I'm a bit so-so on the new Mountain Goats, too, but those albums always take a couple of weeks to really sink in.
My love for Darnielle knows no bounds, but I just don't like the new album. Too sad. Too mellow. To focused on one subject. Many of the lyrics are gut-punchers for sure - he's a badass at telling you how lonliness feels - the whole package is just not doing it for me. I'll give it another listen in a few weeks and see if things have changed.
In other news - I saw the Pavement documentary The Slow Century for the first time last night. It was really great, but it was also like the most boring Behind the Music ever. Very little drugs. No sex. No angrily quitting the band mid-performance. Just great music and relatively humble musicians talking about said music. What's up with that?
hmm. I think I'm going to have to find a good record store. There's one that I sort of know of, but I haven't been that impressed with their selection when I went in before. but they could probably give me leads on where to go to look.
But an album I bought last week that I cannot stop listening to is the new Thermals.
Have you heard their previous albums? I think I like them more. The new CD is mixed funny I think, with the vocals too far in front.
I just listened to Power, Corruption, Lies and I think I went into like a music coma. It was so ridiculously good.
Have you heard their previous albums?
My recent obsession caused me to download all I could get off their subpop page - two tracks from
Fuckin A
and
one from
More Parts Per Million.
I really like everything I've heard and need to buy the albums. Though nothing could possibly be as catchy as "No Culture Icons."
The vocals on the new album remind me of John Darnielle a bit actually - a friend who is a big Mountain Goats fan initially sent me the link for the video because he saw a similarity.
I am going back to KC this weekend and cannot wait to browse through my much-missed record stores in Lawrence and KC.
The Gang of Four's drummer now teaches at the Art Institute of Boston, btw.
Found out the other day that Steve Mallinder, former lead singer of Cabaret Voltaire, is now a Uni lecturer in Australia.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
I think there's some exhaustion with the prolonged death march, plus they haven't really been a cultural force for a long time.
But I will always remember being in college during those aformentioned '79-'83 years and reading the Village Voice at the library and drooling over the CBGBs schedules back then.
What's a mudd club?
It was the rock and roll disco downtown. They only played danceable R&R.
