Best Lou Barlow song?

brand new love obvs

"Spoiled" maybe? This is waaaaay too hard.

come on... theres only a million songs. pick your favorite

don't know many, kinda feelin' "rebound".

I don't know too much but I was listening to Lou Barlow and His Sentridoh album during a long drive and I liked that stuff more than the Sebadoh I've heard. None of the songs stood out, but they all sounded good together, I guess. They fit well in the alternative rock/ art folk albums / bit experimental category I had a thread for a while back.

way too many to choose.

how about pick some of your favorites?

how about Lou Barlow sucks?

jkjkjk

Yeah, that's right. Best be jk-ing.

the freed weed has his best songs. i was referring to acoustic brand new love, not the electric version on sebadoh vs helmet

Punch in the Nose/Magnet's Coil/Not a Friend/Beauty of the Ride/Willing to Wait/Too Pure/Flame

Not a Barlow expert by any means, have never heard any non-Sebadoh stuff, and only really the latter half of their oeuvre. Harmacy probably my fave album. I guess I tend to like the slower, more miserablist stuff (quelle surprise), would be good to get some suggestions for other stuff to check out. Are the Folk Implosion worthwhile?

brand new love obvs

-- cutty, Sunday, June 1, 2008 5:57 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ This.

original Brand New Love may well be it. possibly Soul And Fire.

"Soul and Fire"

Awww, Stephen always pops up to say, "_____ sucks". Wassup, troll?

"Too Pure" off Harmacy ... haven't heard much else but that is one fine tune.

Soul and Fire

people here that have only heard harmacy are listening to the worst sebadoh album

Man, Soul and Fire are is so good too. Here are my 5 favorites, if anyone cares:

Spoiled
Soul and Fire
Truly Great Thing
Skull
Insinuation

That could change.

vampire

It's probably not his best song, but I think "Hassles" is a standout.

emoh has some really great songs....

I've always liked "The Freed Pig"

people here that have only heard harmacy are listening to the worst sebadoh album

not too amused

Awww, Stephen always pops up to say, "_____ sucks". Wassup, troll?

i've been posting here for a while. so you're obviously only reading threads on music that sucks.

I think "Willing to Wait" from Harmacy is good enough to be a standard, but the production on that record kind of sinks it-- the solo acoustic version on the Morning Becomes Eclectic comp is great. You know what I love on the Kids Soundtrack is that "Raise the Bells" instrumental! (guess it's originally from a Folk Implosion record). I honestly think that is as good an interlude of that sort as anything Boards of Canada ever came up with.

Also "Ocean" from Harmacy is great. Lou has a lot of insight into relationships. Like, all of "Rebound":

"Beware," they say
But why would I listen
I want to know what I've been missing

That's a very tight synopsis of why it's almost impossible to reason with someone you care about who is heading into a bad relationship. You have to let go and let them fuck up and hope they survive it. It's an awful feeling and that song captures it rather well.

lou's songs, sadly, make me think of him on 'sex in the '90s.'

/old

underappreciated franklin bruno cover imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NOcIgBnEv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28yUf5l6egw

Daddy Never Understood

Poledo.

easy.

Brown Confessin'

Poledo would make top 5 for me

i happened to dig up the cover of 'riding' yesterday and was thinking how lou chose some amazing songs to cover, and generally did a p decent job even tho they are the kind of songs where covers are always going to struggle badly against the originals: riding + pink moon + everybody's been burned + blonde in the bleachers + erm, run to you

MInutemen ("sickles and hammers") and The Necros ("reject") as well...

He does a mean Round + Round (Ratt)

Total Peace, that song just slays me every time. SO beautiful.

lol steve albini and co were busting on lou barlow just days ago

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=56482

Re: Lou Barlow on Albini, Pavement and 90s sound

Postby Sowley on Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:39 am
I find a certain amount of frustration that I can't find the clip from MTV's "Sex In The '90s" of Lou Barlow sitting in a dark room queening out about his lady cheating on him.

He was wearing a Joy Division t-shirt no less.
Stephen Sowley
sow✧✧✧@electri✧✧✧.c✧✧

haha shit rong thread

haha repost in the correct one

OOh, Albini's lickspittles, bet he's dead scared

brand new love obvs

― cutty, Sunday, June 1, 2008 10:57 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

frbr

also:

ocean
skull
spoiled
true hardcore
magnet's coil
the freed pig
subtle holy gift
beauty of the ride

oh and natural one obvs

love "skull", but yeah "brand new love" (though I like Superchunk's version better)

Freed Pig

now that's a thread.

i like jaundice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJCBJZsij2w

and soul and fire.

other favourites:
true hardcore
homemade
one note tone

Forever Instant
Dirty Mind
Nitemare
Nothing Lasts
Natural Nature
Same Old, Say Mold
Hassle

^ forgot "jaundice"! think that was my intro to the badoh. bunch of keepers there. "sing the words of lust and life / dance to my ditty like you fuck your wife"

and sleeve OTM re "total peace" and jumpkins re "soul and fire"

they got a lot

Okay, just a few to get dudes thinking:

Stronger
More Simple
Feeding Evil
Broken (all versions)
Whitey Peach
It's So Hard To Fall In Love
Willing To Wait (Local Band Feel version)
Kath
Spoiled
K Sensa My

really don't like this guy outside of bakesale... magenet's coil & skull are listenable, but the survival-rate for any other songs only comes from the fact that dude is so completely evocative of the 90s (nostalgia)

psyched to see Dirty Mind, Nothing Lasts, and Natural Nature love above. the shrimper tape era was my first exposure and still gets play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28yUf5l6egw

Freed Pig
It's So Hard To Fall in Love
2 Years or 2 Days
Soulmate
Brand New Love
Renaissance Man
Total Peace

"Back To Your Heart" from Dino's "Beyond" is pretty much my favorite thing on that record.

Daddy Never Understood x100

I know you guys will be mad but I'm pretty sure Daddy Never Understood is Bob Fay, not Lou.

i know, i tried to keep myself to the true lou, but it's sometimes hard to tell

I'm not mad but in the video he's singing it so forgive me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwwiCVRuA98

but yeah "brand new love" (though I like Superchunk's version better)

― President Keyes, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

dunno dunno. tempted to take superchunk's "100000 fireflies" over the magnetic fields, in an instant their "lying in state" over the verlaines, but damn, would die for either sebadoh run through "brand new love". they did well with that, revisiting the old shit once they got ahold of tools, the version of "spoiled" on the kids soundtrack at least matches the original. but w all due respect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD3yeNfqU-c

I just downloaded the d.f.i. EP and there's a second version of Daddy Never Understood with a different guy singing, and I would guess that's Bob Fay.. Barlow might not have written the song, but he is def singing on the Kids version.

what lou up to these days?

http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/06/sebadoh-announce-defend-yourself-their-first-album-in-14-years/

"pulse" is phenomenal and so is "moving". bracing the wave lou

enjoying this spotify 'best of' in the absence of the real thing. https://open.spotify.com/user/1217230615/playlist/71Z2DvrxB71JDbEpWAOHGw
I'll stump for 'Perfect Way'.

walk like an egyptian

oh wait, that's the bangles

"Lose"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlcoOjqV7hk&t=1813s

oh, timestamps don't work...
30m13s into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlcoOjqV7hk

No votes for Violet Execution!!?

Answer is Freed Pig though obviously

^ Gaffney

Oh

For fans of the '87-93 home-recorded solo era, this bandcamp release is essential: https://sentridoh.bandcamp.com/album/child-of-the-apocalypse

Answer is Freed Pig though obviously

It really is. If I had to choose just one LB/Sebadoh song to play to someone, this would be it (obvious a choice as it may be).

i don't know a lot of his songs but when i see him play solo in greenfield i like this one a lot. a newer one. i like end of the world songs. he has a brand new single out actually.

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

i deejayed a lou solo show this year and a dino jr. show this year. this is my year of loobee.