― ddb, Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link
"I had two CD's that came out in the last couple of months. One was this trio with William Hooker and Roger Miller on Atavistic, and another one that's just a duo of me and this young electronics kid from Toronto: we did a duo set up there. Stuff like that comes out when you have a live recording that sounds really good. And there's more stuff like that about to hit. I've got this other group that I play with called Text Of Light, an improvising quintet that weplay with old experimental avant-garde films. And it's Alan Licht, another guitar player from New York, and DJ Olive, or this other DJ, Christian, and either Hooker, or this other drummer Jim Bond. It's like a five piece, and the saxophone. We're having a CD that's coming out in May, and a couple of vinyl releases about to come out."
― Stewart Gardiner (Stewart Gardiner), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link
Chuck Eddy was OTM 'way back when he opined that you'll never listen to it, but it's fun to look at. (Only reason I still have mine!)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
This is exactly why I no longer enjoy noise-the waves of condecension are so thick 'tis not even funny.
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
kekekeke.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link
least usefull post ever. I'll look them up when I'm home, I've always been a big fan of Lee's and have enjoyed his solo stuff and am suprised to see no mention of Scriptures of the something or other.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link
totally agree on "Genetic," btw.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link
A solo record of songs was completed this summer and slated for realease early in 2012, with band contributions from Steve Shelley, Nels Cline, John Medeski, Alan Licht and Bob Bert.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Awww, Bob Bert. Where did this come from? Cool news, regardless.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lee-Ranaldo-Official/158711314207687
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
so fucking pumped for that
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Man, why wait? Would listen to that right now. Really excited, though not sure what to expect. It does say "solo record of songs", but don't want to get my hopes up too much.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
i think in general the word on this record has been that it's going to be much more of a singer/songwriter deal than his previous solo joints. if people want to take a few months to set up a record they put a lot of work into i have no problem with that.
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
i'm seeing this thread title as a topic on maury
― goole, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
xpost: I get it, was kinda kidding cause I feel like this kind of record has been talked about (and anticipated) for a long time. Am cool with Lee making it as great as possible, if that is indeed what he is doing. Will actually buy it no matter what at this point, just to support Lee for all the joy he has brought me over the years.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Nels Cline being on it is some serious icing on the cake for me
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Could have thought of a better word than seriously, but shit yeah, fuckin A
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
summery
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Saturday, 14 January 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
keep lee away from that faggot beat poetry shit.― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:33 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 January 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
:(
i bet i'd like this lee record? i always liked his sy songs. sy were my fave band in high school.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 14 January 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
would def like to see lee play in hoboken with Rhyton, cuz rhyton are a good band.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 14 January 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
hey, if it makes you feel any better, i don't think i've ever heard a lee ranaldo solo album.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
i got a LOT of stuff to listen to...
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
i'm kind of in a record rut right now. not excited by stuff as much. enjoyed listening to 45s for a while tonight tho.
i'll hear the new lee record because [CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT] but i'm not expecting it to become a favorite record of mine or anything. idk. maybe i'll be surprised. liked but did not love thurston's latest lp.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
i have heard east jesus whatever-the-fuck
because i was a big sonic youth fan at the time that album was released.
think of me then, though.
teenager in the mid-90s.
dont it make you crY?
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
this first mp3 http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/lee_ranaldo/lee_ranaldo_off_the_wall.mp3 sounds pretty middle of the road! but i like it, it's got nice guitars.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
really loving the album. it *is a little more middle of the road than SY, but Ranaldo's a strong enough songwriter to pull it off.
― Harvey Weewax (stevie), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
that mp3 sounds better than most of demolished thoughts. sy have devolved into making 3rd rate malkmus-like jams.
amarillo ramp is a great overview of Lee stuff.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
heavy "mote" tracers from the "off the wall" verse. nice song, not blown away, but as soon as it was over, i wanted to hear it again. catchier than most of from here to infinity.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
i would hope that his first album of song songs is at the very least "catchier" than all the drones'n'poems records of the past.
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
ha, yeah -- seems like this is basically going to sound like a latter-day SY record with lee on lead vocals throughout. which is cool with me. looks like he's adding a bunch of tour dates, too. would definitely go see him if he comes my way.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
god if nels is in the band for the tour too...
― lana shel game (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
opening for m. ward ... wah wah wah[and i even like one of m ward's records...just seems like a lame fit]
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Like The Who opening for Enuff-Z-Nuff
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
whole album streaming here: http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/leeranaldo.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
this is great so far!
― konybrony (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm digging it. nothing that wouldn't sound too out of place on a latter day SY record, but some nice touches -- I think that's Nels Cline on "Xtina As I Knew Her"...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
And yet there's Lee in the Brian Turner interview portion from his WFMU session Tuesday having rhapsodies about how nice it was back in the old days of the album as this magical unit of music-delivery, when you could sit down and read liner notes and look over personnel info and groove on cover art etc...lol.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's too bad, but I do think you can pick out exactly who is playing what on each song, you just have to listen to them to figure it out. Seems like an odd thing to leave out of the liners though.
― grandavis, Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah as a Nels Cline stan i had a similar frustration with an Eleni Mandell album he played on where the liners were not very specific as to what he played on but there were of course some tracks where it was obviously him
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I like this better than the Thurston joint from last year!
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ me too.
Really loving this album.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this is better than it has any right to be - pretty much confirms my feeling that I mainly stuck with SY for the Lee songs
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
I read a couple of the negative reviews while listening to the first couple of tracks, and nearly bailed. I'm glad I didn't. This is a good album!
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
BBC review by Spencer Grady: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6z5c
― EvR, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
i Just. Don't. Get. people who can't write about this record without slighting SY's other work, etc, but i guess i'm pretty avowedly an SY fanboy by this point. this new lee album is thoroughly excellent, some of his best works, as was thurston's demolished thoughts, as was murray street, etc etc
― Nascar Pony (stevie), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
i preferred the thurston album. at least it had tunes whereas this is noodling along. thurston did evolve whereas lee just does not change at all. does the world really need this kind of stuff in the 2010s?
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
what kind of stuff does the world really need? other than love, sweet love.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
I liked new Thurston and Lee both, though they're very different albums. Not the BEST by either, though.
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 29 March 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
i think maybe if Lee had given the Shelley/Cline/Licht ensemble a band name to credit the album under it would've gone down better as a Wild Flag-type supergroup thing
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Lee Ranaldo & The Angels of Licht
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
just saw this: http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/8797-lee-ranaldo/
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
fun article but i wish he'd been a little more personal and idiosyncratic with his selections, obviously Nevermind and Daydream Nation have personal significance for him but i dunno
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah not terribly surprising stuff in there. liked the anecdote about playing marquee moon in the lecture hall.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Boring list, thought he'd stick a few more interesting albums for the 'guitarist' in there
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
And Pavement as favourite band of the 90s, jesus
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
the coda part of 'Fire Island' is lovely, wish it was the whole song
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
nice piece by Lee on the Dead, mentions a new alb:
http://thetalkhouse.com/features/view/lee-ranaldo-the-grateful-deads-long-lost-concert-documentary-sunshine-daydr#.UkCl8cWAD74.twitter
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link
stream of new rather poppy album:http://www.clashmusic.com/news/exclusive-stream-lee-ranaldos-last-night-on-earth
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 3 October 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Lee finally accepted my FB friend request last month! Thanks, Lee!
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
really digging Last Night On Earth, only halfway in and am already pretty sure it's an improvement on Between The Tides.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Lee performing on Conan tonight!
― Reince The GOPer (some dude), Friday, 13 December 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
i loled at this:
Mike Wolf @thismikewolf 9hSome might call it Alan Licht's nat'l-TV debut. MT @matadorrecords Lee Ranaldo & The Dust are on tonight's "Conan" (TBS) @leeranaldo
― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 December 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
doing a live set on WFMU in about 10 minutes:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Nice! His solo records are so underappreciated
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
playing sometime soon at the bell house with steve gunn & somebody else? might have a guest spot if you'd wanna go morbz.
― ian, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
Ian, pretty sure that Nathan Bowles is drumming for the Steve Gunn band on this tour, and maybe is opening the shows solo as well? Something like that.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
New album on Mute tomorrow: Electric Trim.Interesting roster: Shelley, Sharon van Etten, Alan Licht, Nels Cline, Tim Luntzel, Kid Millions. Lyrics co-written by Jonathan Lethem on six songs.
two tracks:Circular (Right As Rain) (love this)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNK7N5L6jCk
New Thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HWSUaqPd4
Trailer for a documentary on the making of the album (more info here: http://montclairfilm.org/events/the-thrill-of-the-creative-process-in-hello-hello-hello/)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNK7N5L6jCk
― willem, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
oh crap, here's Circular (Right As Rain):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2XRnzj-YmE
― willem, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
the album is wonderful. his best solo yet.
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
Listened once on Spotify. Some really surprising moments. I'm not sure what I think of the spoken bits but the melodic songs are hitting the spot, for the most part. Ranaldo, Cline, and Licht all playing on a Beatlesque pop record seems like a good idea!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 September 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
"last looks"!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link