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Re: http://pgwp.tumblr.com/post/17714845783

scott pgwp — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:50:41 -0000

Thanks for the comment Jordan - sounds like we're in agreement. I saw Dr. Dog when they were on tour for Shame Shame. They were definitely a lot of fun (though I think my expectations were too high based on what I'd read about their live show). I've never seen Wilco - had the chance to see them a couple of weeks ago--third row!--but I was sick as a dog. (as opposed to being a doctor dog.) My wife said they were brilliant.

I don't mean to make the Wilco comparison too stringent though - Wilco has a totally different aim with their music, I think. But I also can't see why a fan of one band couldn't be a fan of the other. Nor why Dr. Dog shouldn't earn more cache among those critics who champion guitar-oriented music.

Re: Carl Hauck – ‘Windjammer’ (2010)

scott pgwp — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:14:40 -0000

This song reminds me of Andrew Bird's "Tenuousness" (not a bad thing).

Re: First Look: James Blake – ‘James Blake’

scott pgwp — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:39:51 -0000

I dig the wubba-wubba-wubba effect - that's the moment that moves this away from being just a boring cover. (Though it's often still that.)

Re: http://hardcorefornerds.tumblr.com/post/1591425597

scott pgwp — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:28:05 -0000

Ha ha no. I've cunningly kept out of frame the new housing development that has sprung up around the quarry. It's basically a big communal back-yard swimming pool now.

Re: http://hardcorefornerds.tumblr.com/post/1546430206

scott pgwp — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:17:12 -0000

I do like Hoover! Maybe not as much as you... but you're also their #1 fan, so it's hard to compete. I think Hoover is great - and specifically they're great because of Fred Erskine's bass playing. He's the secret weapon that lifts them above what would otherwise be... well, something closer to what Indian Summer do. What I mean is - listening to Indian Summer, I miss the musicality that Hoover had - and the musicality, for the most part, comes from Erskine.

Re: do you compute

scott pgwp — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:06:51 -0000

I did finally find it online! http://shinygreymonotone.bl...

Re: http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/1280471740

scott pgwp — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:20:10 -0000

Maybe rare isn't the right word, but proportionate to the many indie bands who insist on distorting or obscuring their vocals, I'd wager that the ratio is much more extreme than any other genre.

Re: http://pgwp.tumblr.com/post/1146527061

scott pgwp — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:23:26 -0000

Is there a story there? It looks pretty clearly attributed to Tati...

Re: Damning With Extreme Praise

scott pgwp — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:32:47 -0000

Ever seen Gilbert Sorrentino's "Mulligan Stew"? Read the first 20 pages or so - letter after letter from editors to his agent re the very book in your hands.

Re: http://cureforbedbugs.tumblr.com/post/1046061122

scott pgwp — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:32:49 -0000

Re your last paragraph - I feel the exact same way! I like the record. I'm actually surprised that I like the record (since I hated hated hated Neon Bible and thought I was done with this band forever). But at the same time I don't know (yet) how much or why I like it. I'm predisposed to complaining about Arcade Fire, which gets in the way of me saying good things about them!

Re: http://lastbutnotleast.tumblr.com/post/908369951

scott pgwp — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:32:40 -0000

Yeah - I thought I had way more songs about suburbs in my library but really they're all about small towns or big cities.

Re: http://velveteenrabbit.tumblr.com/post/552315997

scott pgwp — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:21:42 -0000

What what.

Re: http://pgwp.tumblr.com/post/413515940

scott pgwp — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:35:25 -0000

Yeah, we played a bunch of shows with Bullyrag and were friends with the Suicide Nation guys. Search out Sea of Cortez and Death of Marat if you can... they were from AZ at the same time and both were incredible. We played with them more than anyone else, did a split 7" with DoM. Both have a full length out there somewhere... probably in the 50-cent used bind right next to our records. Emailing you the other HV album now.

Re: http://pgwp.tumblr.com/post/413515940

scott pgwp — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:04:08 -0000

So glad you like it. Do you have both our albums? I'll send you the second one if you don't have it. We made it as far as Chicago back in, I think, 99. We were more or less broken up by late 2000, if I remember right. Really glad to know you like the record!

Re: Well I never

scott pgwp — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:49:55 -0000

It's a terrific album! One of my all-time faves, and has been since its original release.

Re: Born Under Punches: It started with burning out on everyone’s end of...

scott pgwp — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:56:11 -0000

Thanks! I feared the post was muddled but I'd already pressed "publish."

Re: Thinking of attempting "Finnegan's Wake." Advice/opinions?

scott pgwp — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:57:05 -0000

Catch 22 is inventive and fun but not especially difficult. It's one of my favorite books -- smart and hilarious. Don't be intimidated by that one.

Re: Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales

scott pgwp — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:43:53 -0000

I admit to being mystified by the ways of the marketplace. I just know from my wife's experience in retail--and here we're talking about clothes, not music, so it may be apples and oranges--but items in her store would sell out instantly due to what I perceived as the most random placement in magazines.

EW's readership, I would imagine, is full of connoisuers of culture who may or may not have their fingers on the pulse of what's happening. (Judging by their letters section, I'm gonna guess "may not" is more typical.) In terms of television and movies I think they have a decent amount of sway in motivating people to see something. So I wouldn't be surprised if their AC mention drives a number of curious people to at least check the band out. Honestly I have no idea if a mention in a magazine like that would have any impact either way. I'd be unsurprised in either case.

Re: pierce the night like stars

scott pgwp — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:51:34 -0000

I will grant you that I haven't seen it in a long time, though it's perpetually in the top ten of my Netflix queue... one of these days I will re-view it. Yr probably right though. In a similar way, I was recently deflated by Breakin'. Utterly deflated at how awful that movie actually is.

Re: the notes - This Mix Is Trying To Break Your Heart

scott pgwp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:50:30 -0000

Fuck man, just seeing the words "Codeine: Loss Leader" is enough to send me into a spiral. The only thing worse might be "Vacancy" from the same album. "What does the word / vacancy mean / when you don't / expect anything?"

Re: incidentals and accidentals - Imagine if the internet as we know it now was around in 1988, and a bunch of (mostly) out-of-touch cranks got together to viciously rip on "Teenage Riot."

scott pgwp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:00:10 -0000

You gotta just let it all go... I was thinking about this the other day, how the 90s notion of bands being sellouts for going mainstream has fallen by the wayside--everyone seems to agree now that bands should make money--but there still remains a deep resentment toward "popular" bands (er, "hyped" bands might be more accurate). People seem to react against any band wherein a machine of some sort has developed around them, grassroots or otherwise.

Re: incidentals and accidentals - Imagine if the internet as we know it now was around in 1988, and a bunch of (mostly) out-of-touch cranks got together to viciously rip on "Teenage Riot."

scott pgwp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:52:59 -0000

Maura, to your first paragraph: that's a totally reasonable reaction. I similarly skip a lot of country/hip hop songs (whether made this year, this decade, or earlier) for the same reason... I just don't identify, period. So if you don't identify with the lyrics and you hate the way it sounds, go ahead and dislike 'em!

As for the echo chamber... I mean, what are you going to do? I get similarly riled up about TV on the Radio, a band who scores every once in a while but is more often unlistenable due to their awful production, awful harmonies, and bloated songwriting. Likewise I've come to grips with the fact that I just do not connect with the Dirty Projectors or Grizzly Bear. Oh well. But you know, some or all of these bands are going to live on for a long long time as representatives of this decade. I never really got into Pavement or Sebadoh in the 90s, but there they are in the canon. Animal Collective will be there too.

Pierce, you've nailed it: confirmation bias. The internet can be a wearying place because conversations about hot bands start to feel like a war between political rivals. Sometimes you're a hyper, sometimes you're a hater. There is no moderate stance.

Re: this is water, this is water, this is water...

scott pgwp — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:57:36 -0000

To me the symbol has always looked like the underside of a penis. Hence I've always translated it as "teabag" rather than "heart." "I teabag [blank]" is a much, much more enthusiastic turn of phrase, don't you think? Reminds me of the old State sketch, "I wanna dip my balls in it!"

"I want to dip my balls in helvitica." Now THAT is saying something.

Re: incidentals and accidentals - bmichael: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone -...

scott pgwp — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:17:55 -0000

Johnny, thanks for the clarification. Didn't mean to put words in your mouth.

Re: incidentals and accidentals - Results to research

scott pgwp — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:02:12 -0000

The Animal Collective thing was more a mistake on my part. I thought, way back when, that the two bands shared a few members, which is why I held things against AC. For eight years or so my mistake was never corrected (until you mentioned it in the comments to my blog! Thank you!)

As for Bill... what can I say? There's enough music out there in the world that I don't need to listen to that made by people who were dicks to me and my friends. I'm sure I listen to a lot of music made by assholes, and you're right that in and of itself it's irrelevant. But those people weren't assholes to my face. Every time I'm in a record store, if I have Bill Callahan in one hand and some other supposedly classic album that I haven't yet heard in the other, I'm probably always going to choose the other.