re: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Excited about this record

I didn't get into his last record but liked Pure Comedy single when I heard.

Dude killed it on SNL.

94 on metacritic

#1 rated album so far this year

from wiki

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Tillman grew up in an Evangelical Christian. . .

Before Tillman settled on a career as a musician, he briefly had ambitions of becoming a pastor because of the performance aspect[18] when he was approximately six years old.[19] He comments that his parents focused on the spiritual aspects of his upbringing, which he describes as "culturally oppressive". . . .

Tillman was raised in a Baptist church and attended an Episcopal elementary school, but by fifth grade he found himself enrolled in a Pentecostal Messianic Jewish day school.[20] Tillman said he was naive when he was growing up because there was almost no cultural influence and no secular music allowed. Around the age of 17, there were new stipulations from his parents – he was allowed to listen to secular music that had a "spiritual theme". So his early purchases included albums like Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming as he was able to establish that Dylan was classified as a "Christian artist".[15]

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nice - First half was great, with big succulent bits

and (the following) a second half of what first appeared a near angry polemic wit, was not near as agnostic on third take it, as he seems to come full circle apologetics (of his own take) by the end.


Their religions are the best
They worship themselves but they’re totally obsessed
With risen zombies, celestial virgins, magic tricks
In these unbelievable outfits
And they get terribly upset
If you question their sacred texts
Written by woman-hating epileptics

Their languages just tend to confuse them
Their confusion somehow makes them more sure
Now they’re much too bright for the old superstitions
But they’re yet to find a new one they won’t serve


Where did they find these clowns they elected to rule them
They recline in outrage at the
These mammals are hell-bent on fashioning new gods
So they can go on being godless animals




ETA: 1st song - OP

Damn, i can't find a stream anywhere.

Haha, I can't get on that at work. Thanks though. I guess I'll just wait til Friday.

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He's my generations Randy Newman.

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Let's pump the brakes.

Mine came in today.

Listened to it last and will have to listen to it again. First impression is that other that "Total Entertainment Forever", it sounds like one long "Bored in the USA". That's not a bad thing but I wish there would have been a few more upbeat tracks. Will take me a few listens to digest it.

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I like Pure Comedy a lot better than Real Love Baby. RLB is just kinda boring.

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I think that was pretty much his aim.

From his website:

"all LP pre-orders (both deluxe and standard editions) will include a bonus 7” featuring the single “Real Love Baby” b/w “Rejected Generic Pop Song, March ‘15 #3”."

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Listened to it last and will have to listen to it again. First impression is that other that "Total Entertainment Forever", it sounds like one long "Bored in the USA". That's not a bad thing but I wish there would have been a few more upbeat tracks. Will take me a few listens to digest it.

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Agree completely. At some point, every slow paced song after the other on this album just reinforces how "talky" the whole thing is. His lyrics are amazing in moderate doses but this kind of just annoys me.