what is your favorite song by casiotone for the painfully alone?

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thanks

recital & papercuts 8:30-9:10
whysp 9:20-9:50
meanest man contest 10-10:40
oscillating innards 10:45-10:50
casiotone for the painfully alone 10:50-11:30

sliding scale: $2-$7... feel free to donate more for the cause.

Friday, Jan 28 Calgary, AB
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
w/ Chad VanGaalen
@ Broken City

Saturday, Jan 29 Edmonton, AB
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
w/ Field & Stream, DJs Mittens & Bob Crane
@ The Victory Lounge

so i'm early for a meeting this morning and i'm sitting in the conference room looking at magazines and i see the new issue of TOKION... they have a little feature on James Murphy/LCD Soundsystem and lo and behold what t-shirt is he wearing... ha.

were the papercuts good? i love the cd owen gave me.

here's my take:

Back in town
With blown-out lungs, and shot eardrums
And misplaced kisses
And someone who misses
Who misses me in Kansas

The second I got out of the van
I saw you giving your cash to the doorman
I saw the X on your hand
And I knew you were the one
I knew you'd understand, but oh...

I wish we could have talked all night
We had to be in Illinois by daylight
And what I wouldn't give to be your man
But I can't break up the band

And Jeane, there must be more than letters and phone calls
So say "I'll come see Maine when the snow falls"
...
Just say "I'll come see Maine when the snow falls"

There's kissing in Kansas, but that's not home
And we sigh when we're on the phone
But the voice in my ear
Says "It wouldn't be the same if you moved here"

But it's just miles
It's only miles
It's just miles
And miles and miles and miles and miles and miles...

http://www.cftpa.org/

1/19/06

Young Shields CDEP & 7 out now on Tomlab! Young Shields is the first single from Etiquette, which will be released in March 2006.

ETIQUETTE
Tomlab #65 CD/LP released 2006

01 Etiquette I.D.
02 New Year's Kiss
03 Young Shields
04 I Love Creedence
05 Nashville Parthenon
06 Scattered Pearls
07 Happy Mother's Day
08 Holly Hobby (version)
09 Cold White Christmas
10 Bobby Malone Moves Home
11 Don't They Have Payphones Wherever You Were Last Night
12 Love Connection

February 10th

@ The University of Chicago
1212 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637
Ida Noyes Third Floor Theater
w/ Saturday Looks Good To Me & The Passerines
9pm all ages

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone & The Donkeys
March 2006 US Tour

3/3 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell
3/4 Pomona, CA TBA
3/5 San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
3/6 Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space
3/7 Santa Fe, NM @ College of Santa Fe
3/8 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
3/9 Dallas, TX @ Good Records (6pm instore)
3/9 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves (9pm show)
3/10 Austin, TX @ Beerland (free show!)
3/11 Houston, TX @ The Proletariat
3/14 Memphis, TN TBA
3/15 Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
3/16 Chapel Hill, NC @ Nightlight
3/17 Fredericksburg, VA TBA
3/18 Arlington, VA @ Galaxy Hut
3/19 Philadelphia, PA @ Kensington South Forum
3/21 Manhattan, NY @ Cakeshop
3/22 Brooklyn, NY @ Glasshouse
3/23 Northampton, MA @ Gallery TK
3/24 Somerville, MA @ PA's Lounge
3/25 Albany, NY @ Valentine's Downstairs
3/26 Rochester, NY TBA
3/27 Columbus, OH @ Skully's Music Diner
3/28 Grand Rapids, MI @ DAAC
3/29 Bloomington, IN TBA
3/30 St Louis, MO @ Lemp Arts
3/31 Iowa City, IA TBA
4/1 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen

Hear The Donkeys: www.myspace.com/thedonkeys

Later:
April/May Europe & U.K. tour w/ The Dead Science
(www.thedeadscience.com)

Watch http://cftpaforever.livejournal.com for tour updates!

I think 'Etiquette' is my favourite record this year so far.

has a really rather lovely version of 'Streets of Philadephia' on his myspace at the moment.

and he's playing an extra London show at the Luminaire at the end of his current UK tour. good stuff.

Following up the just previous post -- both that and a cover of "Born in the USA" are on the new comp track/singles collection and both I like more than the originals, big surprise. But of Casiotone's own songs on the collection my new favorites are "Holly Hobby" and "The Best Way to Cry."

RIP

was thinking the other day how of all the SF-based bands that we played with when we started out, Owen was like the only other one still going

p sure he is not dead, unless a dead man slept on my couch last night

Really?

I saw him once and he seemed like a really nice/shy guy.

my answer to this question would be "Jeane if you're ever in Portland" at least I think that's what it's called. I listened the hell out of that song in like 2003.

He's totally nice!

he's not dead, my RIP was for the "band"!

I love Owen and know him from way back (we did our first shows together) he is a solid dude

For once Shakey Mo is sad somebody died! Or something.

More than a solid dude he delivers his lyrics in a way that is both convincing and devastating

ok i was waiting for someone else to say something first but i guess i will: advance base album came out last week, i'm on some of the songs

it's good!

It's very good! And I should have said something earlier, true.

new video up on pitchfork
http://www.pitchfork.com/tv/musicvideos/2021-summer-music/
it's pretty twee

owen's songwriting is vastly underrated. haven't heard this new thing yet.

apparently the guy who did the video is from the jim henson studios

wow uh not kidding about the tweeness

album is up on spotify if you want to listen to it
http://open.spotify.com/album/5479sSiKx80I05WLfA1Wo6

i like it a lot but not as much as the old stuff...

re: thread qn i guess either 'scattered pearls' or 'calloused fingers wont make you strong, edith wong'

this is also p much my favorite music rn with the possible exception of 'ladies of the canyon' and i listen to his songs everday when i ride my bike home from work in the heat, thinking about midwestern winters

The lyrics on this record are nowhere near as strong as thse on Vs. Children.

Sounds pretty though.

I assumed he was done making music when he retired CftPA; glad to see otherwise. He's so good at saying so much with so few lyrics. One of my favorite songwriters.

daytrotter session is up: http://www.daytrotter.com/?_escaped_fragment_=%2Fconcert%2Fadvance-base%2F20056095-37383301, you can listen with a free trial registration. really happy with how it turned out, probably a better reflection of the full-band live sound than the album. i play bass on three songs and autoharp on two.

plastic owen band!
https://advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-owen-band

This is my favorite song on the new album: http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/advance-base-shares-new-song-pamela-listen/

I really think he's a super under-appreciated, low-key, songwriting genius, thought so for years and years. His gift for both melody and economy of words = everything I look for in an artist.

Glad there is a thread for this guy.

Toby, Take a Bow is a great. Bitter irony. Wry and self-deprecating allusions.

And in excellent timing, new covers album:

https://advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/wall-of-tears-other-songs-i-didnt-write

Saw him do his first SF show in a while the other day. Had some thoughts.