Miles Davis - On The Corner
(After reading about the upcoming sessions release.)

The Ramones Rocket to Russia
Andrew WK Close Calls with Brick Walls
Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release

how's this?

this album is trippy

Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River

"For Reverend Green" still kills everything.

Yeah, I like it. The cover looks like Fat Albert style illustration.

it's good. better than Per Second, that's for sure. i'm not a fan of that one at all, just confirmed that the other nite actually. if you dig Hope and Adams(which i know you do) then you will really like this one, it's a bit of a return to form, abstract structures, still sappy as shit, and lots of quiet fractured parts in the songs. i'd rank it as their second best for sure.

Ugh, I like this record but can't decide if I wanna go to the show or not.

Goodbye to you goodbye again
I’ve got to get this train
It’s nine o' clock already
And I’m twenty minutes late
Goodbye to you goodbye again
Problems don't exist
I’ll see you at the station
You’ll be standing in the rain

Awesome album. "you have to be crazy to stay in this place, you just have to laugh at it all (ha, ha, ha)"

I really lost interest with him after this release, even though he's debatably gotten better. eh, still like this one alright.

i don't own any furs records. should ben care?

simakos you wouldn't mind upping that Wheat album?

but of course, divshare says 27 minutes left...

many thanks

DivShare File - Wheat.zip

\:D/

Why did it take me so long to hear this??? I love it.

Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
White Rainbow - Prism Of Eternal Now

About time I started getting into this dubstep thing.

what is that?

A band that sound pretty much exactly like Architecture in Helsinki.

(it's not bad, in my opinion, but it sounds EXACTLY like AiH.)

oh and they are called Los Campesinos.

I've just been listening to this really long playlist that I've been making over the past week...here's the first few tracks that come up when I shuffled it:

"good shit"

01. The Unicorns - "Jellybones"
02. Andrew Bird - "Fake Palindromes"
03. The Velvet Underground - "I Heard Her Call My Name"
04. Radical Face - "Haunted"
05. Leftover Crack - "Genocidal Tendencies"
06. Modest Mouse - "Sleepwalking"
07. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Cinnamon Girl"
08. The Thermals - "Pillar of Salt"
09. Sunset Rubdown - "Setting vs Rising"
10. The Talking Heads - "Slippery People" (live, SMS version)
11. Pavement - "Loretta's Scars"
12. The Unicorns - "Os"
13. Animal Collective - "Kids on Holiday"
14. The Hold Steady - "Killer Parties"
15. The Kallikak Family - "November 22nd 2003
16. Liars - "Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack"
17. Love is All - "Used Goods"
18. Boris - "Pink"
19. Grandaddy - "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake"
20. Grandaddy - "El Caminos in the West"

Good shit. Love it.

So I have really come to love the new AC album. Likewise, after years of pretty much having nothing but distaste for The Velvet Underground (for no real reason at all), I have really started to love them.

Everything about this statement makes me happy.

VU & Nico is good, but I like their self-titled more. I dunno how much you've re-checked out yet, but that's a good 'un.

See I don't know why I was so against them, but I suppose it was because they were a band i was always supposed to like (two of my favorite bands are Yo La Tengo, and Sonic Youth), and when i was unimpressed with VU & Nico on my first listen it just pissed me off. And I was just done with them (really reactionary, but hey when you're 15, you get pissed easily).

Now six years later I have started spinning their stuff again (mostly VU & Nico and WL/WH), but I am slowly going to go and listened to the self-titled and Loaded.

Likewise with AC, I only liked half of it when I first heard it, but now I love it all (Except whatever song it is that follows Fireworks).

I definitely feel the whole "you're-supposed-to-like-this" backlash, which I strangely managed to avoid with VU. The first time I stumbled on them was pre-high school, and that was cuz my dad had a best-of that I really liked.

Yeah, the supposed to like backlash was never a problem for me before. But I suppose if you look at my taste, there is no band that I am supposed to like more than the Velvets, but now that I am over that, I am kind of excited.

people who don't like the velvet underground are strange

Artem otm, as usual.

Bruce Springsteen - Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

The legendary show that I had never heard. Thanks norton!

glad to finally fit in.

you dizzy young motherfuckers suck.

seriously... you suck and you don't even know why and if i tried to explain why you sucked you wouldn't even understand and THAT is why you suck.

suck it.

I made this mats comp awhile back for a friend and I'm currently enjoying it

aw, c'mon, we aren't that bad.

No comment on people not "getting" VU & Nico because it's rightfully praised by critics, yeah...


Smog - Wild Love
Smog - Julius Caesar
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love


Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Tangle

I listened to quite a bit of Smog in the mid-90s. Specifically Forgotten Foundation and Wild Love. Then for whatever reason, I chose not to follow his career. Whenever a new Smog album came out, I just ignored it. No idea why, it just happened. Haven't heard a note since FF and WL. I'm starting to think this was a mistake. What should I seek out? Better yet, who wants to make me a post-Wild Love Smog mix?

Thoughts on Callahan's albums:

HAVEN'T HEARD THE REALLY EARLY STUFF, BUT I REALLY SHOULD.

Julius Caesar = fantastic lo-fi fun crap. Already plenty of classics like "Chosen One," "Your Wedding," and "Golden." Fun album.

Wild Love = good, but as a whole, eh, I don't know. I only really like a few tracks. "Be Hit," "Bathysphere," "Prince Alone In The Studio," a couple others... something about it just doesn't hold together for me.

The Doctor Came At Dawn = one of my favorites. Slow, depressing as shit, beautiful songs about destroyed relationships. Excellent all the way through.

Red Apple Falls = this is the beginning of the Smog that most people know. The lo-fi feel is hardly there anymore, and he's started singing in the tone of voice that he would sing with on all subsequent records, real low-like. None of this mid-range shit. Bill has become a man, writing beautiful, "serious" songs like "To Be Of Use" and "I Was A Stranger." There was a certain whimsy in "Lies," "Sleepy Joe," and especially something like "I Am Star Wars!" that has now been entirely sucked out of his career in order to make way for all new, uncharted territory. Thought of as a classic by many, but honestly, I'm not too crazy about it.

Knock Knock = the best sounding album he has made thus far. He's really starting to branch out, crafting awesome ROCK songs like "Cold Blooded Old Times" and "No Dancing." But then there's just a bunch of slow crap all over this that honestly bores the living shit out of me. You have a decent amount of interesting pop songs, and then some painfully too-uninteresting-to-even-qualify-as-pop ones. Overrated.

HAVEN'T HEARD DONGS OF SEVOTION OR RAIN ON LENS, ALTHOUGH I HAVE HEARD THAT THE FORMER IS AWESOME AND THAT THE LATTER HAS PAT SAMSON FROM U.S. MAPLE DRUMMING.

Supper = ugh. People seem to love this and Knock Knock, but there's really nothing remarkable about these songs. Slow, repetitive, low-voiced, painfully generic Callahan. He could make a million albums like this and I wouldn't like any of them.

A River Ain't Too Much To Love = dude finally comes through with a classic. Here we have a bunch of slow, "organic sounding," folky things. Somehow, all these songs really manage to individually stand out for me, despite all having the same sort of acoustic guitar + drums + piano or violin instrumentation. Maybe because a lot of the lyrics and various musical moments just feel more iconic than on a lot of his other records? I don't know. But these songs are just wonderful, so much depth to 'em. My favorite Smog album besides The Doctor Came At Dawn.

Woke On A Whaleheart = tight, nicely produced, joyful little American pop/rock album. A lot of it is really happy sounding, the music as colorful as the cover art. Different than almost anything else he's done, but one of his most remarkable works, as well. Good stuff.

Those are my thoughts on Callahan's albums.

I saw him live by himself and it was interminable. He needs a band.

Depends on the band.
I saw Smog open for Royal Trux right before Knock Knock came out and he lit the place up. Incredible stage presence for a guy who just stood there stock still, faintly smirking and barely even opening his mouth when he sang. It helped that his band happened to be top shelf - Liam Hayes and John McEntyre, plus a bass player and organist.
I'd seen him a few years earlier closing for Guided By Voices with a drummer and Bill's girlfriend on guitar, who seemed to be receiving her first guitar lesson over the course of the set. It was mind-numbingly tedious and they cleared the room pretty quickly.

Dongs of Sevotion is pretty good - "Dress Sexy at My Funeral" is one of his best pop songs. Rain on Lens is very good and his heaviest album. Rick Rizzo on guitar!
And yes, Supper sucks. The obligatory VU-rip - "Driving" - is the only song worth hearing.

otm re: Dongs...
"Dress Sexy..." is one of my favorite Smog tracks.
Maybe I'll up it later, although my copy has skips in the last track.

Sounds like I should hear Rain on Lens.

Supersilent - 8

My favorite band returns with relentless innovation and a constant shift in their sound. After putting out one of the best live DVDs I've ever seen with 7, they put out this. Wonderful, wonderful group.

Yeah, I was gonna post tons of NP Smog albums too.

Boss Hog - s/t
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
Melvins - Houdini Live

Handsome Furs - Plague Park

i'm giving this one a second chance and now it's sounding great... i definitely like it better than the latest Sunset Rubdown. these Wolf Parde guys are doing it right.

i still think this one of the best local releases of the year.

glad you finally came around phil. i remember when i was what? 18 and finally got into vu & n and thought, oh this is where YLT and belle and sebastian got it from. but personally i'm a big fan of loaded, especially the deluxe edition with all the extra tracks.

first came across julius when i was starting my stint in the lofi music obsession. and thought it was as far as i could go into pure crap. though 'chosen one' and 'your wedding' are amazing. and i have to laugh when i hear 'star wars'
when i first bought dongs i hated it except 'dress sexy' a year after i got it i brought it back out and loved it. though i haven't listened to it much since then.
and 'whaleheart' is so fucking good 'sycamore' has made a lot of my mix tapes ive done lately