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"Direct Hit"

03 Jul 2007 12:34 pm

Catherine says "Art Brut is an acquired taste." I think I liked them from the get-go, but I'm kind of weird like that. One way or another, I'm digging the new album. Here's the video for "Direct Hit"

I say it's funny. Also note that they do a great live show.

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i don't understand: why do you kids still listen to CDs?

MODnaahh, MAKES me, want to rock OUT!!!

Good to hear about the new one. Perhaps I will buy it.

Despite the work of a few dedicated evangelists, I still find Art Brut unbearably smug. It can be fun to feel in on a joke, but that shouldn't be the only thing a band has going for it.

Nope. Clearly drearily, drearily, drearily dull to listen to.

More melody, less chatting.

There seems to be a greater acceptance among the younger generation these days that disposable music can and should be appreciated while it's around precisely because it IS predictably short-lived.

Awful. Couldn't bear to watch more than 30 seconds of that. Something about the performance of the lead 'singer' in the video ratchets up the cringe factor too.

Eh, I can take them or leave them. For some reason hearing that song has left me with a better song stuck in my head.

Well, I can't for the life of me see *any* concordance between Direct Hit and Drama -- kinda like Bush's commutation of Libby reminding you of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address -- but hey, thanks for the link to that amazing clip of a great song on an unbelievable tour (I believe it was Janet Weiss's first with the band).

What exactly do you like about them?

Nobody can exactly say why they like something.

Matt, have you heard the new Spoon album? It's brilliant.

passable.

I already kinda liked their music, but I have to say that it's appropriate that a group that is so strongly an homage to late 70's post-punk should have a video that's an homage to a late 70's BBC costume drama.


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