I’d love to see them live, but never have. They don’t get to Canada often.
rknLA
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Really enjoying Gum Takes Tooth lately
Nostalgia trip today. Been listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was an important album for me when I was teenager, but I haven’t listened to it as much in proceeding years.
Some of the lyrics haven’t aged well, but I think it holds up really well musically. There is a nice sonic variety to the music and the experiments largely work.
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cannc
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I agree, sick album indeed
Larrea
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Finally got my remaining Ka discs from the man himself (shipping problems). So stoked.
His stuff is genius. There’s nobody like him.
Days with Dr. Yen Lo:
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Nice. These new tracks haven’t had as much initial impact as Untrue or Kindred, but perhaps I need to listen to them some more.
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sandy
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I only have Extraction which I quite enjoy.
Found a short clip of the new one - sounds good!
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rdfm
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I need a track produced by knxwledge with ka and earl!!! Or a whole project really
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Larrea
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I’m going to have to check knxwledge.
I’m doing a lot of catching up with hip hop; I spent many years in the listening wilderness and have missed a lot.
Stones Throw is itself its own endorsement.
…and they’re just down the street from me!
rdfm
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Stones throw has been keeping it down. All hail Madlib. If you like that stuff I can definitely recommend jonwayne. He’s not on stones throw anymore but fit right in while it lasted.
Case in point
https://g.co/kgs/W4U8TP
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sandy
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Did some listening.
(Yet) more releases to add to my “to buy” list!
sandy
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One of the best albums ever!
MBV were one of my John Peel discoveries during the mid/late 1980s. Way before internet. I’d sit at home listening to his radio shows with a pen and paper at hand to write down the names of bands that caught my attention. Then run into the local record shop at lunch break to see if they had copies of the records I’d heard. Coming home with the 12" singles of “Feed me with your kiss” and “You made me realise” after begging my dad for some cash and playing them non-stop for about 3 weeks.
I remember seeing them in Glasgow when I was a student there. Must have been 1989 or 1990. Really loud, which I generally am not particularly into but it worked for their music. The sounds they coaxed out of their instruments were amazing.
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Looking at pictures of Kevin from then and now, I am resolved to reaffirm my fundamental opposition to the passage of time. It simply messes with my head in an unacceptable manner.
EDIT: this is fun:
randy
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I’ve been listening to their 2013 album ‘mbv’ a lot this year, and I personally think it holds up just as well as ‘loveless.’ Sacrilege, I know. It’s a little more varied, which I like. Track 4 has some lovely Robert Ashley-like organ drones.
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it was the album that taught me to closely listen to the sound itself as opposed to just melody/composition [which is a bit funny since they are great songwriters as well].
love mbv, love how precise his distortion is on it [a bit of an oxymoron i guess] but now that mbv settled into the canon i still prefer loveless. still, mbv is great!
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