your favorite of the mark kozelek canon

posted this before, but here are my thoughts on the wonderful Bridge album: http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/and-it-feels-so-wonderful-to-swim-in-our-fear-red-house-painters-bridge-1993-track-by-track/

i am really quite obsessed with By the Time that I Awoke from the latest one.

New song: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/a-love-song-to-mom-from-me-and-bonnie-prince-billy/?_r=1

I loved that (article & song). I wish I got to read something like that about every one of his songs and all the rest of my favorite music.

Nice song (although it's always a bit creepy when people contrast their lovers and their mothers).

He's a funny bugger, isn't he?

Just received "Mark Kozelek & Desertshore" and the "Malmo" live CD. Such an incongruity between him being an arse to the crowd in the latter and the compassion in "Brothers" from the former.

pfork review of the desertshore record tried to recast kozelek's recent stream-of-consciousness lyrical moves as a general characteristic of his total body of work which made me :\

guy has always had a weird out-of-nowhere diaristic detail once in a while in his lyrics (i'm thinking maybe the judas priest reference in "glenn tipton" and "my erotic brown eyed toy") but now that shit dominates his work and i find it excruciating

Sun Kil Moon
Release Date: January 14, 2014
(Caldo Verde Records)
Recorded between March and August 2013, Mark Kozelek sings about his childhood years
and his life today. Mark is joined by guest musicians Steve Shelley, Jen Wood, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. Album title and song titles to be announced in December.

He's prolific, isn't he?

Listening to the Desertshore album, there were times when I wanted him to edit out some of the detail about touring/travel.

Being a superfan of this guy is stressful because if you don't act immediately you miss out on owning all of the limited releases he churns out. Bonus tracks on limited versions, exclusive live bonus discs, even regular releases that quickly go out of print...

i long ago gave up on doing that. but I do like this desertshore record, way more than the album leaf one.

Well it's not even about completeness for the sake of collecting its just I'd love to own all these alt versions of my favorite songs. Desertshore project is great, yeah.

Down Colorful Hill. Every September.

does he really hate nels cline?

New Sun Kil Moon is called "Benji"

http://www.caldoverderecords.com/images/Benji.jpg

Release date: February 4, 2014

So, can Kozelek "play like Fripp or Johnny Marr/And [I can] play circles 'round Jay Farrar"?

"Perils from the Sea" probably still my favourite album from this year.

lately, my favorite from the "kozelek cannon" is this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaN5DuFA82o

Love this, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JamTWxG4pM

That song is crushing. I've been listening to that album non-stop for months now.

Fairly certain that "Perils" is my album of the year and "Gustavo" my favourite track.

perils is crushing me right now

Hmm ...

Sings Christmas Carols
Release Date: November 10, 2014
(Caldo Verde Records)

All songs performed by Mark Kozelek November/Decemeber 2013
in San Francisco.

TRACK LIST:
Christmas Time Is Here
Do You Hear What I Hear
2,000 Miles
O Come All Ye Faithful (Listen)
O Christmas Tree
Away In A Manger
Silent Night
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
What Child Is This
I Believe In Father Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
The First Noel
The Christmas Song

Don't really know this dude's stuff very well but I find his persona pretty hilarious. Yes, he's a singer-songwriter who writes pretty sensitive songs but also he's MACHO because he swears at audiences and sings about fucking young women. I saw him last year in a normal club with a quiet reverential audience and as soon as he got on stage he started complaining about how it was too cold on stage and made someone from the club go to the dressing room and get his jacket while he sat on stage and complained.

He's got a great voice though.

You mean at Music Hall of Williamsburg? He did this there.

he seems like a real tool bag

No this was at Lincoln Hall in Chicago.

Someone pin a reminder to his shirt to bring his jacket on stage with him.

he certainly seems like a prickly pear and i'm not gonna say glib shit like "#teamkozelek" because for all i know he could be a truly monstrous person ("where there's smoke, there's fire" etc) but i love that one of these indie cult dudes being praised for all the heart-on-sleeve shit he did in the 90s had a moment where they said "fuck it, you want heart on sleeve shit? Here ya go" and started spewing cranky road tales

djh
Posted: November 22, 2013 at 5:20:15 PM
Fairly certain that "Perils" is my album of the year and "Gustavo" my favourite track.

gustavo is really great, having said that I was just listening to an album in my recently added folder and then the new sun kil moon came on and he is so depressed and talking abt someone dying and im all oh gosh man

the degree of attention his rudeness is getting reminds me of the last panel of this: http://www.pipeline.com/~biv/FallNet/comix/gpt1.html

I'm not sure where the comedy ends and the rudeness begins ... which is good, I suppose.

relevant:

The Fake Mark Kozelek (Sun Kill Moon, Red House Painters, Etc.) Tour Story Thread

LOL

Koz enters his Eminem phase

http://www.sunkilmoon.com/hesbad/

dnftt

Anyone care to suggest a post-Perils CDR80?

*post* Perils? heavens no.

A mini-CD?

I've a vague idea that the Kozelek/Album Leaf collaboration is "definitely a one-off" but what's the story there?

Okay but slightly unnecessary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG5imSIR8B0

Album in October:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/178497-mark-kozelek-petra-haden-joey-always-smiled

Okay but slightly unnecessary:

ghosts of the great highway and april are necessary imo

And Admiral Fell Promises

and Perils!

"Perils" is incredible.

In my top 20 albums of all time.

Playing Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2 on YouTube and ... it doesn't seem awful or fill me with dread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DQcggz408Y

Bought it and really enjoying.