Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

what's their deal again? black metal type shit?

was hoping the 2nd studio would be, I dunno, tighter than the first, rather than longer & more diffuse, but such is prog. I'll listen again.

Charming Hostess still my favorite out of any of their projects, they were peerless. Jewlia's reformed a new band but the original lineup, they knew it.

it's like the Grinch assembled the greatest math metal orchestra to back up his arias, and that of his mistress.

I love 'em. That press photo with the singer in the body of a dog... Holeee shit.

bassist co-worker stops by and said 'oh man this is what I was hoping Mars Volta would sound like' HA HA weird times

and he's RIGHT, someone get on this

I was just about to post about seeing them here a few years ago, and being surprised that they were musically pretty interesting, given how pretentious they looked. But they really went for it--so after they played, it didn't seem that pretentious after all. That one-in-a-thousand shows when "performance art" elements add something. The album was a bit of a downer--kind of sub-Art Bears/This Heat, but not bad. I'm actually curious wha they sound like now.

You guys were quite good that night. Did the four-person Rainy Day Regatta also play that night? Might've been another time at the Parlor.

bump because once again drunk me is ready to throw down for the idea that this is probably my favorite band EVER.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IdrA92Iyw

also if you ever wanted bjork to get aggro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPTB8B3E4zE

they all have kids now, they tour with a nanny, it's adorable

holy mother of freaking god @ The Companions

although when it climaxes at around the 8-minute mark I reckon it could go EVEN FURTHER. that's minor quibbling. it's fucken amazing.

Phthisis...ok yeah YOU HAVE CONVINCED ME JJ I HAVE BEEN SLEEPING ON THIS BAND TOO LONG

ok yeah i thought so sheesh

OH LOOK ITS ALL ON YOUTUBE

I'm heading out soon but later will be an evening of SGM jollity

although in the meantime I have put that donkey-headed adversary song on and it is KILLING

yeah dude like ive been saying this is like tailor made for lj stuff

you listened to hymn to the morning star as an intro to donkey etc right? they are kinda one song

jesus fucking christ

no i didn't but i will do next time

that song has completely blown me away, especially reading the (brilliant) lyrics at the same time

hrrrmmm now i cant remember if i have won over noted ilx bon vivant HI DERE to the SGM camp

you got me to approve of Gay Witch Abortion although I never followed up on them

The closest parallel I can think of is the Mr Bungle s/t (but MUCH artier than that) so perhaps that would be the best way to broach it with him? OH HI DERE

yeah GWA are kinda my answer to when battles started to get boring for me - SGM is on a whole different level tho - if i were to customize a song choice for you it would either be phthisis or hymn to the morning star

well it's too late, I'm playing "The Companions" right now

these guys are kind of great

the only link I hear so far to Mr Bungle is a similar timbre in the singer's voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_5Tp7W-Gg

ha I was already playing that

dude has a crazy low voice

it's not so much the sound as the vibe that puts Mr Bungle in mind - although as I say this is more uh 'intellectual'

going out now, back later for more wide-eyed rapture

woah that note in "Hymn to the Morning Star" is a C#

jesus

hahaha yeah thought you might enjoy that

lol "Phthisis" sounds like a tame Pinkham art song arranged for rock band and violinist

this still has nothing to do with the Bungle aesthetic IMO

math-rock + classical music + sampling != genre collage + industrial

did you guys ever hear Radiation 4? same neighborhood musically, great band

hmmmmmm no i have not. off to youtube i go

ok this radiation 4 stuff is pretty O_O! in a good way!

ok hahaha one of the top results for a "radiation 4" search is some french hip hop collective, which made me think they had crossed the line of too quirky, but i stand corrected.

The radiation 4 stuff is more secret chiefs/bungley to me than SGMish tho

ok given that there are dudes selling the radiation 4 on amazon for like 50 cents, i think i should probably just go ahead and pick a copy up

I like what I've heard of this band but I mix them up with Dreamboat Gorilla.

Which is confusing.

hymn to the morning star is beautiful and yeah DHOAM becomes even better in its wake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpGFEfihCw

i went to their first show where humans were admitted.

Can't get over how good "The Companions" is

like...it's absolutely stone godlike by now

I went to their first show where woodland creatures and elves were admitted

you're definitely my second-favourite satyr posting to ILX, after hanle.y

awww

I bought the album with "Phthisis" on it

fucking stellar

That's my favorite album of theirs.

am finding JJ's recommendations to be pretty much 100% storming

This fucking song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA8ADG_ei8U

dont think i mentioned this on thread yet but they are also like the nicest dudes ever

at the last show nils the main dude recognized me and K and talked to me for a while about how it was cool that we were still together and when i told him that we were engaged came back and talked about how awesome having a kid was and then gave me a onesie they were carting around that says "nappytime gorilla museum".

i think i will start a self-serving jj and lj swap musical youtubes for you to enjoy thread maybe because it is thursday and i am teh drunk

wait what time is it in merry olde england anyway

oops

LJ and JJ swapmoosical youtbes thread - you can play too!

well it was fun while it lasted. done after 3 west coast shows this spring. although they apparently have one more album and a movie(?) in them.

oh and also a live dvd pieced together from the last 6 years which is good news indeed

excellent, but also sad. truly one of my favourite bands of all time. and I never got to see them play. bah.

tempted to go to their last public show as I was at their first show at which humans were allowed.

I kinda got the feeling from the last Faun Fables gig I saw that this was going to happen, oh well. Now I get to look forward to another Carla Kihlstedht album!

Aw this is sad news. At least there is one more album!

http://freesalamanderexhibit.com/?p=117

Digipak CD available at heroically undestroyed record stores nationwide Dec 16, 2016
WoM Store accepting pre-orders now.
(Very limited supplies of all three Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 2XLPs also available there)

FREE SALAMANDER EXHIBIT is:
Nils Frykdahl – vocals, guitar, flute
Dan Rathbun – bass, various homemade instruments
Michael Mellender – guitar, trumpet, percussion, percussion-guitar
David Shamrock – drums, glockenspiel
Drew Wheeler – guitar, glockenspiel, theremin

can't shake the feeling it won't be the same without carla but am interested

wouldn't expect it to be the same, but speaking of carla rabbit rabbit is doing good work, though i'm not on their gofundme or whatever so i don't keep up with them from month to month.

Revive...?

Looks like a reunion is in the works. From their Kickstarter page launched about a week ago:

We, the John Kane Society, in partnership with the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and associated acts, trusting in the stalwart spirit of mutual aid and emboldened by YOUR TUMESCENT ENTHUSIASM, have launched this Kickstarter on behalf of the Museum's imminent GRAND 2024 REOPENING.

It's time for SGM to BRING BACK THE APOCALYPSE just when the world needs it most! Namely, with a full-length studio album, a short film, select live appearances, and, once we meet our STRETCH GOAL of 100K...

A NATIONWIDE U.S. TOUR?!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sleepytimegm/sgm2024

We, the John Kane Society, in partnership with the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and associated acts, trusting in the stalwart spirit of mutual aid and emboldened by YOUR TUMESCENT ENTHUSIASM

"enthusiasm" was never a word i associated with "tumescence" tbh.

hope they can get it back together again, though, would love to see them live again

The Kickstarter hit the stretch goal of $100k, so it looks like a tour will be forthcoming.

Here's a two-part interview with Nils and Carla on the Make Weird Music YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHcnh1y6dWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KygjE1fcB8k

"your tumescent enthusiasm" has to be one of the most hilariously apt freudian slips for this kind of shit

relistened to In Glorious Times just now. fuck it's a masterpiece

there's another SGM thread on here which has some of the most truly moronic posts I've seen on ILM. 'this isn't original or good, try Frank Zappa.' how about you go away

now to have a look at those interviews and get excited about the reunion

"your tumescent enthusiasm" has to be one of the most hilariously apt freudian slips for this kind of shit

― budo jeru

freudian slips are accidental... frykdahl's language usage is quite intentional, i've found.

new single sounds awesome. Serious Magma energy, especially on the bass. Wanted to pre-order the CD but it appears to be sold out already? Weird.

https://sleepytimegorillamuseum1.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-last-human-being

_"your tumescent enthusiasm" has to be one of the most hilariously apt freudian slips for this kind of shit

― budo jeru_


freudian slips are accidental... frykdahl's language usage is quite intentional, i've found.

https://sleepytimegorillamuseum1.bandcamp.com/merch/of-the-last-human-being-listening-party

February 19, 2024 at 11:30 AM PST

Witness the Grand Re-Opening of the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in Real-Time!
Hear the tale of the Last Human Being and live chat with friends, family, and all the curators from the Museum!

https://sleepytimegorillamuseum1.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-last-human-being

pretty great so far

i saw them last saturday, really good to see them again. i'm getting old, i nodded off during "sleep is wrong". not sure if that's based or cringe. also kayo dot opened for them, which i didn't know until i went home and looked up who that opening act was. they were ok, the sound mixing wasn't so great. the last song of theirs, which they said was one of their new ones, had this pretty cool "sheets of easter" feel to it, pretty long and cool.

i nodded off during "sleep is wrong"

this is obv classic

oh yeah, we say "classic" and "dud" here instead of "based" and "cringe", people accuse me of corrupting the youth of athens but the truth is that it's the other way around