A Perfect Circle – The Nurse Who Loved Me
Starts out cinematic – a bit Andrew Bird or David Yazbek-esque and… unexpectedly, stays there. I really expected a hard-edged portion to kick in. Don’t know the band well enough to determine if this is an outlier in their catalogue, but it’s welcome. A love delusion?
Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better
This has a bit of the sound of 2000’s bands like All American Rejects. There is something very familiar about it. I hear a little Bare Naked Ladies. Anthemic chorus – simple, but effective.
APC – In response to Ed, this album has more mellow arrangements than the typical punch that is expected. I really like this entire album for that. there may be one or two on the harder side, but I just love the melancholy.
Bleachers –
Not sure when this came out but it reminds me of the music of a few years back, I can’t list any names because it was nothing that I really listened to. (Just looked them up) Yup, exactly that group of music. In my opinion, if you took a track from all of these artists of this time, and put them on one record, I would have thought it was one band. This is like the high school cheer music of the early 2000’s. I’m not saying its bad, it just doesn’t work for me. Just to put it in perspective, the Foo Fighters doesn’t do it for me. Now after I heard some of the songs unplugged, I really started to like them.
Perfect Circle- i don’t know this band though maybe they were inspired by the REM song of the same name. While I appreciated the craftsmanship and the melancholy of this song I could not really get into the experience. I certainly can appreciate the whole daydreaming or delusional dive into the rugs topography. I also wondered, like E,d if there was a more vigorous rock song hiding underneath. I was imagining the band writing this as a rock song and then thinking , I wonder what this would be like with just strings?
Bleachers- One of my other music friends just went to see Jack Antonoff do a solo show and said it was fabulous. He told me that he was the artist behind Bleachers. I knew he had also been instrumental in the band fun, which this song sounds like it could be part of their catalog. In the beginning , I was getting They might be giants vibes. This was great to listen to. He is known for impeccable production and catchy, hooky melodies. You may know that he writes and produces for taylor swift. Good stuff here.
I need to explore more of A Perfect Circle. This song felt like a meandering journey that was difficult to fully grasp, yet there was something compelling beneath the surface that kept pulling me in. Enjoyed.
“I Wanna Get Better” by Bleachers:
Excellent track. A driving, almost ebullient rush of energy with real emotional momentum. I crammed some big words in that sentence.
“Nurse Who Loved Me”/A Perfect Circle. This sounds very ’60s-psychedelic to me, and not just because of drug references. The strings, pizzicato and otherwise, the woozy melody. A descendant of “Within You Without You “? Perhaps she is not really a nurse and just seems like one? Say hello. Kinda like it.
“I Wanna Get Better”/Bleachers. I am constitutionally primed to dislike the output of uber-popmeister Antonoff, but in practice I have always enjoyed what I’ve heard. It moves along. The bridge is ELO-ish, which I didn’t love. And does he dare to reference “Astral Weeks” with “the love that loves to love”? Sacrilege! (“Sacroiliage,” as P. Bachman might append.) Sounds better when you turn the volume up. It works.
A Perfect Circle – The Nurse Who Loved Me
Starts out cinematic – a bit Andrew Bird or David Yazbek-esque and… unexpectedly, stays there. I really expected a hard-edged portion to kick in. Don’t know the band well enough to determine if this is an outlier in their catalogue, but it’s welcome. A love delusion?
Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better
This has a bit of the sound of 2000’s bands like All American Rejects. There is something very familiar about it. I hear a little Bare Naked Ladies. Anthemic chorus – simple, but effective.
APC – In response to Ed, this album has more mellow arrangements than the typical punch that is expected. I really like this entire album for that. there may be one or two on the harder side, but I just love the melancholy.
Bleachers –
Not sure when this came out but it reminds me of the music of a few years back, I can’t list any names because it was nothing that I really listened to. (Just looked them up) Yup, exactly that group of music. In my opinion, if you took a track from all of these artists of this time, and put them on one record, I would have thought it was one band. This is like the high school cheer music of the early 2000’s. I’m not saying its bad, it just doesn’t work for me. Just to put it in perspective, the Foo Fighters doesn’t do it for me. Now after I heard some of the songs unplugged, I really started to like them.
Perfect Circle- i don’t know this band though maybe they were inspired by the REM song of the same name. While I appreciated the craftsmanship and the melancholy of this song I could not really get into the experience. I certainly can appreciate the whole daydreaming or delusional dive into the rugs topography. I also wondered, like E,d if there was a more vigorous rock song hiding underneath. I was imagining the band writing this as a rock song and then thinking , I wonder what this would be like with just strings?
Bleachers- One of my other music friends just went to see Jack Antonoff do a solo show and said it was fabulous. He told me that he was the artist behind Bleachers. I knew he had also been instrumental in the band fun, which this song sounds like it could be part of their catalog. In the beginning , I was getting They might be giants vibes. This was great to listen to. He is known for impeccable production and catchy, hooky melodies. You may know that he writes and produces for taylor swift. Good stuff here.
I need to explore more of A Perfect Circle. This song felt like a meandering journey that was difficult to fully grasp, yet there was something compelling beneath the surface that kept pulling me in. Enjoyed.
“I Wanna Get Better” by Bleachers:
Excellent track. A driving, almost ebullient rush of energy with real emotional momentum. I crammed some big words in that sentence.
“Nurse Who Loved Me”/A Perfect Circle. This sounds very ’60s-psychedelic to me, and not just because of drug references. The strings, pizzicato and otherwise, the woozy melody. A descendant of “Within You Without You “? Perhaps she is not really a nurse and just seems like one? Say hello. Kinda like it.
“I Wanna Get Better”/Bleachers. I am constitutionally primed to dislike the output of uber-popmeister Antonoff, but in practice I have always enjoyed what I’ve heard. It moves along. The bridge is ELO-ish, which I didn’t love. And does he dare to reference “Astral Weeks” with “the love that loves to love”? Sacrilege! (“Sacroiliage,” as P. Bachman might append.) Sounds better when you turn the volume up. It works.