The Shannon Doughton name is actually from someone Britt went to school with.
― hstencil, Monday, 10 March 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
While you're at it, is Sooyoung up to anything these days?
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 10 March 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
I always found the echo whisper part in "Good Morning, My Captain" to be embarassingly bad
How would you say this compares with Ozzy on "Black Sabbath" singing "No NO! Please God Help me!!"? I find them both neither moving nor embarassing. They're both just really effective performances in the context of the songs.
Anyway, the Slint album is a definite classic. All the imitators are duds. The thing is as great is Slint were, there is no real point to all the regurgitation. That album was delivered at the perfect time, and they themselves had the good sense to stop.
(ok, maybe when I was a kid I got goosebumps w/ Ozzy, but I'm talking about now)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 February 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
:)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 23 February 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
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― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 February 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
I find this shocking and disturbing.
― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 23 February 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 February 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link
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― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 23 February 2004 05:34 (twenty years ago) link
the for carnation - search:
how i beat the devilget and stay marchon the swing [note: became my favorite song for a week about two years ago]i wear the goldwinter lairsalopreparing to receive youalfredo's welcome
the touch and go album is really good. he (they) played a secret show a month before it was released at bruno's in SF which was incredible.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 05:51 (twenty years ago) link
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― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link
Did you know that one of the people who replied to the advert for female vocalists was one Polly Jean Harvey? Now there's a pretty cool thought... PJ singing for Slint...
― Mog, Monday, 23 February 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link
As for Spiderland itself, basically what Jess said, although the proper (2000's) For Carnation album is still one of the most fundamentally *moving* records I own. A great deal of the stuff that followed it was only really impressive on a very superficial level, although I haven't been disappointed by very much of Dave Pajo's stuff.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link
There speaks a man who never paid out good money for a King Kong album. Me, I'm still bitter...
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:22 (twenty years ago) link
Shameless lies!
I think seeing this thread revived was the first time I'd even thought about Slint for a couple of years.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
one featured a pretty neat cover of "last caress".
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
Apparently McMahan and someone else who was in Slint was flown in by A&M (?) before the release of Kids to discuss their inclusion of that song in the soundtrack and wanted the two to sign the big contract to allow use of the song. The two were enthusiastic but didn't want to sign just yet, and wanted to reconvene with the other ex-Slint folks to talk about first, see the movie, etc. and then decide if this is what they wanted. Well, anyway, one day, one of the guys saw the soundtrack in the stores with their song in it, much to his surprise -- no contract ever haven been signed or anything. But they apparently got mailed their royalty checks while the soundtrack was moving units in the stores... so hey.
Good ol' music industry for ya.
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
No save it till your in you’re 80’s, consuming all music post1960’s in existence beforehand so that you can properly appreciate britt’s drumming on good morning captain (all the talk of the documentary pales in comparison to the shots of a 16yo looking Britt playing the track in a crusty basement)
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:01 (one year ago) link
So very very glad David Pajo is still around and working after his sadly public suicide attempt. I couldn’t believe that Slint was where he started knowing him from Tortoise and Papa M first. What a career, spiderland to millions now living to Royal trux to zwan, while playing live with interpol, the yeah yeah yeahs and now hang of four. Is there any career in rock music that mirrors the broad + influential + not super well known (from my impression) he has?
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:07 (one year ago) link
Jim O'Rourke maybe? Pajo's Zwan bandmate Matt Sweeney is also kinda a rough analogue
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:34 (one year ago) link
This thread has been a great read, thanks all. And I have to read your 33 1/3 book, pgwp.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 08:04 (one year ago) link
Thanks so much for the posts, yes. Veronica was so lucky to see them at that time. And for the impression to linger after all these years. We all hope to catch art at the highest levels while it's on the make and people aren't quite sure. People usually get to it when you are already told it's good by some.
"So very very glad David Pajo is still around and working after his sadly public suicide attempt."
Very sad about it when I saw this on his wiki yesterday.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7wh270Oc9c
― veronica moser, Saturday, 28 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
yeah so I finally did it, what do you guys think?
https://i.imgur.com/Yh3rMqR.jpg
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
shouldn't have gone with comic sans
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
33 years old! Ashamed to say I've never heard the remaster... until today, I will report back what new things I hear.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:01 (five months ago) link
My book came out just ahead of its 20th anniversary. Wow.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:19 (five months ago) link
I couldn't tell you when I bought it or why, I don't recall really ever listening to it, it just seemed like it was always there, I was never as deeply obsessed with it as some people I knew were, like I can never remember what the names of the songs are, I was kind of bored with it by the early aughts when it was touch point for like everything, then the reunion...
But there are times, like this morning when I listen to it and it's like meeting with an younger version of myself, I know everything about it and am instantly transported to my parent's basement or my first apartment or this shitty car I had, the clothes, the smells, the sensations, the details are all right there encoded in the music.
What a weird ass record.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:55 (five months ago) link
Good post. Similar for me. Those intro guitar harmonics take me right back to the bedroom I first heard it. I can remember my state of confusion first hearing the abrasive guitar in Nosferatu Man. Really an album that captures people, holds them where they are. A drumming student of mine, completely obsessed with hip-hop and funk, couldn't get him to care about any other music no matter how hard I tried, became obsessed with this album of all albums (I mean the drumming is pretty incredible), and I could see it hit his 16yo brain the same way it hit my brain at 16yo. Sorta one of those undeniable works that transcends taste and preference if it is given a listening ear.
Also everyone should read pgwp's book. It is the best.
― H.P, Thursday, 28 March 2024 00:19 (five months ago) link
Aw thanks HP!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:49 (five months ago) link
Some news: https://store.touchandgorecords.com/products/slint-tweez-35th-anniversary-edition-white-2xlp
I've never gotten into Tweez because of how it sounds. I'm hoping this alternative mix helps!
― Pataphysician, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link