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what the fuck is up with Elephant 6 these days?

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anyone? anyone?

― ken taylrr, Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

law-school? rehab?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

that damn Stills (or thrills whichever) song on the radio pisses me off cuz they waited until I didn't give a shit about the elephant 6 sound to finally throw it on rock radio. Wtf.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I had trouble selling some of that stuff at the used shop a few weeks ago. Amazing, trends. Same thing with the Dirty 3 - can't GIVE away Tren Brothers records now. Fuckin fickle indie kids.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a reissue of the first OTC the other day in the store for really cheap. Yes, it was called a "reissue" on the CD. Since when is it already time for Elephant 6 nostalgia?

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Elephant 6 nostalgia

so wrong

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Look backwards to look backwards!"

"Okay, thanks. Now die."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah all the Olivia Tremor Control CDs are being rereleased. I think its because some of it was getting a little pricey. So I think its admirable. They are getting sent to my radio station this time around so I'm all about it. Way better than most of the shit I have to listen to.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

circulatory system are doing something new soon, aren't they? e6 has jumped the shark.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

A little shameful to call it a reissue proper...then there should be bonus tracks. Still, it's a shame those discs were out of print, and I'm glad they're available again. The last Circulatory System record was amazing, and I think a new one is due in Summer.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no problems with repressing CDs that are scarce..! But, personally, calling a repressing a "reissue" seems a bit precious to me.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Or at least, repressing something then adding a sticker on top of it implying it was somehow "long lost but at long last!" or whatever.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Best sticker ever was the SST one apologizing for the earlier CD pressing of Double Nickels on the Dime.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What's funny is: I can't really tell the difference between the "shitty" mix (the one I think I still have), and the "better" mix of Double Nickels.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

personally, calling a repressing a "reissue" seems a bit precious to me.

Yeah, but isn't E6 supposed to be precious?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

overambitious, overworked, and overrated, yeah.. precious? never thought they were precious... (until I saw the "reissue")

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(not counting my opinion of Jeff Mangum)

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

the new of montreal(well the three songs i have heard) is almost danceable.

i always figured that olivia tremor control records would go for 800 dollars in 20 years time, they seemed like relics that people would covet, but i suppose they will just keep reissuing them.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 8 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

keith, I raved about "disconnect the dots" (from the new Of Montreal) on another thread recently. I'd link to that thread but my enthusiasm has cooled considerably. Still, I'm looking forward to hearing more, so I'm curious to know what you think about that track and the others you've heard.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 8 March 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i like 'disconnect the dots' though it is a bit repetitive and could be shorter, i've also heard 'rapture rapes the muses'(it is here) which is less electro-ish it has sytnhs but it is more like 'gay parade'-era OM I think. also have heard 'vegan in furs' which is lovely. i love kevin barnes so my opinion is hopelessly optimistic, apparently it is mostly a solo record which is probably a good thing.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 8 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for the comments and the link; I remain intrigued...

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 8 March 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Scarce?? Scroll down and look at the numbers....
http://www.bwscd.com/scd/onesheets/feb2004/cld003.pdf

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 8 March 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...
I scored a few months back
I Found "Dusk At Cubist Castle" 70% off
I Also got Nico's "Chelsea Girls" for 70% off
Very Happy Day Indeed

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Saturday, 17 April 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny thing is, there are a lot of E6 and related albums that
are truly awful, and yet the good ones are so good that just
mentioning "Elephant 6" makes my head start buzzing.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to love elephant 6 stuff. i think i realised how crappy most of it was about 10 minutes after buying Nuggets 2.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 17 April 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the new of montreal turns out to be the same as the old of montreal, but that's a good thing.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 17 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...
Does anyone still care about Elephant 6? (I'm not sure I do, although I'd still say the E6 bands created maybe half a dozen truly great albums.)

Anyway, I really enjoyed the roundtable/interview thing Brian Heater put together in today's PopMatters: http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060623-elephant6-1.shtml

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that was pretty interesting! Thanks for the link. It doesn't dwell as much on your usual music-critic interview stuff (influences! details! album by album!) or whatever - but it gives a much clearer picture of the sort of culture that produces something like Elephant Six. After a while you kind of balk at all the random names being thrown around (if you don't know them, which, I mean, I only recognize about half of them or whatever), but that's sort of the point.

It's interesting especially to read that as late as the mid-90s Athens could still be the absurdly, insanely cheap place you read about it being in Party Out Of Bounds - when I got here in 2000 that shit was certainly over.

As for what's up with Elephant Six these days, I have no idea, but the spinoff and recombinant bands keep doing interesting stuff in my book. The Late BP Helium (led by Bryan Poole, former handyman in Elf Power and other things) is evolving into some sort of Elephant Six version of Bachmann-Turner Overdrive...saw OTC last summer and that was a lot of fun even with me not knowing the songs like the cult of the devoted ... and things like Robert Schneider's recordings as Marbles (check out "Out of Zone"), and the last couple Of Montreal records (search: "So Begins Our Alabee"), are taking E6 into synthpop with IMO wonderful results.

Now that E6 has stopped being the much-hyped high-concept hippie-flavored indie flavor of the week (see also: Polyphonic Spree a couple years later, freak-folk, etc), and the backlash has had time to run its course, all these people are free to just be in bands and do their thing, and I say that's cool.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 24 June 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Another thing from that interview: those backpacks stuffed full of $20,000 in cash probably didn't hurt either. I remember hearing through rumor a while back that Andrew Reiger (Elf Power) was set enough to quit any semblance of a day job; I don't know if that's true or if that's even that rare among indie musicians, but it still kind of blows my mind to realize E6 got that big. Was an Elf Power song used in a moped commercial or something?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 24 June 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

why do you guys always get on so late? yaaaaaawwn.

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 24 June 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone still care about Elephant 6?

Shh, don't wake'em up.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 June 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

My mind is blown that one of these dudes now works at the university in the town where I grew up.

https://www.mininggazette.com/news/local-news/2023/11/elephant-6-co-founder-mtu-prof-shares-story-at-41-north/

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 6 November 2023 16:41 (two years ago)

maybe he's just following in his parents' footsteps, i thought all the big elephant 6 guys were, like, the children of Louisiana Tech college professors

― intheblanks, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:23 (two years ago)

nepo-calfs

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:24 (two years ago)

they called it college rock in the 80s because it was mostly made by professor's kids

― intheblanks, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:27 (two years ago)

80s and 90s, i mean

― intheblanks, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:27 (two years ago)

Watched that new documentary on E6 a few weeks back. Illuminating at times, but inessential.

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:30 (two years ago)

Didn’t even know there was a doc - will be watching that !

― calstars, Monday, 6 November 2023 22:13 (two years ago)

I saw Julian Koster after he moved back to NYC playing musical saw along with his dad at what was then his dad’s annual recital to celebrate his significant other’s birthday in the beforetimes but that’s all I got.

― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 November 2023 22:55 (two years ago)

two years pass...

Of Montreal sold out a pretty big venue (GAMH) in SF and are contemplating adding another date!

That would seem they are more popular than ever?

What is even going on?

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 10 July 2026 18:25 (two months ago)

I just assume when stuff like that happens that tik tok is somehow responsible for it

― donna rouge, Friday, 10 July 2026 19:02 (two months ago)

He said recently that he did not think they were as popular now as they were at one time. They had two albums that were Billboard top 40 and three consecutive that were top ten on US Indie chart.

― timellison, Friday, 10 July 2026 20:48 (two months ago)

I heard Of Montreal playing in a store just a couple of weeks ago. I can't think of the last time I even thought of them.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 July 2026 20:51 (two months ago)

They were on Letterman and Conan in 2007 and Jimmy Fallon in 2012

― timellison, Friday, 10 July 2026 20:52 (two months ago)

2008 actually for Dave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mepvU6IeJy8

― timellison, Friday, 10 July 2026 20:59 (two months ago)

New album is lovely, so it’s cool if there’s some buzz around it and the tour

― timellison, Friday, 10 July 2026 22:00 (two months ago)

It’s probably about the right time for a nostalgia wave for 00s p4k indie.

― every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in f (President Keyes), Friday, 10 July 2026 23:52 (two months ago)

I’m here for it

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 11 July 2026 02:38 (two months ago)

It’s probably about the right time for a nostalgia wave for 00s p4k indie.

Devendra has always ruled and always will.

― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 11 July 2026 05:14 (two months ago)

i went into a bookstore the other day and heard “Giga Dance” by Deerhoof so yeah

― out of the cradle endlessly party rocking (the table is the table), Saturday, 11 July 2026 12:10 (two months ago)


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