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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link
SM@TTTPDX-022424https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFc6q0VNU_A
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:17 (two months ago) link
(shredded vocal tonezzz, raw COVID superspread edition)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:20 (two 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 (two months ago) link
Thanks, Steve!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
Alright which one of you runs the AcidCasualties youtube channel lol.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:01 (two months ago) link