and then he drops a song that is just plain beautiful like I Went To The Store One Day.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
i also just heard abt this guybut the letterman performance was great, i like the theatrical aspect of it
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
listening to his 2012 album
sometimes he reminds me of Nilsson a bit, he's more explicitly bitter and stuff but the same sort of sense of dread and angst bubbling up in these little perfect studio pop productions
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
i dig the novelty of an indie guy trying to Say Something but the lyrics to "bored in the usa" get so corny
― da croupier, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
some of the other pull-quotes here are more promising though
He had to expect that people would have felt that way, hence the laugh track. This part always makes me chuckle: Oh good the stranger’s body’s still here/ Our arrangement hasn’t changed
― Indexed, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
corny != funny unless you are xposting some distance to the slapstick humor post
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
I like some songs on Fear Fun. But I think that croup is correct in calling out 'Bored In the USA'. It doesn't work as well for me as similar stuff from Nilsson (or Newman), such as 'Gotta Get Up'->'Driving Along' or 'Love Story (You and Me)'.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
Nilsson could be sincere and moving. FJM does not try for that.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
you know, I was going to say the same thing. but then I thought 'Oh wait, he has a song titled 'o i long to feel your arms around me''. and well...
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
so I am still looking for something sincere because I think that is something I'm missing compared to Nilsson or Grant.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah i shouldn't have compared him to a great like nilsson
there's a kind of 70s pro studio vibe to it though, grant kinda has that too
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
The schism btwn his records as J. Tillman and FJM is really interesting to me, as the Tillman records are more traditionally "sincere"-sounding, yet he is much more engaging in this new persona. (Which he claims to be a more honest representation of where he's at these days, anyway.)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Nilsson doesn't seem like the right point of comparison to me. If we're talking 70s pro-studio gloss + darkly cynical/sarcastic lyrics about sex and drugs and assholes then the obvious reference point is everyone's favorite Coachella 2015 performers
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
hmmm. FJM songs have so much reverb, though, and it doesn't really sound 70s pro-studio gloss imo. And I don't think you'll see too many drummers drumming along to these FJM songs on youtube anytime ever.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Ideal Husband is great. That second verse is so brutal. I do find his lyrics moving actually.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
guys guys you're going waaaaaay too far back for your reference points
consider bright eyes and later bad seeds
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
ok that was ign'nt since i've only heard bored in the usa
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
haha very ignorant just after flipping through "bored" again and some other stuff. i think his caustic literalness just reminds me of some of their stuff, but the sound is very different
i'll accept he sounds further back, how about a meaner rupert holmes
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
He does have some of Cave's black sense of humour but I hear Nilsson all over this. I think it's the arrangements and the general air of 70s LA barfly debauchery. He wears a string section like an old suit that needs dry cleaning.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTRpLhyVHqI
Life's a constant disappointmentWhen you live on celluloidBut my movie expectations are a dream I can't avoidWaiting for a girl to say the thingsThat I heard in a film last nightBut she doesn't want to play the roleAnd she can't pick her cues up rightWill I dream? Yes, I might
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
his hooks would have to be hookier and his attitude more whimsical (if dark) for me to bring up nilsson above 80 other 70s singer-songwriters
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
As a genre I like "charismatic self-loathing asshole who wrecks everything he touches but has a great arranger".
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
lol that prob deserves its own thread
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
marcus maronus
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
As a 70s singer-songwriter archetype it beats "soulful nice guy who wants you to forgive his fuck-ups because it's so hard making it in this crazy world"
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
you guys are hilarious.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for the divorce album
― Simon H., Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
people put out too many records...these days...
10 albums! (plus EPs and singles...)
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
but how much does he resemble jackson browne?
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
God sends his spaceships to America the beautifulThey land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutifulEating from TV traysTuned into Happy DaysWaiting for World War III while Jesus slavesTo the mating calls of lawyers in love
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
when oswald shot kennedy he was insane and still we watch the reruns again and again...
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton),
You should prob check out Blake Mills' "don't tell all your friends about me" if you're looking for a jackson browne version of this.
― Heez, Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
not that you were
― Heez, Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
i thought that was so profound in whatever year that was...
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
― Heez, Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:57 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I like this. I need to find this thread.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
actually, I saw Blake Mills with Fiona Apple in 2014 and then forgot to check this album out
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
i was asleep and driving my kids to school this morning and i swear this is the first time i ever heard this song. on the radio in the car. i looked it up. no. 2 in the country! who knew? or it was no. 2. sold 190,000 copies. of the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
it was just a weird song to hear in the car in the morning. while asleep. i was all: pop radio is weird or something...where's my all about the bass song i hear twice in ten minutes on the ride to school?
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
it wasn't unpleasant to hear. and way way better than the faux-arcade fire geronimo song i heard a little later on the radio.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
these nu-dudes are all over the place. john grant is the first one i was genuinely moved by.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
funny that john grant also has a song with honeybear in the title
― mizzell, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
sometime last year a critic I don't always like (steven hyden) said something about this album like "it is likely to inspire rapturous reviews and unreadable thinkpiecess" and after several listens to it...that seems pretty otm
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
FJM unveils stunning new digital release strategy
http://www.fatherjohnmisty.com/sap/
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Those SAP'd renditions are great.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Josh Tillman is on some fuck shit. I loved the three new tracks I heard in the lead-up to the album's release (well, leak), but I should've sensed that I was in for a disappointment when I found myself returning exclusively to live versions of the songs. Like the last album, which featured sterilized, overproduced versions of his demos and live cuts--another clue I should've caught--this one has been so diluted in the studio as to make close listening to his lyrics unpleasant.
But, the thing is, even his lyrics--sharp as they sometimes are--tend to veer into their own sort of excess. Which is to say that, for all their wit, they're sometimes so willfully clever, so self-satisfied that they read like the sass of an adolescent who's just discovered sarcasm.
The lyrics and the overproduction, then, work similarly and together: they often seem pointless--and he pointlessly clever, pointlessly cruel--and they more often seem to miss the point entirely--that, for instance, Tillman comes across as more or less the male equivalent to the person he's bitching about in "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment". Maybe that's part of the joke, but the sheer, overwhelming amount of sarcasm and self-consciousness (self-obsession, really) makes it hard to read his intentions well, makes it hard to tell whether and when he's being genuine. I mean, this is probably a dumb question, but my confusion maybe epitomizes my response to the album: he's making fun of us on "True Affection", right, with its vocal effects and its pop-electro instrumental? He's mocking us like he mocks the girl who uses the word "literally" too often and in the wrong situations--as Tillman himself mis- and over-applies his needlessly cutting lyricism and his studio bells and whistles. It seems instructive that Tillman, in spite of his apparent disdain for the girl in "The Night Josh Tillman...", chooses to sleep with her anyway.
― Darvin H.A.M. (AlexPh), Friday, 30 January 2015 07:40 (nine years ago) link
http://grantland.com/features/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear/
excellent longform profile
― slothroprhymes, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
xp based on what he sez in the profile, i think he just wanted to mess around with electro sounds on "true affection" and evidently liked the way it came out - that particular song is not a piss-take on the listener altho it is supposed to be about how frustrating electronic communication can be.
also i don't think how faltering in your own actions in spite of your frustration with someone or something - like, sleeping with a guy or girl you are angry with or even disdainful of - is anything other than an incredibly human thing, albeit a very ugly/unflattering one
― slothroprhymes, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Debates about authenticity are boring and pointless
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
prob but we gotta get these posts off
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 9 February 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
I was interested in his thing at first but the longer he keeps up with this schtick the grosser it seems and it’s retroactively ruining my enjoyment for his earlier material.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 February 2018 07:13 (six years ago) link
"total entertainment forever" is an amazing song― Treeship, Monday, 30 October 2017 14:16 (three months ago) Permalink
were you high bro
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 24 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
"it’s retroactively ruining my enjoyment for his earlier material."
Yes, I'm experiencing this.
― djh, Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
more like father dumb shitty
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, February 24, 2018 8:39 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I wasn’t but I am sort of mystified at my positive first reaction to it now.
― treeship 2, Monday, 26 February 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
he's not doubled down, but quadrupled down on the meta-josh-fjm schtick. tiresome.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link
One of the 2 new songs; Just Dumb Enough To Try is fantastic IMO.
'"Josh Tillman has said the new album is “the real I Love You, Honeybear but without the cynicism”'.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2018/04/fjm.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
new album is great. Definitely feels like a "smaller" record than "Pure Comedy" even though there's still a lot of big-sounding orchestration and slow piano balladry. Lot of great, funny lines, that's for sure.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Jason Isbell's here as wellAnd he seemed a little worried about you
They're co-headlining this summer!?!? Maybe they'll duet that song?
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
man I really like God's Favorite Customer.
― brimstead, Monday, 18 March 2019 05:17 (five years ago) link
He's Back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES2WW4JJ_84
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdkzXL-KO5w
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
Two hour long Barbican show from earlier tonight. Many new bangers debuted. He legit sounds like Manhattan Transfer on a couple. Not a bad thing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIPp53FTYpU
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 April 2022 23:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93hYhytAmI
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 11 November 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
the album from this year is really great. Stunning live show too.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Friday, 11 November 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
This is pretty damn great:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGk0QUXXj-4
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 16:25 (seven months ago) link