Curve: C or D?

A whole slew of Curve shows has turned up on D1m3 and despite the dodgy audio of audience taping in 92-93, they're furiously great (title track from "Doppleganger" scores 5/5 on the MBV-O-Meter). Man there has to be some live videos or something from the time.

!!!! Wish I still had a Dime acct. Would someone very kind be willing to, I don't know, maybe 192kbps LAME some of the best and trade them for some, say, Ride, Kraftwerk, or Mogwai?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRY4ILQeSg

am jonesing

Need to get back into the D1m3 swing myself...

!!!! Wish I still had a Dime acct. Would someone very kind be willing to, I don't know, maybe 192kbps LAME some of the best and trade them for some, say, Ride, Kraftwerk, or Mogwai?

Encoding everything to 256kpbs AAC. Drop me a board email and I can straighten everything out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFG1rIUhc7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_XPAQNF7yg

(title track from "Doppleganger" scores 5/5 on the MBV-O-Meter)

I've just listened to the initial build & payoff to this track five times in a row. Just damn.. Moulder could do no wrong in those days.

Same here. And didn't we establish we were at those same two shows, ie. Rollercoaster tour at the Palladium and then at the Palace?

This was the first of many downtown Detroit gigs I snuck out on schoolnights to attend while I was in high school. I had taken some psychedelics. It was ..erm, an impressionable experience (in a very good way).

(the Rollercoaster tour, that is - not the NY gigs obv.)

I just realized I had "Cuckoo" on my Zune and I was listening to it on my walk home but it paled in comparison to "Doppelganger" and "Public Fruit"

I've just listened to the initial build & payoff to this track five times in a row. Just damn.. Moulder could do no wrong in those days.

I love that second breakdown from 2:42 - 3:10 when it sounds like a huge electrical fire in the studio.

the rollercoaster show show in detroit was on devil's night, i was convinced i would come out and my car would be in flames. the show before that one with majesty crush opening was better though.

^^ yeah, I remember that. Wasn't that a year or so after the worst-ever devil's night arson/general crime spree? As I mentioned upthread, I was a bit effected that night, & I recall ducking for cover every time my friend's car went under a highway overpass b/c of an urban legend (perhaps something that really happened?) about dudes dropping cinder blocks & such from them on DN.

lol, I think Majesty Crush or Asha Vida opened for every UK indie band that passed through town back then.

just in case...

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embarrassingly my curve collection consists of their first 2 eps, and doppelganger.
i think i need a lot more to quench this thirst for drum machine + guitar noise + goth queen vocals.
never listened to this stuff on headphones until this week, fuck the tinnitus, that wall of sound is majestic.

the EP collection and the radio sessions comp is all you really need, don't be embarrassed

All those nights watching the 'Fait Accompli' and 'Superblaster' videos gave much joy, but Curve hasn't aged very well for me. Which is great because I can only think about 1992, 1993 when I listen to them again

I wish Scylla had released something other than that weak track on the Showgirls OST. They were pretty good live.

the EP collection and the radio sessions comp is all you really need, don't be embarrassed

Don't forget to snag this: Curve's "Perish" & Kevin Shields

yeah Doppleganger was a letdown and might deserve another look, but everything after just didn't work for me. although i would HIGHLY recommend the 2CD remastered best-of The Way of Curve that came out a couple years ago, all the originals came out during a low point for CD mastering and the material benefits greatly from the rework.

And Toni's Chatelaine album is out finally. Stream the whole works here: http://chatelainemusic.com/

Beyond the title, it sounds like Toni has been wondering how the Cocteaus would sound covering Fleetwood Mac.

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:14 AM (2 years ago)

^^^^^ prescient comment here (after one listen through this)

"Coast Is Clear" is still one of the best songs ever.

That squealing guitar line over the second chorus encapsulates about 80% of what I love about music.

I can sign up with that sentiment.

Meantime, perhaps the only time you'll see Curve and Matt Groening discussed at the same time.

hah I was at that show at the Palace. What I remember most is how horrible the opening act was and how excited I was to briefly hang out with the band (+ Medicine) outside after the show

how horrible the opening act was

Good ol' Engines of Aggression. *dies*

Yay, Doppelganger is finally on Spodify. (I suppose I should probably check if it's on iTunes yet because I have already owned it on far too many formats.)

I had forgotten what a *nasty* sounding record it is. It's filled with a kind of gnawing self loathing and bits of strangled noise and so bloody ugly and yet still somehow beautiful.

Not sure if it's the production or the mastering but I always found doppelgänger a bit thin and lifeless. A remaster could be interesting

Dunno, the production sounds more *murky* than thin or lifeless. Like, it's so bloody dense and thick that it's hard to pick out any elements, but that's kind of the point of shoegaze wall of sound.

Any thoughts on SPC ECO, Dean Garcia's new thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-F5VTBJyA

They're kind of an AC-30 band which makes me automatially predisposed not to like them, but I should give them a chance, I suppose.

Oh wait, is that Debbie Smith on guitar? I take it back, I automatically love anything she's involved with.

(Though I still kind of hide from her when I see her on the train.)

Any thoughts on SPC ECO - linked track is a dead ringer for gaze-era Curve, which would interest me more if half of my record collection didn't already consist of such things. Nice to see that Debbie Smith back in action, though!

I could just be making it up, but I think I read somewhere that the girl singing for SPC ECO is actually Dean's own niece.

daughter

i love spc eco, the album is really good but the EPs that have come out since are even better

Not sure if it's the production or the mastering but I always found doppelgänger a bit thin and lifeless. A remaster could be interesting

Dunno... Listening here on a great audio system, it sounds freaking amazing. I put "Fait Accompli" pretty high up on my ballot in the ILX poll and my comment for it was:

"Somehow I picture Halliday, Garcia, Moulder, & Flood cackling in the studio as they try to see just how menacing they could make this song. "I've come to mess with your head" indeed."

All the EPs and the later self-released albums are available on Bandcamp now: http://curve.bandcamp.com/

Pubic Fruit still rules

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Just noticed how awesome and weird the wayward synth bass on Horror Head is

"Come Clean:" underrated?

Curve is still the best.

i heard 'fait accompli' randomly in the gym once

It looks like there was mention of them here six years ago, but I just discovered Dean's band SPC ECO with his daughter on vocals when their new album came out this year. Nice stuff.

Yeah they've turned into a pretty good act, and they were always good from the start.

Hold up, have they really released basically an album and EP a year for the past several years?

So, reissues of the two first albums coming out this summer. Already have all of the bonus material but Doppelgänger could do with a remaster so I'll probably get these.