― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
hey its 2012 and i like both these things! wonders never cease. wonders never cease.
i start a sonic youth-related thread in 2012 and nobody has ONE opinion on this stuff? where am i?
anyway, i have listened to the CLM song THREE times which is two more times than i listened to Goo when it came out. Still think they should have called this group The Thurstones though.
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 June 2012 00:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
where all the indie rockers go? my fave thurston track since 1988! wait, when did daydream nation come out?
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
hey how about that sonic youth... sheesh fine i'm going i'm going...
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
Really liked the first song on the Ranaldo album.
― timellison, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is it. Alan Licht on guitar:
― timellison, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like this one too
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2012/07/10/chelsea-light-moving-present-groovy-linda/
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 July 2012 13:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
i keep forgetting to check all this stuff out
― some dude, Sunday, 15 July 2012 13:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
live show here. the sample is sounding pretty radical.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
oops here: http://www.nyctaper.com/2012/10/chelsea-light-moving-september-12-2012-285-kent-flacmp3streaming/
LOL so I'm reading the US minimalism section of Taruskin's Music of the Late Twentieth Century and he mentions how in lean young times Steve Reich and Philip Glass had a moving company together called Chelsea Light Moving and I'm all 'huh neat! That would actually make a pretty good band name' and lo and behold Thurston et al already thought that thought! I guess I've been pretty oblivious of recent SY news.
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:27 (4 months ago) Permalink
album is out march 5
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:33 (4 months ago) Permalink
Ricbard Landry also worked at the o.g. Chelsea Light Moving.
I saw this band a few months back and it sounded kinda like... Nirvana, to me? Haven't heard the recordings. I also haven't really heard Body/Head, but the Body/Gate/Head LP that came out on uh, Feeding Tube? is nice and pleasant guitar droning if a bit unremarkable.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:37 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/chelsea_light_moving/chelsea_light_moving_empires_of_time.mp3yeah, i'm not craaaazy about this one...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
i mean, it hits a few of those SY sweet spots, but the "we are the third eye of rock n roll" lyrics are a little eh.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
thruston has pretty much never been a great lyricist imo.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:44 (4 months ago) Permalink
THRUSTON
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:50 (4 months ago) Permalink
THRUSTON MOORCOCKE
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:51 (4 months ago) Permalink
hey JCL, if you are not doing anything tomorrow night, Helen's band is playing at Secret Project Robot, you should come!
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:52 (4 months ago) Permalink
i still lol about seeing him in the mid 90s doing some kind of experimental solo gig where Thurston was scratching his strings really softly with a quarter and the dude up front yells: "BOW DOWN TO THE QUEEN OF NOIIIIIIIISSSSSSEEEEE, BABY!"
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
(topical, band features member of Chelsea Light Moving.) xp to self
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
They are coming to Virginia in a couple of months, and I am excited to see them in a small room 5 minutes from my house, but I definitely fluctuate between thinking that it is a refreshingly "rock" sound they are putting out and "shouldn't they be trying harder/be better than this". I am a big fan of SY though, so I am gonna go with low expectations and hope that they are exceeded. I mean shit, I sound like an ass, I am sure it will at the least be a fun show, if not transcendant, and maybe that is what all the folks in the band are going for.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:54 (4 months ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:53 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
HAHAHA for some reason this makes me think of the mega-dud singer dude on that Holger Czukay album Radio Wave Surfer
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 18:33 (4 months ago) Permalink
Chelsea Light Moving album streaming at NPR (though sequence appears to be out of whack)
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/17/172096457/first-listen-chelsea-light-moving-chelsea-light-moving
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
i like it but i wish the vocals were more fucked up/not so up front. i can hear his "lyrics" too clearly. but the guitar jams are cool.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:44 (3 months ago) Permalink
if this album had come out after daydream nation i would have been excited. but that's just me being mean again. its sounds fine. and i listened to it! can't say that about a lot of recent thurston stuff. or lee stuff. or sy stuff. or the drummer dude's stuff. or kim stuff. i wish them all well though! i like john moloney and samara a bunch. they are awesome.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
love this album. a whole lot of fun.
― SOYLENT GREEN IS SHEEPLE (stevie), Friday, 22 February 2013 10:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
i'm guessing the band name is a brakhage trib, but it does make me think of a small removal van
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 22 February 2013 10:16 (3 months ago) Permalink
it should!
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:27 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― SOYLENT GREEN IS SHEEPLE (stevie), Friday, 22 February 2013 10:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
d'oh!
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 22 February 2013 10:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
Like that song, and the audio for the video is great (considering it is "live in a basement"). Pretty pro-sounding, but yeah, has me excited to see them on Monday night.
― grandavis, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
digging this record so far! maybe moreso than the lee solo joint. which i liked.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:32 (2 months ago) Permalink
i thought he was saying "the third reich of rock and roll" like the residents album.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
"sleeping where i fall" is vintage sonic youth
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 14 March 2013 22:50 (2 months ago) Permalink
yep that's my fast favorite too after a few spins
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 15 March 2013 01:25 (2 months ago) Permalink
CLM album is kinda bumming me out. the song skot posted at the beginning of this thread is by far the best.
― some dude, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:25 (1 month ago) Permalink