The Clean - Compilation

Yeah i saw them in 2010 too, they were great but their songs do fall apart instead of end properly so I thought that was just their thing. On that point alone (referenced on the other thread).

fine if they don't feel compelled to make another record, but i guess I'd hope they at least enjoy playing together from time to time.

oh wait i saw them in 2007 i dunno what i was thinking

here
It started off ok, DK had his back to the audience and was pretty far out with the solos, and then each song would just kinda plop at the end, right when I was hoping/expecting it would take off. This happened over and over, there were some comments about the president, drones, riots, and pleas for small talk between songs (Hamish seemed lucid and normal, Bob did too) and then around 10 they stopped playing, disappeared behind the curtain for a while (longer than usual) and then came back sans DK, who was nowhere to be found. An audience member got on stage and asked him to come back "You've inspired so many of us to play music, we want to hear you" and he never came back so that guy's friends sang/played Tally Ho with 2/3 of The Clean.

Hamish and Bob sounded good though! I got to see Hamish's rather weird drumming style.

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:45 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

Going to the Brooklyn show tomorrow night. I hope it's better. The LPR show a few years back was outstanding.

But now that I recall, DK seemed a bit loopy that night as well. But they sounded great. Where can I see this "Chicago thread?"

✶✶✶✶ Chicago MMXIV ✶✶✶✶

thx mizzell

http://www.undergroundbee.com/2014/08/19/the-clean-and-boogarins-at-lincoln-hall/

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the sunglasses and bandanna briefly made me think of mike reno

and sweatband

this is a bummer. they've become one of my favorite bands over the last couple of years and were pretty great in 2007 from what i recall. also strange why David is touring if he doesn't want to. these american shows don't seem to be a great money-maker?

i forgot to mention that there was one point where either bob or hamish said something like "you don't understand us anyway" or something to that effect
that was the only moment that genuinely bummed me out
otherwise it just didn't live up to my (admittedly high) expectations

i also think their first song was PTTSE and the played Fish later but who cares

I went with little/no expectations having not seen 'em before and had a blast. Sloppy and snippy and short as it was, it's impossible to argue with that rhythm section and even a cranky David Kilgour is still fantastic. Loved the encore, too!

Let me just say that both Kilgour brothers' new albums are excellent. Still need to hear the new Robert Scott.

Is that the duets album?

I'm going to the show tonight too, can't wait. I saw another Hamish band in a garage in 2008 or so and it ruled

Looking forward to their Memphis show next week. I need to hear Hamish's album. I love the new (last year's) Mad Scene record. Very satisfying. Repped for it over on the MS thread a while back.

i guess ultimately it's not that the show was bad, just that it could have been so much better
that's the essence of disappointment, no?
hope they get some of their zeal back for these other shows

I'm actually traveling to Memphis from St. Louis for The Clean. Am anxious to see whether it's a repeat of the Chicago show (which I almost went to as well).

Bob Scott said they were great in Columbus.

Of course HE would; he's in the band! Haha

Kidding. Assume you mean another guy.

No, I mean him! Robert Scott! He knew the Chicago show went awry, but said the Columbus show a few days earlier was great. So who knows which David you're going to get these days.

show in brooklyn was good fun. ira and georgia were on stage for a lot of it, there was one extended jam, can't remeber which song it was. a lot of songs did end abruptly, but not sure i would have noticed had i not read this thread.
not sure if it is a sign of great songwriting or that i have been listening to a lot of clean lately, but it's amazing how david plays an opening chord on the guitar and i can instantly hear the entire song in my head. i love this band.

:( wish I hadn't missed it.

My fiance was disappointed in us too.

http://www.offthetracks.co.nz/r-i-p-peter-gutteridge/
:(

I was just about to post something. What wretched, wretched news.

ooof

Inducted into the NZz music hall of fame last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0ST1V8mMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxFuKYt3m8

One, there's a NZ music Hall of Fame? Two, it took the Clean this long to get in?

i think the clean turned it down at least once

The book on the New Zealand scene around Flying Nun by Roger Shepherd, In love With THese Times was a great read.
Finally picked up this compi in the wake of getting it from FOPP last Xmas.

Beatnik, Slug Song and Billy Two deserve better.

― Bored of Canada (S-

otm, all three of these songs rule

no one has ever said this and i don't believe that it's true, but

"you can tell a lot about someone by what their favorite clean song is"

made this dumb gif so they can play infinitely

https://i.imgur.com/GGkYK7h.gif

Well, anything could happen and it could be right now
And the choice is yours to make it worthwhile

that's a lovely gif, thank you karl

Hard agree

Nice clean one, Karl

:D

it blows my mind that 'anything could happen' is a 1981 song. it is so proto-mid-90s slacker anthem, it hurts

getting older too

'why don't you do yourself in?'

is this the main the clean thread?

i've been giving some more time to Getaway lately. i've heard songs from it via the Anthology comp, but the album itself is wonderful. maybe their best full length? i don't really know what i'm talking about. i love the clean

also i'm not sure which songs ira and georgia are on, but it could be any of them/all i guess. yo la tengo always resembled older clean songs in some respects, but by 2001 they seemed to be converging

https://i.imgur.com/GGkYK7h.gif

hell yeah

Have you seen those clips of them live in Auckland from the early 80s? I want to be in that audience so badly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_TUP_d1nIo

Knee-level camerawork is severely underrated.

!!!

That's absolutely awesome footage. Is that their first time playing North Island?

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

notes on the clip say: This was a private show, other bands on the bill included The Chills, Tall Dwarfs, Nocturnal Projections and This Sporting Life. The show was not only was filmed by North Television but was also recorded on a TEAC 4-Track by Chris Knox and Doug Hood; some of the audio subsequently released includes "Flamethrower" by the Chills as one of two B-sides to the Rolling Moon single (1982) and "Two Fat Sisters" and "Happy Birthday John" by The Clean, released on their posthumous 12" E.P. Live Dead Clean (1986).