Ya some songs have a sea and cake/sam prekop vibe (halfwit in me)The live versions even more so
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
I haven't listened to the new one, but I like him a lot and he is great live. The last time I saw him prompted a little concern -- he sounded great but he looked pretty raw, red-rimmed eyes and a general sense of hard living. Some friends of mine ran into him on the street a few hours later and told him how much they liked the set; he said thanks and asked if they wanted to come "do some drugs" with him. (They declined.) So, hope he's keeping himself ok!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
don't worry about ryley, he'll be here long after we're all gone
― alpine static, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
He's probably drugging and drinking a bit too much but it's also part of his pose / persona if you follow him on twitter / instagram. He is basically great and hilarious and I love his music, one of my current faves. The newest one hasn't totally clicked for me but I assume it will in time, the last one was the best (Golden Sings.... Highly recommend seeking out the "Deep Cuts" edition of that one, the second disc is an extended live version of "Sullen Mind" that's ~40 minutes long.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
Sullen mind is a simple but great track
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 27 August 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
also i think he does lots of drugs, the first thing he asked my friend who took him out was where to find coke so
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 27 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the most recent album didn't impress me the way "Golden Sings" did.
The "musician drinking and drugging" persona is so boring. More's the pity.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 27 August 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
he is a talented person; i wish he didn't get so much of a reward from the persona so he would see more of a benefit to cleaning up his act
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
About that persona
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmydp/ryley-walker-listens-to-leonard-cohen-for-the-first-time-fuck-this-guy
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
talk about a pointless article
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
If you walked to his apartment, I feel like his bookshelf will fall over and kill me.
OK, lol
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
sorry, but this guy rules
i mean i don't feel like i'm smart enough to listen to Lynyrd Cohen either, so i relate
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
there's a whole napoleon complex specific to dudes who make the most milquetoast, inoffensive music but express the most virulent assholish opinions about other people's music. it can be funny but do you really want to put yourself in the same persona type as father john misty
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
As I said elsewhere, I've never heard a Ryley Walker song and I likely never will, but anybody that hates Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed this much is OK by me.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
LL did we see this guy play at the same festival with royal trux and lightning bolt? i get him confused with several other acoustic guitar dudes
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
also how come no one use has used the term "challops" in here yet
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Did anyone notice that they used pretty much the exact same photo concept for another Ryley Walker article? Am I missing something?
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjpn8/ryley-walker-opposite-middle-deafman-glance-stream-interview?site=noisey&utm_campaign=qvmydp&utm_source=stylizedembed_noisey.vice.com
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
I assumed that was by design.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
LL did we see this guy play at the same festival with royal trux and lightning bolt?
yes we did!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
oh ok. apparently i don't like this guy's persona OR his music then.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
some of his tweets are funny though.
Seems weird to meticulously harmonize the visual accompaniment for their ongoing series of Ryley Walker articles unless they do it the same for everyone. I haven't checked!
xposts
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
I've been a big fan, but the new album didn't click with me either. I struggle with his si-hi-hing style a little.
He's great live - do go if he comes to town.
― Duke, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
crying laughing emoji
F**k Ryley Walker, whoever he is. pic.twitter.com/ZlyvS8nfZk— Adrien Begrand (@AdrienBegrand) August 29, 2018
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Kill yr idols I guess. There's plenty of other folks that do his schtick w/o being colossal douchebags.
OTMFM
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
you lie with vice, you get challops
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Hilarious thing is ryley either gives zero fucks or is also laughing his ass off
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 30 August 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
His Twitter persona is pretty funny I guess, but there's also something really irritating about his showy contrarianism.
― triggercut, Thursday, 30 August 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
^ true. That Noisey piece elicits about equal parts lol and ah-come-on-fuck-youDuke's right about him being great live, had a blast last year
― willem, Thursday, 30 August 2018 07:17 (five years ago) link
I saw him live once but he had the great misfortune of following Circuit Des Yeux. My point being, everyone should see Circuit Des Yeux asap.
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
that was a great bill
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
like I love Leonard Cohen and that interview is one of the funniest musician interviews I have ever read.
― campreverb, Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Gotten 20 or so death threats from the Leonard Cohen piece. Never gotten death threats from switchfoot or genesis fans. Genesis forever— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) August 30, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
TBF, he needs to piss off some Yes fans to get some legit death threats.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
genesis forever
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
I heard Phil Collins will send you death threats via fax machine
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
walker of the skies, walker of all
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 31 August 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link
The weird thing is for not knowing much about cohen, ryley actually got cohen’s persona down patHe was that montreal to nyc transplant fagboy and it is totally a thing
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 31 August 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
vice would know
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 31 August 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
sorry that was a flip comment, but I find this characterization very upsetting
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 31 August 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
Whenever someone plays classical music I say, “hell yeah the verve bittersweet symphony”— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) September 21, 2018
lmao
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
So yeah, saw him Friday night with Trad Gras och Stenar and Endless Boogie (both very great) as openers. He's got an extremely good band together backing and each individual song performance was pretty sharp, understated but not inaudible singing, good sense of ensemble performances all around -- my friend Paul and I traded thoughts back and forth, he mentioned Prefab Sprout, John Martyn and Jeff Buckley, I was thinking of late 90s indie-goes-prog in turn. His loud and exuberant-but-verging-on-obnoxious between song stuff, well, maybe I need to be his age or something. (That said, as I told Paul, we're not talking 90s/00s Anton from Brian Jonestown Massacre here.)
Also he just announced a full cover album of Dave Matthews Band's The Lillywhite Sessions. Whatever works for ya.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
i've heard it, it's very good
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
Between that and Lady Bird I'm...not looking forward to DMB becoming a new generation's Steely Dan or something.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
i don't think it's gonna be a thing
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
I feel better now!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Yr gettin old ted!
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah fuck that Ted guy.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
i mean, I Was A Teenage DMB Fan. i've since realized most of the music is not very good at all! but something about the lillywhite sessions still fascinates, in that 1) matthews shelved it bc it was too dour and ended up recording a shitty happy album in like nine days with glen ballard and he put that out instead 2) its dourness means there's a lot less dumbassery than on your typical dmb album, and the melodies are for the most part really gorgeous. walker's rearrangements are both really radical and yet true to the original songs. it's very very very jazzy
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
i've never heard the DMB album he is covering (i hate the DMB, they are so bad and hated), but Ryley's version is pretty OK. a weird thing to do for sure, but oh well!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link