and all the players are so good! god, to be in that room, watching, listening, participating, all while it builds... what do you say when that's done?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
I recently rediscovered my love for that song when I tried to play it and I could. I was surprised! It sounds like a song that has always existed and just happened to pop out when those people were planted in that room (even though I know that's not how it works).
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
i would love a neil young/crazy horse 25min cover of it
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
great tune and that whole album has an amazing vibe
― marcos, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
A couple of my friends/neighbors were in that band, and it sounds like Erin (a former editor of mine) did a good job with this thing, looking forward to it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
If anyone wants to play an endless jam of this song I'm in!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
The bonus track on the new Mark Eitzel album is dedicated to Jason Molina, and is absolutely gorgeous.
― nikola, Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
New Arriver album, awesome metal band featuring three members of the Mag. Elec. Co. band:
https://arriver.bandcamp.com
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
here comes midnightwith the dead moon in its jaws
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
I only just realised that Steve Albini recorded The Magnolia Electric Co. after he got referenced in the title of 'Steve Albini's Blues' on Didn't It Rain.. wonder if that shout out tipped it
― You (bleeping) need me. You can't Finn without me (fionnland), Thursday, 11 October 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
Ha. I thought this post was to promote the new release
https://songsohia.bandcamp.com/
― Duke, Thursday, 11 October 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
The first — and likely the best — love songs album of the new millennium now expanded into a 2xLP compendium. Featuring:• An entire album of never-before-heard recordings from The Lioness sessions• 16-page booklet with photos and meditations by Jason’s family, collaborators• Packaged in deluxe tip-on gatefold jackets• Replications of ephemera from Jason’s life from the time of recording, including: a two-sided postcard, a check for “one million kisses,” a two of hearts playing card, a handwritten letter in an envelope, a guitar pick, and a photograph of Jason and his wife-to-be
1. 'Love & Work: The Lioness Sessions' on limited edition translucent purple vinyl2. Limited edition 2-sided tote bag
The Lioness expanded reissue
― Duke, Thursday, 11 October 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
Excited for this, but not sure whether to jump on the pre-order from the US or hold off for UK - with shipping and likely taxes it’s going to end up around the £50 mark.
― michaellambert, Friday, 12 October 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
I may just get the digital version
― Duke, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
Reading some great reviews of this. A pity it's not available on CD
― Duke, Saturday, 24 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Seven years already. This was a tough loss.
If the blues are you hunterThen you will come face to faceWith that darkness and desolationAnd the endless depressionBut you are not helplessAnd you are not helplessTry to beat it
― Mule, Sunday, 22 March 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
I mourn the loss regularly.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Monday, 23 March 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
Posthumous album of solo songs recorded in 2008 due in August, Eight Gates. Sounds like mostly solo acoustic songs mixed with field recordings from his time in London. Torn between really wanting to hear anything new from Molina and wondering if he wanted this stuff released...
https://secretlycanadian.com/record/eight-gates/
Eight Gates:
01 Whisper Away02 Shadow Answers the Wall03 The Mission’s End04 Old Worry05 She Says06 Fire on the Rail07 Be Told the Truth08 Thistle Blue09 The Crossroad + The Emptiness
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
The track thus far released is really doing it for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZLrnk0h8nE
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Torn between really wanting to hear anything new from Molina and wondering if he wanted this stuff released...
I'm very ambivalent about this as well but this track is really nice.
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
I'm on a Molina binge rn and was thinking about whether I should get this.
― Duke, Friday, 3 July 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
I'd say that if you've got any interest at all in JM then you should definitely get it.
― neilasimpson, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
"New Arriver album, awesome metal band featuring three members of the Mag. Elec. Co. band:
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 16:34 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink"
Josh (or anyone) - this record is amazing. How did you find out that some of the ME Co. folk were involved? I've done some cursory searching but can't find anything.
― neilasimpson, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Better searching reveals " Rob and Dan Sullivan on bass and guitar/vocals paid their dues in the late Jason Molina’s indie/alt. country outfit Songs: Ohia, even playing on the now-classic Magnolia Electric Co., which also featured McAdam."
https://ninecircles.co/2016/11/29/album-review-arriver-emeritus/
― neilasimpson, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
Rob and Dan Macadam both went to Oberlin with us. Dan runs the amazing Crosshair silkscreen company.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Dan M. is an old friend and neighbor (two blocks away) married to another old friend of mine from college. Coincidentally, Rob and Dan Sullivan are old friends of *another* really old college friend of mine, who also knew them from Maine (!). Dan S. btw is an incredible woodworker: http://www.navilluswoodworks.com Adding to the mix, Jeff, who played drums in the The Magnolia Electric Co. band, is married to a *different* old friend of mine.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
This Arriver album is great, thanks
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 4 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
I am super curious to hear Eight Gates, but I can't bring myself to do it just yet. As I mentioned earlier, I really struggle with the thought of him not wanting this stuff out there in this form.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
I bought Eight Gates, on my third trip to the record shop. I had to, somehow. But I've yet to play it...
― Duke, Friday, 14 August 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
Just discovered Eight Gates and was unnerved by that snippit at the start of "She Says" where they have Molina on tape saying "the perfect take is--just as long as the person singing is still alive..."
― Indexed, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
10 years gone.
― Mule, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
actually can't believe i'd written the man off as a palace copycat years ago. i listened hard this year and he's a completely different kind of writer. knowing so many of the songs were knocked out with one take is just phenomenal. as my mate put it: "never has someone made so much meaning out of such a minimal vocabulary". reading his biography rn...
― maelin, Sunday, 19 March 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
so Fall Out Boy stole the "why put a new address on the same old loneliness" line? that's fucked up
― Heez, Monday, 24 April 2023 14:40 (eleven months ago) link
interestingly enough:
We have a picture of @petewentz in the Magnolia van to celebrate this fact. It was placed there by Jason Molina himself. I'll try to get a picture while we listen to the record today. #TimsTwitterListeningParty— Jason P. Evans Groth (@groakus) July 2, 2020
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:58 (eleven months ago) link