memorial thread of love and mystery for Juno, the Seattle rock band

I defo don't like all their albums, but Effloresce is a stone cold classic.

I have a preference for Everyone Into Position but Effloresce is a good place to start

Carstens was not lying when he cited Nice Strong Arm as an influence. That guitar tone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtvHL-F-gM

Will recommend again 'Non-Equivalents' from their split single with the Dismemberment Plan, such a great pop moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnFx38vDh4

I can't tell if that's a different recording from the split version or if it's just at a slightly higher pitch than I'm used to.

Hmm, yeah it is pitched up a bit, how did I miss that?

put on your punk belts
and rock it for all the square cools

^^^Carstens was a secretly great lyricist, save for one or two :/-worthy moments on TITWIGAGAG

I saw them once and it was very boring.

Then Thrones played & Joe had twigs his his hair & all was right w/ the world.

my CDs finally arrived today - I've been waiting over a decade to get the correct versions of some of these lyrics, but I'm too elated to care.

The CDs sound much better than my long-carried-over mp3s, A Future Lived in particular just thrums with noise in places I never noticed before, or couldn't due to the fidelity. What really struck me about that album in particular is that Arlie is a quietly unusual vocalist, esp for an indie or emo band. He sometimes spends entire songs in a hushed register, but on other songs (I'm thinking specifically of the climax of "When I Was In ____") every time his vocal comes back in, it's almost percussive, and he's fucking giving it like he's in The Who or something. He doesn't have a huge range or anything but he manages to bring the same diversity of tone that the guitars do, or at least he meshes right in with them in a way that's uncanny.

My point is I am not done being obsessed with these records

Arlie and co. do a very cool cover of the Huskers' "Divide & Conquer"

https://soundcloud.com/drewodoherty/divide-and-conquer?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook

(circa 2007)

had this is the way it goes.... on the big speakers tonight. the best.

god these just sound new all over again every fall/winter

also it's criminal how they blew the dismemberment plan out of the water on their split single and yet seems like it didn't get them new fans

I've always loved that song. It should absolutely always win fans.