Baroness - Yellow And Green (2012)

Yeah, story here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-19267414

crossing fingers. God damn.

^^^

fuck i know the tour manager, he's a soundguy at a club in town :(

"One of the pair who suffered multiple fractures was taken to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and the other to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

The seven with more minor injuries were taken to the Royal United Hospital (RUH)."

Thankfully it is looking like there are no fatalities. Which is very lucky when you look at the state of the coach.

It was a bit weird seeing this on the news. I walked past the coach on Tuesday night and had a good look, next time I see it it's stuck in a tree.

The seven with more minor injuries were taken to the Royal United Hospital (RUH)."

Nice of Rick Ross to deliver the news.

my favorite song on this right now is "Twinkler" ... is that weird?

No fatalities in a fucking tour bus falling 30 feet off a precipice sounds pretty damn fortunate.

my favorite song on this right now is "Twinkler" ... is that weird?

― alpine static, Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:15 AM (34 minutes ago)

not at all! it's this album's "steel that sleeps the eye" (nearly the same vocal, tbh), and "steel" is gorgeous. plus it's track 5. track 5 is always dope.

The band members of Baroness and their crew are recovering from injuries sustained after their tour bus crashed outside of Bath, England early on Wednesday morning.

John Baizley has broken his left arm and left leg. Allen Blickle and Matt Maggioni each suffered fractured vertebrae. All three remain in the hospital as of this writing. Pete Adams has been treated and released from the hospital.

Three of the five crew members who were on the bus have also been treated and released. One member is still undergoing testing. The driver of the bus remains in critical condition.

Please stay tuned for further updates. Thank you for all the support during this extremely difficult time.

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just saw that. How serious is vertebral fracture? It does not usually impact the nerves, does it?

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=2fac47f2-5654-4c35-9d5b-2fa0c9f5bb06

There was one moment in the crash that cut me deeply. For one heartbeat and one tiny sliver of time, I became disconnected entirely. It was, specifically, the moment I impacted with the glass. In that barest heartbeat of a moment, I came face to face with the infinite. I didn’t see a light, or the tunnel or hear any music. Nor did I get a “best-of” montage of my life. Instead, I felt the tip of my nose brush up against the very same fate I had accepted moments before. I looked into a cold, unreflective mirror. It was the dark, silent, dispassionate logic of the end. I realized in that moment that life can be seen as a light switch: “on” or “off”. When the moment passed and I heard the screaming, felt the pain, and tasted my own blood, I was overcome with joy. I was ecstatic to be back amidst all that chaos and horror because it was alive and real.

Very powerful.

His injuries sound horrific.

Holy shit at that.

I love this album more today than I did when I started this thread and can't wait for these guys to get back on the road and play somewhere near me. I'll be there.

More:

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/deciblog-qa-baroness-frontman-john-dyer-baizley-elaborates-on-u-k-bus-crash/

I can confirm that I really really like this record!

yeah, has worn well

I couldn't really get into it, should give it another go.

Favorite 3:
Yellow Theme
Crown and Anchor
Strechmarker

Reminder: This album is awesome.

Finally got into this after a couple of years of not being able to get over the yarliness of the vocals. But damn these are some well-crafted songs.

couple of years

Ha, it hasn't even been out for a couple of years.

it's been out a year and nine months ... i think that's close enough to say what you said

i was listening to a lil eula, like, this morning i think

Back Where I Belong is my favourite.

Listened to this just this past week for the first time in over a year. Great record.

Straight up love it now. Listened twice today already.

Great record.

Theory: Baroness would be bigger than Mastodon right now if their bus hadn't crashed a month after Yellow & Green was released.

They've still got time to be bigger than Mastodon, I reckon they might be after the next album (they're poppier!).

mastodon has kind of sunk into a rut of "consistently-decent-sometimes-really-good-but-not-really-extraordinary-anymore" so baroness's time would be now.

Theory: Baroness would be bigger than Mastodon right now if their bus hadn't crashed a month after Yellow & Green was released.

I kinda agree with this, but in the world we actually live in, I feel like their moment has passed. The crash cost them a ton of momentum, plus they've had so many lineup changes over the years that now it really is just John Baizley and some sidemen; "band identity" has been lost (as represented by the tracks on Y&G that clearly feature drum machines).

Purple out 12/18. Advance track agreeably Skynyrd-meets-Pumpkins imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhS0j3WxfWY

god part of that sounds like weezer

I can never get into this band, but as long as their album covers continue with the theme of naked women continue to cuddling with sea creatures and murdering birds, they are alright by me.

Not sure I'm particularly into this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYF5FCu_M-k

Best New Music via pfork

hey i think i love this record. surprising bc i was pretty indifferent to yellow and green. sorta sounds like thrice crosspollinated with qotsa

i revisited yellow and green and this is way better than yellow and green imo

Their new drummer is very...demonstrative

Listened to this yesterday, and again this morning. I'm liking it a lot more than I did when I streamed half the promo a month or so ago. There are a couple of moments that are blatantly stolen from other bands - there's one riff that's pure Mastodon, and another that's total 70s Pink Floyd - but they're not the main riffs of songs, they just pop up for a second and then disappear again, which is weird and kinda great.

I thought it was interesting that they streamed one track from the album on each of 10 different websites this week - felt bad for Rolling Stone Australia, who got to premiere the 17-second funny-voice outro.

the chord progression in the chorus of "shock me" is just catnip for me, the way it never stops moving

Time has been kind to this album.

purple made me go back to this a lot and yeah, it's so good

This revive brought to you by wondering when the hell they're gonna announce The Other Black Album or whatever, those rehearsal videos from awhile back were exciting.

oh, nevermind. from June:

the next Baroness album has been written and the band has tracked in the studio. Baizley wouldn’t give up too much information, other than to say that Baroness are in the mixing/mastering process and the new record will break from tradition, not being named for a color.