The Glands from Athens, GA

Glans Reunion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6SK2YfFTRA

That's Glands, no dick jokes people.

Although it does look like the drummer is blowing the mic

The Glands are playing NY and NJ! This is the greatest musical event of the year. I cannot begin to explain how excited I am about this.

As the #1 Glands enthusiast on ILM, I urge all of you people to seek out their two records. They are both absolutely fantastic.

Just saw them at Maxwell's. They were phenomenal. My love for this band cannot be overstated.

wow! i somehow did not hear about this. will they be doing more touring?

aww damn they play Philly tonight. i just left there fri :-/

Sunday, November 6 @ Milkboy (Philadelphia, PA) w/ Like a Fox

They sounded so good. It doesn't seem like there's going to be a new record anytime soon, but they certainly have the songs for it.

A dj from Georgia I know was just talking about their DC appearance that I missed. I need to look into them.

played in NYC Friday night w/ Condo Fucks (aka Yo La Tengo) opening

just found out about them.
like it, but it sounds too much like Pavement, isn't it?

They don't sound anything like Pavement. Maybe the guitar sound on Living Was Easy, but that's it. Cannot say enough good things about this band.

s/t is a great, great record. the first one (double thriller) is none too shabby either

they should've been big. like "big" in the way the Wrens were.

Yes. It shows how much of success is pure luck. Because the Glands s/t record should have been a massive indie success, like the Shins which broke around the same time. But the record label went bust and I don't think the singer is that into promoting and touring, etc.

I'm sure if they recorded a third album it would be just as good. They played "new" songs when I saw them in Hoboken a few years back and they were excellent.

got all excited when this thread popped up, hoping it was an announcement of a tour or new record :(

Jesus, yeah. This is totally one of 'those' threads!!

anybody catch them this last time out? not sure if it was a 'full' tour - Atlanta, Athens and Nashville, anyway. they played and sounded absolutely fabulous.

Like the Shins, but rock harder eh? Promising. Saw a comparison to the Kinks somewhere (think it was in the New Yorker, back when their club listing were much more extensive). Which good be good or bad, but considering the Shins comparison upthread, I'm thinking good. So, Athens Kinksians or not?

(Somehow, the original suggestion of a Southern band with a Kinks influence had me thinking of John Cale's elegant reggae, "Graham Greene." Somebody should cover.)

Shit, I would like to see these guys, never did when I was in Athens, not that they played a lot (as discussed upthread).

didn't even know they still played occasionally, great band.

Mr. dow, listen to Straight Down from the immortal self-titled record. Then maybe Swim, or When I Laugh or Welcome To New Jersey from the debut, or No. Zero. You are in for a gigantic musical treat.

Here's Straight Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYOY4SMltZM

www.southernshelter.com has a massive Glands concert up there from October 2014 with at least 30 songs including many that are unreleased. It's a doozy.

nice. "straight down" sounds great, i'll check out the whole thing.

rip ross shapiro

Oh no. Bought a lot of music from him. Athens seems to be losing a lot of guys from that scene

wait really???

:(

Oh shit!! I just saw this. Fuck fuck fuck

They were my favorite band.

I didn't know he was sick. Last I heard, they were talking about another album.

Just pulled out the s/t and got real wistful.

what a bummer

Ah, jeez. Really sorry to hear that.

I only got to see them once, in 2001 at Irving Plaza with Grandaddy & Beachwood Sparks & Ugly Casanova. They stole the show.

The vinyl edition of the s/t LP has like 6 extra songs on it - they got caught in label hell and that album is so hard to find. I wish Light in the Attic would do a re-issue on their modern label that put out the D'Angelo and Morphine re-issues.

R.I.P. to a massive talent; a real band's band.

i would love for people to discover this band now. His songs were so good.

There has been some really nice remembrances of Ross Shapiro in the past few days.

Patterson Hood especially.

On November 9th, 2018, New West Records is set to release the two-decades-in-the-making Double Coda, the fabled third album by the Athens, GA cult favorite the Glands, along with definitive reissues of their two long-out-of-print LPs, Double Thriller (1996) for the first time on vinyl, and The Glands (2000) featuring the band’s original 19-song sequence including 5 rare songs. Frontman Ross Shapiro passed away from lung cancer in 2016 at the age of 53, and the 23 tracks on Double Coda were compiled from recordings he had been making for nearly two decades.

Today, NPR Music premiered the video for Double Coda’s lead-off track “So High,” along with an eclectic new song called “Electricity” and a preview video of the I Can See My House from Here box set. They state, “The Glands may be the greatest band you’ve never heard of” and of Double Coda, “Like Double Thriller, like The Glands, every single one of these 23 tracks is a hit, and a testament to Shapiro’s warped-yet-grounded sensibility.” See the “So High” video and hear “Electricity,” HERE. Standard editions of Double Thriller, The Glands, Double Coda, and the limited I Can See My House From Here box set are available for pre-order now via NEW WEST RECORDS.

The epic, 23-track Double Coda serves as the anticipated third and final record from the band, with final production overseen by founding member and drummer Joe Rowe, bassist Derek Almstead, and Glands producer David Barbe (longtime Drive-By Truckers producer and bassist for Sugar with Bob Mould). While all three titles will be available individually across digital platforms, on CD, and standard black vinyl, also released will be the limited edition 5 LP I Can See My House From Here box set compiling the three albums exclusively on colored vinyl -- Double Thriller pressed on electric pink, The Glands on Coke bottle clear, and Double Coda on clear vinyl.

The box set will also include a 52-page book featuring an essay by the journalist Stephen Deusner, countless unpublished photos, and testimonials written by fans, friends, and fellow musicians from Athens and beyond, including James Mercer (the Shins), actor/comedian David Cross, Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Kurt Wagner (Lambchop), Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Joey Burns (Calexico), Tim Rutili (Red Red Meat, Califone), Andrew Rieger and Laura Carter (Elf Power), Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats), John Davis (Superdrag, the Lees of Memory), Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Pylon Reenactment Society), Parker Gispert (the Whigs), T. Hardy Morris, film director Lance Bangs, Christopher Lopez (the Rock*A*Teens), the acclaimed visual artist Wayne White (whose painting is featured on the cover of the Glands’ self-titled album), and many more.

“In many crucial ways the act of making music -- almost always surrounded by friends, usually jamming at his house on Sunset Drive -- was so much more important and rewarding than releasing that music or dealing with labels or arguing with promoters or doing interviews,” Stephen Deusner states in his essay about the band. “Ross lived for the spark of creation… Given how meticulous he was about his music and how dismissive he was about the music industry, it’s a miracle we have those two albums at all, not to mention the third LP in this set. We lost a unique human being and a remarkable voice, a crucial thread in the pilled fabric of Athens, a man who wrote songs that were hilarious and intensely sad, witty and deeply weird: snapshots from a Southern bohemia of his own making.”

Of the new Double Coda, band member Derek Almstead states, “As a fan of the music and as a fan of Ross, it was a labor of love to get this set out, to get as much of the music out as possible and into the ears of the people who loved him. A lot of the material came from CD’s he’d give us at band practice, like ‘Here’s some stuff I’m working on.’ It might have the vocals buried or it might not be finished. I found the best versions of the songs and put together a three-CD set, something like sixty songs. We whittled that down to what Double Coda is.”

Says drummer Joe Rowe, “The three of us -- Derek, David Barbe, and me -- all did a lot of research to find everything that Ross had given us over the years. Derek took all of Ross’s hard drives and went through them, and it turned out that there’s maybe a dozen songs that sounded like they were finished. They just needed to be mixed. Then there was some stuff that was already mixed, already finished. The record is all the stuff we could find that we felt really confident about. It took a while. It was hard. There were some days when I just couldn’t deal with it because of Ross’s passing. It was just too heavy to think about. But most of the time I felt like I was able to push it forward, even just a little.”

Rowe continues, “It’s been eighteen years since we’ve released anything, but in rock and roll, mystery always seems to help a little bit. There’s always been a little mystery with the Glands.”


The Glands Double Coda Track Listing:
1. So High
2. Pleaser
3. Electricity
4. Possibilities
5. Every Time I Listen to a Stranger
6. Todd Work
7. Sofa
8. Clover
9. Have Your Cake
10. Piano Jazz
11. Great Waves
12. Pie
13. Rose
14. Atmosphere
15. Rufino Tamayo
16. A Boy Without a Head
17. Tom Robertson
18. Sadie Song
19. Peter Acoustic
20. Body and Soul
21. (A Screwed Up Way of Saying) I Want You
22. Feelies
23. Save a Place for You



The Glands I Can See My House From Here Box Set Track Listing:

Double Thriller (1996)
1. Sunshine Happiness
2. Free Jane
3. Pretty Merrina
4. Grey Hats
5. Two Dollar Wine
6. Ruddy’s Waltz
7. Welcome to N.J.
8. World Half Over
9. This is The Coat
10. Call Me Doctor
11. No. Zero
12. Skin
13. The Virgin Loses Again
14. Son-O-Mine
15. Two Dollar Reprise

The Glands (2000)
1. Livin’ Was Easy
2. When I Laugh
3. Swim - Prelude
4. Swim
5. Mayflower
6. Lovetown
7. Straight Down
8. I Can See My House From Here
9. Fortress
10. Work It Out
11. Soul Inspiration
12. Ground
13. Favorite American
14. Breathe Out
15. U R The Mountain
16. Something In The Air
17. Holiday Walk
18. Head That’s Mine
19. Doug’s Hall Rag

Double Coda (2018)
1. So High
2. Pleaser
3. Electricity
4. Possibilities
5. Every Time I Listen to a Stranger
6. Todd Work
7. Sofa
8. Clover
9. Have Your Cake
10. Piano Jazz
11. Great Waves
12. Pie
13. Rose
14. Atmosphere
15. Rufino Tamayo
16. A Boy Without a Head
17. Tom Robertson
18. Sadie Song
19. Peter Acoustic
20. Body and Soul
21. (A Screwed Up Way of Saying) I Want You
22. Feelies
23. Save a Place for You


www.TheGlandsBand.com
www.NewWestRecords.com

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Holy shit. I am peeing in my pants out of excitement.

i found the glands s/t album out of reading ilm, probly this thread ages ago, and i can't remember when i last listened. it sounds great to me, i know all the songs and remembered none going into the listening, except "i can see my house from here," which was and still is wonderfully bright and thrilling. hardly feels very representative in some ways but...in fact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZ5d71GngU

Holy Fuck I forgot how beautiful this entire thing is. lovetown alone can bring me to 10000 ft elevation. Did I ever appreciate this? really?

The Glands album is already an immortal classic but the reissue is going to make it even better. I’ve heard most of not all the bonus songs and people let me tell you, they are divine. Finally this will get the recognition it deserves. I saw them when it came out and there were 7 people in the audience. Sad.

Holy smokes at that box set!

!

I guess I’ve never heard UR the Mountain and it strikes me as the most 80sAthens sounding song ever in a _superb_ way.

wow, awesome that they were able to pull this together

now streaming at NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/661155140/first-listen-the-glands-double-coda

AWESOME!!!!

Frontman Ross Shapiro passed away from lung cancer in 2016 at the age of 53

holy fuck i did not know this. so so glad i caught them in nashville in like 2015. they were unbelievably good.

The Glands album is already an immortal classic... I saw them when it came out and there were 7 people in the audience. Sad.

same. they followed one of Jay Reatard's early side projects and there just wasn't anyone there at all.

"every time i listen to a stranger' is wonderful

Got my copy of Double Coda. It is a great day to be a fan of The Glands.

OK, anybody else have Double Coda? It's the album of the year.

it is very very good

https://flagpole.com/music/music-features/2018/11/07/with-reissue-campaign-and-third-album-the-glands-finally-get-their-due

my box set arrived today. enjoyed the s/t reissue, i'll probably get to double coda tomorrow. it's a great-looking box.

Oh man I'm so jealous. I don't have a turntable. What are the liner notes like?

the booklet is very nicely done; lots of good photos and remembrances of the band from fans both nearby and distant. there are detailed credits for double coda with recording dates and who played what; the liner notes for the first two lps seem to keep with how they were originally released.

I bought the CDs for Double Coda and reissue, they didn’t have much of anything. But the music is so spectacular. Double Coda is like a Glands version of Wowee Zowee, with tons of songs in all sorts of styles. It’s so much fun.

NPR eoy turned me on to this and I am digging it!

kinda Big Star-y?

Which did you get? Double Coda?