No Other - Gene Clark

I am totally repping for "From a Silver Phial" on my show tonight. What a chorus!

hella spare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3kb-FB_08M

whoah

rick danko on bass! also check the eight miles high from that same performance (though the tape is glitched to fuck). there's a very nice solo version of silver raven from the 1978 mcguinn, clark and hillan tour of nz/australia performed in wellington up on youtube as well.

^hillman, too.

No Other is the one album which can truly be described as Cosmic American Music.

Gene Clark was the unsung genius of American music and this masterpiece proves it.

No Other is one of my Desert Island albums, alongside
A Storm in Heaven (The Verve)
Spirit of Eden (Talk Talk)
Lazer Guided Melodies (Spiritualized)

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No Other is the 1974 album by Gene Clark, a founding member of the the Byrds. At the time of its release, it was viewed as a critical and commercial failure, but over time, it's become a cult favorite. Next month, that album will be celebrated on a brief tour where it'll be performed note-for-note by a supergroup featuring Beach House, plus members of Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, the Walkmen, and more.

The band will include Beach House's Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. Lead vocal duties will be handled by Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold, Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen, the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser, Iain Matthews of Plainsong/Fairport Convention, and Legrand. The rest of the band features Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner, plus members of Lower Dens, Cass McCombs' band, Celebration, and Mt. Royal.

i love how fragile (yet strong) Clark's voice sounds.
like he is about to cry

I can hear jenn wasner do these songs. Dont't know if I'd want to hear the rest of them try, though.

Iain Matthews has some pretty great Clark covers scattered across his discography.
He's become one of my all-time favorite singers in a short time. This announcement did not interest me at all until I saw his name mentioned.

yeah he's the only name in there that I could see doing the songs justice

yeahhh, iain's "spanish guitar" is so nice. he's got a new album coming out next year, which is kinda exciting, he deserves a little more love these days.

and whatevers, if these indie rockers wanna play Gene Clark songs, go for it!

What I wanna know is, when is the indie rock Roadmaster tribute show?

i appreciate Beach House enough to not screw things up

"I explain to a lot of people that "No Other" is
not the complete "No Other" album on that record. It was originally a
thirteen-track album, but we weren't able to do a double-record and so the
rest of the songs were left unfinished. Because of the length of the cuts
we couldn't include them."

I WANT TO HEAR THOSE 5 UNFINISHED TRACKS!
were they released anywhere?

(taken from an interview with Clark: http://geneclark.com/echoesinter.html)

For years rumors circulated that only half of an intended double album had been recorded, with Geffen baulking at the excessive cost and eventually pulling out. This was corroborated by Clark in a 1976 interview. According to Kaye in Mr. Tambourine Man, 13 or 14 songs had been demoed with acoustic guitar at early sessions but only nine were recorded with a full band. "Train Leaves Here This Morning", a rerecording of a song first released on The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark, was omitted from the final album.

that recording of "train leaves here this morning" was among the bonus tracks on the 2003 reissue.

thanks

maybe he eventually recorded them fot Two Sides?!

from the tribute show, good cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgClfS-zz0Y

documentary on bbc4 tonight

loving this record lately. silver raven is so incredible.

record is definitely next level, lyrics go into some weird places

yeah this has become one of my favourites

love Clarke's weirdo spiritual parable lyrics

yeah! they are great. i never heard that indie rock superstar No Other cover band from a little while back, but it was hard for me to imagine anyone other than Clark really pulling off those lyrics.

seems to be kind of unique to this album too - not that he was a bad lyricist before, just his focus feels like it was shifted

i do think that at his best, clark was one of the best dylan disciples, one of the few who actually got what dylan was up to in the mid 60s and was able to build his own thing out of it.

seems like he had an expectation of what he should write w/ the byrds and then suddenly he figured he could do whatever

Some Misunderstanding is one of my alltime favorite songs

Three words:
Strength of Strings

my fave song and lyrics is From a Silver Phial. Not just on No Other, maybe my favorite Gene Clark song.

A handful of "lost classics" turn out to be as great as this one did.

I actually don't understand why Asylum was so dissatisfied - the title song and "Strength of Strings" would have sounded great on FM radio, country rock and southern rock were a thing, and in an era where "Wildfire" could be a big hit, "Silver Raven" wasn't all that uncommercial either. Taste issue-wise we do have a label that hosts Joni Mitchell, but they also host The Eagles.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/gene-clarks-no-other-getting-deluxe-reissue-via-4ad-stream-2-tracks/

This and deluxe "1999" in one year! Holy smokes.

idk extras on this don't look particularly appealing tbh

on first listen...pretty appealing to me. Refuse from a Silver Phial is maybe my favorite song ever and this version is different enough to be interested. Not just some demo.

I'll take the box

I've had some tracks that were labeled "demos" for years and they're my favorite versions of the songs. They really just sound like less bloated alternate takes.

the alt "silver raven" is pretty cool as well

If it's worth releasing, then it shouldn't be on a flexi (and Some Misunderstanding is a song I love very much, so I'm glad to hear alt takes). Gimmickry.

I'm mostly curious about the 80-page book tbh but looks like that's only available with the $140 deluxe box, dunno if I'm $140 worth of curious for all those alt versions

those wah-wuh-wuh-wah-wuh-wuh-danddangdangdangdangdangdangdang guitars

5.1 is a draw for me, but ... $140?!? Gah.

idk extras on this don't look particularly appealing tbh

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:27 (two days ago) link

FYI this was one of the projects whos masters were apparently burnt up on the UMG backlot

Is it? Universal owns most of the prior Clark (and Dillard & Clark) albums. This one was with Warner Music, though perhaps it's changed hands? The version on Spotify is credited to 'No Other Records ©1974'.

It would seem to be challenging to mix a record for surround sound with no multitracks.

can’t stop listening to this

FYI this was one of the projects whos masters were apparently burnt up on the UMG backlot