Jump to content

hardwood floor

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    1,023

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by hardwood floor

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Nice selection of tunes in that medley! I've always thought Afterglow was one of the best "love song"" tunes in the catalog. Just beautiful.

     

    live afterglow ... jesus christ, what a mighty thing

     

    when they go to the coda and phil jumps behind the kit and joins chester ... holy crap

     

    i guess it's a love song in a way ... from somebody who has died to somebody who hasn't?

     

     

     

     

     

    Like the dust that settles all around me,

    I must find a new home.

    The ways and holes that used to give me shelter,

    Are all as one to me now.

    But I, I would search everywhere

    Just to hear your call,

    And walk upon stranger roads than this one

    In a world I used to know before.

    I miss you more.

     

    Than the sun reflecting off my pillow,

    Bringing the warmth of new life.

    And the sounds that echoed all around me,

    I caught a glimpse of in the night.

    But now, now I've lost everything,

    I give to you my soul.

    The meaning of all that I believed before

    Escapes me in this world of none, no thing, no one.

     

    And I would search everywhere

    Just to hear your call,

    And walk upon stranger roads than this one

    In a world I used to know before.

    For now I've lost everything,

    I give to you my soul.

    The meaning of all that I believed before

    Escapes me in this world of none,

    I miss you more.

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    wild frank is a wise man

     

    small steps ... check out trick of the tail & wind and wuthering - first two non-PG records, both fantastic - and only then move back to the classics

     

    i don't listen to a ton of genesis these days but once in a while, it's perfect

     

    had a long drive yesterday and plopped on a 1978 live show (chicago i think) with the --> in the cage > cinema show > slipperman > afterglow, and this is just genesis at the height of its live game

     

    mind-blowing

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    listened to "I Can't Dance" 50 times in the last few days. 2.gif

     

    do not pass go

     

    please proceed immediately to:

     

    cinema show

    musical box

    supper's ready

    the knife

    in the cage

    dancing with the moonlit knight

    firth of fifth

     

    and toss that i can't dance stuff in the garbage!!! :)

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    .....And 'Suppers Ready' sounds great in SACD 5:1 sound. "A Flower!!!" The last five minutes of the song can still really move me even twenty-five years after first hearing it. Its a classic piece of work.

     

    the closing segments of musical box and supper's ready are as moving as any pop music i've ever heard

     

    banks was all about dynamics in those early years

     

    i need to get the box set

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I love his purposeful out of tune vocal in the first verse. The one that bugs me is two songs preceding. I know I Am A Tree is a Gillard song, but the metaphors are just plain dumb.

     

    doug's new record is incredible - call from restricted

     

    his last one is great too - salamander

     

    the lyrics to i am a tree (which was originally a cobra verde track) are bad, but the guitar solo is the shit! and live it ruled

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    brian -- i agree with a lot of what you're saying. i'll never listen to anything after FaCE and before 0 to 99 again (although crawling distance did have no island, which is great) ... i think bob's thing is that there's a certain group of a couple thousand hard-core fans who will buy anything, no matter how unlistenable or inconsistent or thrown together, so the more stuff he releases, the more money he makes. i listen to pinball mars and hear shit, but if he puts out 10 records a year and the same few thousand people buy 'em all, i guess it's a good year for him

     

    and you know he'll never edit himself. he enjoys putting out everything he thinks of. for whatever reason, that's more important to him than releasing fewer & more consistent records.

     

    that said, where we differ is that i think the GBV stuff holds up exceptionally well. i listened to UTaC today on the way home from work & it's just as brilliant as when i first heard it.

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    his batting average wasn't great after FaCE and before Zero to 99, but you could still put together an amazing few records just from the best tracks on all those records

     

    but his batting average from sandbox through FaCE was like, what, .987?

     

    i don't think there's any question he's the greatest songwriter who's ever lived. why isn't he more popular ... he does weird things -- broke up GBV at the height of its popularity, didn't tour for a couple years, puts some of his best songs on obscure EPs and vinyl b-sides, opened for pearl jam a couple nights and other than game of pricks only played stuff from the amazing but dense and difficult FaCE (plus dolphins of color? wtf) ... i just think he hasn't really helped himself out as much as he could have over the years

     

    that said, i've been to packed GBV shows where they would play something like i am a scientist > game of pricks > tractor rape chain > motor away and to everybody in that place, they were the biggest and greatest band in the world

    The best band in the 1990s

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    you're not going to find a band in history that had a more astounding run than guided by voices in the 1990s

     

    1990 Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

    1992 Propeller

    1993 Vampire on Titus

    1994 Bee Thousand

    1995 Alien Lanes

    1996 Under the Bushes Under the Stars

    1996 Tonics & Twisted Chasers

    1997 Mag Earwhig!

    1999 Do the Collapse

     

    not to mention the EPs:

    1993 The Grand Hour

    1993 Static Airplane Jive

    1994 Get out of my Stations

    1994 Fast Japanese Spin Cycle

    1994 Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer

    1995 I Am a Scientist

    1995 Tigerbomb

    1996 Sunfish Holy Breakfast

    1996 Plantations of Pale Pink

    1997 Wish in one Hand

    1999 Plugs for the Program

    2009

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Did everyone who listed the new Boston Spaceships record buy it? I can't find it online anywhere, and despite not totally loving the first two singles, I'm really interested since I've heard so much awesome press for it.

     

    i got a leak and listened to it 4,000 times and then went out to my friendly neighborhood record store on tuesday morning and got a copy

     

    but yeah, factory of raw essentials (circular beast exhibit) is very cool too

     

    if you don't totally dig question girl and how wrong you are ... i dunno, to me - along with radical amazement (and meddle and trashed aircraft and good circuitry soldier) two of the finest things bob has done since FaCE

     

    the bridge in question girl ... then the second bridge, adding the drums and another layer of guitar ... jesus, almost a GBV-esque moment

     

    mighty stuff

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I love Isolation Drills, one of my top 5 GBV records and one of the first GBV albums I owned. I think that when you put it in the perspective of that the album before it was Do the Collapse, which is heavily cited as their worst, then ID sounds great in comparison. It's actually an album that I have suggested to several people who aren't into GBV to get. Many of them like it and say it's their best...

     

    i love do the collapse! liquid fucking INDIAN!

     

    for me isolation drills is #3 of the five late-period releases, behind Universal Truths & Cycles and Half Smiles

×
×
  • Create New...