^^^ Well, If you keep killing God in your eyes, people will think you\'re really callous, but no matter how hard you really try you\'ll never be as weird as Uncle Alice
they\'re from athens, ga
The name of the band is because the guy got dumped by some smart chick who was from Montreal.
Really affected him by the looks of it.
forced him to create a trans-gender alter ego, georgie fruit. i almost wish i was making that up
I don\'t think those two things are related. This band has been around since the mid 90\'s and the band name was decided then. He was not Georgie Fruit at the time. Georgie Fruit was actually realized during the album before skeletal lamping, Hissing Fauna are you the destroyer?. That like 11 minute tripped out angry synthesizer song about 2/3 of the way through the album is actually supposed to represent Kevin Barnes transformation into the alter-ego Georgie Fruit.
And Georgie Fruit is really just Prince if you ask me. It\'s a way for him to be sexually ambiguous, like Prince. Supposedly Georgie Fruit is an ex-front man of a funk band from the seventies who had transgender surgery to turn him into a woman, then back into a man, back into a woman, then back into a man again.
I\'m a big fan of this band, too bad I was sick as hell on Sunday or I would have tried to check them out live. I don\'t really care about the artsy stuff, I just think that Barnes can write some great songs. Satanic Panic in the Attic is a great pop album and the way he\'s able to layer his own vocals is really incredible. If you are to check out one album by this group that would definitely be the one i recommend.
At least Kevin Barnes isn\'t Scott Weiland, a wife beating heroine addict. There are worse things to be than strange.
I hope no one asks you because you\'re wrong.
Prince has never been sexually ambiguous. He has been pretty clear from the start of his career he is all about the ****.
This dude in Of Montreal is clearly all about the **** now.
Which has nothing to do with his music I\'m sure. :rolleyes:
How you can compare a Musical genius to this whiny popstar in ANY way is unfathomable to me.
You\'ve got me there, yes Prince is about the ****. I guess what I meant by sexually ambiguous is the was way he dresses, etc. Not really the way he lives his life behind closed doors. Frankly that\'s not much of my business.
And I do know for a fact that Kevin Barnes like idolizes Prince. He has said this in interviews. The past 4 or so Of Montreal albums, (by the way all of them are pretty much entirely written and arranged and played by Kevin Barnes), have been vehicles for him to live out his Prince obsession. So I guess that\'s where I make my comparison.
Really it\'s like 80\'s revival ****. The guys looked like girls, the girls were where shoulder pads, down was up, up was down, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
Well that totally explains my distaste.
It wasn\'t that great the first time around.
Well Prince was.
When he rocked the **** out.
Oh well I\'m more referring to the artsy stuff being from the 80\'s. The song writing is actually more like I dunno, Beach Boys? Except w/ lots of books for lyrics and more synthesizers... I dunno, progressive pop?
Well I watched a few of the clips Dave put up(could not make it through any of them) and Beach Boys? Really? Really?
"I **** your sister in an elevator in junior year " or some **** like that? Beach Boys?
Progressive Pop is there such a thing?
No this is just emo/pop rock made so this guy can get his angst and confusion out.
OK, I\'m not trying to convert you or anything man. You can cherry-pick whatever you like out of the 5 minutes of footage you have seen and you suddenly are an expert on the band. Like I said, Satanic Panic in the Attic. Check that album out, but I doubt you want to because you have already made up your mind.
Maybe someone who owns most of their albums may be able to make more of an educated evaluation of the band than your Sandy Eggin\' ass. Maybe next you can tell me how to find the all the cool places to hang out in Connecticut? Or maybe you can come tell me how to do my job too? Okay we get it, this band isn\'t your cup of tea. Isn\'t there anything to do in Cali? I\'m sick, what\'s your excuse? 
No I doubt that at all because that evaluation would most likely be very very biased seeing as that person owned all the albums.
I\'m just saying you\'ve compared the Lead Singer to Prince and the band\'s lyrics to the Beach Boys.
Yeah your credibility is not suspect at all.
You seem upset I don\'t like the band. So sorry. Put on one of their albums and have a good cry.
Dude not upset at all about how you feel about the band. Not even upset at your dickishness. And I\'m not even upset that we\'ve somehow messed up the lines of communication enough for you to think that I am comparing the lyrics of oM to the lyrics of The Beach Boys. Just giving my opinion and observations about the band and having them relentlessly scrutinized. I would never listen to Of Montreal and cry. There\'s nothing in their entire repertoire that could do that.
Oh and by the way, this is going to sound completely ridiculous but I just search Kevin Barnes and Prince in Google just for
**** and giggles. I clicked on the second link which was a Rolling Stone article and read down to the second paragraph. Not that Rolling Stone is a credible source or anything but I swear I did not read this article until just now. Here is a direct quote....
As with the last two Of Montreal records, Barnes recorded Skeletal Lamping (the title came to him after reading a Dylan Thomas poem) at home on his computer. An idea-packed pastiche inspired by Brian Wilson\'s SMiLE and Prince\'s Sign o\' the Times, Lamping boosts the group\'s oddball pop with its polyperverse, sexed-up lyrics and kitchen-sink range — from hip-hop and disco to freaked-out soul and Stones-y blues.
At least I know if I\'m crazy for making these connections, I won\'t be alone in the asylum.
Seriously, I just came into an Of Montreal thread, started talking about the band. I didn\'t come to gang up on you or anything. I\'m just trying to have a good time here folks, it is after all an interweb type thingy. In the Grand Scheme, not all that big a deal.
