Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Gosh this is hard. Definitely think of this and Charm of the Highway Strip as the best-sounding Merritt-related records. Comes down to San Diego Zoo or Pillow Fight for me. Hmmmm.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
They made sounds much like drumsI was young, you were dumbNow you're older and I'm wiserWe design synthesizers
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy to see "All Dressed Up in Dreams" get a vote too.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
there are no bad songs on this album.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
does anybody know what happened to stephin merritt this century that made his schtick become so rancid? whenever i return to these early albums i am always struck by just how good they are. just the right balance of joy and wistfulness, genuine sentiment and distancing self-irony.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Well said. The second 6ths album is good as well but not at this level. After "69 Love Songs" I liked "i" and some of "Distortion" but otherwise, shtick is the right word.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
The man in the forestThe dashing young floristThe nurse musclebound
― JoeStork, Friday, 23 August 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
surprised that San Diego Zoo ran away with this poll, I love it but I’d say the Timony, Knox, and Wareham tracks are just as good.
Robert Scott’s vocals are uncharacteristically terrible on “Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket,” which is otherwise great.
― JoeStork, Friday, 23 August 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
Apparently there was a music video for "San Diego Zoo": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_IRXRUDgxw
― ernestp, Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
You voted Dream Hat downI shake my head about your tasteYou voted Dream Hat downShould have finished in first place
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 16 May 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
wow @ no votes for "Movies in My Head"
― last updated a group of five done twelve times ago (geoffreyess), Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Just found my fake 6ths tracklist from 2009, it's still mostly possible!
Asks Asps1. And Didn't We Have Fun (w/ Agnetha Faltskog)2. Sunspots on the Moon (w/ Andy Bell)3. Learning Not to Love You (w/ Daryl Hall)4. Wish You Were Me (w/ Terence Trent D'Arby)5. The Day of Your Ceremony (w/ Alan Sparhawk)6. He Done Him Wrong (w/ Torquil Campbell)7. Rainshowers (w/ Poly Styrene)8. I Waited For You to Bring Me A Cat (w/ Satomi Matsuzaki)9. She Asks Asps the Way to Aspen (w/ Martin Phillipps)10. Losing Ampersands (w/ Alison Moyet)11. Thorn In My Neck (w/ Patrick Wolf)12. I Don't (w/ Sam Phillips)13. Feathers (Where Your Head Should Be) (w/ Alison Shaw)14. Museums Could Be Us (w/ Michelle Phillips)15. Ages & Pages (w/ Steve Harley)
― last updated a group of five done twelve times ago (geoffreyess), Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
Weird, I had no idea that the Ayako Akashiba who sang on this was the same who did vox for (the german synth-gaze band) Guitar. I wonder how she got on SM's radar at the time? Her first band (Sunshower) is/was reasonably obscure, even in Japan.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
(neither their band nor album name show up in any results on the ilx servers)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
There is so much OTT reverse reverb on this I'm surprised it hasn't been retconned into the shoegaze canon.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 03:54 (three months ago) link
the only Stephen Merritt project I've bothered to hold onto
what super random thread will Steve Shasta revive next
― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 04:00 (three months ago) link
This remains my fave Merritt as well.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 04:12 (three months ago) link
Oh my dear Shakey: kindly come to the NOIZE BOARD where I am drawing lines between North Macedonian choral hymns in 7/8 meter to Grateful Dead hippie jambz.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 05:03 (three months ago) link
shakey . . . lives? <3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 05:14 (three months ago) link
my favorite Merritt, too!
can't believe "All Dressed Up in Dreams" got ONE vote
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:47 (three months ago) link
Love this album. I could easily vote for about half the tracks.
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 09:42 (three months ago) link
the chord changes on “pillow fight” are otherworldly, I don’t known they move me so
― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 15:21 (three months ago) link
I don’t known know why
https://i.discogs.com/m9a2wnQF8hw4AWz-H0K7fbFoqnblDxxVHpsZmLp4-uw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:584/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxODU5/NC0xNDQ4NDg2NTA0/LTk3NTcuanBlZw.jpeg
― mizzell, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 15:59 (three months ago) link