this album :3.

Album Rating: 4.5

feeling like this is super underrated so i'll make a post-->

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm not quite sure what took me so long to realize I love this. I had a stupid, silly grudge almost against this band for years simply because I had a string of ex-girlfriends who would always play them and this album especially and I just wrote them off because of the painful memories. Then a few weeks ago it all just clicked and before I knew it I was constantly singing A Cautionary Song under my breath everywhere I went. Now I can't stop listening to this album.



Love it when you can go from basically hating music to falling in love with it. That's always such an awesome surprise.

Album Rating: 4.5

this is their best

Album Rating: 4.5

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Album Rating: 4.5

Gotta love "July, July", a classic Decemberists tune right there.

Album Rating: 4.5

My name is Leslie Anne Levine

My mother birthed me down a dry ravine

Album Rating: 4.5

cocoon and clementine are so chill, and california one is obvi the goat song



just overwhelmed by nostalgia whenever i put this on

Album Rating: 4.5

"California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade" is perfection.

This album is nostlaogic for sure, The King is Dead is their most nostalgic for me though. What do you think of that one chuck?

Album Rating: 4.5

hazards of love is the last album of theirs ive listened to dude ill check it out though

Album Rating: 4.5

The went Americana on The King is Dead, it's actually my favorite by them. It's not as quirky as their prior works but the songwriting is amazing.

Album Rating: 3.5

I've always liked to see this, Her Majesty, The Tain and Picaresque as some sort of "orphans and oligarchs" four-volume anthology. The songs - and albums - are generally very interesting on their own, but it's when considered as part of a loose thematic canon that I find they gain their real significance

Album Rating: 4.5

I've always felt kind of the opposite, that the songs on their early albums don't really fit into any theme, they're just a bunch of random story songs about whatever.

Album Rating: 3.5

Well, yes, but then aren't all the miserable characters of those random story songs still kind of united by the fact that they seem to have been thrown into this purposeless, indifferent and ultimately fatal world? Most of the songs deal with terrible, tragic people or events, and even though there are moments of grace and beauty spread throughout, the most optimistic characters are closer to happiness because they've acknowledged the meaninglessness of it all and just submitted to drifting away.



I don't know, Colin maybe just set out to write story songs and many ended up touching relatively similar themes and ideas, but they've always made more sense to me as a loose whole.

Album Rating: 4.5

I see where you're coming from actually, I just don't think there is any intentional thematic resonance.

No matter how you cut it Colin Meloy is one of the best and most unique songwriters active today.

Album Rating: 3.5

Absolutely, and a relevant one, too, considering he garnered relative mainstream attention writing bold and literary lyrics. And yet he knows he's not a victorian poet. I think he's really just having fun and manages to maintain a keen sense of irony and self-deprecation.



Andrew Bird is the only songwriter I can think of who writes in a somwhat similar fashion. Often better than Meloy, too, I'd say.

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't really see any similarity between Meloy and Bird but I've also only heard two Bird albums (both of which I find weaker than any Decemberists album).

Album Rating: 3.0

i finally like this.

top 10 live band

Album Rating: 3.5

@BoneyKing

Bird's recent output has been inconsistent, but The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Armchair Apocrypha and - to a lesser extent - Break it Yourself are three great baroque/indie folk albums. His writing, lyrics-wise, is usually bold and rich in vocabulary and word-play, and some of Meloy's lyrics have reminded me of Bird a few times, especially since The King is Dead.