― Honda, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan I., Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andy, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
because its a summertime cd for the winter
because its zany
because that womans voice on the title track makes me want to scrump
― Brock K, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And Andy, though your point is interesting, I don't necessarily agree. I think the Avalanches' compositional skills are always underemphasized - this is SUCH a meticulously crafted record, but unlike a lot of "turntablist" records, it doesn't come across like a meticulously crafted record. You don't hear the sweat, which is a magnificent feat for such a complex, detailed album.
― Clarke B., Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jeff W, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
explain.
the album really works remarkably well driving around in the late summer, through the relatively unpopulated backroads of suburban pa. windows down, etc. etc.
(note: please subsitute yr own backwater for suburban pa.)
― jess, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1. The day I bought it, Saturday after I had finished school forever, it was very sunny and I walked through town with it on my discman. Then I got home and went for a drive with my friends with it playing some more. Later we drank beer in my garden and listened to it again, it was a good day all round.
2. The day I was due to leave Prague and go to Paris when I was on holiday last year. We had about 5 hours to kill so we decided to go back to the Marquis De Sade, this bar we had been to alot during the week. It's a cool place, with a big high ceiling, it looks as though it used to be a theatre about 200 years ago. Anyway I gave it to the girl behind the bar and asked her to put it on and she did. So we had a few beers, and it was nice and quiet and a good way to end our holiday.
I should probably add that I find after the first few times I listen to something I'm just vainly attempting to recapture what I liked originally.
― Ronan, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i think that's most of us.
Now, the fun part is: I have this tape.
kids these days! ;) that's be "Like A Rolling Stone".
― Uncle Fritz, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Mark - possibly. I can't remember everything that's on side 2. I'll check.
On the way to university earlier this week, I was listening to a mix cd I made last year that had "Frontier Psychiatrist" on it (I made this disc about half a year before actually buying "Since I Left You", incidentally.) When it ended, my brain starting playing "Etoh". When the next track came on, and it wasn't "Etoh", I felt so dismayed and frustrated that I had to switch the radio off. So that made me realize that I'd obv felt more strongly about this stuff than I had previously imagined. So I listened again tonight, and what I heard was rather fucking gorgeous. When I finally did reach "Etoh", I almost had to turn the player off, because I was thisclose to breaking down and sobbing, something I haven't done in years. (Which maybe says more about my current emotional state right now than the album, but that's music for you.) Secondly, why do I seem to only catch on to ILM favourites months after the fact?
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
https://devonrecordclub.com/2016/10/21/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you-round-96-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I'm amused to learn that i didn't know "Like A Rolling Stone" in 2002.
― Tim F, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
I was amused to learn that too!
― yugi ex, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Is that a Nat King Cole piano sample on "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life"?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link