the decemberists.....

[patrick t. cakes]

"the crane wife"

best album of 2006?

oh ya.:loveya:

[Lautremont]

1. I have just about every other Decemberists album,

but not this one, yet. I'm looking forward to it.

[Initech]

2. It's pretty good.

I dont like it nearly as much as Picaresque but it's pretty good.

[gardenista]

3. I love the track with Laura Veirs. She's a phenom. nt

[MysticalChicken]

4. I love...

..singing along with that one.

"'But oh did you see all the dead of Monassis, all the bellies and the bones and the bile?'

'No, I lingered here with the blankets barren and my own belly big with child.'"

[MysticalChicken]

5. Decemberists are awesome.

They are my second-favorite band right now (Arcade Fire is first). I only have Picaresque and The Crane Wife right now, though. I love them both. "The Crane Wife 1" makes me cry, starting from the verse "It was a white crane/It was a helpless thing/Upon a red stain/With an arrow in its wing/And it called and cried/And it called and cried so."

I also love singing along with "Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)" (actually I like singing along with all of them, but particularly that one), and I love, LOVE "Sons and Daughters."

Apparently, though, I am the only person who likes "The Perfect Crime 2" and "When the War Came."

[xchrom]

6. love 'em.