I have no clue what that Urban Adult Contemporary (heh heh heh) linkage is about, but I want to offer my admiration for your possessing Luke Haines's best work:
Hey, that's no Urban Adult Contemporary! That's Erykah Badu!
The Auteurs are great, though I have to admit that, the farther out from the 90s we get, the more unwilling I am to listen to 90s-style rock production. Still, great stuff. I've only got Now I'm a Cowboy, should I assume you would recommend tracking down the others?
Absolutely. You need to listen to New Wave, it's the one that really matters to my high esteem for the Auteurs.
I saw them at the old 9:30 in DC, they rocked it solid.
You won't hear that Albini-esque, grating-guitar production on New Wave.
One thing about the 90s production era -- at least there weren't highly-compressed, tinny, trebly productions with endless syndrums. Talk about something getting old... I have a really hard time listening to a lot of my vinyl from the 80s for that reason. So many good bands and great albums ruined by that stuff. I'd love to have someone bust out the old masters and re-master them with a bigger, more open sound... and dub in some organic drums to replace the stupid syndrums.
Did I remember to mention how much I hate syndrums!
PS: Sometimes the Albini Factor is a blessing. I think Nirvana's best album is In Utero and I think a big part of the reason why is Albini's input. And the grating guitars can be good in some contexts, my favorite Fugazi album is In on the Kill Taker, which is very metallic, grating, corrosive in its sound.
The only syndrum sound I liked in the 80s was what Bruford was doing with the then-current iteration of King Crimson.
Most times, the syndrum's sound makes me cringe when set against the sounds of organic guitars.
I like electronic music, so I don't mind the syndrum when it's coupled with other synthesized sounds. I can almost understand the appeal of Animal Collective, that's how generous I am toward the syndrum in proper context.
Heh heh heh.
I'll be interested in how you think New Wave compares to Now I'm a Cowboy. You should also listen to the Albini-produced After Murder Park, which is good but not quite what New Wave is/was.
I'm not as keen on Haines's other work with Black Box Recorder and Baader Meinhof, at least not from what I've heard from those two groups.
My feelings on Animal Collective: unceasingly wonderful up to and including Feels, utterly worthless afterward.
Electronic percussive music: do you like Ikue Mori? I find her just astounding, both for her apparent ability to instantly pick up virtuosity in whatever instrument she feels like, and for her sense of composition.
I listened to New Wave, excellent stuff! Possibly quite a lot better than Now I'm a Cowboy, though that one has familiarity on its side. Thanks for the recommendation.
I kind of love Black Box Recorder, but probably only because I'm a faggot and that is some campy shit.
You mean I can blame not liking Black Box Recorder on my liking women? Dang. A revelation, that is!
I still remember listening to the song "England Made Me" and wondering what sort of context/background/influence created that song. It went over my head, or under my feet, or whizzing past me somehow. Didn't quite get it.
Can't say I'm a connoisseur of electronic -- I got into it reluctantly, my hand forced by Radiohead's album Kid A, being curious as to why they'd change direction and what they were doing, what they were listening to. When I lasted worked full-time for The Man, I had an eMusic account and would spend down-time at work scouring eMusic for things that might interest me in the electronic genre. Mostly what I've got and enjoyed was compilation stuff. I like electronic for solo MTB rides, the hyper-regular beat is good for lengthy climbs, it distracts me and keeps me from thinking about how much I hate the work involved in climbing. The one album that works best for me is Hydra - Super Human.
The more the electronic music sounds like it was self-generated by a thinking computer, the less I tend to like it. The more it sounds like rock, the more I like it.
Animal Collective I stumbled across while cross-referencing bands on Allmusic, and saw that they had a highly-regarded album called Merriwether Post Pavilion. I listened to several of the cuts and found them just a bit too treacly for my taste.
Glad you liked New Wave. I like the snide, sarcastic lyrics as much as I like the folky, glammy take on rock.
Ethan's working through his music collection in alphabetical order
The next five artists he'll be listening to:
The Clash The Clientele Jimmy Cliff Patsy Cline Clinic
(Project began May 29, 2010. Finished through the letter B on April 1, 2011 with 460 items catalogued on Rate Your Music.)
Ethan's reading
Samuel R. Delany Triton aka Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Thoughts that aren't getting whole posts
- I just caught my cat licking one of my dirty shirts. When he saw I was watching, he pretended he'd been cleaning himself all along. -ethan 9/23/11
- I didn't know The Pixies covered "I've Been Waiting for You"! So on Heathen, David Bowie covered The Pixies AND a song they covered? Weird. -ethan 9/21/11
- Dangerous Visions is so goddamn macho. And like half the writers are military or "intelligence" or government or advertising dudes. It largely bites. -ethan 9/10/11
- I wish people would figure out that "HD" is not even close to "like you're actually there"--it's completely different from how we really see things. If they figured that out, maybe it would occasionally be used interestingly. -ethan 9/9/11
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars has its major problems, but it looks like a series of living Nicholas Roerich paintings. -ethan 9/3/11
- I just plain don't like Brian Aldiss. -ethan 8/31/11
- Here, at least, it was a good hurricane. I'm embarrassed by how happy I was when the electricity came back on. -ethan 8/28/11
- Is it my imagination or is IOZ way more open about genuinely caring about things since his return? -ethan 8/26/11
- Does Firefox constantly tell British people that they're spelling labour and programme and theatre wrong? -ethan 8/25/11
- There is a huge (and hugely important) difference between knowing that events a, b, and c happened between years x and y, and understanding that they were happening at the same time. -ethan 8/24/11
- Among the many things bugging me about the crappy novel I'm reading is that it keeps referring to a woman whose "late teens" were "forty years ago" as a "little old lady." Come on now, she's 59 at the oldest. -ethan 8/22/11
- Spending a day in the woods is the best thing in the world. -ethan 8/21/11
- Maria Mies: "Powerless groups, particularly if they are totally integrated within a system of power and exploitation, find it difficult to define reality differently from the powerful." -ethan 8/20/11
- The funniest sentence in Frankenstein: "I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition." -ethan 8/18/11
- Chumbawamba: "Nothing ever burned down by itself/Every fire needs a little bit of help." -ethan 8/18/11
- We'll see if I use this. Idea stolen from Davidly. -ethan 8/18/11
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I have no clue what that Urban Adult Contemporary (heh heh heh) linkage is about, but I want to offer my admiration for your possessing Luke Haines's best work:
The Auteurs.
Hey, that's no Urban Adult Contemporary! That's Erykah Badu!
The Auteurs are great, though I have to admit that, the farther out from the 90s we get, the more unwilling I am to listen to 90s-style rock production. Still, great stuff. I've only got Now I'm a Cowboy, should I assume you would recommend tracking down the others?
Absolutely. You need to listen to New Wave, it's the one that really matters to my high esteem for the Auteurs.
I saw them at the old 9:30 in DC, they rocked it solid.
You won't hear that Albini-esque, grating-guitar production on New Wave.
One thing about the 90s production era -- at least there weren't highly-compressed, tinny, trebly productions with endless syndrums. Talk about something getting old... I have a really hard time listening to a lot of my vinyl from the 80s for that reason. So many good bands and great albums ruined by that stuff. I'd love to have someone bust out the old masters and re-master them with a bigger, more open sound... and dub in some organic drums to replace the stupid syndrums.
Did I remember to mention how much I hate syndrums!
(apologies to Ms Badu)
PS: Sometimes the Albini Factor is a blessing. I think Nirvana's best album is In Utero and I think a big part of the reason why is Albini's input. And the grating guitars can be good in some contexts, my favorite Fugazi album is In on the Kill Taker, which is very metallic, grating, corrosive in its sound.
I love drum machines, though obviously it's very easy to use them poorly. 80s mainstream percussion production is atrocious.
I have magically acquired New Wave and will listen to it shortly.
The only syndrum sound I liked in the 80s was what Bruford was doing with the then-current iteration of King Crimson.
Most times, the syndrum's sound makes me cringe when set against the sounds of organic guitars.
I like electronic music, so I don't mind the syndrum when it's coupled with other synthesized sounds. I can almost understand the appeal of Animal Collective, that's how generous I am toward the syndrum in proper context.
Heh heh heh.
I'll be interested in how you think New Wave compares to Now I'm a Cowboy. You should also listen to the Albini-produced After Murder Park, which is good but not quite what New Wave is/was.
I'm not as keen on Haines's other work with Black Box Recorder and Baader Meinhof, at least not from what I've heard from those two groups.
My feelings on Animal Collective: unceasingly wonderful up to and including Feels, utterly worthless afterward.
Electronic percussive music: do you like Ikue Mori? I find her just astounding, both for her apparent ability to instantly pick up virtuosity in whatever instrument she feels like, and for her sense of composition.
I listened to New Wave, excellent stuff! Possibly quite a lot better than Now I'm a Cowboy, though that one has familiarity on its side. Thanks for the recommendation.
I kind of love Black Box Recorder, but probably only because I'm a faggot and that is some campy shit.
You mean I can blame not liking Black Box Recorder on my liking women? Dang. A revelation, that is!
I still remember listening to the song "England Made Me" and wondering what sort of context/background/influence created that song. It went over my head, or under my feet, or whizzing past me somehow. Didn't quite get it.
Can't say I'm a connoisseur of electronic -- I got into it reluctantly, my hand forced by Radiohead's album Kid A, being curious as to why they'd change direction and what they were doing, what they were listening to. When I lasted worked full-time for The Man, I had an eMusic account and would spend down-time at work scouring eMusic for things that might interest me in the electronic genre. Mostly what I've got and enjoyed was compilation stuff. I like electronic for solo MTB rides, the hyper-regular beat is good for lengthy climbs, it distracts me and keeps me from thinking about how much I hate the work involved in climbing. The one album that works best for me is Hydra - Super Human.
The more the electronic music sounds like it was self-generated by a thinking computer, the less I tend to like it. The more it sounds like rock, the more I like it.
Animal Collective I stumbled across while cross-referencing bands on Allmusic, and saw that they had a highly-regarded album called Merriwether Post Pavilion. I listened to several of the cuts and found them just a bit too treacly for my taste.
Glad you liked New Wave. I like the snide, sarcastic lyrics as much as I like the folky, glammy take on rock.
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