Oppenheimer

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:04 pm

Yes.............. Verra Kewel!!

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:33 pm

Your young artist has a fine perspective eye Elf.
Super that the band acknowledged her to encourage and inspire.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:53 am

Cool drawing! Even included the horn-thingy

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:55 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:Cool drawing! Even included the horn-thingy

I think every audience gets an air horn solo during the show.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:37 am

Their second album, Take The Whole Midrange and Boost It, was released earlier this week.

Couldn't find it locally, so I placed an amazon.com order yesterday.

I'll review it here in the near future.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:08 am

Here is a vid from the album

Look Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG88j7CDpcE

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:11 am

Heh... I was just about to post that!

Very European, isn't it?

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:17 am

Yeah. And very cool

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:35 am

Well, the new CD arrived yesterday and within a few minutes of my arrival home my daughter had put it on my iPod for me. I've been able to listen to it twice now, once yesterday and once this morning.

First impressions:

It's not a disappointment, thank goodness. That's always a worry with a new album from a band you like.

Still sounds like them... happy, upbeat electronica with vintage synths and vocoders (square waves abound), but it's definitely not just a remake of the first album. Some of the songs exhibit a little bit of deeper songwriting skill with less predictable chord changes. And others have very catchy melodies.

I'll keep listening and see what develops. On the first album there are tracks which I almost always skip and others that make me go "YEAH!" from the first chord. So far, neither of those types of tracks have emerged on this album. We shall see...

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:27 am

Oh new albums are fun!

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:07 pm

They're on TV tomorrow night!
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson!

Don't miss it!

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:17 pm

when I saw this, I thought I was in a mutual fund thread!!!

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:22 pm

^^^^^^^

Silly man...

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:36 am

If anyone missed it, here you go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_CqFCkgf8

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:42 am

The band has taken an interest in my daughter's sketches of them and asked if she could do something in color for them. Here is her first:

Covert Opps