your favorite of the mark kozelek canon

Someone pin a reminder to his shirt to bring his jacket on stage with him.

he certainly seems like a prickly pear and i'm not gonna say glib shit like "#teamkozelek" because for all i know he could be a truly monstrous person ("where there's smoke, there's fire" etc) but i love that one of these indie cult dudes being praised for all the heart-on-sleeve shit he did in the 90s had a moment where they said "fuck it, you want heart on sleeve shit? Here ya go" and started spewing cranky road tales

djh
Posted: November 22, 2013 at 5:20:15 PM
Fairly certain that "Perils" is my album of the year and "Gustavo" my favourite track.

gustavo is really great, having said that I was just listening to an album in my recently added folder and then the new sun kil moon came on and he is so depressed and talking abt someone dying and im all oh gosh man

the degree of attention his rudeness is getting reminds me of the last panel of this: http://www.pipeline.com/~biv/FallNet/comix/gpt1.html

I'm not sure where the comedy ends and the rudeness begins ... which is good, I suppose.

relevant:

The Fake Mark Kozelek (Sun Kill Moon, Red House Painters, Etc.) Tour Story Thread

LOL

Koz enters his Eminem phase

http://www.sunkilmoon.com/hesbad/

dnftt

Anyone care to suggest a post-Perils CDR80?

*post* Perils? heavens no.

A mini-CD?

I've a vague idea that the Kozelek/Album Leaf collaboration is "definitely a one-off" but what's the story there?

Okay but slightly unnecessary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG5imSIR8B0

Album in October:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/178497-mark-kozelek-petra-haden-joey-always-smiled

Okay but slightly unnecessary:

ghosts of the great highway and april are necessary imo

And Admiral Fell Promises

and Perils!

"Perils" is incredible.

In my top 20 albums of all time.

Playing Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2 on YouTube and ... it doesn't seem awful or fill me with dread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DQcggz408Y

Bought it and really enjoying.

"Duk Koo Kim" has been coming to mind a lot these days.

nowadays it's "Bubble"

5 disc "Lock Down Recordings" coming up. Probably.

"The Repercussions of the Unreadable Expiration Date on The Introspective Lyrical Diarist" will be explosive.

"The Fifteenth Lap of the First Floor, Monday, 7:36 a.m.", each lap described in detail, with tangents to his youth.

I reached into the fridge saw the milk check the date
I can't believe this milk expires in just one day
Place an order on instacart they said it's been delayed
MY uncle died alone from old milk they say he prayed and prayed
"Oh Mark tell my story about my milk that was old I drank at Panera...
Oh how I got sick and my dying wish is for you to sing to make the people care a
little more about checking the date and to wash crab cakes
down with water instead Mark tell them please be safe for their sake
check the date cause there's other demons out there besides corona
like stupid critics and haters playing beer commercial lead guitar shit through sonos"
I thought about his dying words petting my cat while people clap their hands
outside for health care workers working long shifts or it might just be my idiot fans

*round of applause*

working title: "i showed my balls on the zoom call"

hahaha

https://i.imgur.com/X90Lq0f.jpg

lmao

I thought about his dying words petting my cat while people clap their hands
outside for health care workers working long shifts or it might just be my idiot fans

this is way too good a line to be on a contemporary Koz album

Bravo Evan

yeah, i could hear it in kozelek's voice as i was reading, lol

thanks I channeled the koz and it poured right out

ilx should have pre-covered this, with accurate track times

Mark Kozelek: "All The Best, Isaac Hayes"
(A Spoken Word Album)

April 24, 2020

1. San Francisco (07:47)
2. Vancouver (05:37)
3. Calgary (09:43)
4. Ottawa (10:07)
5. Winnipeg (15:35)
6. Buffalo Valley Rest Area Smith County Welcome Center (10:45)
7. Highway 81 (08:53)
8. Los Angeles (21:50)
9. November (04:58)

Total length: 1:35:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zfspxX38Y

May have said this before but have a plan to compile myself a post-Perils Kozelek/Sun Kil Moon best of/CD-R. Its a bit of an odd one because I can find the same tracks a bit tedious and utterly moving dependent on mood/alcohol use. Won't include him reading fan letters.

I think I really like the new one (although I’m only halfway through - it’s sooo long). Not the best music he has made by far, but the stories are better and the tone is a bit different from he’s schtick for the last five-six years. He might be in a better place.

Too long and needs a better title but something like this:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fwAhfBSBvpanTpLXuOq1a

His John Denver cover is probably the best thing he's done.

i always end up coming back to april, though ghosts and perils are strong runners up. i still haven't untangled admiral fell promises after all this time but i'm getting there

(The playlist is a Post-Perils one ... It's less of a compilation and more of an argument that he's still doing something interesting though listening to his albums involves the skip button these days).

oh yeah that was a response to the thread title, not your posts

i haven't really dug into the post-benji stuff but "i watched the film the song remains the same" is the main example of the bathos of his newer style working for me rather than whiffing and i'm guessing there's probably a few others like that

That Desertshore album feels transitional, halfway between carefully constructed songs and stream-of-consciousness. I've been listening to it recently, and really enjoy 'Mariette', 'Livingstone Bramble', and 'Tavoris Cloud' as well as 'Brothers'. I haven't heard anything past Benji - feel like I have enough Kozelek albums in my life, and it's pretty universally agreed that returns are way down. Kudos for having the patience to check them all out.

"Hey You Bastard I'm Still Here" from that Desertshore album was the first thing I've heard from him, after ten years of casual listening, to cause me to look up what he actually looks like. He does not look like what I imagined Mark Kozelek looks like. No, I cannot describe right now what I imagined Mark Kozelek looking like. The real Mark Kozelek looks like he works at Panera Bread.

Like a pixar character where mere words take life

I thought he was in his sixties, fifties at least! Old! Maybe had that retired gameshow host, houseboat resident lifestyle "alcoholic topography" sunk into his face (to use a David Berman phrase), an older withered slendered greyed and weakened academic poet retiree, the type of white man who haunts Western Massachusetts with a sweater-rich cowbwebby wardrobe, much more decrepit and sad to the eye than the actual dude himself who looks like his joie-de-vivre is recording emo bands from the affluent northern Chicagoland suburbs when he's not working at that Evanston Panera right before 9/11.