― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link
yes! that ruled! superchunk's devo cover was a favorite back in the day...
"freedom of choice" tracklisting....
1. Ca Plane Pour Moi performed by Sonic Youth - 3:58 2. Rock & Roll Girl performed by Muffs - 2:21 3. Destination Unknown performed by Erectus Monotone - 3:14 4. How Much More performed by Redd Kross - 3:07 5. 5' 1" performed by Tiny Lights - 3:37 6. Pump It Up performed by Mudhoney - 3:09 7. The Wait performed by Das Damen - 3:11 8. Tainted Love performed by Finger - 3:47 9. Wishing performed by It's O.K. - 4:10 10. Dreaming performed by Yo La Tengo - 2:59 11. Wuthering Heights performed by White Flag - 4:00 12. I Got You performed by Connells - 4:06 13. Homosapien performed by Big Dipper - 4:50 14. Mexican Radio performed by Polvo - 3:23 15. Antmusic performed by Hypnolovewheel - 3:56 16. Don't You Want Me Baby performed by Chia Pet - 3:43 17. Hero Worship performed by Permanent Green Light - 5:01 18. Girl U Want performed by Superchunk - 2:35
― msp, Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:24 (twenty years ago) link
(haha, i still have that CD. Still kinda disappointing tho' :( Youth's "Ca Plain Pour Moi" cover rocks it, as well as Erectus Monotone's "Destination Unknown" cover)
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 August 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
Yancey: I can understand the Polvo/Unwound connection, since I got into both bands at around the same time. There sure was an awful lot of that kind of indistinct-roar guitar dissonance in the early 90s, wasn't there? Ah, good times.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 August 2003 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago) link
I also wonder how Polvo has aged... I'd guess not very well.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
and what hstencil said.
― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
also, from what i have:1. todays active lifestyles (OTM about all songs mentioned so far - lazy comet, my kimono, thermal treasure, but ESPECIALLY time isnt on my side - that synth solo is one of the finest kitchen-sink pop/rock moments i can think of...)2. celebrate the new dark age3. cor-crane secret
(ill update when i get a little more familiar with exploded drawing)
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post haha see I think polvo is the ultimate treble band!!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
they definitely used cheaper guitars then sonic youth which explains some of the variance in tones. i'm just explaining that tunings played a pretty significant factor in their "sound" which was largely a sonic youth influence.
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
flip it and reverse it, dude-io.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bum Lik-King Fargit (bumlikkingfargit), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
check out black taj, dave brylawski's new band.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Erectus Monotone is super too (I was raving mystery friend above).
― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm gonna go home tonight and listen to Frozen Like Chandeliers.
― Renard, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.wxyc.org/bandwidth/downloads/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Celebrating_10-Years_of_Internet_Radio_on_WXYC-Chapel_Hill/10%20-%20Black%20Taj%20-%20Woke%20Up%20Tired.mp3
their new record came out a week or so ago and i know they're touring rather soon.
this is what dave says about the band in a fakejazz interview:
http://www.fakejazz.com/fake/archives/2005/04/ncaa_basketball.php
"Black Taj is Grant Tennille from the Idyll Swords, my friend and Inexperience drummer Thomas Atherton, and Steve Popson, who was in Polvo with me, on bass. The record is going to have a few different recording sessions on it. The earliest was from 2002, which we did at Trans Am's studio - NRS - in D.C. Ash Bowie and Brian Quast did a session in Raleigh this year with Brian Walsby on drums. Jerry Kee did a recent session as well. I think we are going to go back to Quanic in Raleigh and get Ash and Brian to re-record a couple of songs this summer. We'll cull the "best" from all those sessions for the album."
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm a big apologist for "Shapes"!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Crazy, he (and Ash I think?) was a chef at 411 West on Franklin Street wayyyyy back in the day when Chapel Hill was one of the coolest places on the planet.
His son said on FB that it was completely unexpected, passing in his sleep.
From what I know of him over the past 20 years, he was a hard working family man who loved his wife and children more than anything.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Super shitty news indeed
― real orgone kid (NickB), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
I mean, I listened to a lot of Bowie and Prince in my life, but I've probably listened to more of Polvo.
What a very nice, sweet gentleman... who also was a ferocious drummer for the first 6 years of that crazy band.
When he left, I felt Polvo was never quite the same.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
i wouldn't change a thing about those early polvo records. way too young of course. rip.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
i was feeling glum and then the purple bear popped up on my ipod <3
― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:47 (eight years ago) link
i'm so excited i could just explodecross your fingers and it might get showni told my parents to stay up latebut it's half past twoand there's been a mistake
― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:49 (eight years ago) link
RIP
so he was the drummer up to and including Exploded Drawing? such amazing records for many reasons, definitely including the drumming. sad I never saw the original lineup live
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, Brian Walsby replaced him before Shapes and after Exploded Drawing... sometime in 96/97.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
I've driven (literally) my wife crazy drumming along to his parts on the steering wheel many many times.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Cranking "Exploded Drawing" so loudly right now. Haven't listened to this for 10 years or so (cause I wore it out so heavily when it came out it is kind of internalized forever hah hah). So damn good.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
"Exploded Drawing" is so awesome - that was my go to on hearing the news - damn good drum record.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
I had the t-shirts on the left and the right:http://i.imgur.com/21nHrUD.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
this video is amazing, and so is this song. DISCUSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMa4-d3JW-8
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
I love that song. Cool guitar solo and nice outro synth doodles too
― real orgone kid (NickB), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
love that warbly guitar thing in the middle and the end. how fucking cool is that?
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
They do a good job of writing classic rock-esque anthems without really sounding like anyone else at all
― real orgone kid (NickB), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Fantastic song. In Prism was my favorite album of 2009, but I couldn't get into Siberia for some reason. I guess I have to try again.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 27 May 2016 08:30 (eight years ago) link
love the filigree, not so much the song. my favorite polvos tend to be fragmentary, abrasive, only secretly tuneful.
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Friday, 27 May 2016 13:06 (eight years ago) link
Emil from Holy Sons/Grails/Om covers them in the latest episode of his excellent podcast: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1633582233421734&id=1280469688732992
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
The closing credits of the above podcast contains an amazing lost/forgotten Polvo-related track from Dave Brylawski:
Idyll Swords - "Autumn In Empire"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATFus6yUf8
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
Totally missed that the Can I Ride ep got reissued as a mini album last year with the two songs off the Vibracobra single stuck on the end. Looks like it was some sort of record club edition? Gone now though - FUCK
Cor Crane Secret and Today's Active Lifestyles get a vinyl reissue this coming week - i kind of want them to replace my own long gone copies but it looks like they've uglified the covers for some reason
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
New interview:
https://www.talkhouse.com/polvo-finally-appreciates-their-own-music-sort-of/
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Avalon - Downhill Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKhsJTrCmo
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
Haha yes that is amazing
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/4531300
~30min HD pro-shot interview/live footage (warts n all) from the 2009 reunion era:
Fast CanoeEnemy Insects (loose jam outro)Every Holy Shroud (new slower intro, spacey long middle section)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
Speed Stick - Knots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO0wp-YYKA
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link