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Originally Posted by TheMadcapLaughs
i've only seen the oh sees live once, opening for erase errata, and i was not overly impressed.
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That must've been a while back and a few incarnations and styles ago. You should definitely see them again for the first time. Thee Oh Sees are just absolutely godly live whether they play up to the crowd's excitement at more of a punk-vibe show, or vibe out in a more psychedelic way at a more West Coasty float-with-the-breeze-kinda show.
Where to start recordings-wise?? That's not so easy, really. The discography is dizzying and ranges through a lotta styles. Many of the records sold out before they were ever shipped. So, it might be best to just suggest picking up whichever one's available conveniently enough.
The Master's Bedroom... is probably the consensus pick for starter suggestions, though. The
Zork's Tape Bruise singles collection LP plus bonus CD of even more stuff would also suit that purpose fine. Long-time fans who were spoiled by the consistently upward trajectory of the quality of songwriting and brilliance of the production and arrangement and perfect mental zoning of the recording session were sorta disappointed by last year's
Help. But that's still a fine album, albeit more of a "rock" record. Of course, certain moments of it are worthy of the loftiest praise, such as the sublime panflute solo that plays out the end of "Meat Step Lively".
If you think that Thee Oh Sees are not Dwyer's best band of his life so far, you are not looking at it objectively. You can have nostalgia for earlier projects because they all gave great live performances (you really can expect nothing less from him ever) and they all have some merit on record as well, but they were all much more single-track-minded, and all examples of doing what comes easy for a young fellow who was living from one party to the next. Oh Sees at their best are an outstanding synergy of spontaneity and exquisite craft.