The Necks Poll

"Raab is a long time favourite of mine"

rong thread?

yuck!

Townsville is WAY underrated.

Agreed!

my friends I am watching The Necks right now

seriously considering springing for the $80 digital Bandcamp set of 8 albums, that seems like the best way to dive in here

https://necks.bandcamp.com/album/necks-box-8-album-collection

For $90 you can buy the ten-album discography of the band's own Bandcamp, which I would say includes more crucial releases. There's no overlap between the two sets so the whole shebang is $170. https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/
If it were me I would spend, say, $50 acquiring a bunch of the key works - e.g. Sex, Aether, Silent Night, Aquatic, maybe Athenaeum/Homebush/Quay/Raab (a lot of music for $18), Piano Bass Drums. Except the individual albums in the box don't seem to be available separately, aargh!

this band one of the best arguments out there for Continuing With CDs, imo

they were spellbinding last night by the way - dusk on a lawn outside a gallery, a summer evening but cool and grey because it’s Tasmania, the group throwing shimmering, churning static drones over a bunch of people on distanced rugs, 1/4 in rapt attention, the rest eating, nattering, wandering. I’d normally be irritated but the music was so environmental it didn’t detract from the feel, a bit like that Spacemen 3 live piece in the arts centre.

sounds so good - i have only seen the necks outdoors once (also at dusk, in the quadrangle at Sydney Uni) and it was superb - there’s something about the music interacts with the surroundings for sure

*how the music

ReR Megacorp still has their ongoing "£5 a CD" sale (need to order a minimum of 4, free shipping), which includes 6 of the 8 CDs in the Necks boxed set (the exceptions being "Chemist" and "Aether" - which happen to be two of my favorites from them) plus three more: "Vertigo", "Body" and "Three".
https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=SPECIALOFFERS
So if you get them all, that's 9 Necks CDs for $60 (USD) - free shipping, no sales tax.

Also - don't sleep on the (Necks drummer) Tony Buck album "Unearth" - it has the trademark Necks slow-build but it snowballs into something really intense, dark, thick and complicated. Check it out here: https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/unearth

Great tip enstp thank you

I just caught them at the recital centre in Melbourne and they were great. But Hobart sounded truly magical.

I just searched the ReR site for "Necks": https://www.rermegacorp.com/
...and noticed they actually also sell the physical boxed set there for 60 pounds (8 CDs, although the product listing incorrectly says 7 CDs). And they sell "Chemist" and "Aether" individually (and "Sex", "Mosquito/See Through" double set, "Aquatic" and "Open") but those aren't on sale. 60 pounds = $80 (USD).

Damnit now the Brisbane set I went to seems positively boring! not really though, great set, don't know if they played the same material in melbs/hobart but the 10-15ish minute mark of the second set took my breath away. playing with those two simply chords on the piano but so beautiful my god.

Cor, that £20 for 4 CDs is a steal - thanks for the heads-up, ernestp.

The Necks are my most comically tragic "miss every time" band. I think I was supposed to see them 3 or 4 different times over the years, twice with actual tickets in hand, but something came up every time (most recently, the thing that "came up" was the pandemic!)

I took the deep dive and got the 8CD set, loving it

(well, a digital version, but still)

Townsville is WAY underrated.

Agreed!

― toby, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:48 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Heard this one for the first time a few days ago and I'm obsessed. It has the mystical sunny ambient vibe of Aether with the sonic purity of the piano/bass/drums live setup. Of course the one I sleep on turns out to be one of their best

open is fucking incredible yoga music lmao. it almost has this really distilled essence of, like, rock music to it in parts, a neu! vibe.

kind of weird but cool seeing transit in rock mag eoy lists this year.