it may yet wear on me but right now it's amongst my favourite music of the year
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really happy every time this thread is revived
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I still can't believe I was lucky enough to see them twice in their first incarnation.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta love YouTube -- just earlier this month someone uploaded this performance of "Die Like a Dog" in San Diego from 1992:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwvqoBgdow
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously the strobe light effects there are seizure-inducing.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Same here. My t-shirt from the "Cuckoo" tour is still going strong! (and is officially the oldest concert t-shirt I own)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, I still have mine as well. I believe we were both at that show making fun of Engines of Aggression.
Meanwhile I am now reminded of a pretty stellar moment of lyric/music combination courtesy of "Missing Link":
Accidentally we talked about the pastAccidentally we talked about the pastAccidentally we talked about the pastAccidentally we talked -- too -- MUCH!*BAM*
Very well observed, really.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I also like the Trent Reznor mix of said song since like the original song it was released in 1993, aka the year when all the NIN freaks worldwide were *desperate* beyond measure to get some sense of whatever the hell 'the next album' would be. The part nearly three minutes in when he adds/emphasizes this huge background piano (?) doominess in the mix is pretty spectacular.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
still can't believe I was lucky enough to see them twice in their first incarnation.
Same here. And didn't we establish we were at those same two shows, ie. Rollercoaster tour at the Palladium and then at the Palace?
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 26 November 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I think quite a few of us were. Until the MBV onslaught over the past months, Curve at the Palace was easily the loudest show I've been to.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 07:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I loved that Cuckoo tour t-short. I was coerced in stupidly giving it away...
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I never got to see Curve live - I did see Toni's short lived post-breakup band Scylla live in '95 tho. They were pretty good actually, heavier than Curve.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Good god, I'm trying to imagine that and having a hard time doing so.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
1000000000% CLASSIC FUCK GARBAGE.
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Friday, 27 November 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
A whole slew of Curve shows has turned up on D1m3 and despite the dodgy audio of audience taping in 92-93, they're furiously great (title track from "Doppleganger" scores 5/5 on the MBV-O-Meter). Man there has to be some live videos or something from the time.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
!!!! Wish I still had a Dime acct. Would someone very kind be willing to, I don't know, maybe 192kbps LAME some of the best and trade them for some, say, Ride, Kraftwerk, or Mogwai?
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRY4ILQeSg
am jonesing
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Need to get back into the D1m3 swing myself...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Encoding everything to 256kpbs AAC. Drop me a board email and I can straighten everything out.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFG1rIUhc7U
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_XPAQNF7yg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
(title track from "Doppleganger" scores 5/5 on the MBV-O-Meter)
I've just listened to the initial build & payoff to this track five times in a row. Just damn.. Moulder could do no wrong in those days.
This was the first of many downtown Detroit gigs I snuck out on schoolnights to attend while I was in high school. I had taken some psychedelics. It was ..erm, an impressionable experience (in a very good way).
― ron paul revulvalution (Pillbox), Sunday, 31 January 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
(the Rollercoaster tour, that is - not the NY gigs obv.)
― ron paul revulvalution (Pillbox), Sunday, 31 January 2010 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I just realized I had "Cuckoo" on my Zune and I was listening to it on my walk home but it paled in comparison to "Doppelganger" and "Public Fruit"
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Sunday, 31 January 2010 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that second breakdown from 2:42 - 3:10 when it sounds like a huge electrical fire in the studio.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 31 January 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
the rollercoaster show show in detroit was on devil's night, i was convinced i would come out and my car would be in flames. the show before that one with majesty crush opening was better though.
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 31 January 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ yeah, I remember that. Wasn't that a year or so after the worst-ever devil's night arson/general crime spree? As I mentioned upthread, I was a bit effected that night, & I recall ducking for cover every time my friend's car went under a highway overpass b/c of an urban legend (perhaps something that really happened?) about dudes dropping cinder blocks & such from them on DN.
lol, I think Majesty Crush or Asha Vida opened for every UK indie band that passed through town back then.
― ron paul revulvalution (Pillbox), Sunday, 31 January 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
just in case...
http://helensface.webs.com/
― c@meron obscura, Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
embarrassingly my curve collection consists of their first 2 eps, and doppelganger. i think i need a lot more to quench this thirst for drum machine + guitar noise + goth queen vocals.never listened to this stuff on headphones until this week, fuck the tinnitus, that wall of sound is majestic.
― mark e, Friday, 26 February 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the EP collection and the radio sessions comp is all you really need, don't be embarrassed
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Saturday, 27 February 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
All those nights watching the 'Fait Accompli' and 'Superblaster' videos gave much joy, but Curve hasn't aged very well for me. Which is great because I can only think about 1992, 1993 when I listen to them again
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 27 February 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish Scylla had released something other than that weak track on the Showgirls OST. They were pretty good live.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 27 February 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't forget to snag this: Curve's "Perish" & Kevin Shields
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 February 2010 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah Doppleganger was a letdown and might deserve another look, but everything after just didn't work for me. although i would HIGHLY recommend the 2CD remastered best-of The Way of Curve that came out a couple years ago, all the originals came out during a low point for CD mastering and the material benefits greatly from the rework.
― mikebee (BATTAGS), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
And Toni's Chatelaine album is out finally. Stream the whole works here: http://chatelainemusic.com/
Beyond the title, it sounds like Toni has been wondering how the Cocteaus would sound covering Fleetwood Mac.― baaderonixx, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:14 AM (2 years ago)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:14 AM (2 years ago)
^^^^^ prescient comment here (after one listen through this)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 June 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"Coast Is Clear" is still one of the best songs ever.
That squealing guitar line over the second chorus encapsulates about 80% of what I love about music.
― DJP, Friday, 5 November 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I can sign up with that sentiment.
Meantime, perhaps the only time you'll see Curve and Matt Groening discussed at the same time.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
hah I was at that show at the Palace. What I remember most is how horrible the opening act was and how excited I was to briefly hang out with the band (+ Medicine) outside after the show
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
how horrible the opening act was
Good ol' Engines of Aggression. *dies*
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Yay, Doppelganger is finally on Spodify. (I suppose I should probably check if it's on iTunes yet because I have already owned it on far too many formats.)
I had forgotten what a *nasty* sounding record it is. It's filled with a kind of gnawing self loathing and bits of strangled noise and so bloody ugly and yet still somehow beautiful.
― Wheal Dream, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure if it's the production or the mastering but I always found doppelgänger a bit thin and lifeless. A remaster could be interesting
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno, the production sounds more *murky* than thin or lifeless. Like, it's so bloody dense and thick that it's hard to pick out any elements, but that's kind of the point of shoegaze wall of sound.
― Wheal Dream, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Any thoughts on SPC ECO, Dean Garcia's new thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-F5VTBJyA
― Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Friday, 12 November 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
They're kind of an AC-30 band which makes me automatially predisposed not to like them, but I should give them a chance, I suppose.
― Wheal Dream, Friday, 12 November 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wait, is that Debbie Smith on guitar? I take it back, I automatically love anything she's involved with.
(Though I still kind of hide from her when I see her on the train.)
― Wheal Dream, Friday, 12 November 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Any thoughts on SPC ECO - linked track is a dead ringer for gaze-era Curve, which would interest me more if half of my record collection didn't already consist of such things. Nice to see that Debbie Smith back in action, though!
― strangled by a necklace of mexicans (Pillbox), Friday, 12 November 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I could just be making it up, but I think I read somewhere that the girl singing for SPC ECO is actually Dean's own niece.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 November 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
daughter
i love spc eco, the album is really good but the EPs that have come out since are even better
― the barenaked ladies are the roaring night (electricsound), Friday, 12 November 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno... Listening here on a great audio system, it sounds freaking amazing. I put "Fait Accompli" pretty high up on my ballot in the ILX poll and my comment for it was:
"Somehow I picture Halliday, Garcia, Moulder, & Flood cackling in the studio as they try to see just how menacing they could make this song. "I've come to mess with your head" indeed."
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 13 November 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
All the EPs and the later self-released albums are available on Bandcamp now: http://curve.bandcamp.com/
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link