sun kil moon?

brad you still should really try perils from the sea

yeah perils is his 3rd best post-RHP album after ghosts/april imo

I will admit to legit loling at the ending of "he's bad"

i just watched almost famous and totally never knew that he was the drummer in the band STILLWATER

weird casting

thought the first track on this was kinda good though the talking blues thing he's doing does not work for me...but the music & the chorus was nice. I'm an outlier insofar as I have never cared for/about his work though.

I kind of like to pretend that he had a motorcycle accident in 2013 and since then an unhealthy looking imposter has been releasing albums under his name and moniker. I'd rank his albums like this (ignoring plenty of nice live albums):

Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
Sun Kil Moon - April
Red House Painters - s/t
Red House Painters - Ocean Beach
Red House Painters - s/t (bridge)
Mark Kozelek - White Christmas & Little Drummer Boy Live
Mark Kozelek - What's Next To The Moon
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Desertshore - Drawing Of Threes (he is on most of this album and it feels like a lost Red House Painters album)
Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves
Red House Painters - Old Ramon
Red House Painters - Songs For A Blue Guitar
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - Perils From The Sea
Mark Kozelek - Nights
Mark Kozelek - The Finally LP
Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - s/t
Sun Kil Moon - Benji

Besides acknowledging the successful impact Benji achieves he basically doesn't exist after 2013 in my eyes.
I feel longwinded given I have to clarify what "version" of Sun Kil Moon I like whenever it comes up...

His lyrics are now the musical equivalent of that podcast designed to put you to sleep

The best song he's ever written imo is surprisingly on Among the Leaves, called "Young Love". I'm convinced it's a leftover track that didn't make it on Admiral Fell Promises by the time that was released. Just a guess though.

I will listen to this to see how many panera breads show up please no spoilers

brad you still should really try perils from the sea

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, February 15, 2017 9:12 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

perils is fine, it's the only time this approach worked

evan i will fight you for ranking old ramon below among the leaves

Hastily assembled list! I'd probably revise that. Whenever I think of that album I just think of Young Love.

Quick, someone challenge me on something else so I can cave again.

But seriously I'm curious how people rank his records ever since he retired from singing and writing poetry a few years ago.

i think old ramon is nearly as good as ghosts which is prob a minority opinion, but they share a lot imo in atmosphere and guitar tone

i don't really like ranking things (and am averse to threads turning into endless ranking posts) but it'd be something like

rollercoaster = ghosts > ocean beach = april = old ramon > admiral fell promises = songs for a blue guitar > bridge > down colorful hill > basically everything else

You might like Desertshore - Drawing Of Threes then. Have you heard that?

not at all, i'll check it out!

dammit I am going to have to listen to this, aren't I

how i feel about this is how i imagine most people on earth feel about lulu

dear god how long is this song

I am at the beginning of track 2 and I think it is safe to say that I am not the target demographic for this.

who is?

hate to shit on your heroes but everything I've ever heard this guy do is the most obnoxiously boring music on earth

mark kozelek

xp

Someone who can hit the interlude in track 2 and not want to shake dude until he forms butter.

i would suggest persevering until the dialogue in track 3 and then shutting it off right after

mostly bc i still can't believe i heard it

imago and DJP otm

WHY IS THIS DIARY READING STILL GOING ON

... what is going on

like what are these songs even about and why are they so long and what is the purpose behind the structure and is there a point to this and where is God

just a little reminder from mark k that you're supposed to be listening to cure bootlegs

thanks for the reminder, Mark K *turns on "Forever" from Curiosity*

I am at the beginning of track 2 and I think it is safe to say that I am not the target demographic for this.

― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:21 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who is?

― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 15, 2017

people who sneak in 13 items in the 10-items-or-fewer lane at the grocery store

It is tempting to put this album on Songs that you wish were properly recorded but only exist as demos/live recordings purely for shade reasons

Again, no need to listen to new sunk ill moan when there's plenty of great older albums.

people who sneak in 13 items in the 10-items-or-fewer lane at the grocery store

lol yes.

having never really listened before, its pleasant coffee shop music underneath speed reading of unedited tour diaries. i can take this sort of thing at poetry readings but at album-length? not for me.

Might have said this before but the descriptions of his newest stuff seems like the opposite of early Red House Painters when it sounded like every breath of it was precious and important. Seems like a lot of people who might love Red House Painters are put off by the newest stuff and the controversies.
I should probably give some of the newer stuff a shot but I was already falling out of love after the first Sun Kil Moon album, although some of it was nice.

After "Duk Koo Kim" did he ever do one of those build-up songs again? I can't think of anyone else who did anything quite like that.

I feel like I've been listening to the 1st song for an hour at least, or maybe the whole thing is on a "replay 1" setting, I don't know.

each song is an hour long iitc

oh okay here's a new song finally

well, "finally"

Every time I've heard Red House Painters it's been preceded by someone (always a man, always a would-be poet) calling it the most precious, the most emotional music on earth. And then I've had to turn it off a few minutes later in complete bemusement, feeling it completely empty of what I like about either music or lyrics. But who knows, maybe it'll catch me off guard some day

I will admit to legit loling at the ending of "he's bad"

I just realized that's actually on his *other* neverending album that's coming out soon jfc

I was gonna say I don't completely hate it so far but here's the journalist interview bit, ugh

still kinda hoping this whole new style is a big joke

Imago- I don't love all of it but some of it is the fucking best. If you like American Music Club, Low, Idaho type of stuff, definitely worth a few tries.

But who knows, maybe it'll catch me off guard some day

you'd probably get caught off guard by "funhouse" or "mother"

I like track 4, hope he doesn't ruin it with another fucking interlude

spoke too soon

Imago- I don't love all of it but some of it is the fucking best. If you like American Music Club, Low, Idaho type of stuff, definitely worth a few tries.

another gentle reminder that Mark Eitzel should be enjoying Koz's levels of attention rn