Am I alone in liking Seam, I ask myself

I've always liked their records when I hear them, but don't actually own any. I really dug Headsparks when it came out.

Ha - I just thought of something. I have this friend here who is a total hip-hip head; that comprises the majority of his listening, and he is an aspiring MC himself. But he really, really loves three rock bands (and these are seemingly the ONLY three): The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, and Seam!

I still like the later albums, but (at the risk of sounding rockist) they don't have quite the edge of The Problem With Me.

(PS Ott -- I don't live far from you.)

Check Broheems' link, Anthony -- that situation's a touch different now, but he and the band still get along.

mac maccaughan was the best drummer they had (yes, better than jon mcentire)... in fact, mac is one of my favorite drummer of all time. (there needs to be a portastatic thread considering the last 3 portastatic releases are totally underrated and need to be heard).

search headsparks, and the days of thunder, granny 9x, and kernel singles/eps.

"atari" is my favorite seam song but like hstencil, i think hearing bitch magnet first and being pretty influential in the shaping of my tastes ranks them higher in my book.

Someone explain this.

i hadn't really thought about them in ages, despite this importance. they're a bit like a dear old friend to me---nice to see in passing, but not something i pull out everyday. they played with Aden awhile ago here, which i think is mentioned in someone else's post above---'swhy i was thinking of them again, cos we had a discussion about this show at work. XD

when i was 17 or 18 i wrote soo young park a letter... my very first letter to a musician. he was sooooooo nice and he replied like 4 pages typed to my 1 page letter handwritten. we wrote back and forth for a couple years. i saw him in san diego but i was too shy to say anything back then. then he moved to SF a couple years ago and i'd see him around and i was still too shy to say anything.

now he moved away... but i still listen to headsparks all the time.

Been listening to The Problem With Me at work today, and it still sounds incredible. The end of Rafael where it just *explodes*! The same trick being pulled at the end of Bunch! The e-bow on Sweet Pea!

Am I alone in really loving The Pace Is Glacial too, I ask myself? It feels like a lot of Seam fans were underwhelmed by it, but it's almost my favourite by them...

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Doing it for me bitch. Magnet

Just played 'Intifada Driving school' for the first time in years - to celebrate something. A victory.
3-0 .

99pence

I had no idea that they made any videos, but here's a couple:

Berlitz
Bunch

A bit LOL 90s in execution, but great to see Sooyoung and the band in action.

i remember seeing the bunch video on aussie tv at the time. was surprised as 'kernel' was the single here..

seam fans may dig the (as far as i know) otherwise unavailable b-side 'feather' from the aussie 45 that i will share here shortly..

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/5/7/0/570a4a10ae6d5f3342c5b0b9e8a50e56.jpg

I don't understand why I don't remember ever seeing their videos on 120 Minutes.

I smelled something burning at work today, like a match smell. So I thought hey..."Something's Burning"...put it on my iPod and god it blew my mind.

Shake out the sheets
Throw my things out/out the window
I wasn't down/with this/
I wasn't prepared for you..."

Decent quality video for "Hey Latasha" from Yahoo music:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2023844/v2147010

^ bump

great, great, band

I hate running into Bimble threads, but yeah, he was right. Tuff Luck: my favorite song of theirs.

I love Seam. There's that immigration song on "The Pace is Glacial" (underrated album, awesome album cover too!) that's awesome (for being the only song I can think of that name drops San Ysidro)

Randomly met Sooyoung after a Mogwai show in SF a few years back. Ended the night drunk as a skunk at a karaoke bar with him and his buddies. Good times.

Reviving to request recommendations, since I refuse to believe that there are no other bands that play Seam's particular brand of moody, melodic college rock. (Also, please give recommendations if I liked the original "Driving the Dynamite Truck".) Thx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqO4sopU8u8

off topic question: was "gygax!" a girl? quick scan of this thread i'm thinking yes.

uh

yes gygax! was indeed a girl but a hella busted lookin one, sarahel much better looking probably

Gygax! is one of the most consistently enjoyable math rock records of the mid-'90s.

off topic question: was "gygax!" a girl? quick scan of this thread i'm thinking yes.

You know, it's been a million years, but I have this memory that the band Nord Express might be in this vein. I recall buying their CD because it said, "Produced by Archie Moore of Velocity Girl" on a sticker on the front, which is kind of funny to think about now. Archie Moore, Starmaker! Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/14

back in the day i thought nord express were a bit shit but they sound not half bad to me now

Help me out guys, the song "Shame" that Seam covered on two occasions (once fast with Sarah from Velocity Girl on vox, the second time slow on Kernel EP)...

The credits say written by Mark Saltzman, (c)&(p) 1987. Knowing Soo Young's penchant for covering semi-obscure post-punk bands, this one slipped past me.

Any idea who originally performed it?

nfi but a dude with that name used to write for sesame st among other things, dunno if it's the same guy

Am I alone in liking Salem, I ask myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zQ_sf6BMg

Yay new Sooyoung Park band

http://realboredspies.bandcamp.com/

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― mookieproof, Sunday, June 3, 2007 2:42 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey, look at who got numero group'd

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/sooyoung-park-album-list

i just learned from that that Versus are still active? where have I been?

shake out the sheets

also happy 30th to the problem with me <3

i'd forgotten that this came out on my birthday

i listened to the problem with me every day for a year when it came out. very significant to young me. gonna have to give it a spin this evening

"Road To Madrid" was a Kernel EP **OUTTAKE** which blows me away. I wonder if SYK thought it was too good for the EP so he shelved it for the next album? Unreal what a groove they were in for a couple years.