Comments on: The Contingencies – Viva Ole http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/ Reviews and news about independent artists and labels. Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:49:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Wading Through My Best of 2006 List… at elwoodicious http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 Wading Through My Best of 2006 List… at elwoodicious Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:39:05 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-2670 [...] The Contingencies - Viva Ole [...] [...] The Contingencies – Viva Ole [...]

]]> By: Where’s Your Head At? at elwoodicious http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-2668 Where’s Your Head At? at elwoodicious Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:37:26 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-2668 [...] Nostalgia. Well, that’s the lame ass theory I’m running with anyways. Looking back over my review for The Contingencies where I raved about a sound that leans way back but charges forward fueled by straight ahead guitar arrangements. After having snapped up that album along with Willowtree my ears felt thirsty for shorter, tighter, more aggressive arrangements. Not necessarily Punk or Thrash but sounds that left me warm all over reminiscing about practicing all weekend in the drummer’s half-heated garage, fingers stiff from the cold and swollen from pounding out song after song, never getting motivated enough to get a gig even at the local dives because really all we wanted to do was play. [...] [...] Nostalgia. Well, that’s the lame ass theory I’m running with anyways. Looking back over my review for The Contingencies where I raved about a sound that leans way back but charges forward fueled by straight ahead guitar arrangements. After having snapped up that album along with Willowtree my ears felt thirsty for shorter, tighter, more aggressive arrangements. Not necessarily Punk or Thrash but sounds that left me warm all over reminiscing about practicing all weekend in the drummer’s half-heated garage, fingers stiff from the cold and swollen from pounding out song after song, never getting motivated enough to get a gig even at the local dives because really all we wanted to do was play. [...]

]]> By: Best of 2006, A Slack-Assed List at Candied Pop http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-1932 Best of 2006, A Slack-Assed List at Candied Pop Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:40:01 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-1932 [...] The Contingencies - Viva Ole [...] [...] The Contingencies – Viva Ole [...]

]]> By: James http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-341 James Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:53:20 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-341 LOL! Thank, Dan. :-) LOL! Thank, Dan. :-)

]]> By: dan http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-335 dan Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:08 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-335 this is, without a doubt, the single greatest piece of art criticism i have ever read. thank you, candied pop. do we know eachother? dan, a singer in a band this is, without a doubt, the single greatest piece of art criticism i have ever read. thank you, candied pop. do we know eachother?

dan, a singer in a band

]]> By: James http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-287 James Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:25:51 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-287 "WHAT" Ah-Yup! “WHAT”

Ah-Yup!

]]> By: ath http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-282 ath Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:13:01 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-282 \"a tight guitar line that struts about the song like a hopped up folk riff shining in all its sharp angularness\" WHAT \”a tight guitar line that struts about the song like a hopped up folk riff shining in all its sharp angularness\”

WHAT

]]> By: Mike http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Mike Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:54:35 +0000 http://www.candiedpop.com/2006/09/26/the-contingencies-viva-ole/#comment-263 Samples sound good...gonna check this one out! Samples sound good…gonna check this one out!

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