Gastr del Sol's Camofleur: C or D?

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great album. i bought it on a whim without having a clue what it would sound like (knowing a bit about the participants though) and was most pleasantly surprised. it's twee without tooth decay in my memory. i am going to have to dig it out and check.

breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 11 June 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i still play this alb a lot - a v. dense/rich rec, constantly rewarding in new ways - i love the little snatch of orourke 'talking' to the french kid - "i'm sorry i only speak english" haha - but also quite spot-on abt the way that the alb lies somewhere between Europe and America

Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 11 June 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

esp. in light of the sonic youth interview in the current edition of the wire where kim gordon talks about jim o'rourke adding france and various other countries to a lengthy list of places he would never visit/tour in again.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I really like the album overall, despite the fact that there are moments of brilliance linked by long stretches of relatively inconsequential diddling. But there's less diddling and more brilliance than on other Gastr Del Sol albums. And it's generally very pretty. It's a great album to put on in the background on a summer day.

Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 11 June 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
Beatiful album art. I love Blues Subtitled, the way it kinda takes off, lands and takes off over and over again.

from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

November is a time for Blues Subtitled. I wish there were more albums like this.

Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 November 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link

'Bauchredner' is very nice too. Is Jim playing a lap steel or pedal steel here?

EvR, Monday, 8 November 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link

think it's a guy called ken champion playing pedal steel on Camofleur and some of O'Rourke's solo albs

Ward Fowler, Monday, 8 November 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Definitely sounds like a pedal steel to me - you don't really get bends like that on a lap steel.

Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 November 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link

thx to thread for reminding me to put this on

bear, bear, bear, Monday, 8 November 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, I played it this morning, too. :)

jaymc, Monday, 8 November 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Nice record, but the two tracks mentioned in this latest bump are the clear, clear highlights.

acoleuthic, Monday, 8 November 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Seasons Reverse (?!)

Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Is it really someone else than Jim playing steel? Because you can hear it in 'Le Paysage Zim Zum' (from Sonic Youth's 'Kali Yug Express' EP) too.

EvR, Monday, 8 November 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

bauchredner

plax (ico), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link

most blues are subtitled either "no sense of wonder" or "no sense of scale"

reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

for example?

mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

I wish that were actually true

Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (No Sense of Scale)

mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

Robert Johnson - Come In My Kitchen (No Sense of Wonder)

mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

i was sleeping

plax (ico), Sunday, 26 June 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

Subtitled (________)

Boehner & der club of GOP (Ówen P.), Monday, 27 June 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link

Adjusted for market price, this free advice is worth $1

Boehner & der club of GOP (Ówen P.), Monday, 27 June 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

Theyyyyy shuffle because it's been
more than two years
First seeing you in a snowbank
Then a sweater
And then a swelter

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 30 September 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link

i should really revisit this album. i felt like it was nowhere near as good as upgrade, mirror, and crookt but maybe i didn't have the right ears for camofleur at the time.

I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Friday, 30 September 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

November is a time for Blues Subtitled. I wish there were more albums like this.

― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Monday, November 8, 2010 2:12 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I started early this year. Such a great fucking record, and band.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

seven months pass...

DG's early sketches of "seasons" & "blues" live at the black cat in 97:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVzuSSliajU&feature=youtu.be&t=1260

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 24 May 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link

c/p: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVzuSSliajU&feature=youtu.be&t=1260

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 24 May 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link

enjoyed revisiting this album recently now that drag city is on spotify

jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2018 06:25 (five years ago) link

Hey I had problems embedding videos too for a long time, so I had to bookamrk a random thread that told me how to do it

You need to paste the url but change it from https:// to http://

― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 16 November 2017 20:56 (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, take out the “&feature=“ just to be safe

“/watch?v=“ then the 10-12 characters for the video title

― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Thursday, 16 November 2017 20:58 (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 24 May 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link

https://www.rollingstone.com/yo-la-tengo-ira-kaplan-five-songs-w520167/gastr-del-sol-the-seasons-reverse-w520172

It's O'Rourke speaking to the firecracker Frenchies tho

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 May 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link


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