idk i just approach things from the "it's okay if i don't like music i'm supposed to like" perspective and move on ... maybe it's worth analyzing why i don't, maybe that's what's going on with y'all? I generally only do this when it's the music of someone i know personally, and what I think of their music might actually affect them? ... there are definitely a whole cadre of ppl that are into 21st century alt-jam bands that have been recently mentioned here, that won't go near the Dead -- personally, I don't see that big of a difference between them ... but I'm of the "not really a fan of either type" though I find it pleasant enough
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
I mean the Dead are one of those bands I'm totally "it's okay I don't like this." But I guess generally speaking it has something to do w/ appetite...I'm sometimes reluctant to give up entirely on something other ppl whose opinions I respect are into, in the hopes of expanding/developing my own sensibilities
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 21 August 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
Am I the only person who hasn't been converted to the Dead?
No. Every time I've tried listening to the Dead, I get maybe a minute or two into it until I realize: why am I listening to this when I can listen to Bardo Pond instead?
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
it’s ok if you don’t like the dead... is it ok if I like the dead?
― brimstead, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
I never in a million zillion years thought I’d EVER listen to Tom Waits by choice but here I am getting really into heart of Saturday night. Wtf.
― brimstead, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
i have always liked Tom Waits
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
listened to Rain Dogs in full for the first time in decades a week or two back, good times
― sleeve, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
sleeve -- who was that british guitar dude that did that home concert a month or so ago? fish something or other?
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
Is this Grateful Dead? Why does everyone call them The Dead?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
great question Robert Adam Gilmour, can i call you Bob?
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 21 August 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
I have no problem with people who are into the Dead. Just don't try to convince me, it's been done too many times.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 21 August 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
xp lol
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
xps Pat Fish a.k.a. The Jazz Butcher!!
― sleeve, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
yes!! I remember something related to Jazz -- that was quite nice!
meanwhile I kinda just want to listen to TFUL282 I Hope It Lands on repeat -- why? idk
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
that is the best TFUL282 album
went through that Stan Brakhage series 10 years ago, it comes to mind at the oddest moments, every episode is good
been ransacking everything at this website: http://theatticmag.com/features/2337/'this-is-not-intentionally-music'.-a-cedrik-fermont-interview.html
found website through googling Svitlana Nianio
― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
& sarahell, you see this?
https://pleasekillme.com/pink-section-inflatable-boy-clams/
― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
I keep thinking it must be a different band and it seems like an affectionate name only big fans would use.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, August 21, 2020 12:52 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
sorry, i mistyped, meant The Gay Dad
― brimstead, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
milty -- i got the reissues of those back when my band was a duo -- so 2014? 2015? ... Inflatable Boy Clams was a fave of my bandmate, whose ex-gf is, I think, dating that one guy from the 19th century bullshit band
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
Whenever I try giving the Dead another chance I end up listening to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s ‘East-West’ for the 23806th time.
― pomenitul, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
oh, that reissue came out before "flyergate" -- I think I stopped buying Superior V1aduct releases after flyergate ... geez, it seems surreal to think about the innocent times of flyergate compared to the election, G.S., ... now ...
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
xxxp lol
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 21 August 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
Dadheads
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
anyway -- the way she sings "horrible mistake" on that song ... sigh, the best.
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
Oh mom, get back to me, bring me some snacksWhat I want to do in Marin is to relaxOh yeah I dig Marin, the views... are goodAnd everything is bettering me, I mean I feel, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 August 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
God, I love Inflatable Boy Clams.
― emil.y, Friday, 21 August 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
Same here. I remember playing them for a date once and he was so obsessed with I'm Sorry that we listened to it a few times while getting ridiculously baked. We set the fire alarm off lol
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
Sarahell will know this person, too, which helps make the story funnier for the two of us.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
omg who?!!!!!
table is the table was at the first gig my band played!
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
the way she sings "horrible mistake" on that song ... sigh, the best.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
― sleeve, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
best fucking band
― sleeve, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
at the 2004 reunion show in PDX this dude got up on stage, went around, and hugged each member individually. random fan otm.
(I got tons of love for IBC as well, but y'know there's only like 5 songs or w/e)
― sleeve, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
Sarahell, he's in the Y0ung3r Lover5
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 22 August 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
― sarahell, Saturday, 22 August 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
some of you might like this album rolling punk 2020― flopson, Thursday, August 20, 2020 2:47 AM (six days ago)
I came here to post the home blitz. It's great.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Latecomer to the new Cucina Povers album here. Gonna have to go back and relisten to her previous but this seems like a big leap forwards? Definitely pushing my buttons more than the one before (which I still really liked!) . I don't even really know what's going on but getting strong 'ancient music of a place that's never existed' feels. Multitracked vocals and some sparse synth that's played exactly the way our alien forebears intended, can't even think what else sounds like it really
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
I guess the glory days of Fonal Records are the neatest point of comparison? Islaja and stuff like that
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
(perks up ears)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Just noticed the dumb auto correct in my post - it's Cucina Povera obv
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Just listened to the first few tracks and my it is gorgeous.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
I guess 'weird music' fans might be into the Deathbomb Arc showcase? I didn't manage to follow along on the night but it's archived. Features a certain Soft Pink Dude, among many others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnp7XRXOWqw&
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
loving the Cucina Povera, thanks. I feel like someone else here tipped me to her recently?
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
Paolo linked to one of her songs on this very thread a few months back
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
Thanks for posting that video btw emily! I'm kind of out of touch with things so the only other thing I know from that is TALsounds.
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
yeh this cucina povera is a really beautiful ep
― nxd, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
new eric copeland from a few weeks agohttps://ericcopeland.bandcamp.com/album/dumb-it-down
― billstevejim, Friday, 6 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Constantly trying to resist turning this thread into "Emil.y's Radio Show Promotion Thread" but we've got some guests in for the second half of this month playing rad Ex-Yu/Slavic tunes, I'm dead excited about it: https://www.mixcloud.com/citybeatradio/cryptophasia-013/
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 November 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
kind of enjoying that eric copeland
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 19 November 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
This Cryptophasia mix is really great thanks. It's so hard to stay on top of weird music - or it is for me at least. Once I became aware of the berserk, sublime dimensionality this substrata of music has expanded to create (and I only feel that way in the most fleeting of glimpses, despite my luck that it's become one of the main planks of my 9-5) I found it disorientating. I feel like the opinion I encountered a lot when I was first a very green, ignorant music writer 17 yrs ago - that we no longer need any kind of interface between us and the music, that all we needed was internet access and our ears - has never been further from the truth. I don't need a return of imperious gatekeepers for sure, but nothing dissolves my critical, aesthetic and emotional faculties like a day spent listening to 14 new tapes, five new streams, and two new LPs, where I have little or no idea of what the provenance is. I need some damn help with my listening. I think one of my new year's resolutions will definitely be to carve out more time to spend listening to shows like this and checking out the shows on Neon Hospice etc. Like, whether this is an obvious thing to say or not, there's surely never been a more important time for rhizomatic connectivity between all points in whatever constitutes the underground.
― Doran, Friday, 20 November 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link