― Tyler W (tylerw), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Please disregard and choose one of these two corrections:9th (or 8th, if you count Aw/No as one album)8th (or 9th, if you count Aw/No as two albums)
:-)
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren ruiz (sheep1300), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 June 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I havent given the rest of their stuff a shot yet, but I do hope it's like this album. It's got this awesome sort of quiet and subdued intensity, like the sax (the sax!) in New Cobweb Summer that comes in at about 3:30...I nominate this for best use of a sax in a pop/rock song ever! and the layering - the "na na na" female voices in Track 4...
overall, a really compelling album. It's sleepy sort of, like Low can be, but i think much more lush and intricate.
finally, to quote ryan, "is there anything else out there that sounds like Is a Woman?"
anyone?
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 23 July 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
So shy tonight I'm told you were, I'm in the thick of it, i've been a dick with it, you're just not used to it
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 28 July 2007 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
And I'm alright. Well, as you were. There's no use for this: It's not a theater kiss, 's more like a railroad piss.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 28 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
My confidence is returning; I'm relating and remarking in an improved fashion, so much that I decide to stop on my way home. So much that I decide to stop for donuts on the drive home.
― will, Saturday, 28 July 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Last night I saw the sun rise over sleepy Barcelona, riding on a bus with the road crew from Embrace.
― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 28 July 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I'll show your punk rock ass.
― ledge, Saturday, 28 July 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
fell sadder for the sad old bone it's not far, really babe, it's just not that far
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 28 July 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I shoulda stood in bed with Loretta Lynn in my head.
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 28 July 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
While we're on the subject:
"the clerk smiled as she saw the same nut pick up a personal size grocery basket and head down aisle two. she smiled because periodically this guy would return with a basket full of glade lock and hold room freshener and deodorizer. it's a deodorizer that works on the same principle as a bug bomb. simply push down on the button and it fills the room with a scented fog. the man would buy only about five or six cans at a time. he'd been coming in for about five weeks now. sometimes he would come in twice a week. he seemed like a normal guy. he was kind of balding in his mid thirties wearing a black leather jacket. and he was always so damn dusty something soft about his features. it looked like it was makeup but it was just dust. he paid with a twenty and said thank you and left.
when the man returned home he took the glade from the worthless little plastic sack. he placed one on the rug, one on the end table, one on the window sill, one under the TV, and one on the air conditioner. this might seem unusual except for the fact that his entire apartment was just filled with them. every room on every surface. he figured he had about sixty of them in all--each one's nozzle poised at the ready. he sighed and opened a beer. he started to push down the lock and hold buttons on the canisters, slowly filling the room, working his way from the dining room into the den. each room filling with a multiscented fog: desert bloom, evergreen, misty rose, fresh lemon, regular and unscented, pot porrouri, wild oak, petulia, ocean mist, musk, hazel wood, irish nights, sandal wood, rain forest, country kitchen, natural prevention?, orange blossom, indian summer, and holiday candle. calmly he sat on the couch, spilt his beer, and closed his eyes."
If he buys 5 or 6 at a time for 5 weeks, and only sometimes twice a week, then he can't have bought as many as 60.
(taking pedantry to new levels)
― ledge, Sunday, 29 July 2007 08:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9f/180px-Sharilewis&lambchop.jpg
sorry
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 29 July 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't recall either woman or lamb being that weird looking.
My favourite Lambchop moment?
Spell hard water with three letters.
Ya ready?
I C E !
― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
They're announcing a european tour in the autumn, called "Ohio tour" - leading to speculation that the next album is going to be called Ohio. Anyone know anything more at the moment?
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Really babe, it's just not that far.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 26 July 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
And I guess it's right To love the girls who fight Off our manly acts of desperation
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 26 July 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I need to listen to these guys again. I remember liking them when I was 17
― filthy dylan, Saturday, 26 July 2008 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there a reason they only play Europe
― teflon monkey, Saturday, 26 July 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
man, is a woman is a stunner.
but its been years and I've still never checked out anything else! doesn't sound like the rest of the catalog is much like this one at all too. bummer.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There's nothing quite like Is A Woman, no, but Nixon is as good, if not better, in its way (orchestral country-soul), and there are big chunks of Damaged and Wa C'Mon / No You C'Mon that are as good.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
What Another Man Spills, How I Quit Smoking and Thriller being the other ones I have, and all of them being good, too, btw.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I lent my copy of Nixon out ages ago. I need it back.
yeah, I have a feeling I'm going to get real deep into this back catalog, eventually. I think I've just been a little intimidated and almost a little afraid of disappointment. and thanks for the recommendations.
as for is a woman... I just read up a bit and this record was mostly panned when it came out? seriously? crazy.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i like what another man spills & how I quit smoking and especially Jack's Tulips, but Nixon is what I think of when i think of Lambchop.
― will, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought Is A Woman got pretty decent reviews? http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/lambchop/isawoman?q=lambchop
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
the publications which gave an unfavourable review: q, pitchfork, trouser press, rolling stone, spin. quite interesting.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
much as I love the 'Chop, I will always hold it against them that "Up With People" was not a cover version of that 80's Super Bowl halftime staple...
― henry s, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I thought it was panned going by some posts I read in this thread and the pitchfork and rolling stones reviews linked in the wikipedia. just glanced through the metacritic link. guess "mixed" would have been more apt.
anyway, not having heard nixon, I may not be the best to say... but to me it seems apparent that is a woman has some really obvious positive qualities going for it that I find it hard to believe people would just write-off. most of these have already been mentioned - the sheer uniqueness of it, the arrangements (the PIANO!), the subtle use of electronics or whatever else is going on in the periphery. its beautiful.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Music writers are fucking idiots, is the problem here.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
So apparently they have a new one, Ohio, should I care? Aw/No didn't really grab me - this could be down to my problem with sticking with any band for more than five or six albums.
― allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Friday, 17 October 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I love it. Two great Ohio-based albums out on the same day: the Lambchop and the new one from the Pretenders. Wonder if Sufjan Sevens will add one soon as well.
― mottdeterre, Friday, 17 October 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
what's it like? more like 'nixon' than 'is a woman' - louder, poppier?
― allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Friday, 17 October 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i love it. its more like 'nixon' but stripped down more.
― Michael B, Sunday, 23 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd say it is more like "is a woman". pretty calm and serene. a nice surprise.
― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 23 November 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to this radio broadcast from Germany from a recent show plus interview stuff with Kurt is good stuff, just to hear him get asked about politics, the initial beginnings of his answer heard clearly in his low-spoken way (fiercely pro-Obama, of course -- and apparently very surprised at how Ohio went for him), and then an enthusiastic German speaker providing the translation in a completely different, peppy 'hey yeah!' approach.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Did'nt think I needed another Lambchop album in my life but "Ohio" is just lovely...perfect for a Sunny London dusk in Jan
― sonnyboy, Saturday, 17 January 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
To conclude this interviewMany facts and fictions you construeThe dog gives you the pawYou pat his head and you wipe his jawHe's the only one who knew(about) my blue wave
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
devastating.
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
best band. psyched that they're playing my neck of the woods this spring. pretty incredible live act. that mergefest et they released digitally is astonishing. there's also some tour-only CD they sold w/ the most stunning version of "you masculine you."
― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
I've listened to this a fair amount since January, and while the tracks can err on the somnolent side they're often pretty and well observed. I've never gotten used to his voice either.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing else has ever sounded like D. Scott Parsley.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Google tells me D. Scott Parsley is a Nashville law firm.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Man, his voice has so much personality. Definitely needs to work for you for the songs to come across, but I couldn't imagine someone else singing his songs. The odd phrasing and occasional struggle to pull it all off are an inherent part of the charm for me.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-page-of-madness-with-live-musical-accompaniment-by-coupler-tickets-609503049027?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
May 5, 2023: Coupler is accompanying the silent film A Page of Madness (1926). Anyone here going?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:16 (eleven months ago) link