Cobra Verde : C/D/S/D?

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Didn't find a thread on them when searching for them...

All I want to know if their new album released recently is good or not.

I found Easy Listening from 2003 very hit or miss. The hits were VERY good hits, though.

But hey, this is where you can fawn or flounce over Cobra Verde.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I met a former girlfriend at a Cobra Verde show. We just talked and talked and never even went inside - completely missed the performance. She said they were good and was "mad" at me for making her miss it (J Mascis was there too).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Lock thread, nothing will beat that story.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

J is such the wizard-haired cupid, that one.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I saw Mascis play with CV in Brooklyn a couple years ago. He looked VERY uncomfortable in the presence of Cobra Verde frontman John Petrovik's I'm-too-sexy histrionics. I remember when CV were GBV and even a high-kicking Bob Pollard (!) seemed embarrased by dude's Rock God schtick...

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard their new album yet, but I'm a CV fan. "Easy Listening" was my favorite album of 2003.

Classic: "Underpants," "Casino," "One Step Away From Myself," "'Til Sunrise," "Your Pretty Face," "My Name Is Nobody," the fact that Petkovic remembered talking to me in Pittsburgh in 2000 when I saw CV in Austin in 2003, the band's energy level and enthusiasm despite drawing a crummy location for that 2003 SXSW show.

Dud: Petkovic always looks like he's uncertain about what to do with his hands on stage. Did he play guitar in Death of Samantha? He looks like an ex-guitar player who is uncomfortable without his axe up there.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

He played guitar in Guided By Voices

― Pradaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

He's holding a guitar (and barefoot, for that matter) in the stage photo on the back of Stungout On Jargon.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

On the new covers album, the cover of new order's "Temptation" is actually pretty good, but the cover of "I Feel Love" is really good!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Is that what that is? the one that's sorta golden with their faces on it? a covers album? I might have to get it based on those two covers alone...(if it's still on sale at the same price I saw it last.)

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

it's called copycat killers. they do hawkwind, and the fall, and mott the hoople and the stones and leonard cohen and others.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

too much electric piano, I think, in their cover of "Yesterday's Numbers." I can't decide whether to laugh or what, at "Copycat Killers." I need to listen more, right now they just sound like they could give a fuck, and that's not a putdown--that's just how they sing/play, to my ears, and, like, their version of "Rock and Roll Queen" is kind of fun.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

i just got this out of the blue. thanks scott for the quick read - interesting even if it's the usual suspects (well, hawkwind is a little unexpected).

why not *re-do* mag earwhig! do i hear bonus disc?

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Where to start with this band? I hear Nightlife is a good one?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:03 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Nightlife and Egomania (Love Songs), the latter of which is a singles collection. Earlier albums had too much backwoods Birthday Party art-blues shtick, and not enough glam, to my ears. And I never got into that covers album, though I liked their song choice. Also: Death of Samantha, John Petrovic's band before Cobra Verde, were great.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

Also, I liked Petkovic on stage. Unless 99.99 % of indie frontmen, he was actually fun to watch.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:33 (seventeen years ago)

Copycat Killer, the covers album was really bad. It was so bad it set a kind of opposite standard for covers albums which usually trend fair to very good. If they are a glam band, they sounded like a bad arty Brit-glam act, fond of overthinking stuff, in the vein of Cockney Rebel or Audience.

How about a Motownified take on Hawkwind? A Bo Diddley-ized upgrade of the Fall? -- reads the blurb on Amazon.

No thanks, I'll pass on the balogna and jello sandwich. It's eclectic, it's diverse and interesting. It's how differently you can slaughter a bunch of tunes while still trying to be a rock band, not the Residents. Perhaps 'killers' in the title was a tipoff.

'Course, using the 180 rule, there may be much on about this for the urban hipster to enjoy.

― Gorge, Thursday, 22 May 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

That would be Copycat Killers -- dropped the 's'.

― Gorge, Thursday, 22 May 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

I never could get into Nightlife, but I liked Viva La Muerte and Egomania (Love Songs) quite a bit. There are a few really good songs on those two records including "A Story I Can Sell" and "Until It's Gone", which is real favorite of mine. There are some funny lines in some of their songs.

After those three albums, I haven't heard anything else.

I always wondered about how much losing their guitarist to GBV kind of hollowed out their sound on Nightlife. As that record just didn't have the cool guitar work of the other two. Oddly enough I thought Guided By Voices kind of tanked it on album around the same time that guitarist (whose name escapes me) left Cobra Verde to join up with Pollard.

― earlnash, Saturday, 24 May 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

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