Okay but slightly unnecessary:
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
ghosts of the great highway and april are necessary imo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
And Admiral Fell Promises
― Evan, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
and Perils!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
"Perils" is incredible.
― djh, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
In my top 20 albums of all time.
― djh, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
Playing Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2 on YouTube and ... it doesn't seem awful or fill me with dread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DQcggz408Y
― djh, Sunday, 16 February 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
Bought it and really enjoying.
― djh, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
"Duk Koo Kim" has been coming to mind a lot these days.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
nowadays it's "Bubble"
― rusted (crüt), Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
5 disc "Lock Down Recordings" coming up. Probably.
― djh, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
"The Repercussions of the Unreadable Expiration Date on The Introspective Lyrical Diarist" will be explosive.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
"The Fifteenth Lap of the First Floor, Monday, 7:36 a.m.", each lap described in detail, with tangents to his youth.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
I reached into the fridge saw the milk check the date I can't believe this milk expires in just one dayPlace an order on instacart they said it's been delayed MY uncle died alone from old milk they say he prayed and prayed"Oh Mark tell my story about my milk that was old I drank at Panera...Oh how I got sick and my dying wish is for you to sing to make the people care a little more about checking the date and to wash crab cakes down with water instead Mark tell them please be safe for their sakecheck the date cause there's other demons out there besides coronalike stupid critics and haters playing beer commercial lead guitar shit through sonos"I thought about his dying words petting my cat while people clap their handsoutside for health care workers working long shifts or it might just be my idiot fans
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
*round of applause*
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
working title: "i showed my balls on the zoom call"
― blame it on the modelo (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
hahaha
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/X90Lq0f.jpg
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
lmao
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
I thought about his dying words petting my cat while people clap their handsoutside for health care workers working long shifts or it might just be my idiot fans
this is way too good a line to be on a contemporary Koz album
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Bravo Evan
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
yeah, i could hear it in kozelek's voice as i was reading, lol
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
thanks I channeled the koz and it poured right out
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
ilx should have pre-covered this, with accurate track times
Mark Kozelek: "All The Best, Isaac Hayes"(A Spoken Word Album)April 24, 20201. San Francisco (07:47)2. Vancouver (05:37)3. Calgary (09:43)4. Ottawa (10:07)5. Winnipeg (15:35)6. Buffalo Valley Rest Area Smith County Welcome Center (10:45)7. Highway 81 (08:53)8. Los Angeles (21:50)9. November (04:58)Total length: 1:35:15
April 24, 2020
1. San Francisco (07:47)2. Vancouver (05:37)3. Calgary (09:43)4. Ottawa (10:07)5. Winnipeg (15:35)6. Buffalo Valley Rest Area Smith County Welcome Center (10:45)7. Highway 81 (08:53)8. Los Angeles (21:50)9. November (04:58)
Total length: 1:35:15
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zfspxX38Y
― djh, Friday, 24 April 2020 08:38 (three years ago) link
May have said this before but have a plan to compile myself a post-Perils Kozelek/Sun Kil Moon best of/CD-R. Its a bit of an odd one because I can find the same tracks a bit tedious and utterly moving dependent on mood/alcohol use. Won't include him reading fan letters.
― djh, Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
I think I really like the new one (although I’m only halfway through - it’s sooo long). Not the best music he has made by far, but the stories are better and the tone is a bit different from he’s schtick for the last five-six years. He might be in a better place.
― Mule, Saturday, 16 May 2020 07:04 (three years ago) link
Too long and needs a better title but something like this:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fwAhfBSBvpanTpLXuOq1a
― djh, Sunday, 17 May 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
His John Denver cover is probably the best thing he's done.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 17 May 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
i always end up coming back to april, though ghosts and perils are strong runners up. i still haven't untangled admiral fell promises after all this time but i'm getting there
― ciderpress, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
(The playlist is a Post-Perils one ... It's less of a compilation and more of an argument that he's still doing something interesting though listening to his albums involves the skip button these days).
― djh, Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
oh yeah that was a response to the thread title, not your posts
i haven't really dug into the post-benji stuff but "i watched the film the song remains the same" is the main example of the bathos of his newer style working for me rather than whiffing and i'm guessing there's probably a few others like that
― ciderpress, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
That Desertshore album feels transitional, halfway between carefully constructed songs and stream-of-consciousness. I've been listening to it recently, and really enjoy 'Mariette', 'Livingstone Bramble', and 'Tavoris Cloud' as well as 'Brothers'. I haven't heard anything past Benji - feel like I have enough Kozelek albums in my life, and it's pretty universally agreed that returns are way down. Kudos for having the patience to check them all out.
― aphoristical, Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
"Hey You Bastard I'm Still Here" from that Desertshore album was the first thing I've heard from him, after ten years of casual listening, to cause me to look up what he actually looks like. He does not look like what I imagined Mark Kozelek looks like. No, I cannot describe right now what I imagined Mark Kozelek looking like. The real Mark Kozelek looks like he works at Panera Bread.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
Like a pixar character where mere words take life
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
I thought he was in his sixties, fifties at least! Old! Maybe had that retired gameshow host, houseboat resident lifestyle "alcoholic topography" sunk into his face (to use a David Berman phrase), an older withered slendered greyed and weakened academic poet retiree, the type of white man who haunts Western Massachusetts with a sweater-rich cowbwebby wardrobe, much more decrepit and sad to the eye than the actual dude himself who looks like his joie-de-vivre is recording emo bands from the affluent northern Chicagoland suburbs when he's not working at that Evanston Panera right before 9/11.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
My man has always looked kind of assy
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 19 July 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
Had a friend of a friend who had dealings with red house painters and he said they were the worst people in a band he ever encountered so I guess you get the face you deserve
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 19 July 2020 06:02 (three years ago) link
painting houses is thankless work and never did nothing for anyone's countenance
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/mark-kozelek-of-sun-kil-moon-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-three-women/
not much of a shocker
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
Fuck this abusive asshole
― Indexed, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
He has a denial up on the SKM website which also indicates he's hired a particularly litigious and awful lawfirm in LA called Lavely and Singer so I imagine this might get ugly (uglier)
― akm, Monday, 17 August 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
tbf that's completely on brand for him.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Fucking fuck, this guy
checking in on mark kozelek pic.twitter.com/V36fNDthmw— dylan (@spiritnght2) March 7, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 March 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
wow uh that's something even for him
― ufo, Monday, 8 March 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
Are those real lyrics?? Jesus.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Monday, 8 March 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
you gotta be kidding me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 March 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/resources/img/blogs/pinocchio.pngGets one Pinnochio because Portland has 77,000+ Black people (2.2%), and evidence that Vietnamese people "taste sweeter" than white people is not backed up by any scientific data.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 8 March 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
Squint a little and those are Hank Williams Jr. lyrics
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 March 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
Reading the lyrics didn't prepare me for hearing his 'rap' delivery of them
― erasingclouds, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link