Ty Segall - C or D?

that would be a hard poll

re: popularity like stuff isn't challenging at all & his greatest pop moments are pretty easy to imagine being enjoyed by anyone who likes pop rock

some narcissism of small difference in my last post, cuz the "pretty broad cross section" i'm talking about just means different stripes of punks and rockers

yeah obviously this anecdotal sample is not perfectly representative & are really dependent on time & locale. you said you haven't seen him in a while, he really blew up in the past year, the show here was at a modest sized-venue but it sold out and huge crowds were denied, played huge show in nyc, pitchfork best new music, etc

yeah, i haven't seen ty recently, and his profile's obviously risen since i last did

facebook tells me ty segall is three times as famous as jay reatard

this is comfortably not his best record, but it's still really good

ok sorry this is insanely good

drag city sent out a release today about his OTHER record "Twins" that's coming out. that is a lotta material.

really psyched for his tour with the Oh Sees in the fall. playing in September in NYC at the new Bushwick venue that my friend is working on (The Well).

That does sound like fun. Probably can't count on a Mid-MO show.

yeah doesn't look like it. nowhere close really.

Tue. Sep. 11 - Las Vegas, NV @ Neon Reverb Festival w/ Thee Oh Sees
Thu. Sep. 13 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater w/ Thee Oh Sees
Fri. Sep. 14 - Oklahoma City, OK @ ACM at UCO w/ Thee Oh Sees
Sat. Sep. 15 - Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa w/ Thee Oh Sees
Tue. Sep. 18 - Atlanta, GA @ Goat Farm w/ Thee Oh Sees
Wed. Sep. 19 - Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree Café w/ Thee Oh Sees
Thu. Sep. 20 - Nashville, TN @ Zombie Shop w/ Thee Oh Sees
Fri. Sep. 21 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Thee Oh Sees
Sat. Sep. 22 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Well w/ Thee Oh Sees
Sun. Sep. 23 - Asbury Park, NJ @ ATP Festival
Tue. Sep. 25 - Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom w/ Thee Oh Sees
Wed. Sep. 26 - Toronto, ON @ The Hoxton w/ Thee Oh Sees
Sat. Sep. 29 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon w/ Thee Oh Sees
Sun. Sep. 30 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club w/ Thee Oh Sees

Maybe I will plan a rendezvous with my long-distance lover in OKC for that Sept 14th show?

Slaughterhouse f'n rules

Wave Goodbye is killin me rt now

ok now my favorite is The Tongue

p much everything this dude does f'n rules

yup.

I picked up "Slaughterhouse" and "Hair" (the one w/ White Fence) on the same day but haven't gotten around to "Hair" yet. So I've still got that to look forward to.

dig slaughterhouse, but there isn't much to it, imo. it's a 30 minute mini-album consisting of five real top-shelf keepers that run just over 16 minutes: "death", "bought my eyes", "the tongue", "inside your heart" and "oh mary". those are padded out with three serviceable but hardly memorable garage stompers and a couple of truly crappy covers, all of which take up another 13 minutes or so.

oh yeah, and a lifeless noise dirge that adds nothing but running time and gives the dirtbombs' "race to the bottom" a run for it's no money.

not to say that it's a bad record, just that it feels a little slight

is Wave Goodbye a cover? that's one of the best tracks on the album.

Diddy Wah Diddy and Fuzz War are the only weak spots imo.

no, wave goodbye is an original. the other cover is "the bag i'm in".

But "Wave Goodbye" is such a good tune!

yeah it's great. that's what confused me, lumping that one in as "serviceable but hardly memorable"

i guess i just mean that it doesn't floor me. not at all bad, but a bit generic in relation to the five i mentioned earlier.

and maybe i'm alone in being a bit indifferent to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOEReMb6qc

the band practice scene kills me everytime

http://soundcloud.com/drag-city/ty-segall-the-hill

WOW!! great song

^^^

doesn't sound like him and a good , bombastic departure.

i think it's becoming more clear that this guy is scary good.

how old is he again?

23, 24, something like that?

oop, 26 according to the guardian

interesting song not don't think it's much of a departure from like "i bought my eyes" tho, & the whole last album harmonies were laid on p thick

http://pitchfork.com/news/48065-watch-chicago-morning-news-show-anchors-go-nuts-while-ty-segall-plays/

lmao how was he booked onto the WGN morning news show

funny clip

Of course he would fuck around

i saw him play last week - his set ended abruptly after a shoving match broke out between him and a security guy after Ty tried shoving him into the mosh pit. it was pretty great.

this album gonna ROCK:

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ty-segall-teases-twins-with-yet-another-bizarre-vi/69783/

I still receive digital promos of things from a few PR folks and I weed through them as I can (I will be better about it from now on). While weeding lately I checked out Slaugherhouse and man, was I impressed! I know this guy is prolific and has a ton of projects he lends his sweaty guitar to, and I don't know how deep I will get into his cannon, but this album is so great: fuzz turned all the way up to skronk (sometimes), psych rock done by guys who like metal playing in a garage with egg cartons splattered on the walls and every Pixies record in their album collection.

Found this live clip of my favorite cut from the disc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx6alYZZGa0

My favorite Sonic Youth moments are "Daydream Nation" and "Goo," when they approximate being an actual pop band. This album fits into that same wheelhouse for me.

I finally got TWINS. It's dope. Slaughterhouse is maybe a little bit better but they're close. Twins is probably catchier and Slaughterhouse rocks harder.

Overall MELTED is still consistently my favorite, I'm trying not to turn into a Ty Segall completist since he has so much shit out but I think I need to go back and get that one on vinyl.

It's the only one I own.

Melted is the only one I still don't have, need to track that down.

dmr otm! Twins is probably the best thing he's done since Melted.

so expensive though! Drag City's prices are kind of outrageous nowadays. and no download code. is "Drag City Green Label" supposed to be some premium-quality pressing or something?

(DC not having anything on Spotify does make me buy more of their records overall, I will admit.)

best thing he did is srill the collabration with White Fence (hair) imo

also, sadly, at this point i don't think he got something new to offer.
maybe it's because of the over excessive releases lately

disagree ... it's a lot of records but all three of his 2012 releases hit the spot for me (and all were pretty different from each other)

sort of different. all quality tho.

How's the singles collection?

the singles collection is great, but if you've only heard stuff from Goodbye Bread on, be prepared for a significantly lower-fi experience. i think you could construct a fantastic 45-minute record our of his three major 2012 releases and it would be an all-time classic.