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they're a new band, i guess, but they've all been percolating around Vancouver for a good 4 years, at least.

i'll probably pick this up, you know. it is good.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 6 February 2005 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, and they're playing with kinski next month, as well as oneida(who i've never heard). i think i'll go. i really like 'set us free'.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it me or does "No Hits" borrow heavily from Giorgio Moroder's "Chase" from the Midnight Express soundtrack? It might even be a sample.

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 6 February 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

zep/blue cheer camaro '70s sludge rock my ass, on their albums these guys sound like a friggin shoegaze band. they sound anemic and amorphous, they don't rock, and neither did pink mountaintops. jeez.

oneida > dead meadow >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> black mountain

― live from kazakhstan, Monday, 7 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

DRUGANAUT

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Druganaut = Czukay + Iommi

― southern lights (southern lights), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i really want to start smoking squeef again when i listen to this cd.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Ain't no-one stopping ya.

I admit the more there is talk the more I am duly curious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

except my crazy head...the bingo will not smoke pot.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I am digging political messages on this album. "Nobody likes your fucked up plans of shooting up some foreign land." Done well these days protest music is especially appreciated.

― dick hunter, Friday, 11 February 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

video available here:

http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?POS=1&CONTENT_ID=177318&FILTER_KEY=13564&page=content

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

fuck no hits is great.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link

the song on the split 7" with Destroyer RULES

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I'm chiming in since I've seen these guys play a bunch of shows now -- I wasn't sold on the album till I saw them play stuff live, b/c I actually DON'T think it's all that heavy/sludgy/sabbathy. It's kind of like some Dutch band or something trying to be heavy, and not making it, but what they come up with is totally great. Live it's tremendously cool, not heavy, just its own fucking thing.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

and "No Hits" DEFINITELY sounds like "the Chase" -- but it's not a sample, it's a little different.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Addendum -- it's fucking-music, b/c the rhythm section is tight and mellow, like some good Atlantic soul band. It doesn't actually *sound* like that stuff (much), but that's the feel of the bass and drums. Not sabbath.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

not sabbath, not heavy. Neil Young, people, early Neil Young, from the vocals (when he sings "let's smoke some kill" it sounds like a Neil Young impression) to the vaguely spaghetti Western guitars that sound like something circa Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. (and with the girl and the sense of doom and protest in the lyrics, there's some "Gimme Shelter" going on too.)

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

um I just did a control-F 'find' on this thread for the word "Sabbath", and the first time it appears is Hurlothrumbo's post at 1:56 PM TODAY. The second and final time it appears is in Singbad's post. So I don't know who these imaginary "people" are that singbad is addressing, but, you know, thanks anyway.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

wait, are you kidding, or are that lost that you'd control-F "Sabbath"?

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm trying to figure out who the fuck the "people" are in this thread that mentioned the band Black Sabbath. There were none. Nobody mentioned them except the post immediately preceding yours.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, i don't know either. i was agreeing with the other guy just before me. ask him? or just snap at me again, i don't mind

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

since you seem out of sorts, whoever you are, i read the whole thing for you. the guy who started it said sludge, 70s style. i guess most people think of sabbath when they read that? are you disagreeing, or just fooling?

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

ha ha, I just wrote heavy/sludgy/sabbathy cause they all seem to go together, and cause I've heard lots of people compare Black Mountain to sabbath in conversations -- sorry to be so inaccurate in my assessments; please change "sabbathy" to "zeppelinly" in my post(s) for greater thread-accuracy, and I'll stand by it. Sheesh.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i say stick with it. i've only ever heard people compare them to sabbath. when i first got it my roommate asked me if it was some sabbath album he hadn't heard. and they decided to call themselves black mountain, not led mountain.

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

nah, it's just that the tone of these posts seemed to be one of "you guys are totally reading this band WRONG." When in fact I think there as many references to Head East in this thread than any super-heavy stoner groups. It just bugs me when a group of ILM regulars gets pigeonholed by a googler / lurker.

so as Joe Elliott sang, baby, I'm not f-f-f-fooling -- whoever YOU are, lurker. (or wait, is this 'live from khazakstan' slightly revising his opinion?)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

my apologies if my tone upset you, milord. i meant no disrespect to the peers of the realm or to the men and woman of the black mountain.

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

hey, I'm not a lurker -- I'm just an infrequent but kinda longtime poster (and one who defends classic rock with some regularity). Also, I wasn't trying to correct anyone on this thread as such -- just noting that I'm someone who wasn't that into the album before I saw them a bunch live, because I had been sold a bill of zeppelin/sabbath goods. The live show helped me figure out some aspects of the record that hadn't really come across before (the self-assured simplicity of the rhythm section being a huge one for me) that made me really love it.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, Hurlothrumbo, I know who you are! I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to singbad.

yeah, I dunno, I knew nothing about this band before this thread, and then subsequently acquiring the record. In fact this thread is the only place I've ever had contact with anyone about this record, scout's honor! So I've honestly never heard Sabbath comparisons. And yeah, point being, I agree with you guys in that respect -- the record doesn't sound like them at all.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Black Mountain have about as much in common with Black Sabbath as they do with the band Mountain.

In name only.

― drewo (drewo), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

reading the thread again I see I'm in agreement with the other guy who noticed the Neil Young similarities. I buy the Head East comparison too. i still don't hear a lick of zeppelin.

― singbad, Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

yoo people are insane. and stormy and roger should know better. i didn't understand why they were touring with coldplay till i heard the rekkerd. now it makes perfect sense. big yawnzzzzz...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

scott, "faulty times"! just try that one again. and sweet, sweet "druganaut"

― toothy philanthropist, Friday, 10 June 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

New album's pretty decent. Fewer immediate highs on first listen, but nothing that I just don't like at all. We'll see…

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link

seeing them play live on friday night. stoked

― 6335, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Where are you seeing them? Their website's only got dates through August.

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, stupid myspace.

― I eat cannibals, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link

salt lake city

― 6335, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Lightning Dust is SUPERAWESOME too (Amber & Josh sideproject)

― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Cool to see this thread revived and to find out there's a new album and tour - I just threw this (2005 rekkid) on the turntable last night on a whim and really enjoyed it - glad I didn't get rid of it, cause a bunch of my friends really slag that release...

― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link

make new friends

― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Friends who ROCK.

(Does Lightning Dust have new stuff out? And man, the new album is all watermarked and shit… Which means I have to be careful when I rip it to listen on my mp3 player).

― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

i thought this thread would be about the US literary movement :P

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

I liked last one, but mind-blowing? I ask you: Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Lightning Dust just has the one album that came out in the spring. And probably that'll be it for a while since BM has the ol' new album thing happening.

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link

wow, what an influential place. they counted john cage, willem de kooning, and buckminster fuller among their faculty, spawned the black mountain poets, staged the first-ever "happenings" (in the THIRTIES)...

...wait, we are talking about black mountain college, right?

― Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 28 September 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link

little late there...

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 28 September 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Sabbath meets… some '70s prog with a chick singer that I can't think of off the top of my head.

― I eat cannibals, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

some of their tunes remind me of a more psychedelic version of songs by songs: ohia or electric magnolia co. which is weird, because i don't really like either of those groups. mostly on the songs with male/female harmonizing, like 'voices'

― 6335, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link

they were great on friday. their new stuff definitely has a sabbath vibe to some of it. 'druganaut' ruled, i wished they would have played the extended version and then extended that out to 15 minutes. cave mountain singers were pretty good, too

― 6335, Monday, 1 October 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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