― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― mono tony, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― xx@ww, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
for my money steve shelley really came into his own around the time of those SY instrumental albums and their motorik-esque groove has benefitted ever since. and my favorite drummers of all time are the two tonys -- thompson and williams.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
If I am being fingered for having initiated the discussion it was only because your comment that Shelley was a "fantastic drummer" struck me as maybe being a bit of an exaggeration. (And my only claim in that post was I'd never noticed him being particularly "fantastic.")
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Matthew C Perpetua (perpetu...), April 18th, 2006.
are you talking about that syncopated tom-tom-tom-tom-tom-tom-hi hat thwack groove he gets into?yeah: killer. one of the coolest rock beats ever.
― kevinod, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Call me crazy, but this is the album they should have released after "Daydream Nation" (first album on a major label, "alt rock" breaking through on the radio, why not?)
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Matos, thanks for the tip on the meters' funk, it's anything but rigid.
― mono tony, Thursday, 20 April 2006 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mono tony, Thursday, 20 April 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Shelley sometimes reminds me a bit of Anton Fier with the bu-bu-ba, bu-bu-ba thing, which might be part of why a lot of recent SY reminds me of Chatham + vocals, which never seems quite as compelling as turning Branca into pop. I'm thinking you could probably sneak Die Donnergotter past a lot of casual SY fans these days, something that couldn't have happened in '87.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link
!
(Surely not as spazzed out?)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Macaroni Face, Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Fowley wasn't *always* spazzed out...there's this hyper-aware "rock and roll voice" thing going on on some of his more straightforward stuff that's very similar to the current SY vocal style. It's probably always been there, but seems to be increasing. Or maybe it's just that the vocals are so far forward on this one.
― dlp9001, Friday, 21 April 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― mono tony, Friday, 21 April 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Perry, Friday, 21 April 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I could picture Cecil playing along with a rock band - he'd just kind of do his thing and the band would do theirs - sort of like the duo concert (later released as a record) he did with Mary Lou Williams where she was playing boogie-woogie and stride stuff while Cecil pounded away with the cluster chords and chromatic runs.
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
i dunno how i feel about this record.
― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, thats what "jams run free" sounds like!
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― mono tony, Friday, 21 April 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― 6335, Friday, 21 April 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't seen a confirmation of this yet, but when I first heard about it a couple days ago I was immediately reminded of how bad Free Kitten was. Please, music gods, do not let this happen.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Friday, 21 April 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― thousands of tiny luminous spheres (plebian), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― juno crunch, Friday, 21 April 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
SORRY! I COULD NOT RESIST!
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Why don't you think instead of how awesome he was in Pavement?
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cougar, Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
"1979" always reminded me of the song "Psychic Hearts" by Thurston Moore.
― Vic Funk, Saturday, 22 April 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― show me some great monkeys, Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
no."goo" was their last great album.
― eccentric ex, Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link