um so i'm listening to "i'm happy and i'm singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4" right now. it still sounds amazing. the last track is kind of a masterpiece imo. no one talks about this guy anymore, probably because he was part of what lots of people found annoying about late-90s chicago indie and wilco and stuff and they'd rather forget about most of it (i don't blame them). then there's gastr del sol, which mostly sounds forced and obvious to me (except a couple of inspired moments on "camofleur") -- faust did it better and thirty years before, you know? i'm not sure i'd like "eureka" as much as i used to if i listened to it again, but oddly enough, "insignificance" has taken over this weird place in my mind and it hits pretty hard sometimes--after bad sex, on airplanes (do not combine those prepositional phrases as it would be misleading). "bad timing" is another favorite of mine. i really haven't heard anything before "terminal pharmacy", which i think is pretty good.
anyway, a poll. i know there's a buttload of run-of-100 L@@K OOP releases and collabs and soundtracks that i'm missing, and i'm including "halfway to a threeway" just for the hell of it. i just want to get a general idea of what everyone else thinks about the guy, an unfashionable 10 years later. classic for turning a lazy indie snob (me) onto whitehouse, van dyke parks, charles ives, luc ferrari very late in the game and it all opened up from there.
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Eureka | 11 |
Bad Timing | 11 |
Halfway to a Threeway | 9 |
Insignificance | 5 |
I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 | 4 |
Tamper | 0 |
Disengage | 0 |
Scend | 0 |
Remove the Need | 0 |
Use | 0 |
Terminal Pharmacy | 0 |
Happy Days | 0 |
Two Organs | 0 |
― strgn, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link