― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 25 December 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 December 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
-- amateurist (amateuris...), August 7th, 2003 6:06 PM. (amateurist)
i guess you're not actively listening to it!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 December 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 December 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 26 December 2004 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 26 December 2004 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
it's kind of brilliant.
-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), August 8th, 2003.
I love songs like that. The Raspberries' "Go All the Way" and "I Wanna Be With You" are like that too.
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Michael Brown's dad, Harry Lookofsky, did the string arrangements on the early stuffLooks like the dad's album is getting rereleased tomorrow.
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes! I thought of "I Wanna Be With You" right away.
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
And the acronym is "WAR."
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm a big fan of the banke. "she may call you up tonight" is their best song, i always thought, though i quite love "left banke too" LP which has "goodbye holly" and "my friend today." just dark, dripping pop that sounds like nothing else. "men are building sand" is some kind of genius song, too--i mean, the decemberists will spend their whole career trying to do something as good. but, it's such callow music. it's kind of amateur night in a way, but that's what makes it so affecting, in that classic power-pop manner. funny to compare the l.b. and the beau brummels from the same period. there's something very very uptight about those left banke hits whereas "laugh laugh" is a bit less inhibited.
what a strange history, too. michael brown was gone by the time they did "left banke too," right?
haven't checked this, but you mean the "there's gonna be a storm" comp is OP? out-of-print seems a perfectly good term. and pinefox, i think the comp is worth having. a few things that are just too fucking fey, strained, mannered, but overall it's great stuff.
i have the orig. smash LP of "walk away renee" in good shape, and i remember my buddy's *dad* had a copy of "left banke too," this was years ago, that we taped and were way into back then...
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not worth $60. Either look for it cheap (it used to be a budget price comp for under $10 so I'm sure you'll find it eventually) or wait until it or something to replace it cycles back into print.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
That said I've been listening to the Raspberries a lot too. The David also has these kinda baroque pop elements as well. Good stuff.
Ben
― Ben Dover (jonbenetsbody), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
then, a few years ago, I sold it on eBay for $55. The fucker who bought it emailed me back and said that it had a scratch and he wanted his money back. Natch, I said he could have his money back as soon as he returned the disc. He ripped the disk to his hard drive, and then sends me back the disc and it is still in perfect condition (it was in perfect condition because I played it exactly one time when I ripped it to my hard drive, and he played it one time when he ripped it to his hard drive.)
I then sold it again on eBay for about the same amount.
Record companies are so stupid to let shit go out of print.
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
This comment made me want to listen and count. The verses are 8 bars long, which seems relatively normal (and is the same as e.g. "About a Girl" by Nirvana). But there is a sense of everything being there to set up the chorus. So maybe it's something in the way the melody and changes lead to the chorus that gives this impression?
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
And I'll also add, since this has become a more generalized Left Banke thread, that Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet did a GREAT job with their cover of "She May Call You Up Tonight." If anything, even more convincing than the original, and I love that it works with either gender.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
No, no, no.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
that comp isn't worth $60. as joseph mccombs says, it does kinda trail off a bit toward the end. but shit, I quite like it all except maybe "myrah" and a couple-three others. "give the man a hand" is good.
as for the foreshortened "walk away." well, how long is the track itself? 2:42.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
xp
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The verses may not be wildly short but they're not long either. The chorus is a little long, with a defined ending. Perhaps most importantly, there's never a double verse.
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
i go back and forth on preferring the left banke and montage renditions of desiree - right now i'd pick montage, for the focus and propulsion. it's an incredible song. the instrumental version that montage did is also wonderful - it's piano, bass, drums, and sitar, leaving only the verse melody intact. the chorus is just piano emphasizing the original bass line, which makes the entire song.
the montage album is really great - the song grand pianist rivals the best of the left banke, for me, and tinsel and ivy, i shall call her mary, and the piano-and-wah-wah heavy instrumental thor and or are all solid.
― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 16 November 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 16 November 2006 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ben Dover (jonbenetsbody), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 18 November 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
“Pretty Ballerina” has a drony violin I never noticed before, played by Lookofsky père, I believe, vaguely reminiscent of “Venus in Furs.”
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Other thing I am reminded of a bit is the Dutch group The Outsiders.
Here’s a factoid I never knew from the second album’s Wikipedia page:A pre-Aerosmith Steven Tyler, then known as Steve Tallarico, contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album including ‘My Friend Today’ and ‘Dark is the Bark’.[3]
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
It's really obvious it's him too. He was quoted somewhere about he'd been hanging out with the band and was shocked at how unprepared to record they were (songs written immediately before stepping into the studio and/or written in the studio).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Those are pretty good songs, unprepared or not!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
Just happened upon this Michael Brown chestnut from the 70s: https://youtu.be/wLeQXGcw5gM
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
The four tops version is the worst.
Jesus christ!
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Bass player Tom Finn has died, meaning the entire original line-up of the band is now dead.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
RIP :(
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link