w!mb!sh@gma!l.com if the answer is yes. No worries if no.
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― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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― john clarkson, Friday, 21 January 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
ping ping goes the shovelpang pang goes the pailthe middle of summerand the furnace will be burningwhen she gets some mail!
Tourist Woman is also greatNot crazy about the production and a little disapointed in some of Tim DeWitt's drumming; he's usually great.
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― pretzel walrus, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
so, the single is out there. That's That. sounds pretty good.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
nice guy
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
great name, too...sounds like a hero of the Wild West...
― henry s, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
the first song (Lionkiller) on the new album is pretty sweet. kinda dark, with a dinky keyboard riff towards the end. has anyone heard the record?
― mizzell, Friday, 31 August 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
since the last album really lit up ilm, i am proud to announce that a new album, Catacombs, is coming out in June. First single, dreams come true girl, is out there on the internet. I didn't like a lot of Dropping the Writ, but based on the last time I saw him live, I am anticipating this.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
feel a little bad that i didn't hear the last album and now there's a new one. but i'm a busy guy.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
the new album,Catacombs, (he probably thought about this title for years..) is very good.in fact, it's probably one of the better records of 2009.References:John Lennon,Robyn Hitchcock,Calvin Joohnson,Nick Drake,Robert Wyatt...
great, minimal production too.
― Zeno, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only heard one song by him: "Full Moon or Infinity". A friend put it on a mix for me. I really liked it! Is that song of typical quality for McCombs?
― loaf man (Z S), Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know that song.the only record i heard from him is perfection, which is very good, but he changed styles almost totally afterwards.(less 80's more 70's and accesible, in short)
― Zeno, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
also sounds kinda like a richard davies solo record. or bill fay, which is a great compliment.
― Zeno, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i like "full moon or infinity" despite it sounding like elliot smith. i've never heard it mentioned as a highlight, and he has better songs. if you like that song i think you will find plenty to like on his albums. i'm not totally convinced by the new one yet. it's too long by about three songs. the first track is really excellent, though.
― mizzell, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
if you are looking for something that sounds like richard davies, i recommend aptos by the moore brothers, which is probably my favorite album of 2009.
― mizzell, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
"Harmonia" is my JAM right now.
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Sunday, 3 May 2009 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
New record might be his best.
― litcofsky, Saturday, 16 May 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
wow I forgot about cass mccombs. I really liked those first two records and then somehow totally forgot about them.
― akm, Saturday, 16 May 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
dude, she choked on a ham sandwich. preserve what little dignity she has left.
― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Saturday, 16 May 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
akm, I did the same as you. But this new single brought it all flooding back. Such a beautiful song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyeBD4MYRk8
― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 13 July 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda ignored that song at first cause there are too many slow ones on the album but it is really excellent.
― mizzell, Monday, 13 July 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
A is still one of my favorite records of the 2000s!
― 69, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got the new album and listened to it once - "Harmonia" is the track that is really jumping out at me thus far. And "Dream Come True Girl," but that one not in a good way. The rest of the album I need more time with.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw him last night with a new band including andy mcleod on drums and the bassist from bishop allen. they were great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVo7eueP6wA
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm gonna turn this into a youtube thread now. last summer he played this fun, sun records-ish instrumental, wonder if he recorded it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c5wMLspJN8
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZ1QEUwRy8
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard of him until his new one. like it a lot, reminds me of prime go betweens at points.
― Michael B, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i've gotta get this -- i think he's a super-talented guy, and have loved some individual songs over the years, but from what I've heard, he's yet to make a truly great record. maybe this is it?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
It is pretty good - turning out to be quite a grower. I wrote about it yesterday.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
On the other side, windfall has always bordered on the offensively saccharine for me. I still love the song because its really the only saccharine song in his discography, so its worst qualities are balanced out by the rest of the work (I think I'd have no time for this song by anyone else). His wide vocal stage were definitely still there for Wit's End. County Line, Memory Stain (a top 5 Cass melody), buried alive/the lonely doll/hermits cave/pleasant shadow song.... so really everything besides a knock upon the door and saturday's song.
Windfall also has to be one of his only songs with a third section! It's normally always either A or A-B. Amazing how much putting a bridge in a discography without them makes the song sound completely out of character. The more time I spend with Cass's music, the more I grow to love his "one section repeating over and over" songs more
― H.P, Monday, 18 December 2023 23:52 (five months ago) link
A return to a wider vocal range on his new album too. Love the vocal harmonies on Karaoke. The wandering, where the hell is this melody going? vocal lines on Music Is Blue. Every track is interesting vocally, it's the instrumentation and production that I haven't fell in love with on Heartmind (except for Karaoke, a cracker track)
― H.P, Monday, 18 December 2023 23:57 (five months ago) link
enjoy reading your thoughts
I never considered Cass a strong singer, in the sense that his vocals seem a bit fragile or... well, they're very understated... but they work perfectly, live too
can't put a finger on the instrumentation, my favorite from Heartmind is A Blue, Blue Band
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 08:24 (five months ago) link
Wit's End kinda his masterpiece, no? got a vinyl copy. haven't listened to him/it in a long time. pressing is sadly a little loud/surfacey at the beginning of each side. and a little loud otherwise. in that way of modern vinyl. still sounds good though. i do think "County Line" is his best song but the whole album is nearly as strong. i don't know if i have the inner fortitude to do a Cass deep dive right now but this album will do for now.
i got this copy from a musician i know named nat baldwin. he's very nice. he makes cool avant garde music. has a tape label. he just got his Masters! he's moving to town from a couple of towns over. anyway, he sold me a crate of records - which was a very hip crate - and he had a bunch of singer/songwriter LPs that i had never heard. Wit's End was one of them. and of them was put out by my friend Teddy on his Feeding Tube label and somehow i missed it - Ted usually brings me in a big box of FT releases to sell every blue moon - and I think anyone here would really like it. Ned Collette - Old Chestnut. it's REALLY good in a late-60s/early 70s folk-psych vein. it reminds me of a lot of not-famous british singers that i like a lot. anyway, check it out. came out in 2018.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:02 (four weeks ago) link
i started this thread 19 years ago and i'm still listening to the Casster! the Cassaroonie! MC Cassie Cash!
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:11 (four weeks ago) link
Thanks for the Ned C. rec, Scott--going to give a full listen, but on first flip-through that synth arpeggio incorporation on Track 2 is tastefully surprisingly/well-integrated into the folkiness IMO!
Nat Baldwin seems like a v cool fellow indeed--first heard of him through his Dirty Projectors membership.
As an intermediate Cass listener/fan I'd rec next getting into Catacombs and then Big Wheel, maybe?
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:20 (four weeks ago) link
(Oh, I now grok that you've already heard a good am't the Cassster and are re-listening, gotcha)
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:21 (four weeks ago) link
i like Catacombs a lot. i could see that being someone's fave Cass. that has such great songs on it. i wouldn't mind having that on vinyl. 2XLP.
still listening to Wit's End and "Buried Alive" is up there for me too. sounds so good. the guitar especially.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:24 (four weeks ago) link
I remember "Memory's Stain" really blowing me away, too--am in need of a relisten myself!
Have only cherrypicked/skimmed through his Anti- output in recent years, am now thinking I should attempt to give those later albums some (mangy) love
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:29 (four weeks ago) link
don't sleep on Tip of the Sphere!
gotta agree wit's end is impeccable
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:31 (four weeks ago) link
Scott, have you ever listened to this? Cass is in this group:
https://theskiffleplayers.bandcamp.com/album/skifflin
― Evan, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:33 (four weeks ago) link
that Skiffle Players album never clicked with me. I kinda want to sell it, given the prices it seems to get.
― mizzell, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:42 (four weeks ago) link
I saw him play a small intimate gig with Steve Gunn last Thursday. They did a gorgeous psychy rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme".
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 6 May 2024 17:04 (four weeks ago) link
Skifflin'! oh man no i didn't know about that one.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:12 (four weeks ago) link
"County Line" is one of my favorite songs.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 May 2024 17:16 (four weeks ago) link
that Ned Collette album i praised above is kinda like the new Taylor Swift. the first LP is perfect and all you need out of an album and then some. BUT if you want more there is a 2nd LP.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:19 (four weeks ago) link
The “Coo Coo Bird” cover is good! I like the Skifflin’ album
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 6 May 2024 17:48 (four weeks ago) link
I don't know why exactly but this one really gets me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWX09AivQGk
― Evan, Monday, 6 May 2024 18:59 (four weeks ago) link