jaymc is in a band!

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And I can prove it! (I carry my digital camera everywhere now -- it's part of my ongoing effort to be a one-man hipster bingo.)

http://giganticmag.com/images/john1.jpg

http://giganticmag.com/images/john2.jpg

http://giganticmag.com/images/violin.jpg

http://giganticmag.com/images/singer.jpg

And right outside the venue, the creepiest sign in the city.

http://giganticmag.com/images/unclefun.jpg

BTW: the band's website is here.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick and I were at the show tonight too. Jaymc dances! And claps his hands! I even saw him singing backup but he didn't get a mic. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Sunday, 11 January 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

He should pull an Eno and go solo. THAT'LL SHOW THEM.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

dude! that's Uncle Fun! the greatest place ever!

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I'm terrified of it. Just look at that sign! Uncle Fun wants to touch me in my bathing suit area!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There's probably a bit of Uncle Fun in all of us.

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, who does your lead singer think he is? A rock star?

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

haha -- Yes, he does. For between-song banter, he talked about his shirt.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(I have a new super-secret crush on the violinist.)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to the mp3s now.. I'm not crazy about your singer's voice, and it's all a touch too Belle and Sebastian sounding for me, but I like the strings and that fade-out melody on "Just a Star" is really quite beautiful.

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, that is, just in case you wanted to know.

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, cool! The pics look nice, Kenan. And thanks for coming, you three. I'm totally just now coming back home after playing Scrabble at someone's house until the wee hours. I know, pretty wild, huh? The hangover started about an hour ago.

Re: the lead singer -- Despite our sound, which he's a big part of and obviously likes, his favorite band of all time is still Guns N Roses.

may pang -- thanks for the kind words :)

Also, you all know you can buy the CD here, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, on that first photo, you can admire my cheap-ass duct-taped Casio.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

SHOW TONIGHT!

Bottom Lounge
3206 N. Wilton (a block east of Belmont/Sheffield)
10 pm, $10, 18+

It's an AIDS benefit. We're playing with Velvetron (who do nice jazzy post-rocky pop), Millimeters Mercury, and Health & Beauty.

I think NA & Sarah McL are coming, yeah?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I got my Canasta CD in the post yesterday. It's great! Me and the wife are particularly enjoying "Chicago Sold Out" and the Kraut-tastic cover of "The Model".

Plus, there's a rather suave and sexy pic of Jaymc on the inside sleeve. Much recommended!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 April 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks! But dude, it's "Chicago Slow Down"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

haha!

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And it's not the "post," it's the "mail." SPEAK AMERICAN!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

*makes talking motion with hand*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago Sold Out is a good title for a song anyway, you should write it!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thx to Kenan and Phil for coming. Phil, did you stick around or not? I'm totally sorry that we went on so late!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 April 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No you're not, you fucking diva.

Chicago sold out, clearly.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohhh, I had to leave. The MC was terribly unfunny and the 2nd band was so pretentious - then I was getting tired.. Sorry! I like the EP though

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i didnt get a parking ticket though

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that's good. We can get you your $ back, if you like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

don't worry, its okay! anyways, how can i ask for money back from an AIDS benefit show?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, I guess you're right. We all felt bad about all the people that had to stay for like two hours before seeing us, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah you should! those opening bands were TERRIBLE!!! god and the benefit hosts who were doing ironic-white-boy-rapping??? jesus christ that 2nd band made me so mad. The lead singer I think thought he was Johnny Depp, and the other band members looked oh-so-serious. It was like watching a Low concert except even more boring. And I ran out of cigarettes and didn't feel like getting fucked by the vending machine again. But other than that, I had a good time.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

which reminds me, i better get some cartons before i go back to new york

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

so what time did you and velvetron end up going on anyhow?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

We went on at 1 am! And so Velvetron didn't take the stage until 1:40. Fortunately, the club decided to stay open past 2, which because of daylight savings, was really 3, and which I'm sure was plenty illegal.

The good side, though, was that because of the time constraint, I think we played our tightest set yet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

We got some press this week!

We're playing a FREE show at the Empty Bottle on Monday, opening for All City Affairs and Beauty Pill (Dischord).

And so both the Onion and the Chicago Reader previewed it:

"Opener Canasta is a perfect fit: The local group's debut EP Find the Time cycles gently through keyboard-heavy indie-pop, even treading lightly on a cover of Kraftwerk's 'The Model.'" (The Onion)

"These locals get the most out of the unprepossessing songs on Find the Time, their self-released debut EP: they emphasize each melody as though nothing else matters, then use keyboards and violin to make sure no flourish or fill possibility goes unexplored. It makes for a lovely, lilting sound, and numerous local references place this chamber pop in the city we actually live in, not some idealized upper-crust bower." (Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader)

Awesome!

By the way, if anyone's interested in coming, the show is at 9:30 pm, and we're playing first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

So you come to KUCI when you visit your brother, your band plays a blinding set on the air, and you get fame. See, simple!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Dedicate "Chicago Sold Out" to me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, will do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

who all is going to their show on monday? it's free....

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

me.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Christ, I feel so fucking self-indulgent today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

it'll be a long time before you ever have two posts at the top of th board with a name check. i'm just guilty by association.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Just a FYI to my Chicago peeps: We're at the Empty Bottle again tonight. The show starts at 9:30, but we're scheduled to go on at 10:30. We're opening for Sea Ray.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And once again, despite living like 5 minutes away from the Empty Bottle, Sarah and I won't be able to make it, since we're living in a hotel downtown for the next couple of days.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Will you be playing in mid-August?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll be playing a private party on August 9, but otherwise nothing between late July and early September -- sorry, dude!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not good enough for yer private party?!?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never even met the people that are having it! They saw us once and decided to rent us out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

when did that happen? and what kind of people are they?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all been fairly recently. It's a married couple who first heard about us on WXRT, I think. The event is their re-commitment ceremony.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

dude. they're totally going to do it to yer music...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

TOMORROW, WICKER PARK FESTIVAL, 4 PM!

Also, if you look at p. 13 of The Onion, Chicago edition, you will see some friendly faces.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OKGO?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

they are not friendly.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Joke-spoiler.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw that, jaymc, congrats! We'll probably see you at the WP Summerfest thing, since it's like, what, 5 minutes from our house? And we'll have friends in from out of town who I think would like Canasta.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc is F A M O U S !!! :-D and sponsored by B E E R !

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Go grab that fame, Jaymc! Would a life of bling be far behind?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome. Thanks, doodz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Congratulations, John. You should form a B-brook supergroup with Scott $w33n3y.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Would a life of bling be far behind?

Yes, it would. But local celebrity is its own reward, right?

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that Kenan started this thread, so I can use it to self-promote without looking totally obvious about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops: Scott $w33n3y is in a band??

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a radical new direction in the works for Canasta? one has to ask.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! I think it's called something like Seraphine. He looks totally different Hang on a sec.

xpost don't interrupt the b-brook connect

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chicago Sold Out (Justus Koehncke Mix)"?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost don't mess with the best cause the best don't mess

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I wish. But all those Magnetic Fields-loving lame-os in my band will put a stop to that quick (haha).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Nowt like free marketing.....(visions of stalker Googlers going, "Heard of your band on the Net, and decided to swing by, and drool....")

(mega xpost)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want to direct link to his band's site, but it's saraphin3onlin3.com

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Two years ago, if you were to ask someone to name a handful of bands in the Chicago area surely Saraphine would have been left off that list. What a difference two years make. In that time, Saraphine has turned in to a live force; a sold out headline performance at Metro in Chicago (capacity 1100), performed on bills with Michelle Branch, Local H, Goldfinger, Butch Walker (ex Marvelous 3), Graham Colton, Tegan and Sara, Plain White T’s, Lucky Boys Confusion, Jamison Parker, Shiner, and Houston; toured the Midwest; released their self-titled debut EP (which circulated 17,000 copies in a little over a year); and gained a city full of fans."

!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

uh... I've never heard of them.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey john... check your gmail.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fake Fictions got offered an opening slot at the Fireside Bowl, but our drummer will be out of town. :(

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That sucks. You should send a CD to Subterranean; I can probably hook you up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

uh... I've never heard of them.

Me neither. But I'm listening to some sound clips, and I can see how a lot of people would like their special brand of shitty pop-punk and acoustic emo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops, did I say that? Sorry, I'm supposed to "support the scene."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(By the way, J, congrats, it's great to see you guys doing well. There's more to me than OKGO jokes.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, N.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Lots of good news.

Canasta was accepted to play the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC, as part of a Chicago indie-pop showcase!

So this Saturday, Sept. 11, we'll be playing a "CMJ Preview" with two of the other bands on that bill: The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir and Tenki. It's at Subterranean, 9:30 PM, $8.

It should be awesome.

Next Thursday (Sept. 16), we're playing Hoot Night at Schuba's. This used to be a regular event until the organizer moved to Dublin. But periodically he comes back to Chicago to revive it. The idea: A theme is picked. Musicians pick two cover songs to play based on that theme. This time around the theme is "Tom, Dick, and Harry." Come see what we've picked! Also appearing will be members of Frisbee, Poi Dog Pondering, and Lambchop.

And FYI to NYC people: we'll be at Arlene's Grocery on Thursday, October 14. I'll revive this thread before then...

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(jaymc did you get my messages on yr home phone last night?)

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Won't be able to make it to the show on the 11th since my parents will be in town. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. i think i'll make this one after missing canasta and the fake fictions a few too many times.

you will be covering tom tom club and the dickies right?

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and jaymc if you're making a themed mix cd for the Squeezed thing again, you might not want to put "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways on there. No reason.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the Fake Fictions have only played once so far. But we've got a bunch of shows coming up. But I won't hijack jaymc's thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. i think i'll make this one after missing canasta and the fake fictions a few too many times.

Awesome. I hope you do!

you will be covering tom tom club and the dickies right?

We actually discussed Tom Tom Club but nixed it. Other stuff we discussed but nixed: songs by Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, and Richard Melville Hall a/k/a Moby. (In most cases, it was a matter of realizing we couldn't do the songs justice.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(jaymc did you get my messages on yr home phone last night?)

Nick, yeah, I did. Unfortunately, I think we have a bit too much on our plate right now to do another show any time soon. But I'd like to come see you guys, since I'm not sure I'll be able to on 9/22.

Oh and jaymc if you're making a themed mix cd for the Squeezed thing again, you might not want to put "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways on there. No reason.

Too late, dude.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

But I won't hijack jaymc's thread.

Hijack away. I always feel embarrassed and self-indulgent when I revive this, but really, it's just a FYI to my Chicago peeps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG You're doing "What's Up, Pussycat?", aren't you??????

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG that would rule!!

But no.

I will give a hint: "Tom, Dick, and Harry" can be in the titles of the songs, not just the original artists.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

In that case:

The Fake Fictions

Wednesday, September 22 at Beat Kitchen in Chicago
w/ TBA

Sunday, September 26 9PM at Bottom Lounge in Chicago
w/ TBA

Thursday, October 7 at The Mutiny in Chicago
w/ Stay All Day, Lurking Forms, and James Cargill

Saturday, November 20 at The Slipper Club in Madison, WI
w/ The Dials and Charlamagne

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you doing "Tom's Diner"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG YOU ARE COVERING PETER SCHILLING!!!!!!!!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Score Nick and Dan!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you covering the accapella Suzanne Vega version? That would be easy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Peter Schilling is gonna be awesome: I have this wah-wah synthesizer setting all picked out and everything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is Peter Schilling?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Schilling is the shit!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

German one-hit wonder behind the 1983 new-wave song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" -- a retelling of Bowie's "A Space Oddity."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually never knew the name of the song until recently; I always just thought of it as the "earth below us" song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Huh, weird.

Do you think it's kind of crazy for us (the Fake Fictions) to try and play a different cover song at each show we play? We're trying to avoid being identified with a specific cover song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

VH-1 Classic should the video for "Major Tom (COming Home)" this morning, along with "Armaggedon It" and "Listen Like Thieves".

There is no reason to watch any station besides VH-1 Classic.

(xpost Absolutely not! You should work "Let's Go All The Way" and "Waiting For a Star To Fall" into the rotation.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't come the 11th, either, because I have to watch towers fall on TV all day long. But I'll be there on the 16th, fer shure.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

All our covers are pretty obvious so far. We played "When U Were Mine" at our first show and are working on "Cherry Bomb," "Psycho Killer," and "20th Century Boy." I want to get some slightly more obscure covers.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it's crazy.

Canasta hasn't learned THAT many covers (5, of which 3 have been in the last month or so), but that's because

a) It takes us a long time to learn ANY song

b) Some of us (myself included) were sort of opposed to playing covers at first, out of a concern to legitimize the band, not be seen as a "covers band" or whatever. (This was more of a concern when we covered Belle & Sebastian and it got the biggest cheers of our set whenever we played it.) (I'm not worried about this anymore.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

are working on "Cherry Bomb,"

Heh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

No reason, though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the last couple of bands I've been in totally avoided covers, mainly because of this band that my band played shows with in college, who were like bad angsty alterna-rock, but they played a cover of "The Humpty Dance" and when they played their originals no one cared but then they would be like "Now here's the one you've been waiting for" and they'd play the Humpty dance and all the sorority girls would get excited and do dumb dances. It was pretty pathetic. But playing covers is fun. So this is why we're trying to do different covers each time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Canasta covers to date: "Seeing Other People" (Belle & Sebastian), "The Model" (Kraftwerk), "Let's Stay Together" (Al Green), "Tom's Diner" (Suzanne Vega), and "Major Tom (Coming Home)" (Peter Schilling).

I like doing some of the more popular songs as long as they're somewhat unexpected or unconventional in the arrangement. Which they often tend to be with us, anyway, given our lineup.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, can I play tambourine on a cover song in Madison? :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

nick you should learn something from the kinks' muswell hillbillies

why? because.

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan: Yes. Yes, you can. What song do you want to cover?

I've only ever seen Canasta play The Model. And I didn't recognize it until it was almost over. That's a good thing.

am., isn't that the country Kinks album? If so, then no.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the show on the 11th will practically be a fap with so many ilx folk in the audience...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you mean? Amateurist is the only one who's said he's coming!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

my personality is really large

nick no it's not a country album really, it's a kinks album

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Nashville Skyline a country album?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the thread where amateurist tells you if albums are country albums or not.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Wilco, Summerteeth?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This show is to be recorded and shared. Uh, please.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Which, Ned? The covers one?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yus please. (The others as well. ;-))

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll see what I can do :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan: Yes. Yes, you can. What song do you want to cover?

I don't know! You guys have much hipper taste in rock tunes than I do. And if I'm not playing drums I don't have to go to the trouble of, you know, learning the song well, so whatever really. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll definately try and make it to the show on the 16th, that sounds fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I really want to cover "Your Love" by Frankie Knuckles some day, but I don't think this is the band in which to do it. Actually, a Canasta cover of "Your Love" would be really fucking awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

john: i'm going.

i guess i misread nick's as going.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately, I don't know "Your Love" but I'll have to find it now!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

congrats on the cmj spot jaymc!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks s1ocki!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

you crazy kids earned it! (i assume)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Other songs that should be done as covers:

Baltimora - "Tarzan Boy"
Animotion - "Obsession"
The Suburbs - "Love Is The Law"
The Time - "Jungle Love"
Prince - "Alphabet Street"
Madonna - "Physical Attraction"
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "Sex On Wheelz"
The Cure - "The Lovecats"
The Smiths - "Sweet And Tender Hooligan"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-A-Boo"
Sisters Of Mercy - "This Corrosion"
Front 242 - "Headhunter"
Nitzer Ebb - "Control I'm Here"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hall & Oates "I Can't Go For That"

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

We played "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" in rehearsal once, and it wasn't bad, but again, we quickly realized that it would always just sound like an inferior version of the original.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and my band-to-be-once-we-find-a-drummer-who's-not-a-douchebag just learned Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" (with our sax dude doing the bukachuh bukukachoo kah part WITH HIS MOUTH).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, find "Your Love," it's like the best song ever. It might be credited to Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principal.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(Which I guess was originally done by somebody's mouth, so I guess it ain't that big a deal.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc can you cover "he's the greatest dancer" by sister sledge?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

We were trying to cover "Just What I Needed" but it sounded pretty lame with me trying to replicate all the keyboard parts on guitar. The intro sure is fun to play though: dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun DA DA dun dun dun dun dun dun DA DA!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

witness: the slow conversion of canasta into a wedding band

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

setlist:

YMCA
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Woolly Bully
The End of the Innocence
Blue Velvet
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
I Feel Good (I Got You)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

mony mony!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha!

To be fair, we learned that Al Green song for a recommitment ceremony!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

you oughta BE committed!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

what al green song?

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick(alicious), I already said I'd play drums for your band. Spiritually.

I wanted to cover Destiny's Child with a jazz trio, but it never happened. Come to think of it, but Jay and Nick should cover some DC with their respective bands.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Cover "Bugaboo"!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Am: "Let's Stay Together" (at the couple's request)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how this thread has become "Suggest songs for ILXors' bands to cover."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're going to be a wedding band, Brickhouse.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My band is somewhat limited in terms of technical ability and by the fact that we are a three-piece (which we make up for in spirit and volume). So suggestions for us need to take that into consideration.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys should play "Funkytown". Everyone should play "Funkytown".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Madonna - "Die Another Day"
Justin Timberlake - "Senorita"
Kenna - "Vexed and Glorious"
JC Chasez - "ADIDAS"
'NSYNC - "Girlfriend"
Backstreet Boys - "I Want It That Way"
Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"
Modest Mouse - "Float On"
Q-Tip - "Breathe And Stop"
Interactive - "Dildo"
Die Warzau - "Welcome To America"
The Cure - "Gone!"
The Beatles - "She's Leaving Home"
The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"
Starship - "Sara"
Men At Work - "Be Good Johnny"
Oingo Boingo - "Nothing Bad Ever Happens"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Destiny's Child was a three-piece.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Stryper - "Honestly" (?, whatever their power ballad was called)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Colour Me Badd "I Wanna Sex You Up"!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

warm leatherette

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Europe - "Carrie"
Patti Labelle - "New Attitude"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

New Order - "ICB"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

We could never cover "Sara" because kids used to make fun of Sarah by singing that to her and changing the lyrics to "Everytime is the right time for 'goodbye,'" which was apparently very traumatic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

White Town - "Your Woman"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Moby - "Go"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

You could do Ween's "Sarah". It's really pretty.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Toto - "Africa"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

(Clearly I need to start a cover band.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Float On" is hard to do as a trio, as there are both a rhythm and a lead guitar part, both of which are pretty indispensible to the song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes - "Leave It"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to cover "Shimmy Shimmy Co Co Pop" by Little Anthony and the Imperials, but I don't know if we would be able to handle the back-up vocals with the necessary gusto.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Play ALL these, Jaymc. Kaythxbye.

And since I was rude and forgot to say it before, congratulations!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh neat. i live a few blocks away from arlene's grocery. i'll be there. unless something better is going on. which seems unlikely. and this time i wont have to worry about parking tickets and i'll stay until you go on stage. save me a drink ticket, plz.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Just in case you missed this thead the first time around, bumpity-bump. (The Subterranean show is tonight.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 11 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

break a leg!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 11 September 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc:

i'm afraid i've got a really bad cold and am coughing up a fit, so i can't come tonight. :-(

but i hope i can catch you guys another time, soon....

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 11 September 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

How is Jaymc's band?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Website looking HOT as per usual.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get to watch too much T.V. nowadays, but I'll usually make time to watch Chapelle Show. And, I'll go ahead and watch The Making of the Band and Friends. I'm constantly in a spiritual journey.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you for reminding me, Adam: I need to make a Jaymc comes to New York thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been to New York. It's for sellouts, apparently.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, they're playing a 21+ show, so there's your sell-out right there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(just kidding, fuck the kids)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel guilty when there are two threads with my name in them on the board at the same time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

For those who were interested upthread: The cover songs we performed live last month are now online and downloadable at http://www.canastamusic.com/audio.

Audio quality is spotty, not to mention that the sound guy unexpectedly added a delay to the vocals a third of the way through "Major Tom"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also well aware that the violin is out of tune, thanks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The violin is out of tune!

xpost -oops!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

j/k ;)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

In all seriousness, I have no way of knowing if something is out of tune. Unless it hurts me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's Stay Together!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

LYLAS ;)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Opening for the Delgados and Crooked Fingers! La dee da! I think we'll try and be there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool, I think it will be a good show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm being purposely vague because I often wuss out of going to shows on weeknights, even ones I've been excited about for weeks, and I don't want to hurt feelings. But maybe if I nap after work...

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Nap during work, Nick.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, no hard feelings if you can't make it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, when is this? if it's soon, i can't make it, cause i'm sick (with the whooping cough, according to my doctor--not bronchitis), but if it's later, i can try and make it!!

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's tonight at the D0uble D00r.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Whooping cough? amateurist, are you a chimney sweep?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yup.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to try and make the show tonight. My better half will probably opt out though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

:-D and :-( .

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark my words, :-D and :-( will be a band name within two years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

B-but Jenny could come hang out with me!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey thanks, as always, for showing up, Nick + Sarah + Jeff. I am now about to collapse face-first into bed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

how was the show??? sorry i missed it!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It was cool. We left before Delgados because they were having technical difficulties and taking ages to get set up. Jaymc was a rock star, as usual. His band's singer remembered who I was (he booked a show my band played) and talked to me about emotional vs. intellectual lyrics. It was great fun hanging out with Jeff and his friend Jesse, two people who have obviously known each other for way too long.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I really liked the song that starts off talking about the Bible. What's that one called, John? Matt has a great voice.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot to ask last night - who all is going to Junior Boys/MoM this Friday? I think we're going, if my sister and her boyfriend want to come.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm definitely going to Junior Boys/Mouse on Mars. I bought a ticket last week.

The Bible song doesn't have a name yet. Well, it has a silly name -- "Shadowcat" -- because when we first wrote it, it reminded us of both DJ Shadow and Cat Power. (Here is a live mp3 of that song, if you're interested.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark my words, :-D and :-( will be a band name within two years.

but how would you pronounce it?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There will be some who pronounce it "D and," and there will be some who pronounce it "Smiley and Frowny."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like !!! being Chickchickchick. Who wouldda guessed?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I enjoyed the show. We left right after the Delgados got on stage.

I'd love to go to the Junior Boys show, but I'll be at the Michael Mayer show instead.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff -- Michael Mayer is on Saturday! Unless he's spinning on Friday, too? I was planning on going to both.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i would love to be at the jr boys show too, but i don't think i can really get out of the house for a while. boo.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc, damn, your right. My parents coming this weekend has my schedule fucked up. Maybe I will be able to go to Junior BOys.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

NEW ALBUM RELEASED THIS WEEK

http://www.canastamusic.com/graphics/wwsucover.jpg

Hey, so Canasta's first full-length album, We Were Set Up, is officially released this week. It's 13 tracks and features guest musicians Edith Frost, Dave Max Crawford (Sea and Cake), Barry Phipps (Coctails), Steve Dorocke (Freakwater), Ted Cho (Poi Dog Pondering), and Alison Chesley (Poi Dog Pondering). I think it's pretty good.

So, apparently, does The Onion: Thanks to the success of bands like The Arcade Fire and The Decemberists, chamber-pop is the new indie rock, and in a musical climate primed for the sound, Chicago's Canasta could fare well. The sextet's new "We Were Set Up" brims with bright, lush melodies, a suitably askew mix of instruments (clarinet, trombone, violin, etc.) and smartly constructed songs that balance traditional pop and indie-minded subversiveness. The band is self-releasing "We Were Set Up," but it begs for the attention of a big label.

Yay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Congrats on the review!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. Apparently we're getting a capsule in the Reader today as well, so I'm crossing my fingers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Yay review! Boo on reviewer invoking a far less interesting band like the fucking Arcade Fire to catch the reader's attention! But that's just me. Send a copy to the AMG, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Chicago Reader:

Canasta sounded like one of Chicago's best pop bands even before they made a record, and I loved their five-song EP, 2003's Find the Time. Their debut full-length, the new "We Were Set Up" (Broken Middle C), doesn't disappoint: leaning heavily on organ and strings, they work a melody the way a metal band works a riff, as both a signature and a weapon. The martial rhythm that opens the lead track, "Microphone Song," gives way to a gentler pace later in the album, with new melodic bubbles constantly rising up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

John, please post the other review (you know the one I mean) too, for comedy's sake.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what you mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

The ESTEBAN BUTTEZ review, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

YOU know what I mean. The review that you showed us at QUENCHERS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

congratulations on the review jaymc!

i don't see what the problem is in referring to the arcade fire! ned why do you hate montreal

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

sweet cover btw

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Cool, jaymc. Ted and Dave both played on your record? Is Poi Dog still going in some form?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 18 November 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

i don't see what the problem is in referring to the arcade fire! ned why do you hate montreal

I love Montreal! I just wish a lot of their bands were better!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 November 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

seriously though... i haven't heard jmc's album but it doesn't sound like mentioning the arcade fire would really be out of place... they are the indiepop industry leaders right now dontcha know

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 18 November 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

this excites me!!! congrats, jaymc!

p.s. i am coming to chicago dec 15-18!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 18 November 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

C@n@st@ is an American group, of Chicago precisely. For as much, nothing to see there inside with the music that one with the practice to hear on this side of Illinois, namely the rises of fever post-rock'n'roll. One deals here with "pop music of room". It is them which say it. Composed of 6 musicians and carried out by M@tt Pri3st (voice and words), C@n@st@ proposes songs varied color and intensity containing: keyboard, clarinet, voice, guitars, piano, low, trombone, percussions, battery or violins. Arrangements of cords for this reason are rather applied, à.la.mode of Divine Comedy. It is probably not the only bond which one can find with the group of Neil Hannon. The voice finds sometimes there an accent rather close to this last. Sometimes one would imagine also Adam Green in the lines of songs in extreme cases of the crooning. Or of Beat Happening can be too. Can be irritating at the beginning, the voice can convince over the length even if the stamp and the lines of song of the singer really do not shine by their originality. Even if if placed well, posed well, supported well by other voices (male or female). It is the reproach which one could make in C@n@st@. It is well carried out, it is varied and it is enormously worked. But one remains a little on his hunger. Can be a little academic or too clean; too much beautiful to be honest. Or can be cold beauty. That which one admires but by far because good. Difficult with that to let themselves go and to believe in it. I speak about the disc there; no the cold beauty. One passes in all cases of good moments of çi from there and certain pieces deserve the turning ("Slow fox trot Down Chicago", "Year apology", "Sympathetic vibrations" which bears its name well) but it seems that C@n@st@ has still things to prove. Beautiful effort: they have the American talent yet step the English class.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Best written review yet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

can't understand that review.

Still, well done. I like the cover, and I especially like the title.

I'm assuming Chicago Sold Out is on it.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

what's a poi dog?

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm intrigued by this "band".

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard the Arcade Fire, but Alex in SF's girlfriend has been trying to get me to listen to them.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Cool, jaymc. Ted and Dave both played on your record? Is Poi Dog still going in some form?

Yeah, they both played on the record and will be playing at the show tonight, too. Ted actually engineered the record!

Poi Dog is still technically together, although it seems to be a rotating cast of musicians -- like, Ted sometimes plays with them, other times he doesn't. I'm not sure how much they're actually playing, though...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

p.s. i am coming to chicago dec 15-18!

This is exciting news! Let me know further details, T...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I think Matt is sad about that French review because it said his voice was "annoying." Yes, we had it translated by someone who knows French.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

(M. White to thread.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Although there's a nice pull-quote in that electronic translation:

"...too much beautiful to be honest..." -- France

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

groovy

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

exciting! congratulations!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 18 November 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

you never told me you guys step the English class, j!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you guys got a low player?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

"Step the English class"? "Low player"? Your phrases and words intrigue me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

it's part of the "pop music of room" vocabulary, ned.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

*reads upwards* Oh right. Hmm, the aliens visited Canastaworld I see.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Haha JayMC tell me next time you perform and I'll try to make it. For you I make a special deal.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 19 November 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

By a chain of coincidence I ended up listening to my remix of jaymc’s band tonight and they were pretty good, according to me. I did immediately remember that their drummer needed a click track though. Inside here out there on your bus ride.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 05:39 (five years ago)

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