i kinda hinted at another big textural difference between DN & what came before in that talk about "evol's gnarly, raw & tender squall". there's a weird kind of agonized-yet-narcotized hurt present in their earlier work that DN almost entirely excises. on evol and sister, to a lesser extent, there's this weird sort of bleary, self-comforting self-laceration, like poking at a bruise to see how it's coming along, or curling into a fetal position to mitigate pain.
at the same time, evol and sister are druggy as hell, with lots of cryptic wanderings and dead-eyed psychedelic drool. that too gets scaled way back on DN, becoming more an element in the background than a real front & center focus. the devolution of total trash being the album's only real drool-out, and even that feels a bit methodical in comparison to the random scuzzed guitar hairballs that litter the previous records.
and again, the cover art is a dead giveaway for this fairly dramatic shift in focus.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
how can byron conley still be waxing mystified about he's the only guy who gets something? sad to hear that's still his schtick, you'd think he's have outgrown it by now.
anyway sorry to focus on that - really nice writing - this really makes me want to listen to evol again more than anything.
― Brio, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit this looks bad
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/daydreamnation/
dude's name is thurston. and that quote from variety. "Juno as reimagined by david lynch or a funnier, sunnier donnie darko" barf
― jaxon, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
this movie is sure to be . . . a riot
― markers, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
it's going to go to the top of the box office charts like a goddamn silver rocket, i tell ya!
― tylerw, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Would actually be kinda cool if it was about mike watt trying to help thurston find his shit
― Z S, Monday, 9 May 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Thurston and Watt Go To Providencei'd buy a ticket
― tylerw, Monday, 9 May 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
That movie is sure to be total trash
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 9 May 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
DN is neither wildly varied and experimental, like sister (i guess they saved the experiments & jokes for the whitey album and master-dik), nor intimate and haunting like evol. instead, it's towering, impenetrable, and very tightly controlled. the songs only wander when they intend to make a point of their wandering, the band lyrics only occasionally crack a smile, and it's very hard to tell quite what it's all about. it's easy enough to catch a few seemingly key phrases in each song, but they're slippery and oblique. the lyrics seem to be talking to themselves, rather than to you. this approach isn't alienating, in fact it's inviting in its mystery, but it does make the record seem a bit impersonal. in the liner notes, byron coley waxes mystified (and perhaps a bit conceited) about how no one ever gets the real meaning behind most of the songs - but come on dude, it's not like they were giving us much to go on.
yeah weird i don't exactly follow lyrics and it ain't like thurston lee kim exactly reward lyrical attention anyway but a record like dirty, i feel like i do fundamentally get the record on a feels level and well enough on a words level
this one, couldn't really tell ya, it's just ||\\/\/\/\||//\\/\/\/|||/\/\/\/\/\/\||||||||>
― j., Saturday, 28 November 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
The poor boy, rich boy part of the trilogy is about Robert Chambers.
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 28 November 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
it beeetter work ouuuut
― j., Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/l/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/p750x750/14553141_1798505870434780_1004535306562568192_n.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
THURSTON
WATT
― brimstead, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
You gotta lay off the mota; your memory goes out the fuckin' window!
― spastic heritage, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig_UbA5HBWI
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 13 May 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
kim's bass on 'teenage riot' starting around 5:08 so great
― harm'n'killabro (rip van wanko), Monday, 5 November 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
“Did you find your shit?”
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 23:47 (four days ago) link
You gotta watch the mota Thurston, your fuckin' memory just goes out the windah
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 9 May 2024 10:49 (three days ago) link
Ha, was just thinking of that
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 May 2024 12:02 (three days ago) link