The Joggers - 'With a Cape and a Cane' (2005)

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Anybody heard this? The guitar playing is quite original, and at times has an Arabic flavor. There are a bunch of little carefully thought out guitar pieces, and it all goes together effortlessly. Fun to listen to, but also sonically interesting, and I imagine it will hold up well on repeated listens. I never heard their first album...any good?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, 17 September 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's a great album. I have their first album and I really don't know which is better.

But if you like this album then you'd like the first one.

― Voodoo Child, Saturday, 17 September 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

I love the sitar in the last two songs. I think it would work well with every track...too bad.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 18 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Their guitarist is pretty great, but their songs come off pretty stale after about 20 minutes. They could make a few great eps.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Monday, 19 September 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

i live in portland now. are these guys worth seeing live?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

fuck yeah they are!

― blue juice, Monday, 26 September 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

okay then

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Anybody see them in Chicago on Friday? My car broke down on the way to the show, so I never made it.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I'm still crazy about these guys. Their songs are simultaneously complex and accessible. Why isn't this band huge? The guitar playing, solos, song construction--it's all pretty inspiring.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's a shame. they should be, i blame their label, an all around has been collection of artists, that sadly the joggers are now stuck with.

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Monday, 28 August 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's a mean thing to say about 4AD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 August 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

umm, have any of you people that like this band ever heard the fall? i can't believe dude sings like that, all i can think of when i see/ hear them is how much i'd rather be home listening to "slates" or something.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Monday, 28 August 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why isn't this band huge?

Probably has something to do with the terrible vocals. I saw these guys a few months ago and was impressed by their songcraft and chops. Then they sang.

Perfect body + ugly face = pass.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Monday, 28 August 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, yeah, I have heard The Fall, but their songs don't have half the substance, and I bore of them fast. I hear more Malkmus than M.E.S., but I don't generally listen to music for the vocals anyway.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 28 August 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

woah. the joggers = double "the substance" of the fall? i'm trying to think of the bizarro world that might be possible on; can't do it, sorry.

funny you mention malkmus, as he and steve anderson (slovenly) are two of the only singer i can think of who actually got away with having mark smith as an obvious influence.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Monday, 28 August 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

I like this album quite a bit.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 28 August 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I like the Fall, but I really don't see any comparisons other than some slight vocal leanings.

The worst recent offenders of this phenomenon are The Wilderness (P.I.L.). I can't listen to them at all.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 28 August 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

i still rly dig 'night of the horsepills'

― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 28 November 2010 10:12 (fifteen years ago)

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