a thread for Italians Do It Better

kinda intended for this thread to start off talking about how great Tiedye are

i don't really understand what baeleric music is.

but this one song sounds kinda nice.

i guess balaeric music is like if The Edge played in a disco band?

wait now it sounds kinda miami vice

like dire straits brothers in arms guitars

is axel f balaeric?

i like this song.

Whoa that is some hammy guitar on "Nothing Else Matters".

yeah the guitar is total schlock but that's what's so great obv

i don't really understand what baeleric music is

judging by your next few posts .... yes you do

I don't think I can stomach it.

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this stuff is kinda cool.

like half of me thinks i should be dancing.

half of me thinks i should be watching martin riggs from lethal weapon have a dark night of the soul.

i guess balaeric music is like if The Edge played in a disco band?

he did once, kinda
http://www.discogs.com/release/31585

Is that record any good because the line-up makes it sound awesome?

I bought that a couple decades ago just because of The Edge (I had no idea who the other people were at the time). Wish I still had it.

yeah no doubt i'd never heard of that?

I used to hate that record (cause it doesn't sound like Can, lol) but now that my taste is all balearic beardoed out I think it's awesome

me too, but i sold it a while back :(

even has lyrics by arthur russell.

label is fucking good

just heard that edit tiedye did of tom petty. love it.

The TieDye track is brilliant, by the way, by some distance the best thing I've heard on this label.

That record sounds so cool. I really want to go record shopping right now.

Produced by KEVORKIAN?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW9qZNcZTQ8

this is great actually

didn't mean to derail this into a Snake Charmer thread but it seemed on topic at the time :)

so all that stuff on Tiedye's page you can download free! very cool. I think the Italians 12" is out of print anyway (won't be re-pressed in case it attracts the wrath of Lars)

Actually Tiedye stuff is really cool, nice warm drum sound

really dry sounding

back to the matter at hand, did anybody snatch a copy of the after dark 3xlp??

I had to stop being completist with them, already bought the After Dark CD and have a couple of the 12"s so I took a pass on that one. ditto the Tiedye 12", I saw it in a store once but it was 10 bucks for a one-sided record. I do like the track though.

(on the other hand I would buy an LP version of Glass Candy's "Beatbox" in a heartbeat to get Candy Castle and Digital Versicolor on vinyl ... )

DMR: That TieDie single is available on eMusic, FWIW.

thx, I'm not subscribed there but I got it off their website (the link in the first post)

back to the matter at hand, did anybody snatch a copy of the after dark 3xlp??

That's what I bought a couple days ago. I figured they were all like that...?

some of them are CDs.

if you go straight to the source, some of the stuff is cheaper
http://www.troublemanunlimited.com/store/non-tmu.php

I didn't realize IDIB was part of Troubleman, cool!

yeah its a sub label. Ordered loads off TMU in the past.

It's such a great label, they're good to order off then? I've been wanting this Religious knives thing for months, and I'm loaded right now. Well by my standards.

I've never had any problems, some southern lord board/dffd and vlv posters hold grudges from long ago over them, but i know the mailorder has been ok the last 3 years or so since i started ordering

the harvey milk lp they put out is one of my favourites

cool, i'll check it out!

Its nothing like Italians Do It Better stuff obviously.
Woods, Growing, Warmer Milks, Isis Live 2 are other really good things I ordered from them that I can remember offhand.

looking at http://www.troublemanunlimited.com/store/lp.php reminds me there's still quite a few vinyl i still need to pick up actually.

That link is gonna be HELL on my credit card.

You did notice that the cd section has a special offer on? (distro stuff doesn't count tho)
Im skint and cant afford anything but I just looked at the distro section and saw stuff i've been looking for ages to get.

I can't really justify buying CD's anymore. Especially as trying to organise my CDs, I've discovered a LOT are missing.

OUCH! Shipping is V. Expensive to Europe.

I know. Relapse and Archive cd are the only place that isn't these days.

way cheaper if I buy it off amazon anyway...

if you take postage into account

The most telling thing is Jewel's own statement, which says he's proud of his work with "the project" — not even "the band," just another Johnny Jewel project. That kind of thing could grate on anyone. (Especially since it wasn't his band to start with.)

(Not blaming Jewel for that, tbh I think of Chromatics primarily as a Johnny Jewel project too. But that plus dicking around forever with releasing/not releasing an album, it's not hard to imagine frustrations)

i have no idea about the other albums but the rest of the band all have writing credits on various kill for love tracks, so i'd guess the creative process was probably somewhat more collaborative than jewel has often implied

JJ definitely took over once he and Adam hooked up. Those first two Chromatics albums are DRASTICALLY different.

Dear Tommy is now Chinese Democracy 2.0

Glass Candy's Body Work has been teased for more than 10 years now but I don't think Johnny Jewel has said anything about it since like 2013. Would be much more excited to hear that than Dear Tommy at this point

glass candy is next

— Mike (@MikeSimonetti) August 13, 2021

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This Madonna covers compilation is both unnecessary and mostly enjoyable.

It's not on IDIB, but since she doesn't have her own thread, the new Tess Roby is out today and just as good as the first one.

Yes absolutely, loving it!

Cool, I need to check that out. There is (allegedly) also a new Desire album coming out in early May. The singles I've heard so far are alright--competent renditions of the IDIB aesthetic but not too exciting. That's pretty much how I've felt about most of the JJ-produced material after After Dark 2 (though I love Chromatics' "Just Like You").

Since I've given up hope on ever hearing Glass Candy's Body Work the one IDIB thing I'm (tentatively) excited about is a Farah full-length, which seems like it might actually happen in the near future, but who knows. I love everything she's ever put out.

quite liked telling me lies

It is with immense pleasure & excitement that we share After Dark 4 with you this Friday.

30 artists from 11 countries deliver 27 tracks for the endless summer of your dreams.https://t.co/f14NDpv9u4 pic.twitter.com/f5JFvEr78I

— Italians Do It Better (@IDIB) August 9, 2022

Is anyone going to the IDIB showcase in Oakland on Thursday?

The Club Intl song is my favorite thing in here.

Good comp

the website really does not make it easy to find new albums !
the causeway album sounds totally my thing.
only heard about it via a dig around on discogs.
no mention of it via the 'mp3' page.
same re several other new album digital releases.
that said, i shouldn't complain given how much a digital album costs.

Adam Miller from the Chromatics put out a nice album of dreamy slow guitar stuff:

https://mradammiller.bandcamp.com/album/gateway

The Causeway album is really good. I think there will be a vinyl release next Spring. Think a few IDIB vinyl releases have been caught up with pressing delays.