-be's.

What's the difference? Indie kids are still wanna-be's.

what exactly do they wanna be? i call myself an indie kid because i really believe that more interesting, groundbreaking and original music has come out of the independent labels than has ever, EVER, been created by a mainstream, major label. i am not against mainstream music, a lot of it i love, and i am not biased against major labels (except for those labels that totally screw musicians) but i just generally love and appreciate independent labels and music more.

OH ****! Now you've done it! How dare you insult Radiohead!

yeah, i'd give you a medal if i could


in fact....

tee hee, agreed

That has nothing to do with it. He made a stupid thread about a genre he hates and 4 bands that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. If I went into the metal forums and made a similar thread about 4 unrelated metal bands it would be equally as stupid.

Yeah but it was done with style & panache, which is why it's still open.

Anyway I the same thing with 100 things I didn't like, and some people tell me it's their favourite thread on the entire forum.

Yes, but yours were tongue in cheek at times, and done with a sense of humility. This thread reeks of pretentiousness and overvalued self worth.

oh i thought it was goofy and stupid, i love indie hardcore but i can still laugh when something is funny, don't be so self-righteous

If it were made by anyone else it would be funny, but Comus actually believes what he says.

i could have this all wrong but for some reason i thought Comus was trying to make a joke. how silly of me.

nice photoshop by the way, dude.

It's both. Yes, it's a joke, but it really is Comus' view on Indie music.

so what? Urban's list definitely had his views firmly planted in his thread. what's so terrible about Comus that makes this any different?

stop being so sensitive, dude.

Alright w/e.

I am curious to see why he used MGMT who aren't so much indie darlings as they are flavors of the month as opposed to NMH, Radiohead, and Animal Collective who's indie reputations are long lasting and firmly established.

probably because he thought they were garbage, like the rest of the bands in the lovely album art.

and he's got a point, you know. it wasn't until 2004/5 that ITAOTS actually saw any hype at all, curated courtesy of the fuckers Pissfork and co. (who re-evaluated the album and summarily deleted the original review). manufactured hype with the expense of irresponsible journalism.

I've never listened Oracular Spectacular, so I couldn't tell you. Yeah Aeroplane is overhyped, but it was a fairly unknown indie album. Without Pitchfork, the album wouldn't have reached the ears of many of its fans. Do you really think every person that likes Aeroplane likes it simply because Pitchfork hyped it? Do you really think that many people even read online music reviews? I have 3 or 4 friends that like it and I would guarantee that none of them have ever even heard of pitchfork.