hahaha
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/X90Lq0f.jpg
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
lmao
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:36 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
thanks I channeled the koz and it poured right out
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:31 (four 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 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zfspxX38Y
― djh, Friday, 24 April 2020 08:38 (four 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
hank jr is a better lyricist
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
this song is 13.5 minutes long
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
have you all already forgotten his michael jackson song
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
The song is a mess. The album is a mess.
I still like a lot of and Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon material so I tried, albeit briefly, to understand his point about Black Lives Matter but it’s ultimately (and unsurprisingly) pointless. If you can somehow get past the “I’m not racist because I have a Vietnamese girlfriend and a fetish for black chicks,” its basically Black Lives Matter is hypocritical because they don’t care about black crime. That’s so obviously wrong and so explicitly racist that it nullifies the few (possibly) resonate points like caring more about Portland protests than protests anywhere else and good lyrical moments like the verses about kids having graveyard sex.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
I also love the moment where he says he was brought up right despite writing songs for decades that clearly demonstrate he wasn’t brought up right.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
Remember the beautiful poetry circa 2010 and earlier? He was an incredibly tasteful artist then on all fronts. He’s gone off the deep end. You know he is convinced he is pushing boundaries with this approach.
― Evan, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
he's just reciting run of the mill daily newspaper online article commenter bullshit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
"I thought he was in his sixties, fifties at least!" He is in his 50's, so not sure which picture you saw.
― akm, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
also good timing for me as I listened to Admiral Fells and April last night then listened to Among the Leaves (which I still kind of like) and its pretty clear something shifted in his interest in writing songs right there, because everything after that is an explosion of all the shit that didn't work on that album taken to the nth level. Really, let's pretend he died after Admiral Fells Promises and left a really good catalog behind.
― akm, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
I basically agree with that other than the pleasant blip that was Perils From the Sea. but he's entered Moz territory where I have a hard time listening even to the old good stuff now.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Benji was the last album of his I've heard and it's been a long time. I know that was the one where he went all in with this boringly diaristic approach to songwriting, but I don't remember him being completely off his rocker quite yet. Increasingly glad that was where I gave up on him though.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 March 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
his weirdness about fetishizing asian women is like... totally a part of his pre-among the leaves catalog y'all. this is just saying the quiet part loud
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
he is also a rapist
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
sorry to enter the convo like this but this dude ruined a lot of my favorite music of all time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Brad makes the point clearly. I will still, always, have a space in my heart for "Michael" from the very first release. It's a beautiful song about a lost friendship with (ironically?) a total fuckup, but done in a way that allows for empathy even despite it all, and it's so gorgeously sung and performed. It's the one song I'll keep from everything he's done, and I have to think about it as the work of a young man before any hint of even subcultural fame thanks to 4AD picking up that demo. Like a 'what if' that hangs in space.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 March 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
Not going to deny any of the above but "Duk Koo Kim" has been swirling around my head for the past few days after I got some really terrible news about a friend of mine. It's just shitty that the same guy who wrote those lyrics lost the thread so abusively/idiotically/defensively etc
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 8 March 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link