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

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I see....thanks tim.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Wed. long blk hair, ipod mini, listening to the killers, I walked away
Reply to: anon-76597011@craigslist.org
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.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

this is jw

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

TIM: WHISTLE STOP OR SHOOTERZ??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

CASBAH OR KEN CLUB??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

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.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

my guess is that the writer has heard neither

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

I LOVE IT.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

It's up today on stylusmagazine.com

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

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

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

Thanks dude!

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

no problem, KILLER.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

last song on Volume 1 (1971)

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

haha yeah but on this total roller rink keyboard

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

WHAT A GREAT BAND.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

It's a good record, Tim.

When are you visiting Britain again?

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

and what will you do when you are there?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

TIM:

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

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MEATROAF

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

not really a question

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

ONE LOVE, BRO.

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

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

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

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

Are there mp3s of your band available online, Tim?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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