― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link
April 24 - Teenage Fanclub (Fairfax High School)April 25 – The Charlatans (Palace)April 28 - The Sugarcubes (Palace)May 9 – Catherine Wheel (Whisky A Go Go)May 18 – Blur (Palace)May 28 – Ride with Slowdive (Coach House)May 29 – Ride with Slowdive (Palace)May 30 – Ride with Pale Saints (Palace)June 2 – Pale Saints (Whisky A Go Go)
Not to forget the Cure twice at the end of June that year.
Time of my life…
― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 1 December 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 December 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 1 December 2005 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I don’t make that many shows anymore, since moving back to Los Angeles, because 1) in San Francisco they were right outside my door and didn’t have to drive miles and miles. 2) Ticketmaster can go to HELL!
*I know ILM hates OCS but they were a great live band and became much better as the years went on. Everything doesn’t need to be new and inventive all the time, stealing from the best is OK every once in awhile.
― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 1 December 2005 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link
In order -- remember hearing about it, missed it, saw it (but it was the Wiltern!), missed it, saw it (I remember Damon ambling out on stage with the Moz quiff and everyone going "MORRISSEY!"), missed it, saw it, saw it, missed it (so annoyingly because the Red House Painters opened!).
In there, though, I did see the Wedding Present/Poster Children, Verlaines/Yo La Tengo, and Soundgarden/Swervedriver/Monster Magnet.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 December 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 1 December 2005 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 1 December 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 1 December 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 1 December 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm not sure you'd get much out of a guitar tab though :)
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― barnaby69, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
"MOJAVE 3: DUD OR CLASSIC DUD?"
is there such thing as changing a posts title?
― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 12 December 2005 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. Maybe it's all in my jead but I do think the sound has been impoved nicely, adding texture here and there, and I'm glad to have 'So Tired' and 'In Mind', but jeez talk about awful packaging. But that's the original cover afraid (the superior black one was for the susbequent US domestic release).
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 19 December 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
but all of their albums are great. the last one will be treasured by many someday. it is hard to convince people of this. i think i will go listen to it now. the first song is so 'let it flow'.
they do need to stop making solo albums.
― keyth (keyth), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
mojave 3 albums are great. i listen to them a lot more than slowdive, who i adored. do i really need this re-issue business? i have all the albums, the early EPs on vinyl, and some mega-track thing called 'staring at the sun' or somesuch i snagged from slsk...
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 19 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 December 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kevin Allen, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Slowdive have always been among my all time favourites, very influential for me, and I still absolutely love their music.
― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Souvlaki is a favorite for a lot of people, because it's them starting to be a *little* less full-on shoegaze, but not entirely. Pygmalion is kinda the art favorite, their Durutti Column tribute to a large extent.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Who do Slowdive most sound like? Well, jeez, in a way they ARE the ultimate shoegaze band! (MBV are in their own universe but obviously none of the other gaze bands could exist without them as an example.) As friend Stripey once put it to me years ago, "They'll be the band that most people will claim as an influence because they're both so atmospheric and so accessible." And she was right.
So basically -- mixed male/female vocals, often singing together, sometimes separately, LOTS of digital delay and zoned-out ambience, total goth fetish as well (early eighties Cure basslines in particular). Again, though, this is the earliest stuff in particular.
One thing that a lot of people forget about the band -- they could be LOUD. Saw them three times and while, again, they didn't achieve MBV levels of volume, they were definitely trying to really crank it up.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Whereas Lush and Ride, who are the first generation (i.e. not MBV) bands who I think of as utterly definitive of the genre seem to have fallen by the wayside.
Maybe that's because of the derivative tails on the end of their shoegazing careers (Britpop, Oasis, etc.) Or maybe because Slowdive hit the cliches the heaviest, so those looking for those cliches will be made happiest by them.
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link