GY!BE's album 'Yanqui U.X.O.' is one of the greatest instrumental records of all-time

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Louis I've never heard GY!BE and am in no rush to do so! I just bored.

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: What, the record I wistfully describe in that 'progress in music' post?

I've already been thinking about it for 4 years. I've even got some song fragments worked out. It'll be a long time before I'm ready to unleash anything, though! I need to learn a instrument properly first. :-(

e@mail, fair enough, so am I! It's been a good barney regardless...who were you on teh old ILX, btw?

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently paranoid android was originally ten minutes long. xpost. maybe there's a bootleg kickin around somewhere.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(sorry that's like an xxxxxxpost)

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

If thread ever ties the GYBE and Blur themes back together, it'll be a miracle.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to learn a instrument properly first. :-(

bullshit! do it with effects/computerised bleeps.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: the funny thing is, paranoid android is just right at 6:20. I can't actually imagine extending it with any real reward unless you change the tone of the entire song.

exit music would have been an amazing 8-minute song.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

marmot hath zung

― Smarting Scourage (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

graham coxon's "innovative" guitar playing basically just meant that he was the only one of those doodz who listened to U.S. 90s indie rock.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

what us 90's indie rock guitar playing is the last three minutes of '1992' ripped from then? or like ALL of Battle?

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

marmot hath zung

I'm listening to my neglected copy of Blur right now because of you and rather enjoying it, so it's all good.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I listened to Trouble in the Message Centre; He Thought of Cars and Yuko and Hiro. Though I've gone back to listening to Neil Diamond and Justin Hayward since then.

― KeefW (KeefW), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Listening to songs because they were discussed on ILM: C/D?

*puts Yuko And Hiro on*

oh, the power of suggestion

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never heard that song louis. but i'll have to say it was probably stolen from railroad jerk. or girl against boys.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"You're So Great" is nearly a dead-on mid-'90s GbV rip. Only other thing they could have done was to not have used a slide on the guitar solo and called it "Airplanes Flying Me Backwards" or something.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

essex dogs apparently bears some resemblance to sonic youth, but aside from the fact that the guitar sounds are quite dissonant/raucous, and the spoken-word free-verse, i can't really make the leap. care to take that one on, marmot?

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah it doesn't really sound like SY to me.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Slint with more fiddly shit?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, ugh. but do you like it? (THIS IS CRUCIAL AS TO WHETHER I SHALL EVER SPEAK TO YOU ON ILM AGAIN) ;-)

― Thus Spake Scourage (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

louis this is your worst thread yet

-- electric sound of jim (esoj@), December 3rd, 2006.

qft

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i think the sandbox has made people lose their sense of decorum

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

just because there aren't amusing wrestler gifs every other post and/or the prevalence of ILM's bully brigade waxing flatulent over some pathetic, outdated meme, doesn't mean you can fling yourself into the paddling-pool and spoil our innocent fun, passantino.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the song fine, Louis. It doesn't sound much like Slint either, I just don't know that much '90s indie with quiet spoken vocals. I was a GbV/Pavement/Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev guy.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and Chavez since Matt brought them up. I still have vinyl copies of their first 7" and LP.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

early Rev? mid-period Lips? *eyes light up*

the Rev's first two albums are up in my top 20 of the decade, and a conglomerate best-of would have made top-3.

just think...

1) MOARK
2) Chasing A Bee
3) Syringe Mouth
4) Downs Are Feminine Balloons
5) Trickle Down
6) Black And Blue
7) Something For Joey
8) Snorry Mouth
9) Hi-Speed Boats
10) Frittering
11) one of the drunks/thunder interludes
12) Very Sleepy Rivers

as i said, i'm buying chavez' entirety. looking forward immensely to it.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"death of the party" is an attempt at a '90s version of "how soon is now?", too.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link

correction: 6) Blue And Black

death of a party and how soon is now share a bit where the guitar plays a high note and then slides down about a semitone, but that aside i can't see the similarity.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, without the drunks/thunder interlude it comes to 79:24, which is just about as much music as you can fit on a CD. that album would be incredible.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

early Rev? mid-period Lips? *eyes light up*

I also own like 3 CDs each of The Mars Volta, GYBE and Yes but don't get too excited.

My favorite Rev bit is actually the flutey outro of Empire State.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

*physically restrains self*

Of course, if your Yes albums are 'Drama', '90125' and 'Tormato' my vigour shall be somewhat deflated...

See You On The Other Side is a shameful omission from my collection. I've heard it a couple of times, and it's pretty good, but for it to click I need to buy a copy.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge...oh, and a CD-R of Relayer.

SYOTOS is the first Rev album I owned as a kid, that's probably why it's my favorite. I actually wanted Boces since I had only heard "Car Wash Hair", "Bronx Cheer" and "Young Man's Stride" and liked BC the best but SYOTOS was all they had at the shop, it had just come out. "Bronx Cheer" is still my favorite of their short, poppy singles stuff.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

re: Yes albums, OTM! (but it was always going to be!)

oh to have been a kid in the early-90's...

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Bahahaha if you Google "See You On The Other Side" now you get a bunch of links to a 2005 Korn album.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

this is really sweet, you guys : )

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah hey Louis I like Mogwai too, wanna cyber?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

go on then! shall see if messenger thingy still working

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

thing is, dude was screwing his marmot

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahahaha

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

oh waht it was only a meme :-(

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://lifeprint.com/asl101/gifs-animated/you-somewhatsurprised.gif

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I've not got the time or inclination to deal with this bizarre dying horse of a thread, but somewhere up there someone said that a; Radiohead have great production, and b; their songwriting communicates something emotionally that Blur don't. These points are both utterly ridiculous. Radiohead are Floyd for Nirvana fans with degrees, and Blur wrote To The End, The Universal, Beetlebum and This Is A Low, three more emotionally resonant songs than Thom Yorke could ever concoct.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

balls. emotional resonance is in the wonky eye of the beholder.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, which is why to suggest that Blur have none is patently ridiculous. Also, more emotions exist than faint existential ennui / paranoia.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously, what does it matter if something's easy/difficult to make.
YA RLY. Ramones? FUCK THAT SHIT! DREAM THEATER!!!!

Uh, yes, yes, that really does prove your point.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

And also why it's ridiculous to suggest Blur have more emotional resonance than Radiohead

xpost

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

God I hate The Universal so much. Enough Andrew Lloyd Webber already.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Really? I'm surprised. I think it's one of Blur's best tunes, easily.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, more emotions exist than faint existential ennui / paranoia.

Yes, obviously those are the only two things Radiohead do because it's so easy to say... *burp* scratch... can't be bothered anymore. You say subjective I say potato.

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a horrendous sense of schmaltz in Blur ballads that sets my teeth on end, and that's the worst culprit. I don't like To The End much for the same reason.

I don't actually like Blur very much at all but I find the ballads accentuate the things I hate about them more than the others. Bearing in mind I've listened to Blur more than pretty much any other band I dislike.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha! Well obviously I'm playing deliberately reductive devil's advocate. I do think though that Blur have a wider emotional palette than Radiohead - I don't think Radiohead could ever do something that moves me in the way that "Girls & Boys" or "Song 2" do, and I think those emotional directions are just as, if not more, profound and worthwhile than the kind of thing that Radiohead seem to get lauded for. I'm not saying I think Blur are better or anything - I'm not mad keen on either band, I just quite like them both - but I think rubbishing Blur's emotional resonance is silly.

x-post.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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