scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:Frosting on the Beater is their grunge masterpiece. All the hits in one place.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:I think the first record "Failure" is really good as well but to my ears the albums you mentioned (the DGC years) are clearly their best stuff.
scannest wrote:gregpolard wrote:I think the first record "Failure" is really good as well but to my ears the albums you mentioned (the DGC years) are clearly their best stuff.
It's good, but not exactly my cup of tea. Is 'Acoustic Goth' a fair description?
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:I'm basically making these for Scannest.
version sound wrote:gregpolard wrote:I'm basically making these for Scannest.
My first question was going to be “are you sucking up to scannest?”
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:Sidenote:
It will never not be weird to me to think that there was a point in time where, AFTER that 3 record run of bangers in the 90s, Ken Stringfellow was in Lagwagon.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:gregpolard wrote:Sidenote:
It will never not be weird to me to think that there was a point in time where, AFTER that 3 record run of bangers in the 90s, Ken Stringfellow was in Lagwagon.
He's played with everyone, though, even Ringo. That's kind of his thing. But yeah, it's still kinda weird.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:JGJR wrote:gregpolard wrote:Sidenote:
It will never not be weird to me to think that there was a point in time where, AFTER that 3 record run of bangers in the 90s, Ken Stringfellow was in Lagwagon.
He's played with everyone, though, even Ringo. That's kind of his thing. But yeah, it's still kinda weird.
Yeah but Ringo makes sense. Lagwagon is something I would not have seen coming.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
scannest wrote:Ken also played with WHITE FLAG briefly. I think he was buddies with Pat Fear.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:Gonna be honest, the more I keep spinning the first album I'm kinda shocked you don't love this one too, scanny.
scannest wrote:gregpolard wrote:Gonna be honest, the more I keep spinning the first album I'm kinda shocked you don't love this one too, scanny.
Other than the "hits" (Blind Eyes Open & I May Hate You Sometimes...) it's never stuck with me. I discovered them with Dear 23 and went back to that one. It's so...thin by comparison, I've never returned to it all that much.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:Okay, calling the first record 'Acoustic Goth' was kinda dumb. More of a reference to their haircuts at the time than anything else. The songs are a really smart mix of '60s stuff like Zombies and the Left Banke, with shiny '80s Brit-pop like the Smiths, Housemartins, Style Counsel. And their close harmonies never sounded more like the Everly Brothers than they do on the first record. Still, it is mainly acoustic driven home demos. Given the monster band they'd become, it still sounds more like sketches than anything else.
Now Greg, the question remains - when are you gonna start a YOU AM I thread?
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
scannest wrote:gregpolard wrote:TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
You Am I's #4 Record is the best album the Replacements never released.
I'd swap out VELVET CRUSH for TFC on that list and it'd be pretty perfect.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:
In the Teenage Fanclub fans group on FB someone said the big Four of "power pop" is:
TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
gregpolard wrote:Great, now you're gonna make me take a Velvet Crush dive. Record, please?
jaybird wrote:gregpolard wrote:
In the Teenage Fanclub fans group on FB someone said the big Four of "power pop" is:
TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
P.S.: Nothing against any of these bands - they're all great - but no fucking way on Earth are any of them in "The Big Four" of power pop.
Power pop is a difficult genre to solidly define, because it spans several decades and easily bleeds into into other genres like punk, new wave, pop punk and even classic rock, but any of these would all be good first round Hall of Fame ballot choices for the real "Big Four" of power pop:
Cheap Trick
The Knack
The Raspberries
Badfinger
Big Star
The Nerves/Plimsouls
The Beat (Paul Collins)
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
jaybird wrote:P.S.: Nothing against any of these bands - they're all great - but no fucking way on Earth are any of them in "The Big Four" of power pop.
Power pop is a difficult genre to solidly define, because it spans several decades and easily bleeds into into other genres like punk, new wave, pop punk and even classic rock, but any of these would all be good first round Hall of Fame ballot choices for the real "Big Four" of power pop:
Cheap Trick
The Knack
The Raspberries
Badfinger
Big Star
The Nerves/Plimsouls
The Beat (Paul Collins)
gregpolard wrote:jaybird wrote:gregpolard wrote:
In the Teenage Fanclub fans group on FB someone said the big Four of "power pop" is:
TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
P.S.: Nothing against any of these bands - they're all great - but no fucking way on Earth are any of them in "The Big Four" of power pop.
Power pop is a difficult genre to solidly define, because it spans several decades and easily bleeds into into other genres like punk, new wave, pop punk and even classic rock, but any of these would all be good first round Hall of Fame ballot choices for the real "Big Four" of power pop:
Cheap Trick
The Knack
The Raspberries
Badfinger
Big Star
The Nerves/Plimsouls
The Beat (Paul Collins)
Easy there. I think they meant more from like late 80s/90's. And also they mentioned because of locale :
TFC (Scotland)
You Am I (Australia)
Sloan (Canada)
Posies (Murica)
gregpolard wrote:scannest wrote:Okay, calling the first record 'Acoustic Goth' was kinda dumb. More of a reference to their haircuts at the time than anything else. The songs are a really smart mix of '60s stuff like Zombies and the Left Banke, with shiny '80s Brit-pop like the Smiths, Housemartins, Style Counsel. And their close harmonies never sounded more like the Everly Brothers than they do on the first record. Still, it is mainly acoustic driven home demos. Given the monster band they'd become, it still sounds more like sketches than anything else.
Now Greg, the question remains - when are you gonna start a YOU AM I thread?
Edit: Adding that I kinda (lol) knew what you meant re: acoustic goth cause of the look they had, but also the Smithsy vibe to things that they seemed to shed after this record.
Funny you mention
In the Teenage Fanclub fans group on FB someone said the big Four of "power pop" is:
TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
scannest wrote:gregpolard wrote:TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
You Am I's #4 Record is the best album the Replacements never released.
I'd swap out VELVET CRUSH for TFC on that list and it'd be pretty perfect.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
JGJR wrote:gregpolard wrote:scannest wrote:Okay, calling the first record 'Acoustic Goth' was kinda dumb. More of a reference to their haircuts at the time than anything else. The songs are a really smart mix of '60s stuff like Zombies and the Left Banke, with shiny '80s Brit-pop like the Smiths, Housemartins, Style Counsel. And their close harmonies never sounded more like the Everly Brothers than they do on the first record. Still, it is mainly acoustic driven home demos. Given the monster band they'd become, it still sounds more like sketches than anything else.
Now Greg, the question remains - when are you gonna start a YOU AM I thread?
Edit: Adding that I kinda (lol) knew what you meant re: acoustic goth cause of the look they had, but also the Smithsy vibe to things that they seemed to shed after this record.
Funny you mention
In the Teenage Fanclub fans group on FB someone said the big Four of "power pop" is:
TFC
The Posies
Sloan
You Am I
I've never heard them. Give me a record and I will play tomorrow at work.
How are Fountains of Wayne not part of that conversation?
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:gregpolard wrote:Great, now you're gonna make me take a Velvet Crush dive. Record, please?
TEENAGE SYMPHONIES TO GOD
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:JGJR wrote:How are Fountains of Wayne not part of that conversation?
You'd have to ask the Teenage Fanclub Fanclub on FB
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:Bought a ticket for the Posies live stream on 7/24
scannest wrote:gregpolard wrote:Bought a ticket for the Posies live stream on 7/24
Can't do it. Done with the live streaming thing. I'll see them when I see them.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:Bumping this because thanks to Greg sending me this fabulous song, I've listened to Blood/Candy for the first time and really enjoying it. In fact, at least on first listen, the production appeals to me more than the '90s stuff, as do the very heavy Pet Sounds/Smile-era vibes here (but not especially on this track). I don't know if that's a hot take, but whatevs.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
Dinko wrote:I own most of their regular records, and here's how I rank them:
1. Amazing Disgrace
2. Nice Cheekbones
3. Blood/Candy
4. Success
5. Failure
6. Frosting
7. Dear 23
8. Every Kind of Light
9. Solid States
Auer's solo records are all close behind AD in my book.
Touched is the only Stringfellow album I listen to.
Love those Saltine songs.
And this compilation of coversongs is near perfect (the hidden track includes a nod to another song with very similar riffage... spoiler: It features a cowbell):
http://www.burningskyrecords.com/bsrposiesv2.php
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
Dinko wrote:"Hello, Oslo" is a great song. I think the Disciplines are still active. Somehow.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support ... legal-fund
Personally, I think that's kinda... strange?
scannest wrote:Dinko wrote:"Hello, Oslo" is a great song. I think the Disciplines are still active. Somehow.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support ... legal-fund
Personally, I think that's kinda... strange?
That GoFundMe thing is over 2 years old. I haven't heard Ken mention the band in a long time.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
version sound wrote:gregpolard wrote:I'm basically making these for Scannest.
My first question was going to be “are you sucking up to scannest?”
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