Oblivians vs Compulsive Gamblers vs Reigning Sound

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

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Kind of impossible for me. Compulsive Gamblers played a reunion show last night AND I FU@+)ING MISSED IT.

Gamblers for sure. I was lucky enough to go to a couple of the early-era shows with Impala, and Gambling Days Are Over is one of the best records to ever come out of Memphisto imo.

Impala played Friday night & they were fantastic! Simpletones/ Simple Ones, too (it was an Antenna reunion weekend extravaganza)

Was just at shangri la and greg was in there shopping.

i wonder if the gamblers will record another album together

i had thought about including bands in which cartwright was a temporary member, like the deadly snakes and '68 comeback, but that didn't seem proper.

i would put a poll up for Jack O's projects (tearjerkers, knaughty knights, cool jerks, south filthy, loose diamonds) but it probably wouldn't get three votes total.

i'mma say oblivions but i really don't have any reason except for nostalgia for certain seminal shows in my youth for in picking them over the others

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Went with Compulsive Gamblers over Oblivians because I play their records the most. Oblivions live were amazing though. Really dig Reigning Sound as well. Anything Greg or Jack does is gold to these ears.

Oblivians, no contest

the compulsive gamblers put out one of my top 5 straight up garage rock albums,

Bluff City, Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing, or another one? Was there another one? I'm curious

Gambling Days Are Over is their earliest, and my favorite.

Gotta be the Oblivians, like the others as well especially Too Much Guitar.

<3 <3 <3 reigning sound, but also haven't heard much of the others.

but basically greg cartwright is the best

WFMU's got a great collection of originals Greg has covered collected here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/08/songs.html

This is so hard, but I have to give it to The Oblivians. I loved how perfect and minimal they were, without ever getting precious about it. And they went out so strong with 9 Songs. Ther right album to end on for them, it pushed what they could be as far as they could without ever losing what made them great. Anybody see any of the reunion shows with The Gories?

But I also love the softer Reigning Sound stuff - Home For Orphans especially.

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reptile style.

you brought me poison apples on a silver tray

hahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9P809LDGI

"this is the only person that's fuckin doin anything tonight... can i say 'doin anything tonight?'"

New Reigning Sound coming up on Merge, recorded at Daptone, mostly new band.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/garage-rocker-greg-cartwright-grows-up-and-branches-out-1403801140

New song here, not blowing me away: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/06/26/reigning-sound-revisits-young-love-in-my-my-song-premiere/

I just finally heard something from that 2014 album due to algorithm and couldn’t believe it was them/him.

A statement from Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright.
Note: the band's final show is a hometown gig in Memphis Friday: https://t.co/mUYCTDkQNM
& for those who cannot attend the last show, the "Memphis in June" LP is now streaming:https://t.co/tc6rDNcsN0
Thank you to all the fans! pic.twitter.com/Q3UlOeZNm2

— Reigning Sound (@ReigningSound1) June 8, 2022

Reigning Sound calling it quits.

Gotta say I didn't always care for the direction RS went, but Time Bomb High School and Too Much Guitar were absolutely two of the mightiest rock records of the 2000s, and it always irked me that the music press never really did a thing for them while fawning over trendier garage-throwback bands. Greg Cartwright's two most prominent backers in the media have been Tom Scharpling and fucking Beto O'Rourke.

Same. I also loved Break Up, Break Down even though it was a much more chill affair than the two that followed. I spent a lot of time in the oughts watching these guys just torch tiny stages all over Memphis.

Saw the last show in Memphis this weekend and it was a gig to remember. Part of a free outdoor concert series in a park, so a ton of the crowd was just normal folks who didn’t know who they were, just rocking out to a catchy band on a summer night in the park. Front of the stage was 50% weepy garage-rock lifers and 50% kids under 10 dancing like crazy and playing inflatable toy guitars.

I like Greg’s turn to mellow singer-songwriter elder statesman, but I get how folks could find not v exciting after what came before. As a live act they never lost their teeth though imho, and they ripped through the hits from Time Bomb and Too Much Guitar on Friday with as much fire as back in the day.