Crooked Fingers: lush despairing brilliance or pathetic?

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I've always hated Crooked Fingers. Eric'll always have a place in my heart for Archers, still one of my fave bands (do EPs get better than Greatest of All Time?), but it really seems like he's mailing it in with CF. There's nothing at stake there, ya know?

A friend is old friends with the Archers crew, and he was there when they wrote "Web In Front." He went to high school with them and was in their basement during one of their practices. The drummer (whose name escapes me at the moment) played that little snare opening and they took off from there. He claims it was one of the most startling experiences of his life -- realizing that his best friends were, effectively, geniuses.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Writing "Web in Front" hardly equates to genius, does it? The "Audiowhore"/"Lowest Part is Free" medley comes much closer.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

But until then they had been a shitty punk band with no tunes. And all of the sudden that changed before his eyes. An epiphany, right?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

The couple of songs Bachmann cut with Small were fairly decent, so I imagine the songs were always there and just bubbled to the surface that night.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw AoL live (when? where?) and totally forget what they were like. I guess I was impressed enough to purchase their album at the time (veevee); aside from "Harnessed in the Slums" none of the other songs made any impression on me.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

He said that at that time Small were a really shitty Ma I Forgot...-era Replacements. I've never heard Small, so I have no idea how accurate that is/was.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've got a 7" from the period he was in the band, but I haven't listened to it in a million years. Don't recall any hint of a 'Mats influence, though. More like Superchunk Jr.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

K. I'll take your word for it. (i find it kinda funny that you're questioning a friend of mine's reaction to something he saw firsthand, by the way)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

what single was that? the "Chopsocky" one?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not questioning, really. Just odd that "Web in Front" and "geniuses" were used in the same story.

All the best songs are written in about the time it takes to play them.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, he'd already left by the time the "Chopsocky" 7" came out. He's on the "Noodles"/"Wet Cement" 7" from 1992 (but only on "Wet Cement").

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bachmann seems to have a springsteen-doing-a-dylan-impression vocal thing going on. it's pretty annoying

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven years pass...

'juliette' still p much slays imo

― cloudy predecessor (Lamp), Friday, 4 February 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

You Can Never Leave is so magnificent.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

^^ this is worth repeating every couple of years. cf. all versions of "sleep all summer"

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link

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