Thalia Zedek (and her various bands): C/D?

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the new album is pretty "Kashmir." I like that.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have never had any use for any of the rest, and never will.

May your genitals wither and die upon your loins,

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw them live liked the show and picked up Eleven: Eleven when it was new, but never got another record. It is a good album that I haven't heard for a long time. I need to give that one a listen.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 20 January 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"Zedek fronting Live Skull = most out-of-control, over-the-top, riveting vocalist/performer I ever saw on par with prime Iggy I expect."

This person from way upthread OTFM! Miccio listen to Positraction RIGHT NOW!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 January 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Really, that whole album is as good as "Step," probably.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 January 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Really can't get how that Uzi record can be perceived as that much better than any of Zedek's other stuff. Only track that has ever stuck with me is 'Gabrielle' and there's songs on all the rest of her stuff that easily matches that... the aforementioned 'Step', 'Back In The Earth', 'Off To One Fucking Side', the single 'Car'... Come's cover of the Swell Maps 'Loin Of The Surf' is well worth tracking down too. I think that Live Skull only ever came over here to the UK once but I caught them a couple of times on that tour and they were fantastic.
What Jay Hinman wrote upthread nails exactly the way I feel about Come. Chuck, if you can't get past the heroin stuff, check out the second album 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'. I don't know what her (or Brokaw's) habit was like at the time of that, but thematically, as far as I can decipher, that record is mostly about plain old fucked-up heartbreak and loneliness. Definite nose-dive in quality thereafter though, some great songs but the last two are both very bitty albums.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 20 January 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

What I don’t understand is how “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” hasn’t come up on this thread yet. It’s the most perfect of all the Come records, and the soundtrack to my 1996 (yes, I know it came out in ’94). I can’t compare it against her other stuff, solo or w/ other bands, as I haven’t yet heard it.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

FINALLY saw Thalia Zedek after, what, a decade's obsession (at least!) at the Grace Emily in Adelaide, tiny crowd, maybe 50 people, Thalia completely OWNING the room, totally magical, probably the best performance I have seen in... years? Forever? Since Diamanda Galas way back in 2002? The new album is so much stronger in the live context (and it's certainly no slouch as home listening) and the cover of "You're A Big Girl Now" is absolutely incredible live, sheer force.

I dunno if she's doing more shows in Australia but GO. SEE. HER. NOW>>> or as soon as you can.

― jon dale, Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i saw chris brokaw the other nite at the pub jamming with some dude from karate and some dude from rodan and i kept hoping that he would do one of his come songs, but he didn't.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't really think that he would.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah i must admit the one thing that would have made last night the *greatest gig ever* would have been a slab of stuff from eleven eleven or don't ask don't tell. still, gotta say, the solo material burns when you hear it live.

― jon dale, Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll bet. she's great. that last album of hers was really nice.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

It's great that she's still out there digging away doing this stuff, in the face of what must seem like huge public indifference. Which isn't entirely unique for a musician I know, but it is kind of remarkable for someone who puts *so damn much* of herself into doing what she does. I mean on an emotional level - someone who more often than not exposes whole scary chunks of scar tissue or frailty. Gosh, I'm clumsy with words today, but she could have packed it all in ages ago, instead of putting her self through the mill the whole time, and it's wonderful and sort of a testament to her braveness that she's still willing to keep on pushing. Tremendously gratifying to hear Jon's report. What am I saying? I dunno. Thanks I guess!

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i know what you mean Nick. there's no 'emotional distance' in her performances. it's astonishing to witness.

scott, yeah, the new record is magic innit? there's an australian tour cd which i couldn't pick up (i spent my last $30 for the week on the gig.) could be worth hunting down.

― jon dale, Thursday, 4 August 2005 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i saw chris brokaw the other nite at the pub jamming with some dude from karate and some dude from rodan and i kept hoping that he would do one of his come songs, but he didn't.

that was their show on the vineyard, right? that was kevin's first gig playing drums in years, so rad. saw him the next night in nyc, it was good. looking forward to chris's lp (both jeff and kevin play on it) coming out in october.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 4 August 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Is this Kevin Coultas and Jeff Mueller you're talking about here squire?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 August 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i had a nice conversation with Jeff ( i don't really know much about his other stuff). He said they had only practiced together for a day before the gig on the island. I told him it sounded like at least three days to me! he liked that one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

kevin coultas (ex-rodan) and jeff godard (ex-karate). they are both on the new record.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, okay. Only Chris Brokaw solo thing I've heard so far was Red Cities which was nice, but I sort of missed him interacting with other musicians on it (he played everything himself, err, right? at least it sounded like it was all recorded by one guy). So the new one sounds good to me.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

New album streaming at popmatters! One tune in, sounds promising.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/169116-now-hear-this-thalia-zedek-band-via-album-premiere/

― Mule, Monday, 11 March 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link

three years pass...

new album is almost indistinguishable from peak patti smith. "by the hand" is fantastic

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 2 September 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link

I finally replaced my copy of Uzi Sleep Asylum earlier this year fro like 99p plus p+p.
Hadn't realised it was that easily come by. Had it after finding it in Dublin when I first moved there and then I think it got lost in a box of cds taht disappeared in moving.

But do enjoy it.

Also love Positraction by Live Skull. Have a poster for it somewhere but not enough clear wall space.

― Stevolende, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link

She's doing some touring (mostly with a band but some solo gigs) for the Eve album I see.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link

I liked her group Dangerous Birds way back when

― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link

Alive Again is favorite Live Skull song. Positrction is favorite album. I love the Come sound, but I guess I love the scary of Live Skull more. Got to hang out with her after a show, and she was relaxed and engaged. I know she did drugs, but she seemed like an old soul as well.

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 3 September 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

new project called e, album on thrill jockey soon, this rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGuIw-Xe_Qw

― adam, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link

I still need to hear recent Eve album.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

second E album incoming:

https://abandcallede.bandcamp.com/album/negative-work

― Dinsdale, Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link

i never did hear that first album of theirs - how was it?

― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link

underrated thalia from way back in 1986, have been loving this song since forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHFkLqdMVY

― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link

three years pass...

“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was just reissued as a two CD set.

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link

https://come.bandcamp.com/album/dont-ask-dont-tell-expanded-edition

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link

Re this entire thread -

It’s always been about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell for me. None of the other Come stuff or what I’ve heard of other Zedek or Brokaw projects or releases has quite compared.

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link

Always preferred the debut but DADT is right up there, Mercury Falls and German Song are two of the best things they ever did. Have heard some of the bonus stuff - love their version of the Swell Maps' Loin of the Surf.

As for other Thalia stuff, I will rep for the Live Skull records she's on until the day I die.

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 23 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link

New Chris/Thalia interview!

https://concreteislands.com/full-life-experience-thalia-zedek-and-chris-brokaw-interview/?fbclid=IwAR3415mK4uhnmo8kr0wWNq55uRuKUV8E4bXvCofaQURNzDZ2WYGSRNosVUA

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link

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