That's a great album, and I really like it 100% for real, but man this song is something else! It's so overwhelmingly obscenely creepy and totally way too long but he's like "i'm gonna play this creepy song as long as i want, fu who can't take it" and i really admire that attitude (as long as I like the music, which i do in this case).
questions - 1) is he aping some style i'm not familiar with? if yes, who? specifically.
if no,2) why is this song not more famous?
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
the newest one (...Hey! Badfinger) has yet to click with me.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 25 April 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
i haven't heard it -- what's it like?
also i didn't mean creepy like crepey -- i meant sinister/spooky/creepy (which is not the same thing)
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
parts of temple IV are very sinister/oppressive!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
i haven't heard that onei'll check it out!
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it just comes to mind because he's covered them, but Ill at Home sounds like it could be a 154 era Wire song. The Graham Lewis stuff.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
wow, that's an interesting observation! I gotta re-listen with that in mind.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
ooh, you are totally right, like a mutual friend or the rhythm from single K.O.!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
jeez 154 is so good
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
so did anyone else pick up this compilation of rare tracks on the label run by grouper's liz harris?
this one: http://www.discogs.com/Roy-Montgomery-324-E-13th-Street-7/release/5617716
it's a reissue of a 1999 compilation I've never actually seen, in pretty fancy packaging with a poster and stuff.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
also should i get the hey badfinger thing? the record store down the street has it for $9.
that comp is essential. crucial. Something Else Again is one of my favorite singles ever, and the Shallows is necessary.
― dan selzer, Friday, 9 May 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that comp is above/beyond. Have it on the original run. (RIP Drunken Fish.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 May 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
sold
― sleeve, Friday, 9 May 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
three bonus tracks not on the CD edition as well... interesting! just snagged a copy, thanks for the news!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 9 May 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Is it his usual guitar stuff or are there other instruments??
My drum part for Ill at Home is coming along and now I can't really think of the song without the drum part, which makes me wonder why I keep trying to ruin perfectly good Roy Montgomery songs?!
― funch dressing (La Lechera), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
I think one song has a tambourine? but yeah, pretty much all guitar + vocals.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
jeez, amateurist, I am envious of you getting to hear this compilation for the first time. my favorite is some other time.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:27 (ten years ago) link
got one from Little Axe distro in PDX for $24
I have the E.N.D. single on Drunken Fish but have never heard the rest of this stuff afaik
― sleeve, Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link
Ooh, I forgot how gorgeous Times Three is.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 10 May 2014 06:40 (ten years ago) link
4 Album box set of new material out next monthhttp://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/montgomery-roy-r-m-h-q-headquarters-4lp-box-pre-order
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, that looks fantastic, I posted last week about Spotify leading me on by posting new Roy Montgomery: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg
― JoeStork, Saturday, 10 September 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
gotta hear about him sometime
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 10 September 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
I posted that Roy Montgomery link to the proper Roy Montgomery's facebook wall to much hilarity.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 10 September 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
but seriously, I ordered the box set, and... that is a lot of roy montgomery all at once!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 10 September 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
No complaints, of course.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 September 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
Anyone have "Live At The Gladstone Hotel"? There's a hidden track or two tacked on to the end of "Hurricane Fighter Plane", anyone know what they are?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 10 October 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
It's out: https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-m-h-q-headquarters
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
just in time for autumn cold front!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
It's quite lovely
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
If I had to pick one song:
https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hungover-heroes
It's called that for a reason.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
just bought the digital but it doesn't have the tracks broken up into the 4 "distinct" LPs. Is the individual tracklisting anywhere?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
R: Tropic of Anodyne1. Tropic of Anodyne2. Dear Future Loser3. You Always Get What You Deserve4. I Was A Distant Star5. Seven Faded Dreams6. If And Only If7. Hanging Melody8. As The Sun Sets
M: Darkmotif Dancehall1. Rough Take-Off2. 10538 Overdrive3. Little Big Star4. Dazed Pig Dreamhome Slide5. At The Gogol Au Go Go (for Natstya Terekhova)6. Six Guitar Salute To Peter Gutteridge 7. Making Love In A Blast Furnace8. Slow Heroes9. Rough Landing
H: Bender1. Ten Beers With Five Beers At Two Guns, Arizona2. I.O.U. Otto3. Pipeline4. And Later We Looked Up At The Stars5. A Guitar Called Boomslang6. Another David Lynch Thanks, No Ice7. Chasing Monica Vitti8. Cocktails With Can
Q: Transient Global Amnesia1. Otherness2. Riding3. Last Alarm (for Brad Fletcher)4. Unshore5. Weathering Mortality (feat. Emma Johnston)
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
thanks
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
wanted to do the same thing with the digital tracks myself :)
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
weird. on digital files, song is called "Five Bears at Two Guns Arizona"
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
Guessing it should be "Ten Beers with Five Bears at Two Guns, Arizona"
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for that. Arranged the digital tracks similarly.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 October 2016 08:18 (seven years ago) link
some of this stuff is really trippy, closer to like william tyler and dustin wong or kaki king than the blues stuff i'd imagined
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
hahahahaha fuck me i was getting this dude mixed up with roy buchanan, never mind
i was like damn roy done changed his style up in the 80s
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
"down from that hill and up from the pond" and "ill at home" remain my 2 favorite roy montgomery songs, "winding it out in the high country" and that whole album toocan someone give me a little description of what's in this box set?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
you guys this box set is so so good
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
LL, you have probably investigated by now but it's four albums of new material, one with vocals three instrumental. so far I like Bender the most, but it's going to take a while. as a whole it falls more on the scenes from the south island side than the temple IV side, but darkmotif dancehall has some of the heaviness of now the rain sounds...
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
Love his instrumentals but can't take his voice
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
I haven't investigated -- I have been really busy! Thank you -- that's exactly what I wanted to know :) Three instrumental is a good sign!Not a huge fan of his voice either unless he is whispering creepily. It's alright.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
I love his voice because I can sing along to it, unlike 99% of the vocalists I love
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Ha! I know the feeling.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
Love his voice and always happy to hear it.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Bought the new issue of the Wire for the Roy article, probably first time buying an issue since the mid 90s!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
No offense to the Wire, I just don't buy magazines much.