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you ARE a chump. i made them for Julio instead. what are you after?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 July 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

"there's a hunger in my hands / i try to rub it into your body"

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

jed, are you still around?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(crickets)

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Smog. I still haven't found my copy of Supper.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha he promised me one too amst and I only live down the road!!! : /

colin is still around though. keep saying smog he shd pop up.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm around now am!st. mail me :)

with every mile, another piece of me peels off and whips "down the road."

This is a good time for both of you as it happens.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cold Blooded Old Times" is one of the saddest songs I have ever heard in my life. Like, heartbreaking sad.

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy at Benway Records in Venice jumped in when he saw me buying Julius Caesar and told a story of how Bill C was crashing "in a closet or something" at his friend's pad in San Fran and one night ol' Bill came home and said: "I bought this acid, who wants to take some with me" and everybody said "Whoa... no way Bill, you're too strange already...we couldn't handle you on psychedelics!"

I like that story.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I still love Julius Caesar the best. Kim Osterwalder posted a message on my board a few years ago about the cello parts she played on the album:

I remember one time I worked with him, but not the other. He brought his 4 track to my house in san francisco. The windows were open you could hear the traffic outside on the recording. He sort went through the song with me a few times as a "rehersal", and after the second time he said that he had what he needed! So he got something completely different from me than if I had known that track was being used on the record. I hope it turned out good. I know I was out of tune, but Bill didn't care about that! I've gotten a lot of compliments on that record over the years, too! People really like Bill. . .

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

She "doesn't remember" the other time she worked with him...hmm. Maybe it was her apartment.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

will email you, jed. or is it colin?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic for these, at least: "Dress Sexy at My Funeral," "I Am Star Wars," "All Your Women Things"...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

dear bill,

please bring out a new album.

thanks

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 February 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to Red Apple Falls a week or so ago. I was wondering if a lot of people from my generation (I'm 37) missed out on that album. I was into Smog early on, but lost interest around Julius Ceasar. I only heard Red Apple Falls because someone made me a tape of it. I think it's one of the great albums of the late '90s!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Question: I have only the barest knowledge of Smog, or (Smog) or however, but "Held" (from Knock Knock, I think, came across it on a Domino sampler) is fantastic...has he done anything else along those lines, or is it fairly atypical? I'm not so much into the freak-folk lo-fi thing he seems to get pigeonholed as, but that thump-thump-shuffle Tom Waitsy rhythm in "Held" absolutely kills me.

― Telephonething, Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Download "Dress Sexy At My Funeral" and "Somewhere in the Night" for starters

I like him - lyrically, especially, he's inspired / inspiring

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

try "bloodflow" from Dongs of Sevotion too. yeah its fairly atypical - glam rock!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

and "song" from rain on lens.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

and "short drive" from the same album, actually that's probably the closest to "held"

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

classic. through and through

― zach faver, Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

I just picked up Rain on Lens at the show. I don't know if I like the whole album, but "Song" is one of his best.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I have to say, I am also completely a "nu-smog" guy. Why would anybody want to take that voice and muddy it up in lo-fi?

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

That song about Grant McLennan is fantastic.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

what kind of stuff is he playing live nowadays?

― acidmouth (acidmouth), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

He did a few tracks from the new album, which I don't know too well. I'm pretty sure the opener was "Say Valley Maker." He did Dress Sexy at My Funeral later in the set, and he did Cold Blooded Old Times as an encore, ending it with a super noise jam in which the other band, Feathers, joined him on stage. There were a fair number of songs I didn't recognize, but I don't know his last couple of albums very well.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

i think the only pre-knock knock tune he played when i saw him was "Bathysphere".

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

might have to give the last album a bit of a listen before i see him then.

― acidmouth (acidmouth), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

That song about Grant McLennan is fantastic.

-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...), August 14th, 2005 8:17 AM. (later)

smog not smudge!

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Both dirty things.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Smug

― amon (eman), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

He is a bit smug, but I have nothing against smugness in itself.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I'm seeing this guy in a week in a small café.

Is he any good live?

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Sunday, 27 August 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

he can be! sometimes he does velvet underground-esque dirge workouts which are hit and miss.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 27 August 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

hm. anyone know where i could find the peel session made in 2001 where he covers vu's "jesus" and fleetwood mac's "beautiful child"?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 15 September 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

red apple falls is staving off suicide this week, for sure

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Good album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

was just listening to that in the car. CLASSIC. although the newest Smog is my favorite. hope there's a new one coming soon.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh jess, don't say that :-/

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Liked smog circa Sewn to the Sky and Julius Caesar ('92, 93). Scurrilous racket + defeatist brain hurt = hits. After he started writing songs and making records, I kinda lost interest. That said, in the universe of songs and records, Red Apple Falls is pretty damn great. A friend used to play it all the time, and I didn't mind a bit.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh not really colin. it's just been a rough week.

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle LP/CD DC385 forth. 2009

― schlump, Saturday, 6 December 2008 05:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.zuverza.com/job/bcallahan1.jpg

― schlump, Saturday, 6 December 2008 05:36 (seventeen years ago)

wow, his best cover in ages.

― J0hn D., Saturday, 6 December 2008 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

<3 the title

― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

not using the Smog name now?

― akm, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

nope, not since his last lp woke on a whaleheart

― enasinben, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

googling the title throws up this. mmmm.
& i know the above's a poster; i don't know how it'll correlate with the sleeve.

i liked the last cover.

http://dragcity.com/catalog/posters/dc332post.jpg

― schlump, Saturday, 6 December 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

really love the cover. last cover was cool too. wasn't so keen on the songs though :/

― circa1916, Sunday, 7 December 2008 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Those looking for Callahan’s old viciousness might be struggling here, apart from the odd hiss and snarl on the exceptional motorik of “My Friend”. While “Whaleheart” was conspicuously jolly in parts, in stark contrast to some of the earlier records like “Rain On Lens”, say, the general mood here is reflective. He still has a capacity for good jokes, though, notably “Eid Ma Clack Shaw” – the title comes from the narrator reading back “the perfect song” he wrote in the middle of a dream. Callahan sings an entire verse of this, all entirely incomprehensible. Weirdly, though, it’s also one of the most profound and moving, as well as funny, songs I’ve heard in a while.

did anyone hear this yet? apparently it's all syrupy-strings, which sounds like the couple of (pretty good) cover things he's put out recently, kinda rhodesy and tasteful.

― schlump, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

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