Urban's Never-ending A to Z

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-17-2008, 02:53 PM

1 Speed Bike - Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier In Your 50s - 2005

The 2nd 1 Speed Bike album sees pretty much the same thing as the previous album , only even more political witterings and with even longer more stupid song titles.The drums on this album seem to be even louder than they were before. After 4 songs i'm seriously getting pissed off with the constant THUD THUD THUD with no hint of any sort of melody in sight. So when the 5th song 'Klootzak Keizer Intro' with an actual tune & some lyrics come in it's a blessed relief.
The next song on the album 'Vanilla Ice Corrals His Pet Wallaroo, Bucky, Into a Trailer, After It and His Goat Pal, Honcho, Escaped From a Relative's Home'

see's the thudding return and my interest waning even more.
By song 7 (8 Months Stuck in a Shipping Container With 12 Jehovah's Witnesses) I really can't tolerate this album anymore and want to turn it off. By the 8th song I HAVE turned it off. Which is a shame as I was really looking forward to such songs as 'My Dick Is This Small Because It's -40 Degrees F' and 'Shoving the Guardian Up My Ass While Binge Drinking With a Hoodie On' or the classic 'Will Death Stop Lenny Kravitz's Ego?'. Also a shame because the first album showed a bit of promise.
I'm sure there are people who like this album somewhere , but for me it takes more than personnelle from a band with indie cred and some silly song titles to impress me.

0.5/10

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-22-2008, 08:11 PM

65daysofstatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas - 2007

I think I may be in possession of this due to someone from this site telling me to check it out but I can't remember for the life of me who it was.
I'm a bit undecided what to make of this album. I didn't mind it but I began to tire of it pretty quickly. to me a huge majority of the songs just sounded like something in between Trail Of Dead & At the Drive In but without lyrics. I couldn't see an awful lot of originality on this album. There are a few electronic bits scattered around and a load of orchestral bits but they don't really do anything to add to it. To be honest the whole soft / loud /soft / loud thing bores me to death and on this album it seems to be in abundance. And why is it that virtually every track needs a minute or two to warm up?
There seems to be an abundance of this kind of Math rock / Post rock (Not my label so no genre arguments please , I really don't care) hybrid sort of thing around at the moment and to me they nearly all sound as anonymous as this does. I'm not entirely sure how you listen to this stuff. It's far too abrasive & noisy to listen to as background music but on the other hand it's a bit too dull & repetitive to actually listen to as you would say a commercial rock or pop record. Not that I can't listen to that kind of stuff like that but I need a hook or a rhythm to keep me interested. There are lots of guitars but they just seem to drone on & on. there are lots of drums too but no memorable rhythms .If fact this whole album seems to be devoid of any hooks or rhythm .
I can see why people like this stuff but it just isn't for me. The only songs that really stood out for me was 'Music is Music as Devices are Kisses is Everything' which sounded more like an epic film score than anything.And 'The Distant & Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties' was a nice little electronica song in the same vein as Radiohead's Idoiteque. If the rest of the material on the album was up to this standard of these two songs I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

2/10

jackhammer · 05-05-2009, 01:17 PM

2/10 for 65daysofstatic

. The lack of hooks are why I like them personally and I find the heavier approach coupled with the odd elctronic beats sets them apart from many other bands. When I listen to this sort of thing I imagine it as film soundtrack music that fits certain moods and scenarios and may not neccessarily be a cohesive whole. I know the review was last year but I must have missed it first time around.

I can also definitely see people being completely nonplussed with them too.

gotjuice · 05-05-2009, 06:36 PM

If that's the only 65daysofstatic you've heard, I'd recommend at least giving The Fall of Math a listen. IMO it's much better than Destruction of Small Ideas.

Shoe · 05-05-2009, 07:30 PM

I like 65daysofstatic

Am I still allowed to worship you urban?

jackhammer · 05-06-2009, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gotjuice

If that's the only 65daysofstatic you've heard, I'd recommend at least giving The Fall of Math a listen. IMO it's much better than Destruction of Small Ideas.

One Time For All time is my favourite.

gotjuice · 05-06-2009, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

One Time For All time is my favourite.

That would run a close second for me. Fall of Math from beginning to end though is just about perfect, I can listen to it and it'll feel like 10 minutes have barely gone by.

dac · 05-06-2009, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

One Time For All time is my favourite.

That album's never done it for me, to be honest.

Comus · 05-06-2009, 08:18 AM

Haha yes I hate 65dos too.

06-17-2008, 02:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	1 Speed Bike - Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier In Your 50s - 2005 The 2nd 1 Speed Bike album sees pretty much the same thing as the previous album , only even more political witterings and with even longer more stupid song titles.The drums on this album seem to be even louder than they were before. After 4 songs i'm seriously getting pissed off with the constant THUD THUD THUD with no hint of any sort of melody in sight. So when the 5th song 'Klootzak Keizer Intro' with an actual tune & some lyrics come in it's a blessed relief. The next song on the album 'Vanilla Ice Corrals His Pet Wallaroo, Bucky, Into a Trailer, After It and His Goat Pal, Honcho, Escaped From a Relative's Home' see's the thudding return and my interest waning even more. By song 7 (8 Months Stuck in a Shipping Container With 12 Jehovah's Witnesses) I really can't tolerate this album anymore and want to turn it off. By the 8th song I HAVE turned it off. Which is a shame as I was really looking forward to such songs as 'My Dick Is This Small Because It's -40 Degrees F' and 'Shoving the Guardian Up My Ass While Binge Drinking With a Hoodie On' or the classic 'Will Death Stop Lenny Kravitz's Ego?'. Also a shame because the first album showed a bit of promise. I'm sure there are people who like this album somewhere , but for me it takes more than personnelle from a band with indie cred and some silly song titles to impress me. 0.5/10 __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

06-22-2008, 08:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	65daysofstatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas - 2007 I think I may be in possession of this due to someone from this site telling me to check it out but I can't remember for the life of me who it was. I'm a bit undecided what to make of this album. I didn't mind it but I began to tire of it pretty quickly. to me a huge majority of the songs just sounded like something in between Trail Of Dead & At the Drive In but without lyrics. I couldn't see an awful lot of originality on this album. There are a few electronic bits scattered around and a load of orchestral bits but they don't really do anything to add to it. To be honest the whole soft / loud /soft / loud thing bores me to death and on this album it seems to be in abundance. And why is it that virtually every track needs a minute or two to warm up? There seems to be an abundance of this kind of Math rock / Post rock (Not my label so no genre arguments please , I really don't care) hybrid sort of thing around at the moment and to me they nearly all sound as anonymous as this does. I'm not entirely sure how you listen to this stuff. It's far too abrasive & noisy to listen to as background music but on the other hand it's a bit too dull & repetitive to actually listen to as you would say a commercial rock or pop record. Not that I can't listen to that kind of stuff like that but I need a hook or a rhythm to keep me interested. There are lots of guitars but they just seem to drone on & on. there are lots of drums too but no memorable rhythms .If fact this whole album seems to be devoid of any hooks or rhythm . I can see why people like this stuff but it just isn't for me. The only songs that really stood out for me was 'Music is Music as Devices are Kisses is Everything' which sounded more like an epic film score than anything.And 'The Distant & Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties' was a nice little electronica song in the same vein as Radiohead's Idoiteque. If the rest of the material on the album was up to this standard of these two songs I would have enjoyed it a lot more. 2/10 __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

05-05-2009, 01:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	2/10 for 65daysofstatic . The lack of hooks are why I like them personally and I find the heavier approach coupled with the odd elctronic beats sets them apart from many other bands. When I listen to this sort of thing I imagine it as film soundtrack music that fits certain moods and scenarios and may not neccessarily be a cohesive whole. I know the review was last year but I must have missed it first time around. I can also definitely see people being completely nonplussed with them too. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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05-05-2009, 06:36 PM	#4 (permalink)
gotjuice Rose City til I die! Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 366	If that's the only 65daysofstatic you've heard, I'd recommend at least giving The Fall of Math a listen. IMO it's much better than Destruction of Small Ideas.