― rizzx (Rizz), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
this question is somwhat ridiculous as there are zillions of people that know what Sophtware Slump is as opposed to 50 who know what P&J stands for
― Rizz (Rizz), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
SEARCH: A friend of mine turned me on to "MGM Grand," which is a great direction for their sound, more uptempo, lyrics less cloaked in dumb metaphors and just concerned with telling this kind of freaky, dream-like story of some kids throwing a sick lion off the roof of a building. The one track by them that I'll be putting on mixtapes twenty years from now, and for which I'll really mourn their breakup, is "Protected From The Rain," a very simple, affecting (somewhat emo-y) ballad.
DESTROY: All album titles. Maybe those were why it was hard to get really excited about a Grandaddy album coming out. I mean... "Just Like The Fambly Cat"?
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike W (caek), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
their beards were what were so great about them! they didn't even remotely look like the kinds of guys that would be making soaring ELO inspired synth epics! they looked like a bunch of skaters!
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.stewdio.org/jed/
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
-- kyle (akmonda...), Today 1:05 PM. (akmonday)
Jason Lytle was a pro-skater prior to blowing his knee to bits and taking up music.
To you folks unfamiliar with Grandaddy's hometown/base, they were from MODESTO, CA. I don't know how many of you have ever been there, but guys, this is not Los Angeles, San Francisco, or San Diego... it's the backward suburban central valley that Steve Malkmus paid tribute to with "Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends/We'll watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame"... and unlike Pavement (SM in Portland/Spiral in Seattle), Grandaddy were lifers.
I hadn't seen them since their record release party for Sophtware Slump at the Cafe Du Nord in June 2000 (it was a great show). I actually only heard one song of their's since then ("Now It's On" which I think is a great song!) but I often see members around (friends of friends) and they're always been really cool, mellow dudes, dudes.
Steve
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 27 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― wmlynch (wlynch), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
the rugged and splintered entertainment center is a top post-sumday tune too.
― whatever (boglogger), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I was at the same show! And I was also next to the girl who was sick! Wow.
Didn't Elbow support if I remember rightly? I bought the Any Day Now EP that night I believe.
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 February 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Heh...that one bugs the hell out of me.
― a. begrand (a begrand), Friday, 10 February 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― rizzx (Rizz), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
it is from the POV of a lost cat, therefore = most ILX friendly song ever
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
http://jasonlytle.com/famblydemos.php
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry for the bare link, but it's all explained there :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Not even seen the link. Just saw the thread.
If you old timers were there.Leeds Festering.1964. or ws it 2004? Jase having a pop at the so called punkers on the mainstage? He called it quits shortly after.
How could the fat old bearded skater compete with all that make up and gloss?
And ZERO tunes
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
To clear it up. not that anycnt is listening GRANDADDY= ELO
Grandaddy = Class
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm. Fambly Cat is the only Grandaddy album I haven't heard, and I'm not sure if I want my first listen to the songs to be demo versions. Then again, although I like Grandaddy alright, I haven't listened to them in a few years and probably wouldn't pick up Fambly Cat unless it was $3 or something, so it's likely I won't hear it for several more years anyway.
This is the most difficult decision anyone has ever faced.
― Z S, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Another Grandaddy obscurity (Sophtware Slump era) my friend Dave turned me on to: "Our Dying Brains," which has a really effective/affecting cut-n-paste job on the wordless chorus vocal.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
not a huge loss really having missed the boat on 'fambly cat'
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
grandaddy's relative success now seems like a long-distant surreal dream...how could it have happened?
― akm, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
the possibility i may one day hear one of this band's songs again is somehow very depressing
― electricsound, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The instrumental hooks from one of their songs (no vocals) is featured in a new car ad - for a Dodge SUV, I think. It came on the TV, and it was driving me nuts. I knew it was something I'd heard before - maybe even something I used to own - but I couldn't place it. Some internet searching revealed that it is in fact Grandaddy's "AM 180".
http://stereogum.com/archives/commercial-appeal/grandaddys-am-180-defuses-bombs-walk-marathons-sel_009098.html
I didn't even own the album - but I guess I'd heard the song somewhere.
― o. nate, Monday, 5 May 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
it was also the theme for charlie brooker's screenwipe in the UK (which surprised me) and something else i can't remember (some radio show?)
ah, grandaddy. how i loved "under the western freeway" and "the sophtware slump". how disappointed i was by everything that came after. how i wept tears of boredom watching them live at the QMU.
very, very strange band.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 May 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"Just Like The Fambly Cat" is a wonderful, wonderful album. "Where I'm Anymore" is Grandaddy's best song (unless the last two of Sophtware Slump count as one). The closing track is one of the saddest things ever. Wow.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 1 June 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, this whole time I thought the line from AM 180 was "We'll defuse bombs, walk 'round in thongs..."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 June 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Listening to "Go Progress Chrome" today and loving it all over again. Great sound. I wonder whether the Homestarrunner guys were listening to this when they came up with the voice for Strong Sad, though.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 April 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/grandaddy-reforms/62660/
― StanM, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
huh that's cool. they were surprisingly good live.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
gotdamn, theres like 6 grandaddy threads...
Jason Lytle's new shit has some hot jams. "Your Final Setting Sun" especially.
― billstevejim, Monday, 22 October 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
New interview (and, separately, new song video) with Jason L.
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/06/20/533045354/with-new-video-grandaddy-finds-humor-in-grief
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
new Grandaddy song, released last Month
https://www.facebook.com/jasonlytle/videos/vb.64053877826/450247192595652https://jasonlytle.bandcamp.com/
― StanM, Sunday, 5 January 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
I like the new song.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
Sounds nice enough, haven't quite decided whether I'd throw Lytle $10 though ...
https://jasonlytle.bandcamp.com/album/the-sophtware-slump-on-a-wooden-piano
(That sounds really snarky of me, it's not really meant to).
― djh, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
awwww
― imago, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Whoa.. This is good! He'll get my $10 no problem.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
Oh, it's happening as a physical item now.
http://eustore.dangerbirdrecords.com/products/677628-grandaddy-the-sophtware-slump-on-a-wooden-piano-cd-bundle
― djh, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link
don't give in 2000 man
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 July 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxvjMPZeZE
they kill me every time <3
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:49 (six months ago) link
should never have left the crystal lake
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:39 (six months ago) link
hope there's some sad robots on the album. but I'll buy it either way, it's what they deserve.
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:15 (six months ago) link
Blu Wav is out there and it's very nice.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:57 (three months ago) link
such a lovely album yeah
― imago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 13:45 (three months ago) link
bought it, listening now, suddenly feeling really depressed. coincidence?
― ledge, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:46 (three months ago) link
it's more melancholy than depressing to me but I can see it could be, yeah
― StanM, Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:48 (three months ago) link