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Anyone listen to The Decemberists? (1 Viewer)

Favorite studio album?

  • Castaways and Cutouts

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Her Majesty, The Decemberists

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Picaresque

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • The Crane Wife

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • The Hazards of Love

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • The King is Dead

    Votes: 4 21.1%
  • Total voters
    19
Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider

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Just got into this band very recently. Good band. The Crane Wife, Picaresque, The Tain EP and The Hazards of Love are all pretty sweet. Sort of folk rock with indie-type vocals and influences from prog (YES!) and country (ICK) at times, as well.

 
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I dig them.

Check out Bon Iver, The Tallest Man on Earth, Mumford & Sons & Avett Bros.

 
Time for you to start following the annual 'album of the year' threads. Not only are The Decemberists popular, lots of other great groups for you to get into.

I've cooled on my love for these guys but am still a fan.

and O Valencia are my two favorites of theirs.Edit to add links to songs.

 
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Big fan. Picaresque and Castaways and Cutouts are my favorites. "The Mariner's Revenge Song" is phenomenal live.

 
read an interesting story about them recently in one of the local rags...how they created their latest album...moved into a barn etc. I can only take them in limited doses though the lead singers voice starts to wear thin.

 
Saw them live and they were really good. I don't much care for their albums though. Pretty nerdy #### and I'm usually a fan of nerdy. Maybe they're too nerdy. Or at least sound like they know how to write code and can explain Magic the Gathering.

 
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Saw them live and they were really good. I don't much care for their albums though. Pretty nerdy #### and I'm usually a fan of nerdy. Maybe they're too nerdy.
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I have a similar feeling about them. I can only take them in small doses (probably good for half an album at a time).
 
So, yeah, my younger brother and I saw them last night, and they were terrific. Great live band! They played a lot of from both Picaresque and The King is Dead.

Full set list:

The Infanta

Down by the Water

Calamity Song

Rox in the Box

The Engine Driver

The Bagman's Gambit

Won't Want for Love

The Crane Wife 3

January Hymn

The Sporting Life

The Rake's Song

Don't Carry It All

Sixteen Military Wives

This is Why We Fight

The Chimbley Sweep

First encore:

My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist

The Mariner's Revenge Song

Second encore:

June Hymn

 
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Poll added. For fun. And to possibly generate more discussion. ;) :P
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Won't vote. It's like asking which family member I like best.And for the record, the 5 Songs EP might be the strongest "pound for pound". Certainly a solid release.- Angel, Won't You Call Me- Apology Song- I Don't Mind- My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist- Oceanside- Shiny
 
Been listening to Hazards of Love quite a bit lately. What's the backstory to this one? There's some dark dark stuff going on around here.

 
'General Malaise said:
Been listening to Hazards of Love quite a bit lately. What's the backstory to this one? There's some dark dark stuff going on around here.
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The back story is that it's awesome.More in depth info from wiki...

The original plan was for The Hazards of Love to be a staged musical. However, it seems that the story was "unstagable" in such a format. Instead the band played the entire album start to finish at each concert on the spring tour. A press release read: "The album began when Meloy – long fascinated by the British folk revival of the 1960s – found a copy of revered vocalist Anne Briggs's 1966 EP, titled The Hazards of Love. Since there was no actual song with the album’s title, he set out to write one, but was soon immersed in something much larger. The Hazards of Love tells the tale of a woman named Margaret; her shape-shifting lover, William; his fey forest queen mother; and a cold-blooded, lascivious rake, who recounts with spine-tingling ease how he came "to be living so easy and free" in "The Rake's Song". Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden deliver the lead vocals for the female characters, while My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock and The Spinanes’ Rebecca Gates appear in supporting roles. The range of sounds reflects the characters’ arcs, from the accordion’s singsong lilt in “Isn’t it a Lovely Night?” to the heavy metal thunder of "The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing"."
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'Disco Stu said:
The original plan was for The Hazards of Love to be a staged musical. However, it seems that the story was "unstagable" in such a format. Instead the band played the entire album start to finish at each concert on the spring tour. A press release read: "The album began when Meloy – long fascinated by the British folk revival of the 1960s – found a copy of revered vocalist Anne Briggs's 1966 EP, titled The Hazards of Love. Since there was no actual song with the album’s title, he set out to write one, but was soon immersed in something much larger. The Hazards of Love tells the tale of a woman named Margaret; her shape-shifting lover, William; his fey forest queen mother; and a cold-blooded, lascivious rake, who recounts with spine-tingling ease how he came "to be living so easy and free" in "The Rake's Song". Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden deliver the lead vocals for the female characters, while My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock and The Spinanes’ Rebecca Gates appear in supporting roles. The range of sounds reflects the characters’ arcs, from the accordion’s singsong lilt in “Isn’t it a Lovely Night?” to the heavy metal thunder of "The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing"."
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:mellow:
 
'Jaysus said:
'Disco Stu said:
The original plan was for The Hazards of Love to be a staged musical. However, it seems that the story was "unstagable" in such a format. Instead the band played the entire album start to finish at each concert on the spring tour. A press release read: "The album began when Meloy – long fascinated by the British folk revival of the 1960s – found a copy of revered vocalist Anne Briggs's 1966 EP, titled The Hazards of Love. Since there was no actual song with the album’s title, he set out to write one, but was soon immersed in something much larger. The Hazards of Love tells the tale of a woman named Margaret; her shape-shifting lover, William; his fey forest queen mother; and a cold-blooded, lascivious rake, who recounts with spine-tingling ease how he came "to be living so easy and free" in "The Rake's Song". Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden deliver the lead vocals for the female characters, while My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock and The Spinanes’ Rebecca Gates appear in supporting roles. The range of sounds reflects the characters’ arcs, from the accordion’s singsong lilt in “Isn’t it a Lovely Night?” to the heavy metal thunder of "The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing"."
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Exactly. Only The Decemberists could pull this #### off.
 
'General Malaise said:
next time somebody calls me a 'rake' i'm going to smile and thank them. :thumbup:
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Yeah, I had to look it up. :bag:
A rake, short for rakehell, is a historic term applied to a man who is habituated to immoral conduct, frequently a heartless womanizer. Often a rake was a man who wasted his (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women and song, incurring lavish debts in the process. The rake was also frequently a man who seduced a young woman and impregnated her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin.
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:unsure:
 
Big fan of all their albums. I probably listen to Picaresque the most though.

If you like them, check out another Portland band,

good one from The B&B.
 
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They can rock a Heart cover too...

Note for those who have seen it before - this is much better quality than the one I linked to 2+ years ago.

 
The Rake's song is impossible not to sing along to, and yes it does feel a bit odd sometimes to be singing lyrics about such deplorable behavior.

 
'Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
Amazon had The King is Dead for $3.99 so I figured I would try it. Still not sure about them though.
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I am not a big fan of that one. It has a few good tunes, but the bulk of it is too country rockish for my tastes, and they seemed to abandon their quirkiness for that record as well.
 
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The Hazards of Love is great if you can get into a concept album where some of the songs are shorter ones that make more sense in the context of the album rather than listened to randomly on their own, ala Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Who's Tommy.

The Crane Wife and Picaresque were the first two I got into, and I still think are their two best.

 
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