― punis (punis), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Top GAZE band.
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The debut Year After Year is also Idaho's pinnacle. Like a morose drive through the desert with the windows closed, every song has a dusty, meandering feel that permeates your senses.
While the 2nd This Way Out is a very different record it's also extremely satisfying, a much more rawk record with big Son Volt like licks and urgency. If you prefer to program out Farrar's slower songs then This Way Out will definitely be a revelation.
From that point on things get spotty for me ... while some tab the 3rd album Three Sheets To The Wind as their pinnacle I find it a bit unfocused for my taste ... and the wonderful production feel of the first feels very muted.
The one reliable truth about Idaho is that every release has at least one barn-burning brilliant song. While none of their subsequent releases have come close to being a full album worth of strong material, there's at least one tune that will recapture their old glory. "The Worm," "Goldenseal," "The Sun Is All There Is" ... all wonderful.
The outtakes compilation We Were Young And Needed The Money is probably the best full Idaho release I've heard in the last 5+ years ... glad these 'rejected' songs have been released.
― zaxxon25, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
the song 'bass crawl' on one of their eps is one of the msot amazing things. the EP is totally OOP and impossible to find though (in fact, I just sold my copy; but not w/out ripping and keeping that song)
― akm, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(specifically, it is "the forbidden" ep)
― akm, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
year after year is one of the great classics of sadcore, slowcore or however you want to name rather slow music with mainly melancholic undertones. i chose it as my favourite album of 1993.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 08:09 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hADx9YWYGyk
<3
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Strange, the consensus here likes the first 3 albums best (the only ones I've got so far) but elsewhere Lone Gunman and Hearts Of Palm are talked up.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
Listein to "Year After Year" again. Great album.
― Mule, Thursday, 21 August 2014 09:58 (nine years ago) link
all those albums are good. but they are depressing to me in ways that similar things that I've always adored are not, and I have a hard time listening to them.
― akm, Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah this band achieved a level of suffocating-ness that their peers mostly did not
― ciderpress, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
Very sad news that cofounder John Berry has passed:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6836458/john-berry-idaho-co-founder-indie-rock-band-dies
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
Rest in peace.
Love the first 3 albums. Haven't listened to them in years.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 January 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
Year After Year is so good. I bought it when it came out, and then lost touch with this band. Time to buy more.
― Duke, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Hmmm. Idaho early albums aren't easily available.
― Duke, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
they certainly are not. does jeff have a bandcamp set up? he may not own these either.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
most of those CDs are on ebay though, I believe.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
His Bandcamp only has a few later albums. The website offers ÇDs by email order. That may be the best option. I'd rather he earns a few dollars
― Duke, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
The song One Sunday came on just now and it struck me suddenly how much it sounds like The Spinanes but with a male voice. At least on that song.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
not sure if i said it already on the relevant thread but
year after year
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
Du alter Verführer!
― Duke, Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
this song made a deep impression on me as an 18 year old stoner, and i still love this record quite a lot.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 3 May 2019 04:48 (five years ago) link
Noticed Hearts of Palm got reissued last year. Went right on my want list for sure.
― Evan, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
yeah, it's a really nice pressing. Jeff said others will follow.
― akm, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
Managed to pick up The Lone Gunman. So far more of a stripped electronic sound and quiet vocals. Already like it
― Duke, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
A documentary is coming together
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/janjensendavis/traces-of-glory-the-musical-journey-of-idaho
The filming's done, the idea here is to get sound mixing and promo help going. 70% funded with 18 days to go so hey, why not help a bit?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 September 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Whoa @ opening shot in the trailer. That's his house? What's he do for a living I wonder...
― Evan, Monday, 19 September 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
haha I know, no shit right? he has done a lot of corporate music scoring but I seem to also recall that jeff's family had money even back then. that might have just been a rumor though.
― akm, Monday, 19 September 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
It's all hearsay, but I vaguely knew one of Idaho's drummers back then and iirc Jeff had enough money that he could more or less work on Idaho full time.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
the interviewees in the trailer more or less say as much, don't they?
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
I imagine Idaho's cost of living is pretty low.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
And if you supported the Kickstarter they've released a link to screen it as you choose over the next two weeks. I'll check out here in the next couple of days and report.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:57 (seven months ago) link