Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job - Christ Almighty this show is funny.

Yeah that's really nice.

But I generally have a hard time responding to Tim's music.

Didn't know he had a new album out. That's a great track. Is that Weyes Blood on vocals (from a quick google)? He definitely writes some great songs. I absolutely adore 'When I Get Up' from the previous album.

"Fear of Death is a Serious Album about Serious Topics..."

On the basis of that one track, I'll take this statement at face value (perhaps not wise) and I'm keen to hear more.

I think most of his music is pretty serious. the Heidecker & Wood stuff seemed to lean into its AOR campiness sometimes but I think his three solo albums are all pretty genuine. and based off one listen on Bandcamp I think this is clearly the best of the three

certainly he's not the first comedian to have a go at "serious" music but he might be the first one whose brand of comedy is particularly dry, where you kind of have to look for the jokes, which I think has led a lot of people to listen to his music for the wrong reasons.

'What The Broken-Hearted Do' is the album I know, so commenting in terms of that, I take it as both serious/genuine and playful at the same time. I think there is definitely some of that dry humour you mention at work and a deliberate ambiguity to it, which I enjoy. Mainly when I listen to it though I just enjoy it at pretty much face value - I like the tunes etc.

yeah agreed with that

listened to it a few more times, definitely made the leap from "pretty good for a comedian" to "actually good" on this one

dare I say it is as good as the Yellow River Boys album

Even going way back to the music on Awesome Show - Great Job, Tim's music has always been decent to great. He can make a throwaway song like Decker's "Our Values Are Under Attack" an earworm for the ages.

you wave a flag on christmas day, they'll throw you in jail!

ah na na na na na naaaa

Decker's gonna get laid mon

listened to some of these songs and can't help wondering if ppl would be digging it if it weren't Tim

Really the vocals are so up front in the mix, which can be cool I guess with a good singer...but...I don't get it. His phrasing and emphases seem just kind of sloppy and rote. I appreciate some of the flourishes and other aspects of the production but I'm just not sure where the hooks are here that it's meriting so much high praise?

Anyway also not big into Warren Zevon or Randy Newman, and those seem to be his touchstones, so probably just me

he kinda went all out on this new video, even got himself a snazzy vintage non-Padres San Diego ballcap

song is completely forgettable imo but video is fun to look at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6tpI1_ASE

Yeah that song, I don't mind earnest Tim, but as <trenchant> lyrics go...oof

This guy has given me countless hours of joy over the years so I feel weird slagging him off, and he should do whatever he feels like doing...I just hope he doesn't become convinced that *this* is where his talent lies at the expense of so much genius elsewhere

Still haven't heard a note from the album that betters "Brick By Brick"

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say this guy is a big fan of Harry Nilsson

Nilsson is his favoritev artist after the Beatles I think

lyrics are very DO YOU SEE? like, can someone really even ever *own* land, maaaan?

I'm glad he's having fun but frankly I have more fun when his songs are about drinking your own piss

His lyrics are so unwaveringly matter of fact that when he started making non-comedy music I think almost everyone was looking for his trademark drydecker parody underneath it somewhere. And part of it is the production as Hadrian said. The upfront vocals somewhat resemble how his comedy songs are mixed in Awesome show etc. So combined with the commonplace lyrics there's nothing transcendent. Just straightforward song arrangements and subject matter with a plain-speaking approach.

yeah I remember watching the video for "Work From Home" on youtube and it seemed like all the comments at that time were from adult swim fans who didnt quite get it, like "lololol this is hilarious, tim is the master of fucked up surreal satire, this is perfect!"

Yes, everyone wanted to feel like they were in on it with him; as fans they totally "get it".

as a fan I'm ready to be disappointed by Moonbase 8 next month. between that, Space Force, and that new netflix doc series about the Challenger explosion, I feel like America is poised to be burnt out on astronaut comedy

Didn't expect the Challenger doc to be hilarious, but I haven't watched it yet.

lol

I'm jusice for Moonbase 8!

juiced!

xxp oh it's not! but for those willing to seek it out there are savory comedy undertones to the early-eighties fashion choices and NASA contractor office technology

I'm confident it will be funnier than Space Force.

hopefully space force was funnier than the challenger doc though

first episode is on YouTube. it's pretty good though it clearly seems like one of those pilot episodes that gives you no real clue what the show is gonna be like. reminded me a bit of Bedtime Stories actually

i watched the first four episodes of Moonbase and I think it's terrible.

first two and same tbh

only saw the first and it seemed they were all playing it a bit too straight

it's more of a slow-burn low-key character-driven thing like Baskets, but the characters just aren't there. Tim's xian father-of-12 guy was decent, and I think the only time I laughed was when he had his face stomped on by the interim 4th crew member after he tried to consummate their unspoken relationship after praying on it, but John was just John and Fred kinda bugs. I finished it last night and was mostly bored, but ymmv depending on how much you like dehydrated food jokes. It was nice to see Alia Shawkat get some work.

btw not sure if this or the On Cinema thread is the designated thread for Office Hours talk, but replacing Doug "smoke drugs first thing in the morning" Pound with Megan Koester was a solid move for that enterprise

Huh? Isn't Doug on Office Hours right now?

oh I dunno! he was semi-replaced with Megan the other week. I don't ever watch it live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19yFfoDhYw

Tim playing harmonica on the first song during this "band got big but still plays a show at a local bar at the end of their tour - there's hardly room for the musicians after they've put all their pedals down" type thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKn0jR6ekc

His Joe Rogan parody was a mere 12 hours long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Iyg9fznvM

Larry texted me this and said “Hearing tim pitch ‘now tayne I can get into’ is like watching Paul McCartney riff get back into existence” https://t.co/YwFfAQsTfv

— marge (@mags_mclaugh) May 2, 2022

for some reason a few BTS clips of this sketch have been making the rounds and they're all amazing

That one sketch needs its own limited run prestige tv series about its making. Timotheee Cahalamet as Paul Rudd.

Crossover show with Matt & Will from Chapo on Office Hours Live today, and damn has Tim dropped a lot of weight in the last few years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBRM2WouW78