Is this album release announcement a good FPP?

May 6, 2006 2:51 PM

Is this album release announcement a good FPP?
posted by ludwig_van to Etiquette/Policy at 2:51 PM (31 comments total)

I made this because lots of people were bitching in the thread. Personally, I think it's obviously a bad post, even though I like the album.
posted by ludwig_van at 2:52 PM on May 6, 2006

Is this album release announcement a good FPP?

No.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 3:08 PM on May 6, 2006

And just for the record, the album's been floating around since early December.
posted by Mach3avelli at 3:13 PM on May 6, 2006

Yeah. Well I guess we can always hijack the thread with a completely tangential discussion.
posted by ludwig_van at 3:36 PM on May 6, 2006

Grant McLennan died today. I feel awful.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 3:38 PM on May 6, 2006

hell, no
posted by I, Credulous at 3:40 PM on May 6, 2006

And to answer the question: No, no, no.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 3:40 PM on May 6, 2006

No, thats why I flagged itl.

SofS: holy crap, I love the Go-betweens. That is so sad.
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 3:50 PM on May 6, 2006

I really love the album but its such a crap thread it's crazy. "A good album came out a while ago." There is nothing redeeming or interesting about this. There isn't even an interesting hook to this story. It is so lame Jesus himself couldn't cure it of its lameness.
posted by I Foody at 3:55 PM on May 6, 2006

I saw this post when it went up and thought "Huh, that's sort of not that interesting" but it had gotten few comments and fewer flags. When I just checked in, the response seems a bit more definitive. It's more of a GYOB post than anything else, in my opinion.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:57 PM on May 6, 2006

gah! you deleted the thread while i was composing a comment. i guess mefi's just gonna have to miss out on all the super-cool things i had to say. neener!

(for what it's worth, there have been all of five four posts today. it's not like we're suffocating and need to cull the herd here or anything. cripes.)
posted by sergeant sandwich at 4:06 PM on May 6, 2006

so sergeant, we should all feel free to post shit FPPs on slow days? Is that the gist of your comment?

Thanks for deleting the post. It was poo and setting a bad example/precedent/slippery slope and all that stuff.

And damn regarding McLennan: .

*plays Apology Accepted real loud*
posted by dobbs at 4:13 PM on May 6, 2006

no, it just makes me wonder: what if we've used up the best of the web, and only have the meh of the web left?
posted by sergeant sandwich at 4:31 PM on May 6, 2006

no, it just makes me wonder: what if we've used up the best of the web, and only have the meh of the web left?

Stop wondering. That hasn't happened yet.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 4:34 PM on May 6, 2006

Post deleted that included a mathowie comment? Interesting.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 4:38 PM on May 6, 2006

Not necessarily bad, just . . . interesting.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 4:38 PM on May 6, 2006

In fact, mathowie's comment declared that Mach3avelli's links had salvaged the post.

But hey, we're not over-moderating! No sir! Silly me for thinking so.
posted by reklaw at 5:09 PM on May 6, 2006

Jesus, reklaw, give it a rest.

And the poster sure was being a dick in that thread. Hint to posters: furiously attacking anyone who questions your post is not a good strategy.
posted by languagehat at 5:21 PM on May 6, 2006

Is any album release worthy of an FPP?
posted by mischief at 5:28 PM on May 6, 2006

Is any album release worthy of an FPP?

Apparently
posted by prostyle at 5:39 PM on May 6, 2006

Grant McLennan... very, very sad news.

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posted by strawberryviagra at 7:01 PM on May 6, 2006

prostyle; you realize that post you linked to isn't about an album release, right?
posted by jonson at 7:38 PM on May 6, 2006

I can't think of a single indie band I listen to that uses non-standard time signatures.

(Moved here, since the thread is closed.)

There a great 5/4 track by June of 44, very subtle and well done, and not at all clunky or unwieldy (as 5/4 often is). It's been a couple years since I pulled out my albums, but I think it's the opening track on Four Great Points.
posted by cribcage at 11:55 PM on May 6, 2006

I can think of an assload of them, but then again, I like mathrock.
posted by klangklangston at 5:21 AM on May 7, 2006

*plunders klangklangston's ass for some good mathrock*
posted by carsonb at 5:28 AM on May 7, 2006

Is this album release announcement a good FPP?

If it was Mr Presleys comeback , yes.
posted by sgt.serenity at 8:14 AM on May 7, 2006

Well yeah klangklang, I don't deny that there are lots of indie bands using non-standard time signatures, just that that isn't by any means part of the definition of indie.

And Broken Social Scene has a song called 7/4 (Shoreline). It's in 7/4.
posted by ludwig_van at 8:55 AM on May 7, 2006

Oh, yeah, when it comes to that, it has nothing to do with "indie."
(It's even funny how "indie" has morphed over the years, from Yo La Tengo and sounding like VU to Deathcab and sounding like very nice boys that you could stand in a lobby with and not clutch at your bags.)
posted by klangklangston at 2:07 PM on May 7, 2006

you realize that post you linked to isn't about an album release, right?

The implication being that the content of the post and the ensuing discourse was oriented towards the topic of digital distribution leaks, file sharing, etc? Yeah... that's original and packed full of merit. I'm sure it's never been covered here, of all places. Good thing that's not what happened, and it was just a rag on flea/rhcp/pepsi blue session.
posted by prostyle at 2:28 PM on May 7, 2006

Regardless of what it was, what it wasn't was "a post about an album release", which would be ridiculous.
posted by jonson at 5:02 PM on May 7, 2006

(Moved here, since the thread is closed.)
Which kind of misses the point of MetaTalk - it isn't a place for continuing conversations from deleted threads, just in case you were under that growing misapprehension.
posted by dg at 8:24 PM on May 7, 2006