Six little clips from the Chicago sessions

[Rider]

Originally Posted by SlingeroGuitaro

ive always thought these songs were bad.

if these were released today everyone would agree.

I never understood why people went nuts over these songs. I thought the whole thing was a kind of boring amateur attempt at doing something Billy seemed to only have a marginal passing interest in. He went overboard with it, got bored, then abandoned it blaming the fans.

This was his hey guys I bought the american folk song anthology period. Now we are in his hey guys analog synths are cool phase.

Originally Posted by Funbags

I seem to recall at the time they were considered an aside, much like Billy's ZuZu stuff. The main news about it was that Billy was pissed off at people making too much noise and ruining the recording (think Airplane Mode), and that's why it was shelved.

No it was his main focus. It was big huge project involving multiple websites and was going to be this huge interactive project. It wasn't like the synth thing, this was going to be his next big album.

I'm pretty sure this was the salvaged idea of the huge never gotten to Djali Zwan multimedia project that was only mentioned once by Jimmy and quickly abandoned as Zwan disintegrated.

[Bread Regal]

People went nuts over it because most fans, for good reason, liked Djali Zwan more than The True Poets of Zwan and these songs were more reminiscent of the former. Plus it was a relatively drastic departure from the whole glam-rock aesthetic (but not any less pretentious, i'll admit).

The filming was fun and it was nice to shoot the shit with him for a few hours. There was a lot of discussion between takes and I had a short discussion with him about wesley willis. it was however extremely annoying whenever he abandoned a take because someone queefed or whatever. or if he noticed his guitar was out of tune, instead of tuning it himself, he'd beckon his guitar tech over to have him tune it for him. so weird.

[reprise85]

I like these songs. They are better than what he's put out since 2007.

[franzel]

These songs are amazing! He should have definitely released these instead of zeitgeist and oceania.

[SlingeroGuitaro]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

People went nuts over it because most fans, for good reason, liked Djali Zwan more than The True Poets of Zwan

the fact that people say DJALI ZWAN and THE TRUE POETS OF ZWAN is kind of like people loving these songs. It's fucking zwan. And it sucks.

[Shallowed]

I didn't like the songs at first, but I didn't listen to any folk music at the time. After I'd heard a few different contemporary folk artists, I enjoyed it a lot more upon revisiting.

[Muzz1e]

Dig.

[T&T]

Originally Posted by SlingeroGuitaro

the fact that people say DJALI ZWAN and THE TRUE POETS OF ZWAN is kind of like people loving these songs. It's fucking zwan. And it sucks.

I really liked the acoustic zwan stuff (spun soundtrack)
but these chicago songs... not my boat.
they're totally a different flavor imho.
the djali zwan is a lot more reminiscent of the light acoustic SP songs from their early career. Chicago songs feel like they're trying hard to be mature. big meh from me.

[patj825]

They are good songs. I agree with Juliana and we're not even friends.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by patj825

Anyone have the six little clips from the Chicago sessions?

i have five. would have to look for day 4, but i'll do that on sunday.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/c0n...hurch_sessions