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 Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:33 pm 
My least favorite Eisley song always seems to get mentioned many times as a favorite. (Brightly Wound) _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:54 pm
vivalaspopie wrote: My least favorite Eisley song always seems to get mentioned many times as a favorite.
(Brightly Wound) Ahh, I love that one. It's not my favorite, though. But it's up there. I don't have a favorite, but I have a few I like the best. Over the Mountains, Sun Feet ... Ten Cent Blues is very close, I think. But then there are about 20 Eisley songs that are very close, at that ... And We Feel Good. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:14 am
vivalaspopie wrote: My least favorite Eisley song always seems to get mentioned many times as a favorite.
(Brightly Wound) haha yes! that's one of my least favorites. not that it's bad... it just, doesn't really inspire me like the rest. still good, and pleasant. just not something i'd listen to on repeat. _________________ I used to be Snow White but I drifted -Mae West |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:58 am
Sun Feet, i was so impressed with this song when it came out in the 'like the actors' EP. _________________ F L I C K R . ////\\\\ |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:11 am
I could make a list- there are quite a few; but the one that stands out with timeless classic potential is Memories. I'm torn on whether the quintessential auditory analogue of American Gothic is Eisley's Memories or Dvorjak's Ninth... It's close. They are both haunting catharto-fests. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:34 am
vivalaspopie wrote: My least favorite Eisley song always seems to get mentioned many times as a favorite.
(Brightly Wound) Agreed; I found that surprising as well; I think that might be the only Eisley song ever recorded that I find actually unlistenable. Doesn't really sound like an Eisley song at all to me- of course their performance of it sounds Eisley (which nearly saves it but can't quite), but the songwriting doesn't. Sounds more to me like something that might have been written by an ad-agency jingle writer ordered to imitate an Eisley-like song after Eisley refused to sell them one (which actually happened to another great band, or so I'm told). There are one or two others I can live without, that don't engage me as much as their better work, but I mean that one I very nearly can't physically tolerate (apologies to whoever wrote it if they should happen upon this post- I'm sure you've written many others that I love). The "cheery" (even chirpy?), emasculated rewrite of T.E. is almost in the that category, but the existence of <unspeakable song title> makes even that sound brilliant. Different strokes for different folks I suppose. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:27 am
inorbit wrote: I could make a list- there are quite a few; but the one that stands out with timeless classic potential is Memories.
I'm torn on whether the quintessential auditory analogue of American Gothic is Eisley's Memories or Dvorjak's Ninth... It's close. They are both haunting catharto-fests. I can't pick favorite songs, but I can say that when I first heard Eisley in 2005 when someone included about 5 songs on a mp3 mix CD, on the first couple listens 'Memories' made the biggest impression. Opening in a minor key underneath Stacy's floating dandelion voice, then bursting into full technicolor sound with Sherri's sweeping entrance, I thought, "Whoa, who writes songs like this?!?" Catharto-fest is my new favorite pseudo-psychobabble entry.  _________________ http://www.twitter.com/drstrangeblog http://www.last.fm/user/getinline I can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:38 am
probably Memories. its the first song of theirs that really got me. _________________ melanie |
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Joined: 22 Jan 2007 | Posts: 423 | Location: rhode island.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:12 am
grain thrower wrote: Catharto-fest is my new favorite pseudo-psychobabble entry. Yeah, well- just don't try it in scrabble- its not gonna work 
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:55 pm
Ten Cent Blues |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:02 pm
inorbit wrote: grain thrower wrote: Catharto-fest is my new favorite pseudo-psychobabble entry. Yeah, well- just don't try it in scrabble- its not gonna work Maybe I can tell them they need to look it up in a medical dictionary. _________________ http://www.twitter.com/drstrangeblog http://www.last.fm/user/getinline I can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read. |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:53 am
Room Noises: I wasn't prepared, marvelous things and memories. 
Combinations: Combinations, Ten Cent Blues and Go away _________________ 
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Post subject: .... Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:46 am
Brightly Wound...but Mr.Pine is pretty high up there as well
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:49 am
Come Clean _________________ There's an airplane in the sky With a banner right behind Loneliness is just a crime Look each other in the eye |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:12 pm
That's a tough one but I guess my all-time favorite Eisley song is Lady Of The Wood. Currently I'm really loving Aristicats a lot. _________________ 
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