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When are water shoes gonna catch on? That's what I'm waiting for
the real problem is canada, their postal system is on some third world shit and the canucks think they're entitled to cheap trackable postage.
Nonsense. The day a Canadian city has postal issues to rival Chicago or the NYC hilarity detailed here, you might begin to have a point. But yeah, shit's expensive here because your population is 300 million and ours is 33 million, yet our country is significantly bigger and they're obliged to provide the same service to the five or six people living up north as they do to Vancouver or Toronto.
I felt like Cope only reviewed records that had been reissued in the previous 5 or 6 years to the book's publication. No new info for anybody who's old enough. Plus, he gave a lousy review to Mizutani's 'A Path Through Haze', which pretty much permanently put him on my shit list.
I think GS is just grand. Carnabeats, Spiders, Jaguars, Bunnys, Dynamites, Tigers, Out Cast, Sharp Hawks, Swing West, Tempters, Blue Comets, D'Swooners, Beavers. Aren't the Mops tuff enuf for termbros? Whatever, more for me then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp64_s1WFkk
johan wellens was working on a book to set the record straight vis a vis the japanese independent music book fiasco (this is before copey's), not sure whatever happened with it tho
what fiasco is that, that the book wasn't very good?
It worked alright for this layman. Although something without his "flare" would've been nice as a precursor to the Copespeak.
I just remember that Japanese Independent Music book having discographies that looked like they were written off the top of people's heads and some of the band bios seemed to have been written by people who had been assigned certain bands regardless of whether they had any interest in them.
never had any problems with shipping to greece but in this age of ebay scammers and paypal chargebacks i always insist on registered mail if the record exceeds a certain value. simon, you're a brave man.
I don't think he's a dick just pretentious and don't know shit about rock music. Def. talented, and, as previously mentioned, I'm a fan of Brise-Glace, Gastr del Sol, and some of the stuff he prodouched at the time, like Melt-Banana's Scratch or Stitch. Just got sick of seeing his pudgy face in every "alterna" mag for awhile. Wish he woulda stuck "avant" tho and not tried to bare his soul. bleccch
That part is true. Yes, Great Shows, but the bands weren't from Chicago. And having Gasto de sol open for every fucking band from 92-94 was bullshit.
Suck it because some of the folks I was friends with drank will that Slint/Tortoise (and Liz Phair) kool-aid. Yeap, thanks for selling me all those great records for a buck a piece.
Although Loy's umad @ Dave Grubbs is funny (and maybe true), but jesus christ like Jim O'Rourke isn't the biggest tool in the AVANT toolbox? Did you ever read those reviews he wrote for Your Flesh? or perhaps about his love for Van Dyke Parks? or remember when he joined Whet Bull's fave band, Sonic Youth? What a plumpkin....
i had all of them at one point or another but the only one i held onto was cooper-s... can't keep them all
That's the one that most people would get rid of, isn't it?I am still trying to get into it.
That name: Sabalon Glitz (or whatever) is right on the edge of my memory. Who dat?
They did one album of Stereolab-ish drone meets Chicago-hipster-pants shit that was actually okay that I accidentally bought because of a review that described them in more cryptic terms than that...
This topic brings back some bad memories. And reminds me why Chicago mostly sucks.
True. Being in Chicago that time suck. Tortoise was the sound of paint drying. That shit was over hyped.
Well, in the case of Tom Leonard we're talking about one of the nicest guys ever. He also had the good sense to jump off of the St. Johnny ship asap. Records returning more than they ship in an accounting period is extremely common for big indies and majors. You put a lot of records out there (this used to be a lot easier than it is today) and often you are putting them into a void, except this void coughs them back up after 60 or 90 days.
My favorite quote about the Pat Metheny record came from Jimmy Johnson at Forced Exposure where he wondered if it was "some sort of hurt ego joke" or something like that. Can't remember if it was in the magazine or in one of the early store distro mailings.
yeh...that pat metheny is the one thats just guitar noise.....was a bit strange geffn put that out!
Geffen??? I would've just assumed Nonesuch or something similar. So that was P.M's "Trans" then???
More like his Arc or MMM. I am not a Methany fan. I think he is pretty boring, but this record, Song X and one he did at the same time with Ornette's quartet are worth listening to. I don't know if they are Bizarre in the context of what jazz musicians release on Major labels. I mean none of those PM records are more fucked up than Ornette's Science Fiction (on Columbia) or Miles' Evil Live, to name two. The fact that Arista devoted an imprint to free jazz and Casablanca released that Wildflowers series of NY late 70s free jazz along side Donna Summer, KISS, and the Village People is pretty shocking. It must have been the cocaine making decisions on that one.
yeh...that pat metheny is the one thats just guitar noise.....was a bit strange geffn put that out!
Geffen??? I would've just assumed Nonesuch or something similar. So that was P.M's "Trans" then???
For the second time today I namecheck Neil Young - 'Trans'.
I assume Rick was thinking of Smile as the first Ride LP, which is not unreasonable as it's thirty minutes and eight songs long, even if it's two EPs put together.
A lot of people liked Alan Moulder's work, Rob. When you say you find it funny, do you mean "peculiar"? Or are you actually sitting there laughing at the notion: "Ha ha ha, someone holds Alan Moulder out as an exemplar of production. P'shaw!"
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