I just realized how much i like the Dismemberment Plan

http://dismembermentplan.com/

I saw these guys live a couple times but I never listened to any of their albums.

Some US East Coast shows

man this is weird as hell -- I just randomly went to their website like two days ago, and now this pops up on it!

convinced that I have magic web-surfing wish-fulfillment powers

This is fucking great news. New album, please...

man, I hope one day they will find enough space in their schedules to fit an European tour in somewhere

have been on a big Dismemberment Plan kick lately, so this feels well timed. definitely one of my favorite live bands ever.

wait, i have too -- is it because of that pitchfork thread?

seeing them in VA for the emergency and i tour was a highlight of highschool show-going. ton of people broke out glow sticks for "the city". back when having synths in your rock band and dancy beats was kinda crazy man!!

you just spoiled it

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanna see this

the chance of me not listening to d-plan tonight is 0%

saw a dude in wburg with a tat of the...thing on the 'emergency & i' cover on his leg this past weekend. omen!

that sounds like a horrific tat

i stared at it for like five minutes before being like "oh man it's that thing"

otoh it made me want to listen to 'emergency & i' so hey

if you're tattoo is gonna be horrific, it can at least function as a public service

dont know much abt this band except i dig 'the city'

u should listen to e&i

yeah, def. their best

aw, loved this band so much in my early 20s

'the city' is such a great song

emergency & i still holds up great and has the best lyrics of any indierock album imo

'back and forth' slays me

"back and forth" otm

really important band for me. one of the first indie rock shows I saw was Trusty, Chisel and Dismemberment Plan at the 9:30 club, went to Georgetown and bought "!" the next day and I think "...Is Terrified" came out pretty soon after. I liked both a lot but when "Emergency & I" showed up at the college radio station everyone was like "oh shit." Also living in MD and VA meant I had lots of opportunities to see them live, probably ended up seeing them 4-5 times before they broke up. I was disappointed by "Change" but maybe I'd like it more now, I think it just wasn't as amazing as "Emergency & I."

yeah Change is a very good album, just suffers by comparison to its predecessor. i wish i kept count of how many times i saw them live, had to be at least 14-15.

this band is very good at writing bridges.

This has all got me humming "You Are Invited" for the first time in too long.

Damn...has the Black Cat show already sold out?

got tickets for boston. pppppppsyched

I'll be at the NYC show

Got my NYC ticket! I almost vomited in my mouth when I saw these guys open a free concert back in 1999 before really knowing anything of their music - Travis prancing around like a jackass, bassist doing jambandy shuffle in place, drummer wearing goddamn gloves, fans (reportedly ringers from DC) up front doing synchronized dance to "What Do You Want Me To Say?" - left after like 10 minutes. Naturally, I later got into their music and have kicked myself since for not catching the whole set.

what's the album of theirs to check out if you've never listened to their shit before?

emergency & i poll

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people are lazy, credulous and/or selfish more often than stupid, but the effect is p much the same.

wrong thread d00d

maybe. maybe a really insightful comment about the d plan. you decide.

haha i was wondering if that was a lyric i didn't recall

Got my ticket for the 9:30 Club show, which appears to already have sold out. Yikes. So happy I finally get to see these guys - from various circumstances, I missed two or three opportunities to see them before they broke up.

tried to get tix for either D.C. show today and failed, but a friend has an extra ticket he's selling me. excited, but also disappointed because i was hoping to get enough tix to take friends/spouse/sibling that i used to go to Plan shows with all the time.

i hope this coinciding with the E&I reissue doesn't mean they're going to play the whole album in order live. that shit's played out, and they're a band that knows how to write a setlist anyway.

i wondered that too but it is really not their style. travis seems like way too much of a contrarian for that. in fact, he should post on ilm.

yeah, i really doubt they're going to do that

travis should marry me, except iirc he became a neocon post-9/11. i wonder if he still is.

people are lazy, credulous and/or selfish more often than stupid, but the effect is p much the same.

maybe. maybe a really insightful comment about the d plan. you decide.

This was true of Travis at 19; though to be fair, most of us at that age are pretty much assholes (I'm no exception). I was never able to get past my college interactions with him to give his music a fair shake.

!!!

i was right all along. if there is a proverb about wisdom coming from fools, and i am pretty sure there must be, pretend i wrote it here.

okay but he is v v cute

EZ Snappin are you a W&M alum? Have we had this discussion before?

I went there several years after Travis but I remember seeing his pic in one of the old frat brother photo sets in the Psi U basement.

No we haven't talked about it - we're you a Psi U? I was before I dropped out of school. Drop me a line at my username (no spaces) at yahoo. Too weird.

This band bores me, mostly. And Travis' delivery strikes me as proto-Hold Steady in a way. Lots of words, not saying a whole lot.

surprised you dislike an indie rock band, ilxor

― markers, Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:36 PM (2 weeks ago)

;-)

you strike me as proto-ksh in a way

^^this was what i was gonna post before i got xposted

going from all indie indie indie to all lolindie lolindie lolindie?

you strike me as proto-ksh in a way

This is brilliant, actually.

Btw I see v. strong similarities btwn. markers and the Pfork Reviews Reviews dude, almost think they are the same person at times. WEIRDDDDDD

Travis' delivery strikes me as proto-Hold Steady in a way. Lots of words, not saying a whole lot.

I mean dude is also (in)famous for his emotive "yeah yeah"ing, so it seems a bit off to think of his shit as verbal diarrhea

good band, good show.

good post

j/k, more details tho?