― ath (ath), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Guymauve (Guymauve), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link
also, still the only song that I can really remember from that album ... but it's totally stuck with me for about 15 years now so I guess that says something.. it's that wonderful "oooh la la la" chorus.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I realise that I should justify this with some wordy references or something, but I can't
Good Tune and I know there are more . Thanks for reminding me to dig back in to my dusty Clean vaults
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― youn (youn), Thursday, 29 June 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Thursday, 29 June 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 29 June 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― askance johnson (sdownes), Saturday, 12 August 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Good lord, people, how can you overlook his Great Unwashed brilliance of "Neck Of The Woods" and "Can't Find Water"??
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 15 August 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
how indeed
― ambience chaser (S-), Saturday, 15 August 2009 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
'yesterday was' is my fave GU moment
― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Saturday, 15 August 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i really like "uplift" which was on the "12 hours fast" compilation. a bath in shimmering psychedelic pop. the title does not deceive. and the aforementioned "you forget", a pop gem which is on that new zealand comp as well.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 15 August 2009 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Here come the Cars was one of my favorite albums in high school and It's still Classic. Also 'This Chord' from the Killing Capitalism with Kindness is beautiful.
― Jacob Sanders, Saturday, 15 August 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I think "Can't Find Water" was actually written/sung by peter gutteridge. Still awesome though.
He seems to have moved away from producing really poppy songs in the last decade or so. Late 80s-Early 90s DK put out brilliant pop song after brilliant pop song though. And he still has some great ones scattered throughout, like "Today is Gonna be Mine."
Has anybody Heard this "Falling Debris" album?
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 15 August 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't listened to him in years, are his recent albums on Merge records worth finding?
― Jacob Sanders, Saturday, 15 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
no. he's mucked everything up. it seemed as if with here come the cars, sugar mouth, modern rock, he was evolving into this stately pop songwriter but then he took a turn into murkiness where the songs sound terrible and are mostly dull and uninteresting. the upcoming clean album is an absolute chore to listen to.
― keythkeythkeyth, Saturday, 15 August 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, disagree. For me, "Here Come The Cars" and "Sugarmouth" are a mixed bag whereas "David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights" is 10/10 fantastic, not the least because of Barbara Manning's guest appearance, heavy indeed for overall tone with some drawn-out jams that really draw me in. "A Feather In The Engine" & "Frozen Orange" are admittedly growers but they've sprouted nicely over the years. "The Far Now" is great pop start to finish, nothing less.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I also disagree. "The Far Now" and "A Feather in the Engine" are both great, just a lot more laid back and subtle than some of his earlier stuff. Never got into "Frozen Orange" for some reason. Also, his live was mind-blowing when I saw him a couple years ago.
I will admit that what I've heard of the new Clean album hasn't exactly floored me.
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 15 August 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, he is awesome awesome awesome live. Kilgour might be my favorite guitarist ever.
― tylerw, Saturday, 15 August 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok, I finally picked up "Here Come The Cars" and "Sugarmouth" and I don't know what I was thinking - these are brilliant.
Which is annoying because it brings into question any negative judgement I've ever had. If all it takes is time to like something does that mean we'll like everything eventually? A different thread.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 September 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=33620
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/07/richard_buckner_3.html
Anyone see the acoustic tour double-billed with Richard Buckner?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
not coming anywhere near me, which is a bummer. love both of these guys, though i haven't heard all of buckner's new one. kilgour's newest is fabulous.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
thanks to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene their show here last night was canceled. i was excited, and am now sad.
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
Left by Soft is a pretty fantastic album. Been listening to it all summer long.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 29 August 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
after all these years, i just got here come the cars and holy crap is it good!
UPLIFT is my #1 so far for the enthusiastic singing and fuzzed out guitar and general vibe
i like richard buckner too, wtf how could i have missed that show?!?!?!?!?! i'm just going to pretend i was out of town.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Here Come The Cars is my go to Kilgour. Even over The Clean, most of the time.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
People, you really need to listen to "Diamond Mine" from Left by Soft over and over again.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
Here I will make it easy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAo41SXFJg
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
So there is now an official video for "Diamond Mine", almost two years after it came out. But it's really trippy and good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3_XKFZb7o
― doctor, doctor, what's in my shirt (askance johnson), Thursday, 14 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
this is great btw. my favorite song off Left by Soft
― smh on the water (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
he has a new song up for DL btw, i thought i posted abt it? maybe on another thread. <3 this dude
― just sayin, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
where's this new tune?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://archhillrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/christopher-columbus
― herr doktor (askance johnson), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
thx!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
this is super nice. is there a new heavy eights LP on the way or is it just a one-off?
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
no idea, but i hope so
― just sayin, Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
Being recorded as we speak.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 15 March 2013 08:45 (eleven years ago) link
sweeeeet
― tylerw, Friday, 15 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Really great show last night - five-ish songs with ... Tony de Raad from the Heavy Eights, I think, then the rest of the set backed by Christchurch band Salad Boys, who're firmly that 80s Nun drone/jangle tradition. Really great mix of new & old solo/band material - "Christopher Columbus", "Diamond Mine", "A Break In The Weather", "In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul" & one of his songs w/Sam Hunt, as well as "Draw(in)g To A (W)hole", "Anything Could Happen", "Getting Older", etc.Surprised/delighted to hear the Great Unwashed's "What U Should Be Now":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0tyNAhsWcw
― etc, Sunday, 21 April 2013 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
And we have full new song/video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3WpVgSixm4
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
itunes tells me i have listened to "Christopher Columbus" over 100 times in the last month and a half or so.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
it's an awesome song. Left by Soft struck me as very Byrds-ian, and CC is Byrds-ian too, but in an almost entirely different way. Like I feel like the song kind of captures the sort of mood of pastoral folk-rock but I feel like Kilgour is deftly avoiding the usual folk-rock vocabulary. To these ears, he's doing something quite different here.
― ILE Wet Treeship Night (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
New DK video! And new album on the way in August!
http://youtu.be/k8WXo_CzaAE
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
got the promo yesterday - sounds great on first listen. (but this guy can pretty much do no wrong imo). would be great if he could tour the states with the 8s.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 May 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Jealous of your promo action!
DK+H8's will be playing the Merge 25 thing in late July, so maybe they'll tour after that?
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
that would be great. haven't seen him in ... seven years now? eesh.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 May 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Tyler, how does it rank in with his solo albums? The lead song from the vid sounds great.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 30 May 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
oooh a tour!! would totally go!!
― La Lechera, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
he is the best. xp need to have it sink in a bit, but it sounds of a piece with the last few records. some nice 12-string electric action happening.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Been pretty hooked on "Waveboarder" lately. "Push it on! Little fool!"
― andrew m., Friday, 30 May 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights - 2014 Tour DatesJul 25 Carrboro, NC -- Cat's Cradle (Merge 25)Jul 30 Portland, OR -- Bunk BarAug 1 San Francisco, CA -- Rickshaw StopAug 2 Los Angeles, CA -- Los Globos
The Clean - 2014 Tour DatesAug 18 Chicago, IL -- SchubasAug 19 Detroit, MI -- TrinosophesAug 22 Brooklyn NY -- GlasslandsAug 23 Baltimore, MD -- Metro GalleryAug 25 Carrboro, NC -- Cat's Cradle - Back RoomAug 26 Atlanta, GA -- The EarlAug 27 Birmingham, AL -- The Bottletree CafeAug 28 Memphis, TN -- Hi-Tone CafeAug 29 Nashville, TN -- The Stone FoxAug 30 Asheville, NC -- Harvest Records Transfigurations II
― mizzell, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
saw the announcement yesterday, so excited about this!!! who are the boogarins?
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Brazilian psych/tropicalia band. I caught them at Psych Fest. Not super into it, if I'm being honest.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
oh :-/well whateverthe clean will be playing!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
so jeal
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
blurgh. hoping that maybe there'll be some more heavy 8s shows filled in there?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Me too.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Texas is between LA and Chicago, someone tell David Kilgour
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
I'd really rather see the Heavy 8s than the Clean, but I ain't complaining.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Thursday, 5 June 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
looks like i'm going to portland.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 5 June 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
new one is really, really good. really, my only complaint is that it should be longer!
― tylerw, Friday, 13 June 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Tix to Memphis gotten!
― andrew m., Friday, 13 June 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
...and the perfect excuse to quit putting off getting the new one.
come to london
― just sayin, Saturday, 14 June 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
pls
My god, how have I not listened to this guy until now? I've been really into flying nun for a couple years now, but never really liked The Clean too much so I didn't bother to check out Kilgour's solo stuff. It's way more summery and psychedelic than anything else from that label. Sugar Mouth and Here Come the Cars are easily the coolest records I've heard from the early 90s.
― crunchytunes, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Damn right. So looking forward to seeing him Saturday.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Here Come the Cars is an alltime album f'sure
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
new album's up! http://www.wonderingsound.com/news/album-premiere-david-kilgour-heavy-eights-end-times-undone/
― just sayin, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
what a surprise this is awesome
― just sayin, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
really is great. just heard hamish's new one too -- equally good.
― tylerw, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Oh really? Does Hamish sing? Is it like a variation on The Clean?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this is his first "solo" recrod, but he's been doing his own stuff as Mad Scene for a while now. Worth checking out!Here's a track from his new one: https://soundcloud.com/badabingrecords/hamish-kilgour-crazy-radiance/s-Tu4e3
― tylerw, Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this is really nice.
i've never listened to kilgour/the clean either, i dunno what it was, something about NZ music has always seemed kinda indistinct when i've checked it out in general, never sussed out a way in.
― j., Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Man, the Christopher Columbus-Crow-Dropper sequence is a damn fine stretch of rock and roll, damn fine.
― its a kirt not a skilt (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 September 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but Hamish Kilgour's put out his first solo album on Ba Da Bing.
― etc, Sunday, 28 September 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I need to check that out. I was reading an article about him just recently
― its a kirt not a skilt (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 29 September 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
― etc
Oops, had been mentioned by tylerw a few posts above me; shouldn't post when I'm that sleep-deprived.
Video: http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/8788/Video-Hamish-Kilgour---Strength-Of-An-Eye-UTR-Premiere.utr
― etc, Monday, 29 September 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
David has a new album out, another collaboration with Sam Hunt: http://flyingout.co.nz/products/sam-hunt-w-david-kilgour-the-heavy-8s-the-9th-cd
The previous one, "Falling Debris", is really nice. Listening now, I had forgotten this gem.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 24 April 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link