wtf happened with this guy― Οὖτις, Monday, July 22, 2019 9:24 AM (four hours ago)
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 22, 2019 9:24 AM (four hours ago)
idk exactly what's so befuddling, but i fully trust Stu's taste, vision, etc. looking forward to this.
will be interesting to see if he sits down for interviews with the big outlets. he swore them off forever at one point, iirc?
― alpine static, Monday, 22 July 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
Ha ha, I think this is all awesome news. I went back to his most recent album not long ago and, while I could do without the Nirvana cover, the rest is this awesome country-psych-soul trip that I really dig. So can't wait to hear what he does next.
xpost Why did he swear off interviews?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 July 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
what's befuddling is he used to have good ideas, and now it seems like all he has are bad ideas
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
i fully trust Stu's taste, vision, etc.
Really? Even with a Netflix anime movie based on a "sleazy" rock album?
Trust is cool, but I just hope his taste and vision etcetera doesn't lead some of the more impressionable Stu-heads down a path towards full-on fedoras 'n swords.
― del griffith, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
impressionable Stu-heads down a path towards full-on fedoras 'n swords.
That seems an.... interesting leap. From what I've read, he recorded the album first and came up with the anime idea later, so I'm willing to give it a listen in good faith before assuming its a miss.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 July 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
it's a pretty plausible leap when you're leaping from Joe Rogan and DMT
― del griffith, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
I honestly can't see or hear Joe Rogan's name without it immediately being followed in my head by "I smoke rocks"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
Didn't he also contribute the titular song for that Jarmusch zombie flick?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 08:25 (four years ago) link
new single is...interesting
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
did dan auerbach somehow get his grubby hands on our precious sturge?
the anime thing seems really stupid but I kinda like the song
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
i need to listen again to see if i can get past the black keys-iness of it all
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
halfway thru and this album sounds kind of like one of those kfc menu items that's designed to be so gimmicky that it generates its own free social media buzz
― j., Saturday, 28 September 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
Dude's spent alot of time with Eliminator/Afterburner/Recycler.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 September 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
Both of those things sound great!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 September 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
I mean, that album cover!https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Sturgill_Simpson_-_Sound_%26_Fury.png
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 September 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
he tries really hard
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 September 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
XP Yup. Covers Connected!
https://img.discogs.com/RpG-NjC5Y5tRPHuDcqmIE-3SM-M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2848159-1413760716-9772.jpeg.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 September 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Sturg could do a great cover of "Thug".
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
heard a song off this oof really bad like Black Keys pretending to be ZZ Top sounded awful like all those Black Keys records do
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 September 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
I haven't listened yet but I'm worried, since I heard the tail end of Sound Opinions yesterday, and both Jim *and* Greg were raving about it, and iirc Jim called it, and I paraphrase, the most radical country record since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which made me barf a little.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
Guardian and Observer both reviewed the lp this weekend.Don't remember noticing him before. Just listened to the first track of the lp described as psychedelic in friday's review and I think it's pretty awesome. Guitar is great anyway and vocals do seem to go back to traditional or at least outlaw country which si pretty great.Must look into him further.
Guardian on Fridayhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/26/sturgill-simpson-sound-fury-review-countrys-outlaw-catches-fire
Observerhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/29/sturgill-simpson-sound-and-fury-review-netflix-manga-film
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 September 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
It's the kind of record that will get great reviews and then be totally forgotten
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 September 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
I expect anyone who calls this a country record still thinks Taylor Swift is a country artist.
He's not playing in those fertile fields anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VO5RLEP.jpg
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
my review of this album after listening to about 15 seconds: sounds like kings of leon and the mixing is shit
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
ice cold
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
I totally thought Kings of Leon too.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Finally listening, sounds okay to me, if maybe a little too 1990s. Would have been cool if he went totally radical and paid RZA to produce or something. Does sound like the sort of album to be totally missed or forgotten and rediscovered years later.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'm digging this, it's fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
― Heez, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Also I appreciate that he wants to lay down a groove or whatever but it feels like I’m being really n over by a train.
― Heez, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Does sound like a Fridmann production, even if it's not.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
I can’t believe I had this much nostalgia for Don Felder’s theme for Heavy Metal, or that movie.
― bendy, Monday, 30 September 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 September 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
What is this it’s so bad. Still think the best thing he ever did was his npr tiny desk concert
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 30 September 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
Oh man first impression this is bad but I feel the lure of the embarrassment creeping in... I'm soulseeking it.
― cpl593H, Monday, 30 September 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
This disco song "A Good Look", jeez...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
This is bad.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
watched the film today.was weird how the end credits kick in, and then after them the so called story is finished, and yet there are visual references to how it ends within earlier sections.basically, the timeline of the film is an absolute mess.
oh, and i thought i would be all over the music given the AP review, but nah, i've got zz top albums, i'm good.
― mark e, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
That album cover looks very stoner rock.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
It looks steinmanish, a gargoyle and a girl in ragged clothes wouldn't have looked out of place.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
I have a feeling that in 20 years there will be people claiming this album was good.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Well, actually, there's people saying it right now (personally I'm still on the fence)
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
No need to wait, I've seen multiple people claiming its good right now! Haven't heard it myself yet, waiting for my copy to show up. Can't say I'm thrilled with what I've read about it so far but waiting to judge for myself. (xpost)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
Haven't heard it yet, but is this album as bad as The Dead Don't Die? That was the biggest try hard failure of the year on film
― octobeard, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Would make sense because he wrote the titular song that is referenced in the film way too many times.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I could see him releasing some de-lectrified of this in six months, just stripped-down versions of the same songs.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
i don't think it's terrible, but it's clearly meant to be experienced live. maybe the songs wil lbe able to breathe if freed from the auerbach-aping production
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
He's recorded 2 albums of bluegrass versions of his tunes, releasing them this fall. Here he's playing them live forn the first time, i get extremely happy seeing this! Excited about those albums.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO73im4J2sU&t=2390s
― rizzx, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link