― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 May 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
It's way better than those chunks of dung.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Slut-kiss girls won’t you promise her smackIs she pretty on the insideIs she pretty from the backSlut-kiss girl won’t you water her backIs she pretty on the insideBaby pretty from the backSlut-kiss girl we’ll have some rot black strapIs she ugly on the insideBaby ugly ugly from the backMy pretty power my pretty powerMy pretty power my uglySlut-kiss girls won’t you promise her smackIs she pretty on the insideIs she ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly
Bad boyRows and rows of angel hairAnd ice cream pencils baby do they careAnd fibre yah glass where is she powered that wayBlues and shoes but this isn’t uglyYah where is it a marriage in a wheelWill to calls that wayBut now they only block the sunThey rain and snow on everyone so so many thingsWow hey I made it downI I i I made it mosh in everyone acid hairAcid stars you’re getting thereIs she high that wayBut now it’s just another showYour living life as ready goIt’s all it’s all a doll no a dollGive me a shelf of a whoreYah now my friends are ugly strangeThey shake their heads manThey gave us a trap wellWe’ll send this love asRearrange of who ofBaby I lie with pictures nowFrom riddle love and streets of goldHe says he reach of a candy heart ofI really love it I really don’t knowI really don’t know I really don’t knowI really don’t know like I used to liveYah berry parts and I wow what was it
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Mmmm, NOPE. (But Golden Ocean is awesome awesome awesome.)
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Friday, June 10th7th St. Entry
50 Foot WaveMaps of Norway (my band)The Slats
10 adv/12 doorDoors open 8pm, we probably won't go on until around 11 or so, maybe a little before...
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
local promotions for stuff kind of sucks, I didn't even know the show was happening until that day and I couldn't make it. blah.
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Friday, 10 June 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
haha no i'm not in 50 Foot Wave...I was in the local Mpls opener Maps of Norway.
In any case, the show went FANTASTIC.
Ned, a guy from the Current promo dept who was there doing there said Maps of Norway reminded him of the Chameleons, and I thought of you : )
Pretty much totally full....got to meet Kristen and the bass player dude (can't remember his name) who I think was in Throwing Muses as well....very nice folks.
People seemed to like us, and were at least paying attention and standing up front, which is nice for an opening band. Had a lot of fun.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Download, share, stream, blog, etc. Let's rock.
― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I was way too slow in getting a copy of Golden Ocean, finally did so last month. Predictably fab.
I think I prefer David N's drumming, but the 50 Foot guy flails away most enjoyably.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
The band will be offering FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files as well as hi-resolution mp3 files. The band is also encouraging fans to seed BitTorrents and set up CD burning trees to ensure that people without time or technology may also receive the free music.
The band states its goal as simply to circumvent the 'money cycle' and get high quality (free) recordings into the hands of a maximum number of people for evaluation at their leisure.[...]The band's manager, Billy O'Connell, says, "The capacity for reaching new ears with unknown music has become so diminished that we felt we had to try a new approach. It has become prohibitively expensive to reach people via traditional marketing means (radio, press, retail promotion) - lately, CD distribution costs and even touring costs have gone through the roof.
"This project is simply attempting to tap the power of the network -- we're asking individuals for their enthusiasm rather than their money. It's an experiment we're eager to see play out."
The band's founder, Kristin Hersh, explains, "Money has so polluted the music world that my overwhelming urge right now is to divorce money from recorded music. Over the last 2 years we've been relying on standard 'industry' channels to help us educate listeners about 50 Foot Wave and we've met resistance every step of the way -- caused by little other than money -- and to an extent I've never seen before.
"So we're sending free recordings off into the world to do their work. If people enjoy these songs and are excited by them, we ask that they share them with others. The music business is about fame and huge profits -- egos and greed -- music itself, is not."
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Kristin's son Dylan finally has a band of his own, too. Good Morning L.A., I think they're called.
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 8 January 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 8 January 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.throwingmusic.com/freemusic/FreeMusicPhotos/FreeMusicPhoto2small.jpg
― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
apparently there's a new kristin solo album out in january!
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 19 November 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
It's called "Learn To Sing Like A Star." Cute song title: "Christian Hearse" (actually a short interlude of her son playing guitar or something like that).
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
the grotto has become one of my favourites. i've been playing a lot of the songs myself on my electric w/ distortion and tremolo which makes them sound wonderfully spooky. they're incredible songs for pacing and dynamics, esp. 'deep wilson'
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's a picture I took of KH outside the ICA 13 years ago (at the 13-Year Itch show! Blimey - another decade and a third just went by) - just after she'd dyed her hair for the first time.
http://static.flickr.com/53/133765068_db3e168a92.jpg
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 November 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
in-studio with new songs
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
i interviewed kristin over the phone a few days ago. she's easily, i mean like far and away, the nicest, funniest and most instantly likeable famous person i have ever encountered. which makes it all the better when you see her walk onstage and start screaming like she's possessed. -- J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, September 4, 2006 7:21 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link
i love that. why is she the nicest ever?
i'm just now listening to 50 Foot Wave, and loving it. I'm not surprised, really, but it's always amazing how much she puts out.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
the songs on this are off the hook, but i keep wondering why the vocals aren't louder - i know sometimes she does that, but on this first listen i'm really wishing i could hear some of the words better.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Kristin's son Dylan finally has a band of his own, too.
!??!!? OK Liz Fraser's daughter singing with Mahogany, and now this. Grumble. Olllld.
― Trayce, Sunday, 10 June 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
everything this band has ever done is now available for free at http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/ including a pretty spectacular new ep called power+light. /streetteam
― joe, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently not free anymore. A shame that you have to go through this to get the new stuff. When our inevitable 00s poll comes around, I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
what? it's all still there, just click "free music" at the address upthread. or if you just want power + light, right click "mp3".
― joe, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently everything she does is released under a Creative Commons licence these days, downloadable in 128kbp mp3, 256 kbp mp3 or FLAC, with cover and (!!) mix parts, one's work on which can be uploaded to the so-called "rw" (read/write) section... songs for next album made available as they are recorded etc -- this is a pretty awesome way of doing stuff I think!
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh jeez, the night I was so drunk I couldn't download free music.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lol the beautiful struggle
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.
yeah, fuckin fantastic record that
― (I don't crap in public toilets) (stevie), Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
She's good value on Twitter btw. One of the few musicians worth following.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
specifically: "Two conversations yesterday with Harper Collins in London and NYC and we’re looking at Aug 22, right now. This date could change a bit, but not too much."
― katherine, Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
does it really have 32 songs on it?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 23 March 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148322-dis-meets-kristin-hersh--listening-is-hard-work-i-respect-people-who-can-do-it-well
50 Foot Wave album coming soon.
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
yessssssssss!
― You've been yelped (stevie), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Oh, and some of the works in progress available here:
https://www.kristinhersh.com/Releases/50-foot-wave_night-blooming/
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
More at same link now?
― Jeff W, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
grungy goodness.
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
new fippy foop: https://soundcloud.com/hhbtm-records/50-foot-wave-gods-not-a-dick
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
uhh how did i not realize this band until now
feel like an idiot. wow incredible songs. she's like 60?? just wow
― Swen, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:15 (two months ago) link
she's only 57! and is probably one of the most prolific artists working today... Throwing Muses album in 2020, 50 Foot Wave album in 2022, solo album in 2023, plus she writes amazing books!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:30 (two months ago) link
been a throwing muses / solo fan for years - the prolific-ness is quite insane. def enjoyed the 2020 muses record, will check out the solo from last year.
― Swen, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
i keep finding that my gratitude for Kristin will not relent
― Swen, Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link