Fiery Furnaces

just playin with ya fluxdude!

strangely, after them not sounding as good, on my computer, as they did, live, now they don't sound as good, on my stereo, as they did, on my computer.

that is: after not sounding as good as they did, now they don't sound as good as they did.

I still like them a lot, though.

I often wish it wasn't so necessary, or so difficult, it's much more natural for me to write about it in the context of life or just general experience. I suppose it's an identity through sound thing with Basement Jaxx, particularly now they seem to have become their own genre.

RJG can I scab a copy of the album?

I will let you see the cover, sometime, though.

I like eleanor on that mp3 you posted to your blog matt.

commas excised from first draft of this post: 3.

N. developed a mathematical system, on it!

It was really frustrating how despite reading it a lot, I missed the big controversy when it happened.

It was nice when N. OK'd my reaction to his picture of the band, though. I enjoyed that.

Looking at it now, I wonder who it was who 'set' JtN 'straight' in the, the, 'boozer'? Or even, what boozer it was?

how could anyone but the corniest indie fuxors pretend that jumbled indulgent BB shite (except for the title track..i thought that was "neat") is in any way greater than GB??

Major Misunderstanding is a character in the British adult comic Viz. He is a retired major who dresses smartly, has a bushy walrus moustache and wears his medals on his chest for all to see; things which suggest that he is very pompous.

i just read about this. it's....bizarre

Like most creative musicians, Matt Friedberger is not a fan of Radiohead and most of their chart busters. Of course, Matt and all the Fiery Furnaces family are great fans of all Tommys living or dead, so much so that lots of the Fiery Furnaces' work is, because of the pun, dedicated to imitating the Who's Tommy.

"Back in the fall of 1996 or whenever that interview was conducted, the interviewer asked what Matt thought of the Radiohead song celebrating a WWI veteran. Matt naturally thought it would be interesting to pretend that they wrote a song about the celebrated American composer of a similar sounding name, hence his joking in the interview about Radiohead composing a song with something like 48 notes to an octave. It was easy and amusing to imagine Radiohead's attempt to colonize that relatively arcane bit of our musical lifeworld. This is what they used to call, in some bohemian and advertising circles, 'riffing' or fooling around.

"Matt has not heard the Radiohead song about Harry Patch, but if he did, he is sure he wouldn't like it. No doubt Radiohead and their fans can ignore his opinion of this matter and continue with their triumphant artistic interventions. Matt would have much preferred to insult Beck but he is too afraid of Scientologists.

This guy sounds . . . disturbed.

This is hilarious. Matt Friedberger seems like he is probably not a very nice person IRL. I still need to listen to "I'm Going Away". "Widow City" is one of my favorite of their albums.

What a fun band.

They were.

Was just over to their Wiki page, almost teared up a little.

Blueberry Boat ages brilliantly, one of the best albums of the 00's beyond doubt imo

oh my fucking god this thread though

EP came out 10 years ago this Sunday. ;_;

Holy christ that makes me feel old.

Love several, but Rehearsing My Choir is rock of ages, in more ways than one. Granny Olga in Heaven, you rule!