Reading all these Rather Ripped impressions, AND, waiting for June 13, is a wonderful experience! Thank you all.
Cecil taylor RULES, OK? :)
Darren Skuja
― Darren Skuja, Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
"As long as the squares write stuff like that you know you must be doing something right" -- Fred "Sonic" Smith onstage circa 1978
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
IncinerateSleepin' AroundDo You Believe In RapturePink SteamShakin' Hell RatsPacific Coast HighwayStonesTurquoise Boy Lights OutSunday Brother James--------------------------Making The Nature SceneOr--------------------------Mote
They haven't done "Sunday" since the NYC Ghosts + Flowers tour, "Shakin' Hell" hasn't been around since maybe 1985 as far as I know, and it's strange that they only did one of Kim's new tunes. "Mote" and "Brother James" are high up on my list of songs that I'd like to see them do (both are pretty common, but I've never seen them), so that's rad.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
i've always felt they avoid their recent material too much live.
Wait, you mean the most recent oldies, right? Because they always play most of/all of whatever is the newest record in any given show since Evol. I figure they cut the most recent material because they play it to death every show for a year or two, and they might just need space from it before coming back to it again. In the case of NYC Ghosts, that album wasn't popular, so I think that played a role in why those songs (except for a few rare performances of "Nevermind") were not played on the Murray Street or Sonic Nurse tours. However, all of the Murray Street songs except for "Sympathy For The Strawberry" and "Radical Adults..." were played on the Sonic Nurse tour - "Empty Page" and "Rain On Tin" quite often.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
i guess it's 'washing machine' and 'thousand leaves' that i miss the most. might have something to do with their gear being stolen (sadly).
― rajeev (rajeev), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Matthew, since you're the expert on this, what are my chances of actually witnessing "Teenage Riot" or "Titanium Expose" on this tour?
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"Teenage Riot" is one of the most common oldies, and I figure your chances are fairly good. However, it was pretty common on the Sonic Nurse tour, and so it might be less common this time around. I figure they might switch back to "Silver Rocket" or "Candle" for a Daydream-era Thurston tune. "Eric's Trip" is extremely common, if you're into that one.
Commonly (and less commonly) played oldies in the past few years include: "Bull in the Heather," "Skip Tracer," "100%," "Sugar Kane," "Drunken Butterfly," "Kool Thing," "Mote," "Teenage Riot," "Candle," "Silver Rocket," "Eric's Trip," "Kissability," "Schizophrenia," "Catholic Block," "Pacific Coast Highway," "White Cross," "Cotton Crown," "Expressway To Yr Skull," "Tom Violence," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Brother James," "Making The Nature Scene," "Inhuman," "The Burning Spear," and "She Is Not Alone."
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
also, i do hope they play neutral on the tour. it's definitely my favoirte cut on the new disc. there's something "fresh" sounding, whatever that means, about it. it's really uncluttered and kim doesn't seem to be trying too hard. that sex-kitten thing is very unbecoming for someone her age and she doesn't really do that on the new one at all. and that's just one reason why they still matter. they never became parodies of their early-90s years.
― kevinod (odtron5000), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
has there been any indication of which song, if any, has been picked to be the single from RR?
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 23 April 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
how weird that bull in the heather was the single from ejstans? there are far more hookier songs on it.
― kevinod (odtron5000), Sunday, 23 April 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
"Jagged Brain"?
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― kevinod (odtron5000), Sunday, 23 April 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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― kevinod (odtron5000), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Sigh....7 more weeks then.
― Darren Skuja, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
still, i'd say it's more radio-friendly than bull, even if it has more sonic youth elements in it. isn't the point of a single to try and lure more people to buy the record? to me, starfield and, point taken, self-obsessed are more accessible: guitars still conforming to sy's noise aesthetic but scrubbed clean a little bit. even that delay or phased guitar loop on starfield is a riff. then again, those distorted harmonics on bull are riff-y. opinions..like assholes..yadda yadda.
― kevinod (odtron5000), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
ir·rev·er·ent (?-r?v'?r-?nt)
adj.
1. Lacking or exhibiting a lack of reverence; disrespectful.2. Critical of what is generally accepted or respected; satirical: irreverent humor.
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't know that! Thanks!
― Darren Skuja, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 30 April 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
If you scan down, they put up lyrics to two forthcoming b-sides, both of which seem pretty fascinating to me.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 6 May 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
wow, new b-sides, when's the last time they released b-sides that were non-album songs and not instrumentals or covers? the last I can remember is the Washing Machine-era "My Arena".
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12679452/
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
haha
― Cee Bee (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Does this jibe with the sound on the rest of the new album?
― DOQQUN (donut), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― mobile ringtone, Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Alex in Baltimore (shipley.a...), May 9th, 2006.
I have a version of "Starpower" w/ Thurston doing vocals. Kim on vocals obv more interesting.
Took a listen to RR; tho it sounds warmer + pleasing, more focused than any recent SY thing I've heard, I'm not too sure if it will stick to the ribs. That's all, please resume spamming of thread...
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link