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Dearest Tim:

Could you tell me a little more about the structure of the new Orthrelm album? How often do changes occur, would you say? Are they regularly or irregularly spaced? Are the repetitions EXACT repetitions, or is there some permutation?

Best,
IJ

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

ian, what do you think of the ORTHRELM strategy of combining it into big chunks now?

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE IT.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey Ian. At the beginning of the piece, they keep repeating some riffs for several minutes at a time, but the changes happen more frequently as it goes along. They're exact repetitions, but of course the guitarist can't play them exactly the same way each time so there are these interesting variations that happen like sometimes there's a particular note in a riff that will stand out - you'll hear it repeating each time they play the riff, but the pulse of the repetitions wavers. And sometimes there'll be this cool white noise sound that seems to occur at really irregular places each time the riff gets repeated. Near the end, Barr plays some stuff that doesn't repeat - there might be some riff permutations going on there.

I actually gave that album an A, not an A- and am waiting to hear why the grade was changed without my being consulted.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

where did you review it at? me want to read.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

It's up today on stylusmagazine.com

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Very nice piece, Tim. I give your review an A+.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks dude!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

no problem, KILLER.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

tim, what are your thoughts on San Ul Lim's "Celadon (Arirang)"?

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Which song is that? I actually have three of their records, but there are no translations of titles.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

last song on Volume 1 (1971)

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Right. That song is totally sick. It's hard for me to tell how out of tune they are with each other because the record I have has this oversized hole in the middle and wherever I place it on the spindle, the needle ends up riding back and forth a little so it sounds a little warped.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

its got like that almost motorik keyboard part and bassline as it chugs along in the instrumental parts

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah but on this total roller rink keyboard

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

the keyboard reminds me of the rink one on the Ethiopiques compiling Getatchew Mekurya

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Yo Tim,

I finally picked up Traffic Sound's Lux! Amazing!! What an awesome record. Half of sounds like some kind of Malo/Santana/El Chicano thing and the other half is just really strange; love the long track. Then it ends with like three short tracks that sound like Blues Image or Grand Funk Railroad up-with-people singalongs. Great stuff.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 27 June 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

WHAT A GREAT BAND.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Tim,

Have you ever heard the album Better Can't Make Your Life Better by Lilys?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

No, but I am interested in hearing about the indie rock!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

It's a good record, Tim.

When are you visiting Britain again?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

and what will you do when you are there?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I would love to go to England, but no plans as of now.

I was there last November for Bonniwell Music Machine tour. We played at Islington Academy and it was the most poorly attended show on the tour. I love England, however.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I apologize on behalf of all Londoners for the poor attendance.

Maybe there was football that night?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

There might have been, actually! We drove down to Dover that night after the show to get the ferry (show in Amsterdam THE NEXT EVENING) and there were Polish football fans marching around the boat yelling "POLSKA!" and blowing horns. It was like five in the morning.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and one of them apparently soiled himself while laying down on a seat next to our keyboard player!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

TIM:

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

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MEATROAF

-- cutty (holle...), August 12th, 2004 2:00 PM. (mcutt) (admin)

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

It's things like this that make me love you

"That's a good one, but I'm not sure that there aren't plenty of songs on Positraction that I like as much.

Positraction is, to me, one of the only rock albums that goes beyond being emotionally cathartic music into something that feels like genuine TRAGEDY. The other albums that, for me, are in this category are Pet Sounds, Astral Weeks, and the Verlaines' Ready to Fly (another indie monolith that maybe, in part, did not get recognized as such because it was just another album put out near the end of their career).

-- Tim Ellison (thefriendlyfriendlybubbl..."

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

not really a question

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have anything to say on that thread, but I do love Live Skull.

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

ONE LOVE, BRO.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

― MRSPOOPYPNATS (MRSPOOPYPANTS), Saturday, 28 January 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh! And you like t Rex = you really probably should get some Suede records.

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Are there mp3s of your band available online, Tim?

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Sundar. No. I'll try to YSI a couple of tracks from this album later tonight, though!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

(I'll put the links on this thread.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

This album was recorded with room microphones. No close mic-ing of drums or amps. Played live with vocals and extra stuff overdubbed. Lo-fi, but if you listen to these on headphones or something other than cheap computer speakers, you'll get the idea that we intended at the time.

This one is "Funeral at Sea":

http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q38QTXO6TCHF20HU5RM6X2JP4

And this one is "El Matador":

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0W6XFZBVXEEON2JVZ6YDIWU5EO

These were recorded in 1994.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm still waiting for the nephews/comp thing you were going to put out, tim. nephews were ace.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, man. Yeah, that project's been on the backburner a bit. I think now that maybe I'd just like to do an mp3 page of that early '90s Nephews stuff.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Tim, I currently have "Love AIn't for Keeping" by The Who stuck in my head for some reason. Is this a good thing or a bad thing, in your estimation?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

better than the wife having oingo boingo's "weird science" stuck in her head this morning

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

All I can remember of that song is the refrain line. What is it "Lay down beside me/Love ain't for keeping?" I don't know if I'm a big Who's Next fan. There are just songs on Quadrophenia and Who By Numbers ("Slip Kid," "Blue, Red and Grey" ... ) and Who Are You (which I've never actually owned, but, you know, title track, "Sister Disco") that I like better.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Mr. Timothy J. Ellison:

What are your thoughts regarding the fact that the song is named "Taxman, Mr Thief", but in fact they sing "Taxman, Mr Heath"?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

tim, my boy:

what is your favorite meal?

love,
pops

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

ian, omg yr user name

― Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

it's like, when you really have to piss and you hold it for so long and then you piss, but there's no relief.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

STORMY: I have never owned the 1st Cheap Trick album, but I have researched these song lyrics online by logging on to a web site. This site makes it seem like the lead vocalist says "Heath" and the background vocalist(s) say "thief." Beatle homage, of course.

(By the way, I'll bet you did not know that Mark Tucker who did the great '70s/'80s private press LPs Batstew and In the Sack changed his name at some point to T. Storm Hunter and goes by the nickname Stormy. He is a nice guy. Last time I was in touch with him he had been working as a letter carrier for many years in Encinitas, CA - one of Steve Shasta's favorite towns.)

POPS: THAI YELLOW CURRY WITH SCALLOPS AND POTATOES (STEAMED RICE)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

plus a beer

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

DO YOU WANT TO GET BANNED?

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Tim (and Jeanne too),

Taking a Side: "Cecilia" vs. "Solsbury Hill"

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

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