yeah and I'm sure nobody in New York would give them directions on how to get there either
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol that poor family of five
― just sayin, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol "art"
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
lol new york city
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
god, i'd be creeped out by that dude if i was bejar (the destroyer bejar).
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm imagining the two of them in a fight to the death and i have to shoot the fake dan but they both keep claiming they're the real dan. don't know what to do.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
this record would be pretty dope if he could get through an entire song w/out dropping a toe curling lyric
― merked, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm interviewing Bejar soon. Any questions you guys want asked?
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"Prefab Sprout: Classic or Dud?"
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
please ask him what his thoughts on the ken jennings quote are
― gr8080, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
which one looool???
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 24 March 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Why are you so obsessed with MELODY?! Oops, wrong thread, sorry!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 24 March 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
so apparently the laziest river instrumental stuff wasnt written by bejar but by one of the band members? or so ive been told, not that i can find anything about it on the internet
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ok its ted bois
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe everyone know that? now i want to hear a ted bois album
That extra side [a suite entitled “The Laziest River”] was recorded independently of all the other songs on Kaputt. The piano player in Destroyer [Ted Bois], doesn’t actually play on [the CD version of] Kaputt. He took all the photos, and he did the artwork for the two Destroyer EPs before the album, but he’s not playing because there’s no piano on the record. But yeah, he pretty much composed that 20-minute side in its entirety and recorded it, and it’s really kind of a feat. I mean, I’m really really into it. I sing on it a little bit, in the middle.
http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2011/03/18/extended-qanda-with-dan-bejar-of-destroyer
that song rules
― so fly zone (D-40), Friday, 25 March 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah its the best thing ive heard all year
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
love that song, didnt realise dan bejar had nothin to do w/ it. good work ted
― just sayin, Friday, 25 March 2011 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
If you read the liner notes from the vinyl edition you would know that The Laziest River was mainly written by Ted Bois.
― MarkoP, Friday, 25 March 2011 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, assholes, next time read the liner notes from the vinyl edition
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
wwwhat if i dont have a record player??
― diamonddave85, Friday, 25 March 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
what if its super expensive for me to get the vinyl edition in the stupid uk
― just sayin, Friday, 25 March 2011 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
then you don't get to know stuff dumbass
― sorry ozzy but your dope is in another castle (Edward III), Friday, 25 March 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
you think its this same ted bois? http://www.ecuad.ca/people/profile/14513
tempted to email him and ask if hes going to do more of that sick tangerine dream/michael shrieve shit
― max, Friday, 25 March 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
well he is drinking in his picture, which means he must be cool, so... probably is him?
― just sayin, Friday, 25 March 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
he looks like busy p in that pic
― diamonddave85, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
is it this same ted dibiase?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eV7PCieEPI
― so fly zone (D-40), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa gross accidentally posted the 'new intro'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDWPvhiPWgthere we go
― so fly zone (D-40), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
seethisbandlive
--tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddavie85)
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
really? did you go to a show? details!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Had tix last night, could't go. Curious, since I've never liked him live before. But then, I haven't liked his other albums very much, either.
Hilarious that "The Laziest River" was mostly written by the piano player. Perhaps explains why the track's not on the album. And why the piano player's not on the album, perhaps!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I guess I missed the show as well. Guess I'll catch him at Pitchfork.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh he's coming here in two weeks!
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Heavier thoughts lurk under Destroyer's glittering sheen
By Althea Legaspi, Special to the Tribune8:12 a.m. CDT, March 30, 2011
review of Chicago show
Dan Bejar, whose solo project is Destroyer, didn't look like a typical commanding frontman during Destroyer's sold-out performance at Lincoln Hall on Tuesday. Spending most of his time onstage either rocking back and forth to the rhythms with eyes closed, crouched low during instrumental passages, or with his back or side turned to the audience (with an occasional meek bow), Bejar would've looked more the part of unassuming poet were it not for the seven talented, energetic musicians orbiting him. Bejar's reticent stage presence, however, also served the material well, adding to the enigmatic quality of Destroyer.
Bejar has run the genre gamut through the course of his career, which also includes band membership in The New Pornographers and Swan Lake. From folk and psychedelia to glam and pop, his songwriting is buoyed by an instinctual quirkiness and clever, if sometimes oblique, lyrics. For his ninth solo project, "Kaputt," from which Destroyer culled most of Tuesday's set, he changed styles up once again, touching on jazzy smooth rock with shimmery, synth-driven '80s pop. Add to this Bejar's affinity for juxtaposing such comfortable, familiar musical backdrops to more cerebral lyrical themes — alienation and disillusionment among them — and the material was steeped in modern times.
Being subversive was part of Destroyer's charm. As artful, romantic and sultry as "Blue Eyes" was, with its flirting sax and trumpet and soulful male-female vocal interplay, it suggested myriad other thoughts: its creator standing on his own island ("I write poetry for myself"), media mocking and references to other's songs. What sounded breezily carefree on the surface didn't often have such attractive underpinnings.
That was a thread throughout: Beneath the appealing musical sheen, something else, perhaps more dire, was percolating. The encore "Bay of Pigs," an epic, multi-part composition, traversed so much territory lyrically and musically, it was forgivable that Bejar referred to lyric sheets. Bathed in atmospherics with New Age beginnings, the opus grew in scope, incorporating flute, discofied dance beats and rock. Destroyer's show proved enjoyable whether skimming the easy-listening surface, or delving deeper.
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i went to the chicago show and it was excellent. it's basically kaputt on tour which is exactly what i was looking for. some people ive talked to who've been destroyer fans for years were disappointed by the lack of non-kaputt songs, however
the band was excellent: very tight but they let loose just at the right times. sax and trumpet player stole the show imo
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
no non-kaputt songs at all? or just very few?
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
(btw before this conversation goes any further I would like to propose the acronym "NKS" for "non-kaputt song(s)")
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
2 NKS songs which my destroyer fan friend (DFF?) described as the most kaputty songs in his back catalogue. they were both excellent
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
destroy friends forever
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
now I really wanna know what 2 songs are the kaputtiest
my dff said one of the songs was from his first album o__O
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
friend of mine was at that show. said it kinda killed the mood when Bejar whipped out the lyric sheet to sing from haha
http://twitpic.com/4fde2z
― dmr, Thursday, 31 March 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i fully approve of this phenomenon
uk date at heaven announced today! kind of sad i never saw the straight up rock version, tbh, but still happy at the idea of seeing this
― thomp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, I was supposed to review that show for the Trib, but I handed it over to Althea for a confluence of reasons.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 March 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
aagh this show was so good!!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't care abt the lyrics sheet - the lyrics are so much like poetry that forgetting some of them seems inevitable imo. anyway, dan is so great who cares.they did a few older songs too = happiness. esp '3000 flowers', which i love love love
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this was great
― peter in montreal, Saturday, 2 April 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
though I was slightly disappointed that he didn't kaputtify his older songs more than he did
everything from kaputt was incredible. highlights were (unsurprisingly) suicide demo for kara walker, song for america and bay of pigs
― peter in montreal, Saturday, 2 April 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
totally. ooh and i picked up the vinyl too and it sounds straight up beautifullll
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 2 April 2011 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link