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As there doesn't seem to be one on ILM specifically. And since I'm listening to the new solo album, which is nice though on first blush is not much different from the Pinback I've heard (and loved, so no real complaints).

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm curious about this one. His last solo album was mainly full of genre exercises. But now that he's got Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours, Physics, The Ladies, Thingy, and Pinback, maybe he can focus on one particlar style.

― darin, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hearing bits of early eighties XTC in it, but above all it really sounds like Rob just being Rob, as I've heard him most often. Low key vocals and guitars, crisp drums, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

The one with the cat on the cover was great, but I lost it and I haven't been able to find it anywhere! This was in like 2004. And now the new one is out and I'm way into it. Yes, it is mostly Pinback sounding, but more stripped down.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 24 February 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

His last solo album was mainly full of genre exercises.

It had a few joke-ish genre exercises, but other than that it was full of the type of music you'd expect from Rob Crow (but more in the 90s Thingy/Heavy Vegetable way). Lots of short songs, maybe the best Crow-related album I've heard. The new solo album is OK, a little more conventional/Pinback than I hoped. "Taste" is great.

The bulk of the side-projects lately have been bad, really half-assed... Anything with Zach Hill particularly so.

― xox, Saturday, 24 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

so is Thingy coming out with a new album? I thought I read something somewhere.

Rob Crow hasn't had anything good since Pinback - Summer in Abaddon...
But I haven't really given him much of a chance because picking out good songs out of album for of 'same old crap' can be time consuming.
I guess I haven't really given Goblin Cock much of a chance either. But I think it's damn cool that they cover The Porpoise Song (monkees) on their myspace

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:53 (sixteen years ago)

* full of the

Is Goblin Cock worth seeing live? They are coming to town soon. I saw pinback live.. it wasn't as rocking as I would have liked but they played Grey Machine and some other good stuff.

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a fan

― calstars, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:09 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

New album's great.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

did it leak? all i've heard are a few tracks they upload on soundcloud for 2 days and then they get removed

― billstevejim, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

Am reviewing it for the AMG -- on the one hand, 'just' another Rob Crow album but on the other, that means it's really, really wonderful!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

His last 2 were both dope AND fresh.. i'm excited to hear more

― billstevejim, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Just heard Thingy - to the Innocent and was somewhat pleased / surprised to find it sounds exactly like a Rob solo record.

― calstars, Sunday, 9 August 2015 11:33 (ten years ago)

Then you music proceed to the other Thingy full length, which is even better and back through the Heavy Vegetable albums.

― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 August 2015 14:11 (ten years ago)

People seem to forget he was in Boilermaker for the first couple of EPs too. Not really reflective of the "Rob Crow sound", but still really great.

― felldownawell, Sunday, 9 August 2015 14:40 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.stereogum.com/1830049/pinbacks-rob-crow-explains-his-comments-about-quitting-music/news/

― calstars, Friday, 11 September 2015 12:38 (ten years ago)

new album and tour...have a blessed day!

― calstars, Friday, 11 September 2015 12:39 (ten years ago)

awesome.

― how's life, Friday, 11 September 2015 12:58 (ten years ago)

He looks much thinner and appears to be wearing a FitBit

― calstars, Friday, 11 September 2015 13:51 (ten years ago)

five months pass...

NEW ONE

― calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2016 03:47 (nine years ago)

this record is pretty good!

― adam, Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:36 (nine years ago)

Yeah, it's nice!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:42 (nine years ago)

playing in brooklyn tonight

― calstars, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:38 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

check out guest Rob Crow luauing in the background

https://i.imgur.com/gkBYqi6.jpg

― del griffith, Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:21 (six years ago)

when i was in high school i wrote a big article for the school paper on heavy vegetable. i interviewed rob in his apartment in encinitas. he showed me jackie chan movies and told me to listen to tortoise (this was 1994).

― the late great, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:02 (six years ago)

That's cool! I did not know Crow knows his Chan. If you used any photo captions in your article, I hope you were more careful than the Reader editors are.

― del griffith, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:22 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUiEuJRGHXA

― the late great, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:37 (six years ago)

xp oh haha they confused rob and john i didn't catch that at first

― the late great, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:39 (six years ago)

he also showed me the titular ledge outside his bedroom window that the krishna was on

― the late great, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:41 (six years ago)

one year passes...

This cover of Surf’s Up is gorgeous

https://open.spotify.com/track/3mfUomKlrt3EhhmoH7DiS3?si=Ycr4vJptTPebOQ2fmUNjzA

― calstars, Sunday, 16 August 2020 12:10 (five years ago)

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up.

― peace, man, Sunday, 16 August 2020 12:22 (five years ago)

here's a bandcamp link

https://robcrow.bandcamp.com/album/everybodys-got-damage

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 August 2020 14:16 (five years ago)

it's a short list of ppl who could make an "acoustic covers album" sound this cool and worthy of one's time imo

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 16 August 2020 14:33 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

i don't remember ever having heard a king crimson cover but he does it very well. quite a wide range of musical styles he covers there.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 10 September 2020 20:30 (five years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8H9w2pvoNw

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:35 (one year ago)

so good - and feeling so much like a broadcast from a different era

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:28 (one year ago)

four months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/c1QLOe1.jpeg

― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 04:05 (one year ago)

“And if you stay one more I’ll leave with you…”

― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 04:12 (one year ago)

big fan of that album. and “he thinks he’s people”.

― brimstead, Friday, 10 May 2024 04:12 (one year ago)

https://i.imgur.com/ddETaSE.jpeg

― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 04:19 (one year ago)

https://i.imgur.com/r2JQdNO.jpeg

― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 04:31 (one year ago)

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