ASK TIM ELLISON

But I was joking with you about your hangup!

didn't seem like it, i read it as you being pissed off at me as always. sorry.

I'M SORRY TOO!

THATS WHAT THE NZ BRD IS ALL ABOUT.

BROS.

they have BROSEPHS in New Zealand?

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

-- kippax lad, ls? (...), March 4th, 2005.

Ironically, I was just listening to an old Rough Trade compilation album called Wanna Buy a Bridge this morning. I thought to put it on initially because I wanted to listen to the TV Personalities doing "Part Time Punks." The fantastic "Read About Seymour" comes on after it. Even more ironically, I realized that one of the things that's cool about Franz Ferdinand is that they really kind of sound like "Read About Seymour." And before anyone gets all up in arms about me saying this, let me add that yes, of course, Franz Ferdinand are not as ballistic as the Swell Maps and their lyrics aren't as cool.

So maybe, ironically, those of you who hate Franz Ferdinand do so because you're just not all that partial to the "Read About Seymour" spirit?

Tim,

Have you ever pretended to like a piece of music? Ironically or unironically?

Love,
gygax!

I don't think so. What's an example of someone doing this?

hey tim,
sealed copy of XCIII....worth $11 + shipping?....really like to hear it...but not sure if its worth it.

Dude, no. Go to musicweb.com. Pretty sure they have it for $4.99!

Also, dude, if your order with them is over $25, free shipping.

I see....thanks tim.

Wed. long blk hair, ipod mini, listening to the killers, I walked away
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Date: 2005-06-02, 11:54AM EDT

Wed. 2pm ish We were on the same train, we got off together, I said "I saw you jamming out to your ipod, what were you listening too?" you said "the Killers", I walked away in the crowd, not because of the music, it was really crowded.

a long shot that you would see this, but I feel I have to try to post again. Send me an email.

this is jw

TIM: WHISTLE STOP OR SHOOTERZ??

CASBAH OR KEN CLUB??

Vahid, I don't know. We have a three year old and don't go out a lot. However: Saturday night - Che Cafe - Of Montreal. We will be there. (I don't think I've been to the Che Cafe in six years or so.)

Gawd, concert preview in the Reader today describes Of Montreal as "Smile on 78 RPM."

my guess is that the writer has heard neither

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

I LOVE IT.

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.

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

It's up today on stylusmagazine.com

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

Thanks dude!

no problem, KILLER.

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

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

last song on Volume 1 (1971)

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.

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

haha yeah but on this total roller rink keyboard

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

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.

WHAT A GREAT BAND.

Tim,

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

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

It's a good record, Tim.

When are you visiting Britain again?

and what will you do when you are there?

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.

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

Maybe there was football that night?

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.

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

TIM:

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

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

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..."

not really a question

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