I'm quite surprised at all the comments about the band name. Why does anyone care? Stop and ask yourselves how many great bands over the years have or have had horrible names. I'm sure you can come up with more than a few.
Critics cut them for the somber quality that runs through their music like a theme. Critics did the same thing with Pink Floyd. I am only comparing DCFC to Pink Floyd in that regard, but like them or not, I am pretty sure that we will be hearing them for a long time to come. Ben Gibbard is, in my opinion, one of the better lyricists and songwriters in popular music today.
Fantastic. Hard to believe it's from his first album. The lyrical content and sound of his voice lead one to imagine a man at least twice his young age.
yup, maybe more than a little more restraint
this song makes me want to divert the stream and go elsewhere.
but that's just me...
C'mon people, it was his first and only full length album released while he was alive. He didn't have the opportunity to obtain the discipline that comes with age and experience.
Peter Gabriel is, by far, one of my favorite artists. However, when anyone recycles a piece of music, I find it cheapens the work. I guess that because of the age we live in, you could just call it "sampling" and that makes it okay. It doesn't mean that I have to like it. We live in an time of artistic recycling, from movies to music and I really don't think that it has helped evolve any art form.
I hold very, very few musicians in the same regard as I do Peter Gabriel. In fact, maybe nobody else... He is unique in the world.
Hear, hear!
Peter Gabriel is known to most as the guy who did Sledgehammer (which is a great tune), but has such a vast, amazing and unfortunately to most, little known catalogue of musical genius. He truly is one of the modern masters and I believe that he will be remembered, respected and studied along with the likes of Mozart.
I like Jethro Tull and I just noticed a similarity between the vocal style of Maynard James Keenan from Tool (whom I also really like), and Ian Anderson.. Was Maynard influenced by the Tull or perhaps it's just coincidence?
In fact, maybe nobody else... He is unique in the world.
Hear, hear!
Peter Gabriel is known to most as the guy who did Sledgehammer (which is a great tune), but has such a vast, amazing and unfortunately to most, little known catalogue of musical genius. He truly is one of the modern masters and I believe that he will be remembered, respected and studied along with the likes of Mozart.