10 Intelligent questions for Oneida

would love to see them live again, they rule pretty hard live

when i first saw them i couldn't listen to anything else for 2 weeks, that would have been around the second album

august 14 (utr) or 15 (ams), rizzx!

I dunno I think there are some cool sounds on this thing but I miss their songier songs and the whole thing is just too long and overwhelming. I don't hate it or think it's bad but I don't really want to listen to it.

ah cheers willem! and a weekend so double good, you think it will be sold out?

no idea

I'd give it a 7 (love "Brownout in Lagos," don't hear anything on the rest of the album that even comes close; you can let it play through but it's really long.) Favorite albums by them are still Steel Rod EP and Each One Teach One.

don't think so. i got the dates mixed up, amsterdam is on the 14th. i'll definately try to be there as i've got other plans for the 15th...

xpost to rizzx

I think that Secret Wars(one folowing EOTO) is somewhat slept on.
I very much prefer Oneida in full on Krautpunk mode to Oneida playing songs, but I've always been most appreciative of the live experience, too.

^^^^ This, on all accounts. I can see why n/a might not feel this as much as the more "song-y" stuff, but for me these guys have morphed right into the direction I like best.

xp Yeah, Secret Wars is a good one. My review of that's at the first link below, followed by a couple other things I've written about them before, fwiw:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-04-06/music/prolific-brooklynites-repeat-themselves-for-a-long-time-once-again/1

http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-07-04/music/the-many-ideas-of-oneida/

http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-09-12/music/lunch-goes-on/

They did a cover of "Radar Eyes" by the Godz the second time I saw them that took my head off completely. I wish Ian J0hnson could have seen that.

Great show tonight. Disappointed no Sheets of Easter or 1030 at the Oasis, but you can't have everything.

they were on top form in london last night, too...

and fantastic in Brighton. love the new record. once you give it a few spins you realise 3 discs isn't that overwhelming.

yeah i think the 3 discs work pretty damn great. it's less like a record and more like a rehearsal space jam, in a good way

I was all set to go tonight until I realised how much work I had to do :(

I thought I'd registered my approval of the new thing - especially the techno influenced jam on CD1 - on this thread but apparently not

i should probably mention when they play at ATP New York in a few weeks they're basically going to be performing for a whole day, improvising with members of other bands playing the event and recording it all in order to release the highlights. me = pretty hyped.

Goddamn I love these guys.

alright, "10:30 at the Oasis" is chillwave. Had to be said.

Rated O just gets better and better. The River is such an awesome song. Did anybody nom it for the 05-09 Tracks Poll?

I didn't nominate any of the songs for the Tracks poll because it was so. fucking. hard. to pick just a few. Just an astounding album all around.

I would have voted for either/both The River and The Life You Preferred.

Love me some Rated O. Love the opening track the best.

saw these guys back in may and they started off with "sheets of easter." hilarious watching a crowd get really into it at first and then realize around 2 minutes in, "oh shit, are they seriously going to keep playing this?"

also according to bandmember showtime the last LP in the trilogy is finished and going to be called "Absolute II"

lol @ this thread. at least one member of oneida used to post regularly on here at that time, i'm surprised yanc3 didn't realize that.

handle name?

hurlothrombo or hurlothrumbo

^^^

stopped posting on ILM/ILE for a long time but he was on ILBaseball for a few years after.

saw these guys back in may and they started off with "sheets of easter." hilarious watching a crowd get really into it at first and then realize around 2 minutes in, "oh shit, are they seriously going to keep playing this?"

we put on a secret show for them in london five years or so back, and the setlist was 'sheets of easter'/'new day rising'. it was unbelievably awesome.

For my money the best "rock" band in New York right now. Have seen them a bunch of times over the last year and they have always brought it in different ways. Ironic this was bumped today as their "Presents the Ocropolis" show was just announced for the Godspeed ATP, further tempting me to sell everything I own and head over to that. I was quite disappointed that more people didn't place Rated O high on their Best-of lists last year. Best LP released that's even in the orbit of "rock" music.

^Yes, to all of that, although I think Rated O is the kind of album that takes a long time to really sink in, because there's just so much of it and it takes so many different turns.

An oral history of Each One Teach One:

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4141041-an-oral-history-of-oneida%E2%80%99s-each-one-teach-one?new-york-week

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS

http://drownedinsound.com/resized_images/325x325/63384.gif

^ seriously one of my favorite album-insert art/design pieces ever

Yeah I love that! Had to wait for the cd to come out before I was sure if I had all the right track names in the right order, even.
Holy shit I love the O.

it is like a couchside headge maze for stoners

sp. lol

i think you just coined an awesome new stoner phrase: HEADGE MAZE.

think about it, man

Love it.

"numbide one each eak? wtf, man?"

who will be the first HeadgeMazeGaze band?

(this live set is pretty smoking btw: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Oneida/Live_at_Primavera_Sound_2009_on_WFMU_1784)

dl/ty

Thanks for that link, looking forward to listening to it. First track is a two-song jam clocking in at 43:58? Niiiice.

That drowned in sound article is so good. Pissed that I am stuck at work! I just wanna JAM.

all files have finished downloading!!!!!!!

^ exclamation points for emphasis

oh holy shit

haha. also this, which i haven't heard yet: www.nyctaper.com/?p=2721

^I grabbed that one as soon as it was put up, I think.
Really nice to hear them doing a set of mostly covers.
Cave played at that event.

Weird small world

Oh lol I just the post you revived this with CAD. That is funny. I've never met Rob so he won't know who I am but if you happen to meet Erica she definitely would - we're still facebook friends and stuff. She's great. When I left the place where she works she told me I was definitely the "coolest intern" they'd ever had and gave me a N&S CD as a going away present. Their kids are adorable too. :)

Well, if you tell Bobby that Trip Maker says hi, he'll probably react.

a mini-compact!! wtf you can fix those up for a couple hundred bucks

yeah i am giving up on my dream of starting an american analog set ripoff band but am glad that of the 4 cl responses i got i seem to have picked the right guy to give it to.

anyway i have no idea how to approach this in person beyond "dude i successfully stalked you" so i'll prob just wish him the best!

I would go and watch your AAS ripoff band. Then I would love to be able to go and see AAS as well.

I got to see AmAnSet in a living room in Lawrence KS and it fucking ruled.

I saw them a few times in London. Each time people were talking through their sets. One time, there was a guy braying about his overdraft facility for about ten minutes straight through the first two songs. I pinned him to a wall and threatened to knock his teeth out if he didn't shut up. One of the most shameful incidents of my 30s.

(He shut up but the ephemeral bubble of gig enjoyment had been decisively burst by that point.)

And I remember his DN now, it was Hurlothrombo.
Not a stalker, just an Oneida superfan.
I guess that's a fine line...

he just came by--super nice dude! he sort of shyly gave me a copy of the last oneida record as a thank-you (lol i did not let on that i had figured all this out) and was geeking out over the keyb.

awww - cute

Confirmed: super-nice dude. Also, he plays the hell out of a keyboard, so I imagine it is a constant struggle to keep enough farfisas in playable shape around.

Not a stalker, just an Oneida superfan.
I guess that's a fine line...

OTM

Living in Brooklyn and seeing these guys as much as possible, buying every record, etc. definitely makes me feel like I am more familiar with the dudes on a personal level than most bands.

i saw man forever last night, really cool. the piece requires crazy focus and endurance and they nail it.

(also ending up having dinner w/k1d because a friend of mine was the other drummer, super nice dude. i should probably check out an oneida record one of these days.)

Oneida is fucking fantastic, quite honestly one of my favorite bands going right now, I still need to pick up the Man Forever thing.

the piece requires crazy focus and endurance and they nail it.
Makes the fact that Kid is using a pick up group in each city even more impressive, imo.
I haven't listened to the new one yet. I wish I could see it performed. Man Forever strikes me as a live thing.

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We should be talking about these guys now!

second side of a list of the burning mountains is not half bad

good interview up here: http://www.thetrapset.net/