Best Ever Albums

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

Necharsian — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:05:49 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 07/18/2014 15:05

andyw110183 wrote:

Definately better than their latter 2 albums.

Ha i was going to say their newest ones are better. At the very least theyre fairly close in terms of quality imo. All of them are very good.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

meccalecca — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:26:44 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 07/18/2014 12:26

noWaxJim wrote:

Kip sent us a hand-written reply to apologise with a copy of a Cause Co-Motion compilation...

Kip's one of the nicest dudes I know. I watched them come up through the Brooklyn scene, playing tiny venues to really small crowds. This album has a magic that I don't think any of us in Brooklyn were even ready for. Such a major leap. Couldn't have happened to better people.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

meruizh — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:54:15 GMT

Author: meruizh

Posted: 07/18/2014 11:54

On track 6 and this is sounding awesome

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

andyw110183 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 05:08:50 GMT

Author: andyw110183

Posted: 07/18/2014 09:08

Great album that's on my chart also. Definately better than their latter 2 albums.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

SquishypuffDave — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 03:22:31 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 07/18/2014 07:22

This album feels good inside my heart metaphorically.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 02:39:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/18/2014 06:39

RepoMan wrote:

A twee pop gem, and one of my faves of 2009. They made twee pop sound fresh again.

i usually chock up keeping twee pop worth hearing to the efforts of Camera Obscura, My Little Airport, The Motifs, and The Marshmallow Kisses. that said, this album is fairly decent listening. can't say the same for their sophomore album, though, which i couldn't get through despite two or three attempts

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

Jimmy Dread — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 02:16:36 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 07/18/2014 06:16

Meh, a huge fan - of this album anyway.

I remember sitting behind a desk at work the first time I heard Come Saturday and loving it instantly. So much so that we wrote to the band to invite them to play in Guildford. They said no, but Kip sent us a hand-written reply to apologise with a copy of a Cause Co-Motion compilation...

...and this is why indie-pop (don't think you could class this LP as twee) is so charming. There's a kinship between the artists and the fanbase - it's like an unwritten code of conduct that bands on labels like Slumberland and Fortuna Pop! seem to prescribe to. You're equally as likely to swoon over them whilst they're on stage as join them outside for a fag when the support band's on.

Suffice it to say this album is the bee's knees. Peggy's wistful vocals, the adrenaline rush at the start of Come Saturday, and that solo exactly 2 minutes into Everything With You - the whole thing's fucking right.

Especially as their next two albums have been total toss by comparison.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

WindowAbove — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:36:20 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 07/18/2014 00:36

Meh, not a fan.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

Mercury — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:08:45 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 07/17/2014 23:08

This is a pretty excellent album, by a fab band. And I just like it. A lot.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:07:35 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/17/2014 23:07

A twee pop gem, and one of my faves of 2009. They made twee pop sound fresh again.

Re: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

HazeyTwilight — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:01:46 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 07/17/2014 23:01

It's nice enough I guess, but I sorta get the feeling I could be listening to something else, like Belle & Sebastian or The Jesus and Mary Chain. A combination of indie-pop and noise-pop is lovely, but feels a bit derivative when these guys do it.

User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:50:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/17/2014 22:50

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by SuedeSwede
Rank on User's Chart: 10
Year: 2009
Rank on BEA Overall: 2,085
Average Rating: 76/100
Summary Info: The self-titled debut of New-York-based indie pop band, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

SuedeSwede wrote:

"Between the stacks in the library, not like anyone stopped to see,
We came, they went, our bodies spent among the dust and the microfiche,
Dark winters wear you down, up again to see the dawn,
In your worn sweatshirt and your mother's old skirt, it's enough to turn my studies down"

This sounds like a cute girl. It's everything I like in dream music. It has the twee of Belle & Sebastian and The Field Mice, the dreaminess of Ride and Galaxie 500, and the noise of The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. It even has the jangliness of The Stone Roses, The Smiths, and The La's. Throw them all together and you get this mad album. It's so much fun and so pretty. It has the innocence of twee pop, the prettiness of dream pop, the eeriness of noise pop, and the melody of jangle pop. Lovely.

Favourite tracks: Contender, A Teenager in Love, Young Adult Friction

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