― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
(also mentioned on a few dozen threads) a better freedom-from 7" is the violent ramp debut... neg.app.kill
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 7 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
is either really better than the other? (a new, new sightings lp is coming soon yes? seems like i heard something about that.)m.
― msp, Monday, 7 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
the sightings grate a little more. they're like a more go-go garage band to me... so they have their pop edge too, but the hooks are big and nasty and razor sharp. you really have to be in for a little more of a beating with their record.
and i'd be careful about the use of "grind core"... that has stylistic baggage and both s and lb step away from those elements... the double bass drum, the death growl, the heavy geetar, and the associative lineage. (iow, they play to a different crowd.)
noise.
m.
― msp, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
And as for these distros--where? how?
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
april 2003....pg 48.m.
― msp, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 7 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 7 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't se THAT MUCH of a Lightning Bolt comparison; especially in their attitudes, LB are cute n' cuddly and Sightings are just bad ass motherfuckers. They both rule of course. Also, MINDFLAYER IS TOURING SOON (leaving this week I think, if they haven't left already) so check their webpage for that--it's Brian C from tha bolt and Matt Brinkman from Forcefield and his solo projects under different names (Mystery Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, etc.) So go hit that up.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 7 April 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
hahahahhahahahahah ... their marketing division has done its job.
― mosurock (mosurock), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― snake assassin, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm looking forward to it. I want them to play Providence sometime soon, the bastards.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 18 April 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
uh, see Lightning Bolt review in May MOJO
V
― Venus Glow (1411), Friday, 18 April 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
There's a Sightings live radio set located here if anyone cares to check it out: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/4685
-Brian (who has nothing to do with the Sightings publicity machine, just a fan)
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
that sightings live set fucking KILLS.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
What's the deal with weird/super-tiny foreign labels releasing small runs of material by U.S. Bands? Like, who the hell in Belgium thought to put out a Nautical Almanac/Meerk Puffy release? I feel so out of the loop and un-hip.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
They need to play in Olneyville, goddamnit. I hear they used to play frequently at the Fort, but since I've been into them they haven't been here at all.
― Ian Johnson, Monday, 5 May 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ss, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ano ano (ano ano), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
That blows.
― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Friday, 9 May 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
we shall!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 9 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
perhaps i'll get michigan haters
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:29 (twenty years ago) link
The one track I heard from the new one seems to be headed in the same direction.
― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:36 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
If you want a taste of the more restrained Sightings, try to find an MP3 of the song "Chili Dog." It's got a weird/creepy groove to it.
― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 03:48 (twenty years ago) link
― ss, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― ss, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― ss, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― ss, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
i think i like the mindflayer record better than either, but that's probably just my lb fanboyishness coming to the fore
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 04:39 (twenty years ago) link
― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
here is a photo from the reverse angle showing the photographer of the above pictures. he's wearing the t-shirt with the camera bag.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Any good live lately?
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 1 June 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I just interviewed these guys:
http://voguingtodanzig.blogspot.com/2008/10/friday-interview-mark-morgan-richard.html#links
― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 10 October 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Good read! Thanks.
― ian, Friday, 10 October 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I must get my act together and enjoy this band more.
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 11 October 2008 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
They're a band I can't listen to any old time, but when I'm in the mood they're just devastating.
― ian, Saturday, 11 October 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
has there really been no discussion of "through the panama"?! it's like seeing someone naked for the first time. someone you have no desire to see naked, maybe, but it's... different.
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I absolutely love the way the guitar sounds on the self titled album. Alright granted, you can barely hear shit of the songs but that fucked treble skin scrape sound is RAD. Through The Panama sounds awfully murky to my ears tbh, considering its meant to be their sound in a kind of unseen clarity. i call that 'SCHHZZKKKK' is greater than 'GHHHRRRMMMP'
― siskin/skulls, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
it's weird because it's probably less disorienting to people who don't listen to sightings, but having heard all but one of their albums it's very, very disorienting to me.
michigan haters and arrived in gold are my overall faves w/r/t their sound. have you heard absolutes, cause there's some scrapin' there.
― LOUT OF ICHOR (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only heard through the panama, end times and absolutes and absolutes is my favourite of those, probably.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Although listening it to it right now with this hangover perhaps isn't the wisest.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I have not heard absolutes, although a mysterious unmarked CD-R i found inside a different box has the track 'Canadian Money' on it, which i understand comes from that album? You might be right about the scrapin' because it fukken rages! Aufgehoben are a group that are doing it for me atm re: scrapes. oh god they are so awesome. Actually, i'll spell it 'skrapes' in the interest of distinction.xxposts
― siskin/skulls, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Canadian money is track 5 on absolutes, yeah.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
damn that new track is good. it's like a hi-fi take on dead c
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Where is it from? Sounds like a very good thing.
― grandavis, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
new album out later this year. sneak peak here, kudos whiney
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Sightings interview with Kid Millions on the Brah Records site
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, here it is
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
like that new song
― El GarBage (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hey, thanks a bunch. Wish more bands were like this.
― grandavis, Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 this band
― united arab amirites (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
like, the better and crazier this band gets the less people pay attention. or am i just imagining that?
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, it's a bummer. They deserve some righteous enthusiasm fer sure. Definitely gonna buy the new one when it comes out. This new track is very cool, really like the progression of it. Sound is great on it too, love the way the percussive attack shifts throughout the song. Great interview with Kid, too. Love those interviews on the Brah site.
― grandavis, Friday, 12 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just listening to "Michigan Haters" a few days ago and wondering what they were up to these days. Ask and ye shall receive.
― Robert Necrofrost, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
don't stopmake it popsightings blow my speakers up
― tramp steamer, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Last night I was we were having a conversation about these guys. They are totally a "musician's band." Like, for the most part, their only fans are other bands, it seems. I had an opportunity to set up a show for them in town on this next go round, but none of the clubs will touch it (shitty clubs in this town, tbh) and I don't think that the DIY spaces are equipped for their technical necessities. I certainly couldn't engineer their set.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
But hearing this new stuff is making me wish I'd put in some extra effort.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys rule live and I've seen them a couple times now but I've never checked out a record. pretty dumb.
― original bgm, Friday, 12 February 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
4/16 Providence, RI ASS200
lol
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 12 February 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
New sightings is on Jagjaguwar?! Whoa.
― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, Brah. They did it at the Ocropolis.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i've only heard 'Tar and Pine' from the new one, but i've had it playing on loop on several occasions since I downloaded it. awesome groove.
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
leaked ya'll
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 12 March 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit "sky above mud below"
i don't think i've been this excited since the last track on "arrived in gold."
― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i listened to this album the other day while watching a dozen police break some dude out of his car then arrest him in the middle of the street-it was awesome!
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is brilliant, i'm really starting to crack into it. these must be the most gorgeous guitar tones in noise rock ever, some moments where he's just peeling off layer after layer AAAAAHHHHHHHH. plus it's really groovy, they're so in control of every throb and pulse.
i saw them live last monday and this is probably the uncoolest opinion but it was maybe too much of a mindfuck? i like how even in the depth of freakout they're weirdly contiguous, the bass is kind of tucked away on the record, it's there but just sort of rumbling away weirdly locked in with the drums. anyways the live mix had the bass loud as fuck and at some points i just felt like i was watching three people play three different songs at the same time and i think i busted my brain trying to make sense of it all.
― imma sb (samosa gibreel), Monday, 26 April 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the world would be a nicer place if a yamatsuka eye remix of "sky above mud below" existed
― original bgm, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/sightings_new_album_qa.phpThey're BAAAACK
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I loved the last record. "sky above mud below" was so fucking good that I return to it the most, I hope they included a similarly triumphant rager like it somewhere on the new one.
― grandavis, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
sightings rules.i wish i still had all my sightings records :(
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Cause I am listening to it RIGHT NOW I must once again say: "Sky Above Mud Below" is the damn best. It is like an anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wR7Yo45pzI
― grandavis, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Final record coming out on Dais soon. Damn good song from it, but at this point they are all golden:
https://soundcloud.com/daisrecords/sightings-1982
Anyone heard Silk Purse? Curious as to how far it deviates from Sightings since both Mark and Richard are in the fold.
― grandavis, Thursday, 21 May 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
Everybody in this band is a damn champ on their instrument. What a great group sound.
― grandavis, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Full album available for streaming! Have at it: http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/04/noise-rock-greats-sightings-go-down-swinging-on-their-final-album-stream-amusers-and-puzzlers/
― grandavis, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
This is great.
― grandavis, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
Also, "Syllabus of Errors" is a fantastic name for a song by Sightings. Going out in primo fashion.
― grandavis, Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
wait what, they split up?
― sonz of a croup da croupier (NickB), Friday, 5 June 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link