Is Sun Kil Moon's "Benji" the most sincere album

Common as Light was like uncomfortably sincere.

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does anybody else have trouble taking a musician seriously if they make a song about drumpf

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hahahahahahahahahahahaha
start here if you're serious

>>74517832
Trump 2020

>>74517799
Terribly musically though, although I'll say it wasn't as bad as Universal Themes.

>>74517832
Randy Newman made an entire album about him recently and it reeked of "Look guys, LOOK! I'm making fun of him! Can I be in the club? Please?"
Any kind of acknowledgment of Trump is the definition of low-hanging fruit.

>>74517856
I like it better than Benji because it's like its own little world. I could listen to Mark ramble about literally anything for 12 minutes each song for the rest of my life.

>>74517835
Hey I'M! the one who shills that album, not you!

>>74518087
calm down with "shill", what do you think the point of the thread is?

>>74517856
COMMON > UT > BENJI
stop being a pleb

>>74518333
stop being a tryhard

>>74518366
tryhard???
how is seeing the beauty of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7h3bd2YSWs tryhard?

>>74518380
You picked the best song from UT. I don't like UT as a whole but even I like Birds of Films.

>>74518410
garden is beautiful also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpvfQU53D3Y
ali and rascals suck ass i'll admit. but the rest are amazing.

>>74518318
No I'm not baiting, most threads I see for "music for this depressing feel" I post A Promise. It's my 3rd favorite album

>>74517835
this is one of the least sincere albums ive ever heard

its good songwriting but its not sincere in the slightest

>>74518410
that transition in williamsburg blues is one of his best

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>>74517774
Pretty much anything by Jason Molina

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>>74517774
I haven't heard that one but my friends have nothing but good things to say about it. This would be my pick.

You could make the trilogy into a giant Quadruple album

Disc 1

1. God Bless Ohio
2. Birds Of Flims
3. I Cant Live Without My Mother's Love
4. Chili Lemon Peanuts
5. Philadelphia Cop
6. Truck Driver

Disc 2

7. Carissa
8. The Possum
9. Dogs
10. I Love My Dad
11. Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes
12. Early June Blues
13. Ben's My Friend

Disc 3

14. Garden Of Lavender
15. Highway Song
16. Bergen To Trondheim
17. I Love Portugal
18. Pray For Newtown
19. Sarah Laurence College Song
20. Window Sash Weights
21. Butch Lullaby

Disc 4

22. Stranger Than Paradise
23. Bastille Day
24. Micheline
25. I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same
26. I Love You Forever And Beyond Eternity

>hey today i went to panera bread and i love my mom and i needed another song so let me tell you about how im friends with ben gibbard
you can talk down on itaots all you want but mangum is at least a good songwriter with clever uses of allusion and top-tier imagery.

>inb4 it's "stream of consciousness"
nah. ginsberg, kerouac, and burroughs are good examples of stream of consciousness writing. benji is just the ramblings of a boring middle aged white man that comes off as trying way too hard.

>>74520004
lol

>>74518333
This.

>>74517774
I just listened to it for the first time several months ago. Lyrics like "I didn't know her well at all but it don't mean that I wasn't meant to find some poetry to make some sense of this, to find a deeper meaning," on Carissa kind of bothered me. It might have been because I had heard Real Death by Mount Eerie a few days prior. The fact that Phil was so much closer to the situation made me sympathize with him. There are some tracks I really like on Benji, though

>>74517895
listen to 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth and Yellow Kitchen, you'll get sick of it

>>74519105
>no lily and parrots
>no duk koo kim

>>74522117
Love those songs, but his quadruple album only borrowed from Benji, UT, and Common