Fuck that. Hey Severin, Mortte was talking shit about your mama behind your back. You gonna take that?



My go to album for ambient. Seriously, love this album and goes to the top of the list.

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..and the best tracks from the others, including The Amps. I assume everyone agrees Kim Deal is some sort of savant genius? Does anyone not appreciate how unbelievably good she is?

Love this one, "Satan's Jewel Crown" especially.

it's sort of an inexhaustible piece of music


kim is fucking great. i see no pixies without her. yes, they call themselves the pixies and sure the talent is there but it's not the same thing.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone feels this way and always will. I haven't listened to the Pixies in ages, and they almost never cross my mind. But when they do, I think of Kim's smoky, ageless voice. It's what made them great. Frank's banshee shrieks and warped mind and Joey's meandering leads were definitely part of what made them good. But Kim pushed them over the top.

Can't have the Pixies without Kim Deal. I don't know or care what they're doing these days, but there's nothing Pixies about it.

And Pod is better than at least half the Pixies records. Gotta love Mountain Battles too, and even Title Tk, but Pod is just perfect.

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Cool. Whatever she added to the Pixies, her post-Pixies stuff seems to me more important, because it fully reveals a writing voice just as singular as Frank's. Her brain is fascinating. Her chord progressions can get really goofy and her lyrics are insane, but it all makes catchy sense. She's nuts enough to think of this stuff in her head, but level enough to get it out into the world. Sometimes. One of a kind. Rock n' roll HOF material!

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I remember when I picked this up, right after it came out, in 1990. I picked it up on the strength of a review I'd read in some local Virginia Beach underground rag--and knowing that it was Deal's project. It blew me away. I'd been a huge Pixies fan, got into Doolittle, the year before, and I thought that could not be topped. This came out, and it got some attention from the underground press back then, but not nearly as much as I thought it deserved.

Lovely.

There is an admirably achieved, and barely submerged, sensation of malevolent evil resonating within the grooves of several of these songs.

Yes, it´s the best song of that album. As an album I liked little bit more Gliding Bird, but I think I have to give more listens to Elite Hotel. Going to listen her latest outputs, I really love her vocals in Caves & Ellises Lawless-soundtrack.

Yes! I really love his Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow & Hurdy Gurdy Man -albums. And also the hippie a Gift From a Flower to a Garden (one of the first double-albums, well I think Zappa´s Freak Out! is the first. Or Dylan´s Blonde On Blonde?). Almost all songs in that compilation seem to be from those albums.

Plus, his daughter, dude... Hooooooooo YEAH!

Yes, she looks fabulous! I am not sure, have I seen her films, I am not a film freak.

LET'S MASH SHIT UP!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17AiDQ2b0ww&list=PLwNc4vhQDgFTptrtgo_lDqYH WbE2ZappE&index=4

hoooooleeeeee shittttttt!!

GENIUS

that is amazing

even the titles mash up perfectly

probably the only record one will ever need for eternity

Streaming a preview of the *new AFX EP*... Sometimes life doesn't completely eat shit, you know?

yo AFX is coming out hard now that he's out of hiatus. props.

Are you guys serious? This is out of my sense of humour or then I am just so old-fashioned.

i wasn't joking. i haven't given it a full listen because of youtube probems with my internet but the 10 or so minutes i could hold i loved it.

ended up going to sleep with metal machine music in my ears last night. it was so... soothing.

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anyway this morning i have this

https://play.google.com/store/music/...7esubmeggdmo2e

i wish i could understand what it says-- though better not-- the 2nd one appears to be religious-- egh... but great voice and throat singing chorus in the back

deerhoof - the man, the king, the girl (1997)

love me some early deerhoof. i love how you can here some of their then-future work in this.

Listen some Bernardo Zizi from tube. I really like his sound and also his choir. I believe it´s religious, but doesn´t bother me, it has just so great spirit! Reminds me spiritually little bit this (that I also enjoy even I am not Christian:

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

This is so beautiful song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnmV0Wh760

the Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp

What a great and really underrated album!

Here´s the great ending where is easy to hear what was about to come:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLukUKA1khM

I have never heard this album, but isn't this the precursor to King Crimson? I am intrigued. Will check it out as soon as I have the chance.

Oooh yeah, this is such a good album. It's hard to believe this is the same band that recorded Breakup Song... Or even Holdypaws for that matter.

I would like to see TMTKTG re-issued alongside Holdypaws and Halfbird in an affordable box set format, kinda like the Flamigg Lips did with The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg, containing Priest Driven Ambulance, Mushroom Tapes and various odds and ends from the pre-Warner Bros period. It would be cool to have all the pre-Reveille Deerhoof in one place.

Serious. Hey, I mean, it's a mashup of two of ambient music's most iconic recordings. Sure, Metal Machine Music took a lot of crap, and continues to polarize, but ultimately it was (mostly) vindicated by its influence, and by the passing of time. Now it's hard to imagine a world without it.

Ben Frost's A U R O R A would probably have been a considered a joke in 1975 as well. So would Goodbye 20th Century, and possibly a good portion of the music we discuss here.

Not sure about the cover... needs work... But I would throw down cold hard cash on a physical copy of this in a hot minute.

Yes. Giles brothers sought singing keyboard player, only one who answered was Fripp who was non-singing guitarist. Anyway they hired him. They made only this album, soon Ian McDonald joined and when Peter Giles left and Gregg Lake became they changed name to King Crimson. This album is much more popsy than KC, but still really interesting. After this album also Judy Dyble from Fairport Convention was short time in the group and they recorded demo-version from this KC-song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCt1QI6v_5o

I LOVE Metal Machine Music! Not heard that Eno-piece, a little bit of what l listened it doesn´t sound very interesting to me. I don´t know, I haven´t quite understood the genius of Eno. Maybe I will some day. Anyway this "collaboration" just sounded me quite artificial. That ambient, peaceful sounds together with Lou´s "skriiiiik" etc...just made me think it´s ridiculous. Maybe working as some sort of joke. How about mixing together Sgt. Peppers & Their satanic majesties request?

I love also goodbye 20th Century. Sometimes I have felt the greatest genius in music is something most of the people think just a joke. I mean it sounds really mad, but still doesn´t change into humour music. I think Frank Zappa is great example sliding between genius music & humour music.

NO! Frank Zappa is an ENEMY of ROCK AND ROLL.

She's been in about 40 movies. You've probably seen Say Anything, the flick in which John Cusack holds a boombox over his head (incidentally, the song coming out of that thing was supposed to be The Replacements' "Within Your Reach", but the studio wanted something mainstream and Cameron Crowe caved; things could've turned out differently for the Mats...). More recently-ish, she had a small part in Zodiac, a movie bookended by Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man".

The greatest thing EVER, ANYWHERE, in the history of EVERYTHING, is Lee Elia's April 29, 1983 tirade against Chicago Cubs fans. Context: at the time, Wrigley Field still didn't have lights to hold night games, so the Cubs, who were having a horrible season, only played during the day. You'll see why this little information is relevant. Prepare for the sublime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGcwE4FtGw

That movie, despite being only so-so and kind of meandering, and altogether irrelevant historically, is exactly why "Hurdy Gurdy Man" gives me the creeps...

The opening scene is particularly eerie.

Even when he's not really on his a-game, David Fincher can direct his fuckin' ass off.

Hell yeah. Even the worst Fincher movies are great.

And the best ones are just magnificent. I've always really enjoyed the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, even though it was pretty traditional, heartstring tugging Hollywood fare.... It was just beautifully filmed and the story was exquisitely told. I don't even care much for the original Fitzgerald story, but I think the film was big Hollywood at its very best.

I also have a serious fascination with general fiction stories that border on or include elements of the fantastic or the absurd without lapsing into faerie and losing all believability.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was quite something as well. It's a shame that franchise was dropped. Probably my favorite of the Reznor and Ross scores.

And Fight Club is tolerable, I suppose ;)
I just picked up a deluxe, special DVD edition of FC for a couple bucks in a used bookstore the other day.

Haven't seen Gone Girl yet, but I love the soundtrack.

i've like wye oak lots since their first album, and saw them live and they're great live-- the dude plays like 5 instruments at the same time which at the same time impressive and a bit hilarious. they used to sound a bit like yo la tengo-- not a copy, just a kind of relatedness.

but i haven't liked every album-- a recent one (i forget the name) was a bit too polished & poppy for my taste. but it wasn't cringeworthy or anything as i recall. myabe it's that one you posted? not sure. i should re-check them & sort them out by name.


you have spotty-fried, yes? do a search for "modas" (album) and you should get 6 volumes of this good stuff. zizi has one, there are 5 others i'm working through. the 2nd i like better-- seems to be about emigrants going to work in factories-- or at least that's what i invent when i distinguish various loose words. it's great though.

at the end of each-- i don;t know what to call it-- the chorus goes briefly bananas like a bunch of alley cats. i wish there was a track of pure that.

I'm bouncing back and forth between new releases by RDJ and FKA Twigs which I've purchased on iTunes over the past day or so. The new AFX is still only half available and in pre-order status. Should be ready by Friday.

The new FKA Twigs leaves no room for doubt. This woman is one of the best artists around.