― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)
― breezy, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)
― breezy, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)
― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)
― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
i haven't heard the promo yet (dunno if its been mailed or picked up from the post ofice), but the 4 songs availible via xl are pretty damned good.
on a side note...i regestered once with my usual email address, but it went wonky and never accepted it. if i try to log in or re-register with that address it won't let me...so i use the blog@ one instead. same reason for the space between my innitials
― b b, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)
This sounds like the beginning to a funny joke....
― PB, Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)
I am amazed at this artwork.
― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)
― Seuss, Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)
― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)
― 088b, Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)
― tad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)
― tad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)
i too wish devendra was less repetitive (within individual songs), but i thought that as early as on "rejoicing in the hands". "nino rojo"'s fantasticness was severely depleted on repeated listenings.
as much as i lived the direction on RitH, NR, etc, these days I kinda long for a return to the creepy ultraweirdness of Oh Me Or My.
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 14 July 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)
― Ô¿Ô (eman), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)
― PB, Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― drystereo (drystereo), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: occasionally OTM (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)
?!?!?
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)
and in the shower / i get my dreaming done / i hold my breath and i wait for the day to come / oh little billy, little timmy, little jimmy, you're the one / i may not look it but i swear my heart is young
for so many / little boys i want to marry [etc]"
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)
― Ô¿Ô (eman), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)
And from this day forward, let it be known: Korean Dogwood is the D Man's Stairway To Heaven.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)
― ghetty green (eman), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)
Why all the hate?
― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)
But at the same time...am I the only one getting Beefheart vibes off of this?
― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)
http://o_nate.pitas.com/05_12_2004.html
(the Nov. 8, 2004 entry)
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)
"There's not even an EP's worth of decent material here...very poor"
and subsequently he can bust out silly ditties like "Chinese Children." This lack of self-consciousness, combined with full-band compositions, lends an air of assured timelessness to the album. Lots of Portuguese (?) lyrics, too.
― Mucho, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)
individual tracks are good but there are so many dullard duds, and devendra's current charms aren't the same as the ones that attracted me to him in the first place. it's difficult to think of him alongside an artist like Antony (aesthetically speaking).
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)
which is ok! just different.
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)
The only two songs I've heard are "Heard Somebody Say" (Classic) and "Little Boys" (Dud). From those two tracks, I do enjoy the band's sound a lot. It has a very classic tint, like it could have been recorded at any moment in time.
― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)
I love it, but I'm already a big fan. The show I saw in Portland last October was one of the best things I have ever seen, an easy lifetime top ten. Seeing him with a full band after just hearing the solo-style records was a total revelation, it works even better. So now I'm listening to the record (haven't heard any leaked tracks).
I like the Spanish songs.His Venezualan youth really adds to the delivery/enunciation.
Track 8 "Feel Just Like A Child" is the first great one, a good single choice and even groovier than the version from a July show in Sweden that was torrented.
Dragonflys, Cripple Crow, holy fuck. I'm happy. Ten more songs to go...
Hey Mama Wolf is fairly dud in the repetitive chord vamp, but it sure is pretty.
Chinese Children sounds a lot like "Child" to me.
Love those instrumental solo guitar things.
Nice segue between the last tracks.
Yes, I must go listen to "Dragonflys" again.
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)
Word. Anybody know someone at XL? I want a poster of this cover
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)
I still love it. Glad it got put out somehow - one of my favorite live tracks from last fall's tour.
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 15 September 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)
― Keith C (lync0), Thursday, 15 September 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 15 September 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)
though expansive i think the album works cohesively 100x better than either rejoicing or nino rojo. it really is the high point of this freak folk or whatever the fuck its called this week scene. to some that'll be damning with faint praise but this album does have a timeless feel about it as someone commented upthread that will allow it to become a reference point of the genre. i think this is a record that will age well and gain prestige
― jared88, Thursday, 15 September 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)
― luecke (luecke), Thursday, 15 September 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)
― Salvador (Salvador), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)
People, including myself, have been saying that since the first album. Do keep up. (Seriously, this is like saying today, "Wow, I didn't know President Bush was such a divisive figure.")
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)
80 minutes is too long, sure. But so is 40 minutes. The most that I usually want to hear at a time by any band/musician is about 20 minutes (ie., the length of an LP side). But I'm not going to ask musicians to start releasing 20 minute-long albums. They can make them 160 minutes if they want, I'll just listen to as much as I feel like listening to and then switch to something else.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)
do keep up, he sells a lot more than that.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)
I'm loving this even more on my 4th listen.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)
- the songs were half-written- the lyrics were genuinely annoying because it was supposed to be trippy but really was just random shit/bad surrealism that I guess people thought was more trippy because he sang with with a constricted throat and vibrato which was supposed to make it sound like he was a forest sprite or whatever
Any improvements in these areas?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 16 September 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)
Hyperbole is a thing.
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)
― bb (bbrz), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)
no it's not.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDxt1OFvqc
This. Song. \(^o^)/
― ksh, Sunday, 4 July 2010 03:56 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z-dPmcWcak
There we go.
I was on tour with a band this summer and in Detroit we were playing some folk festival in the middle of the day and had had 3 or 4 hours of sleep. When we got there they were playing this whole album and everyone sang along to every word on the record. It was awesome. Still my favorite thing he's ever done.
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 July 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)
awesome story!
― ksh, Sunday, 4 July 2010 16:38 (fifteen years ago)
My brother was playing this one at dinner tonight. It made me so nostalgic which is weird because I wasn’t the biggest fan of Devendra or this album at the time, but I was madly in love with the mid 00s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 January 2023 04:07 (three years ago)
New one is yet again pretty different, reminding me of the last few Helado Negro lps. This is pretty distant from the early lps:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynRbKEA2ai8
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 07:48 (two years ago)
20 years later, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still the only Beatles in the world
― J. Sam, Saturday, 13 September 2025 17:32 (four months ago)
Yeah...!
I adore this record. So nice to finally have a listenable digital version of "There's Always Something Happening". This outtake called "The Seventies" rules as well.
― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 13 September 2025 22:25 (four months ago)