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

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deeply uncool SO FUCKING WHAT

OTM, sheesh. That was almost as bad as anything Louis said.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis Jagger: "I'm too stupid to use Wikipedia"

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

This tit-for-tat arguing of points of little relevancy is really dorky, Louis. Is this your signature or something?

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Although Toni Morrison, she wrote Beloved, didn't she? One of the other classes at school studied that and hated it practically to a man (and woman). So...you're saying that all the artists named are shite? Uh?

ban louis jagger

― and what (ooo), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Louis one of those guys like Nude Spock who has 5 million logins?

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: 'relevancy'

;-)

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

no, i have one login, but i change the name/email depending upon what sort of mood i'm in.

― Stressed Scourage (Scourage), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The smiley police are going to come and pry the parentheses keys offa your keyboard, Louis.

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

This tit-for-tat arguing of points I'm simply upholding my right to respond to those who otherwise unanswered will claim undeserved victory over me. :-D

:-D contains no parentheses, btw.

― The Scourage Strikes Back (Scourage), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i have no opinion on godspeed you blah blah but toni morrison is really amazing, louis, and you should read her stuff! beloved is the 'classic' but i think you might like paradise better. or the bluest eye.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

You're all forgetting one thing: Miles Davis' stupid whiny look-at-me-jazz-hands trumpet noise.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Victory?

http://www.argaste.com/img/arguing_on_the_internet.jpg

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Miles Davis' stupid whiny look-at-me-jazz-hands trumpet noise. Yeah, awful, isn't it... :p

As for that jpg, taking semi-amusing pot-shots over the internet ain't much better!

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i still want to see the movie they're named for

― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

God Speed You! Black Emperor (ゴッド・スピード・ユー! BLACK EMPEROR) is a little known 1976 Japanese black-and-white 16 mm documentary film, 91 minutes long, by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, which follows the exploits of a Japanese biker gang, the Black Emperors. The 1970's Japan saw the rise of biker gangs, known as bōsōzoku, and drew interest by the media. The movie follows a member of the bike gang and how he interacts with his parents after getting in trouble with the police.

― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i wrote a positive review of one of their albums and then i never ever listened to them again. go figure!
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0052,seward,21008,22.html

-- scott seward (skotro...), December 3rd, 2006.

so, scott, was a permanent weed detox the reason for never listening to "skinny fists" again?

― eggzakly huh? (eggzakly huh?), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The material all sounded fantastic at the QMU when I saw them.

whoof. i remember seeing them at the QMU a good few years back and thinking they were the most tedious spectacle imaginable. up until that point i'd really, really liked them; after that i couldn't bear to listen to them again. (same thing happened - perhaps more understandably - with the polyphonic spree.)

that said: they're long overdue an official grimly fiendish re-assessment. and, now i've got my record-player working again, i shall get to it.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The smiley police are going to come and pry the parentheses keys offa your keyboard, Louis.

It would only be fair to get Ned's keyboard too, then.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it was a disappointing recording of stuff that sounded great live before they fucked around with it in the studio.

The most OTM thing on this thread.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Sunday, 3 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"Beloved" is amazing but Morrison has written at least 4 books better than that one.

― colin0Hara (colin_o_hara), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

if that is so then they must be like the best 4 books ever

― friday (lfam), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

cuz beloved was pretty fucking good

― friday (lfam), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

lfam is Oprah and I claim my $10

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it was a disappointing recording of stuff that sounded great live before they fucked around with it in the studio.

But didn't Albini record Yanqui U.X.O.? And doesn't he normally just record the band pretty much as they normally sound live, sans wild production techniques?

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

indeed he did

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

better than beloved IMO

"Paradise"
"Song Of Solomon"
"The Bluest Eye"
&, her best and most recent book: "Love".

damn, i think i actually like "Jazz" more too.

― colin0Hara (colin_o_hara), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

louis have you been getting your classical music info from geir

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Monday, 4 December 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never listened to it. but i bought the vinyl for $1 at housing works and resold it to other music for $8 store credit last week.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

just thought i'd share that.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not homeless or anything, i actually do quite well for myself. but i was enjoying a long walk and that was the direction i was going in.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Well you shoud appreciate it for $7 worth of your time then.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't mind them when they were used in the soundtrack for 28 Days Later, but I can't imagine ever wanting to listen to them again. I can't argue with their live sound... With all 8-9 people sawing away it was pretty dang impressive, but they desperately needed some kind of random element to shake them out of the predictable loud-soft-loud-shortwave voice-soft-loud routine. The closest they got was when the Labradford guys joined them on stage for one piece, but that was about it.

Anyway, that last Scenic album craps all over the entire GYBE output.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

back when i was just discovering indie music, i kept trying hard to appreciate the "genius" of this band, but i just couldn't stand to listen to the shit for more than 5 minutes. ned's anecdote = otm.

― hm (modestmickey), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

One trick ponies, but when they got it right on F#A#~ a prety impressive trick. Just needed Scott Walker to sing on it and it would have been pretty much perfect.

Having said that nowhere near as good as 'It takes two'.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Once again Louis is guilty of having the enthusiasm and frame of reference of a nineteen year old rather than the cynicism and frame of reference of a thirty year old.

Enthusiasm is great.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Southall is correct!

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis enthusiasm deserves a place amongst the pantheon of Scrappy Doo, Mr Motivator, Ainsley Harriot and Orbital.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I think this one has LEGS.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You're very weird these days, Dom.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

these days = 1986-2006

― sede vacante (blueski), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that the title of the new Bon Jovi Best Of?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, weren't you also jet-lagged and sleep-deprived that night?

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Jet-lagged, no. A bit sleepless, yes, but come the fuck on -- you'd think a bunch as *loud* as them would actually do better. Elvis Telecom was at the same show I was and his description says it all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

But didn't Albini record Yanqui U.X.O.? And doesn't he normally just record the band pretty much as they normally sound live, sans wild production techniques?

-- Zachary Scott (ZachRScot...) (webmail), December 4th, 2006 12:02 AM. (Zachary S) (later) (link)

That is normally his intention, but it seems neither party was entirely happy with what they ended up with. I don't think they've spoken since (note that it was Hogan and not Shellac that invited them to Shellac ATP).

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Once again Louis is guilty of having the enthusiasm and frame of reference of a nineteen year old rather than the cynicism and frame of reference of a thirty year old.

it's the enthusiasm of a 19-yr-old (which is great!), but not the frame of reference! i have said this before, but what i really don't get about louis is that the stuff he says these things about is the stuff people my age and a bit older would have eulogised when they were louis' age! i am pretty sure that most 19-yr-olds do not listen to mansun or blur or godspeed whatsit. people who are 25 did, when they were 19.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ned,

i fell asleep during spiritualized once! but i don't think that necessarily means they are bad. i like spiritualized.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The problem here is, Matt, that I've fallen asleep at Spiritualized as well. At their WORST show I've ever seen them at. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

apologies to louis for posting as if he's not here btw. i am just genuinely bemused as to how this very specifically of-its-time british indie taste has somehow manifested itself in someone around half a decade too young for it.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Lex, it all started when I discovered a copy of Blur's '13' lying about my father's CD collection all those years ago...

He also had Spiritualized's 'Pure Phase', bought apparently on a whim, and Mogwai's first 3 albums. I started with them and worked my way inwards; now the 90's are by far my favourite and most comprehensively-owned decade in music! My knowledge of contemporary indie/alternative acts is much more sketchy, I'd say; retrospective discoveries are so much more satisfying than great new releases IMO.

Now, if we could only forget that bit about Bach...

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

retrospective discoveries are so much more satisfying than great new releases IMO

You have no idea how big of a trap this is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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