Luna: S&D

that's an EP. I have it, as well as a bunch of their singles & b-sides which have never been compiled... IN FACT I discussed digitizing those very singles on this very thread and iirc posted a download link to them as well

that stuff was on that download link? ha, i guess i should dig through my files, i know i downloaded it.

nah the EP wasn't on there, I figured that was more widely available. I could upload it though. It has a Lee Hazlewood cover (No Regrets), a Talking Heads cover (Send Me an Angel), a song called the Moviegoer that is an original iirc, plus one other instrumental original I think.

Still rate Romantica as their best post-Penthouse; he's mastered the art of the conversational strum.

If I fall in love again in the next three years, "Renee is Crying" is going on the CD-R ("Once we had dreams/Now we have schemes...").

okay fine I will d/l Romantica

yeah the no regrets cover is stellar -- more like the walker bros. version than anything else, I think. both of those covers are on Lunafied, but that instrumental and the moviegoer are missing from my collection. xxpost

& yeah romantica is worth the dl, as is the close cover before striking EP

Rendezvous is about 2/3 worthwhile as well - not as consistent as Romantica, but it hits a few similar high points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHbJV7SjCm8

rendezvous is pretty good (esp. the song you posted). actually, two of my faves from that album are the ones sean eden sings.

Wareham's memoir is worth a read.

EP also has some country waltz song that may be a cover I don't recognize - "The Enabler"?

I don't have these on my drive at work otherwise I'd just post another yousendit link, sorry

er no the country waltz song is called "It's Bringing You Down". The Enabler is the instrumental.

oh wait I stand corrected I DO have it on my work drive. sending yr way tyler

thx dude!

am starting to think the exit of Stanley Demeski hurt this band considerably. not really digging much of this drumwork on Romantica

Wasn't he only in the band at the very beginning? I thought Lee Wall was the drummer on the couple of albums before Romantica.

Demeski is on the first three. He left prior to Puptent.

yeah, i think that demeski had a cooler sound. wall is fine, just not as distinctive.

the first album - which I am maybe a bit too sentimentally attached to - is just Wareham, Demeski, and the original bassist Justin Harwood. (well, Kramer plays a part here and there iirc)

hey shakey would you mind sending me what you sent tyler? I'd really appreciate it.

I saw them three nights in a row at Maxwell's in hoboken in 1998 and my friend and I recorded the shows with their permission. She might still have that - I should check and find out.

"the first album - which I am maybe a bit too sentimentally attached to"

Ha - that's how I am with Bewitched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SqorQ_wpdE

^^^ love that
enbb, would be interested in hearing those maxwells recording, if you find them. i saw luna a bunch around the same time. don't have as many luna bootlegs as I'd like.

Okay I have a .zip file with the following for anyone who wants it (on its way to you shortly ENBB)

Roll in the Sand
Outdoor Miner
Bob Le Flambeur
Dance With Me
Thank You For Sending Me an Angel
The Moviegoer
It's Bringing You Down
The Enabler
No Regrets
Seven-Eleven
Dear Paulina
Sucking Ice Cubes

loving re-hearing these luna ep trax btw shakey.

is that out of print or something?

was similarly surprised to see that Days of Our Nights is out of print. I wonder how much my white vinyl copy would go for...

yeah it's out of print, tho i just checked amazon and third party sellers have it for a whopping .99 cents. might have to replace my copy.

Hey - thanks so much Shakey! :D

my wife has a massive crush on DW, she met him once somewhere and he asked her name and she was pretty ecstatic when an hour later he was leaving and came over and said "it was vv nice to meet you" and called her by her name. damn, what a player.

I love his accent.

I also have massive crush on him and his accent is, in fact, great.

then she read the book and said, "well i'd still hit it but..."

Shakey... just sent you an email (think we have a trade here)

x-post lol yeah

I've met him a couple times. He was sometimes nice and sometimes . . . not as nice. Still <3.

E, Shakey etc. - plz to send me Luna rarities thx

okay I yousent it to y'all - lemme know if there's a problem with the link or anything

in case anyone is interested, i've uploaded a recording of the last time i saw Luna way back in 2005: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/3187849319/stuck-in-a-dream-hard-to-believe-its-been-six
Pretty great show.

:)

I haven't been able to find the tapes that I mentioned a couple months ago. If I come across them I'll let ppl know.

I would be curious to hear people's thoughts on the rarities stuff I posted

they're rad!

huh, luna does Led Zep: http://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2011/10/31/luna-albums-digitally-reissued-with-bonus-tracks/

also cool from that site, wareham's post g-500, pre-Luna demos recorded with hamish kilgour (clean) and jimmy chambers (mercury rev)

http://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2011/10/28/audio-friday-recylcing-the-dean-wareham-elektra-demos/

I think one of those Elektra demos made it onto a Chemical Imbalance 7".

Beat Happening cover iirc?

"Indian Summer"?

that was released on a flexidsc single iirc

yeah, there was an "anasthesia" solo single as well. don't know if i've heard the non-Luna "Indian Summer" though. It's different from the one released on the Slide EP I take it? Their version is great.