I certainly wouldn't object if Augie March disappeared...

nawww that's a bit mean raven :)

I doubt it'll be their last... but that's just me. Is this out already? man.. I need to get to a record store

Sorry, Augie March, keep making your insipid try-hard music, don't mind me...

ah, rave...i really do love your genuine musical snobbery.

Unlike raven, I hope this is not a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Disapear up their own arses? Na, I dig Augie Mush

haha... from all the times I've seen them live, I think they have moments of pure genius, but then other times it seems like they're barely holding it together and it could fall apart like a train wreck at any moment.. still baffles me.. but I wonder if that's part of the appeal for me?

new album's a total bore

One of my best friends calls them Snoregie March.

For one crowded hour I was the only cunt in the room

elitists - 2, popularists 2.

undecided. the rest.

if i had thought of raven's line, i would've posted it myself.

my favourite band i never listen to

grrr.

next you'll tell me that y'all don't like the lucksmiths and then I'll really sook.

Lucksmiths chew bag

i can't rubbish them, we had one of their songs played at our wedding. but i can understand people's sookery.

I think it's ok - good by their standards(which I think is pretty high). Nothing they do seems to equal Sunset Studies, and it appears to be because they aren't taking any risks.
But I think it's better than Moo, You bloody choir. Some of it sounds suspiciously Crowded House like at times.

The Lucksmiths are quite cute really. Bit repetitive but hey.

I'm not a snob, I just dislike shit. (I like some shit too by the way, it wasn't a descriptive term, just a synonym for ''things'' or ''stuff'')

Some of it sounds suspiciously Crowded House like at times.

Recorded at Neil Finn's house. And Glenn played his guitar on most of the songs.

I generally find Augie March boring as hell. But I'm really enjoying listening to this in monty's car. It's quite beautiful in parts.

nah, I don't think the album title is a hint or anything. I just believe that Glenn has a much better time of it solo than with the band.

i cant image glenn finding a more suitable backing band then augie. i think glenn would only go solo if the other guys were over it. ie touring, families, work

most of it seems like me to be augie in cruise control. not bad, but nothings taken me particularly either.

I think this basically sums up my feelings about the record.

Interesting that Glenn has posted on a messageboard saying that kind of thing. Their publicist must hate him.

I predict the Augies will disband as soon as their contract is up and Glenn will have a critically (not commercially) successful solo career. You heard it here first.

I don't know about that. It's been stated that he practically writes most parts before the band even hear any part of a song.

Interesting that Glenn has posted on a messageboard saying that kind of thing. Their publicist must hate him.

ha ha I dont think Glenn was much of a fan of 'moo you bloody choir,' either.

i can see the solo scenario happening.

i loved it when i saw him solo anyway, wouldn't bother me a whole lot.

i had this little fantasy the other day that when they finish promoting their respective albums, glenn richards and gareth liddiard do a double headline solo tour.

would quite enjoy such a show.

aaages back there was a Glenn Richards / Marcus Teague double bill at the Grace Emily in Adelaide.

And I fucking missed it pout

In the West Australian today it quotes Glenn as saying he had more control over the first 2 albums where the 2 recent ones he allowed to be more of a small community thing. He said that's the reason he probably likes the first 2 better. Probably also why most people here do.

ahh the band threat..guarranteed to undermine the writer.

In the West Australian today it quotes Glenn as saying he had more control over the first 2 albums where the 2 recent ones he allowed to be more of a small community thing. He said that's the reason he probably likes the first 2 better. Probably also why most people here do.

fark.. the title of the album is really starting to have more meaning

From Bernard Zuel's article in the SMH today:

A band still recovering from a bruising recording experience with producer Joe Chiccarelli, who arrived with very strong ideas and imposed himself more than any other producer had with them before. A band uncertain if their new writing and working methods have worked and not certain if they like or dislike the new album.

...

No one is putting out larger chunks of themselves than Richards, who writes alone. For inspiration he often walks the streets near his Melbourne home or takes himself off to Tasmania.

It's also true that no one is more likely to say about this album ''it's not that good, we've stuffed it up'' than Richards.

Hearing this, Richards laughs knowingly. ''That's pretty much where I'm at. Not the kind of thing I'm supposed to say, though, is it? I think it's a good collection of songs. I know where they could have gone and, as often happens, they've gone somewhere else. But it's a nice album.''

It is more than that, of course; it is a very good pop album. Which isn't necessarily something that people would have thought of with Augie March before.

''Um. Well, look, I'm getting from the unlikeliest of places favourable commentary and I didn't expect that, so that's made it a little more interesting to me,'' Richards says, not entirely convincingly. ''I don't know. I grew indifferent to it pretty early on. For another three years to elapse [since he wrote the songs for the previous album] and only 11 songs to come out of it is always a bit heartbreaking for me.''

Jesus. I wonder how long we have before they break up?

The crowd last night were AWFUL. Bogans taking off their shirts for fucks sake..its augie march at the metro not festival of the sun. Teen girls pushing each other into people, screaming through the quieter/older songs...THE BEST SONGS.

Yeah, that's a shame Norther - I had meant to go, but maybe it was better I didn't.

see above. old augie march shows = shambles. new augie march shows = effing bogan cunce.

Album is growing on me.

The Perth show's at the Regal theatre, hopefully that'll keep the Bogans at bay. Norther which older songs did they play?

I am i the only one who thought of DexyMidnight Runners when they heard PennyWhistle?

i guess so.

I went to the Ormond Hall show on Saturday. They were really bloody good, but they have been each time I've seen them in the past two years or so. Some of the early shows were shockers.

this album is great.
there i said it.

As usual the gremlins were out in force again.............. but still from the crowds point of view I think it is endearing when you see a band, well Glenn, make mistakes, when everything else you see is so rehearsed, over produced and clinical. I am much more of a fan now of the new album having seen the songs live - The Slant in particular was very very good. Did they do a cover by the way? I didn't recognise one of the songs.