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I imagine I probably still like grandaddy but haven't listened to them in ages and never bought or heard the record that this thread was started for

oh, well, they split up

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

i don't like this

― rizzx (Rizz), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

The split or the album?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

as the hermit said in life of brian, "oh damn damn damn damn".

a real shame.

― whatever (boglogger), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Grandaddy had a weird position in the indie rock landscape. They were the band that sounded enough like one of your favorite bands to be worth checking out, but they were never anyone's favorite band. Did Sophtware Slump rank decently high in P&J?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

i thought a new album was supposed to come out? this sucks

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

oh I guess I should read the nme article

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Fuck. I really liked Sophtware Slump, it just fit perfectly in my life at the time. I'll give it a listen tonight and enjoy the memories. I always wanted to see them live, guess that's not going to be happening any time soon now :(

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad I saw them support the super furry animals in glasgow. I never did get along to any subsequent tours. Damn.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I did get to see five shows, so I am lucky (sorry, blatant bragging on my part here)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

i really enjoyed grandaddy.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Catching Grandaddy at The Paradise (Boston) in '03 was and remains, without question, one of my Top 5 Live Shows of All-Time (Radiohead at Glastonbury in '97; PJ Harvey at The Academy (NYC) in '93 -- also in there to give some context).

Suxxor that they likely won't tour for their swan song. Although there's no tellin' if Fambly Cat will be Sumday II or a return to Sophtware and/or ...Freeway form. If the former perhaps we should just immerse ourselves in the latter and thank Lytle & Co. for sharing the two with us.

All in all, Grandaddy'll be missed.

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

saw grandaddy, bright eyes & home at the khyber back in the day. the only time i ever saw any of those bands! sophtware slump was brilliant.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

i really liked them. dude's fondness for cats was a little creepy, though.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

they were indeed thrilling live, they rocked those beards hard. saw them twice and it makes me feel good

― rizzx (Rizz), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Did Sophtware Slump rank decently high in P&J?

this question is somwhat ridiculous as there are zillions of people that know what Sophtware Slump is as opposed to 50 who know what P&J stands for

― Rizz (Rizz), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

*who know

― Rizz (Rizz), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah grandaddy were the shit, I saw them three? four times... the first as a fluke when highway came out at a label showcase, no idea who they were. after that it was exclusively when they were opening for bigger bands, they got the luxury of playing great sized rooms that really worked for their sound. oh and once I saw them play for free at justin herman plaza outside inthe cold here in SF. that was the last time I guess.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Mark OTM. Despite some great recordings there was something dude-ish and off-putting about these guys where it would feel kind of embarassing or at least kind of boring to really love them. I really really liked Sophtware Slump at the time, but they peaked at being my second-favorite band of the times, and rapidly declined after I kind of got sick of that album and couldn't find too much to love in their first one. "Summer Here Kids" grates on me, although I adore "Go Progress Chrome." Never got any of the post-Slump releases.

SEARCH: A friend of mine turned me on to "MGM Grand," which is a great direction for their sound, more uptempo, lyrics less cloaked in dumb metaphors and just concerned with telling this kind of freaky, dream-like story of some kids throwing a sick lion off the roof of a building. The one track by them that I'll be putting on mixtapes twenty years from now, and for which I'll really mourn their breakup, is "Protected From The Rain," a very simple, affecting (somewhat emo-y) ballad.

DESTROY: All album titles. Maybe those were why it was hard to get really excited about a Grandaddy album coming out. I mean... "Just Like The Fambly Cat"?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I saw them play the Leadmill in Sheffield some time in 2003. The whole band and crew were in the curry house round the corner before the show. It was the last night of the tour and they seemed a little, ahem, drunk. Someone on the crew had slipped photos of Jason Lytle's dog into the visuals, which prompted him to stop the song and collapse in a fit of giggles. Also, the girl stood next to me was sick. Good times.

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

P&J
26. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker (Bloodshot) 344 (34)
27. Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump (V2) 339 (35)
28. Le Tigre: Le Tigre (Mr.Lady) 329 (29) *

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

something dude-ish and off-putting about these guys

their beards were what were so great about them! they didn't even remotely look like the kinds of guys that would be making soaring ELO inspired synth epics! they looked like a bunch of skaters!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

they were huge sounding live, "crystal lake" especially. too bad everything they put out after "slump" was kind of shitty. "slump" is a classic now.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

this will cheer everyone up:

http://www.stewdio.org/jed/

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:08 (twenty years ago)

you know all the times I saw them I never heard them play Crystal Lake, it was like the avoided playing their hit or something

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

thanks, cutty. that was awesome.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

weird - I saw them at a Noisepop show in 2000 and thought they were horrible, tons of equipment problems, tuneless twiddling... never bothered with the albums, all their titles seemed so cloying and proud of their "look at me, I'm making a pun!" cleverness.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

something dude-ish and off-putting about these guys
their beards were what were so great about them! they didn't even remotely look like the kinds of guys that would be making soaring ELO inspired synth epics! they looked like a bunch of skaters!

-- kyle (akmonda...), Today 1:05 PM. (akmonday)

Jason Lytle was a pro-skater prior to blowing his knee to bits and taking up music.

To you folks unfamiliar with Grandaddy's hometown/base, they were from MODESTO, CA. I don't know how many of you have ever been there, but guys, this is not Los Angeles, San Francisco, or San Diego... it's the backward suburban central valley that Steve Malkmus paid tribute to with "Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends/We'll watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame"... and unlike Pavement (SM in Portland/Spiral in Seattle), Grandaddy were lifers.

I hadn't seen them since their record release party for Sophtware Slump at the Cafe Du Nord in June 2000 (it was a great show). I actually only heard one song of their's since then ("Now It's On" which I think is a great song!) but I often see members around (friends of friends) and they're always been really cool, mellow dudes, dudes.

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

TS: Modesto vs. Visalia

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Dude Grandaddy did not play Noise Pop in 2000 (although your band did).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

modesto = lacey peterson

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

And if you mean 1999, I was at the show too and had a song dedicated to me, yes, Steve Shasta by one of the opening bands!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

steve shasta posts on ILX now!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

haha - yeah I'm mixing up my years (sorry)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

steve shasta is my factcheckingsecondcousin

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Modesto = Gary Condit/Chandra Levy, too.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 27 January 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Modesto also =(more or less) American Graffiti

― wmlynch (wlynch), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

why the general non-love for sumday? not as varied as the slump, but a brilliant realisation of a different period in the band's life - or so it seemed to me.

the rugged and splintered entertainment center is a top post-sumday tune too.

― whatever (boglogger), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I was at the same show! And I was also next to the girl who was sick! Wow.

Didn't Elbow support if I remember rightly? I bought the Any Day Now EP that night I believe.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

RIP, I liked The Sophtware Slump a lot. Everything else was just OK, and they probably would of done better if they took chances and released that doulble album instead, last time out or manybe they didn't have enough good songs for a 2CD set?

― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Never got to see them live, though i had meant to see them in Glasgow on the Sumday tour. I have a rather cool Grandaddy frisbee. I second the love for Protected From The Rain upthread, it's a beautiful, beautiful song.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Fambly Cat leaked, it's pretty good. There are some crazy loud guitar songs on this. The first song is terribly sad. Best song: Where I'm Anymore, with the "meow meow meow meow meow" background vocals.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 February 2006 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Best song: Where I'm Anymore, with the "meow meow meow meow meow" background vocals.

Heh...that one bugs the hell out of me.

― a. begrand (a begrand), Friday, 10 February 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

After two excellent albums in a row, always looking forward to more material from Grandaddy.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

well, this'll be the last time you have something to look forward to

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

i love the 2nd song, have to get used to the others for a while i guess, lytle's vocal parts seem a little different than before. the intro is very sad indeed

― rizzx (Rizz), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Heh...that one bugs the hell out of me.

it is from the POV of a lost cat, therefore = most ILX friendly song ever

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://jasonlytle.com/famblydemos.php

― StanM, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

sorry for the bare link, but it's all explained there :-)

― StanM, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Not even seen the link.
Just saw the thread.

If you old timers were there.Leeds Festering.1964. or ws it 2004? Jase having a pop at the so called punkers on the mainstage? He called it quits shortly after.

How could the fat old bearded skater compete with all that make up and gloss?

And ZERO tunes

― Fer Ark, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

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lovely stuff ty

― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:50 (nine years ago)

Blimey. Not thought of this band in years but quite like that.

Looking at Discogs, is it right that this will be their first recorded output in 10 years?

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:27 (nine years ago)

Yes, first in ten years and very promising it is.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:50 (nine years ago)

There was a live set on one of the torrent sites yesterday. I thought I hadn't heard of the band being active in years.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:55 (nine years ago)

The album's been delayed to next year, btw. Recent live set:

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/grandaddy-au-cabaret-vert

Cabaret Vert festival, 26 Aug 2016, Charleville-Mézières, France

Hewlett's Daughter
El Caminos in the West
Laughing Stock
The Crystal Lake
My Small Love
Chartsengrafs
Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake
Disconnecty
Now It's On
Way We Won't
Summer Here Kids
A.M. 180
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot

― StanM, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:44 (nine years ago)

Now It's On is a jam.

― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:55 (nine years ago)

Nice!

― king konta (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:47 (nine years ago)

Not wowed by the new track. Sounds to me like a slightly sluggish amalgam of the go in the go for it and OK with my decay. I wasn't so keen on post-sumday material but this seems like a weary retreat.

― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:41 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

Tragic news:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kevin-garcia-grandaddy-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-w480373

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:04 (nine years ago)

Damn. RIP Kevin.

― wtev, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 05:52 (nine years ago)

GoFundMe page set up to help his family pay for medical/funeral expenses, etc.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:42 (nine years ago)

whoa, RIP. I hung out for an afternoon on Grandaddy's tour bus a million years ago and they were all super friendly guys.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:54 (nine years ago)

four weeks pass...

Wow, just found out about this. He recorded one of my band's first studio session probably a good million years before tylerw was on their bus.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 05:12 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

New interview (and, separately, new song video) with Jason L.

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/06/20/533045354/with-new-video-grandaddy-finds-humor-in-grief

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 13:39 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

new Grandaddy song, released last Month

https://www.facebook.com/jasonlytle/videos/vb.64053877826/450247192595652
https://jasonlytle.bandcamp.com/

― StanM, Sunday, 5 January 2020 14:35 (six years ago)

one month passes...

I like the new song.

― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:47 (six years ago)

seven months pass...

Sounds nice enough, haven't quite decided whether I'd throw Lytle $10 though ...

https://jasonlytle.bandcamp.com/album/the-sophtware-slump-on-a-wooden-piano

(That sounds really snarky of me, it's not really meant to).

― djh, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:45 (five years ago)

awwww

― imago, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:49 (five years ago)

Whoa.. This is good! He'll get my $10 no problem.

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 07:03 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Oh, it's happening as a physical item now.

http://eustore.dangerbirdrecords.com/products/677628-grandaddy-the-sophtware-slump-on-a-wooden-piano-cd-bundle

― djh, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:11 (five years ago)

eight months pass...

don't give in 2000 man

― mookieproof, Friday, 2 July 2021 04:20 (four years ago)

two years pass...

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

they kill me every time <3

― imago, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:49 (two years ago)

should never have left the crystal lake

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:39 (two years ago)

hope there's some sad robots on the album. but I'll buy it either way, it's what they deserve.

― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:15 (two years ago)

two months pass...

Blu Wav is out there and it's very nice.

― StanM, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:57 (two years ago)

such a lovely album yeah

― imago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 13:45 (two years ago)

bought it, listening now, suddenly feeling really depressed. coincidence?

― ledge, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:46 (two years ago)

it's more melancholy than depressing to me but I can see it could be, yeah

― StanM, Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:48 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

I am very late to enjoying Grandaddy. I never connected with Sophtware and honestly never even noticed each time they put something out after that, nor did I realize they’d broken up or reunited. But I’ve been gradually making my way through their discography and it’s all pretty nice. Not mindblowing but consistently enjoyable. Just getting to the new album this week and I’m really liking it.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 29 September 2024 00:37 (one year ago)

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