Monday, September 29, 2008

Are Empire of the Sun the new

Tears for Fears???

Judge for yourselves:


They're a conceptual duo with a flair for flashy flamboyant fashion. And I'm an aardvark with awkward auspicious alliteration. They're more likely to be compared to more flamboyant acts such as Wham!. But I'm going a different direction.

Compare with another conceptual duo from the 80's: this is Tears for Fears' 89 classic, Sowing the Seeds of Love.
Man, this song is epic. They try to get a little too 'political' in this one, but if you can ignore all that and just enjoy the multi-tiered amazingness of this song, it all pays off, with the beautiful bridge sung by the other guy, whose name is not Roland.


a confused kid in the pre-beard stage of life wonders if this blogging thing is the beginning, or just the beginning of the end...

2 comments:

tranxcend said...

Dude, I fucking love that Empire of the Sun song and video. I think I'm hooked on it.

Is the rest of their stuff any good?

Hipster Doofus said...

ha, and my response to your comment two months later, (since i didn't realize it existed until now), is that their other stuff is decent. Half Mast is my other favorite tune of theirs.