My Favorite: Your Favorite?

The only problem with the above: they seem too genuinely talented to spend so much time modeling themselves after another period. Couldn't that talent translate into something new?

(Is _The Last New Wave Record_ their first EP or single or some such thing?)

The Last New Wave Record was their first EP, if I'm remembering correctly -- I think most of it wound up on Love at Absolute Zero.

One note: the samples I've heard of their forthcoming CD seem less overtly retro than before. Hopefully the trend will continue with the third EP in the series, and their next record will blow my mind in some new fashion.

i am a huge my favorite fan, & have been since i first heard 'the informers' in 1997 -- to me they are very quintessentially suburban, not only in their lyrics but in their music -- there is a radio station on long island called wlir (later wdre) that was really the only bit of long-island generated culture in the vast shadow of new york city, and it specialized in new wave -- to me my favorite's recontextualization of the new wave sound is in part because they are staking a claim as being of and by long island's ignored suburbs (new york city didn't have a station that fit the wlir/dre format, really), asserting themselves through both sound and lyric as people who had dreams of transcending their surroundings that didn't necessarily involve hopping on the LIRR.

I only just got that Grace Under Pressure was punning on Michael Grace's name.

I wondered about whether it was a pun!

love this band

michael grace (giacalone) once interviewed me about my old band for the LONG ISLAND VOICE newsrag

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XWyzyLF87QA

Andrea Vaughn w/ Rose Melberg, from last year -- is she working on any musical projects at all these days? It seems like she's just quit as a singer entirely.

I have M. Grace's "business card" somewhere on my desk -- it's an old French vocab flash card with his info written in pen on the back.

(P.S.: When did Rose Melberg get all skinny??)

Funny, I just wrote up a thing on the new San Serac album, saying how much it reminded me of My Favorite.

Michael Grace has a new band called The Secret History that have played a few shows in nyc. I think they have a Myspace too.

so happy for rose. she's looking so much healthier. don't get me wrong though, those words and that voice of hers, ::sigh::.

anyway. love "burning hearts" and really like a few others by my favorite, but, ummm, the rest. . . ya know. :/

oh, and hey, nabisco, there are cool dvd bootlegs of that show floating around. . .

just put on their first album again--

wowowowoowowowowonderful

weird, i just discovered this band on nonstep radio. they're really, really good.

The first few comments on this thread I still find very OTM.

anyone else heard the secret history? the songwriting is very recognisable as grace, though the sound is cleaner and a lot less new wavey. the vocals aren't anywhere as nice as MF which is a bit of a disappointment, but not bad overall

I thought this was going to be a thread on Kant's aesthetics. :/

uh huh

So The Secret History album came out today, and even though half of the songs are holdover tracks from the My Favorite days (tracks I can still hum in my head at a moment's notice), I don't know if I will check it out based upon the material they've released/put online. Which is perplexing me because I was huge My Favorite fan, and TSH is pretty much MF with a new (more generic?) female vocalist.

new secret history album is threatening to hit some of the heights my favorite hit seemingly so effortlessly

I'm sure that sentence needs more commas. I've read it five times now.

,,,

I ended up warming up to the first Secret History album a lot, even if I couldn't get used to some of the songs not being sung by Andrea. Will have to check out this new one.

Never listened to Secret History before this thread revive but I agree that the departure of Andrea takes some getting used to. To me it sounds like Echobelly, whom I actually like, but don't need a band that sounds like them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1TjuaF7Dd4

So, The Secret History is now on hiatus, and it looks like there will be a re-issue of "Love At Absolute Zero" coming later this year, plus a new Andrea-less incarnation of My Favorite, according to Michael Grace's new tumblr: http://myfavoriteforever.tumblr.com/

Also, Andrea is now in a French-based group called Bagatelle:
http://lanageuserecords.bandcamp.com/album/rendez-vous-transatlantique-ep

I was an architect
She was an actress

You drew the Eiffel Tower upon her dress?

So we could see the world

Any more news of this band?

See they put out a single a few months ago, "Christine Zero" b/w "Killed For Kicks"

http://deathpartyrecords.bigcartel.com/product/dpr-100-my-favorite-christine-zero-7

Seems to be a Prefab Sprout element in the mix.

Andrea, Darren, and Todd (3/5 of the classic My Favorite lineup) are now in a band called The Chandler Estate, and they quietly dropped an EP last year. it's a little odd that Andrea isn't a part of the revamped My Favorite lineup (while Todd is a member of both), but I guess that's none of my business...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ6HYtKL8o

I was just listening to The Secret History yesterday after reading some article about Glenn Gregory doing a Bowie tribute where Lisa Ronson was doing backup vocals. I was a big fan of My Favorite a few years ago, so to see this thread being bumped now is perfect. Had no clue that they were back (minus Andrea), and will definitely check out The Chandler Estate.

Michael is really good on social media.

Weird that the phrase "the Chandler Estate" is in the lyrics of "Christine Zero."

This weekend I've finally been listening to more of The Secret History and warming up to them since they are on this quarantine playlist Michael just made: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5A9Scdgvg5ImPLSbSeNvR3?si=VU8Mc3uJTtaLwNuwLwjxKQ

And in fact The Secret History was number four on my algorithm rundown for this year.

New song!
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/my-favorite-return-with-first-new-music-in-six-years-deans-7th-dream/

One listen in it certain sounds like them, not sure whether it will stand on its own or just remind me of his earlier work, but it does have Captain Kirk on it so that's something.

Background vocals lifted from "The Boxer"!

How have I never heard of this band in the last 20 years? (rhetorical question, don't answer.) Listening to the first album right now. It's not earthshattering but it's really, really fun.

They never got that big, but for those inclined to like what they do, they are really, really good at it.

In the early 80s I was more into The Replacements or Pylon or whatever and kind of looked down my nose at the sort of fey British pop my roommate liked, but 40 years on this kind of sound really touches a nostalgic chord. And yes, they're great at it, their pastiche is spot on.

The other thread, in case we never linked: My Favorite: C or D?