US Maple - Acre Thrills: eagle, birdy, par, bogey, or double-bogey?

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How does this album rate in the scheme of us maple albums?

― rvssingnon, Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Big fat number one in my books.

Sometimes Talker and Sang Phat Editor come close, but "Open A Rose" seals the deal and puts Acre Thrills on top.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link

talker and acre thrills have frequent arguments in my head...

acre thrills actually has "songs" with "parts" where they play "together"...that really felt like a big deal when i first heard it.

― bobby.lasers, Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"acre thrills" is an excellent record, up there w/ "talker" as one of their best

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

eagle!

acre thrills, sang phat, and talker are a three way tie for first. long hair a close second. still haven't heard purple on time.

US Maple is pretty much a flawless band.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"purple on time" is great, get it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

acre thrills, sang phat, and talker are a three way tie for first.

I agree with this. I would choose purple on time. before long hair...

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Maple=best band of the last decade or so?

one could make the argument, IMO.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I would say so.

― Palpatean Mists, Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

definitely up there for me, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

US Maple for me as well, is easily the best/most important band of the past ten yrs, (of course M@tt already knew I would say that)

"Purple On Time" I have tried to get into several times, there are some good songs, but overall that record doesn't do as much for me. However, the live vers of the songs are great...

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Are they done or what?

― rssl, Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

A friend of theirs told me that they've got a 6th album recorded, but that Drag City might not be putting it out.
Also, they've barely toured in the past year, and I hear Todd has been playing guitar in Cheer Accident, so...

― Mike dx, Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, and by the way, I rank their albums thus:
1. Talker
2. Purple on Time
3. Acre Thrills
4. Sang Phat Editor
5. Long Hair...

― Mike dx, Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess I sort of like listening to Acre Thrills more often, but Talker seems like the "quintessential" Maple record in a lot of ways.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

haven't heard their recent releases but used to listen and had the pleasure of seeing them in a tiny midwestern bar in 98 or 99. the show was sick sick sick in the most beautiful way. probably one of the last guitar-based bands i saw that i actually loved and admired. at the end of one song the singer just stood at the edge of the stage striking different poses in the spotlight for MINUTES ON END - seriously, for a significant amount of time - enough that people in the bar got really creeped out, were physically uncomfortable. i was chuckling with delight at this 'performance' of course. my impressioni was, very confrontational and totally committed to their music in a most inspiring way

― Tate (Tate), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I have the brushed aluminum version of "Long Hair"

this thread seems like the only place where I could say that & have anybody know what I'm talking about so umm there y'go

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 9 December 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link

very confrontational and totally committed to their music in a most inspiring way

Maple could really piss people off in a profound way....

I have the brushed aluminum version of "Long Hair"

sweet!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I have the brushed aluminum version of "Long Hair"

i hate you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

EAGLE, second to purple on time's ALBATROSS

― 6335, Friday, 9 December 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

golf terminologies not embraced by ILM community, bloggers. more at 10

― 6335, Friday, 9 December 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Acre Thrills is undoubtedly number two with a bullet. I had no idea that Talker was so widely proclaimed to be their best, but I most definitely agree.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate you

here, let me make it worse: I got it for free when I worked at Touch & Go

(ok actually now that I think of it we may have had to pay for that one)

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ah fuck, man, mr. banana, you're getting me down. i've only even seen it once, and it was $50 at reckless, sometime in like 1997 or something.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i bet it still sounds the same, regardless.

― rssl, Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

So...any news on the supposedly recorded but not yet released 6th album. Lately (like the last year or so) I find myself unable to discover anything by any artist that really delivers like Talker and Acre Thrills.

Kept thinking - before it came out - that Purple On Time would be their "Evol" and breakthrough, but after months and months of trying, I can't hear it as anything but 3-4 great songs (esp. Tan Loves Blue) attached to some semi-interesting filler. Like many, I blame the drummer, possibly incorrectly. Always hated Steve Shelley too, but it took him three albums to really ruin Sonic Youth.

(Incidentally, emusic has a post-POT live album, but it's kind of meh.)

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link

remember last april when we saw US maple? the singer showed the fireside exactly how i feel

― hmm, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

So...any news on the supposedly recorded but not yet released 6th album.
No. Actually, I don't know if my friend knew what he was talking about. I think he may've meant to say that they could make a new album, that they have the material, but that reality being what it is, they're not inclined to do it for a while. I do know this for sure: Al is now a dad and has moved to Iowa, Todd is in Cheer Accident, and US Maple, though not actually "broken up", would only continue as an album making / rarely performing - type band.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

i really really miss us maple :(

― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 22 November 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link

i had a dream last nite where i was gonna give this album to thurston moore, to show him actually interesting guitar rock. in order to curb his hackneyed-ass trajectory. he was like, in town, riding bicycles around with my parents.

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link

caused by hearing "the best day" in a tobacco shop last night, on the local radio. and google image searching the cover for acre thrills right before bed

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 22 November 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link

Unfortunately they seem a case of an act quietly coming to end of a natural life (for the members I suppose at least)

― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link

what?

― mattresslessness, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link

― mattresslessness, Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link

vg+

― massaman gai, Monday, 24 November 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link

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