I got myself into pavement by the way

been on a johnny thunders kick all morning

right now:

was listening the other day to the (new to me) yo la tengo album from last year

super mellow, so much so at times it veers into ambient (but it’s not all ambient).



there’s no riot here. for me definitely a late night album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aU_eiqR__I

You may also like pavement!

i actually cant stand them hahaha. ok maybe that’s an exaggeration but yeah. not my bag. they have many fans on this board though

oh, you said elsewhere youre not interested in 60s 70s classic rock shit, but this album might make you laugh your ass off anyway



i love that thing. so funny...

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
WE DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN...

Of course, I forgot to add...

Meet the new boss
SAME AS THE OLD BOSS...

Nice

Hey have you heard Fade from 2013? I forget.
That one’s good. Very strong, bleary, fuzzed our, melancholy record. Nice front-to-back listen.

From Magnet magazine, August 2015:
Exclusive Excerpt: Yo La Tengo Interviewed By Actor Michael Shannon


^ That's the intro; a good portion of the interview follows. Michael Shannon ROCKS!

glad i'm not the only one not into pavement..

listening to this witch mix.


https://www.mixcloud.com/straylandings/0019-witch/

Damn, Michael Shannon *does* rock :eek:

He also worships at the altar of Guided By Voices:

"I was a huge My Blody Valentine fan. Kevin and I met, and I just adored him. He has an abstract way of speaking that takes you right to the spheres. I gave him The Coral Sea and we sat among all his guitars and pedals at his studio in Camdem. We just trusted each other. We didn't do any practising. Kevin wanted a sofa onstage. During the performance, something happened with one of his pedals and it got louder and louder. I couldn't concentrate, so I threw the book aside and improvised the rest of it. At the end, I just laid down on the sofa and listened to Kevin. He was creating world upon world, taking me to a place where language was obsolete. That evening was an uncompromising merger of rock'n'roll and poetry, and it's one of the things I'm proudest of."

—Smith in 2012 on their performance at the 2005 Meltdown festival, which she curated.


"She curated Meltdown [in 2005] and it was also Robert Mapplethorpe's anniversary, and she had written a poem, The Coral Sea, about him, and she said I'd like to do something. She really liked Loveless. You know, Cat Power was also involved. It was me, Patti and Chan [Marshall] together. They came to my studio and we got chatting and Patti was really inspiring. She said, 'We've already won, we're doing this.' She showed me the book, explained how she liked to go off on tangents and we really connected. I really believed in her.

"I'd stopped using the tremolo arm in 1997. I'd purposely started using envelope filters when I played with Primal Scream [Shields was a touring member of the band between 1996 and 2006 and played on 2000's XTRMNTR and 2002's Evil Heat]. But one of the coolest things that happened with The Coral Sea was that Patti inspired me to start playing guitar again like I used to. We talked about it for three or four hours; we didn't even rehearse. Then I prepared a bunch of guitars, got it all ready to go and just was like, 'OK.'

"Then we did it onstage, in 2005. It was totally improvised. Then a year later, we did more. The second one was way more chaotic. I drowned Patti out, I went way overboard. I was too noisy, and that gave me a kick in the ass. But it was intense, focused on the moment, and then we got a double CD album out of it."

—Shields in 2019.

Pavement-Brighten The Corners

yeah, exactly. they keep mellowing with age haha. in a nice way though. love that band.

not quite the same thing, but of the same era—you’ve heard new order, yes? i know it sounds like a stupid question but you were born this century lol and how should i know. anyway, if you haven’t, listen to a bit of new order.

I am aware of New Order, but I have never listened to them. I'll keep them in mind for once I keep making my way through this backlog.

i think i remember you liked joy division?

after ian curtis died the rest of the band added a keyboardist embraced synthesizers became new order

i like them better than joy division (and mvb, lol)

different beast though

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Chimera Split Two

Man, everyone says New Order > Joy Division but I just cannot abide that.

For my dumb, uncultured ass, the band that made Unknown Pleasures & Closer is >>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBg_HbP69Y

i dont know this “everyone” that you speak of. i think there’s a thread about it here actually, and as i recall opinions were divided. who cares though? i mean... i don’t like it because other people like it... anyone who does that is an idiot. i just like what i like and my tastes change with time and that’s life. what’s interesting for me is to hear other people’s explanations.

anyway joy division was a great band, no doubt. but my problem with them now is i can always hear the hangman. i mean this constant drive towards depression and self obliteration that promptly tires me the fuck out.

new order was a great reinvention, and has a much larger output and were in more ways defining of their era. yes they at times made some horrendous unlistenable disco, but their best stuff i can listen to all day in every possible remix and not feel like i drank a bad batch of kombucha and now need medicine.

https://silentist.bandcamp.com/album/chariot-swing

i needed coffee

Joy Division Undercover - 40 years of Unknown Pleasures (1979-2019)
Peter Hook & the Light
Low - Transmission

In a parallel dimension, maybe. First time ever I hear such a thing. :confused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8C2Miuwp18