This is a big relief for me. The new music is awesome. With the old recordings (which I've made into a CD that gets regular rotation in my car), there was always the possibility that they were drunk or having an off night, and actually trying to play straightforward metal, and the show turned out wierder than what they actually had in mind. But I can't read their minds, and that screwy music is all I had to go on.

Thankfully, this band really IS wierd as fuck, totally original, and altogether rocking. What a great bunch of songs. What an awesome band.

Superking wrote:Watch the interviews with Curt(is). It is possible, he says, that there will be a Complete reunion and tour.

Please let it be true. This MUST happen. For the good of the Republic and humankind in general. I don't care if they do old stuff or new.

What happens when all this attention affords Curt session musicians or "producers" that end up destroying all the magic? I can see this happening: autotune, a real drummer, a real bassist, an "arranger" etc.

How to leave the genius unspoiled?

I really kind of liked how the old guitarist in the You Tube videos played guitar. The rhythm section not so much, but whatever, something made "Beautiful Sunrises" and "Hot As Hell" amazing songs... and it wasn't just Curt.

They've still got it. It is a bit like listening to later Beefheart/Fall stuff. The strangeness and originality manages to cut through. Those older recording though. Hard to top.

mr.arrison wrote:What happens when all this attention affords Curt session musicians or "producers" that end up destroying all the magic? I can see this happening: autotune, a real drummer, a real bassist, an "arranger" etc.

How to leave the genius unspoiled?

I really kind of liked how the old guitarist in the You Tube videos played guitar. The rhythm section not so much, but whatever, something made "Beautiful Sunrises" and "Hot As Hell" amazing songs... and it wasn't just Curt.

In his interviews, Curt struck me as someone who preferred not to let production values get in the way of doing something weird and special. Not to worry, ladies and gents.

"Eve" was the first song I listened in aught-eight, last night right after the ball dropped in New York. Not sure what kind of harbinger that will be for the whole year.

"I Don't Give A Damn" could have been a Murder Junkies song, and the solo to "Hoogie Boogie Land '07" is from the Greg Ginn school of putting your fingers any damn where, scales be damned.

So Complete 2.0 includes only Curtis and Mark from the original lineup, which would make them Come. Any word on Thalia Zedek joining on bass?

Okay, I've listened to the songs and read this whole thread (cold, boring night and I'm bored) and count me as a fan of Complete. The YouTube early stuff is incredible. I remember when I first started hearing music outside the norm like Flipper or whatever and then as you get used to it the initial noise chaos settles down and you figure out what they're doing. I don't think Complete will ever 'settle down' for me, which is inspiring. Even the new stuff, though the beats a lot more regular, is pretty far-out. Yay Complete!

Rick Rueben wrote:The new Curtis interviews are wild. He invents a new word to describe his musical tastes. He says he's a 'collectic'. It means the same thing as eclectic, but Curtis says he's a 'collectic'. There's no doubt that he thinks it's a separate word. He's not mispronouncing 'eclectic'. Curtis says the only book he's ever read is the Bible, and he asks the interviewer in all seriousness if he had ever heard of the Eagle's 'Hotel California'.

Yes. I have been thinking about that a lot. Well, not that much. But that is gold: "collectic".

Big revelation : Curtis calls the show that documented the original Complete 'a disaster'. So it sounds like at least Curtis knew they were fucking those songs up, and not in some un-thinking fugue state of weirdoness that they were happy to be in, as some have alleged.

I'm not sure how bad he thought they were fucking the songs up. I mean, that would make sense if the new Complete songs were more normal or tight. They are not.

It's a mystery wrapped inside of a riddle!

BUMPLETE (see what i did there)

"A collectic."



It would make me the happiest man on Earth if Curt was taking a page from Andy Kaufman's biography.