Come on, I know atleast a few of you guys like this band...
I'm sitting here at work, listening to them. Their album has to be my "most played of May/June"
Any fans??? :french:
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Come on, I know atleast a few of you guys like this band...
I'm sitting here at work, listening to them. Their album has to be my "most played of May/June"
Any fans??? :french:
Wtf is that?
hahah its a group,,,,look em up
I dont know exactly how to describe the music, but it falls in the genre of Rock.
i love the postal service they have actually been around for a while now. You can here some of there musiq on yahoo launch check it out
I love the couple of songs I've heard from them. Interesting story behind their name.
hk
Do tell....
I didnt know there was a story. I know the lead singer was with Death Cab.
Ever read some of the lyrics??? Pretty damn cool
i was listenin to "Such Great Heights" a lot last year ... i have the album ...
hrmm... and here i was thinking why are we having a thread about the post office??
raverboy
Ben Gibbard lives in Seattle, Jimmy Tamborello lives in L.A. So they literally produce their music through the Postal Service.Quote:
Originally Posted by inkeepingsecret
In December 2001, Gibbard started receiving CD-Rs from Tamborello filled with beatsy electronic music, which he manipulated in his computer before writing melodies and lyrics and recording vocals. He also added some guitar, drums and keyboards - much of which was recorded by Death Cab guitarist Chris Walla at his Hall of Justice studio - and then sent the demo back to L.A. Gibbard had to run his changes past Tamborello, but he more or less had the freedom to alter the songs to his liking.
"It was really great to get a little package every month or two - 'Two new songs!'" says Gibbard. "Sometimes I'd say, 'I want to move that part and this part,' and it was really fun to have such autonomy in the writing; I could pretty much do whatever I wanted."
Ten months, two trips to L.A. (to record vocals and finish mixing) and one big postage invoice later, Give Up was completed.
Source: [URL]http://www.subpop.com/bands/postalservice/bio.php[/URL]
hk
pretty good band,they help me through my horrid life =).
favorite postal service ong "brand new colony"
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Originally Posted by Stillinlove
Indeed, that's a great song. It gives you hope that you once again feel the way he is feeling. And, I'm sure you've been where he's at in the song.
i'll be the grapes fermented, bottled and
served with the table set in my finest suit
like a perfect gentleman
i'll be the fire escape that's bolted to the
ancient brick where you will sit and
contemplate your day
i'll be the waterwings that save you if you
start drowning in an open tab when your
judgement's on the brink
i'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite
albums back as your lying there drifting off
to sleep...
i'll be the platform shoes and undo what
heredity's done to you: you won't have to
strain to look into my eyes
i'll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped
straight to the throat with the collar up so
you won't catch cold
i want to take you far away from the cynics in this
town and kiss you on the mouth
we'll cut our bodies free from the tethers of
this scene, start a brand new colony
where everything will change, we'll give
ourselves new names (identities erased)
the sun will heat the ground under our bare
feet in this brand new colony
everything will change, ooo ooo...
At first, i thought is was a typical love song. About how you would do all these things for the one you love. I still think about it in that respect, but my interpretations have changed.
I think "brand new colony" means starting a life with someone new, about being optimistic about the future. Maybe, the beginning of a relationship?
Great song, everyone can have their own sort of meaning.
Actually, it's under the genre of Indie.Quote:
Originally Posted by inkeepingsecret
Usually people think it means "Independent" and not afflected with major commerialized record companies. Which it still means.
But it also is a new category of music.
I won't go into much detail about it though.
"I won't go into much detail about it though."
Oh? Why not? I'm curious to know more about this new category of music.
Hey, I saw a song from Postal Service in WebJay but never downloaded it, it should be crap concidering your posts, I mean, crap for me.
Or, is it something like The London Apartments or Mayapple Weather?
Oh, the last ones aren't rock. A trip-hopy stuff, but not quite. Guitars and computer.
No, indie isnt a new category of music, its been around for years. Indie is a sub-genre that fans, (usually not artists) like to label their bands as.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazy_Eyed
indie, emo, punk, ska, new age, are part of the genre of ROCK.
I have had the oppurtunity to speak with a few bands that would be labeled "indie." the general consensus from these bands were that they did not want to fall into any label to where they could be a "fad" or whatever.
EX. emo
EMO has been around for 20 years or so. Although, the first "emo" bands were never considered to be EMO music. They made music that wasnt subjective to whats out there. Now these crappy bands that come around try to fit into that label, therefore making shitty music. Now people tend to despise EMO becuase of the crap that is out there now.
People/Fans will always come up with "new" types genres/labels, seeking originality, until it becomes popular and bands ultimatley die with the trend. At the end of the day, its ROCK & ROLL.
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Originally Posted by Hazy_Eyed
Yes, some bands initially want to "stick it to the big man"
This is all fine and well, until you cant feed you're wife and kids. If the band is good enough, and their fan base contiues to grow, they eventually will "sell out," or be "affected by major commerialized record companies." Would this course of action take the band out of the sub-genre????? This is why band dont tend to favor stupid labels.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put 'new category of music' I knew for quite some time its not a brand new genre. But is now "more" recognized, I guess?
"ndie, emo, punk, ska, new age, are part of the genre of ROCK."
Supposively rock and rap was based off jazz. Everything falls ontop of some sort of big genre.
But rock is so vague. And I don't try to put 'indie' as a trend term, but just to make things clearer on how it sounds.
P.s. I hope emo dies out soon.
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Originally Posted by Hazy_Eyed
I hope so too
Whats emo?
emo: [url]http://www.fourfa.com/[/url] Basically, an 80's-90's version of what Jethro Tull was to Acid Rock in the 60's.
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Originally Posted by whaywardj
i hate when bassists are lead singers......well, sting being the exception
I don't get your connection. What's so bad about bassists leading the lyrics?
i was referring to the pic on that link you posted
I dont have anything personally against them, it just one of those things that bug me.
"...nothing personally against them...it's just one of those things that bug me..."
That's not personal?
maybe it is personal
i mean, i could like the music they make, but visually it bothers me
Hm. I'll have to look at few bands that way sometime. Never occurred to me think there might something visually "off" about it. Thanks for the insight.
I do not understand why people hate the "emo" music so much.
Considering the word "emo" is short for emotion, I don't see the problem. All music has emotion in it. And just because a band is, for example, being "over emotional" that doesn't give everyone the right to critize that particular band.
Plus, what gives yall the right to judge other people's music preferences. I hate when someone immediately terms me "emo" for the sole reason that I listen to a particular band. Or when some diehard hardcore fanatic yells out "Die Copeland!" (or some other "overly emotional" band). I say everyone has their own choice in music, and who are we to say that it is wrong? Personally, I vote peace in the music world.
I have the right to criticize any damn thing I want.
::oops. sorry guys. was channeling OV there for a minnit::
In a way I do agree with you, but i do understand why people hate the sub-genre called EMO. Its a trendy genre right now. Just like anything else that gets popular, the quality is watered down, and its saturated with artists who "pretend/pose" to be EMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImAnnabelle
Some of the these EMO bands that are out there now a days are EMO because they want to be EMO/POPULAR. Therefore, they skew their words, and music to "fit in," leaving the music tainted with unoriginality.
The originators of this genre never considered themselves EMO. The word EMO in itself killed the genre. Damn hippies
Yeah...I definitely see what you're saying.
It's very similar to the boy band craze in the mid to late 90's. People will eventually get tired of the emo bands, just like they did with LFO, BSB, N'Sync, 98 degrees, and countless others.
Sorry, whaywardj, I wasn't trying to restrict your right to voice your opinion.