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August 18, 2006
Beirut-Deerhoof addendum
I will say this about Beirut: I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it quite immensely. It caught me, sometime in the middle of the set, that I was still (relatively) young and enjoying a beer and a (definitely) young band in the sun while the world seemed to be erupting elsewhere. There was no shade of gray; enjoyment is easy to detect.
I'm not one to castigate those who wish to exert their freedom of speech in lambasting Beirut on some other blog's comment thread, but... but... but... really?
beirut suck! i left because i couldnt deal with their obnoxious songs that all sounded exactlty the fucking same. i wanted to see deerhoof, but i just HAD to leave.
You left a hipster amusement park – before a band you truly wanted to see – because you couldn’t withstand forty or fifty minutes of a band you didn’t dig? Well, you’re your irrational behavior undermines the value of any music criticism you might offer.
Beirut was a pleasure, and an act befitting a languid day of Brooklyn Pilsner and sun. That album, Gulag Orkestar, is a treat. It was exciting to catch the band try to emulate the sound live, and any missteps were made up for by pluck and a total dedication evoking a feeling, rather than trying to fatuously reach the audience (which, with or without a blog publishing platform, gave the band heavy applause).
Deerhoof was great, but you probably already knew that.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at August 18, 2006 07:34 AM
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