I HATED Wolf Eyes live, but have come to love Aaron’s solo recordings since he left the group, as well as his collaborations… the records with Turman are especially nice, “Blizzard” is all time for me, just really menacing and beautiful at once. On my phone and cant be bothered to change it to an embed, but that can be found on Bandcamp and also here
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
oh boy do we remember poster r0ger 4adultery? he was the ww + vv guy, yes?i remember liking uhh espers and tower recordings a fair amount.there were all of the wolf eyes and related noise things and of course wolf eyes is still at it. would much rather watch a doc about some of these people than the dumb lcd / strokes thing that just came out.xp didn't know about sunburned, that's cool. and god pelt were great. i never heard of tan as fuck i'll have to check that out.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link
Maybe I should start a thread as a nostalgia repository for all this stuff— it really did change my life, in many ways for the better. I became a much better listener
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
oh definitely, all of that stuff really sharpened my listening too and offered a whole new world of possibilities. there was a period of about 4 years where i was on that board i hate music, before i got to ilm. a lot of that stuff plus the eai erstwhile related stuff were responsible for helping me hear a lot more and more sensitively.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 20 January 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
liking the revive, there is a hilarious noize board post somewhere that's an "interview" with some guy trying to guess the music playing and running through all of these names plus more
― sleeve, Friday, 20 January 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link
"Mouthus?"
-no
"Double Leopards?"
etc
I’d add Growing to this list. I saw they’re playing still
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 20 January 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link
Which NNCK album would you recommend for someone unfamiliar with their work? Saw them live a couple of times in the 2000s and was very impressed.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 20 January 2023 07:08 (one year ago) link
Anagram: most accessible would be “Sticks and Stones….”, I’m a fan of “Rye Antenna” and “Letters from the Serth”
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 12:02 (one year ago) link
Here’s the live set from when I booked them as an undergrad. https://archive.org/details/NNCK-live-11-5-05-fairchild-chapel_202101
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
I can't say I've heard enough of the discography to be certain, but I'll say that 2005's Qvaris was my way in.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
i like Qvaris but feel it a little leas dynamic than I want. Sticks and Stones has high energy freakouts and low-level, nearly inaudible moments of weird mesmerizing string work. It was also, admittedly, my way into their sound, so I probably have listened to it more than most other records, excepting a few live sets that are just wild
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
Still have the original sleeve with Christopher Wool print for “Quantarenius, Cook & Co”, another favorite and perhaps their most explicitly “political” recording
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
This old thread Whiney made has at least some overlap: Best Underground American Noise Act of the Noise-Punk Era (ca. 1998-2005)
― intheblanks, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link
Was doing college radio during the peak of this era. And though I rarely revist these groups now, I can honestly say--at the risk of sounding as grandiose or "pretentious" as the NNCK guys--this whole scene really did kind of change what I saw as "possible" in lots of different facets of life, not just music or art.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
I caught the tail end of a lot of this stuff and never really got into the No-Necks. I'm going to have to revisit for sure.
In the UK, it feels like a lot of this stuff was centred around the Wire and David K33nan in particular - his record shop and mailing list. Also tend to think of this as 'ATP-core', which is ugly but true in terms of how we encountered lots of the bands.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 21 January 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
This thread made me dig out *Drowner Yellow Swans*. Bury me inside this shit.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 22 January 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
Yeah D Yellow Swans among the best of these groups, the most consistently good
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 January 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski)
thank you so much for this, never checked 'em out before cuz I never knew where to start, this is like Zoviet France through a distortion pedal, so good and exactly what I needed right this minute
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
I made a recording of a nasty good live set they did in 05, will upload soon. 05-06 was the year I was kind of the head of my college concert board— we brought Yellow Swans, No-Neck, Old Time Relijun, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Excepter, Wooden Wand, and Gang Gang Dance. Circle and Lichens also performed. It was a real golden age for me and this type of music.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 23 January 2023 01:10 (one year ago) link
Oh, and also BATTLES, who were excellent live
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 23 January 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
Not really listened to many of these bands recently but it really was fun being 16 or so and spending all day on the internet when this stuff was in it's peak.
― bain4z, Monday, 23 January 2023 09:38 (one year ago) link