Am I alone in liking Seam, I ask myself

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I'm currently hearing The Pace Is Glacial for the first time in 9 years, I think. Insane. Some DJ played a song by them before LCD Soundsystem came on, which is why I decided to pull them out of my stacks.

This is just great fun: 1998 again. Gotta love it. I'm so happy I got to see them live, doing an encore of Gang of Four's "Damaged Goods" no less.

Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:13 (sixteen years ago) link

No, I'm sorry. It was actually another Gang of Four song they did. Maybe it was That Essence Rare. I can't quite remember.

Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:14 (sixteen years ago) link

"The Problem With Me" holds a very special place in my heart because of what was going on at the time I discovered it. That was actually the last Seam thing I pulled out, some months ago...still haven't pulled out Crazy yet...can't wait to hear "Berlitz" again. Wow.

Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link

"The Prizefighers"....what a song!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I haven't heard The Problem With Me in ages. I really dug that record, though I don't have a copy (I borrowed it from my ex-bassplayer but had to return it).

Marty Innerlogic, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link

I was the one flippin' out at their reunion! (For Touch and Go 25th - Well not totally flippin' out - I was cognizant of those around me) I distinctly remember their show as being one of the better ones for Lounge Ax's many day, 'viking funeral' ... I have bootlegs of both the T&G25 and Lounge Ax last show that I regularly pull out - they were something else.

BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 6 May 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

</dust>
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mookieproof, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Doing it for me bitch. Magnet

Just played 'Intifada Driving school' for the first time in years - to celebrate something. A victory.
3-0 .

99pence

Fer Ark, Saturday, 29 March 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I had no idea that they made any videos, but here's a couple:

Berlitz
Bunch

A bit LOL 90s in execution, but great to see Sooyoung and the band in action.

Bill A, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link

i remember seeing the bunch video on aussie tv at the time. was surprised as 'kernel' was the single here..

seam fans may dig the (as far as i know) otherwise unavailable b-side 'feather' from the aussie 45 that i will share here shortly..

electricsound, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't understand why I don't remember ever seeing their videos on 120 Minutes.

Bimble, Thursday, 8 May 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I smelled something burning at work today, like a match smell. So I thought hey..."Something's Burning"...put it on my iPod and god it blew my mind.

Bimble, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Shake out the sheets
Throw my things out/out the window
I wasn't down/with this/
I wasn't prepared for you..."

With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 1 January 2009 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Decent quality video for "Hey Latasha" from Yahoo music:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2023844/v2147010

Bill A, Friday, 8 January 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

^ bump

great, great, band

Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link

I hate running into Bimble threads, but yeah, he was right. Tuff Luck: my favorite song of theirs.

dlp9001, Thursday, 17 June 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link

I love Seam. There's that immigration song on "The Pace is Glacial" (underrated album, awesome album cover too!) that's awesome (for being the only song I can think of that name drops San Ysidro)

Becky Facelift, Thursday, 17 June 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Randomly met Sooyoung after a Mogwai show in SF a few years back. Ended the night drunk as a skunk at a karaoke bar with him and his buddies. Good times.

kreidleresque, Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Reviving to request recommendations, since I refuse to believe that there are no other bands that play Seam's particular brand of moody, melodic college rock. (Also, please give recommendations if I liked the original "Driving the Dynamite Truck".) Thx.

ascai, Saturday, 19 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqO4sopU8u8

del griffith, Saturday, 19 November 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link

off topic question: was "gygax!" a girl? quick scan of this thread i'm thinking yes.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 19 November 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link

uh

tubbs farkas (electricsound), Saturday, 19 November 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link

yes gygax! was indeed a girl but a hella busted lookin one, sarahel much better looking probably

del griffith, Saturday, 19 November 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link

Gygax! is one of the most consistently enjoyable math rock records of the mid-'90s.

next thing she's shaving my skrillex (NickB), Sunday, 20 November 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

off topic question: was "gygax!" a girl? quick scan of this thread i'm thinking yes.

First reaction to this post was to think of some kind of All You Zombies scenario

Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 November 2011 02:56 (twelve years ago) link

You know, it's been a million years, but I have this memory that the band Nord Express might be in this vein. I recall buying their CD because it said, "Produced by Archie Moore of Velocity Girl" on a sticker on the front, which is kind of funny to think about now. Archie Moore, Starmaker! Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/14

dlp9001, Sunday, 20 November 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link

back in the day i thought nord express were a bit shit but they sound not half bad to me now

tubbs farkas (electricsound), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:08 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

Help me out guys, the song "Shame" that Seam covered on two occasions (once fast with Sarah from Velocity Girl on vox, the second time slow on Kernel EP)...

The credits say written by Mark Saltzman, (c)&(p) 1987. Knowing Soo Young's penchant for covering semi-obscure post-punk bands, this one slipped past me.

Any idea who originally performed it?

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link

nfi but a dude with that name used to write for sesame st among other things, dunno if it's the same guy

owner of a bonely part (electricsound), Saturday, 27 April 2013 06:04 (eleven years ago) link

Am I alone in liking Salem, I ask myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zQ_sf6BMg

markers, Saturday, 27 April 2013 06:25 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

Yay new Sooyoung Park band

http://realboredspies.bandcamp.com/

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link

four months pass...

</dust>
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mookieproof, Saturday, 28 December 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link

seven years pass...

hey, look at who got numero group'd

mookieproof, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/sooyoung-park-album-list

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 November 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link

i just learned from that that Versus are still active? where have I been?

akm, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

shake out the sheets

mookieproof, Monday, 3 July 2023 05:58 (ten months ago) link

two months pass...

also happy 30th to the problem with me <3

i'd forgotten that this came out on my birthday

mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:52 (seven months ago) link

i listened to the problem with me every day for a year when it came out. very significant to young me. gonna have to give it a spin this evening

sknybrg, Friday, 22 September 2023 01:08 (seven months ago) link

"Road To Madrid" was a Kernel EP **OUTTAKE** which blows me away. I wonder if SYK thought it was too good for the EP so he shelved it for the next album? Unreal what a groove they were in for a couple years.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 September 2023 04:20 (seven months ago) link


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