agreed! outside of the palace stuff (and maybe if i was in a more charitable mood flying saucer attack), urgh. if i can say nothing else for drag city, they've disguised their essential tedium from me for quite a long time.
― jess, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dleone, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
INDIE GUILT PART TWO
Ned wrote: I like the idea that millions of indie kids laid down their money for Silver Jews records
you say some silly things, but this one is maybe the silliest! I just got into American Water after playing a few times with a guy who played on that record... it's a nicely recorded album with some great songs. Highly recommended for people who think the Silver Jews sold millions of records.
Drag City roster as a continuation of the weirdo Americana elements documented in Harry Smith's anthologies? That new Plush album that Drag City passed on is very Drag City 2002... better than the latest Jim O'Rourke album they did not pass on.
― gygax!, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i think the album is MUCH better than pavement's album of the same year (the DULL Brighten The Corners), I think people who find Malkmus' playing interesting and are curious his ability as a sideman would enjoy this. He was really ON during the recording of this album, very smooth/fluid playing/arrangements...
― jel --, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ernest, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
keep : some ghost albums esp. "lama rabi rabi", the royal trux singles box
"cover by hipgnosis", ha ha it was funny 'cause it was true.
― unknown/illegal, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Yuriko, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Search : Flying Saucer Attack, Smog, Palace, Silver Jews, Royal Trux,Scott Walker, Silver Jews,Ghost, Red Crayola reissues, Edith Frost
Destroy: New Red Crayola, Suntanama, Wierd War,Champs
There's much more music on this label than many others that I don't mind hearing once in a while but I wouldn't buy/ copy it
― brg30, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jack cole, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maryann, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
yeah well spotted, anyone who knows me knows i never owned any records by smog or palace or scott walker in the 1st place.
― Andrew, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
fuck hipgnosis & roger dean yeah!
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 18 August 2002 22:58 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jess Harvell (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 18 August 2002 23:13 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jess Harvell (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 18 August 2002 23:14 (twenty-two years ago) link
hoorah to drag city for getting my pre-ordered vinyl copy of the excellent new bill callahan album to me a week before the scheduled release date
boo to drag city for not providing digital downloads with vinyl purchases. i don't understand why labels wouldn't do this as standard these days
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
you make me wish i'd pre-ordered. i'm seeing him in a week or two in a record store and thought about buying it to get signed. i don't do that or anything, just, how else will i have stories for my grandchildren involving someone so laconic?
lp is slow burningly lovely anyway. i think all thoughts are prey to some beast is good enough to sit in the distance/the well/truth serum spot each record seems to have.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
oh they also sent me a nice poster promoting the album, though i don't really know what to do with it
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i think they do supply digital copies for those purchasing vinyl in some cases. i believe they call it "ultraload" or something.
i decided a minute ago that i like drag city, not just because of all the music but because they actually have a mystique.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if they still do it, but they used to have really neat alternate artwork on their promo cd's. I contemplated collecting it at one point...
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
There was an early comp they (or maybe Ajax?) was going to put out called "Hey Dan K." which after a quick googling shows had Cannanes and M0unt@1n G0@ts songs on it.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Hey-Dan-Koretzky-Various-Artists/dp/B000005NGW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1268195446&sr=1-1
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Like the random ESP Summer biography that appears below it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if they still do it, but they used to have really neat alternate artwork on their promo cd's.
The posters too -- Smog's Knock Knock:
http://i9.ebayimg.com/08/i/001/3c/89/1242_12.JPG
― city worker, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, never seen that before but that's Dan Osborn of DC in the Dr's uni
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
They still don't do this, which seems insane to me. Is it some kind of principle thing with them?
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 10 November 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it does seem kind of stubborn. i'd be more likely to buy a record w/ mp3 downloads.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
i don't thnik it's principle since they sell mp3s.love going over to the drag city site to see what they're up to: right now a portuguese guitar player and pete shelley electronic records. such a cool label.
― mizzell, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
and a new collection of alan lomax scottish field recordings!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
the carlos parreda thing is pretty great, wasn't familiar w/ that dude before.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
aren't those scottish recordings kinda 'lomax-esque'? i thought they were new, collected by ali roberts, sorta following in the footsteps. may be wrong
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
nah, they're actually Lomax recordings, complied by Alasdair Roberts, I believe.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
*compiled*
aw okay, that's neat, i misunderstood. really had roberts down for the roam around scotland recording strangers type.
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
He (Ali Roberts) asked me if I knew of any good swimming holes when he was in town playing a show. Charming guy. I really should pick up one of his records. Recommendations? I had the first Appendix Out ages ago.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Amber Gatherers might be the best intro? Really wonderful record.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks! I spotted some of his records at a shop in the newly acquired used bins.My list is getting long again.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 10 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/news/499
why are drag city calling things gay, is it bc they are a label for the ironic youth
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
bc of the rainbow colored ribbon iirc
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ them apologizing for having an artist performing at lincoln center: "No this thing is actually cool, really, let me explain it to you in vaguely grad-studentesque terms so you'll see why."
I thought about buying tickets to that show but it sold out. My first thought when I saw it was "I guess we're getting old."
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
So this is what those cryptic, passive-aggressive Instagram posts were about...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 2 April 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
weird. I can see the page for smog/callahan from the links above but it doesn't show up in searches. can't see silver jews, papa M, etc
― ||||||||, Monday, 2 April 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ePunOqQbOYoQwd1298g3Z?si=7KMKvouVS0KP4KpR-but2g
seems the indexing isn't up to speed
― niels, Monday, 2 April 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
NP: The High Llamas - Talahomi Way
A mini modern masterpiece. :)
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
Listening to Papa M's Live from a Shark Cage right now -- yay!
― jaymc, Sunday, April 1, 2018 11:54 PM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I actually got excited chills realizing this is available now. And I actually still have my CD of it, so I don't know why I don't just listen to it on CD, but I never listen to CDs.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 2 April 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Perhaps now is a good time for a renewed S/D for this label. I listened to tons of this stuff in the 90s (Palace, Gastr del Sol, Aerial/Papa M, and others from that period). In the last 15 years or so I've probably only listened to some of the bigger artists. As I scan through the artists on the label now, there's a bunch I don't know.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
the whole chicago circuit is worth looking into- ryley walker/bill mackkay, bitchin bajas, circuit des yeux, they all kinda run in the same circles
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 2 April 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
Dope Body is sick
― flappy bird, Monday, 2 April 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
natural information society/ka and meg baird also
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 2 April 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
global otm -- it is very tight crew + natural info society is sooooooo gooooooodif alasdair roberts is in there, i recommend him a lot
imo it would be characteristically drag city to give this to spotify people for only a short period of time -- maybe 6 month contract -- and then not renew their contract.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
definitely search the six organs / rangda / richard bishop universe
― tylerw, Monday, 2 April 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
oh yeahdang i forgot about themRANGDA
people are going to be like omg why did i not...oh yeah
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
I am going to check the hell out of this Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh album!
― it was stale, and I did not like it, as the man said, &c (seandalai), Monday, 2 April 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
^^ both of those are great
― sleeve, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
Is Matt Sweeney + Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolf up? (not seeing it via search) That used to be a big favourite of mine.
― it was stale, and I did not like it, as the man said, &c (seandalai), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
yeah that one might be my favorite oldham
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
supposedly some of his palace (music) stuff is up but i couldn't find any
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
the palace bros 7"s are up which if you ever wanted to hear what "Trudy Dies" would sound like with mellotron and a left-field "out" guitar solo, well... here's your chance!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
The very first Palace Brothers album is there, but that's the only full-length.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, April 2, 2018 10:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the original vers tbf, think that was the first thing i ever bought by them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
They got in right before the IPO!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link
So, uh, I'm guessing these guys are about to give up on the CD format completely. It's been tapering as an option on their releases for the past couple years, but now it seems like a CD release is the exception rather than the rule. The New Bums album is vinyl only and the just announced Peacers album is vinyl and cassette only. Not surprised, I guess, just bummed. Weird that cassettes must be hitting higher sales numbers for them though.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
yeah that’s a drag (hahah). Kinda surprised they’ve held out this long. I still think CDs might be cool again in 20 years or something if we still have an energy grid and stuff.
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
I mean, I think it depends on the genre and labels, really. Seems like a lot of jazz and prog stuff is still getting heavily released in the CD format and it still seems to be strong for the deluxe reissue world, but who knows. I don't think it'll ever go away completely, just become more of a niche thing. I mean, I know Numero Group gave up on them (which makes me extra sad knowing that Husker Du may now never see a decent, proper release on that format).
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
It bums me out... don’t people listen to albums in the car (and want better sound than an streaming over Bluetooth)?
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
I do! I mean, I still buy CDs all the time. I have some vinyl, but it's expensive as shit for a lot of titles compared to CDs, a lot of labels stopped giving download codes, pressing issues, pressing delays meaning the vinyl can sometimes come months later, I spend a lot of time away from a record player, etc. I like vinyl, but CD is still the most functional for me.
I'm really curious about the economics regarding cassettes these days though, is there really that much of a market that labels would pick that over CD as lower quantity second physical media option?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
And, lol, at the risk of this becoming my own personal physical format blog, I would be curious to know if it would ever be possible/economically feasible to expand that Bandcamp vinyl pressing on demand thing to CDs as well.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
cassette sales doubled in 2020 fwiw:
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-55476419
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
Amazing that Drag City avoided streaming for so long only to abandon CDs shortly after embracing streaming.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
Thanks sleeve, wonder how the US figures compare. I know cassettes keep a pretty decent following for metal, experimental and noise bands, but it just seems so weird for cassettes to be where manufacturing dollars are spent at this point in time. But, I guess that's why I don't run a label.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 January 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
Is there a corresponding jump in sales of tape-decks?
― ringworm, Friday, 22 January 2021 05:40 (three years ago) link
Haha. Yes! I have a huge number of Drag City CDs precisely because they were shunning streaming. It was an effective strategy. No more Drag City CDs would mean 100.00% streaming their new releases here. I'm not about to become an olde worlde analogue format fetishist.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 22 January 2021 06:13 (three years ago) link
It bums me out... don’t people listen to albums in the car (and want better sound than an streaming over Bluetooth)?― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
finding a new car these days with a CD player factory installed is turning non-existent. cars are turning to that point where you need a discman to hook into the AUX to get that satisfaction, a sorta pre-CD players in cars era.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 January 2021 06:48 (three years ago) link
That’s interesting, it’s been standard in our last few leased vehicles (most recent is a 2019).
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Friday, 22 January 2021 07:17 (three years ago) link
my 2018 subaru doesn't have a cd player, i only even thought to look a couple weeks ago!
― Clay, Friday, 22 January 2021 07:19 (three years ago) link
It would skip like crazy careening over all those rugged trails and dry stream beds!
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Friday, 22 January 2021 07:47 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fkwePBI.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 22 January 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
Those sun visors were great... if you wanted to scratch the shit out of your CDs.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 January 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
What is God? Records about – curated by someone in particular? (I tried searching for info, but just found some similarly-named labels.)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Sunday, 17 July 2022 04:48 (two years ago) link
Ty Segall I think?
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 17 July 2022 09:10 (two years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Segall#GOD?_Records
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 17 July 2022 09:11 (two years ago) link
Don't seem to have a thread on them so I'll toss it in here, but the new Wand live album is fantastic. In a more just world, they'd have at least half of that rabid King Gizz fanbase.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link