The Los Campesinos! Thread

[Plebings]

Here we talk about your favourite band, Los Campesinos!

With Hello Sadness coming out soon, the perfect discussion must be formed!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk0vQhxyR5Y

[beth]

HELLO CLOCKING IN FOR LOS CAMPESINOS! MY SECOND FAVOURITE BAND IN THE UNIVERSE. (can this just be our thread alex, i think we'll be good at it.)

i am so excited for this, there's no words how much i'm going to wee when i have it.

even though i have it pre-ordered, watching this everyday: http://hasitleaked.com/2011/los-campesinos-hello-sadness-has-it-leaked/

[Plebings]

ok i think we can talk about LC! and slowly drift off to other bands as well in an attempt to keep this thread here. I don't like wandering off into the spam section.

OK BETH. RANK THEM. RANK THE ALBUMS NOW.

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Gold
Romance is Boring - Silver
Hold On Now, Youngster - Bronze

Hi other forumers, please say how much this band means to you!!

[beth]

OKAY OKAY RANKS.

hold on now youngster - gold.
romance is boring - silver.
we are beautiful, we are doomed - bronze.

TO BE HONEST, i can't decide between HONY and RIB. HONY was like when i first got into them and had just gotten into johnny foreigner and they only had like 4 songs on myspace, and the songs just hold so many memories for me. but romance is boring is so beautiful and just, my ideal album.

OKAY ALEX, FAVOURITE 5 SONGS??????

[Plebings]

Totally, I mean during WABWAD it reminds me of a really great time in my life. HONY I don't really like that much tbh (still good!!), it feels so empty like it was recorded in a empty white room.

RIB has the better songs, and WABWAD has the end of the asterisk (aka the worst song ever)

TOP 5:
1. In Media Res
2. Miserabilia
3. Heart Swells (Pacific Daylight Time)
4. 2007, The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)
5. I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know.

COME ON GUYS. WITH TITLES LIKE THESE HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE THEM.

[beth]

I KNOW RIGHT. LOOK THEY ARE SO LIKEABLE.

TOP 5!

1. my year in lists.
2. a heat rash in the shape of the show me state (or letters from me to charlotte)
3. death to los campesinos!
4. straight in at 101.
5. you! me! dancing!

there's so many others i wanted to put on there but i just had to put those 5 first. the sea is a good place to think of the future is beautiful, by yr hand is just mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, heart swells (pacific daylight time) gives me goosebumps.

SO MANY GOOD SONGS. IDK.

[samsaBEAR]

im sure it's against the rules to start a thread that only two members will care about!

[beth]

im sure it's against the rules to start a thread that only two members will care about!

report me, i dare you ;) it's still music!!! and when i first met you you LIKED los campesinos! though i can't remember if that was one of the bands you pretended to like for me!

[samsaBEAR]

Half and half innit, I did like their first(?) album genuinely, I like that song about stationary and that faux romantics one! it was more JoFo and Help She Can't Swim I pretended to like haha

[beth]

Half and half innit, I did like their first(?) album genuinely, I like that song about stationary and that faux romantics one! it was more JoFo and Help She Can't Swim I pretended to like haha

yeah hold on now youngster, that was the album playing when i lost that phone that time and it was playing for hours. and stationary is my year in lists and faux romantics is this is how you spell hahaha we destroyed the hopes and the dreams of a generation of faux romantics :D

psh jofo have a new album out in 14 days!

[samsaBEAR]

will they sing more songs about how they hate to love birmingham?

[beth]

i do hope so they are my favourite kind of jofo songs!!!!!

[Plebings]

hey let's listen to jofo vs everything here (http://www.artrocker.tv/mp3s/article/world-exclusive-stream-of-johnny-foreigner-vs-everything)

up to track 7, and it sounds pretty super. No sign of any typicaljofofastsongs yet.

heard nme gave it 3/10, *******s. maybe it'll crash and burn in like 2 songs time.

[beth]

OH MY GOD ALEX. ESDEWUIHSABDICUEWHBSAOCIHEWOSAFHBCIEWUBSCIEWDS YOU MADE MY DAY. FINDS HEADPHONES.

[samsaBEAR]

i flicked through all the songs and they all seem a bit meh. like i'm not a jofo fan by any standards, but i do quite like that song about a town being run by criminals, and the dark harbours one i think it is.
the ones i do like are fast and catchy, but most of the songs on this album just seem to be slow and far too boring. i know me giving an opinion about a jofo album is about as valid as either of you telling me how hardcore should sound like, but that's just my take

[Plebings]

i flicked through all the songs and they all seem a bit meh. like i'm not a jofo fan by any standards, but i do quite like that song about a town being run by criminals, and the dark harbours one i think it is.
the ones i do like are fast and catchy, but most of the songs on this album just seem to be slow and far too boring. i know me giving an opinion about a jofo album is about as valid as either of you telling me how hardcore should sound like, but that's just my take

This is a huge plus for me though tbh, sure most of my favourite jofo songs are the fast ones, but they do so many that it comes off sounding a bit tired to me, like Tru Punx has such a great riff, but I can't help but feel that it sounds like so many other jofo songs. The main reason why I didn't like Grace on first impressions were because of this.

Recently my favourites have all been the slower ones anyway, 199x and jfnv. First listen has been good but idk how itll end in the long run. Still, it's me being a bit of a fanboy.

[beth]

right bumping because i've heard hello sadness and vs everything in full now.

hello sadness.

i like it but it's no romance is boring. and i know each album is supposed to show development of an artist yadayada, but there are certain songs on that album that haven't grabbed me at all. that's not to say i hate it because i don't. i'm only on my third listen so maybe there's songs that'll grow. i hope so anyway because at the moment it's ranking 4th in my leaderboard of the 4 los camp! albums. i really like by yr hand and hello sadness and death rattle. i dunno, i really want it to grow on me. and i hope it does. gonna play it to death this week and hope for the best.

johnny foreigner vs everything:

when i first heard the stream with my internet cutting out and in general bad quality, i hated it. i thought it didn't go together at all. sat down tonight, my internet fixed, closed my other windows and just focused on the album. i love it so much. from beginning to end i was hooked. they've grown so much yet they're the same old band on the inside and it just reverbs through every song. it's like i'm so proud of them and so relieved all at the same time. i was so worried i'd hate this record and all it stood for, but i love it all. favourite songs being 200x (just a perfect song in my eyes) (don't) show us your fangs, doesn't believe in angels and you vs everything. it's more like waited up than it is like grace and i love that. i always loved grace but waited up had the edge for me, and this leans more towards that way. it's ******* fantastic. i don't think i can say anymore really.

[@]@samsaBEAR[/@] (love this new tagging thing): both songs you listed you liked were from grace, and if i remember correctly you liked every cloakroom ever. so i don't think you'll like it. i don't really remember you liking anything from the first album. well you liked bullring. to be honest, when there's an actual download (there is one about at the moment but lex did this whole anit-piracy thing so there are tonnes of fake torrents about) give it a listen. i think you'll like it, even though it's not really yr thing.

[@]@Plebings[/@] HAVE YOU HEARD HELLO SADNESS YET?

[Plebings]

right bumping because i've heard hello sadness and vs everything in full now.

hello sadness.

i like it but it's no romance is boring. and i know each album is supposed to show development of an artist yadayada, but there are certain songs on that album that haven't grabbed me at all. that's not to say i hate it because i don't. i'm only on my third listen so maybe there's songs that'll grow. i hope so anyway because at the moment it's ranking 4th in my leaderboard of the 4 los camp! albums. i really like by yr hand and hello sadness and death rattle. i dunno, i really want it to grow on me. and i hope it does. gonna play it to death this week and hope for the best.

johnny foreigner vs everything:

when i first heard the stream with my internet cutting out and in general bad quality, i hated it. i thought it didn't go together at all. sat down tonight, my internet fixed, closed my other windows and just focused on the album. i love it so much. from beginning to end i was hooked. they've grown so much yet they're the same old band on the inside and it just reverbs through every song. it's like i'm so proud of them and so relieved all at the same time. i was so worried i'd hate this record and all it stood for, but i love it all. favourite songs being 200x (just a perfect song in my eyes) (don't) show us your fangs, doesn't believe in angels and you vs everything. it's more like waited up than it is like grace and i love that. i always loved grace but waited up had the edge for me, and this leans more towards that way. it's ******* fantastic. i don't think i can say anymore really.

[@]@samsaBEAR[/@] (love this new tagging thing): both songs you listed you liked were from grace, and if i remember correctly you liked every cloakroom ever. so i don't think you'll like it. i don't really remember you liking anything from the first album. well you liked bullring. to be honest, when there's an actual download (there is one about at the moment but lex did this whole anit-piracy thing so there are tonnes of fake torrents about) give it a listen. i think you'll like it, even though it's not really yr thing.

[@]@Plebings[/@] HAVE YOU HEARD HELLO SADNESS YET?

I wasn't expecting Hello Sadness to be such a low-key affair, it definately sounds like a grower, only listened to it twice mind. It sounds so devastating. Yup, no RIB though. (so far)

Favourite songs on first listen: Hate for the Island, Hello Sadness, Songs About Your Girlfriend

JOFO. On first listen it sounded amazing, I'm much keener on the slower ones with them atm, Alternate Timelines being the highlight for me atm, the intro to swell is ace, supermorning is superb, you vs everything all kinds of awesome. And 200x is sososo lovely.

It sounds a very album-album though, not many single picks, but as a package.. wow!!

Also didn't expect to hear robert scargil V2 in doesn't believe in angels