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MGMT
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I just found out that there is a MGMT show in two days in my state.

I'm pretty excited because I've been waiting for a good show for a while, but I just barely started listening to MGMT. They are pretty good though... Any fans?

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Re: MGMT [Re: Phishe]
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Ya know, I liked 'em for a bit when I picked up the album.

But like so many bands coming up right now, I find so much derivative wish-we-were-the-Arcade-Fire shit in their music, and I find it deeply disappointing and uninspiring when it comes right down to it, and I'm not caught up in the moment of the music.


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Re: MGMT [Re: Phishe]
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oh yes, you'll find several MGMT fans on the shroomery. most of them came out of the woodworks in this thread http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/7803342/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1/nt/5

and i personally just caught MGMT's show this past friday. they're touring with yeasayer. it was fantastic. both the head bands, and even the opener whose name i've regretfully forgotten, played an awesome fucking show. MGMT sounds a lot more rockish and a little less disco live, but it's still danceable. really fun show. even hung out and chatted with the yeasayer vocalist and drummer after the show.


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Re: MGMT [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneLessForeskin said:
But like so many bands coming up right now, I find so much derivative wish-we-were-the-Arcade-Fire shit in their music...


really? i don't get similar vibes off them at all. like at all.


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Re: MGMT [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
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Choral singing, lyrics heavy with wistfulness about being children...the choral singing especially.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: MGMT [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
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Yea I think their acoustic songs are brilliant. :thumbup:

Especially "pieces of what".

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Re: MGMT [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneLessForeskin said:
Choral singing, lyrics heavy with wistfulness about being children...the choral singing especially.


I agree somewhat I guess....

They could throw out that track "kids" and I'd be much happier.

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Re: MGMT [Re: Phishe]
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okay, i'll give you that. there has been a lot of choral singing as of late. but that doesn't define the style of music. i dunno, i'm not the best music critic, nor can i really define and separate the many aspects and influences maintained by any single band. and i can definitely think of a handful of bands that emulate a similar style of choral singing, but i don't really feel the bands are all to similar in enough aspects to be considered rips on the arcade fire.

one that comes to mind immediately is grizzly bear. i mean their entire schtick is that ghostly melodic choral singing. and i hold them to be quite different from the arcade fire, and very different from MGMT, who utilize that fun disco pop synth feel in several songs. meh, or maybe i'm just biased


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Re: MGMT [Re: Phishe]
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I'm not sick of them yet.

I'll go if they come through town.


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Re: MGMT [Re: Phishe]
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I don't get the popularity of MGMT, they sound no different than any other indie-electro outfit that's been playing for the last few years

They're not bad, but they're not particularly memorable either


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Re: MGMT [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
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Can you give examples of who they sound like? 

People compare them to Of Montreal a lot.  I don't like Of Montreal though :shrug:


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Re: MGMT [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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I guess I could see the pop sensibilities, but I find more of a connection with bands such as Hot Chip and Aqueduct

They also SORT of remind me of Radiohead but I can't put my finger on it


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