Icky title. Best guitar album to come out in years. Anybody else heard it?
It's Neil Young and Crazy Horse crossed with Built To Spill, except with better guitars.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
So glad to see someone post about this album! I've thought about it a few times now, but figured it wouldn't get a lot of traction. I've been a fan of Wand (Hanson's main band) all along, but he has really hit a stride in the last few years. If you dig this and haven't yet heard Wand's 2022 live album, Spiders in the Rain, do it right away. I suspect it will hit a similar pleasure center for you if you dig Western Cum.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:09 (one year ago) link
thanks for posting about this, been suggested to me a few times by Spotify, the album title was not exactly a selling point but I will check it out
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
title made me think Waffle House menu was getting bizarre in 2023
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:53 (one year ago) link
aight gonna add this to my playlist!
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 03:49 (one year ago) link
songwriting reminds me of sheer mag, like thin lizzy worship with some punk energy
i like it but wish the production wasn't so flat / compressed
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 August 2023 03:57 (one year ago) link
add this to "albums you've pointedly ignored..."
been listening to this lately yeah, it's pretty good, i've listened to the first 2 tracks a lot more than the rest
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 August 2023 04:32 (one year ago) link
I really dig this!helluva guitar playerthough as budo mentioned I like it enough that the horrible production bums me out, this record needed to breathe, it's so flat and lifelesswould really like to see them live, assuming he stretches out a bit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF2z-oSemnQ
― mizzell, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
would really like to see them live, assuming he stretches out a bit
def check out Spiders in the Rain, the Wand live album, I think that fits the bill really nicely. it's got a 20-minute jam on it.
https://wand.bandcamp.com/album/spiders-in-the-rain
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
totally agree about the production - anemic and overcompressed. strange that this wasn't addressed when the tones themselves seem so lush. if i was capable of riffs this fine i'd want them to be presented in the most appetising way possible!
― Hospital Radio, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
(also, if a mod could change the title to Cory Hanson, that would be great)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
thx mizzell! jvc - will check out the wand record
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
enjoying it but more like Walt Mink and Built to Spill. Play too smart and tight to be Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
western cum
― ivy., Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
this sounds like it's probably pretty good and I hate that name more than pretty much anything
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
it is good! and, yes, the name is terrible. if I hadn't already been following him because of Wand, I'm pretty confident I would have ignored it as well.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
His voice does have a reedy Neil Young quality in a few spots, although his singing ain't too strong (I know you gotta work with what you got). Some nice riffage, but songwriting not so much. Agree about the flat production & terrible title.
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
funniest thread title to get double-posted in a while so maybe the name is good
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
chiming in to say i saw Wand live last year and holy shit they were amazing
― alpine static, Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
who cost themselves more sales: this guy w Western Cum or Dry Cleaning's pube soap cover for Stumpwork?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Name albumWestern CumTo wash away the sales?
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
Pretty great album indeed
― nostormo, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
co-worker: Western Cum in the conference roomILXor: I'd like some of that in my ears!co-worker: o_O
<ILXor goes to conference room, sees it's Kanye West holding an urn>
ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
He Cums Clouds
(sorry)
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
bob wills is still the king (of western cum)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Western Cum is a hilarious and excellent title, y'all are just prudes.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
I mean, I literally clicked on this thread because of the title, so maybe I am the ideal audience. I'm western, and I cum.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
In the spirit of Lefty Jizzell
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
I'm "team this is a bad title" but w/e. I will take this opportunity to command you all to listen to Wand's Laughing Matter, an underappreciated album IMO.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
Great album and great album title IMO.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 18 August 2023 22:28 (one year ago) link
tbh the album art is worse than the title
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, August 17, 2023 5:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
to my ears it sounds more in tradition of Spank Williams but ymmv
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
and maybe a bit of the Sploogin' Bros.
― budo jeru, Friday, 18 August 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
the title does roll off the tongue
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 August 2023 23:56 (one year ago) link
Sing it to the tune of “West End Girls”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 19 August 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
i like the record, don't really care either way about the title. it does have a bit of the same thing that garcia peoples had for me which is like this is really fun guitar-based rock music with lots of cool riffs and good playing and whatnot, but for lack of a better term the stakes seem incredibly low. there's not much in the way of emotion or aggression or anything like that and i think that holds me back.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 19 August 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
yeah admit i downloaded it based on the way people were talking about it and i might just delete it, i hate this lol. great name for an album tho
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
haha based on what i know i would not think this would be to your taste. i can certainly find things to like but he's a bad singer and it's just kinda lightweight.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
we stern cum
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 19 August 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
I keep seeing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Cwm
https://sites.google.com/site/emmaslittrips/_/rsrc/1472763571699/himalayas/into-thin-air/expedition-history-of-mount-everest/maps-of-everest-routes-and-deaths/1aerial-routes.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 August 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
Minerals, cum deposits daily
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 August 2023 03:02 (one year ago) link
dum diddy dumhere i cum
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 August 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
Maybe we can get a mod to update the title to add "(and other Wand related happenings)" or something.
New Wand album announced, out 7/26: https://wand.bandcamp.com/album/vertigo
not sure I dig the AI aspect of the video, but the lead single sounds killer to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-k95sYVVk
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 22:01 (five months ago) link
WAND
Join us for the official music video Premiere of "JJ" happening today at 4 PM EST/3 PM CST/1 PM PST:www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUS80Z3-isthere will be q+a!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUS80Z3-is
there will be q+a!
in two hours from now.
― meisenfek, Monday, 17 June 2024 18:00 (three months ago) link
Not sure what I think of the new Wand just yet, didn't expect so much of it to be so.... mid-90s Radiohead. It's not bad and I need more time with it, it's just different from what I expected.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 July 2024 19:38 (two months ago) link