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MGMT

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  • 20-08-2008 6:59pm
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    Flojo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭


    Any one else in love with this band? Their styles quite unique and I found them hard to categorize but I thought I'd stick them in here.
    Tipped as a band to watch in 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine - I'll defo be watching as the lead singer so sooo gorge!!

    Their two biggest songs:

    [SIZE=-1]www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE - Time To Pretend
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    www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUI5MC9tVM[/SIZE] - Electric Feel


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    doonothing
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    Really wasn't mad on the first single, but the song Kids shows a bit more potential. Pretty overrated, but they aren't bad at all.


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    eVeNtInE
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    Flojo
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    eVeNtInE wrote: »
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    Still have to get the album - been lazy lately :pac:


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    suckslikeafox
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭suckslikeafox


    Awesome album, well worth getting


    Not sure we can talk about any possible gig tho


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    smackbunnybaby
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    Can you discuss it in this thread?

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055193725&highlight=MGMT

    loads of fans in there!

    EDIT: Like BrynW mentioned Flo, dont talk about the gig


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    omb0wyn5ehpij9
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    I wasnt a fan of them at the start, but they are really growing on me at the moment!


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    Flojo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    smackbunnybaby wrote: »
    Can you discuss it in this thread?

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055193725&highlight=MGMT

    loads of fans in there!

    EDIT: Like BrynW mentioned Flo, dont talk about the gig


    Funny they never came up when I searched the forums....


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    Anima
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    http://www.discogs.com/artist/MGMT

    Its very much early days in my opinion. They have a few great songs but the rest are very forgettable. Lets see how the next ep/lp goes!


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    Flojo
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    Anima wrote: »
    http://www.discogs.com/artist/MGMT

    Its very much early days in my opinion. They have a few great songs but the rest are very forgettable. Lets see how the next ep/lp goes!


    Aye but isn't that the same really with every band they don't tend to release more then 2-4 really good songs on each album?
    I agree though, hope they can keep it up. They've made quite an impression on me.


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    Fanny Cradock
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    While I thought that the first half of Oracular Spectacular was excellent, I was less impressed with the second half. Still, different horses...

    Anyone heard their first album?


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    Flojo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    While I thought that the first half of Oracular Spectacular was excellent, I was less impressed with the second half. Still, different horses...

    Anyone heard their first album?

    I've heard of it, haven't actually listened to it though. Any good?


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    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    Flojo wrote: »
    Any one else in love with this band? Their styles quite unique and I found them hard to categorize but I thought I'd stick them in here.
    Tipped as a band to watch in 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine - I'll defo be watching as the lead singer so sooo gorge!!

    Their two biggest songs:

    [SIZE=-1]www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE - Time To Pretend
    [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUI5MC9tVM[/SIZE] - Electric Feel

    In fairness, I've said before, it's gonzo rock through a now de-rigeured synth. It clearly coins much of the Flaming Lips earlier sound. But the Flaming Lips did it well.


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    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Pretty good album, some great songs, some not so great. I think Yeasayer who are from the same area are a better band having seen both live.


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    insinkerator
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    I really like their album! im really angry that i missed them live over the summer!


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    JackKelly
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    I haven't listened to an album as much in a long time. Really great studio band. "Pieces of what" and "Weekend Wars" are my faves (Overlistened to Kids and Time to Pretend!).

    Unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned, they are absolutely useless live. Saw them at Rock Werchter and was extremely unimpressed. Heard lots of reports telling the same from other gigs/festivals.


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    insinkerator
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    I heard they were fantastic at one of their liv performances this summer. The place was jammed like couldnt get in!


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    Xavi6
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    Horrendously overhyped Scissor Sisters tribute band. One good song ('Time To Pretend') then an album that gets worse and worse as it goes on. From their live clips they look absolutely crap so they don't even have that as a saving grace.

    Most overrated band of 2008 right there.


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    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Horrendously overhyped Scissor Sisters tribute band. One good song ('Time To Pretend') then an album that gets worse and worse as it goes on. From their live clips they look absolutely crap so they don't even have that as a saving grace.

    Most overrated band of 2008 right there.

    Yep indeed. Both Scissor Sisters and MGMT have pathetically weak vocalists.


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    JerryHandbag
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    Just as a matter of interest, how does one pronounce their name? Ive heard them referred to as the letters M - G - M - T, but I call them Management?

    And yes I like the album, despite 2 or 3 poor tracks


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    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Yet another unnecessary thread. Learn to search OP.
    MGMT mehGMT. Two good songs, better than the tings tings. Where are they now? In the process of being forgotten.


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    Burial
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    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Horrendously overhyped Scissor Sisters tribute band. One good song ('Time To Pretend') then an album that gets worse and worse as it goes on. From their live clips they look absolutely crap so they don't even have that as a saving grace.

    Most overrated band of 2008 right there.

    I bought their album after I heard "Kid" "Time to pretend" and "Electric Feel". Solid songs that I love and I'm addicted to them. Especially "Kids". Listened to the rest of the album and hugely disappointed. They have 3 great songs, and the rest are medicocre at best, but I really wish I didn't purchase the entire album. There's nothing in there that even is remotely on the same par as the three songs I've mentioned. (Nor even a memorable one) So I bought the Ting Tings album thinking the same. As an album as a whole, it was worth my money. (and better as an album than MGMT's in my opinion.) However most over-rated, I don't think so. They were voted by Rolling Stone to be one of the sounds of 2008. Which is right. "Electric Feel" and "Time To Pretend" are the songs for 2008. Kids is a great song but I don't think it's a sound for 2008.


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    Flojo
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    Yet another unnecessary thread. Learn to search OP.
    MGMT mehGMT. Two good songs, better than the tings tings. Where are they now? In the process of being forgotten.

    Didn't I already say I tried... no need to be rude like :rolleyes:


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    loyatemu
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    album is great. While the singles have a fairly modern synth-heavy sound, the rest of the album leans on late-60s psychedelia and 70s space rock, so I can see why people who liked the singles might not like the rest of it. "Of moons, birds and monsters" is probably my favourite song of the year so far...

    saw the TV coverage of their Glasto performance, and yeah the lead guy doesn't have a strong live voice.


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    missingtime
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    Love this band...

    "I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw in the prime of my life"

    Sums up my summer - in a good and bad way :)


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    Flojo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    missingtime wrote: »
    Love this band...

    "I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw in the prime of my life"

    Sums up my summer - in a good and bad way :)

    Aye I felt that summed me up pretty good too :)


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    missingtime
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    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Horrendously overhyped Scissor Sisters tribute band. One good song ('Time To Pretend') then an album that gets worse and worse as it goes on. From their live clips they look absolutely crap so they don't even have that as a saving grace.

    Most overrated band of 2008 right there.

    Very Harsh imo.


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    keane2097
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    Saw them over the Summer and they started off pretty poor, but in fairness when they warmed up they put on an excellent show.

    The album is daycent imo, but not as good as Vampire Weekend.


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    sprinkles
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    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    While I thought that the first half of Oracular Spectacular was excellent, I was less impressed with the second half. Still, different horses...

    Anyone heard their first album?
    Thought the exact same. They have some cracking songs on there but the album turns **** after track 7 imo.

    Lordgoat & Xavi6 - Why do you always have to be so intolerably rude and snobby about bands you don't like. If you don't like them don't post in here. It's the same tripe all the time - "totally overrated", "[insert olderband name here] tribute band" etc etc. YAWN!


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    Tommy the Cat
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    There fairly mincey.


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    Ekels
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ekels


    sprinkles wrote: »
    Thought the exact same. They have some cracking songs on there but the album turns **** after track 7 imo.

    Lordgoat & Xavi6 - Why do you always have to be so intolerably rude and snobby about bands you don't like. If you don't like them don't post in here. It's the same tripe all the time - "totally overrated", "[insert olderband name here] tribute band" etc etc. YAWN!

    I think if a thread is started on a band, it is only fair that emphatic praise be met with emphatic criticism.


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