Periodicity, or how an hour of garage is shorter than 30 minutes of Big Flame

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After 10 minutes, this gutter garage mix CD wasn't up to much. After an hour, it sounded like the greatest thing ever. Deerhoof's Apple O', after 10 minutes, was genius. By the end, it felt kinda worn out. Is it just that trebly annoying albums stay that way even if they're genius? What makes long short and short long?

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

drugs?

― die9o (dhadis), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, real answer: maybe it's how engaged you feel by the music.

― die9o (dhadis), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be more engaged by Big Flame than most stuff out there. Gotta find that CD somewhere.

Speaking of garage, last night I was listening to Weird Love by the Scientists (don't know if it kept you up, d!390), and that band blows 99.99999% of all "nu-garage" bands outta the proverbial water.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

which gutter garage mix cd? i need a place to start!
any recommendations (and I'm thinking mix cd's or compilations, preferably not 12"s)???

― Jay K (Jay K), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

deerhoof use up everything in their bag of tricks fairly early on, and after that you are either with them or you have heard enough. a mix cd is , um, a mix of stuff and should ideally change shape and form throughout, giving the listener an anticipatory feeling of "what are they gonna throw in next?" as well as give you more to chew on.Having said that, 30 minutes is an almost perfect length for a rock cd and deerhoof are to be commended for not using the technology of digital compact discs to its full extent.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know gutter garage from the gutters above my mom's garage, but re: treble-y spastic guitar bands, I've had some experiences where, if I'm not willing to keep up w/ their frantic ping-pongin' ways & means, the schtick gets old REAL fast. In Big Flame's case, it's a matter of being too consistent - of course, playing the CD 467 times in the course of 3 days might have something to do with upping the annoyance factor, too. I imagine I'd come up against the same problem if I overplayed the 60 tracks on the Yummy Fur's _Kinky Cinema_, though the differences in fidelity (and the number of years it spans) might add the necessary variety that BF's sparkle-and-fade, as fantastic as it is, just doesn't have.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

deerhoof use up everything in their bag of tricks fairly early on, and after that you are either with them or you have heard enough

How come every time I hear them on the radio here I think it's Blonderedhead??

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

deerhoof have only two things in common with blonde redhead: female asian singers and greatness.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I meant more any kind of music vs any other kind, not necessarily trebly music. Lazy question asking, my bad. Like, 30 mins of Dylan vs. 12 minutes of Arsonists = real world 5 minutes and 4 hours.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

seriously, can anyone recommend me a good introduction to gg? compilation? mix cd/lp? much appreciated ....

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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