_jon
May 24 2011, 06:45 PM
Scott Walker -- The Drift
This is a waltz for a dodo
A samba for Bambi
Gavotte for the Kaiser
Bolero for Beuys
A reel for Red Rosa
A polka for Tintin
Hell of an album. I only dare listen to it during the day because I'm honestly frightened by it. I think the Satanic Donal Duck bit during "The Escape" is to blame.
spiritofeden
May 24 2011, 06:51 PM
MattyPickles
May 24 2011, 09:22 PM
mumps
May 24 2011, 09:27 PM
_______
May 25 2011, 08:22 AM
QUOTE (Sid Hartha @ May 24 2011, 03:41 PM)
The Reader article is very good, focusing on his earliest work. Since reading it, I've been digging his first three Capitol LPs (long out of print, but easy to find online).
Really surprised at how good these records are, because like most people with good taste, I hate Bob Seger.
yep, me too... but you gotta admit, even the stuff that is hated is pretty damn good songwriting.
now playing and freaking out on:
Ned
May 25 2011, 10:22 AM
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ May 24 2011, 03:51 PM)
bullshit.
Ned
May 25 2011, 10:25 AM
NP:
Tiago Sousa - Walden Pond's Monk
Some neo classical stuff, sounding just beautiful right now.
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 12:31 PM
Listening to this for the third time today.
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 12:40 PM
Which is to say I've given it three listens since I woke up, not that I'd heard it only twice before now. Natch.
"Man Is Not A Bird" really grooves the fuck out at the end.
Dag Nasty
May 25 2011, 12:58 PM
MattyPickles
May 25 2011, 02:04 PM
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 02:19 PM
_jon
May 25 2011, 02:34 PM
QUOTE (Pavement Ist Rad @ May 25 2011, 12:40 PM)
Which is to say I've given it three listens since I woke up, not that I'd heard it only twice before now. Natch.
"Man Is Not A Bird" really grooves the fuck out at the end.
Some amazing drums on that track.
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 02:44 PM
Absolutely. They were pretty much all my ears could pay attention to for a good couple of minutes this morning.
I love Broadcast but Tender Buttons aside, I could really stand to familiarize myself with their records way more. There's a lot of stuff going on throughout Haha Sound.
_jon
May 25 2011, 03:01 PM
Haha Sound is perhaps my favorite Broadcast album. It's just intricate, detailed work that just works. The melodies throughout the album are unnatural, but don't feel contrived. It definitely packs a punch for such a short album.
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 03:07 PM
The "Valerie" lyrics made a bit more sense after having seen the film that they're referencing.
Not as blatantly as the ones in "The Seventh Seal" did, but still pretty fun.
_jon
May 25 2011, 03:19 PM
Yeah, I had wondered why Broadcast decided to do a library music album like Witch Cults..., and it then dawned on me they had been doing work like that for awhile now, like with "Valerie."
spiritofeden
May 25 2011, 05:07 PM
spiritofeden
May 25 2011, 06:31 PM
just chock full of 10's
pigfuck
May 25 2011, 06:52 PM
first, second, and third listens. "I Don't Know Why I Love You" is a track among tracks.
pigfuck
May 25 2011, 06:54 PM
like if The Colour of Spring was made up entirely of songs as good as "Appetite" and "Temptation".
_______
May 25 2011, 08:07 PM
a real shame people in the states are pretty oblivious to this guy... I think this is the best record he has ever made, solo or otherwise.
_______
May 25 2011, 09:10 PM
pigfuck
May 25 2011, 09:23 PM
^cool. I like those tracks on that one Greg Cartwright radio show things, and I'm intrigued by the Seger talk ITT. "Where do I start w/ Bob Seger?" thread avoided, no doubt.
np:
transcendent shit
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 09:27 PM
QUOTE (pigfuck @ May 25 2011, 06:54 PM)
like if The Colour of Spring was made up entirely of songs as good as "Appetite" and "Temptation".
Where are you getting
The Colour of Spring from? That album has an entirely different agenda and sounds like really amazing Christian rock Peter Gabriel.
HoL -
Creation Recordings ftw, btw, fyi.
idolatry
May 25 2011, 09:41 PM
QUOTE (pigfuck @ May 25 2011, 09:23 PM)
transcendent shit
Amazing record. A staple, around these parts. Good call.
pigfuck
May 25 2011, 10:27 PM
bleach
May 25 2011, 11:00 PM
QUOTE (_______ @ May 25 2011, 09:10 PM)
man, thanks for this link. after reading that article in the reader a few weeks ago i meant to do some searching for this and then, well, i guess i just forgot cuz bob seger hasn't been on my to do list for a very long time.
np:
spiritofeden
May 25 2011, 11:04 PM
not sure what pigfuck is on about with Colour of Spring....
NP:
Pavement Ist Rad
May 25 2011, 11:17 PM
I love that people are getting into Bob Seger but... there's more to him than the apparently hip enough pre-Silver Bullet Band material. Not a whole lot more, admittedly, but Night Moves is a damn fine album. I can't imagine anything but the most played out "Urgh, M.O.R. '70s album rock!" oldster bias keeping somebody from admitting that "Ship of Fools" is a damn fine song. And that "Rock & Roll Never Forgets" is arguably a more streamlined version of songs like "Get Out of Denver"... but not to much of an extent, really.
bleach
May 25 2011, 11:28 PM
is bob getting some new love these days? haven't really been paying attention. i don't know man, i like me some seger but haven't been exposed to the shit on that boot. you wanna talk night moves? how about seven? that's got some great shit on it...but yea, i would never disown night moves.
Pavement Ist Rad
May 26 2011, 12:07 AM
Cool.
I also wasn't aware of the Seger resurgence until people started talking about that Reader article a couple pages ago. I'm into that, just not the sentiment that the only stuff worth checking out is the System material.
And Seven is indeed a total jam.
samsquanch
May 26 2011, 12:50 AM
Yuck - Yuck (2011)
The Cave Singers - No Witch (2011)
Beastie Boy - Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1
samsquanch
May 26 2011, 12:56 AM
QUOTE (pigfuck @ May 25 2011, 11:27 PM)
What's this?
monotony
May 26 2011, 04:16 AM
pigfuck
May 26 2011, 10:10 AM
QUOTE (hornpout @ May 25 2011, 10:56 PM)
QUOTE (pigfuck @ May 25 2011, 11:27 PM)
What's this?
, Sly & The Family Stone, 1971
pigfuck
May 26 2011, 10:17 AM
QUOTE (Pavement Ist Rad @ May 25 2011, 07:27 PM)
QUOTE (pigfuck @ May 25 2011, 06:54 PM)
like if The Colour of Spring was made up entirely of songs as good as "Appetite" and "Temptation".
Where are you getting
The Colour of Spring from? That album has an entirely different agenda and sounds like really amazing Christian rock Peter Gabriel.
HoL -
Creation Recordings ftw, btw, fyi.
Just saying it sounds like a product of the late 80s/early 90s, slightly experimental but with strong hooks. Admittedly, I haven't listened to
Colour of Spring in awhile, but I hear touches of that same quiet oddness in, e.g., "Hannah" that I hear in Talk Talk - but not nearly as extreme as
Spirit of Eden or
Laughing Stock - and I don't think a New Order or Prefab Sprout hit is too far of a touchstone when talking about tunes like "I Don't Know Why I Love You" or "Shine On".
MattyPickles
May 26 2011, 11:05 AM
QUOTE (monotony @ May 26 2011, 04:16 AM)
Wait a minute, this is out?
Stop Breathin'
May 26 2011, 01:59 PM
QUOTE (MattyPickles @ May 26 2011, 10:05 AM)
QUOTE (monotony @ May 26 2011, 04:16 AM)
Wait a minute, this is out?
leaked
_______
May 26 2011, 02:42 PM
like Pigfuck was saying earlier in the thread, my interest in early Seger started out with those Greg Cartwright radio shows that we were all freaking out on a few years back. i bought that Bob Seger System record and Mongrel and that was really about it... then the Reader article popped up last week and i found that bootleg mix thing.
not sure what Paves is getting worked up about here. sure, Night Moves and Rock and Roll Never Forgets are fine tunes, I just would rather hear his earlier more reckless stuff. and its really not a hipster reactionary thing, I just like those early records.
Bob Seger.
yep.
Sid! Hartha
May 26 2011, 02:55 PM
QUOTE (_______ @ May 26 2011, 02:42 PM)
not sure what Paves is getting worked up about here. sure, Night Moves and Rock and Roll Never Forgets are fine tunes...
filth
Pavement Ist Rad
May 26 2011, 03:13 PM
Exactly.
Ned
May 26 2011, 04:02 PM
Wait, is that to imply that those two songs are filth?
_jon
May 26 2011, 07:30 PM
Homogenic Live
Dead Flowers
May 26 2011, 08:19 PM
badazz
Dag Nasty
May 27 2011, 09:58 AM
Do unto uth-ahs
As they've done to you
Just what the hell is
This world coming tooooo-uh
MattyPickles
May 28 2011, 12:49 AM
pigfuck
May 28 2011, 06:47 PM
lately preferring this to
A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Even though it's a live recording, the fidelity is better on this than
New Way. And even though the runtime overall is shorter, it feels a bit more monolithic and "important", probably because the whole thing works together as one piece of music. More varied in tone and style too. Really happy that both pieces of music exist though, obvs.
Sid! Hartha
May 28 2011, 07:02 PM
Pavement Ist Rad
May 28 2011, 09:26 PM
QUOTE (pigfuck @ May 28 2011, 06:47 PM)
lately preferring this to
A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Even though it's a live recording, the fidelity is better on this than
New Way. And even though the runtime overall is shorter, it feels a bit more monolithic and "important", probably because the whole thing works together as one piece of music. More varied in tone and style too. Really happy that both pieces of music exist though, obvs.
More vocals on this, too. Which is great because it means that he's willing to warm up to new approaches and keep stuff interesting. If he doesn't retire from music again too soon, imagine how much awesome fucked up music he'll have been involved in over the next ten, even five years.
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