Rodan/Rachels: Classic Or Dud/ Search & Destroy. (RIP Jason Noble - August 2012)

i'm with gygax. the best high school poetry = heavy vegetable and clikitat ikatowi. thought that might be hometown bias.

FYI heroin formed at torrey pines hs in del mar, ca in 1989 during their junior year. they broke up in 93. Rodan released their first single later that year.

aaron and ron formed antioch arrow after the heroin breakup.

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in my previous life! che cafe and world beat center yo.

if you have tortoise beef, kindly take it here

What, grapefruit beef wasn't enough?

Plus McEntire is hands down one of the best drummers, any genre, I've ever seen, and god knows I've seen a few...

What's happening here with the Rach?

Love the sounds. Music for egon (the artist) slays.

Punkers should hear Rachels

Rachel Grimes, of Rachel's, has a solo album out now, "Book Of Leaves (For Solo Piano)". You might (not) be surprised to hear that it's a solo piano album; 14 short pieces, largely reflective, melancholic and perfectly suited to autumnal times, with a couple of more rousing jazzy sections.

holy crap i listened to rusty last night

i haven't listened to rusty for about 8 years. Downloading now.

I'm really liking it, it fits so well at this time of year; despite being recorded in summer times (in 2008) it definitely has an autumnal feel. It's very intimate, just beautifully recorded solo piano playing, with some field recordings of birds at a couple of points, but nothing too obtrusive. Music to make my heart ache.

I just got a copy of Rusty too, it's dead good.

Reading about following this solo album it turns out that Rachel's weren't named after Rachel Grimes, she wasn't even a founding member. I assumed it was, so you live and learn. Named after a car apparently instead.

rusty is amazing. i also listened to hoover's "lurid traversal of route 7" last night

Rusty is brilliant. I like the Rachels and enjoyed the Rachel Grimes album.

I've never heard Rodan. I was big into Rachel's, though I only caught them after the fact. I take it I should procure myself a copy of "Rusty" then?

damn right

It used to be damn hard to find but in the ebay era its easy i think. I found mine in the lateish 90s in Glasgow after years of looking.

So it is OOP then? I'll give discogs & eBay a visit in that case.

eMusic has it if you use that.

I've never heard of a remaster but there's always cd's on ebay so I'm guessing it's not been OOP it was just hard to find in UK record shops.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RODAN-RUSTY-CD-NEW_W0QQitemZ110441769609QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_CDs?hash=item19b6d7aa89

hmmm vinyl
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RODAN-Rusty-sealed-Vinyl-LP-Slint-Polvo_W0QQitemZ230367575533QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item35a2fa3ded

I should get it on vinyl sometime but shipping vinyl with the current exchange rates is really expensive now.

please note rodan sounds nothing like rachel's

it's angry and confrontational. BRUTAL!

Both excellent to me.

As for Rachel's being 'classical' for indies who didn't get classical - so fucking what? Music For Egon Schiele sounded better to these ears than wAGNER OR rOSSINI or any of that pud that i've wasted too much time trying to appreciate

I remember seeing Rodan at the time and dismissing them as an ersatz Slint.
Years later ,I actually listened to that Rusty album.Listen to 'The Everyday World Of Bodies' should be the soundtrack for the Exorcist. It is Good Morning Captain's evil twin

It is Good Morning Captain's evil twin

awesome.

THE RAIN. HAD A SOUND.

Aye, I wouldn't be expecting Rachel's similarities at all. I've read a wee bit about Rodan, just never really heard them.

Thanks pfunk, that eBay CD link looks like a reasonable choice to me.

love rusty. usually bust it out every year or so.

Shameful to admit this, but when a girl I had a major crush on played me Music For Egon Schiele in 1996 my mind was pretty much blown by the idea of current bands making this kind of music. Oh to be young again.

If a girl had played me Music for Egon Schiele in 1996, I would've had a crush on her. (Actually, I think I heard them for the first time in 1996 on a mixtape from a girl I had a crush on.) (And in 1997 one of the first conversations I ever had with a girl I would go on to date for two years was about Rachel's.) (And in early 1999 I developed an instant crush on a girl I met in Rome just because I saw a dubbed cassette in her dorm room with Rachel's on one side and Michael Nyman on the other.)

I think all of these girls were also into, like, Nick Bantock books.

RIP Jason Noble. Thanks to aerosmith for passing along word.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jasonnoble/journal

http://www.thelouisvillepaper.com/2012/07/04/jason-noble/

Bummer. Thanks for the music. RIP.

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