― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
also, from what i have:1. todays active lifestyles (OTM about all songs mentioned so far - lazy comet, my kimono, thermal treasure, but ESPECIALLY time isnt on my side - that synth solo is one of the finest kitchen-sink pop/rock moments i can think of...)2. celebrate the new dark age3. cor-crane secret
(ill update when i get a little more familiar with exploded drawing)
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 30 July 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post haha see I think polvo is the ultimate treble band!!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
they definitely used cheaper guitars then sonic youth which explains some of the variance in tones. i'm just explaining that tunings played a pretty significant factor in their "sound" which was largely a sonic youth influence.
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
flip it and reverse it, dude-io.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bum Lik-King Fargit (bumlikkingfargit), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
check out black taj, dave brylawski's new band.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Erectus Monotone is super too (I was raving mystery friend above).
― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm gonna go home tonight and listen to Frozen Like Chandeliers.
― Renard, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.wxyc.org/bandwidth/downloads/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Celebrating_10-Years_of_Internet_Radio_on_WXYC-Chapel_Hill/10%20-%20Black%20Taj%20-%20Woke%20Up%20Tired.mp3
their new record came out a week or so ago and i know they're touring rather soon.
this is what dave says about the band in a fakejazz interview:
http://www.fakejazz.com/fake/archives/2005/04/ncaa_basketball.php
"Black Taj is Grant Tennille from the Idyll Swords, my friend and Inexperience drummer Thomas Atherton, and Steve Popson, who was in Polvo with me, on bass. The record is going to have a few different recording sessions on it. The earliest was from 2002, which we did at Trans Am's studio - NRS - in D.C. Ash Bowie and Brian Quast did a session in Raleigh this year with Brian Walsby on drums. Jerry Kee did a recent session as well. I think we are going to go back to Quanic in Raleigh and get Ash and Brian to re-record a couple of songs this summer. We'll cull the "best" from all those sessions for the album."
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm a big apologist for "Shapes"!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Polvo are reforming for Explosions In The Sky's ATP next year. I've heard feck all of their music, but I'm still pretty excited about this.
― MacDara, Saturday, 10 November 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time I see this thread revived I a) don't dare posting because I am not articulate enough to do justice to how much I like them and b) fear it is news of them reforming for a date I couldn't go to eventually. Now I'm going to risk the idiocy of a) because part b) has really happened.
(And not even the ATP with Deerhunter, Pissed Jeans, Wooden Shjips and Fuck Buttons, which I was already a little regretful about missing and could just about have been tipped over into attempting to get a chalet with a bunch of strangers on the basis of this announcement)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard the dude's guitar work on Helium's Pirate Prude EP and Superball LP and somehow I just KNEW Polvo wouldn't be half as good. The song "Gemini Cusp is fantastcic, though -- although it's corny (read: indie) as all get out
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll be sure to let you know how it goes! But seriously, it will be my first ATP experience so don't mistake me for one of those ridiculous fairweather hipster types who only go to gigs to show off their new hairdos.
If it makes you feel better, going to the other one means I'll miss the Meat Puppets.
― MacDara, Sunday, 11 November 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
There needs to be a reissue of that first EP plus all the singles stuff and rarities that never made the albums.
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 11 November 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard the dude's guitar work on Helium's Pirate Prude EP and Superball LP...
um n00b, that's called a bass. mary was the guitarist.
― Steve Shasta, Sunday, 11 November 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
'Can I Ride'
What a belting lesson that one is. The four note bass line rules
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
their reunion show down the street in Chapel Hill sold out a month in advance
― J0hn D., Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Cor Crane Secret got a listen today.
― ian, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
ce-le-brate-the new! dark! age! with! us!
― dmr, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"El Rocío" is an underrated epic.
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"El Rocio" almost redeems Shapes...
― Craig D., Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I use "D.D. (S.R.)" as the background music to my iPod games.
*GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG*
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I am way too irrationally excited for the Polvo reunion, given that I can't actually make it through any of their albums in one sitting. They need a best of record like whoa.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
today's active lifestyle
― Zeno, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
just got tickets for the nyc show
― dmr, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
One of my favorite 90s bands. Lived in Chapel Hill, NC, so saw 'em a couple times before I ever heard a record (Cor-Crane was already out, so I didn't have to wait long). Great live show. Lot of folks back then weren't happy w/ Cor-Crane, but I think its best songs are as good as anything that came after. Esp. "Can I Ride" and "Channel Changer". Celebrate the New Dark Age and Today's Active Lifestyles are great from front to back though. For whatever reason, I lost interest after that. As far as I'm concerned, a random mix of songs off the first three = the only "Greatest Hits" that matters.
Still, a well-selected retrospective of some kind might do well, and god knows, they deserve it.
― contenderizer, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Fantastic song. In Prism was my favorite album of 2009, but I couldn't get into Siberia for some reason. I guess I have to try again.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 27 May 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
love the filigree, not so much the song. my favorite polvos tend to be fragmentary, abrasive, only secretly tuneful.
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Friday, 27 May 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
Emil from Holy Sons/Grails/Om covers them in the latest episode of his excellent podcast: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1633582233421734&id=1280469688732992
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
The closing credits of the above podcast contains an amazing lost/forgotten Polvo-related track from Dave Brylawski:
Idyll Swords - "Autumn In Empire"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATFus6yUf8
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
Totally missed that the Can I Ride ep got reissued as a mini album last year with the two songs off the Vibracobra single stuck on the end. Looks like it was some sort of record club edition? Gone now though - FUCK
Cor Crane Secret and Today's Active Lifestyles get a vinyl reissue this coming week - i kind of want them to replace my own long gone copies but it looks like they've uglified the covers for some reason
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
New interview:
https://www.talkhouse.com/polvo-finally-appreciates-their-own-music-sort-of/
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Avalon - Downhill Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKhsJTrCmo
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
Haha yes that is amazing
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/4531300
~30min HD pro-shot interview/live footage (warts n all) from the 2009 reunion era:
Fast CanoeEnemy Insects (loose jam outro)Every Holy Shroud (new slower intro, spacey long middle section)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
Speed Stick - Knots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO0wp-YYKA
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link