considering that every post in this thread is in praise of ducktails, what on earth is the point in coming just to talk shit? go and start a poll for the 17th greatest pop single of the 00s or something dude
the above youtube reminds me of a new age of earth era ashra
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Sunday, 30 August 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm liking "parasails", i wouldn't normally seek out that split 7" but this is good stuff
― psychgawsple, Monday, 31 August 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
Yeah, only ONE opinion per thread here, fella. Be down, or get beat down.
― tea cake, Monday, 31 August 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
heard this the other day, pretty much love it, yup.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, 31 August 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol u dont follow my posts at all do youanywayz im not so sure whats wrong with asking someone to explain its appeal -- im not here to talk shit, im here to understand why ppl whose taste i follow i.e. max are repping for this when i think its pretty zzzz & im not sure what its doing thats so unique. i mean if were gonna go easy listening why not go all the way? this is a jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQavisBDeFU
― butthurt (deej), Monday, 31 August 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
that IS a jam
― cutty, Monday, 31 August 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
tbh i just said "i dig this" which i do, also that is a jam
― fleetwood (max), Monday, 31 August 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't see that liking sunlounger and ducktails is mutually exclusive, though. deej, if you don't like it, you don't like it. i'm not going to try and convince you of its endearing musical qualities. try smoking some weed.
― cutty, Monday, 31 August 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
fair enough if you don't like it but i dunno it just seemed like you stormed in, listened to half a youtube and decided to tell everyone it's boring in a snarky manner. my apologies if i caught the wrong end of the stick.
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 31 August 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway i'm not max or anything but i think it has lots of appeal beyond the lofi recording aspect, much like nite jewel, the tunes are top notch and would be great regardless of the recording context. i agree alot of stuff like this suffers by making the lofi aspect its only virtue, but at the same time "overplayed cassette" wooz and hiss is to me pretty refreshing after hearing so much immaculately produced music over the last few years
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 31 August 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
nite jewel is pretty rad at least.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
The song "Neptune City NJ" from Backyard has a mellow Terry Riley vibe to it. I like it.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 31 August 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
deej u like crazytown so
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Monday, 31 August 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
its ok that youre not max rio not everyone is
― fleetwood (max), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/people/Max-Rio/1622657007?ref=search
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
max rio, p.i.
― fleetwood (max), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
so the ducktails dude also does real estate right? cuz the real estate album is really great. i haven't kept up much with in vogue beachcomber seaweed indie but i like this a lot. there are def songs that sound like the shins but i think it's got a very CCR quality about it imo, laid back, backwoods guitar strumming kinda thing
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Made a mix for my friends at the Bakery centered around the Real Estate "Fake Blues" 7" It also includes "Let's Rock the Beach" by Ducktails. They were listening to it today when I got my lunch!
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Dolphins..." seconded.
I missed this guy a few weeks back, too bad (saw Shoji Hano and Dean Roberts instead, which was worth it).
― CharlieS, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Man what has Dean Roberts been doin?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
A few weeks ago he played a really good set with a drummer (not sure who) here in Auckland. Slow quiet improv, about what I expected his songless stuff would sound like (I'd only ever heard Be Mine Tonight). I think he's living in New Zealand again. No clue, aside from that.
― CharlieS, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Real Estate wouldn't sound out of place entertaining the evening beach crowd at the Myrtle Beach Holiday Inn. And I mean that as a compliment.
― It's Favre O'Clock Somewhere!!! (leavethecapital), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Really liking the two Real Estate 7"s so far, particularly "Suburban Beverage". Need to get ahold of some Ducktails stuff.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
the real estate album is really nice.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it out? Leaked?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i'm talking about the s/t on woodsist, but half the songs are the same as some earlier "tour cd" i had downloaded ... not even rerecorded. i'm not complaining.
http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-realestateLG.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, I'll have to get ahold of that one.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
plz leo that n/a thx
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Shit is hard to google.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i know!
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
search on here:
http://www.supersuperdb.com/
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, didn't know about that site.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys are playing chicago tomorrow, I am pondering going but probably won't because I am lazy.
― dr johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I thought about going to that, but with all the Pitchfork fawning over Girls, I'm a little wary of the annoying crowd this might draw.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Real Estate @ The Funhouse (Seattle) tonight. Really nice, and a good deal more propulsive/energetic than I expected. Drummer & bassist hammer the tunes surprisingly hard. Reminded me of a bunch of different stuff: surf music, the "rhyming guitars" of Pell Mell & Love Tractor, a sort of John Frusciante version of late Pavement (plus they had Malkmus clothes), even Dire Straits. Only knew "Fake Blues" and "Pool Swimmers" going in, off a Woodsist 45 I picked up a while back, but I liked just about everything they played. Bought a copy of the new LP off them, which I'm listening to now. It's excellent, though much more relaxed & dreamy than the live show.
Band afterwards was Pill Wonder, who sounded too much like Animal Collective for my taste, so I split. A guy shooting hoops in the rain told me about clown cults in Italy, and how they used to eat people and terrorize them and so forth. The red mouth of the modern clown supposedly symbolizes the bloody jowls of this hideous cannibal clown ancestor. I dunno. Is this true? Did there used to be clown cults in Italy, and did they used to eat people? I would like to think so.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The internet provides little to no evidence supporting the existence of cannibal clown cults.
:(
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay so I've fallen really hard for Real Estate, but I'm not sure I can say the same for Ducktails. Backyard didn't feel like anything I'd really want to return to.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 ducktails, kinda meh on real estate (tho it's certainly not BAD). and i'm getting more mileage out of 'landscapes' than 'backyard' fwiw
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
cosign ^^
― 69, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Like em both about equals, and yeah, Landscapes is my favorite Ducktails so far.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Like the s/t on NNF, too.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
add note - i also picked up a real estate "live on the radio" lp at that show, which is much more like what i thought they'd sound like live: a clean, bright, unreverby version of the studio stuff, with a v understated rhythm section. looses some of the melancholy psychedelia, but still nice back porch jams. nowhere near as revelatory as woods' "acoustic family creeps" radio session ep.
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i like that woods AFC LP too
― 69, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, one of my favorite records of the year - wish it were longer
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
Still haven't been able to find Landscapes, but am listening to the self-titled Ducktails right now and loving it a lot more than Backyard.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not max or anything but tht sunlounger track is amazing
― conezy (cozwn), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
julian lynch album i like, kinda like a canaxis version of this
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like the new album, even if it has veered more towards Real Estate territory than his previous albums (i.e. more "songs" and less textural, for the most part). Fair warning though, I'm a sucker for this particular vibe right now.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, been listening to the new one a lot too, "porch projector" and "killin' the vibe" do it for me
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Calling someone out over their Twitter likes is a bit unfair though as I know a lot of people who use it as a bookmarking system rather than for agreeing with a Tweet's sentiment.
Not saying that's the case here but there's been plenty of threads about it in the last week now that other user's likes are showing up in people's feeds.
― groovypanda, Friday, 26 January 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
It's shite tbh and we should bh
― i,CloudiOS (darraghmac), Friday, 26 January 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
I mean, he admits he is an “abuser” in that facebook statement and kind of pleads for a second chance. He apologizes to Julia Holter. Maybe it’s not sincere — I wouldn’t want my female friends going near him — but it seems like a weird opportunity to pile on again. More people know Matt Mondanile is a predator than can name even one Ducktails song—he’s done.
― treeship 2, Friday, 26 January 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
It is a very self-pitying post, I’ll admit. But he’s trash—it shouldn’t be surprising.
― treeship 2, Friday, 26 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
Ok screenshotting the donation page in the plea for absolution is pretty lol/transparently self-serving
― treeship 2, Friday, 26 January 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
So I finally got around to listening to The Flower Lane and it's good!Too bad this guy's a sex pest, though.Any recommendations for music like this, but not by a sex pest?
― Nhex, Monday, 23 March 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
ecstatic sunshine
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 March 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
will try, ty!
― Nhex, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000040446652-wqlzjk-t500x500.jpg
― marcel the shell with swag on (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link