Pedro the Lion. S & D.

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Couldn't find a thread about David Bazan. I just discovered him tonight on the radio. To me occasionally his music sounds very much like Idaho. Whose first album Year after Year is still one of my all-time faves. Beautifully sad slowcore which creates an amazingly dense comforting atmosphere. The power which can come out of depression. Some of the mp3s I listened to were more in the vein of Elliott Smith but less vulnerable and musically more convincing. Where to start with Pedro?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The new Pedro album (_Achilles Heel_) is a fine place to start, especially from what you're saying, Alex. The 2 albums prior to that (_Winners Never Quit_, _Control_) are more RAWK, and, in the case of _Control_, somewhat didactic.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

But the guy on the radio played this one song from the new album which really made me think, is Idaho back? And then he said the rest of the album is really shitty. Almost mainstream in the vein of Coldplay.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

all of pedro the lion's good stuff sounds just like idaho. but idaho are more interesting.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Was thinking of seeing them at Northsix, more for John Vanderslice.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The guy on the radio is a dork.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

vanderslice is a goddamn prince, by the way. met him on tour with pedro, who is boring old indie rockah with a boring old indie beard.

― harshaw (jube), Saturday, 19 June 2004 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"indie beard"
http://www.greenufos.com/web/grupos/w/oldham.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 19 June 2004 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.robertcrosbie.com/evandando/images/beard3.jpg

― harshaw (jube), Saturday, 19 June 2004 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lifeofbrian.org/gallery/albums/pedrothelion/4274773666_G.jpg

― harshaw (jube), Saturday, 19 June 2004 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh fuvk i need to shave

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 19 June 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The new one's good. "it's hard to find a friend" and "winners never quit" are great too. Control got a little tedious, but is great in small doses (i.e. one song at a time, shuffled in itunes). And I have huge respect for him for being a vocal progressive christian, and thus risking the disdain of both the cynical indie-rock scene and the annoying CCM scene.

Some of it's maybe a little didactic, but in a humanistic, Woody Guthrie sort of way.

On the whole, PTL are more pop than Idaho. The comparison maybe made more sense back when the songs were slower.

John Vanderslice is a ridiculously kind man.

― Kevin Erickson, Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda like 'Big Trucks', 'Bad Diary Days' and whatever that one about winter legs is.

― minolta (minolta), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

'options' off control is great.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Monday, 13 September 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bought Control. What do other people think...

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8025779813329843646

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:39 (fourteen years ago)

oh fuck it

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:39 (fourteen years ago)

go listen to fucking "rejoice" by pedro the fucking lion

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:40 (fourteen years ago)

'the longest winter' is a jam theres a p good live verz on youtube iirc

― Lamp, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:41 (fourteen years ago)

wouldn't it be wonderful
if everything were meaningless
but everything is so meaningful
and most everything turns to shit
rejoice

i'm saying

thats some shit

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:43 (fourteen years ago)

ya the longest winter is 1 jam for life xp

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:44 (fourteen years ago)

also micah p hinson does a p good smog-esque cover of 'slow and steady wins the race'

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:46 (fourteen years ago)

hoos are you into june panic's stuff on secretly canadian??

― Lamp, Saturday, 17 September 2011 05:56 (fourteen years ago)

yah dude "the divider" off 'glory hole' will be on my funeral mixtape

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:01 (fourteen years ago)

also i can't see song title 'the source (to destroy a girl)' without thinking of aged usic post "its like if u kiss a girl u have to trust her"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:02 (fourteen years ago)

i made a mix for a bro w/ the divider on it this summer fantastic song

tbh i think june panic is the better of the two although mb its unfair that i always couple of them in my mind

― Lamp, Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:21 (fourteen years ago)

oh shit dudes, june panic? horror vacui and the baby rec fr life thought i was alone there

― bear, bear, bear, Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

Heard on the radio today. Enjoying their uptempo stuff

― calstars, Sunday, 25 December 2016 01:28 (nine years ago)

wouldn't it be wonderful
if everything were meaningless
but everything is so meaningful
and most everything turns to shit
rejoice

i'm saying

thats some shit

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, September 16, 2011 10:43 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 December 2016 02:56 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

new album phoenix out in january

first single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObpO2mGMl8

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:33 (seven years ago)

nice

― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 17:17 (seven years ago)

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/697/MI0001697935.jpg

Twenty years old this week. Damn...

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:52 (seven years ago)

crazy. got it on now for a revisit.

― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:49 (seven years ago)

the coda on bad diary days gets me every time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJGrA724Bo

― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Monday, 5 November 2018 20:10 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

Phoenix is out and so i threw it on. only got through a few tracks on my way home, will listen to more later. one thing is did notice is his voice seems to be a lot different, probably from smoking? the sound threw me for a bit of a loop.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 January 2019 01:33 (seven years ago)

i think i might still stand by this:

1. Control
2. Whole E.P.
3. The Only Reason I Feel Secure E.P.
4. It's Hard To Find A Friend
5. Winner's Never Quit
Achilles Heel was horrid and they should break up after that trash.
― BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:52 PM (thirteen years ago)

― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 January 2019 01:35 (seven years ago)

five years pass...

Pedro the Lion are playing in my backyard on Friday night, thinking about going if I can get a deal on tickets.

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 06:08 (one year ago)

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