― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:25 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:30 (10 years ago) Permalink
he's pretty good but you never get to really enjoy it when he's on muchmusic. the going coastal and much on demand interview bits are too short. and he's kind of started being just a zany character. he's really a pretty good interview guy, though. he's my favorite interview guy ever, i think. it's neat to hear him pull out some super-obscure question. they could delete one episode of becoming from the schedule and fit in a nardwuar show.
― d k (d k), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:50 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:33 (10 years ago) Permalink
― dyson (dyson), Monday, 30 December 2002 22:41 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:29 (10 years ago) Permalink
― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 01:04 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 02:59 (10 years ago) Permalink
― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:52 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 January 2004 17:28 (9 years ago) Permalink
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:20 (9 years ago) Permalink
WEEELLL-COOOOM TO MY (TO MY)CAAAAAAAAAAA-SSSSTTLLEEE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
(etc.)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:29 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:42 (9 years ago) Permalink
Doot doola doot doot...
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:55 (9 years ago) Permalink
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:00 (9 years ago) Permalink
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:02 (9 years ago) Permalink
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:03 (9 years ago) Permalink
also, new album has a song written by former Chretien advisor Warren Kinsella!
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 January 2004 20:16 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 20:23 (9 years ago) Permalink
I do know that most of his releases are also available on 8-track.
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 January 2004 20:25 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 23 September 2006 00:20 (6 years ago) Permalink
NO ONE TOLD ME!
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am so fucking into this right now. Three hours of YouTube!
dude's clear love of blowfly and millie jackson are huge points in his favor
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
henry lollins is such a dick to him
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 03:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
RAHZEL interview is so abstract and funnyTAUGHT ME THEN TAUGHT ME
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
ahahahahah weird al ahahahahaha
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Theres a DVD go buy it IMHO
― maher shalal smash paz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg rahzel imitating him is wonderful
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 05:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
I posted a couple of my favourite Nardwuar bits in this thread:
Bands/artists you now respect more only because they were so rad to Nardwuar
― everything, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 05:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Total classic. Aside from being funny, he actually does a lot of research into his subjects and constantly comes up with questions that leave them shocked at what he knows... Well, I think that David Cross says it best at 2:10 here:
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 07:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's actually two DVD. The second featuring a lot more of his really early stuff. I own both but I've never gotten around to watching the second.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
totally inviting dude to summerstage
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
I watched a couple last night also.. the lady gaga one was cool bc I learned that she loves new kids on the block & she's never heard of andrew wk.. the nirvana one was uncomfortable and as if I needed another reason to dislike courtney love, she refers to Sloan as "The sloan band" at least twice.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
to be honest i watched that last night and i thought courtney was far more normal and courteous than kurdt or noveselic, unless you are just bound and determined to hate her
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
ohhhhh this lil b one is making me really like both of them a lot
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahaha, the end of the lil b interview.
― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
he is my city's finest, his band the evaporators was one of my favorite live acts when i was a teenager, and he's done so much for vancouver's music scene. when my friend was starting to release albums narduwar was willing to spend hours on the phone with him giving advice about DIY music. he talks normal when he's not in character, it's actually a little jarring to see the switch
― B1ll C4ll4h4n (symsymsym), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
"check this out little b!!!" *hands him a bunch of records*"this is great" (lil b has the expression & intonation of someone who really doesnt want to hurt their grandmother's feelings when they get socks for christmas)
― ℳℴℯ ❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 24 March 2011 05:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
my reaction was pretty similar to forks when i discovered nardwuar a year or two ago, ie. where has this guy been all my life
― ℳℴℯ ❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 24 March 2011 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haven't heard this in a few years :)
― billstevejim, Thursday, 24 March 2011 06:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
I didn't realise that he'd done so much. My favourites are the earlier interviews - the one with sonic youth for instance.
― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a fact that he has done more for local music than practically anyone else. He's put on hundreds of gigs (mostly all-ages) interviewed or showcased pretty much every little band that makes an effort to contact him, helped god knows how many musicians in thousands of ways and done more to promote the history of Cdn punk/rock than anyone.
I quibble with the last sentence though. He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.
― everything, Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
dyin at david cross repeating the celebrity poker question
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
watching nardwuar hand Greg Ginn a copy of my black flag book on camera in his interview was a total unexpected "oh fuck wow wow" moment for me
― we can't rule out the supernatural no matter how much I would like to (stevie), Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
as much for, like, nardwaur has read my book as, wow, greg ginn now owns a copy of my book
Don't think either of them come out of it particularly well
Does 'happy aggressive' exist?
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
mackaye is such a bore
― spazzmatazz, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah i'm only part way through, but at half-time nard is definitely being a colossal dick
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
i get if people find ian's "i am mr reasonable with constructive criticism for you" bit condescending, but considering narduwar - in the middle of his usual nonsense barrage - got unwarrantedly harsh and guilt-trippy about a 20 year old concert - i don't get how anybody can think mackaye was being an asshole here.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
unless someone just jumped ahead to the end and missed that bit
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
it is kinda like that superfan thing where someone sees their idol in public and says: hey you probably don't remember this *and then goes into looooong dull anecdote about meeting idol decades ago and some "weird" thing that happened that they have thought about ever since it happened and the idol has no fucking clue what they are talking about*. and usually that creates an awkward moment. at least ian remembered the show!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
and know nardwuar has been thinking about the fugazi show he set up since the day after the show.
yeah but this is like their 3rd/4th interview. he went ham on a regular guest in a format that already has them off balance, he got some relatively considered criticism considering.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
The Lydia Lunch/Exene Cervenka interview is classic.
"You don't like the past, do you Lydia?"
"Listen Nardo..."
― jim, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
i think if someone wrote a blog rant saying he wouldn't be able to put on shows again, despite turning a profit and getting a thank-you note, because the band had been mean to him about the acoustics, we'd be pissing on that person from a great height. and this is someone making that argument 20 years later.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think you're overlooking something very basic here, which is the Narduar character is supposed to be kind of obsessive and annoying. It's comedy.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
It's often more than comedy, his method can yield great interviews. Ian's not the guy to try it with though.
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
dud
― zvookster, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
i'd say it's a pretty good method on ian -- can you think of any other method that would elicit an endorsement for bananas?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
overlooking the comedy would be saying "why is this asshole talking about k-stew and junkyard?"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
and yeah, ian's mostly game for this stuff in his usual stiff way. if it wasn't for the "remember when you were mean to me in 1991?" bit i'm sure nard wouldn't have gotten the "i wish we drank tea together and spoke like adults" critique.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
nardwuar drinking tea with snoop is a good premise.sorry snoop LION.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:45 (7 months ago) Permalink
anyone watched the riff raff one yet?
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
i don't think it's any mystery why naruwar's interviews with ppl who are a part of the 80s punk scene that he was a part of have a different vibe, more adversarial vibe, than the ones he does w/rappers or newer artists...newer ppl see him as this loveable wacky guy and for the 80s ppl more accustomed to that kinda punk humor bit he plays as being sort of faux naive and dickish under the veil of being an innocent
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
Said it before but..."Nardwuar" is not a persona. He's a real person who behaves and talks like that all the time.
― everything, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 7:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how could you possibly know this unless you were around him all the time...
i mean it's like dr. sphincter type shit right?
i love nard don't get me wrong...i just think he's way better and comes off more genuine w.artists who are outside of his realm
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
and as much as i love his stuff he IS being faux naive and dickish sometimes!
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
when nardwuar was doing a radio interview with harlan ellison and he dropped some news that a colleague had died and ellison was dubious at first before having to hang up for a bit to process this, nardwuar wasn't doing a sing-songy voice, but it was still nardwuar foisting a nonstop stream of trivia at a guy. so i imagine nardwuar is never really not "on" but he dials it back maybe 20%?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 October 2012 19:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
Many people have wished that Nardwuar avoided being dickish and faux naive off air but that is often not the case.
― everything, Thursday, 4 October 2012 20:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
He is, after all, a punk at heart.
― everything, Thursday, 4 October 2012 20:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
Sean P as SEANWUAR vs. Pharoahe Monch!
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
damn, trinidad james is a nice dude!
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/cjoPAJxlkas
Totally comes off like a humble and just happy to be there type of guy.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
i like that he gives love to sparrow
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
the historic first meeting of trinidad james and macklemore
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:45 (2 months ago) Permalink
lol that was kinda lame and pointless but whatever
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:47 (2 months ago) Permalink
damn, he snuck this one in when i wasn't paying attention
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:49 (2 months ago) Permalink
wow
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:56 (2 months ago) Permalink
I bet he'll have a bunch of new ones from SXSW.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
i keep trying to get him to come to summerstage but he don't do much nyc, sadfacehe sends very friendly response emails tho
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 06:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
lol pharrell is so bad at this
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
what a herb
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
Do you guys think Nardwuar doesn't translate well to other parts of the world?
I showed someone in Los Angeles his videos and he said, "Why does he talk that way?" And had a really confused look. His shtick totally went over his head.
I knew a guy whose friend's room mate was Nardwuar. Apparently, he never got out of character. I believe that, but I've also heard people say that he does go out of character some times. The thing about this last part is that I think people mean he is just less in character, but he seems to have fully embraced it 100% of the time. If you listen to or watch him in the 80s or early 90s, you can see his persona transforming into what would now be his staple character. Just my thoughts.
And Nardwuar has some really classic moments. His knowledge on the Canadian/Vancouver punk/metal scene is incredible.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
How long did it take your persona to transform into your staple character
― how's life, Monday, 1 April 2013 20:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
these guys totally have the right spiriti had that disney albumgreat ending too
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 April 2013 20:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:49 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
FOURTY SIX MINUTES?!
― deeznuggz (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:47 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
A good twenty minutes probably consist of ?uestlove laughing/crying/being dumbfounded.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:31 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
big smile plastered on my face for basically this whole thing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:32 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
This is their second goround ain't it?
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:36 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
wow, he really fucks quest up at 32 minutes in
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:18 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Man I wanna get famous enough that Nardwuar brings me stuff.
― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 May 2013 02:10 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Well that bar isn't too high. He did recently interview Anthony Fantano.
― MarkoP, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:19 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
he kinda just needs to dig you or for you to be really famous
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:49 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
He still interviews relatively unknown local bands regularly on his radio show.
― everything, Friday, 3 May 2013 21:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
― MarkoP, Friday, May 3, 2013 10:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nooooooooooooooooooo!
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 21:33 (3 weeks ago) Permalink