And yet there's Lee in the Brian Turner interview portion from his WFMU session Tuesday having rhapsodies about how nice it was back in the old days of the album as this magical unit of music-delivery, when you could sit down and read liner notes and look over personnel info and groove on cover art etc...lol.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's too bad, but I do think you can pick out exactly who is playing what on each song, you just have to listen to them to figure it out. Seems like an odd thing to leave out of the liners though.
― grandavis, Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah as a Nels Cline stan i had a similar frustration with an Eleni Mandell album he played on where the liners were not very specific as to what he played on but there were of course some tracks where it was obviously him
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I like this better than the Thurston joint from last year!
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ me too.
Really loving this album.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this is better than it has any right to be - pretty much confirms my feeling that I mainly stuck with SY for the Lee songs
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
I read a couple of the negative reviews while listening to the first couple of tracks, and nearly bailed. I'm glad I didn't. This is a good album!
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
BBC review by Spencer Grady: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6z5c
― EvR, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
i Just. Don't. Get. people who can't write about this record without slighting SY's other work, etc, but i guess i'm pretty avowedly an SY fanboy by this point. this new lee album is thoroughly excellent, some of his best works, as was thurston's demolished thoughts, as was murray street, etc etc
― Nascar Pony (stevie), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
i preferred the thurston album. at least it had tunes whereas this is noodling along. thurston did evolve whereas lee just does not change at all. does the world really need this kind of stuff in the 2010s?
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
what kind of stuff does the world really need? other than love, sweet love.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
I liked new Thurston and Lee both, though they're very different albums. Not the BEST by either, though.
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 29 March 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
i think maybe if Lee had given the Shelley/Cline/Licht ensemble a band name to credit the album under it would've gone down better as a Wild Flag-type supergroup thing
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Lee Ranaldo & The Angels of Licht
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
just saw this: http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/8797-lee-ranaldo/
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
fun article but i wish he'd been a little more personal and idiosyncratic with his selections, obviously Nevermind and Daydream Nation have personal significance for him but i dunno
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah not terribly surprising stuff in there. liked the anecdote about playing marquee moon in the lecture hall.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Boring list, thought he'd stick a few more interesting albums for the 'guitarist' in there
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
And Pavement as favourite band of the 90s, jesus
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
the coda part of 'Fire Island' is lovely, wish it was the whole song
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
nice piece by Lee on the Dead, mentions a new alb:
http://thetalkhouse.com/features/view/lee-ranaldo-the-grateful-deads-long-lost-concert-documentary-sunshine-daydr#.UkCl8cWAD74.twitter
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link
stream of new rather poppy album:http://www.clashmusic.com/news/exclusive-stream-lee-ranaldos-last-night-on-earth
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 3 October 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Lee finally accepted my FB friend request last month! Thanks, Lee!
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
really digging Last Night On Earth, only halfway in and am already pretty sure it's an improvement on Between The Tides.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Lee performing on Conan tonight!
― Reince The GOPer (some dude), Friday, 13 December 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
i loled at this:
Mike Wolf @thismikewolf 9hSome might call it Alan Licht's nat'l-TV debut. MT @matadorrecords Lee Ranaldo & The Dust are on tonight's "Conan" (TBS) @leeranaldo
― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 December 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
doing a live set on WFMU in about 10 minutes:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Nice! His solo records are so underappreciated
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
playing sometime soon at the bell house with steve gunn & somebody else? might have a guest spot if you'd wanna go morbz.
― ian, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
Ian, pretty sure that Nathan Bowles is drumming for the Steve Gunn band on this tour, and maybe is opening the shows solo as well? Something like that.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
New album on Mute tomorrow: Electric Trim.Interesting roster: Shelley, Sharon van Etten, Alan Licht, Nels Cline, Tim Luntzel, Kid Millions. Lyrics co-written by Jonathan Lethem on six songs.
two tracks:Circular (Right As Rain) (love this)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNK7N5L6jCk
New Thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HWSUaqPd4
Trailer for a documentary on the making of the album (more info here: http://montclairfilm.org/events/the-thrill-of-the-creative-process-in-hello-hello-hello/)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNK7N5L6jCk
― willem, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
oh crap, here's Circular (Right As Rain):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2XRnzj-YmE
― willem, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
the album is wonderful. his best solo yet.
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
Listened once on Spotify. Some really surprising moments. I'm not sure what I think of the spoken bits but the melodic songs are hitting the spot, for the most part. Ranaldo, Cline, and Licht all playing on a Beatlesque pop record seems like a good idea!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 September 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
"last looks"!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link