So, Does Everyone Hate Cass Mccombs?

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I kinda like the new album I got in the mail. I don't think I'd ever heard of him before. It's dreamy sad boy shit, but he's pretty good at it. It reminds me of the 80's, but nothing I can put my finger on. Actually, it's not all sad boy shit. There is plenty of up-tempo stuff. I dunno, it's not usually the kind of stuff I go for (I like my sad boys to be really really sad, and i like my shit to be really really shitty.), but i keep putting it on, so that must mean something. It's conversational, moody and echoey. Maybe it's a winter thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 January 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

hey, i meant this for ILM. Oh well. Oh hell, i'll go post it there. Either Ned can delete this or it will be like my great double carcass thread experiment.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 January 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Experiment...FAILED!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha! Yeah, and then some. I don't think many people know who he is. I didn't know who he was. Apparently, John Peel loved him.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

maybe we could just talk about everything non-musical about cass mcombs in here.

Did you know he once slayed a dragon for a cup of coffee?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I hear he's the love child of mac from Superchunk and Lauren Bacall.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

he was a pro-skateboarder or something. but i think he wants to be lloyd cole when he grows up.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

he used to open up for casiotone for the painfully alone like EVERY SINGLE SHOW and offered his very run of the mill twee folk guitar singer/songwriter schmaltz for the SFSU froshwomen who ate it all up.

xpost: i don't think he was a pro-skateboarder. maybe your thinking of jason lytle of grandaddy or mario rubalcaba of clikitat ikatowi/black heart procession/hot snakes.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

the new one is more of a rock album. and not really that twee. it's awfully pretty. i thought i read in the promo stuff that he was a skater. maybe it said surfer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

he was a pro-skateboarder or something. but i think he wants to be lloyd cole when he grows up.

Pinefox to thread!

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

but i think he wants to be lloyd cole when he grows up.

Whereas Lloyd wants to be a pro golfer when he grows up.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

the new one is more of a rock album. and not really that twee. it's awfully pretty.

i haven't seen him for about 3-4 years, I'M HOLDING THE GRUDGE!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, I enjoyed his stuff when he opened for Blonde Redhead in London. Well, I liked the first half of the set. For some reason it seemed like he lost a bit of energy towards the end. Dunno. I talked to him a bit before the show with my friend, who was roommates with him for like a week back in Baltimore - I think Cass was moving out when my friend was moving in. Nice guy. Never heard any recorded material, though, so...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 3 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

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