My wife gives this album a thumbs up--says it reminds her of Leonard Cohen.
Every time I listen different lyrics pop out, like "I haven't seen you ages/I still fly into rages at the mention of your name...Christine."
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
was listening to Sam Prekop last nite and think that maybe his use of "cheesy" horns and "jazzy" stuff on a successful idie rock record was kind of in this vein
― gr8080, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
different flavor of cheese imo
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah obviously. there was one track that was less funky/jazzy where the horns kind of got spacey that got me thinking tho.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Uhm ya, my review: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Destroyer+hits+creative+high/4161000/story.html
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― President Keyes, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:52 PM (41 minutes ago)
....whiiiiiiiiiiite"
yeah this has always been a favorite line of mine
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't it "Christine White"? I think that's the name of an old Canadian newsperson or something, which is a funny fake name for whomever she was. How true that sentiment
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i just finished the lyric
no idea who she is tho
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i hate to get all meta, but what other bands/acts generate this many posts before the record comes out, just curious. destroyer is like ilm catnip
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
actually it was me grady and a couple other dudes for several weeks until it was obvious this would be a big internet deal, then it got BNM, etc
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
hey i was out there pretty early too! ;)
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing tops the rubies thread for sheer volume tho i bet
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ya to be honest there's only been a few of us really in this thread, it's not like the My Big Fantasy thread.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know that one, will check it out
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Kanye, I mean.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
that killed my buzz for "My Big Fantasy" thread
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
can someone explain "MIDI record"
― wow...... hmmm.... crazy...... damn….. (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 January 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I just bought two tickets for the Webster Hall show. Better be better than the one I saw a few years ago!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 January 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
if this is in reference to Your Blues, that record's instrumentation consists solely of acoustic guitar and transparently fake-sounding instrument samples that sound like they're MIDI-sequenced
example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTo8fjGUgs4
― ciderpress, Thursday, 27 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"It's not a war/til someone loses an eye"
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I kind of get where people are coming from with the whole MIDI thing, but realistically, most current music that has electronic elements also have MIDI sequencing. It's a pretty standard thing and doesn't necessarily have a particular sound associated with it.
― Moodles, Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, yes and no. When one says "It's his MIDI record" they're actually referring to a late 80s / early 90s set of sounds called General MIDI. It was not a sound in itself but rather a set of 127 instruments that would be represented across the board from bargain basement Panasonic digital pianos to the "top of the line" Kurzweil varieties. Consistently 001 would be "Piano", 020 was "Strings", 049 was "Harp", 090 was "Warm Pad", etc. (I am recalling those numbers from fifteen-year-old memory, they are possibly incorrect.)
The General MIDI sound, though not applicable to a single synth, usually describes a sound that could be described as a latter-day version of the Fairlight. You'll hear fake trumpets, fake strings, timpani, etc. It's the sound you hear on karaoke backing tracks, panflute buskers, mattress commercials.
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i figured as much. though i'd probably call that his .MID albumwhen i think "MIDI album" i think yamaha DX7, tango in the night, early digital recording/production, kaputt
― wow...... hmmm.... crazy...... damn….. (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i need max on this thread
― gr8080, Sunday, January 9, 2011 6:23 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
omggggggggggggggggggggg this album why does no one tell me about these things
― max, Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
would be fun to feed your_blues_midi_files.zip thru gxscc for some trashy 8bit goodness
― wow...... hmmm.... crazy...... damn….. (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
im curious why terius can use the linndrum on yamaha, sound a whole lot like prince and is awesome but this record is being scoffed at for sounding vaguely reminiscent of steely dan? seems kinda silly. oh well, haters are missing out bigtime
― wow...... hmmm.... crazy...... damn….. (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
my wife, my 17-month-old daughter and I were all dancing to this record in the kitchen last night
― tylerw, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:33 PM
aw!
― markers, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i was watching the baby last night while my wife was out and the baby was getting kind of crazy and overstimulated so i put on this album and was carrying her around and she fell asleep on me, which she never, ever does. so i guess babies are down with destroyer.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 January 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Phantom of the Opera ref, IMO.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, OK, I don't remember reading this:
oh man starting at abt 5:00 of "bay of pigs" pretty much is everything i love about this dude in a nutshellhavent seen you for agesstill fly into ragesat the mention of your name...christiiiiine― tickle me delmar (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink^sounds like a beautiful postmodern take on "phantom of the opera"― tickle me delmar (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:24 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
havent seen you for agesstill fly into ragesat the mention of your name...christiiiiine
― tickle me delmar (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^sounds like a beautiful postmodern take on "phantom of the opera"
― tickle me delmar (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:24 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i have no idea what you're talking about
― thomp, Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
heard this album is going to knock the decemberists out of the #1 position on the billboard charts.
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Just in case lack of a legal way to hear this for free is holding anyone back, the whole album is streaming on soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/hypem/sets/kaputt/s-I2Ja2
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
More an intertextual reference to "Painter in Your Pocket," but sure.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp i had to load up billboard.com to make sure you weren't clowning and that the decemberists actually have a #1 album
wtf
― ciderpress, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, with a whopping 94,000 records sold. Social Distortion got to number three, with something like 50,000. Those numbers aren't shabby for indies, but I bet it feels like coasting in on a technicality, especially with Taylor Swift still selling millions her first couple weeks.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― ciderpress, Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
They only sold that many because Amazon was offering it for like 3.99.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
haaa, was just kidding. heard this record is going to get a 10.0 from p4k though for real.
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
kaputt 10th anniversary blu-ray tetraphonic audio remaster w/ 20 minutes of bonus kosmische will be a definite 10.0
― wow...... hmmm.... crazy...... damn….. (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 January 2011 17:01 (5 hours ago)
no "the laziest river" ;_;
― in my room, redefining the meaning of black crowes (Edward III), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ok so just now hearing "the laziest river" and wow! it's no instrumental but wow!
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Saturday, 29 January 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this album a lot. I can understand how people could hear Steely Dan in this, but I think this has more of an early-80s sequencer vibe - so I'd say a closer reference point would be Donald Fagen's solo joint The Nightfly or Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out", or Pet Shop Boys, or Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man, or Ian Dury - or basically any mid-80s record that featured a guy with an un-commercial sounding voice singing highbrow lyrics over sequencer-driven, dance-inspired music.
― o. nate, Saturday, 29 January 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
So I just bought the vinyl version and downloaded the digital copy and I'm wondering how they relate to each other. Are they exactly the same? Does the epic mp3 for The Laziest River contain the entirety of side 3?
― Moodles, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
y
― ullr saves (gbx), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the world is just bones
― talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Monday, 31 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the world is black stones
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20458872,00.html
Read through to the "yacht rock" reference. Should generate a comment or two...
(By the way, I like Bejar's shirts. Anyone know where I can get similar ones?)
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20459529_20901309,00.html
Sorry. For the shirt question above...
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link