His voice was shot, but it was a good short-ish set (30 mins, 5-6 stretched-out songs including a cover of "Expressway to Yr Skull."
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:58 (three months ago) link
What other songs did he play
― calstars, Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:25 (three months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3wrTl6r5V2/
― tylerw, Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:40 (three months ago) link
seems like mostly (all?) new songs ... that "expressway" is dreeeeeeamy
― tylerw, Sunday, 25 February 2024 21:12 (three months ago) link
Another clip here from the friend I went with. (Guessing the whole set is / will be out there, what with the livestream.)
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 25 February 2024 21:44 (three months ago) link
did he have the jicks with him there?
― ufo, Sunday, 25 February 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
Just the Jicks drummer, I think.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 25 February 2024 22:00 (three months ago) link
backed by The Joggers (Jake's PDX band before he joined the Jicks)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 25 February 2024 23:56 (three months ago) link
I really hope this means we’re closer to a new Malkmus solo record
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 February 2024 00:06 (three months ago) link
Yeah, hoping the same.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 February 2024 15:11 (three months ago) link
More Traditional Techniques, plz.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 26 February 2024 15:48 (three months ago) link
I wouldn't complain, but since it's been six years now I'm primed for another full on Jicks record too.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 February 2024 15:49 (three months ago) link
SM has not one but 2 albums recorded, it's just a matter of getting them released.
Jicks are probably done. Jake (the 7th and final Jick?) is the only one still actively performing music, albeit with Malkmus.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 26 February 2024 16:10 (three months ago) link
!
― a (waterface), Monday, 26 February 2024 17:05 (three months ago) link
is it correct to assume one is a traditional techniques follow-up and one is a more typical malkmus rock album (though i guess without the jicks)
― ufo, Monday, 26 February 2024 21:31 (three months ago) link
I had totally missed that about the Jicks being done, that's a bummer.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 February 2024 22:48 (three months ago) link
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:24 (three months ago) link
i vaguely remember something about him working on a follow-up with the band he'd put together to tour it since the tour was cancelled due to covid?
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 06:15 (three months ago) link
My personal dream album would be SM applying his current songwriting approach backwards to the S&E-era sonic palette. Probably never gonna happen.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:37 (three months ago) link
Traditional Techniques suffered so much from the Covid lockdown, I think they cancelled that whole tour but the band was going to be great for that.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
Traditional Techniques and the Dylan album were my soundtrack to the paranoid first months of Covid.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:04 (three months ago) link
Trad Tech should've been right up my alley but I just couldn't get into it beyond a couple of songs. I should revisit.
That electronic album was terrible.
Proggy rock SM is still my favorite SM. I'd take something like Sparkle Hard in a heartbeat.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:09 (three months ago) link
^^ Yeah, I like Trad Tech a ton and even Groove Denied, to a lesser degree, but an album with some trademark SM prog swerves would be great.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:00 (three months ago) link
Sparkle Hard was such a relief (could they ever really play like that again?) and remains the best of his late records.
Traditional Techniques has been a slow grower for me, but I love it. And honestly, Groove Denied isn’t among his better records; it’s an interesting side path.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
I'm still bummed the Trad Tech tour dates never got rescheduled. A "normal" Malkmus album along the lines of Sparkle Hard is what I'd most like to hear now though.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
Trad Tech = best SM album imo
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:56 (three months ago) link
^^^agree
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 20:24 (three months ago) link
My people!
(though I like Pig Lib equally).
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 20:49 (three months ago) link
I'd go top three:
Pig LibS/TTrad Techniques
Groove Denied was abysmal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 20:59 (three months ago) link
I like Mirror Traffic and Real Emotional Trash a lot
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:12 (three months ago) link
Even the albums I don’t much like, when I go back they’re better than remembered - it was startling recently to pull out Real Emotional Trash and Wig Out and feel, finally, like I fully *got* those albums. Everything kinda clicked.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
real emotional trash is the best thing he ever did
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:29 (three months ago) link
I must try RET again, I thought it was a bit wanky at the time although I thought that about Pig Lib for years too
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:49 (three months ago) link
I think that on some level, when they came out I thought both RET and Wag Out were a bit too silly or goofy, somehow.
I do like jammy Malkmus tho
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:51 (three months ago) link
leaning into the jams is what makes it so great
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:51 (three months ago) link
it was startling recently to pull out Real Emotional Trash and Wig Out and feel, finally, like I fully *got* those albums. Everything kinda clicked.
that happened to me with Wig Out recently too. I'd always thought of it as a lesser retread of Mirror Traffic, but for now I'd rather listen to that than MT. Sparkle Hard felt like a huge step up from both of them though. The S/T and Pig Lib are probably always going to be my favorites for sentimental reasons, but Sparkle Hard is my non-sentimental favorite.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:56 (three months ago) link
i have not spent enough time with Sparkle Hard, I need to
― a (waterface), Thursday, 29 February 2024 12:48 (three months ago) link
real emotional trash is the best thing he ever did― ufo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:29 (two days ago) link
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:29 (two days ago) link
totally otm, really feels like the peak of his playing and arranging post-pavement
― intheblanks, Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:30 (three months ago) link
I shrugged at RET back when it came out but I pulled it out last night and idk what kind of shit I had in my ears in 2008 because it really is incredible. Pig Lib has always been my favorite and it sounded like that but more
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 1 March 2024 13:09 (three months ago) link
SM@TTTPDX-022424https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFc6q0VNU_A
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link
(shredded vocal tonezzz, raw COVID superspread edition)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
Funny that I was about 15 feet away from that, but there was a standing crowd between the table I was at and the stage, so only listened to it.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link
Thanks, Steve!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:58 (three months ago) link
Alright which one of you runs the AcidCasualties youtube channel lol.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:01 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhVUME1SC8E
― fpsa, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:55 (five days ago) link
There were rumors... SM was staying with Justine & Damon at the time and ~something happened~ and Damon never brought up SM/Pavement's name again in the press ever afterwards.
also iirc Justine was almost a Jick circa 2001 (to replace Heather or Mike?)
[this is olde internet lore culled from mailing lists]
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:12 (five days ago) link
there's a Magnet interview where Bob is more direct about it:
https://magnetmagazine.com/2001/04/01/stephen-malkmus-being-stephen-malkmus/
― fpsa, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:26 (five days ago) link
lol @ Bob
95% off-topic but former-Jick Heather wrote an amazing song with her brother and I must share it with you in the event you, dear reader, have never heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKMR8vAarYo
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:31 (five days ago) link
Steve Shasta, while watching that video that’s exactly what I was thinking about! (The subtext of a Malkmus/Albarn conversation about shoes)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:33 (five days ago) link
steve and justine played a lot of ping pong on lollapalooza, according to a don't-you-wish-this-was-salacious-because-their-haircuts-and-coolness-match spin or alternative press article i read at the time. their x cover of unheard music is an interesting study of contrasts, it reminded me at the time of the gainsbourg duets in its "why am i even singing this" lazy dude singing with an earnest yet ultimately unknowable hot chick. a romcom with them and damon - i'd half watch it, i admit. unheard music doesn't really fit into either elastica or pavement's discography, although i think i have it in my mp3 collections as a pavement middle era nonlp track and it adds some pep to the turgid brighten the corners b-sides.
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:34 (five days ago) link