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Music Shit / Re: Vivian Girls: DEAD!
« on: January 24, 2014, 12:59:59 PM »
I'm guessing they're named after the Snakefinger song but probably sound nothing like Snakefinger, right?
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Music Shit / Re: Your Top 5 American Bands
« on: January 19, 2014, 03:18:15 AM »
The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Velvet Underground
Residents
Smegma
NWA
Velvet Underground
Residents
Smegma
NWA
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Music Shit / Re: terrible reviews of amazing bands
« on: January 16, 2014, 03:54:10 AM »
I kinda like reading dissenting views, if they actually have something to say. I mean, yeah, we all know Swell Maps are amazing and fellate them constantly, but that review at least put forth an argument. A weak one ("does not work" is really subjective and meaningless) but it shows they took it seriously and actually listened.
I used to buy records from a coworker's husband who was around NYC in '81 and had all sorts of no wave oddities. This was about a decade ago when no wave was getting all sorts of hype and reissued a lot; I really liked his perspective cause he was like "yeah, I saw these bands, I didn't really understand what the fuss was" and meanwhile he was really into Krautrock, british folk-rock and greek pop music. Great guy.
I used to buy records from a coworker's husband who was around NYC in '81 and had all sorts of no wave oddities. This was about a decade ago when no wave was getting all sorts of hype and reissued a lot; I really liked his perspective cause he was like "yeah, I saw these bands, I didn't really understand what the fuss was" and meanwhile he was really into Krautrock, british folk-rock and greek pop music. Great guy.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: January 10, 2014, 01:14:53 AM »
Yeah, that Resonars record on Bandcamp is great. Thoughts on their later work? Somehow I totally missed the existence of this band despite them existing when I was paying lots of attention to indie bands with a 60s influence....
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: January 04, 2014, 02:47:41 AM »
Alternate Learning - Painted Windows - pre-Game Theory Scott Miller. I feel this has been discussed on here before but it's great. Early version of 'Beach State Rocking'.
Neil - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - wanted something Canadian during a drunken ritual of nearly boiling maple syrup, then dribbling it onto crushed ice to make weird spaghetti strands of power sugarmash = insane high. Also weird he wrote the title track about Estonia years before it was an independent country (and had likely never visited) - how prescient!
Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works vol 3 (1928-29) - At a workshop last week I was playing Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz Funk Greats and a participant really liked it (he had never heard TG before) and asked to recommend another band for him to check out -- "any band ever" so I suggested the Skillet Lickers, thinking it would be a good balance against TG. I put this on last night, thinking about him, and there's some great hot fiddle grinding that I hope he appreciates if he actually does check them out.
Bryan Gore - Papaw and Me - A guy I used to be friends with when I lived in KY. He found some reel to reels in his attic, of his grandfather's homespun organ/piano songs, recorded in the 1950s. All about Jesus. Bryan overdubbed himself adding percussion, synth and guitar tracks to create a weird synthesis of him jamming with his dead grandfather. It's a self-released CDr from over a decade ago but it's awesome and I wish more people could hear it. 'It's a Good Day to Be a Christian' is a catchy tune.
Neil - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - wanted something Canadian during a drunken ritual of nearly boiling maple syrup, then dribbling it onto crushed ice to make weird spaghetti strands of power sugarmash = insane high. Also weird he wrote the title track about Estonia years before it was an independent country (and had likely never visited) - how prescient!
Skillet Lickers - Complete Recorded Works vol 3 (1928-29) - At a workshop last week I was playing Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz Funk Greats and a participant really liked it (he had never heard TG before) and asked to recommend another band for him to check out -- "any band ever" so I suggested the Skillet Lickers, thinking it would be a good balance against TG. I put this on last night, thinking about him, and there's some great hot fiddle grinding that I hope he appreciates if he actually does check them out.
Bryan Gore - Papaw and Me - A guy I used to be friends with when I lived in KY. He found some reel to reels in his attic, of his grandfather's homespun organ/piano songs, recorded in the 1950s. All about Jesus. Bryan overdubbed himself adding percussion, synth and guitar tracks to create a weird synthesis of him jamming with his dead grandfather. It's a self-released CDr from over a decade ago but it's awesome and I wish more people could hear it. 'It's a Good Day to Be a Christian' is a catchy tune.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: December 20, 2013, 02:20:51 AM »
I think Sparks first five albums are infallible, especially Indiscreet which is their "chuck every idea into the record and see what works" (and the answer is "most of it!") but No. 1 in Heaven has grown to be the one I play the most lately. I'm really not into disco or any dance-based music at all, making it the one exception which shows everyone what a poseur I am. But I think it's got some of their absolutely most brilliant material. And with lyrics like "Life isn't much / but there's nothing else to do" you can't go wrong.
I have both versions of the first Cure record (as pictured above) and feel silly keeping both, because I only like and don't love that material, but it doesn't make sense to get rid of one and not the other.
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief - I'm back with my record collection for two nights so trying to make some progress on the blog where I'm reviewing every record I own in alphabetical order (in progress since 2008, and I'm up to the F's). Shocked at how solid this is as a 'band' - I used to take it somewhat for granted as it's their most well-regarded work, but yeah, for a good reason.
Electric Bunnies - Eskimo - What happened to this band? They were so good and the LP with the board game is really wonderful and diverse.
Bob Dylan - Desire - The fiddle playing makes it. I got into this material from the Rolling Thunder Review bootleg series CDs (which are what made me really get into Dylan, overall) and prefer all of the live versions, which the exception of 'One More Cup of Coffee' which benefits from being slowed down in the studio.
I have both versions of the first Cure record (as pictured above) and feel silly keeping both, because I only like and don't love that material, but it doesn't make sense to get rid of one and not the other.
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief - I'm back with my record collection for two nights so trying to make some progress on the blog where I'm reviewing every record I own in alphabetical order (in progress since 2008, and I'm up to the F's). Shocked at how solid this is as a 'band' - I used to take it somewhat for granted as it's their most well-regarded work, but yeah, for a good reason.
Electric Bunnies - Eskimo - What happened to this band? They were so good and the LP with the board game is really wonderful and diverse.
Bob Dylan - Desire - The fiddle playing makes it. I got into this material from the Rolling Thunder Review bootleg series CDs (which are what made me really get into Dylan, overall) and prefer all of the live versions, which the exception of 'One More Cup of Coffee' which benefits from being slowed down in the studio.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: December 18, 2013, 02:48:18 AM »
'John Coltrane Stereo Blues' rules and saves Medecine Show from being "only" the half-hearted Neil-worship it mostly is, yeah.
Also catching up to the Roxy thread, thanks so much for your input, SSR - it's a good perspective and I need to check out some of the live stuff. My fave is definitely Stranded though I can only dream of what it would have been like with Eno. (Kinda like wondering what On Her Majesty's Secret Service would have been like with Connery, yeah?) I don't mind that Eno was useless window dressing; he created a role in music, and he was not useless anyway. Unless you think Martin Swope was useless. Eno provided a way for all of us bespectacled geeks to find an avenue into participating in rock music.
My friend tried to play 'Mother of Pearl' during his wedding as they walked down the aisle but the CD skipped like mad, just turning the whole experience into a comedy act, with bride groom family and justice of the peace all cracking up.
I'm curious to check out the new Ryan Power - his first one seemed like one of those things that I could get into, somehow distinguishing itself against the hundred other quirky new song-based artists.
Also listening to, lately:
"Blue" Gene Tyranny - Detour - his more piano-focused work has just been perfect for these long coding sessions I've been buried in
Maher Shalal Hash Haz - From a Summer to Another Summer - I never 'got' these guys; when I lived in Glasgow everyone there was crazy about them and I always found it amateurish and lackluster. I gave this a random play and there were some amazingly awkward farty sub-Ayler jazz attempts that had quite a charm.
Mekons - Journey to the End of the Night - this is totally my favourite Mekons record. Yes, I am old. Except I think it was my favourite Mekons record ten years ago too.
Also catching up to the Roxy thread, thanks so much for your input, SSR - it's a good perspective and I need to check out some of the live stuff. My fave is definitely Stranded though I can only dream of what it would have been like with Eno. (Kinda like wondering what On Her Majesty's Secret Service would have been like with Connery, yeah?) I don't mind that Eno was useless window dressing; he created a role in music, and he was not useless anyway. Unless you think Martin Swope was useless. Eno provided a way for all of us bespectacled geeks to find an avenue into participating in rock music.
My friend tried to play 'Mother of Pearl' during his wedding as they walked down the aisle but the CD skipped like mad, just turning the whole experience into a comedy act, with bride groom family and justice of the peace all cracking up.
I'm curious to check out the new Ryan Power - his first one seemed like one of those things that I could get into, somehow distinguishing itself against the hundred other quirky new song-based artists.
Also listening to, lately:
"Blue" Gene Tyranny - Detour - his more piano-focused work has just been perfect for these long coding sessions I've been buried in
Maher Shalal Hash Haz - From a Summer to Another Summer - I never 'got' these guys; when I lived in Glasgow everyone there was crazy about them and I always found it amateurish and lackluster. I gave this a random play and there were some amazingly awkward farty sub-Ayler jazz attempts that had quite a charm.
Mekons - Journey to the End of the Night - this is totally my favourite Mekons record. Yes, I am old. Except I think it was my favourite Mekons record ten years ago too.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: December 11, 2013, 02:34:12 PM »
Harry Nilsson Nilsson Sings Newman. On the surface this is so gentle that I never really got into it. Today I listened to it on a plane, which was kinda weird cause I heard the plane noise between the sweet vocals and piano playing, but somehow it made more sense to me than ever. That yellow man song sure hasn't aged well.
Useless EatersHypertension because I saw someone on here list it. I downloaded it ages ago and never got that into it. I can see the appeal; this, like so many other sounds like it, will take time to grow on me and I don't know if I care to invest that much. Especially as I'm so busy listening to Harry Nilsson records from 1970.
Majical Cloudz Impersonator - I don't know why I checked this out but I expected it to be something far different. It was... hmmmm. I don't know how to feel about this, but if this is what indie pop/rock is moving towards, then maybe I truly have lost touch. In six months I will have either forgotten about this entirely, or they'll be my favourite band.
Useless EatersHypertension because I saw someone on here list it. I downloaded it ages ago and never got that into it. I can see the appeal; this, like so many other sounds like it, will take time to grow on me and I don't know if I care to invest that much. Especially as I'm so busy listening to Harry Nilsson records from 1970.
Majical Cloudz Impersonator - I don't know why I checked this out but I expected it to be something far different. It was... hmmmm. I don't know how to feel about this, but if this is what indie pop/rock is moving towards, then maybe I truly have lost touch. In six months I will have either forgotten about this entirely, or they'll be my favourite band.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: December 06, 2013, 02:55:01 PM »
Astral Weeks, oddly enough. It's actually been so long since I've listened to this I forgot it. I found myself sinking back into a floating feeling like I was in my mid-20s again, easy to lose myself in 'Sweet Thing' and forget about everything I've actually learned about life and whatnot. As much as it's been beaten to death by critics and the canonisers, the upright bass playing still puts a smile on my face.
Dennis Callaci + Simon Joyner No Secrets. I'm a massive Refrigerator fan and I love early Simon Joyner and generally everything from that whole Shrimper/Sing, Eunuchs! scene, which I really cut my teeth on in late adolescence. It's nice to hear these guys growing old with me (though they've got a good decade on me) and this is simple, stark and has some beautiful harmonies -- it will be a grower.
Beefheart Strictly Personal. I finally started reading the 'A carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond' book I picked up at Mind Cure when I was visiting home last year and it got me in a Beefheart mood. I never know how to feel about this album. It's famous for Krasnow's fuckery but really it just sounds like it was mastered badly, not 'psychedelically'. The original Mirror Man Sessions CD I guess is better and jammier, but there's something still really enjoyable about this.
Eyeless in Gaza's first two albums, for my 'secret' alphabetical review blog since I'm back home with my records for a week and can get through it. I never got that into this band but I should have.
Dennis Callaci + Simon Joyner No Secrets. I'm a massive Refrigerator fan and I love early Simon Joyner and generally everything from that whole Shrimper/Sing, Eunuchs! scene, which I really cut my teeth on in late adolescence. It's nice to hear these guys growing old with me (though they've got a good decade on me) and this is simple, stark and has some beautiful harmonies -- it will be a grower.
Beefheart Strictly Personal. I finally started reading the 'A carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond' book I picked up at Mind Cure when I was visiting home last year and it got me in a Beefheart mood. I never know how to feel about this album. It's famous for Krasnow's fuckery but really it just sounds like it was mastered badly, not 'psychedelically'. The original Mirror Man Sessions CD I guess is better and jammier, but there's something still really enjoyable about this.
Eyeless in Gaza's first two albums, for my 'secret' alphabetical review blog since I'm back home with my records for a week and can get through it. I never got that into this band but I should have.
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Music Shit / Re: Bands/Musicians With HUGE discographies and the best starting point
« on: December 06, 2013, 02:36:26 PM »
I'm a huge GBV fan and appreciate the list, but I would probably say:
1) Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
2) Alien Lanes
3) Propeller
4) Bee Thousand
If you don't like them after that, then don't bother. I think there was once a collection of all the EPs from the Propeller to Under the Bushes era - if so, replace #1 on my list with that (as it will include 'Fast Japanese')
1) Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
2) Alien Lanes
3) Propeller
4) Bee Thousand
If you don't like them after that, then don't bother. I think there was once a collection of all the EPs from the Propeller to Under the Bushes era - if so, replace #1 on my list with that (as it will include 'Fast Japanese')
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: November 17, 2013, 02:48:45 AM »
And Tina just gave up her US citizenship!
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: November 04, 2013, 05:09:29 AM »
I'm in my typical 90s indie mood....
Smog - Kicking a Couple Around
Bedhead - Whatfunlifewas
His Name is Alive - Mouth By Mouth
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
Secret Pyramid - Movements of Night
Smog - Kicking a Couple Around
Bedhead - Whatfunlifewas
His Name is Alive - Mouth By Mouth
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
Secret Pyramid - Movements of Night
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Music Shit / Re: Lou Reed: Dead
« on: November 01, 2013, 01:24:17 PM »
hey YOU GUYS HAD ENOUGH LOU REED EULOGIES YET??/
cause here's like 47 more: http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/
cause here's like 47 more: http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/
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Music Shit / Re: Lou Reed: Dead
« on: October 29, 2013, 11:32:17 PM »
Byron's probably better served in his own thread, but I agree with Whet Bull about the shittyness of the eulogy but also, if The Collected Music Writings of Byron Coley were ever published, I'd be the first person to buy it. I met him once and the experience left a bit to be desired. When he dies, I'll write a eulogy to him about that experience.
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Music Shit / Re: Lou Reed: Dead
« on: October 29, 2013, 11:00:20 AM »
All the Ecstatic Peace poetry people have pretty terrible taste in poetry.
