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― ack, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
Diminishing returns, basically.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Catherine (Catherine), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link
Search her French radio session performance of ye olde folk song "The Outlandish Knight", "Ligeia" with Team Sleep, and the Hole in the Ground 7" also. Yeah, and Autoclave...
I like the Golden Dove a lot, I think the letdown factor is just that it's very similar to Mountains so it's kinda like Mountains pt. 2. There are some fantastic songs on it though.
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:44 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
Her solo albums are pretty good too, but they don't seem to hit as many highs as she did with Helium.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
please be in the age range of 13-18, otherwise, i think lawsuits will be in yr future...
― eedd, Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Former Helium frontwoman Mary Timony has signed to Lookout! Records, which will release her new solo album, "Ex Hex," in mid-April. The indie veteran has released two solo albums on Matador Records, also the home of Helium. The most recent was 2002's "The Golden Dove."
Produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, "Ex Hex" features Timony on guitar and vocals and Devin Ocampo of the Medications on drums. As previously reported, Medications appears on Canty's new live DVD series, "Burn To Shine," which will be released later this month via Trixie.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 January 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 14 January 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 January 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
what ever happened to her?? what made her lose the finely crafted 'dirty Helium' and go into 'rainbow land Helium'?
my guess, the meds.too much. too much. too much.
― eedd, Friday, 14 January 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
i dont know if you've noticed the trend of hipsters going folky, but i think mary was ahead of the game on this one. now she's back to rocking more, so i have a feeling in 2-3 years, indie rock will "rock" once more.
also, i never liked her D&D turn originally but in listening to a lot of the helium b-sides & whatnot, its not an especially new concept with her. you may even consider the sluts & whores of her pirate prude days to be symbolic princesses & witches.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, I think she's attractive too, but this picture bugs me. What the hell is she doing with the headphones there? Cause she's twiddling the bass knob on a Silvertone Twin Twelve amp head. That's not some vintage hi-fi, it's a damn tube guitar amp, and it doesn't have a headphone output... So what the hell is she doing?!
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
To the majority of people looking at that photo, it's a cute girl listening to music on headphones.
― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Friday, 14 January 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
i http://ctomag.com/may16cto/timony1.gif
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
i http://www.iheartny.com/yourenotthere/waspsnests/6timony.GIF
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Friday, 14 January 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Friday, 14 January 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah yeah I get it. But remember how ridiculous it was in Independence Day when a Mac was used to hack into a non-human-designed computer system? Well, it's silly like that.
I agree with Maria too re: less actual departure from original content when Mary shifted from seamy to sorcery.
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
And I'll be eyeist if I want to be--just because the anti-eyeism mafia has ILM in its iron, wonky-eyed grip doesn't mean that I'm not free to express my (carefully thought-out) opinions.
― adam (adam), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
New MP3 from EX-HEX over here
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff K (jeff k), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Any album with a song called "Return to Pirates" is an album I'd like to own. This also reminds me, I should go download "Ghost Car," the "Pat's Trick" B-side which never came out on CD and is one of my favorite Helium songs ever..
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 2 March 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link
the magic city is actually quite good -- its new wavey!
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I fucking love this Ex Hex album.
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
I saw Ex Hex last night. Really fun set, played basically the whole record.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
this record is definitely a much better version of wild flag
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 January 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
man I totally missed that Timony was part of this band, will investigate
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Monday, 12 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Good livestream at the moment: http://blog.kexp.org/pickathon-2015-video-webcast/
― dow, Saturday, 1 August 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
Ex Hex, that is
I once hitched a UK tour with her, trying to think who the band was. That is to say she was with a few people doing the hitching following another band around not that we were hitching following her.Would be some point towards the end of the 80s anyway.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 1 August 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
My 8yo daughter is OBSESSED with Mary T. My fridge is plastered with pictures of her. She has a Spotify playlist which is just Ex Hex and Wild Flag ("but you can just put the LPs on... Your sister has lots more in hers..." "NO").
I'm a Betsy Wright man myself.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 3 August 2015 13:10 (eight years ago) link
Does she know about Helium? Haven't checked Spotify for them.the xpost livestream set was so cool, kinda laid-back at times, but guitars kept careening over the top, then back to the groove, where I waited for the next payoff (rock kindergarten, teaching me patience). Nice!
― dow, Monday, 3 August 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
I think she has some Helium singles. I'm not sure what she'll make of MT solo. Hearing her absent-mindedly harmonise with the middle eight of "Glass Tambourine" was my Saturday morning highlight of the year.
Anyway, back to Mary.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 3 August 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Mary's songwriting seems to be at its best when she is a band, presumably bouncing off ideas and not being backed by just herself and drums/keys. But if you'd put all the best tracks from her four solo albums together, it would be as good as Helium.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link
I'm a Betsy Wright man myself.― Michael Jones, Monday, August 3, 2015 6:10 AM
― Michael Jones, Monday, August 3, 2015 6:10 AM
― alpine static, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 06:42 (eight years ago) link
On Instagram Mary Timony says she is recording a new solo album
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
🙂
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
And we’re back
https://marytimony.bandcamp.com/album/untame-the-tiger-2
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:15 (five months ago) link
i like it! very nice minimal arrangement
reminds me (musically not vocally) a bit of The Evens
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 November 2023 18:53 (five months ago) link
I like the minimal straight forward pop of that song too. Sometimes she’s too prog & old school art rock for me , but not on that dominoes song
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
Really nice stuff
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2023 20:22 (five months ago) link
2024 tour date tickets go on sale at 10 am ET today
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 November 2023 11:29 (five months ago) link
New track, “The Guest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=780u_kPEXcA
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:53 (four months ago) link
First date of the tour tonight in Baltimore. Sweet, short set, heavy on the new album with two Helium cuts. There were some nerves and a missed lyric cue or two, but a really strong band, having fun up there. Timony’s solos on “The Guest” were especially on fire.
See ‘em when they come to your town
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 February 2024 04:14 (two months ago) link
I was there too. I liked Anna on the pedal steel, but must confess to get bored at times by Timony and Betsy leisurely jamming on so many songs . Felt like circa 1972 rock with not enough energy and rhythm. I liked Timony vocals and how songs started but some just didn’t hold my attention. Maybe I am not the ideal audience member for this tour.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 February 2024 16:16 (two months ago) link
getting bored
Yeah, the jamming was definitely the point to a large degree - the vocals acting as a starting point/tee for glassine guitar riffs and extended vamps. Not for everyone, but it’s possible that this will change as the tour proceeds and she gets more comfortable in the role of singer/bandleader/guitarist - with Hammered Hulls she just had to be the bassist, which was probably a relief.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:17 (two months ago) link
The openers were OK but I was kinda patiently waiting for the main event - it’s always been that way but even more so as I age.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link
I get that. I had seen them before and kinda liked them, so was fine with seeing em again even on a midweek work night. But yeah, was glad there weren’t too many delays.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:56 (two months ago) link
Birthday Girl are a good band but as I was texting some friends during that set:
“They make me a little nostalgic for a time when I listened to a lot of music like this (in a different century, mostly)”
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:01 (two months ago) link
I hear Birthday Girl DC as a throwback to one style from the last century, and Mary Timony’s current live approach a musical throwback to an even earlier style ( even if both of them are using lyrics that relate to their own 21 century issues)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:02 (two months ago) link
I like the Mary Timony album better than I liked the live show. The guitar vamps don't go on as long.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:31 (two months ago) link
At one point, Mabel Canty (before I knew her full name) announced their parents were actually accompanying them on tour, and I was like "aw, that's so sweet - every parent should be like that" and then someone informed me who their parents were - had no idea!
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:50 (two months ago) link
wau
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:58 (two months ago) link
lol her bassist is Isabella MacKaye
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:59 (two months ago) link
That is Alec Mackaye's daughter. Mabel Canty is 16 . Mary Timony gave Mabel Canty some lessons and produced their music
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:24 (two months ago) link