i think they finally started calling themselves a duo for the last album? there was the RTG guy and then another guy between him and liz draper
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
draper plays with a lot acts, i would imagine she didn't want to give up that income or flexibility either
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
steve garrington was their bassist before hey what, but he quit at the start of the sessions for family reasons iirc and alan and mimi decided to make the album as a duo (well, trio if you count bj burton). draper joined for the hey what tour
garrington appeared to actually be pretty crucial to the sound of double negative at least - he was responsible for a lot of the synths & samples on it
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
RIP Mimi. Always loved the way that got namechecked in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XR5CynN-k
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
always wondered if the Randy that tells her the dude lives in Minneapolis is Randy Hawkins, First Ave sound engineer/touring engineer tons of bands
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
Hmm. Know nothing about that, but it seems likely.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
I went for a walk on Sunday morning listening to "Nothing But Heart," not exactly a typical song for them but it sounds incredible, and I love the way that Mimi's voice so gradually takes over the song.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
"Nothing But Heart" was our first dance at our wedding đŁ
― insane oatmeal raisin cookie posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
â insane oatmeal raisin cookie posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, November 8, 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Ours was Two-Step!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 05:07 (one year ago) link
need to make a poll for if you've been a wedding guest and thrilled when the wedding couple (or bride/father, etc.) dance extends beyond the 4 minute mark.
― WesternÂŽ with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 05:21 (one year ago) link
Lol I never truly grasped how slow and long Two-Step was until I danced to it in front my entire family and friends
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 06:11 (one year ago) link
Realized today that I Could Live in Hope is the only album of theirs I don't have, didn't realize it was so hard to get ahold of now. The 2011 2xLP reissue goes for $250, even the CD isn't available for less than $80 right now. This needs a reissue.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
iirc the band was having a hard time getting hold of the masters from vernon yard
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I saw some references when poking around to Vernon Yard refusing to release them or do anything with them at all, which is a shame.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
A friend posted this Panâ˘American track featuring Mimi's vocals on Twitter - had no idea it existed.
https://panamerican.bandcamp.com/track/code
And MONO uploaded live footage from 2017 of them playing "Majesty/Magic" with Low
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYuHDczYhw
― etc, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
need to make a poll for if you've been a wedding guest and thrilled when the wedding couple (or bride/father, etc.) dance extends beyond the 4 minute mark.â WesternÂŽ with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:21 AM (eighteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
â WesternÂŽ with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:21 AM (eighteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
We did a "Everyone can join them" at some point reasonably early
Next morning we did brunch with both sets of parents and my new mother-in-law was like "What was that song you did your first dance to?" and I was like "They're this band called Low, they're from Minneapolis and they play these really slow and quiet songs, did you like it?" And she goes "Oh nooooo." XD
― insane oatmeal raisin cookie posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
found a promo CD of curtain at the record shop today. bit of a time capsule. also picked up the great destroyer, which i regret ever glazing over... it's belting.
who else could write a song about starting a pirate radio station out of the back of your friend's ambulance and driving off into the night?
― maelin, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
this was tough news for me. I went to see Low with my late wife for our 2nd date, on Valentine's Day in 2003, at the Union Chapel in London. they were one of her favourite bands. by complete coincidence I was wearing her Low t-shirt on Saturday. it has an octopus on it, which for convoluted reasons I don't even really remember, was one of our symbols.
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
hugs to you, bovarism
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
x 2!
― stirmonster, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
Realized today that I Could Live in Hope is the only album of theirs I don't have, didn't realize it was so hard to get ahold of now. The 2011 2xLP reissue goes for $250, even the CD isn't available for less than $80 right now. This needs a reissue.â a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:50 (yesterday) link
â a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:50 (yesterday) link
i remember getting those when Plain reissued the LPs except for Curtain Hits the Cast which I've been kicking myself for skipping.
― WesternÂŽ with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
ha, that's the only one of those three I have. I don't even have my CDs of the first two any longer (which is fine). but I'll never give up my Christmas CD.
― akm, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
Hugs to you bovarism
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 10 November 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
I ordered the Japanese CD of 'Double Negative' weeks ago (second attempt at doing so), solely because it has a 2nd CD with Mimi-lead song called "It's All Been Done". It arrived yesterday and sent me right back to tears.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 10 November 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
My husband bought the tape of Double Negative when we saw them in Marchâ still havenât cracked it open yet, for whatever reason. I did order a shirt a few days ago, and have found a frame shop to frame the beautiful tour poster we got.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 10 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
listening to the curtain hits the cast on my stereo really loudthis band was heavy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
"was" -> still hard to process this
https://drone-not-drones.bandcamp.com/track/low-2
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
https://drone-not-drones.bandcamp.com/track/alan-sparhawk-3https://drone-not-drones.bandcamp.com/track/alan-sparhawk-2https://drone-not-drones.bandcamp.com/track/low
― koogs, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
https://drone-not-drones.bandcamp.com/track/alan-sparhawk
all these only available as part of 28 hour downloads!
― koogs, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
This was a nice remembrance: https://pitchfork.com/features/afterword/low-mimi-parker/
― that's not my post, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
Low never had a hit single
I'm shocked that "Just Like Christmas" isn't played all the time every year.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
little drummer boy was in a gap commercial
― akm, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but that one is slow and moody (of course). "Just Like Christmas" is pretty and downright jaunty.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
Just note that Iâm not making light of Alanâs struggles, but Curtain in particular brings me to a very deep place in my psycheâ 19 years old, semi-closeted, living in a small town in Ohio in the winter, depressed, not drinking but on all kinds of pills and hallucinogens and weed all the time, just lying in my bed playing it absolutely full fucking blast and pretending like my body didnât exist. Itâs a really powerful record besides those associations, but fuck if it doesnât pull me back to one of the darkest times of my life and make me feel them in some way again. Itâs why I love it and also why it makes me cry.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
"Just Like Christmas" is pretty and downright jaunty.
Sonically for sure...and definitely not lyrically!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/music/mimi-parker-dead.html what a weird obit.
― fpsa, Saturday, 12 November 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
Extremely strange obit
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 November 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
don't see what is bad about it
― Dan S, Saturday, 12 November 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
couldn't read it, but the visible subhead alone was really strange.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 November 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
Low, which was essentially the couple with a series of bassists over the years
- ok bullshit Zak was not just a sideman
From the outset, Low was well positioned within the indie rock orbit. The band shared a label, the influential Seattle-based Sub Pop, with archetypal bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden
They didn't sign to Sub Pop until 05, at least read the Wikipedia right
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 12 November 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
ok I see
― Dan S, Saturday, 12 November 2022 04:10 (one year ago) link
I didnât think the obit was bad so much as it just made me realize that Iâve never ever thought of Low as ever having been a â90s bandâ
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 12 November 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
Let alone any sort of counter (intentional or not) to grunge or Seattle or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
It drew contrasts where there werenât any (as in the grunge example cited) and also didnât get a lot of the history correct, also mentioned. Just a strange and lazy obitâŚand frankly, I know Alan means well, but his quote about Mimi not singing for or to anyone felt weirdly denigrating?!? As if he was trying to accentuate her humility but instead it came off as âshe wasnât that great a singer.â Am I reading too much into it?
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 November 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
Why would there not be a contrast? Low were an American indie band that came out at the same time as other American indie bands, but were very different from them. Seems a fair enough point to me.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 12 November 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
Because Low was different from a thousand bands, but no one would cite them as a contrast, let alone a contrast to an unrelated scene. I think it makes more sense, rather than contrast them with something they're not (grunge, pop, IDM, whatever), to do what most obits did and cite their peers and antecedents. Galaxie 500, Codeine, Bedhead, etc.. But even that doesn't really do a band justice that also toured with Soul Coughing and Radiohead.
The irony is that Low is actually as much indebted to Neil Young, the so-called Godfather of Grunge, as Joy Division or the VU, which probably gives them a stronger claim to "grunge" than the Seattle groups, who were often more metal-derived, anyway. (Though of course Alan is into metal, too). Anyway, it's dumb. Low was on Sub Pop. So was Saint Etienne.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
write up about the funeral from the Duluth paper
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/duluth-celebrates-lows-mimi-parker-with-laughter-tears-at-funeral
― that's not my post, Saturday, 12 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
This quietly broke me:
After the service concluded, attendees were presented with what Davis described as gifts from Parker's family. Each family in attendance was invited to take a rose, a printed cartoon drawn by Tony Husband in Parker's memory, and a square cut from a quilt."When Mim and Al were first married," said Davis, an aunt sewed the quilt for them. "The quilt was a vital part of their lives, keeping them warm, bundling their children, sitting out on the lawn in the sun, and it provided comfort during the last days of this long, hard journey."
"When Mim and Al were first married," said Davis, an aunt sewed the quilt for them. "The quilt was a vital part of their lives, keeping them warm, bundling their children, sitting out on the lawn in the sun, and it provided comfort during the last days of this long, hard journey."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 November 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link