Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Anyway, "Sleep Is Wrong" is great stuff...

just saw them live recently at the triple rock here in minneapolis.

the whole time i was thinking "wow this is the type of patton math metal shit that usually drives me apeshit but somehow this is absolutely great"....they are basically the wacked out, theatrical, cabaret metal band that i always WISH System of a Down would be....it's got that epicness that they hint at during their "self righteous suicide" moment but never quite go the full measure....

great industrially clang metal percussionist and carla b. from the geraldine fibbers (i think maybe tom waits too) plays violin and sings....the singer is a frickin' character....kinda deep voiced ominous interludes than higher swooning crooning david bowie/klaus nomi raised on metal type stuff.....I just borrowed "Sleepytime Gorrilla Museum of Natural History" their new album from a friend and it's great....

Matt is wrong about Carla, it's Carla Kilstedht (sp?) not Bozulich.

from the "sophomore albums" thread...

'grand opening' is amazing, but 'of natural history' is still leaps and bounds ahead. I listened to 'grand opening' over and over and was actually reluctant to get the follow-up because of my unreasonably high expectations, but it totally floored me. it's absolute genius - essentially one segmented song, simultaneously more engaging and more bizarre, greater rythmic complexity, less repetitive, nils and carla's voices are vastly improved and more dominant...the first two songs alone destroy the debut.

and I don't count the live album. I prefer to think it didn't happen, as it's absolutely godawful. badly recorded stopgap crap chockful of pointless skits. you're better off with one of the many bootlegs.

-- mister the guanoman (inf...), September 27th, 2006. (mister the guanoman)

dude have you seen them live lately? fucking amazing. I thought they could never replace the orig drummer (Frank?) or Mo but somehow they've gotten even better.

I agree that the live album sucks.

-- sleeve version 2.0 (sleev...), September 27th, 2006. (sleeve testing)

also,

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

no.

*seethes*

they've never played in the UK. I met trey spruance at an ASVA gig, and he told me that SC3 and SGM were going to tour europe in spring 2006. lying cavalier-bearded swine!

no, you're right. they're ten a penny (a dime a dozen in the US),and completely unoriginal. countless bands are doing that whole junkshop-mr-bungle-meets-a-meshuggaed-up-king-crimson-at-a-backwoods-kurt-weill-fanclub-outing-to-jesus-christ-superstar schtick.

excessive, overblown, camp, perhaps, but silly...? maybe. but why is that a bad thing? it's not just silly, in a bonzo doo dah sense. they're also super-technical, heavy as a neutron bastard, rock riduculously hard, and employ beautiful harmonies and inventive structures, what more could you ask for...?

but anyway, besides the point: there are moments on some of their records that are totally brilliant. other times, shit kinda drives me crazy.

fwiw, I probably listen to the Faun Fables record more often.

...like i said before, for some reason i was enjoying it way more than i should have for how much i don't like most patton-type metal progresso shizz.

i saw meshuggah open for tool and i thought it was boring as shit, sleepytime was way more entertaining to me.

if SGM aren't weird i'll eat my hat. that's not a figure of speech. i'll literally eat my hat like a big fuzzy crepe.

i listen to plenty of experimental/avant/outsider with my stoner rock and i'd say SGM are on solid ground in terms of originality.
yeah, there's a lot of people out there who are at least as weird, but there's a lot of different ways to be weird, wouldn't you say?

Clearly they aren't for everybody. I find this odd since I've never met anyone who didn't like them at least in a live context once exposed to their music. But the internet is a much bigger place than my West Coast circle of friends.

Perhaps some of my appreciation comes from knowing them as people (and as Idiot Flesh), I'm always a sucker for nice folks in bands. And fwiw, I think they're genuinely weird outsiders as opposed to "cultivated weirdness" or the "novelty music" xhuxk referred to on that other thread.

No, fuck that, they are awesome. chaki was right.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/3782

While they were visiting we dug out the lyrics from the library to This Heat's SPQR and they wound up recording an amazing version of it for a 7" later.

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