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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)

what is this? new album? bill callahan or smog?

― jed_, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

pumped. i didn't like whaleheart that much but i don't know if he's ever put out two weak albums in a row, at least in his recent run. plus i love sappy smog

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

new bill callahan album, release data in april i think?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

ah good. i didn't like whaleheart one bit but i'm still looking forward to this.

― jed_, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

uh huh, april fourteenth. otm about two bad albums in a row - he has such weird rhythms, like rain on lens -> supper. i love sappy smog (the best bit of the last lp being the syrupy middle bit in honeymoon child), but i hope it isn't too easy going. emotive violins can be boring.

above review was from here btw. and there's a new song on youtube too.

― schlump, Friday, 30 January 2009 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

first song - the youtube one, jim cain - is floating around, and is lovely

― schlump, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

I really liked Whaleheart . Psycht for new one.

― wilter, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

Whaleheart is great when the occasional song comes on shuffle, I never turn it off. Will def pick up this new one.

― ilxor, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:24 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Anyone else diggin the new one? Sounds pretty great on the few several listens. How is it possible for a songwriter to consistently progress over the course of almost twenty years?

― enasinben, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 22:48 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

dude's got some long hair these days

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

as seen here
http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/12704-rococo-zephyr-live-in-store/

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

I really like "Jim Cain" off the new one. Not sure about the rest of it yet, although the string arrangements are lovely

― Number None, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

And i just found out it's about James M. Cain!

― Number None, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

all thoughts are prey to some beast is terrific. i think the record's pretty great; there's a little of him being too authorial (twitching withers and all) but it's really kinda comforting.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

Anyone seeing him on his record store tour? I saw him at Sound Garden in Baltimore tonight and it was fantastic. His new songs (and I like the new record a lot) sound even better with just him and a guitar. Fucking potent stuff. And that voice!

― buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:03 (seventeen years ago)

shitty cell phone pic, but yeah, dude's got long hair now:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/OfMarrow/GetAttachmentaspx.jpg

― buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:08 (seventeen years ago)

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