Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes To Hollywood was supposed to be on the flight too
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 December 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
my friend thomas was supposed to be on that flight, and then was. con
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Monday, 23 December 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
...grats to celebrity disaster avoidance tho
This is one of those bands I've always meant to hear (remember Byron Coley writing up In the Spanish Cave for Spin) but have never actively sought out. But now the whole catalog is on Spotify, so hooray! A new band to investigate on vacation!
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 23 December 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
everyone reps for moonhead, but spanish cave is a miracle, iffy production and all
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Monday, 23 December 2013 03:19 (ten years ago) link
Every album is great except to some extent The Ruby Sea.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 December 2013 07:56 (ten years ago) link
I love The Ruby Sea, not a weak album in their discography imo. Sure it's their slickest, but on songs like Puppet Dog this works so well against the (still) gritty nature/intent of the material.
― willem, Monday, 23 December 2013 09:48 (ten years ago) link
Well if it isn't about the time of year for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVvfIV3eO4
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
just wish it went on for longer than 30 seconds
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:09 (ten years ago) link
this is from the same session though and this is truly great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRRxU5vddg
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
not seen this before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrOX35dMGI
― stellar toum sauce (NickB), Monday, 23 December 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that was not there last time I searched them on YouTube.
Valley of the Bones is such a great song.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Really good '88 audience recording just gone up on D1m3
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 December 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
ooh no shit? I don't have a membership there but maybe it will appear on some other trrnt sites.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 29 December 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
It's actually not as great as I thought quality wise, but it's still pretty smart, any live TWR seems to be often more enjoyable than the records.
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 December 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
only ever caught them once live in a festival tent but they were a mighty force of nature if that was anything to go by
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Monday, 29 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Thin White Rope - December 2, 1989 Cattle Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwUWAtfq7Y
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Sunday, 8 February 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
Wow, this has to have been one of the earliest threads in my ilm career. Thanks me for reminding me to listen to Thin White Rope tonight.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 February 2015 07:14 (nine years ago) link
Brilliant find, thanks NB!
― MaresNest, Sunday, 8 February 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
thx x 1000 !
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
oooh, there are 2 more shows on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8uPMMPSEew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn33_mlrtEU
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
What does The Ghost remind me of? Can't put my finger on it, thinking of something Neil Young/Springsteen covering Woody Guthrie kinda thing?
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
it's amazing grace w/ new lyrics
― contenderizer, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Duh. Ok, thx
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
a surprise glimpse of twr on the guardian homepage this morning:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/24/cult-heroes-thin-white-rope-were-scorched-alien-hostile
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
he sang as though his insides were clogged by some mighty existential furball and he was trying to cough it out song by song.
lol & otfm
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
as i've said before, any day where there's new writing about twr is a good day!
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Last I heard, Kyser had formed some kind of demonic bluegrass band, which is a pleasing thought.
― willem, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah i never heard about this either!
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Supposedly as of 2014, Kyser had sold off all of his guitars and has been steadily rejecting reunion offers.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
reunion offers from kunkel and the other dudes or...?
i love guy whether he ever plays/writes again or not. would love to get the chance to shake his hand though TBH.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Don't have specifics. Probably the usual suspects: Part Time Punks in LA, Primavera Sound, other band members.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
what did ppl itt think of the Mummydogs album? I liked it, would've liked to hear them develop further
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't wonder if TWR ever got hit up for somebody's Meltdown or ATP once or twice.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
just noticed that MOONHEAD is thirty years old this month
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Turned into a TWR sorta day. Found myself pondering the similarities between Black Hole Sun and the Triangle Song - not just the sonic similarities which are fairly strong imo, but the whole shared theme of astronomical bodies as some sort of solution to existential pain.
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the revive, that live clip of "It's OK" upthread just kills so much, it will always be to my lasting regret that I never got to see them.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 9 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
yes that clip is a total monster
attempt at a twr pox:it's okred sunmoonheadcrawl piss freezedown in the desertif those tearswet heartsome velvet morningfish songtriangle song
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
did this show ever get posted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8c2Ow988k
Groningen, 1990
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
One of those bands I've always meant to check out but never actually got around to... Listening to Moonhead and loving the spiralling guitars. Trying to work out if the drummer is that type who plays heavy and behind the beat or if he's actually slowing down?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
i don't know really tbh. big thwacking drums are a big part of their sound though, also a feeling of being inexorably sucked into a bog
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
The Ruby Sea was my first TWR love. I know most people don't rate it so high, but... Such a great band. They deserve a massive boxset
― Duke, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
THere are a lot of audio live sets around which show that at their best they were about as hypnotic as Television. LOve the band.& some of the most oblique lyrics ever. Seeing them written down finally made sense of things I'd meticulusly gone over cassette tapes trying to transcribe back at the end of the 80s.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I remember looking up the lyrics to Come Around and being kinda repulsed and fascinated.
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 February 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
They had so much goddamn magic
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 10 February 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Blasting The One That Got Away tonight. Bless 'em.Think the link for this one was posted a long time ago and no longer working, let me put here for yahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VzUzKV_h-Y
― willem, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
THere have been a load of live sets upped to Dime over the last couple of weeks i think including a few i hadn't seen before.
― Stevolende, Friday, 2 March 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
what a beast of a band
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
Xpost argh these words taunt me
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 2 March 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
On D!m@dozen now! Has anybody heard these?
Thin White Rope 1986-03-xx The Frontier Demos recorded @ an unidentified studio
SBD >> ? >> unknown generation Maxell UR cassette >> Cool Edit 2000 (normalised both channels to 0 db and cleaned up the silences between songs) >> CD Wave >> Flac level 6 >> you
TT 46:20
1. Wire animals 4:05 2. Ants are cavemen 4:07 3. Come around 2:30 4. Take it home 4:48 5. Waking up 3:27 6. Not your fault 3:52 7. If those tears 3:18 8. Tina & Glen 2:59 9. Valley of the bones 2:39 10. Timing 3:56 11. Moonhead 5:30 (12.) Munich Eunich * Removed 13. Mother 5:07
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Thin White Rope 1984-05-26 Samurai Sound Labs CA The Rational demos
(9th in series)
info source: Lineage: SBD tape (unknown gen) > Apple G4 > AIFF > FLAC
The cassette states that these were recorded at Samurai Sound Labs CA on 1984-05-26.
Anyway this set is ripped from a tape of demos given to Frontier Records and the copy I have is a low generation copy although there is some tape hiss it's still an excellent set.
Total 1:01:10
1. The real west 2. Waking up 3. Moonhead 4. From home 5. Down in the desert 6. Munich Eunich * 7. Here she comes now ** Removed 8. And those fears 9. Not your fault 10. Disney girl 11. Three song 12. Atomic imagery 13. Dead granmas on a train 14. Eleven 15. Mother 16. Exploring the axis 17. Lithium
― MaresNest, Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link