S/D: Thin White Rope?

Yeah idk

They put out a record a year which were all great and sometimes masterpieces, the records were readily obtainable, enough critics liked them, they toured like fuck and (I’m surmising from recorded evidence) played hard at every show, seems like they acted like clowns offstage while touring but not unusually so.

Am I right that they more or less stopped because of frustration + weariness with their sheer underratedness? It pains me. There could have been more of these songs.

It would have been interesting if they'd been able to persist for a couple of years more, with the weird Krautrock edges starting to resurface among newer bands at the time like Stereolab. But people will make their decisions.

am only semi serious here but they were never buddies with sonic youth unlike dinosaur jr or nirvana or mudhoney or whoever. mind you, the lunachicks were and it's been a long while since i heard them played in asda

I guess I forgot one factor
Bad band name, not catchy sounding and also pretty gross when you unpack it
But that never stopped (lists a zillion terribly formed names of successful bands)

Am I right that they more or less stopped because of frustration + weariness with their sheer underratedness? It pains me. There could have been more of these songs.

― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, March 14, 2018 10:59 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a cycle, though, innit? Like, you get called "underrated" and "overlooked" in enough reviews, that becomes your story, because every review thereafter just parrots the ones from the previous record that talked about how overlooked and underrated you are.

Still, from the looks of it, all's well that ends well. Guy seems to be doing OK, at least, and I bet he's happier where he is than he would be on the road in hellscape 2018

Wish I was around when these records were new, though. Never got to see these guys, had no idea they existed until it was too late

if anyone is still short of live stuff, this youtube channel has quite as few shows up of varying quality:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tAnV9M2FKiJF2pDbXU0hw/search?query=thin+white+rope

https://preview.ibb.co/ggJoxx/twr.jpg

aww, maybe this was the final nail in the coffin for TWR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKzXyB_9ZI&feature=youtu.be&t=2720

fuck, https://youtu.be/cUKzXyB_9ZI?t=2723

...i hate this business of visiting my hometown...

Cmon, fess up...you were in Mature Innocence

Jesus, maybe the name "Thin White Rope" isn't so bad after all. "Pause and Effect" sounds like a band Gob Bluth would be in

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On Some days Puppet Dog is in the top 5 best songs ever list

By the way, the lyrics/credits booklet PDFs weren't included in the remastered Bandcamp downloads so I asked Frontier about them. They had been forgotten but have now been added. Redownload to get them.

Remastered Moonhead LP arrived today - sounding great! I still wish they could 'remaster' a new drummer on these recordings but hey

Think I just got asked to pass this on from the guy who's upping the TWR sets to dime

a note to user nicknamed MaresNest over at a twr forum
i am absolutely fine with you "wetransfering" the files for forum members
just keep track with updates like the 1989-07-12 Vienna Austria U4 FM sound-upgrade from 2 days ago as the pool should stay as clean as possible

sorry can I delete that last post and repost an edited version.

Thanks Steveolende, I will grab that next week and put it up for those that desire it.

OK I thought I'd posted a name I possibly shouldn't have. So everything's ok then.

yes please! xpost :-)

Ah, thanks for the nudge Stan, here 'tis...

https://we.tl/koO86us0Fv

Thanks x 1000 again!

http://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/sack-full-of-silver-2018-remastered-edition

http://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-spanish-cave-2018-remastered-edition

Shame they don't have soundfiles on the website.
Don't think I've really seen that on bandcamp before. Since i thought that was one of the main purposes of bandcamp.

they'll probably enable them on the release date, next Friday

and they're out - Mr. Limpet & Hidden Lands are the sample tracks on bandcamp.

oh wait, all the tracks are playable

Tempted to get the cds. I've all the original vinyl, but I'm playing more and more cds now

yeah played through all the lps on there yesterday and this morning.
Am tempted to get the cds again. I think i got most of them before. Don't think I got Ruby Sea though.
What's in the booklets?

The Ruby Sea hasn't yet been remastered, right?

Oh, thought it might be coming. Wasn't up as such when I listened to it last night. But thought they were doing them all in batches.

Yes I imagine you're right.

I may wait until Ruby Sea appears then buy them all....

the pdfs are just the lyrics sheets/booklets as they were before

they were going to do the first 5 albums this year, so I suppose The Ruby Sea is still coming up

The digital version of Moonhead has four extra tracks compared with the original vinyl. As you can see I'm getting tempted here...

Seemed like they shuffled around what was on as extra tracks from previous editions.
I think I had a coupl eo fthose tracks on In The Spanish cave but not sure where Roger's Tongue came from.
Some of that stuff is off the Bottom feeders e.p. isn't it? Not sure about chronology of tracks recording so where they fit.
I saw taht In The Spanish cave had Munich Eunuch again

Can’t wait to compare the sound quality of the new Triangle Song mastering. I don’t want to go into detail rn but there are things about that recording that have really bugged me

One of my favourite songs

Do tell us what bugs you!

Then again, maybe it'll start bugging us all....

do you mean the way someone is fiddling with various instrument volumes all the time and how some of it sounds like liquid stereo (I always imagined they reconstructed that track from tapes they had thrown away initially)? yeah, it's still like that.

Yes. That.

there's probably some clever reason they mixed it like this, but I can't figure it out.

do mixing desks have randomisation buttons with a triangle on and it felt lol funny to use it for this song? (triangle = D = delta = difference in math writing)

That almost sounds like a thing someone would do

Late realization, but watching live videos it's so obvious that Guy Kyser started life as a banjo player. His thumb pick and hand posture are typical Scruggs style.

http://blurtonline.com/feature/story-behind-album-ruby-sea-thin-white-rope/

The Ruby Sea remaster is still coming up + Lisa/Frontier might do an odds and ends compilation and a remaster of The One That Got Away

Thanks for this!