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The Stage Names
Released: 2007 18 tracks
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I bought The Stage Names from E-Music last year sometime and it fast became one of my favourite ever albums. In a way I'm glad I found out about this band late on because it meant I had quite alot of their work to catch up on and enjoy. If you still haven't given them a listen I recommend the above album and then perhaps Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See which is also really strong.
The lead singer/songwriter, Will Sheff, has a real talent with words. Many of h... MORE
An alphabetical list of great music I found through my fellow Moggers.
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To this day I don't know who my father is. I was told once when I was about 18. My feeling is, the male roll models in my life were my grandfather and my Uncle Bob. That was enough. My mom got married in the mid 80's to the man I now call dad. He is very much like my Uncle Bob, only older and less athletic. In a purely Freudian sense, my mom actually married her brother and I got my uncle to live with all over again.
In the summertime, I like to sleep naked.
My gra... MORE
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I am very late posting thanks to my Secret Santa, matt cleveland. I have a reason, I hope justifiable.
Throughout the year, I noticed that Matt was promoting a program. I thought that he, like many other Moggers, was promoting his own radio show or podcast. I am always short on time and I usually don’t follow those links from anyone’s posts. Well, this was certainly my loss. It turns out that The Program which Matt refers to is really a “personal listening plan.” H... MORE
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Kinda obsessive with linking between song and picture.
I could not see any correlation between this song and picture at all. just like it.
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Okkervil River is definitely a band that is on my top ten list of 2007. Lead singer Wil Sheff is far better than good. He does a pretty good job of making me want to stop making music. Their 2007 release The Stage Names [Jagjaguwar], has garnered and demanded my full attention since it's release in October.
[Pause: Ugh, Jameson has a hangover right now, can you tell. What's not very apparent is how I'm just mashing my paws against my keyboard and letting my Firefox b... MORE
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...I was an extra on a movie set yesterday.
So if you you recall my recent musings about Sunday mornings, which I was typing out on my laptop while drinking some spiced chai tea in a cafe/foodcourt, I was just finishing up enjoying the morning (as campus was becoming more and more busy) when I was approached by a tall guy accompanied by a bloody-armed and faced girl wearing a tattered shirt. Despite the blood she was smiling happily. It was fake blood. Pretty realistic... MORE
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Great Interview with Okkervil River at
http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1068/forcing-them-to-talk-all-of-them-scene-stealing-what-comes-of-it
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As I type these words, I'm listening to a song from the new Okkervil River album... it's getting to me... again.
The song is "Savannah Smiles" and I must have listened to it 15-20 times and it's held its emotional impact every time.
Whatever mystical ingredients (lyrics, tune, voice, choice of instruments) that equal that kind of impact in a song are here in spades.
A friend of mine turned me on to this band... what a gift... (the rest of the album is pretty da... MORE
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Published first at Harp Online (http://www.harpmagazine.com)
Okkervil River and Damien Jurado Live in Northampton
Pearl Street
Northampton, MA USA
September 26, 2007
by Jennifer Kelly
Okkervil River, the Austin-based band fronted by Will Sheff, switched things up dramatically with this year’s The Stage Names, splicing big beats and a pop exuberance into their hyper literate, hyper sensitive sound. Anyone coming to their live show expecting the gentle, emotionally fr... MORE
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This band sounds alot like morrisy and the smiths the only diference i here is morrisy is a little bit (MORBID) LOL. K.J.Y. (MEKO) LATER PS SMITHS HANG THE BLOODY D.J.
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I saw this video for the first time earlier in the week and could have sworn it was my friend Caitlyn as the girl in the video...well it is her and here's the video...a great song that will be in your heads for hours...oh and wave to Travis the drummer in the video...he's also a friend and sometime bartender of mine...... MORE
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aka, 'Despite being completely and utterly burnt out and floating by in a haze that barely resembles my former self, I still find it amazing that I can listen to this one particular song and take away from it sorrow, joy, and bewilderment.'
From
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44665-the-stage-names
Fittingly, The Stage Names ends with "John Allyn Smith Sails", a document of failure so complete that the main character can't even succeed in killing him... MORE
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I'm a little behind the mob on this, but if you have not heard Okkervil River's new album The Stage Names yet, what are you waiting for? It's fantastic. Here's a bit from my rushed and not altogether satisfactory review, up today at Dusted:
"There's a moment about two minutes into "Our Life Is Not a Movie Or Maybe," the first song on The Stage Names where the band quite simply slips its bonds. Even up to this point, the song has been a coiled spring of melodic energy, its s... MORE