Opinions?
― dog latin, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
dog latin? didn't you used to frequent the old warp records message board, before they took it down?
― gareth, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― dog latin, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dr. C, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― james e l, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― dog latin, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Paul Steeples, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― K-reg, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― mizzzell (mizzzell), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― mizzzell (mizzzell), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
at least two of the new songs they played sounded like the doors to me. i can't decide if that's a good thing.
― tk (tk), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
1. The Zombies "Time of the Season"2. Yoko Ono "Walking on Thin Ice"
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― mizzzell (mizzzell), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Davey D (Dave Depper), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
no, sir. i am not. if i'm anything, it's disappointed that someone w/ so much potential. so little returns
― edde (edde), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
idk where 2 put this but i liked this a lot in 2005 and it's still dear 2 me
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6424258467693494613
now stefan malkamus is walking around w/ my face
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a very good and interesting interview!http://www.cowbellmagazine.com/home/2011/8/1/rule-portlandia.html
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 August 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Good interview but interjections like this remind me why I hate (music) journalism:
In the time of Ke$ha and Katy Perry, in the post-empire era of the music-industrial complex, when radio has become the horse-drawn carriage of the Information Age, songs no longer “mean a lot when songs are bought.”
What does this even mean?
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 August 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm so jealous he's moving to Berlin.
― o. nate, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think he's trying to say that it doesn't matter as much as it used to to get a song on the radio.
― o. nate, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mentholmountains.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-guns-intangible-showdown.html#more
― mizzell, Monday, 15 August 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
I don't want anybody to get hurt.I can just see the two factions healing their schismand coming after you with both barrels blazin.These headbangers are angry and vindictive. They've been looking for revenge since '92and let's face it--you weren't far from the scene of the crime.
new album sounds good! streaming on the npr today.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 15 August 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, the new album sounds really good. I've got the NPR thing streaming the thing in full so I'm not sure of the exact track name I'm on right now, but the guitar workout a couple tracks after "Senator" is awesome.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is kinda crazy. all over the place. some of it sounds like demos to me. liking the alex chilton-y Tune Grief.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
no one is (as i are be) sounds like ode to billie joe.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
so excited to listen to this!
― tine nic (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"gorgeous georgie" is song titles v much in character
― tine nic (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm only half-listening to this but this is real clean sounding - the short track lengths and the lightness of his vocals give it this real airy feel. it's all very agreeable, this sounds like the style i want malk to be going for at this stage in his career. i think i'm going to like this
― tine nic (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
each song is a jam. another great album. malkmus solo > pavement
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/stephen-malkmus-forced-to-rename-his-album-out-of,60486/
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"fall away" is really nice
― mark (er) s (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"stick figures in love"
― mark (er) s (k3vin k.), Friday, 19 August 2011 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I was just listening to this earlier thinking Fall Away is my favourite song, it's really sweet. The whole album is really enjoyable.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 19 August 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
one of these nights i'll have to listen to this when i haven't been drinking but i'm pretty sure i like this album a good amount
― mark (er) s (k3vin k.), Friday, 19 August 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
there was an ad for the this in spotify telling me to listen to it so i clicked on it and it wasn't available for me to play
― markers, Friday, 19 August 2011 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is already growing on me big time
― mizzell, Friday, 19 August 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that happened to me too. The ad's popped up several times a day for the past couple of days, not sure who's to blame for that one, but its annoying to keep getting promised something I can't listen to. Luckily we have the NPR stream for now.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 19 August 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok serious lols at that whole mail exchange
you never know what an unsophisticated consumer might think.
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 19 August 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah honestly, berman and malkmus need to make another record again.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 August 2011 15:47 (thirteen years 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 (eight months ago) link
leaning into the jams is what makes it so great
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 21:51 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
i have not spent enough time with Sparkle Hard, I need to
― a (waterface), Thursday, 29 February 2024 12:48 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
SM@TTTPDX-022424https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFc6q0VNU_A
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:17 (seven months ago) link
(shredded vocal tonezzz, raw COVID superspread edition)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:20 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
Thanks, Steve!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:58 (seven months ago) link
Alright which one of you runs the AcidCasualties youtube channel lol.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:01 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhVUME1SC8E
― fpsa, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
There were rumors... SM was staying with Justine & Damon at the time and ~something happened~ and Damon never brought up SM/Pavement's name again in the press ever afterwards.
also iirc Justine was almost a Jick circa 2001 (to replace Heather or Mike?)
[this is olde internet lore culled from mailing lists]
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:12 (four months ago) link
there's a Magnet interview where Bob is more direct about it:
https://magnetmagazine.com/2001/04/01/stephen-malkmus-being-stephen-malkmus/
― fpsa, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:26 (four months ago) link
lol @ Bob
95% off-topic but former-Jick Heather wrote an amazing song with her brother and I must share it with you in the event you, dear reader, have never heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKMR8vAarYo
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:31 (four months ago) link
Steve Shasta, while watching that video that’s exactly what I was thinking about! (The subtext of a Malkmus/Albarn conversation about shoes)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:33 (four months ago) link
steve and justine played a lot of ping pong on lollapalooza, according to a don't-you-wish-this-was-salacious-because-their-haircuts-and-coolness-match spin or alternative press article i read at the time. their x cover of unheard music is an interesting study of contrasts, it reminded me at the time of the gainsbourg duets in its "why am i even singing this" lazy dude singing with an earnest yet ultimately unknowable hot chick. a romcom with them and damon - i'd half watch it, i admit. unheard music doesn't really fit into either elastica or pavement's discography, although i think i have it in my mp3 collections as a pavement middle era nonlp track and it adds some pep to the turgid brighten the corners b-sides.
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:34 (four months ago) link
I really like the X cover – I think SM says somewhere how Los Angeles is one of his favorite records
The gossip is not that interesting, but I remember this era of music fondly, as it was the beginning of my formative years of listening and reading about music, so I found the clip today and was just remembering about it! (12 year old in BRA reading about this Brighten the Corners import on the music mag of choice)
― fpsa, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 21:01 (four months ago) link
Soft launched tease going on in social media space of new super band:
Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Emmett Kelly & Jim White
More details to follow?
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
The Malkmus-Sweeney-Kelly-White Axis
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 20:54 (three months ago) link
There was some talk over on the Malkmus POX thread, but this is probably a better place for it.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 21:06 (three months ago) link
🙂
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 21:56 (three months ago) link
Sweeney-Kelly Sleater-Kinney double bill 2025
― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 22:27 (three months ago) link
Newest detail is that they've landed on a name, The Hard Quartet. New social media accounts launched today.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 July 2024 19:10 (three months ago) link
interesting that it's being presented as a band not "Stephen Malkmus and ..." Could be cool!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
Who’s gonna play bass?
― bbq, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 20:10 (three months ago) link
Been getting my son into Pavement. He thinks it’s hilarious. Listening to crooked rain a lot and it’s crazy how much mileage they get out him as a vocalist on that album. His, what I’ll call slacker scat, where he creates these great melodies just riffing on the last word of the verse, are so catchy. Does anyone in rock sing like this anymore
― Heez, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 20:59 (three months ago) link
― bbq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:10 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
probably Matt Sweeney, he played bass on that Iggy Pop tour where he and Josh Homme were in the backing band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 July 2024 21:10 (three months ago) link
Nah man no one is going to play bass, bass is just a bring down, just gonna be VIBES man
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 21:11 (three months ago) link
Counterpoint: the triple bass attack is what will make the quartet "hard".
― BrianB, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 21:22 (three months ago) link
I like malk's voice and his singing – it's funny to read about it, I just listened to this podcast with Andy Richter where he's pretty open about how he felt bad for a while after some ex-bandmates told him his voice sucks. https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter/episodes/stephen-malkmus A nice interview really
― fpsa, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 22:30 (three months ago) link
The first time I remember hearing Pavement when I must have been about 17 or 18, I was struck by how sloppy and skew-whiff it all sounded. I don't hear it half as much in the music any more - it all sounds quite well played and structured. But what was it they were doing, specifically, that made me think this?
― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 01:37 (three months ago) link
Matt's a great bass player, first time I saw him was in GBV playing bass circa Under The Bushes.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 01:50 (three months ago) link
According to their Insta post today, the lineup is:
Malkmus: bass, guitar, vocalsSweeney: bass, guitar, vocalsKelly: bass, guitar, vocalsWhite: drums, vocals
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 16:34 (three months ago) link
wow i like basically all of the names they scribbled on the notepad more than the one they chose
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 18:08 (three months ago) link
for reference: https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2024/07/IMG_9625-1720632519-844x1500.jpg
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 18:11 (three months ago) link
i would've gone with iron chai or the divorce doulas
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 18:12 (three months ago) link
Will it be on Matador or Drag City?
― bbq, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
Matador still has a fax machine so probably them.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 23:00 (three months ago) link
Ha ha, great reference
― Stockton Asparagus Festival (morrisp), Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:05 (three months ago) link
The Shaaak Jumpahs (to be spoken in an Aussie accent by Jim White--with respect to all these guys, this name/campaign has jumped off mighty rough IMO)
― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Thursday, 18 July 2024 01:21 (three months ago) link
(or: Emm's Atomic Dustbin)
― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Thursday, 18 July 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
divorce doulas is so good
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 July 2024 13:06 (three months ago) link
Been getting my son into Pavement. He thinks it’s hilarious. Listening to crooked rain a lot and it’s crazy how much mileage they get out him as a vocalist on that album. His, what I’ll call slacker scat, where he creates these great melodies just riffing on the last word of the verse, are so catchy. Does anyone in rock sing like this anymore― Heez, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Heez, Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
The many ways he sings the word "underused" in "We Are Underused" are just incredible
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 18 July 2024 13:09 (three months ago) link
That was my pick as well, but I get why they wouldn't use it.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 18 July 2024 13:22 (three months ago) link
xpost my favourite example of that is the catchy coda from 'Shoot The Singer': "don't expect, don't expect..."
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 18 July 2024 13:34 (three months ago) link
I don't think I've even felt more seen by a lyric than: "It was Mudhoney summer, Torch of Mystics, Double Bummer."
― Jersey Devil Vance (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 July 2024 14:12 (three months ago) link
setting the scenes
― Heez, Thursday, 18 July 2024 15:33 (three months ago) link
at last an indie supergroup to challenge the dominance of Shrinebuilder and Drag City Supersession
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 18 July 2024 15:33 (three months ago) link
Was trying to think of a list of who Matt/Emmett/Jim have all backed/collaborated with before (albeit separately):
Will OldhamChan Marshall
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 July 2024 15:36 (three months ago) link