ha i checked that out after browsing upthread, i didn't feel that
― marcos, Friday, 11 October 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
i dont remember that post but i've always been frustrated that the first two minutes of tlsohhb isnt how the rest of the song sounds
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
i wish this band still existed, feel like they had another 10 albums of the same chill vibe in them― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, April 6, 2012 2:40 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, April 6, 2012 2:40 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
― marcos, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
my boss: "are you playing the same song over and over?"
me: "no this is just this band that all their songs sound the same."
boss: "oh."
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
i wish this band still existed, feel like they had another 10 albums of the same chill vibe in them
― marcos, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:11 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
ko-sign
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
yup
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
in agreement
― niels, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Funny Marcos mentions listening to this very early in the morning with a young kid - I have a similar memory. They're a good soundtrack to the groggy but blissed out early parenthood stage.
― Brio2, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
dude lives in Joshua Tree now apparently. he put out a bunch of cassettes or something didn't he?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
played this stuff for the first time in yearsss while gardening over the weekend, so much love for them still.
weird that people aren't as familiar with the first record, it's by far my favorite and definitely the one i have the most sentimental attachment to. they popped up at some big sur folk fest thing around that time (2004?) and sorta blew everyone's minds, that organ sound + so much analog bassssssssss. one of the only records i was obsessed with at that time that i still am not ashamed to support.
does any of the other mid 2000s freak-folkish stuff hold up this well? i should probably bust out some sunburned hand of the man and tower recordings / mv+ee records too, but none of them establish this kind of ecstatic drone and consistent mood/texture. i guess bbml is more in the mazzy star / cowboy junkies vein of slow vibey country so maybe it's lazy to clump them in to freak folk, tho that was very much how they were received at the time
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
weird that people aren't as familiar with the first record, it's by far my favorite and definitely the one i have the most sentimental attachment to.
ala.cali.tucky? i've had a hard time finding it, still haven't heard it
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
freak folk was always a poor genre label. a lot of MV + EE records are good but 1.) not very consistent and 2.) in some cases, grossly derivative.
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
i can dig matt valentine's neil voice but i'd never pretend they are on par w/ BBML. mv + ee have some pretty great peaks though. gettin gone and space homestead are probably my favorite, though there is great stuff on most of their records
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
sun araw have a different vibe and repetoire than BBML but something like "on patrol" satisfies some similar needs for deep groovy blissed out spacey grooves
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
freak folk was always a poor genre label
definitely, lots and lots of stuff clumped in together that didn't make much sense as a whole. i like a lot of those records but you're definitely otm when you say
in some cases, grossly derivative
i think my main takeaway from that whole thing was basically "listen to the incredible string band ffs"
someone should do a good mv&ee comp tho, there are definitely some gems
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
yea and even some of the grossly derivative stuff is good!
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
sun araw is a good comparison actually, tho yeah def different in many ways
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
otm, i almost made this exct post a few weeks ago
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
he's v v different, but i'd think any BBML fans who haven't yet checked out Connan Mockasin wouldn't regret doing so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teyy1A_AJso
like if you swapped BBML's freak folk for freak decadent lounge crooner maybe
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
raaaaaaaaaaad
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
marcos if you arent in to this, u should be:
High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
haha i enjoyed that episode gr80, thanks
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
was totally expecting the wife to freak out when she came home w/ the sick child, she was all happy for him that he kept the dress, haha
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
the closest thing I can think of to BBML also lumped in the freak folk category would be this all-time jomf track. ultra gentle groove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqqn2-COxk
― ogmor, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
cool! i've never really checked jackie o out. was put off by the wire magazine's fascination w/ the band name, felt like they dropped it all the time without actual reference to the music to feel cool or something.
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
that's definitely my favourite, they weren't always that chill though. there are bits on sticks & stones... by the no-neck blues band that hint towards a bit more to this sort of mellow groove but they never quite went there.
― ogmor, Friday, 6 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
bit more toof this
― ogmor, Friday, 6 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I didn't have any knowledge of "freak folk" when I heard bbml, remember they reminded me of air (a band I grouped a lot of stuff around at that time, like black moth super rainbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mqk2tewN1A)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj8z4cngKO0
― niels, Sunday, 8 June 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
sry i tried to https the black moth video didnt work out i see
connan mockasin track is great, will check out the album - really grew on me when watching the High Maintenance episode.
Common denominator could be a specific type of really mellow psychedelia.
― niels, Sunday, 8 June 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
maybe also bbml fans would be into Darkside?http://youtu.be/d8NaWT0WvEE
― niels, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
was listening to bill callahan's dream river last night and it satisfies a similar need
― marcos, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
not as stoned though. still very deep, groovy, and mellow
― marcos, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
Well, there is a dub version of that album.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
totally! forgot about that
― marcos, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
it is 80 degrees and gorgeous today so the s/t album is feeling right
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
lemme go over to the grateful dead thread and say the same thing about "live/dead"
― marcos, Thursday, 7 May 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
it's that time of year
― ciderpress, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
― marcos, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
<3 this
― just sayin, Friday, 20 May 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Wish these guys were still together so I could force them to cover this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_59gKd1VJ0
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 May 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
wow can't believe it's been nearly 10 years since this record... they should do a deluxe reissue that comes with *TWO* pair of the cardboard glasses emblazoned with marijuana leaves!
― bernard snowy, Friday, 20 May 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
hahs yes
― marcos, Friday, 20 May 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Oh my god, I forgot about those glasses.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 20 May 2016 02:41 (seven years ago) link
city lightsoppressionfence line oppression
― marcos, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
I always want to recommend La Hell Gang's "Thru Me Again" in this thread but it's really only the first two songs that have a (slightly) similar vibe. And it's definitely more rocky, especially as the album progresses into Atacama desert psych rock with a heavy Spacemen 3/Loop influence.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
Strange synchronicity for this revive. I just yesterday bought the Brightblack S/T and Loop 'Gilded Eternity' CDs to jam in the car while driving around a very hot and wildfire hazy Seattle. Sounds like I need to check LA Hell Gang.
― Yelploaf, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the La Hell Gang recommendation - three tracks in and I'm sold.https://lahellgang.bandcamp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
Cool! And definitely check them out YL, it's good stuff.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 August 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link