Brightblack Morning Light ... WTF?

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id say its more funky than anything else.

funky is pushing it but it is pretty groovey.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

SHOULDN'T WE HAVE BECK OR DAVID BYRNE OR TORTOISE?

Wow, talk about something that would have ME arriving late. Or not at all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

for real, they are the #1 most likely band to be on the cover of Arthur

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 23 July 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I also think it has some of that Spacemen 3 heroin-gospel vibe albeit in a very impressionaistic way.

OTM, but an even more accurate comparison, perhaps: Spiritualized's "Shine a Light."

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, Brightblack's cover appearance on Arthur = least surprising news all month.
I can't wait to read it.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin you got some 'splainin' to do re Arthur shockah!

PS I'm gravely sleep-deprived right now so pls to forgive for confessing I don't know if anything at this precise moment can excite me more than the idea of 'campfire motorik'

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess I don't know arthur well enough. just thought the album didn't merit coverage of that sort from any publication.

guess I was wrong

― kevin barking (arghargh), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

trombone on track 2=great.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

jaxon don't harsh my mellow

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i know, you gotta pay the bills and all that, but sir, i posted this: i love hippy chant shit. that mp3 is actually pretty rad.

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

go check 'em out. i don't think it's weird at all that they're opening for os mutantes. like a week later they're opening for vashti, too. get your ass to those shows, dude!

also stuff we're working on for fall/winter here and in the uk will be SICK, bros.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently people think this is really good

― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't understand the SHOCK at people enjoying this band. good formula, good schtick, good sound.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i am enjoying this album ... WTF?

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Who knows? Maybe I need to fall off the marijuana wagon for further inspection.

probably

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

all this 'they don't write real songs' shit has to cease and desist

― gear (gear), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link

not trying to rain on parade. it's nice and all. it's just the songs all sound the same. the song writing is rather i'm a hippie, wait no i'm actually not, and the whole "schtick" to put it is a bit tired. just surprised it's a "schtick" people are still into

i don't even think it's bad. I just think it's incredibly pedestrian

― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost:

i don't even know what poor songwriting means.
-- The JaXoN 5 (jaso...), March 10th, 2005

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never heard the "spiritualized-americanized-on-the-campground" schtick, can you please tell me what other bands make this sound "tired"?

thanks.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

As far as I'm concerned, this band is already on the positive side just for not being the Polyphonic Spree.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah kevin barking, please tell cuz i want more of this stuff, where have you been finding it????

daveSegal totally OTM re: Shine a Brightblack Morning Light.

― JayBabcock (jabbercocky), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

remember when people liked the polyphonic spree?

― gear (gear), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link

the whole "schtick" to put it is a bit tired. just surprised it's a "schtick" people are still into
[sic]

See, I don't think it's a "schtick." I think Brightblack really are these authentic,
back-to-nature types who happen to make trippy, soulful, gently psychedelic, campfire blues rock.
YMMV, of course.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 24 July 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Part of me is actually aggressively down on that approach at present if only because I spent the evening listening to Pet Shop Boys B-sides and hate younger groups that are 'real' music dullards. Which Brightblack might not be. I hope. I might have to kill them if they are.

remember when people liked the polyphonic spree?

It was a sad, cruel time...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i lovelovelove this record. there's definitely spritualised in there, there's definitely some ghostly soul and gospel stuffz, a dreamy Beachwood Sparks hippyness, and the lead instrument is the Rhodes, so good times. i wish all the tracks were ten minutes long, or longer even.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 July 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

why do you all drool over this album and i find it boring?

(puns not welcome perse but i understand if they're being made. thnx)

― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

also stuff we're working on for fall/winter here and in the uk will be SICK, bros

silkscreened gatefold lathes in a limited edition of 33 1/3? that would be sicker

― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

why do you all drool over this album and i find it boring?

isn't that your issue? why do you think we would know?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

dunno, i like spiritualized, i like druggy, i like rhodes, i like tired. but i dont find this record appealing at all. it's just crazy

― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i think its definitely an 'if you get it you get it, or you don't' type experience. its qualities, if you dig em (the Rhodes, the slow tempo, the fuggy atmos) are there in abundance - they are what they are, exceedingly so. i can understand people being left cold by it; similarly, i could imagine people who like it *REALLY liking it.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, one comparison that vaguely comes to mind is Spz vs. Acetone, in that the two bands had a mutual appreciation society, Jason wrote/dedicated songs to Mr. Lee after he passed, a range of similar inspirations and approaches -- and yet Acetone in the end never held my attention, nothing really sparked. Sometimes things just *don't* click and there's no requirement that they should despite what everyone else insists. (In my world this is known as the 'But Justin Timberlake is good!' conundrum.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man i used to love acetone

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

silkscreened gatefold lathes in a limited edition of 33 1/3? that would be sicker

um no i meant more live shows. and i'd prefer the rti pressing plant, who does all matador vinyl. best sound ever.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Caring about what musicians care about (i.e., tripping on "authenticity") is the lamest thing ever.

It's either good or not-good. Sonically. Emotionally. Without recourse to extra-contextual analysis. Whether or not BBML are "real hippies" on their own time is completely beside the point.

FWIW, I like it. Sounds like people in a Vietnam movie smoking doobies.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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― gear (gear), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

haha..best use of an emoticon ever

― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"But all the root stuff was worked out back in Northern California with Rachel and I; we lived back up in this rural place north of San Francisco. We had been living up there for a few years, really interacting with wilderness a lot, and trying to discover ways to include interacting with wilderness in our daily routine, so it wasn’t just a weekend thing—part of our life. I’m interested in how—what other people are doing that now, what other people have done that in the past, whether it be in the 60s or 70s or whether it be 2,000 years ago—you know, how can we make a routine that includes wilderness… So it’s probably been a lifelong quest, seeing how civilization’s putting malls everywhere, but it definitely motivates us to make music and try to at least call to attention that, “Hey wilderness has a place in our human experiences.” And it has so many different facets and levels—number one, it doesn’t take any money to interact with wilderness, all you need is food, so if we could incorporate, as a society, wilderness as a daily routine, the maybe it would help dissolve classism a little bit, because your pastimes wouldn’t be determined by how much money you have. You know, there’s nothing that freaks me out more than when I meet someone new, and they could be really into a pastime that’s really fun and really good, but it’s something that you gotta have money to do that thing. And neither one of us comes from money at all; we’re both from Alabama, and on the lower-income bracket. So, you know, we don’t want to be ashamed of ourselves, and we also don’t want to be people who—a lot of our friends that we grew up with have turned into people who only think about how to make money, that seems to be a pretty high priority, and we’re questioning that, that motivation. So we didn’t want to be like that, so we’re just trying to find a way to not have motivations rooted in that kind of thing, and trying to look around in our contemporary culture and things that are progressive, and things from the past that were going on too, that were progressive."

― max (maxreax), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

There's nothing more horrifically tempting than something which is well-meaning and serious that still just BEGS to be made fun of.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

dude used the word "wilderness" probably 60 times during the course of the interview.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

where is that quote from? (and how old is that guy?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, yeah...

Can't open my mouth without getting my lips burned off. Sucks, I guess, to be less-than-cool. Still, I stand by my hamfistedly earnest blather. BBM's "real hippie" status is a non-issue, and a boring one besides.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

they should call their next album "all you need is food"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

that quote's from when i talked to him a couple weeks ago. i think he's in his mid-to-late 20s. kind of an interesting life story actually--dad was a coke dealer, mom was crazy, moved to humboldt county to work at transworld when he was 18.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, quite a back story. so at least we can't call it a pretentious formula ... pedestrian is as good a word as any, as has been mentioned upthread. Will say: While the Rhodes is just sorta 'eh,' there's some nice steel/slide guitar at work there in spots.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 24 July 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I'm just really into the wilderness or something but I don't find anything he said to be that crazy or even embarrassing. I find contact with the natural world to be healthy and invigorating. Don't you guys ever go backpacking?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Jumping to conclusions there, Mark, and I'm kinda annoyed as a result.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(But yes, I NEVER go out and about in the natural world or anything.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU GUYS SHOULD MUDD WRASSLE

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

THERE MIGHT BE SOME MIGHTY HAIR PULLING

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

My flowing mane etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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one of the very few bands I keep pulling to appear higher or at all in best of 00s lists. peak vibe albums.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 22 July 2021 06:30 (two years ago) link

This sounds great - thanks for the heads-up! I did have to skip the interviews though. Needs a warning: 'contains hippies, two of them'.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 22 July 2021 07:43 (two years ago) link

four months pass...

On the one hand I feel like I need a hundred more albums of this music, on the other hand I don't think I ever really *listened to* "Miwok Shapes" (the final song on the s/t) until right this instant

― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link

Not saying that track is up there with their best work (it's not) just that there is plenty of listening left to do within their small discography.

― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link

So this revive inspired me to finally get off my ass and upload this live tape I made.

They played in Eugene at Sam Bond's garage in October 2006, they had a trombone player. The tape isn't great, maybe a B- as far as audience recordings go, I was a bit too far back so there's crowd noise and chatter. But hey, this is the first time I've made it available. These are FLAC files, feel free to upload on DIME or whatever since I am too lazy.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/p0wnbr26i9rerlg/Brightblack_Morning_Light_-_Sam_Bond%2527s%252C_October_2006.zip/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2h5up0udyr66v4i/Brightblack_Morning_Light_-_Sam_Bond%2527s%252C_October_2006_part_2.zip/file

― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Sunday, 28 November 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link

Thanks Sleeve! I’m gonna delve into this tomorrow and follow up again after listening. Appreciate the heads up too in the guitar thread, take care.

― Neal Cassady, Thursday, 2 December 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link

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