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Old 01-30-2007, 12:09 PM   #1
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how is he doing now?
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Old 01-30-2007, 12:12 PM   #2
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except you? maybe?

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 12:15 PM   #3
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Old 01-30-2007, 12:23 PM   #4
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don't make me sissy-kick you in the back of the head grampa!

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 12:37 PM   #5
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Anyone heard 'Superwolf'?

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 12:52 PM   #6
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yeah i love only someone running
and my home is the sea

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 12:52 PM   #7
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i wish i could whistle dammit cause i'd so whistle that solo.

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 01:28 PM   #8
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I'm sure he's fucked up, but his guitar leads, vocals, and song writing will always be awesome. Let's remember that if Matt and Pajo had their way, MSOTS wouldn't have been commercial-pop piece of crap.

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 02:24 PM   #9
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I'm sure he's fucked up, but his guitar leads, vocals, and song writing will always be awesome. Let's remember that if Matt and Pajo had their way, MSOTS wouldn't have been commercial-pop piece of crap.
But didn't Pajo play for like Tortoise and some other Indie groups?

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 02:46 PM   #10
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Old 01-30-2007, 03:11 PM   #11
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what a prick

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 03:12 PM   #12
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Nobody seems to notice that
HE HAS HIS OWN BAND CALLED -> CHAVEZ

They just reunited for a couple of shows scattered across the states in December, I don't know what they're doing next.

He reissued all of Chavez's albums in a 2xCD + DVD set called "Better Days Will Haunt You" > and its great

Matt Sweeney is a steller musician don't kid yourself.

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 03:36 PM   #13
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Can you upload "Better Days Will Haunt You" to YSI?

I'd love to hear it.

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 08:14 PM   #14
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don't Chavez songs feature a lot of stupid titles with the word trucker in them?

is sweeney a trucker?

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 10:25 PM   #15
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Chavez are pretty awesome. zwan fans STFU

Tortoise > Chavez, though

 
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Old 01-30-2007, 10:44 PM   #16
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Anyone heard 'Superwolf'?
That album is fucking awesome.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 08:32 AM   #17
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Based on activity in the last seven years, Matt Sweeney is a far, far better musician than Billy Corgan.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 08:34 AM   #18
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Based on activity in the last seven years, Matt Sweeney is a far, far better musician than Billy Corgan.

How in the fuck is this Smashing Pumpkins related?


WHY DON'T YOU CLOSE THIS THREAD, BOSS?

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 08:44 AM   #19
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How in the fuck is this Smashing Pumpkins related?


WHY DON'T YOU CLOSE THIS THREAD, BOSS?
hey hey, eat a bag of dicks.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 10:47 AM   #20
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How in the fuck is this Smashing Pumpkins related?


WHY DON'T YOU CLOSE THIS THREAD, BOSS?

WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 11:36 AM   #21
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I DON'T KNOW WHY HE'S SHOUTING. I AM WHISPERING OUT LOUD THOUGH.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 01:17 PM   #22
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Anyone heard 'Superwolf'?
YES! And i'm looking forward to checking it out. Do you have it?

Here's a good review that came out on pitchfork today:


http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...eney_Superwolf

Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney
Superwolf
[Drag City; 2005]
Rating: 8.4


In "My Home Is the Sea", Bonnie "Prince" Billy, voice thin and impossibly brittle, conveys proud love for his bulbous tummy, gleefully declaring it "round and firm and funny"-- just like him! Sardonic or not, this kind of belly-speak marks a rare moment of self-revelation for Will Oldham, who skewers accepted notions of static identity nearly every time he lowers his big, bearded jaw. Still, Oldham (appearing here as contemporary alter-ego Bonnie "Prince" Billy) is, ultimately, exactly what he says he is-- smart and tough and weird, an awkward, oddly charismatic songwriter just as well-suited to coughing up death-ballads as he is to giggling out ditties about his penis. Witness, again, the bitter joy of loyal Oldham-hood: He is simultaneously quiet and loud, both crushing and absurd, and filed in seven different places at the record store.
Superwolf, a new collaboration with guitar freelancer Matt Sweeney, sees Oldham at his squirrely best, squeaking out his finest songs since 1999's I See a Darkness. Superwolf marks Oldham's first official partnership with Sweeney, whose credits ******* a predictably brief stint axe-grinding in Billy Corgan's Zwan (alongside longtime Oldham buddy and Slint-forefather Dave Pajo), occasionally playing guitar in Guided by Voices, and fronting the long-departed Chavez (who released two revered full-lengths on Matador in the mid-90s).

Sweeney's participation in Superwolf was supposedly a response to a songwriting "challenge" from Oldham, and in addition to songwriting, Sweeney contributes backing vocals and guitar figures that echo Oldham's own blows, sometimes with eerie accuracy. But despite all that buddying up, Superwolf is still at times unnervingly spare-- Oldham and Sweeney's pauses can be devastating, and some of Superwolf's most powerfully convincing bits pop up between notes.

Opener "My Home Is the Sea" may sound an awful lot like late Grateful Dead (or, perhaps more specifically, like a slightly less raucous version of brother Ned Oldham's Anomoanon, who regularly employ Garcia-brand noodling and wild, space-rock somersaults), but most of Superwolf is quiet and intensely meditative, despite Sweeney's significant rock-inflections. Still, Oldham has always had a funny habit of inserting perverse, quasi-sexual shouts into otherwise-staid songs (see brutally confessional couplets rubbing up against phrases like "my horny horn"), and at least thematically, Superwolf's eleven tracks are predictably shifty-- "My Home Is the Sea" is rife with snarky lyric tricks (watch Oldham follow the momentarily devastating "I have often said/ That I would like to be dead" with a tiny pause and silent giggle, finally finishing with: "In a shark's mouth").

No matter who or what he calls himself, Will Oldham has always been uniquely capable of making colossal leaps in tone between breaths, and from track to track Superwolf nobly maintains that practice, drifting gracefully from classic-rock stomps to whispery dirges. Consequently, Oldham followers may recognize Superwolf as a welcome midway point between Oldham's past aliases, as it hops from shambling, Viva Last Blues-ish, Palace Music-era shakes to dark, Master and Everyone haunts. "Beast for Thee" matches a gorgeous, barely-there melody with self-deflating lyrics ("Why are you kind to me?/ You could so easily take me in your arms and see/ A donkey"), Oldham's quivering pipes and Sweeney's fragile guitar coalescing into a soft, droning, and tremendously pretty whole. The equally excellent "Blood Embrace" features some of Oldham's heartiest vocals, each word strong and full, floating above dark electric guitar swirls, dodging film samples of a faithless woman whispering to an unnamed lover, crafting an atmosphere so tense and ominous that you almost can't help twisting your face around to peep over your shoulder.

Soft and subtle, Superwolf is the kind of record that unwinds slowly, and is best enjoyed over multiple listens and, unsurprisingly, many glasses of wine. Oldham and Sweeney mew coquettishly, stroking their guitars, cawing bizarre stories about love, death, and body parts: theirs is a rancid and beautiful landscape.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 01:26 PM   #23
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Can you upload "Better Days Will Haunt You" to YSI?

I'd love to hear it.
Yes, I too would to like to hear this.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 01:50 PM   #24
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http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/92...Haunt_You_2006

here's a link to the torrent for 'Better Days Will Haunt You" (you need bitlord to download it)

Contains both Chavez albums "Gone Glimmering" and "Ride the Fader" + all b-sides etc.

This album isn't terribly difficult to find, you can find it at most HMV's in Canada and I'm sure its not that hard to find in the states.

Its a Matador Reissue and they pretty much have the reissue package thing down, I think it only cost me $24.99CND. for 2 disks+DVD, not bad

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 05:45 PM   #25
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There are some cool easter eggs on the DVD too. Live soundcheck footage and such. One of the better purchases I have mde this year.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 06:16 PM   #26
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Old 01-31-2007, 06:27 PM   #27
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that isn't really D'arcy is it?

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 07:03 PM   #28
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that isn't really D'arcy is it?

Saddly yes, yes it is.

 
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Old 01-31-2007, 08:47 PM   #29
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She has added meth addiction to her small crack problem, and that picture is the unfortunate result.

 
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