― 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
only heard the new one once, but it sounded kinda blah to me? will give it another go, my wife loves this dude, so i'll probably be hearing it a lot.
― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
I started with that one song (track 10) because it was recommended. It's not an even album but the standouts are as good as Grandaddy.
― billstevejim, Monday, 22 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Summer festival tour dates in August 2016 are being made public - there's been a new album in the works for a while now, probably ready?
― StanM, Friday, 8 April 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
New song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50LoackQM0
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
lovely stuff ty
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:50 (seven years ago) link
Blimey. Not thought of this band in years but quite like that.
Looking at Discogs, is it right that this will be their first recorded output in 10 years?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
Yes, first in ten years and very promising it is.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:50 (seven years ago) link
There was a live set on one of the torrent sites yesterday. I thought I hadn't heard of the band being active in years.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:55 (seven years ago) link
The album's been delayed to next year, btw. Recent live set:
http://concert.arte.tv/fr/grandaddy-au-cabaret-vert
Cabaret Vert festival, 26 Aug 2016, Charleville-Mézières, France
Hewlett's DaughterEl Caminos in the WestLaughing StockThe Crystal LakeMy Small LoveChartsengrafsStray Dog and the Chocolate ShakeDisconnectyNow It's OnWay We Won'tSummer Here KidsA.M. 180He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link
Now It's On is a jam.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:55 (seven years ago) link
Nice!
― king konta (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Not wowed by the new track. Sounds to me like a slightly sluggish amalgam of the go in the go for it and OK with my decay. I wasn't so keen on post-sumday material but this seems like a weary retreat.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Tragic news:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kevin-garcia-grandaddy-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-w480373
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Damn. RIP Kevin.
― wtev, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 05:52 (seven years ago) link
GoFundMe page set up to help his family pay for medical/funeral expenses, etc.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
whoa, RIP. I hung out for an afternoon on Grandaddy's tour bus a million years ago and they were all super friendly guys.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Wow, just found out about this. He recorded one of my band's first studio session probably a good million years before tylerw was on their bus.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 05:12 (seven 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