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sp4cetiger
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- #1
- Posted: 07/17/2014 22:50
- Post subject: User Pick 113: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Suedeswede]
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart by The...e 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 |
Details on the implementation and chart selection process of "User Pick of the Day" can be found here and here, respectively. A chart documenting the previous picks can be found here.
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HazeyTwilight
boyfriend in your wet dreams
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Location: Elmo Knows Where You Live
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- #2
- Posted: 07/17/2014 23:01
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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.
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RepoMan
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- #3
- Posted: 07/17/2014 23:07
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A twee pop gem, and one of my faves of 2009. They made twee pop sound fresh again.
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis
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WindowAbove
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Iowa
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- #5
- Posted: 07/18/2014 00:36
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Meh, not a fan.
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Jimmy Dread
Old skool like Happy Shopper
Location: 555 Dub Street
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- #6
- Posted: 07/18/2014 06:16
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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.
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satiemaniac
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- #7
- Posted: 07/18/2014 06:39
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| 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
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SquishypuffDave
Gender: Male
Age: 33
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- #8
- Posted: 07/18/2014 07:22
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This album feels good inside my heart metaphorically.
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andyw110183
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Location: Scotland
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- #9
- Posted: 07/18/2014 09:08
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Great album that's on my chart also. Definately better than their latter 2 albums.
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meruizh
Gender: Male
Age: 32
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- #10
- Posted: 07/18/2014 11:54
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On track 6 and this is sounding awesome
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