My favourite too.
They are a very good live act but the setting may have an impact. I saw them in a church in 1996, or thereabouts, and it was close to perfect.
I don't know if much has changed in the last fifteen years but Hope used to be a bit edgy when she sang live. She didn't seem to like interacting with a crowd and walked off stage in the middle of shows, on at least a couple of occasions, when people shouted stuff at her she took offence at.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, 16 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
All three albums are essential, but I can't imagine them being any good in a live setting like Coachella*. I saw Hope Sandoval a few years ago in an intimate, gorgeous theater, and even that setting felt too demanding for her.
― Evan R, Monday, 16 January 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
(*not that I wouldn't try to see them there anyway if I had the chance)
And new album finally en route...
http://www.spin.com/articles/mazzy-star-california-stream-seasons-of-your-day
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
the b-side to that 7" from last year was pretty great!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
oh it was a double A-side... "lay myself down" was the good one.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
This track is soooooo good.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
it's great how they do so much with so little. i need to figure out how they get that reverb.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
cool stuff. was just listening to that hope sandoval solo record from ... wow, more than a decade ago? it is totally great.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
RIP Keith Mitchell, the amazing drummer on all the Opal and Mazzy Star stuff:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mazzy-star-drummer-keith-mitchell-dead-w482297
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 15 May 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Ah man, that's a shame. Truly the underrated factor in all that work.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 May 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
:( RIP
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 May 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
damn, that is too bad — very cool player.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 May 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Aw, that's sad... RIP Mr. Mitchell, you made many great records!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 15 May 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
I'd dare to say I like the first Warm Inventions record better than *any* Mazzy Star record. Not that I don't like Mazzy ...― tylerw, Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:36 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tylerw, Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:36 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
somehow i never listened to bavarian fruit bread before but man it is killer, certainly as good as any mazzy record imo
― marcos, Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
"suzanne"!!!!!
― marcos, Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
The hunter record she recently brought out is solid too
― tinnitus the night (Ross), Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
Everything she's ever done is good imo but nothing will top STTIMS for me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
yeah i may have been slightly exaggerating back in 2009, but whenever bavarian fruit bread comes on (it's a fave of my wife's) i'm struck by how good it is.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
TBH i kinda feel that way about the second warm inventions record - through the devil softly - which gets more plays than any MS record around mine
caveat of course that i like mazzy star just fine but TTDS just hits the spot for me more consistently and deeply, it always feels a bit heretical when i tell friends tho'!
i saw the warm inventions tour that record and it was a really beautiful show (although i heard that some of the other dates on that tour were a bit troubled)
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
New single is lovely: https://youtu.be/WBbEVzgoEhA
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 27 April 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
oooh, new EP in June! so happy they're in the studio these days
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
You made my day
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Mazzy Star are coming to Los Angeles:
February 26 & 27 The Cathedral Sanctuary atImmanuel Presbyterian ChurchPresale:Thu, 1/17 at 10am – Thu, 1/17 at 10pmPassword: CELEBRATEPublic On Sale: Fri, 1/18 at 10am
― Bee OK, Thursday, 17 January 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link
i think i need to go!
they're really good live!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 January 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
I think I might need to go too!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 January 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
BTW, Hope Sandoval is on a Bobby Gentry tribute album, singing "Big Boss Man" - In Praise Of: Bobbie Gentry, "The Delta Sweete"
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 20 January 2019 07:02 (five years ago) link
So I went to the Oakland show and one of the LA shows, and they were pretty magical. Especially the LA show in a gorgeous old church. Listening to the after-show banter at a nearby bar, was amused to hear how many fans were aggrieved that the stage was unlit so they couldn't get any good pictures or even see Hope Sandoval. They had a big screen with these animated overlays that changed for each song that was great though. Some fans don't know they're born.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
i forgot all about these shows, glad you had fun Hazel.
― Bee OK, Friday, 1 March 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Hoping for the best
😢Yesterday I got bad news, diagnosed with breast cancer. Still processing the whole thing. Please send healing thoughts and pics of puppies, kittens, snakes, tardigrade, and space things. Thanks.— Suki Ewers 🎶💫✨🚀🛰🦠🧬🧪 (@sukianemone) February 20, 2020
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 21 February 2020 04:37 (four years ago) link
RIP David Roback.
https://pitchfork.com/news/mazzy-stars-david-roback-dead-at-61
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
Damn
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
oh no, that is terrible news! one of my absolute favorites
― avellano medio Inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
RIP. Damn shame.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Shit.
― Mule, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
I just listened through the Mazzy-catalogue just the other day. Love them.
― Mule, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
RIPsuch a great sound, and enduring I still run across new bands of people in their 20s that are clearly influenced by Mazzy Star
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
so much "dreampop" owes them a huge debt
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
Mazzy Star were EVERYTHING to me in the early 90s, and led me to the wonders of Opal too. I'm really shocked.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
RIP
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
RIP. She Hangs Brightly is all-time.
― Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
some of the druggiest music ever made, it hangs in its own special hazy sweet spot and practically makes the walls drip when it's playing
(meant as high praise)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
The guitar tone of "Ghost Highway".
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:57 (four years ago) link
This is horrible news. He meant a lot to the LA scene. RIP
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-02-25/david-roback-mazzy-star-dead
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
No way... This really sucks. Amazing sounds and moods.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
Being quietly destroyed here by Still and Seasons of Your Day - inevitably I spent less time with them than the early records but there's no loss of magic.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
Cause of death is cancer. :-((
― nathom, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
god these records sound SO GOOD, so much space, great sound, everything
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link