For my money the best "rock" band in New York right now. Have seen them a bunch of times over the last year and they have always brought it in different ways. Ironic this was bumped today as their "Presents the Ocropolis" show was just announced for the Godspeed ATP, further tempting me to sell everything I own and head over to that. I was quite disappointed that more people didn't place Rated O high on their Best-of lists last year. Best LP released that's even in the orbit of "rock" music.
― MFB, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
^Yes, to all of that, although I think Rated O is the kind of album that takes a long time to really sink in, because there's just so much of it and it takes so many different turns.
An oral history of Each One Teach One:
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4141041-an-oral-history-of-oneida%E2%80%99s-each-one-teach-one?new-york-week
― Position Position, Friday, 29 October 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://drownedinsound.com/resized_images/325x325/63384.gif
^ seriously one of my favorite album-insert art/design pieces ever
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I love that! Had to wait for the cd to come out before I was sure if I had all the right track names in the right order, even.Holy shit I love the O.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 29 October 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it is like a couchside headge maze for stoners
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
sp. lol
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i think you just coined an awesome new stoner phrase: HEADGE MAZE.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
think about it, man
Love it.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"numbide one each eak? wtf, man?"
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
who will be the first HeadgeMazeGaze band?
― tylerw, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
(this live set is pretty smoking btw: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Oneida/Live_at_Primavera_Sound_2009_on_WFMU_1784)
― tylerw, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
dl/ty
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks for that link, looking forward to listening to it. First track is a two-song jam clocking in at 43:58? Niiiice.
― Position Position, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
That drowned in sound article is so good. Pissed that I am stuck at work! I just wanna JAM.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
all files have finished downloading!!!!!!!
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
^ exclamation points for emphasis
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh holy shit
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. also this, which i haven't heard yet: www.nyctaper.com/?p=2721
― tylerw, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^I grabbed that one as soon as it was put up, I think.Really nice to hear them doing a set of mostly covers.Cave played at that event.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
kalimba-like guitar bit at about 17/18 min on the opener is so damn nice
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck, not to mention the organ drone after [/livebloggin]
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Will be dling both sets tonight! Love this band so much. Any news on the third in the "Thank Your Parents" trilogy yet? Not that I'm even close to bored with Rated O, but always ready for more.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure I read somewhere that part three isn't coming out until summer 2011, although a quick search for that hasn't turned up any concrete info so I might be misremembering. Kid says it has no drums and will be one disc:
What's the third part going to be like?KM: It's going to be no drums. It's done, it's finished. I don't know when it's coming out. We have to submit it to the label first but it is done.Are there any morsels of information you can tell us about it?KM: It's conceptually coherent and it is one disc long. It's kind of all the same piece.
KM: It's going to be no drums. It's done, it's finished. I don't know when it's coming out. We have to submit it to the label first but it is done.
Are there any morsels of information you can tell us about it?
KM: It's conceptually coherent and it is one disc long. It's kind of all the same piece.
http://thequietus.com/articles/04574-white-hills-oneida-interview-kid-millions
― Position Position, Friday, 29 October 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks. I admit to being skeptical about the "no drums" thing, but I'm sure these guys can pull off something amazing anyway.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
That article was great. This band is almost "too good." A ridiculous, overused phrase. But seriously? Seriously.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 30 October 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, even more live oneida, again courtesy nyctaper: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=4227
― tylerw, Monday, 1 November 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Oneida? More like OneIdea, amirite?
lol j/k
― your favorite homoerotic savior imagery (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 November 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I gotta load up my ipod with all these live O jams.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 1 November 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
sample from Thank Your Parents part 3:http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/horizonedit.mp3
it's called Absolute II and its out 6th june, whoop!
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
can't listen to it at work but: yessssssssssssssssss!
― willem, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
no drums on this one.just got sent it by the fine fine label so gonna give it a listen in a bit
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no drums!?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I felt like crying when I heard this. I probably had too high an expectation of it.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I just heard about this yesterday...it's already on rym on the Jagjaguwar page
― Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
These guys have pretty much done everything. I think that they've earned the license to do whatever they want.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, agreed, and I'm still looking forward to this more than pretty much everything, but Kid Millions is such a brilliant drummer that its still a little disappointing. Kind of like hearing King Crimson in their prime would have a record without Fripp playing guitar or something.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
fromt he Jagjaguwar site:
SONG LIST:Pre HumanHorizonsGray AreaAbsolute II
Absolute II CD / LP (JAG190, released: 06/07/11) Absolute II is the final piece in Oneida's Thank Your Parents triptych of releases, begun in 2008 with Preteen Weaponry and followed by 2009's acclaimed triple disc Rated O. With this release, the Brooklyn group concludes a challenging and profound long-term project. The Thank Your Parents triptych, totaling around 200 minutes, is intended to be listened to as a whole or in its component parts. Absolute II stands on its own, in addition to serving as a chapter in an immense whole.
The music on Absolute II is startling, rigorous and demanding. Oneida is a band that has been strongly identified with the frenetic, fluid drumming of Kid Millions and the relentless pulse of classic Krautrock, but this release contains neither audible drums nor identifiable "rock" music. The recordings move freely across accepted boundaries of rhythm, harmony, and tonality – not in the form of dramatic, willful experiment, but as a musical distillation of several themes that have emerged in the wake of Rated O's dynamism: paralysis, entropy, stasis, possibility, and finality among them.
While Oneida is known for unpredictability and sui generis musical forms, this release is particularly resistant to categorization, and it remains difficult to identify precise influences on the music contained here. This is particularly unhelpful, we realize; suggestions and recommendations for updating this info release would be welcome, as the band themselves don't really know or are being recalcitrant.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
in the Quietus interview with K Millions and the guy from White Hills from last year, it was stated that this would have no drums
― Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
10 Intelligent questions for Oneida
Yeah, I remember that now. I was kind of hoping it was one of those off-the-cuff things that didn't end up being totally true. Still super psyched for this.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of like hearing King Crimson in their prime would have a record without Fripp playing guitar or something.or seeing the credit on a led zep album: "John Bonham: Keyboards"but yeah, like tripmaker said! they can do whatever they want.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe they decided to give Kid a rest on the new Oneida in consideration of his all-drums project, Man Forever?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i trust y'all have seen this: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=5562haven't grabbed it yet (requires a donation) but I plan to...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The Shinji Masuko album Woven Music that was just released on Brah is pretty great.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I want to check that out
― Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
(can anyone recommend me some DMBQ btw?)
― Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Just to qualify: I thought no drums was a great idea and was really looking forward to some kind of cosmic synth masterpiece but on first listen I found it really airless, monotone and unengaging. That said they're a band who often does stuff that grows on me.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link