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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ratioci nation on May 10, 2004, 11:19:00 pm
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Anybody else planning on being at Iota tomorrow night?
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I have a dinner, but may see if I can get by after. I'm dining with some parents of little kids, so I may be able to make it for Destroyer... I'll miss Frog Eyes -- are they miss-able?
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Originally posted by Macktastic Bag O' Flash:
I have a dinner, but may see if I can get by after. I'm dining with some parents of little kids, so I may be able to make it for Destroyer... I'll miss Frog Eyes -- are they miss-able?
I don't think Frog Eyes would be your favorite, so yes I think you should feel ok about missing them, but I am looking forward to seeing them.
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Although I wonder about Destroyer as well (I don't have any albums) -- from your fave ezine:
"Let me get this off my chest right away: Your Blues, the latest album from Vancouver-based singer/songwriter and New Pornographers contributor Daniel Bejar, could be the soundtrack for a Sega Genesis game about kittens studying post-structuralism. It is host to unapologetic MIDI instrumentation, glaringly theatrical vocals, and that ubiquitous but rarely implemented synth preset called "aah voice." Much more so than with any other Destroyer album, the aesthetic of Your Blues can be intensely jarring, and will likely annoy the fuck out of many, many people."
Though the followup is quite glowing:
"Ultimately, though, it's the most initially vexing aspects of Your Blues that prove the most endearing, memorable, and surprisingly touching. Like Bejar's 2002 release This Night, Your Blues constitutes a fundamental challenge to deeply ingrained conventions of sincerity and emotional honesty. The record's conceptual brilliance lies largely in Bejar's ability to craft deeply moving passages out of ostensibly artificial and contrived elements, subtly suggesting that all music, if not all human expression, is in effect some sort of artifice. Bejar's critical engagement with codified aesthetic techniques certainly renders Your Blues a less immediately "accessible" record, and can at first come off as kitschy or detached. But the album's unique and defiant expression makes this the most holistically accomplished album Bejar has released to date."
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Originally posted by Macktastic Bag O' Flash:
from your fave ezine:
Equiworld Ezine reviewed Destroyer?
I was actually surprised you would want to see Destroyer.
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No, it was Pitchfork.... :p
I just thought it might be an interesting show; I keep seeing his/their name pop up. I see you're thinking it may not be my cup o' tea.
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destroyer reminds me of when glam rock was artsy and challenging and literate, like bowie circa ziggy stardust and hunky dory , and t rex from 1970-1972. bejar's vocals are often difficult to digest, but that's what i like about them. his lyrics are also often indecipherable and cryptic, but when juxtaposed against catchy melodies, it works fine. i don't know if anyone here is familiar with the obscure -- and phenomenal -- british prog band van der graaf generator, but bejar's vocals remind me of peter hammill's.
anyway, i am aiming to see john renbourn and jacqui mcshee of the pentangle at jammin' java, if i get out of work by 8. if i work late, i'll go see destroyer instead. i'm wearing a white neil young shirt today.
has anybody heard frog eyes?
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Originally posted by snailhook:
has anybody heard frog eyes?
yeah, think along the same lines of vocals as destroyer but more screwed up, and less immediately catchy music, but good moments in there
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"vocals like destroyer but more screwed up" sounds just fine to me.
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I'll be there. I got a haircut for it.
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Here is one Frog Eyes song
http://www.absolutelykosher.com/musicfiles/One%20In%20Six%20Children%20Will%20Flee%20In%20Boats.mp3 (http://www.absolutelykosher.com/musicfiles/One%20In%20Six%20Children%20Will%20Flee%20In%20Boats.mp3)
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Originally posted by snailhook:
anyway, i am aiming to see john renbourn and jacqui mcshee of the pentangle at jammin' java, if i get out of work by 8. if i work late, i'll go see destroyer instead. i'm wearing a white neil young shirt today.
Oh, shit! I would have loved to have seen that show. If Bert Jansche(sp?) had been with them, I would have had to kill myself for missing them.
Did you make it and if so, how was it?
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jaguar, that's cool that you're into pentangle...sometimes i feel like i'm preaching to a non-existent choir ;)
i did make it to jammin' java, but i got out of work at 9, so i missed the first half. i managed to see 40 minutes or so, and they played the same songs i saw them do last year. pentangle songs played were "cruel sister" (always awesome), "turn your money green", and "wedding dress". renbourn played a lot of his solo stuff. i'd go to charlottesville to see them again if mission of burma weren't playing on saturday.
i'd kill to see bert jansch, too. he's only toured in america once in the past decade, and he didn't come anywhere near where i was living at the time. apparently, he played at birchmere with renbourn and mcshee back in 2000, but i was in boston at the time.
so how was destroyer?
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Can I get a report from someone who made it to last night's show? I had a kickball game... and learned the hard way that you're not allowed to overrun thrid base-- who knew? Well, even though I had a shameful out, the team won. Huzzah!
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I enjoyed the show, but it was pretty uneven.
The sound at the beginning of Frog Eyes was pretty bad, and he is hard enough to understand with good sound. But I thought it was great towards the end of the set. I don't think a lot of the small crowd was that in to it.
I am not sure if the band for Destroyer was backing up the guy from Frog Eyes or if Frog Eyes was backing up Dan Bejar of Destroyer, but when Destroyer played it was just him and the same people from Frog Eyes. I enjoyed it but it did not sound like the album versions of the songs, they were a bit rougher and while it worked well for some songs, it did not for others.
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
Can I get a report from someone who made it to last night's show? I had a kickball game... and learned the hard way that you're not allowed to overrun thrid base-- who knew? Well, even though I had a shameful out, the team won. Huzzah!
you're not allowed to overrun second base either.
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
Can I get a report from someone who made it to last night's show? I had a kickball game... and learned the hard way that you're not allowed to overrun thrid base-- who knew? Well, even though I had a shameful out, the team won. Huzzah!
you're not allowed to overrun second base either. [/b]
I figure I'll learn that one the hard way eventually, too.
Thank god kickball is non-competitive... until the flip cup part...
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This article and quote were on http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/ (http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/)
http://www.indyweek.com/durham/current/musicspot2.html (http://www.indyweek.com/durham/current/musicspot2.html)
"If some people don't like how this stuff sounds live, I couldn't honestly care less," quips Destroyer's Dan Bejar, repeating himself above the Curtis Mayfield record blaring in the background. "If someone has a problem with the way I do this stuff with a band, they can always listen to the record when they get home."