― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 March 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― david covetousness, Friday, 7 March 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 March 2003 05:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron A., Friday, 7 March 2003 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― j.a.e., Friday, 7 March 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)
as a solo artist, he's released a couple small print records but his new one was picked up by Merge in North America, Matador in Europe not to mention a French and a Japanese label for fans of his in those countries.
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)
if/when you get to see him play, i strongly recommend getting up close to see him... it is really worth it.
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― kephm, Friday, 7 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― kephm, Friday, 7 March 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)
he's doing a lot of rearranging of songs, piano to guitar, guitar to piano... it's pretty funny to see him sort of work things out on-stage but in the process turn in a shockingly warm and technical performance.
i don't know if any of you got to see him with a band or playing electric guitar, that's pretty neat too.
kephm, his old band was called "rodriguez"... they put out a cassette, a 7", and a CD.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)
but that's just the thing: he's a vocalist too, he writes pop songs, ballads, blues, soul, a 30s, 40s "pop-standard" sensiblity... and that's where the fahey comparisons end. some songs call for a certain technique and when he's really banging it out, I imagine it would hard to sing.
A long time ago, I saw him (non-public) do some extremely complex jazz stuff, and I've seen him do d.boon's guitar parts pretty effortlessly... he has a extensive musical breadth and vocabulary.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― kephm, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)
kinda how i imagine pw long would sound if i ever heard him.
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 13 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)
anyway.....
http://www.mergerecords.com/catalog.php?item_id=323&method=item
M. Ward - Transistor Radio
Portland, Oregon's M. Ward describes his fourth full-length release, Transistor Radio as a collection of songs "about childhood memories of a utopian radio power…" and dedicates the album to "the last of the remaining independent radio stations." Opening with a beautiful John Fahey-esque instrumental rendition of the Beach Boys' "You Still Believe in Me," Transistor Radio continues down a dusty well-worn road full of timeless, uniquely American stories. Ward's distinctly weathered voice and intricate guitar playing are helped along with an impressive group of guests incuding Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Jordan Hudson (The Thermals).
1 You Still Believe In Me 2 One Life Away 3 Sweethearts On Parade 4 Hi-Fi 5 Fuel For Fire 6 Four Hours in Washington 7 Regeneration No. 1 8 Big Boat 9 Paul's Song 10 Radio Campaign 11 Here Comes the Sun Again 12 Deep Dark Well 13 Oh Take Me Back 14 I'll Be Yr Bird 15 Lullaby & Exile 16 Well-Tempered Clavier
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 February 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)
― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)
agreed.
― Stephen C (ihope), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)
If you have some program that allows you a five finger discount on individual tracks check out "Let's Dance" off of 'The transfiguration of Vincent' One of the best covers I know.
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)
Nope. I'd like to know the name, if anyone else does. It's off the new one, "Post-War" and one of the lines was something like "If life is short, then why is the night so long". Had a really pretty fingerpicked outro.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 27 August 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 27 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Sunday, 27 August 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)
it is one of 2006 best and smells like a little classic record of post modern lo fi country americana.
― emekars (emekars), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)
― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)
― marbles (marbles), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)
I've listened to it twice, am liking it very much, but I like all his stuff in an uncritical way. DEVILlage Voice had a piece there on him and how it was political music for so and so reasons. I hope he passes through this neck of the woods for a gig, never seen him.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)
He's touring with Mike Watt at the end of the month. I'm hoping for some collaboration because Matt is a huge Watt fan and he can play many Minutemen songs note-perfect.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)
gygax! wrote this upthread:I've seen him do d.boon's guitar parts pretty effortlessly... he has a extensive musical breadth and vocabulary.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)
"...the mother of all front porch records"Boston Globe"...a moment-defining record"Vanity Fair"...his best and most hopeful record to date." - Interview Magazine"....grade: A"Entertainment Weekly"...beautiful" -Rolling Stone"...sneaks up on you and catches hold...3 1/2 out of 4 stars"People Magazine"...not only Ward's best effort yet, it's one of the best records of the year...4 1/2 out of 5 stars.All Music Guide"an exemplary guitarist and distinctive vocalist, ["Post-War"] represents the flowering of a major talent"The Sun (UK)"[M. Ward is] making folk music cool for a new generation of listeners"Toronto Life"[M.Ward is] our generations greatest folk lyricist"Daily Nebraskan"a triumph and one of the years best releases"The Oregonian"..[Post-War is] M. Ward's masterpiece"Seattle Weekly"FOUR STARS" -Mojo, The Guardian (UK), The Times (UK), The Independent (UK), Blender, Houston Chronicle
Vanity Fair? People? ET? not to mention NPR! see also http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/wardm/postwar
and then of course, there's the blogs....
― marbles (marbles), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)
I'm a bit surprised as well. While not typically my thing, I do enjoy him. Save for Lambchop, M. Ward might have been the best thing I saw at the Merge 15th blowout.
― Will (will), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)
re: that review. you should see the comments that review got! a virtual lynching. well, the review wasn't that well written, I agree, but the backlash is really something.
― marbles (marbles), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)
ah yes: suicide, betrayals, death... sweet dreams are made of these.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)
― marbles (marbles), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 September 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)
He was great in Crawdaddy last year.
I am really liking this album! There are backing singers and oh look he's rawking out! It's a real grower, what I like is that he has moved on from the crackly sound that formed the entirety of Transistor Radio and has welcomed back tunes and stuff.
Loving it, sorry that it's too late for summer but there are a couple of tracks on it that I look forwards to listening to on the autumn walks in to work.
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 11 September 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)
― boonah (boonah), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)
― the next grozart, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 15 March 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 March 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)
― the next grozart, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:21 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:05 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)
― jergincito, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)
― jergincito, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)
― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)
http://img.mp3sugar.com/artist/artist_10917.jpg http://www.buddytv.com/articles/hot-list-zach-braff-2.jpg
Just sayin'.
― Z S, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/2222copy.jpg
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)
Nice to see Mastercard don't always get what they want... I'm still not going to see him supporting Norah Jones though!
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/47290-bright-eyes-oberst-forms-band-with-m-ward
I'm not sure what to make of this...
*shudder*
Yr thoughts?
― stephen, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)
well that's the end of me paying attention to M. Ward I guess
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)
srsly?
― stephen, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)
terrible news.
― jed_, Friday, 30 November 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)
srsly
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)
Classic.
I hope Bright Eyes doesn't do any singing and just writes the song. I've always felt M. Ward could use a bit more wit in his singing to counterpoint his luscious, heavy voice. (It would be like having a Tom Waits who was actually enjoyable to listen to.)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)
but... Colon writes terrible lyrics
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)
I don't know who this Colon fellow is... But Conor Oberst is pretty damn good sometimes. (Lifted, for one.)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)
Colon O'Burst
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)