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Streetlight Manifesto

PostPosted: 24 Aug 2010, 03:54
by Jordan~
I've totally never even looked in this bit of the forum! I like what you've done with the place.
So the idea is that you say the name of the band and say, "Guys, what do you think of them?"
"Third wave ska" (or, in layman's terms, "punk with trumpets") is quite some distance away from Joanna's whatever-folk-movement-happens-to-have-taken-a-fancy-to-her (or perhaps it isn't, I'm no expert in musicology) but the more I listen to these guys, the better they seem to get.
I'd say I love the visceral quality of their music if "visceral" weren't such a grisly word. I'm a sucker for brass, which is present in abundance, and beats, if not to the extent that I get excited when I hear dubstep. And what brass! So vibrant and vital and celebratory!
The down-to-earth politicism of their lyrics, the subjects of which often contrast starkly with the (if not quite cheerful) at least energetic style of their music, is charmingly frank. They seem unafraid - confident, assertive, and not at all self-deprecating and meek as if they're ashamed to be opinionated.
It makes me want to move around rhythmically, which I like. While it's not quite dance-y, it's certainly jump-up-and-down-y.
Energetic is the word; every song is so infused with such intoxicating energy that you can just lose yourself in the current and let them carry you along. With album titles like "99 Songs of Revolution" and "A Call to Arms" (actually an album of one of the lead singer/guitarist's other projects, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution) one wonders if that's not exactly the effect they're intended to have. It's music to feel passionate to.

Has anyone else heard of, listened to and/or liked them?
Sorry if everything above is labyrinthine and incomprehensible, I've not written anything other than conversation for quite a while and I'm tending towards stream of consciousness.

Re: Streetlight Manifesto

PostPosted: 24 Aug 2010, 03:58
by Jordan~
Oh - a Google search for "Joanna Newsom Streetlight Manifesto" reveals that both Joanna and Streetlight Manifesto have written about Albert Camus in their songs! Go figure!