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I FUCKING HATE OF MONTREAL

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In the morning it will be OK but right now I put the first song off their B-Sides comp on and IT MAKES ME WANT TO KILL because it is SO GOD BE DAMNED TWEEEEEEEEEEEE

"Don't be so sneaky..."

Normally, Of Montreal are fine. Not right now. I don't know what I want to listen to right now. I want to vomit. I want to scream. I really, really fucking hate Of Montreal right now.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to despise them but that Adhils Arboreteum thing wasn't bad.

Some ska DJs at the local college radio station got a big kick on air way back when the Gay Parade came out and they accidentally played something off.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe they found the album title very apt.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, I tried skipping on, but it's all gonna be exactly the fucking same, isn't it? All "la la la, I saw a German with a rabbit and he went (AWKWARD TEMPO CHANGE) THERE ARE NO DECENT NEWS AGENTS FOR THE NEXT FIVE MILES (YET ANOTHER AWKWARD TEMPO CHANGE) and Mulroon was very confused, oh yes he waaaas"

And some days that's fine. But right now I want to bury both feet in Of Montreal's FACES.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

the compilation LP on Earworm is one of the most painful listens imaginable. if only Barnes would stop arsing about musically he might come up with something that doesn't make me want to thrust knitting needles in my ears

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i love them. kevin barnes should be cloned multiple times over.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

subthread...
Taking Sides: Of Montreal vs To Damascus?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Of Montreal is like a very strongly-flavored dish - when you have an appetite for it, it's scrumptiously great - but when you don't, it's damn likely to put you off your feed.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't really get it until I saw them live. I thought they were some dreadful twee band, psychedelic music made by kids too scared to take acid.

But then I saw them live recently, and they were really fun, really playful and irreverent. They remind me a lot of the Dukes of Stratosph34re.

(Except of course, their singer looks so disconsertingly like Horton that I nearly ran up to him and hit him at the Arse Cafe...)

― KATE, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

they are twee, he is impossibly cheerful in his music, but he's also clever and his uninhibited exuberance is somethng that is lacking in a lot of other music really.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

When they're good, the Dukes comparison is right on: I'm still in love with "Jacques Lamure," at the very least.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Of Montreal once and experienced the most violent reaction I've ever had to live music. (Not counting Cat Power.) That music makes me physically uncomfortable. It seems "melodic" in that there are strings of notes that progress in ways that seem to resemble tunes you've heard before, but the notes never add up to a song. Instead they just meander off somewhere else. I guess my physiology has been programmed by now to expect a sense of "release" from a pop chorus, but this stuff is so tightly wound it never gives me that satisfaction. After I left the room, I could feel that my muscles had stiffened and my temper was flaring.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, exactly - their music winds me up so much it makes me actually angry. i'm sure this can't be the intention of Barnes.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it sort of is. Basically: any musical action that pisses one person off feels liberating and ballsy to someone else. "I cannot believe this shit (scowly trembling rage)" versus "I cannot believe this shit (jaw-dropped giddy smile)."

At least, that was what I was going to say, and then I realized: you like indiepop, Jim, so you'd conceivably be down with the ballsy "yes in fact we are going to do this" popism. I'm interested in why Of Montreal has this effect on people. I remember that when I bought The Gay Parade I found it too chirpy to listen to more than three songs at any given time.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the thing is that to enjoy any of it you have to completely give in to them, something very much like "suspension of disbelief" but on a really massive scale. And the problem with this is that even when you manage it you don't get that much back: you wind up going "oh yeah, Of Montreal, I guess they're pretty cool."

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

It felt very exclusive last night. I was feeling fragile anyhow, but hearing them go on about their strange day with a Swede or whatever it was, like they have no problems made me want to wallop them hard with bricks.

It feels very much for them, and not for you. If you see what I mean.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

_The Gay Parade_ and _Adhils_ are utterly brilliant, IMO.
The other stuff is hit or miss though. They are kind
of tense, aren't they? Lots of unresolved chords and odd
melodies. In the tweeness category, they're no more
twee then most E6ers and less twee than some.
I also hear strong Syd Barrett influence in OM, which is
great as usual.

― Skuirl Plise, Thursday, 27 March 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't understand the winding up bit, because they have a short attention span? i read an interview with kevin barnes where he said he deliberately tries to change chords with every strum. but he has a lovely singing voice and their music is pure escapism. 'kissing in the grass' is an unbelievably classic song. perhaps the problem is that his musical personality is so strong it can't help but evoke strong reactions because there are very few dull shades in their music. unresolvd chords? what does that mean? i am not a musician. i think all of the records are wonderful, even the singles collections and the four-track demos he did in high school.

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 27 March 2003 04:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"I saw Of Montreal once and experienced the most violent reaction I've ever had to live music."

I remember this so vividly! I just wrote something on them last night and wanted so badly to quote Keith (but didn't of course). To be honest, I think Barnes is a great songwriter, very imaginative, but his words are drowning in sugar-water. I once interviewed him for college radio and he explained the concept behind that Coquelicot... album. It took him like five minutes, it was so convoluted.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)


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