Beechwood Sparks?

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Are they any good? S and D.

― Remdog, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: About half of the first album and all of the second. Destroy: The other half of that first album - terrible! (pardon me for forgetting song names)

― paul, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

funny, I like all of the first album and none of the second.

I've heard they're breaking up.

― fritz, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The album I got was boring and I traded it after a couple plays.

― Sean, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those drizzlepuss vocals...ugh.

― Arthur, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw some of them wandering around Spaceland after a show of some sort. They looked fairly punchable in that grotesquely-lumpy sideburn-style way.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aww come on Ned whats wrong with side burns. By no means are mine lumpy and huge, they're neatly trimmed.

― Chris, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re: breakup

the drummer Aaron Sperske left to play full-time for Lilys.

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beachwood Sparks are a great band, and both albums are great... the first might be a little more orthodox in it's approach, the latest is a lot weirder... good songwriting as well. The drummer left, but I think Neal Casal is playing with them now (on guitar).

― Andy, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By no means are mine lumpy and huge, they're neatly trimmed.

Ah, see, then you're excused. ;-)

Large lumpy untrimmed/untamed sideburns just give me the creeping horrors. Bleh.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Andy from Lookout! wrote:
the latest is a lot weirder... good songwriting as well.

Josh Schwartz (who left during the recording of the first album to form his own band - Northern Lights), wrote and performed one song during his Beachwood Sparks tenure called "Sweet Julianne" which is pretty darn weird psych-pop. It's available on some compilation. It's the only thing I like from the band (besides their lineage).

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the tyde and beechwood sparks are both dippy, they make the same records and do an equally poor job. wonder when the lilys 'precollections' is gonna be released?

― keith, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dreamy! glorious! space-country! and the lyrics are fantastic... and the sade cover on the last album is GENIUS!! classic!

― stevie, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

keith wrote: wonder when the lilys 'precollections' is gonna be released?

According to Lilys info at their new label, May 2002. Kurt's been in LA in the studio (and out playing some shows) with Jason Falkner producing. Haven't heard any new material yet, there was supposed to be a show at Spaceland (his third there this year) next month but it got dropped from the calendar.

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't like the album I had, but I got an EP in the mail yesterday called "Make the Cowboy Robots Cry" which is a great title and the record itself is pretty great. I'm leery of Parsons worshippers because they tend to be poseurs (and the sideburns, yes, have got to go) but this EP is borderline magnificent.

― John Darnielle, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They are FUNNY. Those "Butterfly" inter/outerludes on the first album make me roll on the floor.

― Andy K, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Scratch "pretty great" above. "Make the Cowboy Robots Cry" is just great, period.

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

They're totally great. As ever, better appreciated elsewhere than in their hometown. Poseurs be damned, these boys are 100%. And their sideburns (mutton chops) are just dandy. Cosmic Americana for the 21st century.

― Del boy, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But is that really a good thing, though, this 'so-and-so for the new millennium' idea? And I actually ask that in all seriousness.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As for your muttonchop worship, those who live by hunks o' greasy hair in front of their ears will die by them. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My feelings towards Bitchwood Sparks is summed up best by the word "Meh".

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunno if their albums are any good (probably not - I have them but never stuck with them) but you NEED their cover of Sade's 'by your side', beautiful version of it.

― ian, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

beechwood sparks are sweet sweet men...posuers no way...i hear the new mini album is great and i like the first...no-one likes there own.. they're not drippy..too much testosterone me thinks!

― wooden coin, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am going to see them tonight at the Spitz in london. i will let you know

― mr g, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They are certainly better than the Lilys.

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard their new(ish) mini-alb at the weekend - by far the best thing abt it - the Jim Woodring cover.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

i still love the tyde album! especially the song where they mimic felt brilliantly. and i still love the first beechwood album! i still need to buy the cowboy robot album. where are these guys now?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a sucker for the Sade cover. Didn't one of them start All Nite Radio?

And, further proof of Ned's hatred for sideburns:

http://static.flickr.com/85/235636930_e137ee6394.jpg

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

i think they reformed to play a show in support of arthur lee in la earlier this year, but i'm not sure if it happened or not. their second album, 'once we were trees' is utter sublime.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Following some discussion of them on the current Sub Pop thread, I dug around - they've just posted 2 new songs to their MySpace page.

http://www.myspace.com/beachwoodsparks

Also search the slow version of "Canyon Ride" that was on one of those U.S. Pop Life comps.

Also search the song "Daylight 'til Dawn" by All Night Radio, the band Farmer Dave Scher was in after Beachwood Sparks.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

All Night Radio were fab. saw them live once too, a lot of fun.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

this is so great. the video and the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdnXoO2y_w

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:12 (twelve years ago)

Video reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazpDqZ5mwA

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:36 (twelve years ago)

Love love love this album. It is so overlooked.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 04:15 (twelve years ago)

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