polvo...

Three words: Today's. Active. Lifestyles.

ash lives in our hood.

yes! that ruled! superchunk's devo cover was a favorite back in the day...

"freedom of choice" tracklisting....

1. Ca Plane Pour Moi performed by Sonic Youth - 3:58
2. Rock & Roll Girl performed by Muffs - 2:21
3. Destination Unknown performed by Erectus Monotone - 3:14
4. How Much More performed by Redd Kross - 3:07
5. 5' 1" performed by Tiny Lights - 3:37
6. Pump It Up performed by Mudhoney - 3:09
7. The Wait performed by Das Damen - 3:11
8. Tainted Love performed by Finger - 3:47
9. Wishing performed by It's O.K. - 4:10
10. Dreaming performed by Yo La Tengo - 2:59
11. Wuthering Heights performed by White Flag - 4:00
12. I Got You performed by Connells - 4:06
13. Homosapien performed by Big Dipper - 4:50
14. Mexican Radio performed by Polvo - 3:23
15. Antmusic performed by Hypnolovewheel - 3:56
16. Don't You Want Me Baby performed by Chia Pet - 3:43
17. Hero Worship performed by Permanent Green Light - 5:01
18. Girl U Want performed by Superchunk - 2:35

(haha, i still have that CD. Still kinda disappointing tho' :( Youth's "Ca Plain Pour Moi" cover rocks it, as well as Erectus Monotone's "Destination Unknown" cover)

Yancey: I can understand the Polvo/Unwound connection, since I got into both bands at around the same time. There sure was an awful lot of that kind of indistinct-roar guitar dissonance in the early 90s, wasn't there? Ah, good times.

I also wonder how Polvo has aged... I'd guess not very well.

and what hstencil said.

also, from what i have:
1. todays active lifestyles (OTM about all songs mentioned so far - lazy comet, my kimono, thermal treasure, but ESPECIALLY time isnt on my side - that synth solo is one of the finest kitchen-sink pop/rock moments i can think of...)
2. celebrate the new dark age
3. cor-crane secret

(ill update when i get a little more familiar with exploded drawing)

x-post haha see I think polvo is the ultimate treble band!!

they definitely used cheaper guitars then sonic youth which explains some of the variance in tones. i'm just explaining that tunings played a pretty significant factor in their "sound" which was largely a sonic youth influence.

flip it and reverse it, dude-io.

check out black taj, dave brylawski's new band.

Erectus Monotone is super too (I was raving mystery friend above).

I'm gonna go home tonight and listen to Frozen Like Chandeliers.

http://www.wxyc.org/bandwidth/downloads/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Celebrating_10-Years_of_Internet_Radio_on_WXYC-Chapel_Hill/10%20-%20Black%20Taj%20-%20Woke%20Up%20Tired.mp3

their new record came out a week or so ago and i know they're touring rather soon.

this is what dave says about the band in a fakejazz interview:

http://www.fakejazz.com/fake/archives/2005/04/ncaa_basketball.php

"Black Taj is Grant Tennille from the Idyll Swords, my friend and Inexperience drummer Thomas Atherton, and Steve Popson, who was in Polvo with me, on bass. The record is going to have a few different recording sessions on it. The earliest was from 2002, which we did at Trans Am's studio - NRS - in D.C. Ash Bowie and Brian Quast did a session in Raleigh this year with Brian Walsby on drums. Jerry Kee did a recent session as well. I think we are going to go back to Quanic in Raleigh and get Ash and Brian to re-record a couple of songs this summer. We'll cull the "best" from all those sessions for the album."

I'm a big apologist for "Shapes"!

Argh! That's awful!!

That's a real shame, I love Polvo but especially the earlier stuff. RIP.

Blasting "Every Holy Shroud" right now.

Crazy, he (and Ash I think?) was a chef at 411 West on Franklin Street wayyyyy back in the day when Chapel Hill was one of the coolest places on the planet.

His son said on FB that it was completely unexpected, passing in his sleep.

From what I know of him over the past 20 years, he was a hard working family man who loved his wife and children more than anything.

Super shitty news indeed

I mean, I listened to a lot of Bowie and Prince in my life, but I've probably listened to more of Polvo.

What a very nice, sweet gentleman... who also was a ferocious drummer for the first 6 years of that crazy band.

When he left, I felt Polvo was never quite the same.

i wouldn't change a thing about those early polvo records. way too young of course. rip.

i was feeling glum and then the purple bear popped up on my ipod <3

i'm so excited i could just explode
cross your fingers and it might get shown
i told my parents to stay up late
but it's half past two
and there's been a mistake

RIP

so he was the drummer up to and including Exploded Drawing? such amazing records for many reasons, definitely including the drumming. sad I never saw the original lineup live

Yeah, Brian Walsby replaced him before Shapes and after Exploded Drawing... sometime in 96/97.

I've driven (literally) my wife crazy drumming along to his parts on the steering wheel many many times.

Cranking "Exploded Drawing" so loudly right now. Haven't listened to this for 10 years or so (cause I wore it out so heavily when it came out it is kind of internalized forever hah hah). So damn good.

"Exploded Drawing" is so awesome - that was my go to on hearing the news - damn good drum record.

RIP

I had the t-shirts on the left and the right:
http://i.imgur.com/21nHrUD.jpg

this video is amazing, and so is this song. DISCUSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMa4-d3JW-8

I love that song. Cool guitar solo and nice outro synth doodles too

love that warbly guitar thing in the middle and the end. how fucking cool is that?

They do a good job of writing classic rock-esque anthems without really sounding like anyone else at all

Fantastic song. In Prism was my favorite album of 2009, but I couldn't get into Siberia for some reason. I guess I have to try again.

love the filigree, not so much the song. my favorite polvos tend to be fragmentary, abrasive, only secretly tuneful.

Emil from Holy Sons/Grails/Om covers them in the latest episode of his excellent podcast: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1633582233421734&id=1280469688732992

The closing credits of the above podcast contains an amazing lost/forgotten Polvo-related track from Dave Brylawski:

Idyll Swords - "Autumn In Empire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATFus6yUf8

Totally missed that the Can I Ride ep got reissued as a mini album last year with the two songs off the Vibracobra single stuck on the end. Looks like it was some sort of record club edition? Gone now though - FUCK

Cor Crane Secret and Today's Active Lifestyles get a vinyl reissue this coming week - i kind of want them to replace my own long gone copies but it looks like they've uglified the covers for some reason

New interview:

https://www.talkhouse.com/polvo-finally-appreciates-their-own-music-sort-of/

Avalon - Downhill Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKhsJTrCmo

Haha yes that is amazing

https://vimeo.com/4531300

~30min HD pro-shot interview/live footage (warts n all) from the 2009 reunion era:

Fast Canoe
Enemy Insects (loose jam outro)
Every Holy Shroud (new slower intro, spacey long middle section)

Speed Stick - Knots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO0wp-YYKA