Luna: S&D

Am I the only one who still likes Slash Your Tires? What about their cover of Ride Into The Sun? That's probably the Luna song i've intentionally played the most.

Slash Your Tires is great. Ride Into the Sun less so but still good

surprised at all the love for Romantica, an album I only listened to once and was put off by the harsher textures and grittier sound. tbh I got off the bus when they covered "Sweet Child of Mine", that was a bridge too far.

Romantica is rather gauzy, actually!

there's something a little airless about some of Romantica that I don't like quite as much as the other records, I think. Still love it, though. I don't think they made a bad album — I know a lot of people don't like Days of Our Nights, but that record still sounds fantastic to me. Some of Wareham's most cutting lyrics (along with maybe some of his worst).

Post Pup Tent Picks for me: Teenage Lightning, Black Postcards, Hello, Little One

I also got off the bus with Sweet Child of Mine. I was already standing to exit, but that song made me hop off.

haha, i think that cover is nice.

I hate it for two reasons: 1) it's a shitty song, 2) their take on it is very predictable and obvious ie, "let's take this rocking anthem and turn it into an ironically narcotized plodding indie song"

i think i just like narcotized plodding indie songs

i think the cover is fine though if you don't like GNR i can understand finding it lame. i'm kind of a Guns n Roses agnostic, their usefulness as a band lasted for one album (one that was mostly classic but not as much as the CW suggests), but then again the Luna style goes a long way for me.

Did their boring cover come before or after Sheryl Crows boring cover?

All the Luna covers on the Slide ep are pretty great. But then, once again, I like pretty much everything from the original lineup.

iirc the summer of 99 was the summer of boring sweet child o mine covers. maybe there was even another one?

you haven't seen sweet child o mine covered until you've seen Black Eyed Peas cover it w/Fergie singing and Slash stepping onstage to contribute lead guitar.

Digging that "Most of the Time."

Sheryl Crow 1998! That's how far Luna had fallen off. Not only were they covering GNR, they were covering them after Sheryl Crow did it.

It was the memoir that annoyed me the most.

No "Superfreaky Memories"! That's probably my fave Luna track.

"Superfreaky Memories" a victim of not remembering TDOON very well.

that is def the standout track on that album

Math Wiz is pretty nice.

haha yeah I was gonna say the other one that sticks in my memory is the one about he mathematician naked at his window or something like that

"Math Wiz" and "Superfreaky Memories" kinda strike me as miniature Noah Baumbach movies (apologies if y'all hate him)

(and obviously wareham and baumbach have worked together at various points)

I love Slash Your Tires. I also love Freakin' And Peakin and think it's very underrated.

Baumbach and Wareham are a perfect fit imo

ok off the top of my head

California All The Way
Bobby Peru
Friendly Advice
Bewitched
Freakin' And Peakin
Speedbumps
Astronaut
Superfreaky memories
Lovedust
Tiger Lily

x-post - Yes.

"Astronaut" is definitely a late-period classic. That whole Close Cover Before Striking EP is killer.

Yes! It's very good.

Dean Wareham has been in a few movies!

And "Neon Lights" from that EP, a classic cover (I'll admit to liking it more than Kraftwerk's).

Just out of interest, I
sort of consider Luna to be a New Zealand band given Dean Wareham's ancestry and with past line ups containing members of the Clean and the Chills - am I alone in this?

Yes.

Clean members in Luna?

Hamish Kilgour played on some of Wareham's post-G500 demos, but I don't think he was ever really in the band ... https://luna.bandcamp.com/album/luna-demos-1991

Justin is from NZ too, right? That said, NY band in my mind. No question.

Taking sides: Luna as a NZ band vs. The Lemonheads as an Australian band.

vs ac/dc as a scottish band

Anyone have any thoughts on how might see Tell Me Do You Miss Me, the documentary, without spending a fortune? Ludicrous prices are listed online these days. Heck, shipping alone is terrifying enough on most secondhand DVD copies.

"...how ONE might see..."

That's actually next in my Netflix DVD queue. Assuming it shows up I can rip and send you a file if you want.

Are you in the U.S.? There's a good condition one on Ebay right now for $24.99/free shipping.

BTW, new record from from Dean and the guy from Cheval Sombre next month, a "western dream pop" covers album.

I'm not in the US, sadly. I shall have a closer look at ebay...

Holy shit did I really never post about the best present in the world that I got for my last birthday?

http://i64.tinypic.com/28b9sog.jpg

!!!

Right?! It is the best gift I’ve ever received by a long shot.

What a great gift! Bewitched rules.