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[maztrax]

Listening to Yours, Mine & Ours right now, what a great album

[The Luscious Phil]

One of the best song writers of the Decade. Such a perfect humid, dusky days of summer kind of band. It's hard to say which is better, "Discover a Lovelier You," "The World Won't End," or "Your Mine and Ours." I might prefer Discover just on the basis of the fact that it was the album that made me fall hard for this band. Their last album wasn't too shabby, just not a stunner.

[elcorazon]

Discover a Lovelier You is my favorite of theirs. I didn't care for the last one much at all.

[The Luscious Phil]

Discover a Lovelier You is my favorite of theirs. I didn't care for the last one much at all.

yeah, I mean there is nothing inherently wrong, it was just a little to pleasant for me.

[Slackmo]

Listening to Yours, Mine & Ours right now, what a great album

amen. still works its way into the power rotation every now and then.

[Nosejavelin]

They were a band I stuck with after not really "getting" their first two releases. When "Yours, Mine, & Ours" came out, I was like, "Holy shit, patience pays off!" I also loved Discover A Lovelier You (Pernice's "happy pop" album). Also count me in on the being left kinda cold by Live A Little. I can't remember which track it is, but one of them sounds so much like Richard Thompson's version of "Oops!...I Did It Again."

[UselessRocker]

Joe Pernice is awesome. Vastly underrated songwriter and lyricist. My favorite Pernice Brothers record is easily The World Won't End. There are golden nuggets of pop on that record that 99% of the world totally missed out on. How has "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" not been featured in a slew of Gilmore Girls-type shows and 15 romantic comedies already? Or "Our Time Has Passed"? God, what a great song. It's always strange to me that you'll talk to musically-inclined people about bands like Guided By Voices and they've never even heard of Pernice.

Contemplating suicide or a graduate degree
Answers "How's it goin'?" with "I feel sullen, I feel sullen, I feel 17"

Sadly, I agree with Phil that the last two records were just a little too pleasant. They had hooks and good pop songs on them, but there was just something missing for me. But I'd like to see Pernice get more credit. Maybe he'll just put out a really good record and Pitchfork or someone will jump on it and there'll be a new appreciation for the guy a la The Wrens after The Meadowlands.

sidenote: Anybody else instantly think of Pernice's line "We wore pictures of Strummer/fell over ourselves all summer" when they first heard the Strummer nod in the Hold Steady's "Constructive Summer"? I wonder if that's a nod to Pernice or just a funny coincidence.

[maztrax]

I love Pernice's lyrics too

Be the same
Now we've severed every courtesy we've made

or

So familiar but it feels too strange
Give a name to this terrifying change

[UselessRocker]

Since it's a timely sports topic, anyone else remember Pernice's song about Manny Ramirez? It's, um, strange. Kind of Eels-ish.

http://www.pernicebr...om/bc/manny.php

[yeknom]

listening right now, actually.

[biggie mcsmalls]

Good band.

[the dude]

joe's got a little cheesy as he's got older. that 2006 version of "grudge fuck" was awful. nothing touches the first pernice bros album, or the last scud mountain boys.

[the dude]

i love the lyrics to "grudge fuck" so much. last verse is so fucking evil and sinister.

tonight i got nowhere to go
so i thought that i would call you
and see if you were home
i'm sorry but i'm pretty stoned
i hope i didn't scare you
i hope to god you were alone

i still fixate on all those nights
when we would drink ourselves familiar
and count the blurry lights
all my friends have left me here
you were the only one who knew me
sometimes i think i'll disappear

i would give anything to make it with you
just one more time
i'd give you everything i owned
i would give anything to make it with you
just one more time
i'd give you everything i owned

i really missed the ship where you're concerned
i only wish i had another turn

i guess it's time i let you fly
i can see the light is changing
i feel like getting high
i promise i'd sleep on the floor
i swear to god i wouldn't touch you
there could be no one who'd ever touch you

i would give anything to make it with you
just one more time
i'd give you everything i owned
i would give anything to make it with you
just one more time
i'd give you everything i owned

first time joe toured oz he played an amazing set at the grace emily - this tiny lil pub in adelaide that fits about 80 people - for three hours. he was shaking afterwards. his smiths meat is murder shirt was drenched with sweat. it was rad.

i can't wait to get massachusetts outta storage in a few months. such a great record.

[Slackmo]

would you light me up like a lemon grove?

[caley]

I must be the only person who grades it Chappaquiddick Skyline > All other Pernice-fronted groups. I have a live version of "Grudgefuck" on a CDR somewhere and it's so awesome. Pernice mumbles "This next one's called "Grudgefuck" and some guy just loses it, applauding as hard as he can and yelling "Yeah! YEAH!" to which Pernice replies "Take it easy. How come people always clap the loudest for the most hateful songs?" It's ruined any other version of the song because it's soooo much better.

[jp1972]

Listening to Yours, Mine & Ours right now, what a great album

I'm a fan of that one too.

However it's the only PB album I currently know, and it sounds like there's one or two others I need to check out.

[54cermak]

I loved the first 3 albums so much. Discover a Lovelier You was where I started to tune out, though thats a record I should probably give a second chance based on what I'm reading here.

"Working Girls" is a particular favorite lyrically:

"She summered every winter through a calendar from paradise"

"Contemplating suicide or a graduate degree/ I feel sullen/ I feel sullen/ I feel...seventeen"

[Badger]

Only one I own is 'Overcome by happiness'. the title track* is dotted across every compilation I made for a few years after it came out. It always sounded to me more like it came from the Costello/Joe Jackson school rather than the new country thing they got bundled into by the press. *crestfallen, obv