POLVO AND ARCHERS OF LOAF REUNION TOUR

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― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 17 July 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Never a band to follow formulaic musical styles, Polvo once again shakes things up with its twisted song structures of multiple tempos and intricate, distorted guitars. Today's Active Lifestyles goes from the raucous "Thermal Treasure," with its tangled guitars, into the meandering "Lazy Comet," with its singsong, rhyming lyrics, to the spare, melancholy "My Kimono," which features a solo by guitarist Ash Bowie. And that's just the album's first three songs! The band experiments with several ideas throughout the album, and each concept is successful. The album ranges from cascading guitar solos in "Stinger (Five Wigs)" to the straightforward "Tilebreaker" to the catchy, rolling, keyboard-punctuated "Time Isn't on My Side." Overall, it's an excellent album with many layers. You can listen to it over and over again and still catch new things going on in every song.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, North Carolina. Can anyone explain why it's been such a hotbed of original-sounding music? Why every year there's a new crop from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle? Sure, it has lots of colleges, but there's gotta be more to it. Never mind the silly band name and LP title, here's a two-guitar quartet that takes a normal starting point -- whirling, loud, harsh guitar pop with an unpredictable edge -- and adds a bawling, full-throated vocalist named Eric Bachmann, who himself sounds like he's been singing all night and his voice is a little sore (just enough to make him sound like he really means it). Or like Ric Ocasek singing his lungs out for a change, on top of a roaring, screaming loud band. Which means if they're on the same bill with Dillon Fence, DF is the polite, ringing hook band, while these guys are gonna jump-start the keg party. Music to sing to and bounce off the walls to at the same time, with all that Southern quirky dedication and sincerity and congeniality that make us love the place so much.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 17 July 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i liked polvo records enough to see them live back in the day, but i don't recall thinking they were that great live.

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

they were intense.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember selling my Dillon Fence cd in college and the record store dude warning me that it was out of print and that I would have a hard time getting it back. I was like "is that why there are so many Guadalcanal Diary cds back there?"

― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i turned 10

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

did you sail the ocean blue?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i remember polvo having some good and bad moments live. i remember thinking they were going to be much more intense than they were. that was weird.

the one time i clearly remember seeing the loaf was during icky mettle times and frankly, it was pretty much full on indie rock SLAYAGE.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i remember thinking they were going to be much more intense than they were. that was weird.

exactly

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

the two times i saw polvo they slayed. one of the times, there were gigantic papier mache joints above the stage.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link

POLVO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AOL (although their first few singles/eps were classic).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Meaning: AOL was a 1-trick pony (a good trick but they milked it dry) whereas Polvo's first 3-4 albums were completely out-of-left-field unprecendented and incredibly chaotic.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

AOL wrote songs you could SCREAM in the car

POLVO wrote songs you smoked weed to

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

AOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>POLVO

**DUCKS**

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

what i remember about the aol drummer that i liked:

http://www.trommeslageren.dk/assets/images/readstuff/animal_drums.jpg

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

+ CRO-MAGNON BASS PLAYER!!!

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

screaming cro-magnon bass player!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

stoned guitarist who looked like garth!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

AUDIOWHORE!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

wait, this is my dream tour. OK, go ahead and mock me. polvo were the first band i saw in a formal club.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.smnnews.com/gay.gif

― ghetty green (eman), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

maria you don't seem to understand us very well! we all love polvo!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

even me!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, where does the mocking enter into it?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i have no idea.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

~~sike~~ psyched

― dmr, Saturday, 21 June 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link

goddammit i was just getting excited

― M@tt He1ges0n, Saturday, 21 June 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

haha yeah sorry dude was just talking about polvo, going to see em tonight

maybe not the right thread to bump

― dmr, Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link

NOISE BOARD NEW ANSWERS PAGE 2008

― cutty, Saturday, 21 June 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link

shoot i saw polvo just when todays active lifestyles came out they joked about being a trumans water covers band and then rocked out like freakin fury!

― bob snoom, Saturday, 21 June 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

fuckin archers of loaf man

― cutty, Friday, 27 March 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/members/splash/P195802S.jpg

― mookieproof, Friday, 27 March 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

<3 polvo

― ice cr?m, Friday, 27 March 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link

VLADIMIR:
A running sore!
ESTRAGON:
It's the rope.
VLADIMIR:
It's the rubbing.
ESTRAGON:
It's inevitable.
VLADIMIR:
It's the knot.
ESTRAGON:
It's the chafing.
They resume their inspection, dwell on the face.
VLADIMIR:
(grudgingly). He's not bad looking.
ESTRAGON:
(shrugging his shoulders, wry face.) Would you say so?
VLADIMIR:
A trifle effeminate.
ESTRAGON:
Look at the slobber.
VLADIMIR:
It's inevitable.
ESTRAGON:
Look at the slaver.
VLADIMIR:
Perhaps he's a halfwit.
ESTRAGON:
A cretin.
VLADIMIR:
(looking closer). Looks like a goiter.

― turnover is validating, profit is salivating (ledge), Friday, 27 March 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link

the results after the loaf's revenge

― dmr, Saturday, 28 March 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link

I love the archers of loaf so much. Some of the best shows I've ever seen.

Saw Crooked Fingers a couple years ago and they had the Archers bassist with him and played a couple old songs. It was so great.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 28 March 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link

i'd love to see an archers show. the polvo reunion last year was a rager.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 28 March 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Did not go to Polvo reunion show even though RS loves them and they're one of the few bands I actually introduced him to. Regret not going. :-(

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 28 March 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link

i was supposed to go to polvo last summer cant remember what happened - maybe i was out of town - saw them a bunch of times in the 1990s

― ice cr?m, Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link

I went, it was fun. saw em once in the 90s openin for TFUL282

― dmr, Sunday, 29 March 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

FREE POLVO
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/events/eventDetail.php?eventID=2926

― dmr, Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link

!!!!!!!!

― cutty, Sunday, 10 May 2009 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link

o i will be there

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 10 May 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link

wau. this could warrant a trip down to NYC on the Fung-Wah!

― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Sunday, 10 May 2009 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link

dude https://www.boltbus.com

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 10 May 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link

oh yeah! I saw ads for that and but haven't checked it out yet. will do now.

― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Sunday, 10 May 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link

they hav wifi

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 10 May 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvdH4xjATjc&feature=related

― cutty, Monday, 17 January 2011 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pWa0dZMHYeE/hqdefault.jpg

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

it's all happening

― cutty, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

the results after the loaf's revenge

― dmr, Saturday, March 28, 2009 12:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't think I can go to those shows. kinda bummed.

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link

what did you expect

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link

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