Peter Bjorn and John
 

So yeah i've kind of had this shoved down my throat but I actually like it so its cool. Young Folks is one of my favorite songs right now its really catchy, I don't really know who to compare them to cause the most similar artist I can think of is Belle and Sebastian but they're not that similar at all. Listen to Young Folks first.

Recommendations:
Young Folks
Up Against the Wall
Paris 2004
Detects On My Affection

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Young Folks is a lot of fun, but nothing else they've done comes anywhere close. Plus that song is really getting kind of annoying now, it's been played to death.

yo, go beyond the scope of that one song. amsterdamn and the chills are pretty good tunes if you ask me.

It is a solid pop album, but none of the other tracks are anthems like Young Folks is.

I like Up Against The Wall and of course Young Folks, but I think the album is uber bland and boring.

give it a few more listens, i wont say its epic or life changing but it has its moments

i think its a good album, amsterdam is definately the highlight for me. saw them live in austin, they were very excellent

They play Young Folks at least once every hour and a half on Radio One but I'm still not bored of that song.

I had a listen to the 30 second samples of the other songs on the album and nothing jumped out at me.

Yeah nothing really caught my attention besides Young Folks and Objects of my Affection.

I heard a Young Folks remix on last.fm earlier. Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation. I liked it as much as the original and I'm not usually one for remixes.

You know I never found out who sang "young folks" but I always assumed it was either B&S or Pet Shop Boys by the sound of it.

But this is a unique type of one-hit wonder and I think their ought to be a name set aside for them. Maybe its just me but young folks can go along with the rest of those slightly barren feeling songs such as:

America - Horse with no Name
Geggy Tah - Whoever you are
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Dinner
Poe - Angry Johnny

I think so often with those computer generated sounds, bands aren't trying to sound personal. And then when you have this robotic sound coupled with sentimentality, it creates some odd void.

I don't know, to me in some odd way I feel its like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, where you have this monster questioning what he is. Soulless, with no ability to feel affection, and trying to reconcile everything he's going through...I don't know that sounds crazy.

Computer generated? How?

With regard to which? I realize it doesn't apply for things like America which was all but trying to be niel young and predated the synthetic music by a couple of years but there is (at least in hind sight) not a lot of movement in there.

To me the music in most of those songs sounds like the "demo" button on your yamaha keyboard. I think thats the best I'm going to do to describe it. In my mind, it doesn't sound like a group of people are in there playing, it sounds like they set up a microphone at Best Buy and someone sang over those "demo" buttons.

Which is nothing to take away from it. I actually kinda dig the sound because its just slightly left of what is the norm, and I can tell something is off but I'm not sure what. Which I wish more music did.

It almost creates a sense of loss and melancholy without having to write lyrics as if it was that type of situation.

When I listen to Toms Dinner, or Young Folks it almost plays like the soundtrack to a film without sound, and this song is playing while they watch someone move through their daily life without interacting much beyond the required functions.

Am I making sense or is this gibberish?

No I get that, I just didn't at first because the music isn't computer generated it's them playing their instruments.

All I have heard is Young Folks. Does that whole CD have that same sound or was that just an "off" track.

So like, just how good are these folks? I can't lay claim to ever having given'em a fair go.

Amsterdam and Young Folks are certainly the highlights. There are some off tracks though. The album is suprisingly diverse and original.

I really like the album with Young Folks but I don't think its anything special.

I do. Like I said, some 'filler', but the album is diverse and sounds like nothing I've heard.

I enjoyed Writer's Block. I don't have any of their other material, though.

Something fun to do is to play Kanye West's version of Young Folks and let it slide right in to Peter Bjorn and John's.

Personally, even if Young Folks is over played I still love it. The entire Writer's Block album is brilliant. I am waiting to see what they come up with next.