CODEINE THE BAND

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yeah, that summer in Louisville I ran into them all coming out of Guitar Emporium while I had my Come t-shirt on. D'oh!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

on your tshirt?

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

a t-shirt for the band Come, wisenheimer.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

C ON T'S!

xthread

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

C on Tee's.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.parlorcity.com/secop/lev2.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

HI LOOK AT MY LONG HAIR AND BEARD AND SPARKLE CUM SHIRT. I AM A TRUE DOOSHBAG.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

new weird folktronica

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

that is not me. And it does not belong on this thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

sure it does, hsparkle motioncil

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

you are cruising for some moderator action, buddy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm just SAYING IT BELONGS ON THIS THREAD. not having it here would be an egregrious error on your part.

and i'll moderelatize you too pumpkin!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Mutually Assured Moderation

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

or MAMs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M BLIND

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY DID YOU GAY UP THE THREAD ON MY FAVORITE BAND YOU JERK?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

THAT PIC IS EVIL ON SO MANY LEVELS.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

BECAUSE THIS IS THE NOISE BOARD HSTENCIL THIS IS WHAT WE USED TO DO ON ILM/ILE AND WE WILL CONTINUE DOING IT HERE

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

brown silly string beard action!
m.

(i blame the pixels really.)

― msp (msp), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

you might have gayed up ILM/ILE, cutty, but I sure didn't.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a doo doo beard

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil, pls get a shirt like that okthxbye

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

LISTENING TO: BARELY REAL

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i listened to the white birch on the bus in the rain yesterday and i wanted to die.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

this is my favorite by far... i have this on 12" and CD!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i love a barely real

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen couldn't make it to birthday drinks last night. Damn hurricane.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 30 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

did john play a telecaster? i need to know.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, I believe he did. My videographic evidence is at A. Licht's house, though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.subpop.com/bands/codeine/codeine-207.gif

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

telecast0rz 4eva

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 24 October 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the picture on the back of Frigid Stars is the perfect description of Codeine's music. HELLO LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING LET'S COLLAPSE INTO BED AND BURY OUR FACES IN DIRTY LAUNDRY

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

My words have broken throats
Too ashamed to speak

Afflicted by disease
They are so weak

I'll throw sand in your eye
You need a reason to cry
I'll throw sand in your eye
I need a reason to smile

I went to school to learn
But it didn't work

How do you learn to try
Why can't I?

I'll throw sand in your eye
You need a reason to cry
I'll throw sand in your eye
I need a reason to smile

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

godfuckingdammit, steve's lyrics wrexxx my shit every time. poor me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

Taking sides: "W" off Barely Real vs. "WIRD" on The White Birch?

Subquestion for hstencil and possibly Drew... what is the style of composition/school of theory/(predecessors?) for "W"? Because once it's converted into a rock quartet (LG/RG/B/D) it becomes very SLINT sounding.

Dudebros,
Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Hey Steve Shasta,

did you know that ian johnson accidentally dialed steve immerwahr with my phone the other day? no lie.

as for "w" maybe morton feldman or somebody like that? dunno.

best,

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Fuck I love you,

Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Steve, I will listen and think about the differences between those songs. On the gneral subject of Codeine The Band, I went through a period while studying at Oxford and living in a single unit dorm room of listening to the "Barely Real" EP in a ritualized state and staring at the wall and doing nothing in a state of catatonic arrest at least once a day. It induced a state that John Cassian, writing to fourth century monks in his classic religious text "The Institutes" referred to as acedia, a state of melancholic contemplative arrest, described in the ninetieth psalm as "the noonday demon", a mood in which nothing seems possible, nothing seems worth doing, and yet everything is suffused with a kind of crushing, beautiful sublimity.

best

Drew

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Steve-

Listening to "W" now. It just sounds like a transcription of catchy, melancholic indie rock guitar parts for piano. I don't hear the space or scale of a Feldman or Wolff New York school contemporary classical piece here. It has me wondering what General MIDI files of Codeine songs would sound like. It's rad, no denying that, and it's a ballsy move, but aside from the oddity of the instrumental choice, as a tune it's got the Codeine-ish fingerprints (a good thing). Do you hear Grubbs quietly humming along in certain places? I think I do, but I might just be going into my crazy place.

best

Drew

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

TEH DWARVES were the best band on SUB POOP.
-- ddb (stupidpum...), September 17th, 2004.

I KISS YOU.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Anyone wants ysi of a couple trax from Blag's excellent bluegrass album give me a holla.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre500/e528/e52848mv18p.jpg

― Child O' Peelie (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

I listen to Barely Real all the time.

Drew went to Oxford! =0

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

rhodes scholar?

― ziti sanskrit (sanskrit), Saturday, 28 January 2006 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Close, I was a Marshall Scholar.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Which college?

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Drew,

Listen to "W" and then "WIRD" (off of The White Birch). Grubbs plays lead guitar on "WIRD", essentially transcribing his "catchy, melancholic indie rock" piano parts for guitar while Codeine (at this ponit based in Louisville) go for full-on Spiderland mode.

Tim,

At my friend's wedding, I sat at a table with Frank Kozik and Blag Dahlia (neither were invited but were dates of two of the bridesmaids). Blag was very nice and conversant but Frank was just way too cool.

Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

...Codeine (at this ponit based in Louisville)

dude, steve, they were only there for like part of a summer. they were never really "based" in louisville, and i'm pretty sure "the white birch" was recorded elsewhere (don't have it handy).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Idful in Chicago (I think).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

i think you're right, steve. i think dave was maybe living there already by that point? dunno.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

best

Drew

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:01 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Steve-

best

Drew

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:16 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

^^^^^^
***BOOMING POSTS***

i don't think cigarete machine is a favorite now tbh.

― ian, Friday, 1 January 2010 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLmcO80kEY

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 3 January 2010 08:27 (sixteen years ago)

^^^

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Sunday, 3 January 2010 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

I checked into that Codeine state of mind again last week with "Barely Real" and "The White Birch" played in sequence. I think "Barely Real" is my favorite record of theirs still, and I'm glad that when I listen to it I am not just listening in order to feel nostalgic about the first time I listened to it. I still can hear the record and not just the mushy-inner-home-movie it triggers. But it was weird that I would just light a candle and stare into the flame and do nothing while that record played. Like church or something.

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Sunday, 3 January 2010 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

back: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/ibymlondon2012.php

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

Would be pretty weird seeing them in front of any sort of sizeable crowd. That said, good luck Codeine!

― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

I love this thread btw.

― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_3qhH5OerA

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 26 April 2013 06:09 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

Most perfect discography ever?

― Mule, Thursday, 8 August 2013 22:35 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

― kraudive, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:11 (eleven years ago)

nine years pass...

Anyone catching this round of shows? So psyched (yet equally bummed we don't get BManning as opener).

I missed their last reunion... strangely found out about it at an A's game. As I'm shuffling to my seat I notice the guy next to me was wearing a shirt of theirs and I was like "My man, that was my favorite band in 1991" and he replied "Dude, they played last night at [insert local club here]... you blew it!" haha.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 November 2023 23:57 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

...

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:58 (two years ago)

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