quasi - c/d s/d

which album is is on, dom?

fact - they sound much better than the drab, overrated elliot smith who they once backed.

search: all the same, our happiness is guaranteed, a fable with no moral, ape self prevails in me still, etc...

The last time I saw 'em live (which was a while ago) they seemed to have a handful of new songs in their set that really broke the Quasi mold. R&B and "Bird" are great, but it has been getting a bit same-y on the recent releases. I'd love to hear 'em do something different well.

Featuring Birds is the essential one, because of the most pithy lyrics ever written: Life is dull, life is grey, at its best it's just OK. But I'm happy to report. Life is also short which would have been written by Dorothy Parker, really.

The idea that she could even be brought up in comparison to Meg White makes me shudder...

"California" was the first song on pretty much every mix tape I made for about a year due to that opening line. The rest of the song isn't too bad either.

I agree that one Quasi album is enough. And Featuring Birds is that one album. "California," "It's Hard to Turn Me On," and "The Happy Prole" are all pretty classic.

Besides, listen to 'One Beat' and tell me Carrie didn't just come out of a relationship...

Have you heard Sam's other band, Blues Goblins - like the name suggests, a bunch of covers of early 20th Century blues songs, but all skewiff - I'm kinda very fond of them too.

great song. sing it quietly to your girlfriend while she's sleeping.

also great from that period was the tune "you turn me on" where he says something like "walt disney couldn't make me happy" which at the time i thought was a funny thing to say.

The second best bit of music called "Smile" ever!

where's that 'funniest posts ever' thread?

As everyone here has said, though, Featuring Birds is still the one to beat. Unless you count The Donner Party, whose second record is probably my favorite LP ever recorded. A few years ago, a complete Donner Party Double CD came out, which included the first two albums, an unreleased third album (so-so, but with three or four killer songs), and some live tracks. If you see it, buy it, no matter what the cost.

listening to Quasi Field Studies into Hot Shit reminds me why this is one of my favorite bands ever.

oh and to random guy up thread: Field Studies is not a low point at all.

new album American Gong leaked. it's very cohesive and definitely guitar/bass driven this time around. the album is very good but some tracks fade into the background a bit. my favorite track is '7 - Death Is Not the End'. Sam hits some high notes and it sounds great. I don't know why he doesn't get as creative with his vocals more often

this album shows Quasi having fun

yeah, "Death..." is the fucking jam. I am bookending my radio show this week by opening with iLiKETRAiNS' "Death Is the End" and then ending with the Quasi track. Pretension!

erm Repulsion?

American Gong just gets better and better. There's something about the sound that crackles even through the ridiculous compression. I love the twee aspects of their '90s albums but it's pretty cool that they could move past them successfully.

I had totally forgotten Quasi after being obsessed with their earlier albums approx. 10 years ago. Then suddenly I find out they're playing my town so went along at the last minute and it was awesome! hardly any ppl (even fewer than last time round) but very fun. They have a covers EP! It has a cover of War Pigs which they did live!

I had a few threads to choose from, but picked this one because there's no Donner Party thread that I can find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml2ddk2oz2E

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2BHLSlPoYL._SX425_.jpg
Sam Coomes-Bugger Me comes out tomorrow. Recorded with just an organ and old drum machine. I was into Quasi circa Featuring Birds, but I still like this dude's voice.
And this track is good fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8XkoSz-XG8

*considers today's news*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw-8S_3EhfI

god damn, weiss is pure energy

<3 her so much

RIP the Quasi Rock-Si-Chord.

https://consequence.net/2022/10/quasi-breaking-the-balls-of-history-queen-of-ears-2023-tour-dates/

After six years away, Quasi are returning soon with their perfectly-titled new album Breaking the Balls of History, which they’re teasing today with the new single “Queen of Ears.” Their debut for Sub Pop is slated for release on February 10th, 2023, and they’ll also celebrate the occasion with a North American tour.

Quasi’s Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss co-produced Breaking the Balls of History alongside longtime punk go-to John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Unwound, Treepeople, Team Dresch). They figured their 2013 record Mole City would be their last and were content to move on — that is, until Weiss broke both legs and her collarbone in a 2019 car crash, just months before that pesky pandemic began. So along came Breaking the Balls of History, an album motivated by life’s futility.

“There’s no investing in the future anymore,” Weiss says in a press release. “The future is now. Do it now if you want to do it. Don’t put it off. All those things you only realize when it’s almost too late. It could be gone in a second.” Coomes concurs: “When you’re younger and in a band, you make records because that’s what you do. But this time, the whole thing felt purposeful in a way that was unique to the circumstances.” Pre-orders are ongoing.

https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/medium/226/194976-quasi-breaking-the-balls-of-history.jpg

This is pretty fun, I like it.

It's been kind of disappointing to see this fly under the radar a bit, especially with all of the hubbub when Janet left S-K. It seemed like a lot of outpouring of support for her at the time, so you'd think there'd be more excitement for this. I mean, I get it, Quasi was always going to be a lower stakes sort of thing than S-K, but she sounds great here.

Some of the lyrics are a little eh, especially in "Doomscrollers", but idk this is pretty fun.

yeah i like it, i'll always be down for their core distorted organ + janet weiss on drums thing.

there are some dumb opinions on weiss and SK upthread, damn.

"breaking the balls of history" is the album name of the year

they are just the coolest, this record sounds great

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0030255357_10.jpg

Portland represent

Just gave this a spin and it's great. I think I've only previously heard Hot Shit and When the Going Gets Dark, and in my memory, those records had some high points with a lot of stuff that didn't catch my ear. Don't take my word for it - I'll have to revisit. But this one feels solid as hell.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/quasi-album-guide

Saw Quasi last night. A duo much of the time , but with a bassist some of the time. They played 1 1/2 hrs. Someone I follow on Instagram called the show “amazing “ and the buddy I was with who sees lots of music said it was the best show he had seen in 6 months.

Me- I enjoyed the show- Coomes & Weiss are really passionate onstage, she pounds away hard , he makes cool sounds on his keyboard and his guitar, but ( it’s not you it’s me maybe) the songs often sound too similar to one another. Lots of energy but that wasn’t always enough. I was close to the stage and at Atlantis in DC the speakers are up high and so the vocals may have been cleaner to folks in the back. Plus I was wearing my loops earplugs .

cool sounds but the songs often sound too similar to one another pretty much describes Featuring Birds, i think.

they should've blown it out w/ a full band for this tour.

anyway, doesn't matter ... i'm still going to see them in a few weeks.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/quasi/2024/the-atlantis-washington-dc-3b564ce8.html

Worth seeing, but not as amazing to me as to some