jason from volo wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:42 pm Big fan of Nathan Larson’s guitar playing.

His Mind Science of the Mind project with Mary Timony from that period is worth hearing, but is becoming increasingly hard to find evidence of:

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:23 pm White Light/White Heat to Velvet Underground.

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:23 pm White Light/White Heat to Velvet Underground.

How about No Kill, No Beep Beep to Different Damage?

Just out of curiosity I checked the Pitchfork review of their 3 albums and the first is rated lowest? WTF?

BrendanK wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:50 pm How about No Kill, No Beep Beep to Different Damage?

Just out of curiosity I checked the Pitchfork review of their 3 albums and the first is rated lowest? WTF?

I'd say the example is Different Damage to Power. The first 2 rule. The last is horrid.

I guess I should give it another shot. It never did anything for me when it came out tho'.

Trans Am: Red Line -----> T.A.

Red Line is an rich delicious gumbo, an organic mix that still bears Trans Am's idiosyncratic stamp, the full flowering of all they had planted. Initially I thought four sides was overkill but I soon grew to love all of it.

T.A. isn't a terrible LP it's just eh.

BrendanK wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:14 pm I guess I should give it another shot. It never did anything for me when it came out tho'.

Well it's definitely a different flavor than their excellent debut. I'd say listen to Soft Pyramids once, and if it annoys you, you know you're done, but maybe it will rope you in.

That record's got all of the markers of that second (third?) wave of dance punk that swept the scenes right around 2000, the sassy vocals and funky bass lines. I think what sets that record apart from a genre I mostly hate is the evocative images in the lyrics, and the brilliant use of the space they found as they lost a 4th member and became a trio.

I saw them on that tour with Dischord's Black Eyes who were obnoxious to me (and also dancey).

tallchris wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:23 pm

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:23 pm White Light/White Heat to Velvet Underground.

WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME, I'M RIGHT?

Mason wrote:

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:23 pm White Light/White Heat to Velvet Underground.

Get you a man who can do both!

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:23 pm House of GVSB to...Freak*on*ica.

Acclaimed indie band making their major label debut has got to be responsible for a lot of these.