We just put the new Aislers Set record on in the office

Hair is creepy.

Honestly it is very creepy.

Covering Manchester, England, how?

"Manchester, Enland" is a song from Hair. "covering" a song means performing a new rendition of it.

I think added volume would only cloud things up more..

oh arthur! have you heard the hidden cameras yet? It's definitely made for you (though you might not like it)

I know nothing about Hair the Musical. That reaction was my six year old self reaction at seeing it on the television for the first time. : - P And I don't want to know anything about it. So I am delighted at that. But hey, it haunts me by mean-spirited friends(I have been force fed Hair the Musical by two friends over a summer. I was given the photo-novel on a birthday. Make fun of me if you will be I despise Hair. It just plain creeps me out.)

Hmmm. Phil Spectorish? Does it sound lush ala I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine? Or tinny (Patented Indie Take On Spector)? (Honest question)

if anything its lush, but not **LUSSSHHH**

over-reverbed vocals (good thing), sparse instrumentation, kind of an "indefinite" sound for most of it, nothing really sharp-edged in the music.

but yeah, Phil Spector wouldn't even shoot anything this sparse...

you know that thing in the liner notes to the best of leonard cohen where he says "I went to a Socialist summer camp where I developed the curious belief that the Nazis were defeated by music"?

they sound like that (but with boys making out in the bunks).

I have just heard this record for the first time, and I think I agree with Nabisco, exactly 5 years ago.

The harmonies and multiple vocals that climax the first two tracks are stunning.

i wish they'd do another record to make up for the last one being not as great as the first two

maybe - but I think the last one might be pretty good. when is Nabisco going to come back, 5 years on, and tell us what happened? remember, he was

[hoping one of two things will happen: either this is the slight misstep that will be followed by her actually nailing this new sound (on what could be record-of-the-year material), or I'll be listening to this one a few weeks from now and it'll click into my head as the brilliant thing it really should be.]

i loved the last one.

so is this true what someone wrote on the end of the aislers thread?

The Aislers Set - C/D?

maybe i shouldn't care. i think those kinds of things are interesting though.

keyth isn't a leg puller or at least that i've noticed so it's probably true

I remember Linton posted a MySpace bulletin looking for transgender friendly apartment buildings in New York about a year or so ago, so I guess that would be why.

"Emotional Levy" is still pretty outstanding.

yes, I heard that rumour, or story, about 3 years ago; didn't really understand what was meant; probably still don't.

I think 'Emotional Levy' builds to a stunning finale, though the rest of the track isn't in the same class.

I am told the Aislers Set are not "forgotten no-names". Oh well. I still like a single by them okay:

http://idolator.com/374158/cartoonists-with-theramins-teenage-symphonies-bawdy-brits-and-simpsons-scratching

... crikey, what is the point of that page? it might as well be by DJ Martian.

from the Aislers Set's official site:

06.06.06

Linton is playing some Aislers songs (acoustic) at Northsix in Williamsburg, Saturday June 10th, as part of a benefit show for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an amazing collective, not for profit organisation that provides free legal services for low-income, transgender people of color. Visit: www.srlp.org

This show is an after party for the screening of "Cruel and Unusual." Linton wrote the music for this important new movie about the struggles trans people face in the criminal injustice system. Friday June 9, 6PM at the New Festival in NYC. For tickets, go to www.newfest.org.

Where can a Dastard get his hands on this (nearly year-and-a-half-old) soundtrack?

clever wording, cheers.

you're right, that soundtrack might indeed be worth hearing.

still waiting for Nabisco.

He won't come.

He might come tomorrow.

Let's go.

We can't.

Why not?

We're waiting for Nabisco.

my pocket book is empty
and my heart is filled with pain (oh!)
I'm a thousand miles away from home
just waiting for nabisco