― Hotel Lives (Hotel Lives), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)
Though largely overlooked during their relatively brief lifespan, Slint grew to become one of the most influential and far-reaching bands to emerge from the American underground rock community of the 1980s; innovative and iconoclastic, the group's deft, extremist manipulations of volume, tempo, and structure cast them as clear progenitors of the post-rock movement which blossomed during the following decade.Whatever the extent of Slint's own influence, the group grew out of Louisville, Kentucky's legendary Squirrel Bait, another seminal band which languished in relative obscurity during its own lifetime but ultimately spawned the likes of Gastr del Sol, Big Wheel, and Bastro. Guitarist/vocalist Brian McMahan formed his first group at the age of 12; within a few years, he teamed with drummer Britt Walford, and after the addition of vocalist Peter Searcy, guitarist David Grubbs, and and bassist Clark Johnson, they founded Squirrel Bait in the mid-'80s. After two ferocious records, a self-titled 1985 effort and 1987's Skag Heaven, the group disbanded, leaving McMahan and Walford to continue on as Slint with guitarist David Pajo and bassist Ethan Buckler.
With producer Steve Albini, the quartet recorded 1989's Tweez, issued on their own Jennifer Hartman label; a collection of odd stylistic approaches, fractured rhythms, and strange lyrical fragments, the album owed debts to few (if any) historical precedents and steadfastly defied easy classification. Shortly after the record's completion, Buckler left to form King Kong, and was replaced by bassist Todd Brashear for 1991's Spiderland, an even more sophisticated and adventurous set.
With the exception of a posthumous 1994 EP (originally recorded between the two full-length albums), Spiderland was Slint's swan song, although the individual members remained key figures in the independent scene. After attending art college, Pajo joined the ranks of Tortoise, while Walford (under the alias Shannon Doughton) played drums with the Breeders before rejoining Buckler in King Kong. McMahan and Brashear, meanwhile, aided Will Oldham in his ever-shifting Palace aggregate (which additionally housed Pajo and Walford at one point or another); McMahan and Pajo also briefly reunited as members of the For Carnation.
― T-tusz, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Johannes Keuning (Johannes), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Daisy Chainsaw (Daisy Chainsaw), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― frrr, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Johannes Keuning (Johannes), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ferdinand (Ferdinand), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Johannes Keuning (Johannes), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Hotel Lives (Hotel Lives), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)
1994, Slint [EP]
spiderland is by far de bekendste.
― T-tusz, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)
Nog een tipje Roy: This kind of punishment of Mogwai.
― ZoeMotta, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)
En die Live bootleg is erg ok.
Vergeet Evergreen niet, Walford's band na Slint.
En Pajo heeft zelf ook nog veel spul uitgebracht en in Zwan gespeeld.
King Kong is hilarisch.
The For Carnation is waanzinnig mooi.
Slint? Legendarisch, echt waar....
― AutoStatic (AutoStatic), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― T-tusz, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― theo ploeg (theo), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Daisy Chainsaw (Daisy Chainsaw), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― theo ploeg (theo), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric, Thursday, 29 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Zelf vind ik Slint ook erg mooi; vooral Washer en het al eerder genoemde Good Morning, Captain. Ik heb ook nog een CD van Squirrel Bait, maar die heb ik nog niet zo goed beluisterd.
― herman, Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Daisy Chainsaw (Daisy Chainsaw), Thursday, 29 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric, Friday, 30 April 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― herman, Friday, 30 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)
En Four Great Points van June of 44 is ook heel goed...
De rest van de genoemde namen ken ik minder goed (op Mogwai na dan)...
En Zwan vond ik eigenlijk heel slecht... nu ja MACHINA/the machines of god vond ik al niet om aan te horen...
― Orpheus (Orpheus), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)
En ondanks alles, Slint bootleg is echt wel ok, alle centjes meer dan waard.
― AutoStatic (AutoStatic), Friday, 30 April 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Boy Zonderman, Monday, 3 May 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― oxesroxes, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― martinus (martinus), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)
duudes you know this rulesplay it on yr vinyl!
― slowcoreenactsfrustrationdoubtandevenfearofneverbeingfulfilled (jdchurchill), Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:48 (sixteen years ago)
tja, hij komt vandaag weer in het land he
― willem, Saturday, 14 November 2009 09:44 (sixteen years ago)
pietjes zullen pluutjes nodig hebben anders komt daar ineens de buurvrouw tevoorschijn.
― Ludo, Saturday, 14 November 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)