Erase Errata - Nightlife (This album is really great)

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Never been much of a fan in the past, seemed like just a sort of patiche of old rough trade type stuff and no new york and riot grrll...but I went to see them and the Gossip last night on a whim and was really impressed...(I think this is a new lineup, or that's what I've been told)

Anyway, this seems way better than the other stuff I've heard, less self-concious no-wave startystoppy scronk and more groove oriented approach, cool interlocking rhythms, almost sorta dancey at times but not in a !!! hey let's partay way....

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

i had the same impression of them... i wanted to like them but their music didn't seem that substantial. they just seemed like an art-school gimmick. curious to hear how they've changed.

― flaneurie o'connor (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YES. "Tax Dollar" is the JAM.

― xero (xero), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, they've always been a band I've rooted for, but didn't particularly like their previous albums. a few songs here and there were good, but i always thought they had it in them to be way better. This album is really great. It's like they applied aspects of Electrelane to their own sound.

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

The best element of the band is absent (Sara's guitar playing) and the worst aspects are amplified (the lyrics on "Tax Dollar").

― lrsn (larssen), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

They are v good live. I liked their 1st album, can't remember much about the last one. New one is good though.

Can't remember who left the band, but I think someone did. Anyone know if they were replaced or the band carried on minus a member?

xpost the guitarist left? Shit, she was cool.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

the guitarist left? Shit, she was cool.

She was, and presumably still is.

...OK, "Tax Dollar"'s lyrics could bug me if I allowed them to, but it has WHISTLING, ffs. Reminds me of LiLiPUT's "Die Matrosen."

Found Erase Errata a bit underwhelming when I saw them in 2002, but this album is SO good. I regret missing them last night.

― xero (xero), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know who the bass player is, but she is amazing on this album. such great lines.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ellie's the bass player I think! She was once in a band called XXY from Lincoln Nebraska and they were awesome.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I saw them in 2004 I think, supporting Le Tigre, maybe they'd got better. They had a pretty good groove going, plus the guitarist was making wicked noise.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah i guess i could actually just open the cd booklet..

current lineup:

jenny hoyston - guitar, singing
ellie erickson - bass
bianca sparta - drums

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

you liked them matt? I was there, too. Sort of underwhelmed, though the parts I liked were sort of Fall-ish in a one chord going on forever monomania kind of way. I suspected it might be something I'd love on record more.

the gossip gave me an almost-but-not-quite feeling, too.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I like this album a lot. Some of the guitar parts sounded almost Sabbathy in a bent kinda way, which I never thought I'd be saying

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nightlife is one of my favorite albums from this year, and it really pleases me to know I'm not totally alone in loving it. It's definitely my favorite punk record since A Frames' Black Forest.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

They are TIGHT!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i thought they were good...maybe not super "spirited" performance, but a friend there kept telling me how awesome the record was....the record is much much much better than last night.

i kinda dug the gossip...she can really sing....i mean, it's pretty much white stripes+earlyYYYs+new wave but i dunno i always like seeing an "indie" or "punk" type band where someone can honest-to-god sing....

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sort of underwhelmed, though the parts I liked were sort of Fall-ish

Reminds me of LiLiPUT's "Die Matrosen."

wow, the fall + liliput really would be my favorite band ever. don't play with my head here.

― flaneurie o'connor (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

haha it's not as good as that but it's a really good album

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

john cougar thornton melloncamp

holy shit

― flaneurie o'connor (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

TIGHT

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

wow, the fall + liliput really would be my favorite band ever. don't play with my head here.

Not meaning to play with anyone's head, at all, but Ut were pretty much that, I think. (Erase Errata are closer to "dancey", as mentioned, but not in a bad way.)

― xero (xero), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

i'm dancey in a bad way, lemme tellya

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, yes, I myself am dancey in the worst possible way, but not in a !!! hey let's partay way... (per Matt's post above).

― xero (xero), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ut are a lot darker and fucked up than either of those bands, I think. I mean you can obviously construct threads between all the bands being mentioned here but I don't see it as amounting to direct points of comparison

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I wouldn't stake my life on any exact equations of that sort, and I'm not sure I'd agree that "Ut are a lot darker and [more] fucked up" than the Fall anyway, but alls I meant was that if someone likes the Fall and LiLiPUT a lot, then they will probably really like Ut too (esp. Griller) if they haven't already heard them.

― xero (xero), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think the music is physical and visceral but not at all "dancey." It's pretty angry and broody and nihilistic, and definitely closer to the A Frames than The Gossip, who they are touring with right now.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I get Ut and Ui confused.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Griller is great but yeah, not dancey. You're right though in that fans of the Fall & Liliput would probably like Ut, I know I do.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ut is great!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

nightlife doesn't QUITE remind me of the fall + liliput. what comes to mind from the first few listens is the fever + y pants.

― flaneurie o'connor (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I recently saw Erase Errata (at the Halleluwah fest) and was very impressed. Their records have failed to make any impression on me but the live show won me over.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, I really do need to check this out further. Their first two records are GREAT, although I also kind of completely forget them when I'm not listening to them actively. The video of "Tax Dollar" put me off somehow, but I should really give them the benefit of the doubt at this point. Kinda waiting for them to tour through here, I guess.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't care for Tax Dollar either but there are loads of much better songs on the album.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

i like "Tax Dollar" a lot. pretty good album overall.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

They covered some old 70s rock track when I saw them in 1994, and it blew my mind - and I can't remember what song it was for the life of me.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 10 September 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

If you're put off by "Tax Dollar," you might want to try "Hotel Suicide" or "Rider," those two are just fantastic.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 10 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

i loved "at crystal palace", but this isn't doing it for me yet.
they used to play "boris the spider" tiki, maybe thats what your thinking of?

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dahaaaa! So that's what that was!!! I saw them in 2003 or so and they played this very groovy thing with the chorus of (I thought) "Whooooo is the Spiiiider"....is that what that was? Oh man. Now I want to find an mp3 of that...

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

It definitely wasn't "Boris the Spider," but that sounds amazing! It was something decidedly obscure... I will figure it out somehow, even if this thread is revived years down the road. I seem to remember seeing them play it at Coachella in '04, and again at a show with Q and Not U.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 10 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'm listening to that ut album now. the guitars sound a bit like scrawl (this is a good thing).

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

i have a really weird copy of that ut lp that looks like some took the record sleeve apart and then painstakingly reconstructed it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 September 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

isnt this where Elastica would be by now..i like the chant of "dark cruisin" on cruising..i can almost smell Al Pacinos leather ball bag on that one..Thumbs up

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

man, is "hotel suicide" ever good.

― like a gooned out Mark E. Smith with a shaky sense of rhythm (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, the 70s hard rock song I was thinking of upthread that they used to cover was "Hot Smoke and Sassafras" by Bubble Puppy.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

when did this band become the female fIREHOSE?

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

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