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― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Dave I saw your tiny fist around a leper's titJesus walked right by you and you didn't give a shitAndy killed an animal, he killed it with his handAnd gave it all to me because I was a woman then
I remember Clay was turning blue from some diseaseHe picked up in London in the 1470'sGot to laugh at Lloyd, he will deny it to his deathThat he's the one who never could extract that pound of flesh
That clip of It's OK up-thread never fails to kill.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
somehow it'd never occurred to me before, but having read that interview, i'm listening to "down in the desert", and it's like, beefheart, duh. influence is v obvious, that staggered little bump-banana-bump bass/guitar riff on the verse.
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Thursday, 11 July 2013 10:34 (ten years ago) link
she throws firebombs on the highwayglass flashing and the bushes burrrningon both sides, so far away at nightin the rearview watching twin red lights
she's not an insect, i just hear that humming in my mindnot an insect, not her eyes...
"soundtrack" is the best fucking song, so thrilling & mysterious (and creepy as hell)
do sometimes find myself wishing becker were a more more interesting drummer (sorry). that careening midsong transition needs muscle & fire, something more than polite timekeeping.
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Thursday, 11 July 2013 10:53 (ten years ago) link
those first couple of minutes of Red Sun are pretty damn sublime, aren't they just?
― charlie h, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
"Red Sun" is one of those songs like "Guest Informant" where every version is the best version. One of my all time favorite slide guitar riffs too.
― Thelema & Louise (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
When Guy sings the first line of Red Sun I get goosebumps, the way he bends the word 'down' is fantastic.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
OHHH LORD YYE
― Thelema & Louise (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
EEAAAHHH
Impossible to decide what the best bit of Red Sun is. There's a lot to be said for those trumpets you know.
― Ralph Vogon Williams (NickB), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Just found out that TWR were booked on Pan AM Flight 103 but missed the connection, jeez.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 22 December 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
hadn't heard that either. blimey!
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Sunday, 22 December 2013 10:06 (ten years ago) link
John Lydon too, according to Wiki
― MaresNest, Sunday, 22 December 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes To Hollywood was supposed to be on the flight too
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 December 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
my friend thomas was supposed to be on that flight, and then was. con
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Monday, 23 December 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
...grats to celebrity disaster avoidance tho
This is one of those bands I've always meant to hear (remember Byron Coley writing up In the Spanish Cave for Spin) but have never actively sought out. But now the whole catalog is on Spotify, so hooray! A new band to investigate on vacation!
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 23 December 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
everyone reps for moonhead, but spanish cave is a miracle, iffy production and all
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Monday, 23 December 2013 03:19 (ten years ago) link
Every album is great except to some extent The Ruby Sea.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 December 2013 07:56 (ten years ago) link
I love The Ruby Sea, not a weak album in their discography imo. Sure it's their slickest, but on songs like Puppet Dog this works so well against the (still) gritty nature/intent of the material.
― willem, Monday, 23 December 2013 09:48 (ten years ago) link
Well if it isn't about the time of year for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVvfIV3eO4
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
just wish it went on for longer than 30 seconds
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:09 (ten years ago) link
this is from the same session though and this is truly great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRRxU5vddg
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
not seen this before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrOX35dMGI
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that was not there last time I searched them on YouTube.
Valley of the Bones is such a great song.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Really good '88 audience recording just gone up on D1m3
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 December 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
ooh no shit? I don't have a membership there but maybe it will appear on some other trrnt sites.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 29 December 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
It's actually not as great as I thought quality wise, but it's still pretty smart, any live TWR seems to be often more enjoyable than the records.
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 December 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
only ever caught them once live in a festival tent but they were a mighty force of nature if that was anything to go by
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Monday, 29 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Thin White Rope - December 2, 1989 Cattle Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwUWAtfq7Y
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Sunday, 8 February 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
Wow, this has to have been one of the earliest threads in my ilm career. Thanks me for reminding me to listen to Thin White Rope tonight.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 February 2015 07:14 (nine years ago) link
Brilliant find, thanks NB!
― MaresNest, Sunday, 8 February 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
thx x 1000 !
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
oooh, there are 2 more shows on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8uPMMPSEew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn33_mlrtEU
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
What does The Ghost remind me of? Can't put my finger on it, thinking of something Neil Young/Springsteen covering Woody Guthrie kinda thing?
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
it's amazing grace w/ new lyrics
― contenderizer, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Duh. Ok, thx
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
a surprise glimpse of twr on the guardian homepage this morning:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/24/cult-heroes-thin-white-rope-were-scorched-alien-hostile
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
he sang as though his insides were clogged by some mighty existential furball and he was trying to cough it out song by song.
lol & otfm
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
as i've said before, any day where there's new writing about twr is a good day!
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Last I heard, Kyser had formed some kind of demonic bluegrass band, which is a pleasing thought.
― willem, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah i never heard about this either!
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Supposedly as of 2014, Kyser had sold off all of his guitars and has been steadily rejecting reunion offers.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
reunion offers from kunkel and the other dudes or...?
i love guy whether he ever plays/writes again or not. would love to get the chance to shake his hand though TBH.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Don't have specifics. Probably the usual suspects: Part Time Punks in LA, Primavera Sound, other band members.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
what did ppl itt think of the Mummydogs album? I liked it, would've liked to hear them develop further
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't wonder if TWR ever got hit up for somebody's Meltdown or ATP once or twice.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
just noticed that MOONHEAD is thirty years old this month
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Turned into a TWR sorta day. Found myself pondering the similarities between Black Hole Sun and the Triangle Song - not just the sonic similarities which are fairly strong imo, but the whole shared theme of astronomical bodies as some sort of solution to existential pain.
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the revive, that live clip of "It's OK" upthread just kills so much, it will always be to my lasting regret that I never got to see them.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 9 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link