― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
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
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
― colin0Hara (colin_o_hara), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday (lfam), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 3 December 2006 23:53 (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 (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
"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
― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Monday, 4 December 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Wench (jim wentworth), Monday, 4 December 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― hm (modestmickey), Monday, 4 December 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
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
Enthusiasm is great.
― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― sede vacante (blueski), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
-- 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
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
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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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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A trap, eh? Hmm, it was only meant as a statement of personal preference...
― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
the 90s were amazing. i grew up in them after all, they made me! the best things about the 90s:
- commercial pop rave and eurobosh all over the charts- trip-hop- angsty female singer-songwriters who were not just angsty but arty and experimental and visionary- both classic old-skool r&b, and the first stirrings of hyper-modern timbaland-driven r&b- spice girls and britney spears
notice the LACK OF BLUR IN THAT LIST.
again i recognise the crate-digging for old stuff mentality, that's not so weird, but it normally gets applied to...60s-80s. the 90s is a bit fresh in people's memories.
hang on, louis, what did you like when you were 12/13?
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
there's one every year!
2006 = Joanna Newsom - WhYs allegedly...
― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd snort but if someone had told me kids would still be wearing Nirvana t-shirts a decade on, and not 2006's version of Rave Pants... :(
― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
When I was 12/13, I was deeply into The Cure (Pornography being my starter, an album I didn't see as dark or unlistenable but tuneful and imaginative) and XTC (NONSUCH), and I also loved early Pink Floyd, King Crimson and The Byrds. I still love all of them, but I have since found things I love yet more (not much in XTC's case, though). The only thing I liked as a child that I have grown to love yet more in my early adulthood is Steve Harley's greatest hits album, an absolutely spectacular compilation of intelligent, grade A+ pop.
My friends listen to very little that I do. Some are into their jazz big-time, some prefer things like The White Stripes and Sublime, others Belle and Sebastian, many are into classical, quite a few are trendy indie-kids who name-drop Clap Your Boy Most Likely To Wolf Steady, others are cooler indie kids who name-drop Les Savy Fav and Throbbing Gristle in the same sentence (these ones tend to have a music-taste most similar to my own, even if the overlap tends only to be in our immediately contemporary taste, and even then not particularly extensive). Quite a few are into shit like Wolfmother, emo, post-punk bollocks like the whole Razorlight thing, bad, commercial R&B, or sissy guitar queef such as Damien Gray. Some are rockists who espouse the overarching brilliance of The Rolling Stones and then declare that BRMC are the only contemporary act they have any time for. Nobody else likes Mansun. Where, I wonder, does this leave me?
P.S. I'd probably love YS, yes, based upon what I've heard. Although it probably could have done with more effects/computerised bleeps... :P
― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), December 4th, 2006.
in fairness i should have added:
i was sitting down.
and mega-stoned.
― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link