Yeah, I got a ticket for both. ^_^
― bacon = bad for the face + magic for the moobs (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
todd trainer on animal planet o_O and awesome
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWrVQTlonc
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 17 January 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Amazing!
― Wax Cat, Sunday, 17 January 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG that was awesome. though todd trainer seems like a truly weird dude.
― the architecture of horniness (askance johnson), Sunday, 17 January 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
That's amazing. It's good to see that Albini can drop the cynicism, misanthropy and sarcasm when it counts. On a dog owner's program.
― Doran, Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah in the spring and summer sometimes i would look out my office window and see todd, all vampirish in black, walking his lil' doggie around, so cute.
i don't know him but i've found that everyone i know who has actually dealt with or knows albini IRL says he is super nice and awesome...people that say "oh he's such a dick" tend to not know him irl.
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I was joking. I've heard that Albini is actually a pretty nice guy if you meet him. It was more how he usually comes across in interviews that I was talking about.
― Doran, Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome video!! wonder if uffizi tours with 'em.
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
This will be messy:http://www.atpfestival.com/events/shellacny.php
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Noon! I can see lots of people buying tickets for that and not making it.
― kraudive, Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Coming to my hood. Still worth seeing live?
― uhhhhhh (admrl), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
yes! (if you like shellac)
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Saw the 20th anniversary show in Minneapolis over the weekend. It was great.
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
line-up for their ATP this December currently looking great:
Shellac Of North America Neurosis Wire Mission of Burma Oxbow Nina Nastasia Melt Banana The Ex + Brass Unbound Mono Shannon Wright Zeni Geva Arcwelder Scrawl Uzeda Bottomless Pit Prinzhorn Dance School Three Second Kiss Pinebender Red Fang The Membranes Buke and Gase Dead Rider Helen Money Bear Claw ALiX STNNNG + more TBC
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
so did i mh! had a blast....
btw STNNNG marks the first time a participant in ILX Pre-Covers LULU makes an appearance at ATP
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
"Little Dog" is coming to the UK!
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't quite in the right headspace for STNNNG when they were on, but I think that's more due to me than anything about the band! I was kind of thrown off by a lot of things, having just been in a car and then getting dinner having a lot to do with it.
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
I need to give their post-At Action Park catalogue another chance
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
what they need to do is release some sort of definitive amazing live album.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
“Dude Incredible”One word: “monkeys”
It’s about the group dynamics of trying to get something done with a group of people. Somebody ends up having to behave like a ringleader and then there’s debate and all of the counties have to be heard from and then, eventually, there’s a move where everybody’s suitably motivated and you go off and do something. But along the way there are circumstances and ultimately you get to a resolution where you complete your enterprise or whatever.
“Compliant”One word: “compulsive”
The text of the song is an abstraction that Bob came up with of the things that someone who is suffering obsessive compulsive disorder has to do just to get through his day. He has to make sure certain rituals are performed in order to satisfy that obsession. It’s called “Compliant” because that’s the shorthand for “OCD compliant.”
“You Came In Me”One word: “intercourse”
It’s a fairly straightforward song about sexual intercourse.
“Riding Bikes”One word: “vandalism”
“Riding Bikes” is in the context of children or adolescents riding bikes, where it’s a mindset and an activity put together. Like, you and your friends go riding bikes and that implies a certain degree of intimacy or closeness with your friends. You’re not just riding bikes, you’re having adventures, you’re breaking things, you’re stealing things, you’re causing minor vandalism — all that sort of stuff.
“All the Surveyors”One word: “survey”
We first got into a surveyor kick when, I can’t remember if it was Bob or me, we noticed that quite a few of the founding fathers of our country, the United States of America — your neighbour to the South — were in fact, surveyors. Meaning that they took a chain and a pole and paced off the physical dimensions of our new country. They physically measured the place they were living in and that was part of their definition of where they were living. How much more could the borders of that place mean to you and its identity as a nation than that you had physically measured it?
A lot of the founding fathers were surveyors, including George Washington. But if you think of the word “survey,” that means that you’re assessing something from a distance and measuring it. There are a lot of circumstances where there’s an external observer surveying what’s going on. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be a person these days. It could be a satellite or a drone or a surveillance camera.
“The People’s Microphone”One word: “altogether”
That’s an instrumental song. The subject matter of the song doesn’t really exist, because it’s a musical motif only. But it was named after the practice that was revived during the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy other places movement. When someone wanted to address the whole of the occupation, obviously you couldn’t be heard over a large distance, so the whole assembly made a social contract that, whatever this person said from the podium, they would all repeat it in sync in a loud voice so that people behind them could hear it. That construction was called “the people’s microphone.” I think that was an ingenious invention.
I started to think also about its use as a consensus-building tool, If you hear yourself in your own voice, it forces you to consider the veracity of the thing that you’re saying because you don’t want to be repeating a lie in a loud voice. So everyone who has convinced themselves to be a conduit in that situation is, by the process of repeating the thing that they are amplifying, a kind of a filter for its veracity. And then it forces them to internalize that thought because they have to evaluate it and it could be conceived of as a rote thing but, because of the way we all behave with respect to speech and language, it isn’t. So, I was fascinated by that and I admire it as a technique to solve the problem of being heard in a crowd. And I’ll be honest, I felt like I missed something by not participating in any of these people’s microphone exchanges during the Occupy movement.
“Gary”One word: “Indiana.”
It’s about the steel magnate for whom the town of Gary, IN, is named. Most of the lyrics for that song are taken from a book of labour and communist folk songs. It’s called The Big Red Songbook. There’s a song, the lyrics to which were written by T-Bone Slim, and they were in that book and the song is called ‘Gary’ and it’s about Gary, IN, and its namesake.
“Mayor/Surveyor”One word: “pun.”
That’s another instrumental, based on a little guitar motif. Going back to the founding fathers and surveyor business, to qualify as a politician or statesman at the beginning of this country’s existence, you had to have a very tangible relationship with the country. And now, basically any asshole who wants to can be a politician. We thought it would be nice to revive the idea that in order to be a public servant, you would’ve had to have had some intimate relationship with the place you were trying to govern.
“Surveyor”One word: “snappy.”
It’s a very snappy song. Quick tempo. And it has a literal relationship with the founding fathers and their work as surveyors in that the tools of the trade are mentioned by name and there’s a quotation by George Washington at the end that Bob recites where Washington describes how the lack of maps is impeding progress.
take that, bono and the edge
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I just received an email from Touch & Go stating that my copy is now in the mail. STOKED.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Didn't pre-order, but kind of wish I did cuz it sounds like folks in some Midwest spots have already received it.
Odd to think that after waiting 7 yrs I can't wait a few more days!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Really do not have high hopes
they have become patchier with every album imo....which is a shame, the basic sound of the band is so good
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
You're probably right. I just keep hoping...
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Excellent Italian Greyhound is only a slight dip, the previous three are all equally excellent. And when I saw them a few months ago they were the best they'd ever been.
― nate woolls, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
He is such a rigid, miserable, boring fucker. I loved BB when I was a kid and I liked Rapeman and At Action Park, but everything he has done since leaves me cold. It is like watching a reanimated corpse from the 80's still twitching through the motions and wearing a 70's "disco sucks" badge, file next to Oasis.
― xelab, Friday, 12 September 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Hey it's Morrissey!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 12 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
He is almost that bad unfortunately!
― xelab, Friday, 12 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Shellac are one of the greatest live rock bands ever. I've probably seen them more than any other rock band and never seen them do a bad show. Action Park is one of my all time favourite albums but I'm not massively partisan about anything else they've done. However, it's not about the albums is it? They've said, ad nauseum, that the albums are only a snapshot of where they're at, at a particular moment in time. The real arena to appreciate them… if you're geographically lucky enough, I guess… is live.
― Doran, Friday, 12 September 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
shellac and the grateful dead both
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 September 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
I mean, its ok...hes done well enough - Atomizer, SAF, Steak and Black Onions, At Action Park, the Wingwalker 7"
that's a good haul
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 12 September 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Shellac's records are pretty consistently interesting imo
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
I will say that Shellac is sorta like Deerhunter for me in that their albums get better with time - even if they're never as sick as AAP.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
Doran OTM, like him they along with the Fall are the bands I have seen live the most times, and like the Fall they are always interesting.
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Saturday, 13 September 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
It's funny I always think Terraform is better than At Action Park and 1000 Hurts is not far behind....
EIG was a step down...I wish they'd do an odds n sods/singles comp that would be their best record
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
I'm such a rigid, miserable, boring fucker.― xelab, Friday, September 12, 2014 3:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
I'm obsessed with this version of The End of Radio since someone posted it in another thread.
worth a listen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzDQWrp5VpA
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
^^^this one is so, so good
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
The new album is fucking great btw. Too soon to call it but feels like the second best thing they've done.
― Doran, Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
behind Terraform, obv ;)
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
LOL. I do like Terraform but I find the opening track a bit of a slog to be honest - even though technically it's amazing.
― Doran, Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Doran, that's my favourite Shellac song you're dissing! Consider this glare admonishing.
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I used to think Didn't We Deserve....was a chore to get through but it has the effect of my appreciating the odd Trainer fill or Albini noise more than the standard 2/3 minute Shellac number
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Doran I feel the inverse on Terraform. I adore "Didn't We Deserve..." but I find the rest of the album kinda forgettable.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Posting the lyrics to "Prayer To God" on my Facebook page got me fired from my job.
Despite that, total classic.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
^lol
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
also, wait, what
Yes. I finally got a lawyer to take my case but it's an uphill battle in an At Will state. We essentially have to prove that firing me for such a lame reason is a cover-up for some other things that they legally couldn't fire me for.
One prong of attack will possibly be a PR campaign so once my lawyer and I get on the same page, I will be trying to get the local media interested in my story. I think it won't be difficult - man fired for posting song lyrics to Facebook is sexy especially since a man was arrested for posting song lyrics not too long ago. But I'll leave the details to my lawyer.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 13 September 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
And that's why you don't friend people from work and make yr status updates public!
Second singles comp, that's what I listen to theist despite being crappy vinyl rips
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 13 September 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Tell us here when you're going public with the story NYCNative.
― Doran, Saturday, 13 September 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
^^ I'd swap the singles and Action Park but yeah pretty much
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 17 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
It's never quite gotten better than At Action Park but I'm always willing to hang in there to see what happens.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 17 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
Oh and I saw someone point out this new set is Shellac #16 but Dude Incredible is Shellac #14...so whatever #15 is maybe that is coming "soon"?
I heard an interview with Steve recently where he said they're planning on releasing a comp of all the non-album material so I'm guessing it's that.
― woman in the dunes, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
nice! I had a shitty CDR, now long gone, with a bunch of odds and ends which included a cover of AC/DC's Jailbreak, I'd like to hear that again
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 07:30 (four years ago) link
it's on Youtube of course, wish fulfilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImNv9IgJdb4
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 07:31 (four years ago) link
jailbreak was on a skin graft 45
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
I forgot how much I like Dude Incredible
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
After the first two singles and Action Park, Terraform was a big WTF for me. I just kept waiting for something to happen on "Didn't We Deserve..." but it never did. I get a bit more what they were going for now after you hear where they went, but that tune was kinda out of nowhere first time I heard the LP.
That said, the 'package' with the vintage paintings and the lush earth picutre on the interior and the record sleeves is really beautifully done.
The two singles had me hooked for a long time, they are some 7"s that I listened to a bunch. I also got the Drag City one and that Skin Graft double 7".
― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
Earlnash - felt exact same about Terraform - but the Chesley Bonestell art was dope. They never topped At Action Park or the singles in my opinion, but certainly have never put out any kind of clunker.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
I got to say that Dave Foley doomsday bunker rock-DJ sketch from the new Kids series has got some serious "The End of Radio" vibe.
I have to wonder if him or the writer knows the tune.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 16 June 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/Csb9LEspJH4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==🫡🫡🫡25 years of Terraform, unfairly maligned not so long ago in this very thread!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 May 2023 21:20 (eleven months ago) link
Damn, already?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 19 May 2023 22:13 (eleven months ago) link
dogg, I know.... feels strange
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 May 2023 22:28 (eleven months ago) link
their greatest
― imago, Friday, 19 May 2023 22:38 (eleven months ago) link
New album, To All Trains, out May 17.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:30 (one month ago) link
"How I Wrote How I Wrote Elastic Man (cock & bull)" is a song title so good I am pissed I didn't think of it myself
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:40 (one month ago) link
pre-covers?
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:50 (one month ago) link
SHELLAC – TO ALL TRAINS TRACKLIST:SIDE AWSODGirl From OutsideChick New WaveTattoosWednesday
SIDE BScrappersDays Are DogsHow I Wrote How I Wrote Elastic Man (cock & bull)Scabby the RatI Don’t Fear Hell
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:33 (one month ago) link