Sebadoh: C/D?

I love Eric Gaffney's stuff on III, especially the last song, lol

I haven't heard a note after Bubble & Scrape, but up to then it was all amazing (B&S itself is patchy). III is one of my desert island discs.

Bob Fay drums on the title track of the new Mars Classroom (Robt. Pollard, Gary Waleik) record.

Secret EP!

http://sebadoh.bandcamp.com/

really rad way of funding a record i think

i listened to smash your head on the punk rock and b & s a while ago to see if i could still like them and as it turns out, the eric songs are the ones i continue to enjoy (i'm the kindest drifter you'll ever hate, and i'll cook for you and i'll clean my plate! >>>>> it's all a matter of soul and fire) and the lou songs sounded UNBEARABLY feelingsy. the loewenstein songs were relatively neutral and fine. I had friends who would complain about the noisy songs interrupting their sweet sweet lou songs, and i guess they finally got what they wanted. does the reunited sebadoh have a gaffney?

He was back for earlier reunion things, but he's since left again.

dont think so. he left again afaik

Sebadoh ended for me when Gaffney left. If Lou was the heart, Gaffney was the spastic colon that kept you on your toes.

real talk!!

i thought of him more as the more interesting person -- all lou can do is talk about his boring emotional FEELINGS. i don't want to hang around with a heart. wkiw loewenstein though.

And that line-up was AMAZING live. Switched instruments every few songs, so you got rotating mini sets of Lou, Jason & Eric tunes, with the singer almost always on guitar. Plus they were really loose in the way only a very close band can be. They seemed to enjoy playing with each other so much the audience couldn't help but feed off it too.

If I want to hear someone sing about their feelings I'll take "I'm scared of dying, don't let me die" over everything Barlow ever wrote any day. xpost

iirc it was a toy love

Jason Lo is my favorite of the three, so as long as he's present for the process, I'm on board.

just found out about this, happy. going to play it in a few.

Man, ilx, looking gifthorses in the mouth since the turn of the century.

I'm stoked for this, maybe not my ideal line-up, but I'll take these new tunes.

JayLoew forever, love the new songs

given how things went down with Dino Jr. back in the day and how Lou felt about it i always thought it was odd for him to carry on w/ both Sebadoh and Folk Implosion without the people who started those bands with him

Haven't heard these guys in a long time but was in a normally bustling cafe that was strangely empty due to the holidays and Bob Weston's production on "Brand New Love" (the Smash Your Head version) is pretty wild... That's some pretty nice tight mic-ing.

https://i.imgur.com/pLNSgO4.jpg

nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoUv_ntXV-4

10/25/91
Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
ERIC, JASON, AND LOU

(00:00) Slinstrumental
(03:47) Brand New Love
(08:12) It's So Hard To Fall In Love
(10:21) Sexual Confusion
(12:55) Cheapshot
(14:20) Toledo

i'm listening to the new archival Deluxx Folk Implosion record with Bob! It's sooooo awesome! a whole album of great stuff that never came out from the sessions that the 7-inch came from. every sebadoh fan needs this for real.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14641936_10155184014092137_23910008043006990_n.jpg?oh=1cddb836f5880ea319eb34d09d9769e4&oe=58626B03

that's very cool

1990 pre-iii eric jason lou show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UazDjWnS1yE

"Buffalo Tom and Nirvana... that's cool..."

ERIC
JASON
LOU

featuring that guy who used to play bass in Soul Asylum

Great ending to that Middle East show... it was really a whole 'nother energy with Eric on 2nd gtr.

(or, rather, the only gtr -- and Lou on bass)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaAP3DJRADU

The Sebadoh is 20 years old this week, so birthday cakes are appropriate.

hm https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/blogs/news/our-disheartening-sebadoh-story

Geez that record is 20? I saw them when it came out opening for the Flaming Lips, and even back then Lou was lamenting that everybody hated the record.

I never saw sebadoh perform. Was at a show but lou jumped off the stage and walked out before performing. I remember walking home from that show and just smiling. Lol

I saw them a few times, but the best (by far) was in the mid-2000s — just Lou & Jason, plus a tape recorder with drum tracks for some songs. They were excellent, the crowd was way into it... it was just “one of those shows.” (I remember a tough-looking guy with a ponytail standing next to me, looking up at the stage and shouting along to every word of one of the songs from “Oven Is My Friend.”)

Btw — that new song isn’t bad (just watched the video). I found some of the my-side-of-the-story divorced-dad content of Defend Yourself to be a little cringeworthy (think I actually preferred Jason’s songs on that one); but I’m always up for a new Sebadoh LP, no matter how corny Lou’s soul-bearing may become with age.

I loved Bob D'Amico's song on Defend Yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRlfSxe6q4

...so much so I posted the wrong song completely. It's this one:
https://sebadoh.bandcamp.com/track/once

I forgot about the “Secret EP” from 2013; that was a good one:

https://sebadoh.bandcamp.com/album/secret-ep

Too Pure is brilliant.

Another new single from the upcoming album (a Jason tune):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8CU1T7Y-vg

So what do y'all think of Act Surprised? I think it's good, though the sound's a little muddy, and Lou's lyrics are somewhat cringe-y (as they tend to be lately).

Saw Lou on his recent solo tour and it was a dream come true for a mega-fan like me. Nearly 3 hours of requests in a yoga studio to a knowledgeable crowd of 25. Have only heard the 2 singles from Act Surprised and it's not for me. I wish them boundless success though. Would love to hear others' thoughts on the album.

on first listen, new Lou solo is really nice

I was relistening to some old sh*t (per the other thread)... check out this performance of "Downmind," it slays on every level. I forgot just how great this bootleg is (7th Street Entry).

Absolutely classic for the run from III to Harmacy, but I kind of quit keeping up beyond that.

the first album of those silly cassette recordings is very quotable, i always wished i had a friend i could riff of it with, like inside jokes... some quite touching songs in there, too.

Just came across this (from 2019) - https://www.vice.com/en/article/evea3a/sebadohs-the-sebadoh-20-years-later