― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
the two are in some connected together in my mind.
I remember gareth said something about how hood's 'the cold house' reminded him of leeds but 'the leeds of robbie keane.' and I think this in someway relates but I can't get to grips with explaining why nor how.
this may be another folk method vs. pop method dichotomy, at the level of instinct rather than purpose.
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
(v.late reply to ESOJ - they both wouldn't exist without acid house, & I discovered them both through tom's top 100 singles of the nineties)
― etc, Monday, 19 April 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
Young Gods, watch out, the Field Mice are behind you and they're signalling to overtake!"- simon reynolds in melody maker circa 1991!
― etc, Monday, 19 April 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 19 April 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 April 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
haha if I could chop them in half & keep the bit that did "Triangle", "Humblebee", "Missing The Moon", "It Isn't Forever", "Let's Kiss & Make Up" (& the others of that ilk) . . .
(btw ned is that where you lifted yr stephin merritt jab from? or does the phrase "death & my cock is the world" have some sort of propah-musical origin?)
― etc, Monday, 19 April 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 19 April 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure it has to be!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 April 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 19 April 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago) link
(did the post-FM pre-TBS band have many tracks in that sort of electronic style?)
― etc, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
find mp3s of "the way that stars die" or "monotone." you might see if you like the marine time keepers as well, they have a nice NPL thing going on their album. and alaska is fantastic.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago) link
An excess of Field Mice stuff is just rather *too much*. I like them in moderation; at their best, they are rather better than the twee stereotypes they are often monikered as; look at "Missing the Moon", "Indian Ocean", "Tilting at Windmills" (comparable as someone said above to what Seefeel and Disco Inferno were up to) and "It Isn't Forever" (hypnotic spirallings; sublime clatter from after 5:00). These are very atmospheric, inventive drifts. And the more straightforward stuff, sonically, can be much as excellent: "Coach Station Reunion", "Between Hello and Goodbye" (an aural clearness like Aztec Camera's "High Land, High Rain", though more muted and slight a song in comparison to Frame's), "If You Need Someone" (very New Order bassline), "Willow", "Canada" (positively jaunty, yet bittersweet; Willie Nelson ought to cover it) and "Emma's House". Most of those are more upbeat than their standard. And that standard can, across the 2-CD compilation, stultify a bit. There's a lack of contrast in style and tempo for much of CD2. It is largely there where for me the criticisms start to ring true; rather too much repetition, and nothing much interesting musically. The lyrics and vocals start to weary too, without odd, indie-ambient stuff like "Tilting at Windmills"... one can only take so much of these plaintive, earnest tones, and the word retread comes to mind with a lot of this material.
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 16 May 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 16 May 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 16 May 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 08:37 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise of psychotic badassery (electricsound), Sunday, 16 May 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Sunday, 16 May 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise of psychotic badassery (electricsound), Sunday, 16 May 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
cozen can you give details on this docu?
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
or at least an awareness of different dramatic devices
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, I really enjoyed that EP as well. I'm very excited.
― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link
for some reason i never heard much NPL stuff til recently, and that was a result of regaining my Bob faith with "Helen Reddy", the best thing he's done since the first TBS album. i do think he's a very consistent songwriter, perhaps moreso than, say, Stephin Merritt, but he has a voice it can sometimes be very easy to tire of.
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link