― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
After a slew of cassette and vinyl micro-releases SubPop signed them for a few LPs/singles.
They have some good songs, I think they're debut 2x7" on SubPop was pretty classic college indie-rock circa 1993. I have no idea if the other guys are still active but Julie Doiron is still making records (her record with the Wooden Stars is pretty sophisticated art-pop).
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Definitely worth looking into though.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
The release I recommended is called Songs About Chris.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
the records can probably be found in used and bargin bins, and entirely worth picking up at that price.
― b b, Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
It was kinda a good record. Better than the Microphones, that's fer sure.
― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― dogonwheels (dogonwheels), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
"Peter" and "Love Tara" are the highlights.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 5 August 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 5 August 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― le planete sauvage, Friday, 5 August 2005 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, they do sorta sound like a better version of the microphones now that i think about it.
― jerkwarrior, Friday, 5 August 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 6 August 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
All I have is Love Tara, and while I enjoy it on the whole, the drummerhas that machine-gun style that you either love or hate. The kindwhere on the loud, fast songs, every phrase ends with a ton ofsnare drum 16th notes.
― Zach S, Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I think that's what happened, because I can remember seeing a vinyl version with Sub Pop's logo in the early 1990s at shows, whereas the CD/CS was all that Murder ever had listed.
the gordon st haunting ep is lovely as well, as is the float 45 (i assume both of these are on the long days ride cd?)
For some reason, Julie's vocals on the "Playing hide and seek..." verse of "Float" are removed on Long Days Ride (and no, Gordon Street isn't on the comp; it was limited to non-SP releases, except for live versions). I'd recommend that album as the starting point requested in the thread's lead-off questions, largely because it covers the whole arc of the bands' six year career, from the early lo-fi self-released cassettes, to 7" singles to live tracks. Also, for those that are interested, Rick White has reissued (on CD-R) versions of the first cassette and first two singles: http://www.elevator.ca/gb.htm
I don't really get the SY comparisons, apart from their name. They've always sounded more like Isn't Anything-era MBV playing Neil Young's Decade ("Sugar Mountain" and "Like A Hurricane" are much like the two sides of ET that you'd be exposed to, the quiet and the loud).
I think ET's best song was "Smoke" which appeared on The Road South 7" on Sonic Unyon.
― Vic Funk, Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I've heard bits of Julie's upcoming album (not due until end of August), and it's really good. There's a dance number, almost in the vein of Feist, but with more teeth.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Great Albums
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwolfcow, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
STOVE!
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
how do you feel about it?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
i love it. i'm listening to love tara for the first time in ages and had forgotten all about that tune.
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
love that lp
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
i love adjusting the balance dial on my stereo while listening to eric's trip. that hard-panned stereo sound! and the drums on love tara... that compression sound on stove...
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Purple Blue soundeds really good to me today. Through ears now to me it sounds like doom pop with all of the fuzz.
― earlnash, Monday, 28 May 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
Yeah underrated. But Love Tara was my favorite album by anybody for a couple years
― rip van wanko, Monday, 28 May 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
forever again & purple blue both re-issued on vinyl last week by subpop <3
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
People always told me that when I got older I would miss all the punk records I sold, but the reality is that I just miss my Eric's Trip LPs. :(
― ian, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:22 (three months ago) link
<3
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:24 (three months ago) link
this band feels long overdue for the big deluxe box set treatment
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:00 (three months ago) link
NO BIG BOX SETS :\
― ian, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:38 (three months ago) link
keep the numero group the fuck away from my canadian homies
I wouldn't buy a box set but I would buy a compilation of all the early stuff to see if it holds up.
Never forget:https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=113973
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:13 (three months ago) link
kiss me on the head, steve
― ian, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:39 (three months ago) link
lol forgot that I started this thread
(Still haven’t spent enough time with Eric’s Trip)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:41 (three months ago) link
Haha Eric's Trip feels too lo-fi and light-hearted compared to the serious, pondering-dude 90s indie rock that Numero focuses its efforts on. Much of which I love, don't get me wrong. But slightly off brand I'd say.
― Evan, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:43 (three months ago) link