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John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt (I don't know who the hell he is, but you don't really need it. Life is too short!)

You can warn others here!

I will be warning you away from other boring records here as I hear them. It's the least I can do.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Cold Bleak Heat, It's Beautiful, But It Isn't War or something like that. Yeah, I know it looks good on the surface - it's got Paul Flaherty on sax, Chris Corsano on drums, Matt Heyner on bass and Greg Kelley on trumpet, and they're all pretty hot. But the record's just dull.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt (I don't know who the hell he is, but you don't really need it. Life is too short!)

You've hurt John Darnie1le's heart! (Mr. V. produced the latest tMG record.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

i didn't say he couldn't produce a record. just that this one was kinda ho-hum. i haven't heard the mountain goats rekkerd though. maybe he's a shitty producer too!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh MAN! John Vanderslice should stay behind the board. The guy's solo records are the aural equivalent of watching lettuce wilt.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

actually, i don't think i've ever heard any mountain goats records, but i dig john big time. as a metal-loving funny writer guy type person.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

:-) Well try The Sunset Tree and see what you think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

stop picking on my choice, and WARN someone about something, Ned! time is running out! someone is picking up a bad CD as we speak!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Okay, there's a new Better Than Ezra CD out. I can't imagine it's any good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I quite like John Vanderslice, at least the album I have anyway.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Paul Anka's swing version of Van Halen's "Jump" will CHANGE YOUR LIFE, MAN!

― Huk-L, Friday, 3 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

i just got a sufjan stevens rekkerd in the mail. i'll keep you all posted.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (if you aren't catholic, minnesotan, familiar with hard drugs, already a fan or already on some indie bullshit tip DO NOT BOTHER - there is plenty of melodic classic rock with better rhythm sections to check out)

Ryan Adams - Cold Roses (I have nothing against this pleasant little cipher, I'd rather hear him recycle tropes than Jay Farrar, but he's put out so much of this type stuff you really don't need two more faceless discs of it)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I got yr back re: Vanderschmuck scott. I can't speak for his production capabilities, but his solo stuff (and his media "stunts") are just horrible.

Tiny Telephone does have quite the reputation in SF, and it seems deserved. I like the Spoon stuff that's come out of there.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

rokysopp-- the understanding
total garbage

― breezy, Friday, 3 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Based on the first track, Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll is garbage. I'm so sick of self-satisfied indie fuckers that misinterpret their inability to sing as an aesthetic selling point. Bleech.

― darin (darin), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

PDF WTF?? The Cold Bleak Heat record is brilliant!

xpost: Wish I had heeded a Sufjan Stevens warning before that Michigan thing, which in less exciting than the Detroit Tigers.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I looked at all the lyrics to the Game's The Documentary last night and had a long hard laugh at how every song is almost nothing but references to brand names (Nike Air has to be sponsoring him) and people who matter more than he does. The beats may well be spiffy but if "Dreams" (where he lives out the dreams of MLK, Aaliyah and Left Eye by fucking an 'R&B bitch.' why? because he loves us) is the first single they'd dare drop without the presence of 50 Cent I kind of doubt they're good enough to distract from this assclown.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I've mentioned this on quite a few other threads but John Vanderslice put on truly one of the most flaccid AOR-tripe performances with the most painfully unfunny, unclever, ridiculously faux-naif lyrics imaginable. He (according to my friend also on the bill) threw a tantrum to sandwich himself between the two other acts instead of being a strict local-opener, despite the fact that the two other acts on the bill were co-headlining, making his audible diarrhea stand out even greater. I had to leave the show entirely at times because the music but moreso the lyrics were so painful to listen to.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

haha holy shit

xpost (to miccio's The Game post!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

i hear that darin!

― breezy, Friday, 3 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Btw, someone warn me from buying 50 Cent's The Massacre if they think I shouldn't get it. I've grown to enjoy all of the singles and while gunplay isn't my idea of fun filler (I wasn't feeling "The Ski Mask Way" when every rap blogger was mp3ing it) xgau's review implied the album flows really nicely.

nicka, here's the lyrics, courtesy of Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive. It's fucking hysterical!

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I almost like the single "Dreams."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

If you like "Candyshop", miccio, go for it, but if you don't stay awayayay. it's mostly of that calibre. A couple of the tracks are good (i'm one of the weirdos who likes "piggy bank", and "ryder music" too), but it's def no GRODT. Buy some iTunes single-tracks, but don't spring $20/£10 for the album. major disappointment for me.

my contribution:

Four Tet!

― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

so far, i wouldn't warn anyone away from the sufjan rekkerd. if you like that kinda peppy up with people/of montreal/van dyke parks novelty horns and strings americana breezy (yet incredibly mannered) pop kinda thing. some of the instrumental and vocal parts are interesting. it is 73 minutes long though, so we will see. i can never manage to get thru an entire of montreal album. too much sugar gets stuck on my teeth. i already kinda want to take it off and i have only gotten to the song about john wayne gacy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

"Dreams" is so absurd it is almost endearing in a parodistic way. And Kanye (who I know produced it cuz Game tells me in the chorus) does know his way around a hook.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I doubt anyone was really checking for Trombone Shorty's record, but it's really not very good. The cover of Frontin' is entertaining but kinda bad and the brass band track is mediocre and tokenistic. The one good track is the hip-hop tune with 5th Ward Weebie and Cheeky Blakk, but the cascio-rap production and jazzy horns don't really mix.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

the new sufjan stevens is totally boring not because he sucks, but because almost every song is 40% too long! every freakin' phrase gets repeated three times with the same instrumentation, before moving to something different.

― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I'm not warning people per se, but i could only make it thru 5 tracks of the sufjan. the trumpets and the banjo and his voice were starting to bum me out. this is more of a strong advisory.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

x-post with sean! that was a double advisory.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

i really liked that new four tet album. the first half anyway. "drums and soil" sounds like a really good way to do the free jazz thing with electronics, but thats just me.

that new quasimoto record really put me to sleep, and i really love madlib's other projects. i was quite dissapointed.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

The double CD by the guy from the Coachwhips, the one with the lyric insert that looks like it was hunt and pecked out on a typewriter that was breaking. It comes in brown cardboard and was so boring I can't even remember its actual title!

I went to Amoeba yesterday and Supagroup's "Rules" must be pretty boring. Someone had dumped what looked like one hundred copies at the place.

Solitude Aeturnus' "Dialectic Metal" or whatever it's called is also really boring. I wanted to like it -- thesis, antithesis, synthesis, y'know vis-a-vis metal, but there was no way to tell what the guy was thesising about.

― George Smith, Friday, 3 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

"so boring I can't even remember its actual title!"

i started a thread on it, George, and I can't even remember! I ended up trading it in with some other stuff for a sun city girls vinyl reissue.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I ordered the new Corrosion of Conformity record and I hope it doesn't end up on this thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I ended up trading it in with some other stuff for a sun city girls vinyl reissue.

Now knowing this, I obviously got gyped!

The new String Cheese Incident CD -- don't touch or take it out of the shrinkwrap! They menacingly threaten that they've written actual songs on the sticker. Don't believe the hype!

― George Smith, Friday, 3 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm hereby warning you against buying the 50 record, Miccio. He's totally coasting. It sounds more phoned-in than a new Shyne track.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 3 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

warning: you don't need new speakers, that new Sleater-Kinney album really is distorted to shit and is purposely recorded that way

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 3 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

A lot of Vanderslice's songs are boring, trite, or both, "Mansion" (off Life and Death of an American Fourtracker) is great.

― WillS, Friday, 3 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

The Game: Documentary , really is awful.
50 Cent (" "" "" "") - G Unit aren't always that bad - these are just not good albums in terms of the summer of '05 albums! Have the big NY summer albums ever been this bad? I'm serious...
But on the other hand...the Common album is probably worse (cos Kanye isn't even sharing hot beats, and Common's style has steadily declined ever since "Can I borrow a dollar.."
Damn, it was a while ago, but Mos Def, Talib, Jean Grae, Roots...those guys have put out just as many horrible albums as G-Unit etc.

All I can recommed hip hop-wise is Beanie Sigel, C Ray Walz, Lumberjacks, Lil' Flip...

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 4 June 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

warning: Paulw is nuts re: Common and the Roots if he's alluding to Tipping Point

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 4 June 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

my contribution:

Four Tet!

actually, it's rather nice.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I'll probably end up waiting for 50's best of.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

"GRODT" is great, I like the comp of his pre-GRODT stuff too. He will probably have a good singles collection. I like the Hold Steady - I saw them live and they were really enjoyable (although there were a weird number of super-fans.) It didnt seem minneapolis specific to me - although its definitely very very midwest, upper-midwest pride. They seemed genuinely surprised how many people showed up (I saw them at the empty bottle in chicago,) put on a great, enthusiastic show, super set closer and all. I should probably buy an album of theirs. The new one vs. last years? Let me know.

― deej., Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

As for warning people: stay far far away from Gravy Train!!! I hate them so much. These girls I lived with played it all the time, its really genuinely awful (this is not an anti-girls thing, i usually share more in common as far as musical taste with girls than guys). That live MF Doom album is really boring. The Tweet album from this year was kind of a yawn too.

― deej., Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I want to see the Hold Steady live so I can start liking them a lot. It really does seem to be the clincher for those not immediately sympathetic.

x-post

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

you are gonna turn that corner, anthony. i can feel it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

new album by one of the melvins dudes. *Altamont* is the name of the band. Horrible, just horrible. Even by parody-metal/parody-punk/drunken goof standards. unless it was their goal to make a really shitty queens of the stone age album. in which case, i guess they accomplished that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

whatever that M. Ward record is with the clinically depressed cover of David Bowie's "Let's Dance"

― donut ferry (donut), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

a really shitty queens of the stone age album

isn't that kinda like "a really watery ocean" or somethin

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

some boy/girl duo who call themselves *People*. just horrible. awful. and some dude named *Barr* too. I think. I think that's what he calls himself. really bad. 2 bad records. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

i prefer the early 70s People who released the awesome proto-trip hop hippy anthem "glastonbury"

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Ryan Adams - Cold Roses (I have nothing against this pleasant little cipher, I'd rather hear him recycle tropes than Jay Farrar, but he's put out so much of this type stuff you really don't need two more faceless discs of it)

haha OTM

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

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