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OKGo in Rolling Stone
the new one with Madonna on the front... on page 16 in the bottom right hand corner in a promo for rollingstone.com.
I'd scan it if I was at home but I'm at work.
"OK Dance!
Chicago rockers OK Go (Damian Kulash, right (in a picture of his head)) shimmy and shake their way through "A Million Ways" and then rock out for "Do What You Want," "Invincible" and more in an exclusive live performance at rollingstone.com/okgo"
well, wasn't that exciting!
~Rachael
I'd scan it if I was at home but I'm at work.
"OK Dance!
Chicago rockers OK Go (Damian Kulash, right (in a picture of his head)) shimmy and shake their way through "A Million Ways" and then rock out for "Do What You Want," "Invincible" and more in an exclusive live performance at rollingstone.com/okgo"
well, wasn't that exciting!
~Rachael
Comments
-Rachel from Thornhill
OK Go Oh No (Capitol)
Brown university graduate Damian Kulash peppered the hard-edged power pop of OK Go's 2002 debut with tart one-liners like "Could've been a genius if you'd had an ax to grind." But the dark-minded frontman overreaches on the Chicago quartet's follow-up, even as the exuberant playing of his bandmates seems to pass him by. The guitars and drums rev to redlined speeds on "Television, Television," but Kulash's attack on TV consumption feels cliched. On the partly acoustic "Let It Rain," a fragile Kulash turns his malaise inward with lame lyrics like "Let it rain/Let it pour" before a chorus of "hallelujah" comes in. OK Go still know how to write a tight pop-rock song, and they have studied their idols well, especially on the Pixies-ish "No Sign of Life." But their singer might need to pop (in his own words) "another couple Klonopin" and lighten up. (KEVIN O'DONNELL)
Man, if you got that upset over that review, I hope you don't read Pitchfork.
Seriously, though, am I the only one who gets a little horrified when Pitchfork gives something I like a good review? It's like the music suddenly becomes tainted with indie pretension. I advocated hardcore for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah before the album came out, totally staking my reputation on the prediction that they would be fucking huge, but then it had to be Pitchfork who wrote the big review. Now their success feels just a little dirty to me.
It's totally a mental block on my part, I know. But I just can't help it. Damn you, Pitchfork, for tarnishing the image of one of my favorite new bands!
I'd scan it if I was at home but I'm at work.
"OK Dance!
Chicago rockers OK Go (Damian Kulash, right (in a picture of his head)) shimmy and shake their way through "A Million Ways" and then rock out for "Do What You Want," "Invincible" and more in an exclusive live performance at rollingstone.com/okgo"
well, wasn't that exciting!
~Rachael
You know, I went to that site one time and I tried to find said performance, but I couldn't find it.
Seriously. I read that review before, and I can't disagree more. But maybe I'm biased.
But obviously this guy missed the memo that this record was inspired by DISASTER.