― , Thursday, 29 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
And of course every member of the band playing their own song to the same rhythm was the concept. Cubist blues, aaight? TMR is one of those records you don't listen to around other people, they just spoil it. So it's like a good bath in that way. Unless you've got a real swank bathtub. I could see having a swell time in the bath if your tub was money. But then a swank bathtub's 'bout as hard to find as people who can dig on Trout Mask Replica, innit? It should be noted that just today I got accepted into bourgeois bohemian Hampshire College (recently portrayed on SNL as "Hempshire College", the shame over which is making me seriously reconsider going there) on the strength of 18 years of doing fuck-all as a homeschooler (I've done less than fuck-all in the last two) and an essay comparing Trout Mask Replica to Scott 4. Which was crap, obviously.
― Otis Wheeler, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Duane Zarakov, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Safe As Milk is the 'better record', along with the 'Diddy Wah Diddy single'
― Dr. C, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Note to 'peeps': insertion of single quotation marks around phrases with no logical use for them denotes nothing but 'contempt' and the fact that the person using them doesn't mind sounding like an asswipe.
Now I like to put it on if I'm cleaning the house (errr... which happens quite rarely I must admit), or fixing something. Any time where I'm not actually going to be listening hard to the music. If you try to take the songs as continuous, contiguous pieces, its very frustrating, but hearing little bits here and there gives you the feeling that there is this wild abandon going on behind your speakers. I would guess that the only reason for breaks between the songs is to give the listener and band a break. In todays more technologically advanced age, I wouldn't be surprised if it would be made into one long song.
I just recently heard SAFE AS MILK and I wish I would have heard that first, or at least before TMR. It seemed to be a little more digestable on first listen. I quite liked it. Now I see why Polvo was often compared to Beefheart.
So basically, in my house, it doesn't get much play. But when the time is absolutely right, it really hits the spot.
― Tim Baier, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Interesting, I guess.
― Steven James, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Omar, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dr. C, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Anna Rose, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cuba libre (nathalie), Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
TMR= music was never the same again for me.
― Julio Desouza, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I know you already told me you don't really like Reich much, Julio, but perhaps you should listen to a bit more, esp. the early phase- shifting pieces. I think you also have to approach it from the right direction--it's not supposed to be about wild musical shifts; the movement is often textural. Yeah, a bit of a yawn if you're expecting melodic development, but it can be a bit entrancing if you're listening for the texture/timbre. I find that a lot of that early material is far more interesting through headphones, like "Come Out" and "It's Gonna Rain". Again, I have this on CD somewhere, and we can potentially arrange a listening session, though I should probably just burn it for you and let you listen when the mood hits, because that's when it's more interesting (I think).
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
At first I thought 18 musicians was OK but then after a few more listens I thought: 'What's the point?' There weren't any interesting ideas being expressed here.
Listening session= We might be looking at 10-15 minute tracks max (though I forgot to say I'm interested in those Bill Hicks discs you were discussing on another thread).
― Josh, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I just listened to it this week for the first time in a while and I absolutely love it. Still.
― Mark, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link