I like Hersh solo better than most Throwing Muses, but these have a lot of energy.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:59 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:12 (9 years ago) Permalink
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:13 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:30 (9 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:25 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:33 (9 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:38 (9 years ago) Permalink
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:42 (9 years ago) Permalink
I heard 50 Ft. Wave were not as good live, but maybe the album will surprise?
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:47 (9 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:55 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:29 (9 years ago) Permalink
You should give Kristin solo a try, Scott. Sunny Border Blue is such a great album.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:50 (9 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:08 (9 years ago) Permalink
things bode well for the new band.
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:15 (9 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:27 (9 years ago) Permalink
Sounds really tight. Even more power-trio-ish than the last Muses rekkid! 6 songs in this vein one after t'other seems plenty tho'.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:47 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:19 (9 years ago) Permalink
I hate to say it but I didn't really expect to become interested in her work again. It's been awhile. Have to check out that reunion album. I didn't even know about it.
I used to have a set list on my wall for years of the Muses, signed by all 4 members before Leslie left the band. It got destroyed through no fault of my own. :( Good god in those days they were playing with The Pixies and no one knew who the hell the Pixies were...seems like a fairytale in hindsight rather than reality.
― bimble (bimble), Sunday, 18 April 2004 04:55 (9 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:41 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:42 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:45 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:46 (8 years ago) Permalink
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:55 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:09 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:10 (8 years ago) Permalink
& I totally get the grunge voibe (esp. w/ the wah-wah in full effect). But calling KH & Zee Wave FOXCORE, to me, is like calling The Ramones MALL PUNK. Ah, semantics schemantics - the album kicks ass, QED.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:20 (8 years ago) Permalink
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:23 (8 years ago) Permalink
This thread may be the impetus I need to finally just get that last Muses record...
What's David N doing these days??
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:35 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:06 (8 years ago) Permalink
― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:06 (8 years ago) Permalink
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
Apparently they've been remastered with (at least for Clara Bow) new bass parts.
Going to the Sheffield show tonight (Mon). Permanent hearing loss is eagerly anticipated. Though I'm disappointed by the lack of publicity for this tour - somebody posted on the throwingmusic board that the Liverpool show was practically deserted.
I played Golden Ocean to my boss at work last week, casually mentioned the Sheffield show, and he immediately ordered me to use the company credit card to buy tickets for everyone in the office. Further evidence of the awesomeness of Kristin's powers.
― chris j (chris j), Monday, 18 April 2005 00:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:52 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:25 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 May 2005 00:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
It's way better than those chunks of dung.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:14 (8 years ago) Permalink
Slut-kiss girls won’t you promise her smackIs she pretty on the insideIs she pretty from the backSlut-kiss girl won’t you water her backIs she pretty on the insideBaby pretty from the backSlut-kiss girl we’ll have some rot black strapIs she ugly on the insideBaby ugly ugly from the backMy pretty power my pretty powerMy pretty power my uglySlut-kiss girls won’t you promise her smackIs she pretty on the insideIs she ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly
Bad boyRows and rows of angel hairAnd ice cream pencils baby do they careAnd fibre yah glass where is she powered that wayBlues and shoes but this isn’t uglyYah where is it a marriage in a wheelWill to calls that wayBut now they only block the sunThey rain and snow on everyone so so many thingsWow hey I made it downI I i I made it mosh in everyone acid hairAcid stars you’re getting thereIs she high that wayBut now it’s just another showYour living life as ready goIt’s all it’s all a doll no a dollGive me a shelf of a whoreYah now my friends are ugly strangeThey shake their heads manThey gave us a trap wellWe’ll send this love asRearrange of who ofBaby I lie with pictures nowFrom riddle love and streets of goldHe says he reach of a candy heart ofI really love it I really don’t knowI really don’t know I really don’t knowI really don’t know like I used to liveYah berry parts and I wow what was it
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
Mmmm, NOPE. (But Golden Ocean is awesome awesome awesome.)
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:37 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:39 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:02 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:04 (8 years ago) Permalink
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
Friday, June 10th7th St. Entry
50 Foot WaveMaps of Norway (my band)The Slats
10 adv/12 doorDoors open 8pm, we probably won't go on until around 11 or so, maybe a little before...
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:16 (8 years ago) Permalink
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:46 (8 years ago) Permalink
local promotions for stuff kind of sucks, I didn't even know the show was happening until that day and I couldn't make it. blah.
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:26 (8 years ago) Permalink
apparently there's a new kristin solo album out in january!
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 19 November 2006 07:56 (6 years ago) Permalink
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:25 (6 years ago) Permalink
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:27 (6 years ago) Permalink
It's called "Learn To Sing Like A Star." Cute song title: "Christian Hearse" (actually a short interlude of her son playing guitar or something like that).
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:55 (6 years ago) Permalink
the grotto has become one of my favourites. i've been playing a lot of the songs myself on my electric w/ distortion and tremolo which makes them sound wonderfully spooky. they're incredible songs for pacing and dynamics, esp. 'deep wilson'
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:11 (6 years ago) Permalink
― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:50 (6 years ago) Permalink
Here's a picture I took of KH outside the ICA 13 years ago (at the 13-Year Itch show! Blimey - another decade and a third just went by) - just after she'd dyed her hair for the first time.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:57 (6 years ago) Permalink
― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 23:02 (6 years ago) Permalink
in-studio with new songs
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:03 (6 years ago) Permalink
i interviewed kristin over the phone a few days ago. she's easily, i mean like far and away, the nicest, funniest and most instantly likeable famous person i have ever encountered. which makes it all the better when you see her walk onstage and start screaming like she's possessed. -- J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, September 4, 2006 7:21 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link
i love that. why is she the nicest ever?
i'm just now listening to 50 Foot Wave, and loving it. I'm not surprised, really, but it's always amazing how much she puts out.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:13 (6 years ago) Permalink
the songs on this are off the hook, but i keep wondering why the vocals aren't louder - i know sometimes she does that, but on this first listen i'm really wishing i could hear some of the words better.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:16 (6 years ago) Permalink
Kristin's son Dylan finally has a band of his own, too.
!??!!? OK Liz Fraser's daughter singing with Mahogany, and now this. Grumble. Olllld.
― Trayce, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:54 (6 years ago) Permalink
everything this band has ever done is now available for free at http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/ including a pretty spectacular new ep called power+light. /streetteam
― joe, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apparently not free anymore. A shame that you have to go through this to get the new stuff. When our inevitable 00s poll comes around, I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
what? it's all still there, just click "free music" at the address upthread. or if you just want power + light, right click "mp3".
― joe, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Apparently everything she does is released under a Creative Commons licence these days, downloadable in 128kbp mp3, 256 kbp mp3 or FLAC, with cover and (!!) mix parts, one's work on which can be uploaded to the so-called "rw" (read/write) section... songs for next album made available as they are recorded etc -- this is a pretty awesome way of doing stuff I think!
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh jeez, the night I was so drunk I couldn't download free music.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol the beautiful struggle
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.
yeah, fuckin fantastic record that
― (I don't crap in public toilets) (stevie), Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
She's good value on Twitter btw. One of the few musicians worth following.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
She's the only "celeb" I follow thesedays. And you, obv, Dorian.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 17 December 2009 14:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
golden Ocean is just like, really good and straightforward. kinda wish the vocals were mixed higher.
her twitter! i need to get on this
― Do you love me now? (surm), Thursday, 17 December 2009 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, her Twitter is awesome. She's DMed me a few times in response to things I've written to her, so assuming I'm not special, she's good about the interaction and not just posting to hear herself talk.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
My personal assesment of Golden Ocean is that it is what Nevermind wished it was.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Or what I wished Nevermind was.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
So I have the very first self-titled EP, which is great, and I sold "Golden Ocean" as it just didn't measure up to the EP. Is there any other 50 Ft Wave material I should consider?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
The hell you say Golden Ocean doesn't measure up! Anyway, uh last year I guess they put out Power + Light, which is pretty interesting, but I won't guarantee you'd like it just because you like the older stuff. It's sort of um, Jane's Addiction-influenced or something?
― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 July 2010 18:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Anyone read "Paradoxical Undressing"?
Is there much about mental health/schizophrenia in there?
― djh, Sunday, 16 January 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ordered it from Amazon UK, but it hasn't arrived yet. Intentionally avoided reading anything about it. Want to find out myself. Her writing online and in the "Crooked" book was really good though... I have high hopes.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 16 January 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Love this interview -- particularly the part about when 50FW opened for the Muses and how it's totally cool with her that the respective fans could be different sets of persons. Reminded me of a thing I then had to google up from her website:
Wicked, I thought. I never know what people want to hear. Some seem to only like old Throwing Muses songs, some only like the most recent release, some people only like Sunny Border Blue, some people want unreleased material, some like me to scream real loud, some like me to whisper, some just like Your Ghost over and over and over again.
And she's OK with people only wanting "Your Ghost" over and over and over again. I love that.
Now, if someone only wants to hear "Dizzy"... ;)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 April 2011 02:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
and btw very annoying that there is not a youtube of "Fish", which afaik was on a commercially released videotape ffs, on youtube without it being muffled, distorted, or unsynched+supertitled... :/
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 April 2011 02:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 9 April 2011 05:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Anybody sen her on tour for Rat Girl? I'm going tomorrow (well, later tonight). Read that she does music as well as reads. And I have a few extra tickets, if anyone's in the LA area.
― nickn, Saturday, 9 April 2011 08:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
saw her do readings with giant sand making soundtracky noise behind her in london last year, it was remarkable. interviewed her in january for a magazine that might not be coming out now, as ever she was wonderful, funny, moving, etc... she just rules, doesn't she?
― Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus (stevie), Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Always a good idea to check out the website every once-in-a-while to see what's new for public consumption.
http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
So obviously there are like 50 years worth of other bands and songs that could have done this for me, but listening to Power + Light pretty much nonstop over the last few weeks just inspired me to my first fuzzbox purchase.
― beachville, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
nice. wat fuzz u get for ur fuzzin' needs?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just a Little Big Muff. I'm on a pretty tight budget these days. But the fields of fuzz from this album are just impossible to resist and I want to play in them too.
― beachville, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
lbm is a great muff imo. some will say otherwise but it's kept a few pricier boutique muffs off my board. between the tone and sustain knobs there are a lot of great and classic sounds in there. smooth sustainy gilmour lead fuzz, massive wall of pumpkins fuzz, trashy dime store black keys fuzz etc.
there are a few distinct flavors of fuzz and iirc kh used a roland bee-ba a lot on that record. discontinued now and hard to find but if you want to explore more fuzz flavors there are now several good versions available from independent builders.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
According to the guy who recorded them, she primarily used a Quadrafuzz, which is a build-your-own kinda thing.
http://www.kristinhersh.com/forum/topic/just-a-gear-question-for-k
― beachville, Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
whoa. nice. that microsynth has some crazy stuff in it too.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha, cute. is there a duet album in the works? Throwing Francis
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
lord almighty this woman can howl. "a rushing" has been killin" it for me.
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 10:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
So, this happensNo it doesn'tYeah, this happensWell it shouldn't
― how's life, Friday, 21 December 2012 11:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
Here comes the thunderThere goes the rain
― how's life, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:49 (2 months ago) Permalink
where is this new muses album that's been done for ages?
― akm, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
if by "ages" you mean "a couple of months"? but anyway it's being released with an accompanying book (like Crooked) so there's that to get done. official word is late summer:
http://www.kristinhersh.com/forums/topic/new-muses-album-release-date/
― katherine, Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:18 (2 months ago) Permalink
specifically: "Two conversations yesterday with Harper Collins in London and NYC and we’re looking at Aug 22, right now. This date could change a bit, but not too much."
― katherine, Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:19 (2 months ago) Permalink
does it really have 32 songs on it?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 23 March 2013 01:24 (2 months ago) Permalink