dykehouse - chain smoking

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holy shit i'm loving this tune. nice little 7" on ghostly international. anyone feelin this too? it's got me in such good spirits i had to ask. tune of the year thus far for me by like a whole lot.

― jason m (jason m), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed. it's dope.

― ken taylrr, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

chain smoking is the first single from the forthcoming "midrange" LP, out on ghostly soon i guess. anyone familiar with the older dykehouse stuff on planet-mu/etc? search and destroy.

― jason m (jason m), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The previous album on Planet Mu, Dynamic Obsolescence, is completely different from "Chain Smoking". No vocals, no guitar, just short pieces of lo-fi electronics in sort of an old Detroit or Warp style. Clever stuff.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

midrange came out this week and it's AWESOME! has anyone else heard this yet? it's like an electronic space rock epic, really!

― jason m (jason m), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

revive? (no one ever jumps on my "revive" bandwagon, whine snivel)

just got chain smoking off of gabba. music is like jamc + nocal pop punk (green day and screeching weasel, and yesiknowscreechingweaselisn'tfromcali, but if you know that much, then you probably also know exactly why I said that they were "nocal pop punk". gimmeafukkiinbreak). wow. this is exactly what I need right now. is the rest of the album this good?

― Matthew L.C. (flightsatdusk), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Chain Smoking is totally the worst song on the record.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

johnny OTM. cringe inducing lyrics on that one.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. Well, as a general rule I usually don't even notice lyrics unless they're fantastically good or unspeakably awful, and these registered as the latter for me (too) on first listen. But the more I listen, the more I like. Not sure I'm willing to argue this point, esp. given that I can't even remember specifics off the top of my head, but last time I heard this song I was convinced that not only were the lyrics not bad, but that they were actually *clever* in a sort of playing on/making fun of pop punk tropes kind of way. "You're kind of soft, and I'm so hard" etc. Takes the trite-wordplay-masquerading-as-emotional-depth of mall punk and exposes it as what it is - a rather transparant and pathetic attempt at seduction. Or maybe I'm giving them/him too much credit?

But what you're saying is that the other songs are even better...?

― Matt L.C. (flightsatdusk), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Much, much better.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yes.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

REVIVE

I can't find anything about why it was recorded or if it was released on some compilation, but there's a cover of "Streets of Your Town" up on Dykehouse's Myspace right now.

http://www.myspace.com/dykehousemusic

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:31 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

midrange is such a great album-- wtf happened to this dude?

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

I think he just kinda stopped. I sent him a message through myspace (lol) a few years ago to see if he could help me out with a version of "One More Day" w/o the fade-in and he said he would, but his masters for Midrange were decomposing in a landfill somewhere.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

i wonder if he ris he doing anything else now?

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://dykehouse.bandcamp.com/

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

woah rad

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

Just found that...LOTS of tracks to go through.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

some good stuff but so far none of it has the epic shoegazey feel of midrange :-\

this a pretty great metro area/danny wang sounding thing tho: http://dykehouse.bandcamp.com/track/can-opener

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

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