Slow day in the Hall. I know Senor Moderator is on the road.
Sally- I dig this song a lot and just recently purchased the whole album (All Around) and like it mucho, so much that I immediately got their newer one, The World and Everything In It. I was totally bummed that the lead singer apparently took some time off to take Morrisey lessons. What happened?
Yeah – I don’t know, that’s a tough one, right? It’s almost as if they took away all the harder edges on The World that everything benefited from on All Around. Whenever I listen to it, it almost sounds kinda like he’s singing into something too until it gets halfway through the album to White Ride… he’s so soft on The World album, less rock, I think. But it’s still a good album, just different, and not as punchy as the first –
Whenever I hear “Mountain” I think of Dick Dale with that beginning – maybe I’m wrong and it’s not Dick Dale? It drives me bananas. Dick Dale will be in Philly soon, I’m going to try to go to that one. I just ran into a YouTube clip of Junior Brown through some Dick Dale clips too. What is it about Brown that always leaves me speechless? I watched him play on TV in a black suit on Austin City Limits a bunch of years ago and I gotta say I really dig the guy.
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Big Steve, I’ve been listening to some Plastikman tracks and such recently, and enjoyed your comments about Sally’s mix. The idea of neutral listening space and so on. I think one of us on here brought up Reich in relation to that, but I was just reading an article on the recent sale of a Rothko for $74M, a new record for 20th century art. And in the discussion of Rothko’s painting becoming the kind of object he was trying not to paint and so on, it reminded me of Feldman. Have you ever listened to “For Philip Guston”? It’s almost five hours long, and almost never “breaks the plane.” Feldman makes beautiful enough music that I feel justified in bothering to digest his semi-cockeyed theories on memory and musical scale.
I should check out the Plastikman stuff, since I’ve liked Richie Hawtin’s recent CDs (the two DE9 records). I’ve never heard much Feldman, but I did once have Lamonte Young’s Well Tuned Piano, which is about 4 hours long. I should check out that Feldman piece.
The last time I was in DC the National Gallery had an incredible Rothko exhibit. It was the most amazing thing, even though I had endure a constant stream of comments like ‘what the hell is this?’ from people walking through.
I am from Windsor, where Hawtin grew up although I’ve never met him. He did own a club there for a while that was really cool called 13 Below (which I went to with friends quite a bit before the whole block got demolished), and his studio is located right next to the VIA rail (train station) to this day I’m pretty sure – it’s Hiram Walker and Hawtin’s studio on that portion of the street and that’s it. My friend K would play that Kriket track all the time. Two old friends from home (both named Chris) do work through this electronic collective, and have performed for Mutek and also DEMF: http://www.thinkbox.ca/ maybe you’d dig their downloads section BigSteve
I was definitely a fan when it originally aired, and watched it with enjoyment, but I don’t have any desire to revisit the show now though. Kolchak in that straw hat and white suit seemed more like a 1940s reporter. Even with killing all those monsters, he’s just not a character embodying a suitable level of Mandom to lead me to want to reexamine.
Great choice Gerry! Love this song 🙂
Love this. Thanks! They’ve been on my list to check out further (I have a few MP3s of theirs around…)
Slow day in the Hall. I know Senor Moderator is on the road.
Sally- I dig this song a lot and just recently purchased the whole album (All Around) and like it mucho, so much that I immediately got their newer one, The World and Everything In It. I was totally bummed that the lead singer apparently took some time off to take Morrisey lessons. What happened?
Yeah – I don’t know, that’s a tough one, right? It’s almost as if they took away all the harder edges on The World that everything benefited from on All Around. Whenever I listen to it, it almost sounds kinda like he’s singing into something too until it gets halfway through the album to White Ride… he’s so soft on The World album, less rock, I think. But it’s still a good album, just different, and not as punchy as the first –
Whenever I hear “Mountain” I think of Dick Dale with that beginning – maybe I’m wrong and it’s not Dick Dale? It drives me bananas. Dick Dale will be in Philly soon, I’m going to try to go to that one. I just ran into a YouTube clip of Junior Brown through some Dick Dale clips too. What is it about Brown that always leaves me speechless? I watched him play on TV in a black suit on Austin City Limits a bunch of years ago and I gotta say I really dig the guy.
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woops – don’t think that link worked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFtSjCROBY
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Big Steve, I’ve been listening to some Plastikman tracks and such recently, and enjoyed your comments about Sally’s mix. The idea of neutral listening space and so on. I think one of us on here brought up Reich in relation to that, but I was just reading an article on the recent sale of a Rothko for $74M, a new record for 20th century art. And in the discussion of Rothko’s painting becoming the kind of object he was trying not to paint and so on, it reminded me of Feldman. Have you ever listened to “For Philip Guston”? It’s almost five hours long, and almost never “breaks the plane.” Feldman makes beautiful enough music that I feel justified in bothering to digest his semi-cockeyed theories on memory and musical scale.
I should check out the Plastikman stuff, since I’ve liked Richie Hawtin’s recent CDs (the two DE9 records). I’ve never heard much Feldman, but I did once have Lamonte Young’s Well Tuned Piano, which is about 4 hours long. I should check out that Feldman piece.
The last time I was in DC the National Gallery had an incredible Rothko exhibit. It was the most amazing thing, even though I had endure a constant stream of comments like ‘what the hell is this?’ from people walking through.
I am from Windsor, where Hawtin grew up although I’ve never met him. He did own a club there for a while that was really cool called 13 Below (which I went to with friends quite a bit before the whole block got demolished), and his studio is located right next to the VIA rail (train station) to this day I’m pretty sure – it’s Hiram Walker and Hawtin’s studio on that portion of the street and that’s it. My friend K would play that Kriket track all the time. Two old friends from home (both named Chris) do work through this electronic collective, and have performed for Mutek and also DEMF: http://www.thinkbox.ca/ maybe you’d dig their downloads section BigSteve
I have a lot of exposure to electronic music, just got into other genres instead…
QUESTION FOR TOWNSMAN CHICKENFRANK:
Is this show as good as I remember it?
http://epguides.com/KolchakTheNightStalker/
The Night Stalker,
I was definitely a fan when it originally aired, and watched it with enjoyment, but I don’t have any desire to revisit the show now though. Kolchak in that straw hat and white suit seemed more like a 1940s reporter. Even with killing all those monsters, he’s just not a character embodying a suitable level of Mandom to lead me to want to reexamine.
Chickenfrank,
The world calls for a return of your Pass the Scepter pieces. Will you heed the call? Pretty please?
For fans of America’s game, Townsman KingEd interviewed one of the Phillies’ partners, Bill Giles, for Phawker:
http://www.phawker.com/?p=3798