tallchris wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 10:27 am

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:30 am

tallchris wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:07 am So no new music then since Steven has been writing everything for almost 30 years? That seems like a relief.

WELCOME BACK, RONALD!

Ronald, Steven, and Michael just need to form their own band at this point!

Would see this band.

^Yes, but Steven sticks to drums. NO GUITARS.

major wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:42 am Wayne Coyne stinks.

He's living his best life with his age inappropriate wife.

AdamN wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:53 pm

major wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:42 am Wayne Coyne stinks.

He's living his best life with his age inappropriate wife.

Or at the very least he could buy another suit.

this band should have called it quits when Ronald left imao

For the very first time I thought of what The Soft Bulletin would sound like with Ronald and holy shit!

I'd say nowadays;

1.Clouds
2.Transmissions
3. Priest
4.Hit
5.Telepathic.
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...
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6. Bulletin

Rest I don't care much.

A begrudging Not Crap? Hard to say at this point.

The early albums are pretty good garage-psych and/or acid-damaged indie stuff. If I had to pick, I'd go for the Dingus era of the band. Those records are very cool.

Did not expect what came later. I stopped paying attention thereafter ("She Don't Use Jelly" sounded like some slightly weird version of Blind Melon or some bullshit). And became actively annoyed by this band's antics after Zaireeka. Yuck.

David Baker-era Mercury Rev wipes the floor w/all of it, though. Class act, those first two Rev albums. Way more power, wilder, and psychedelic w/o all the cutesiness. Wish they'd stayed the course, but alas...

I took my wife to see their show a year or two before the pandemic, not telling her anything about the spectacle, though I knew she already liked the music - a lot of this stuff is just records that get played in the kitchen for her. It was way fun to watch her while it kicked off, something I’ll always remember.

Beyond that, there isn’t anything for me. I agree w/ Soft Bulletin being mind blowing at the time - I was in high school - and Yoshimi was a disappointment, despite my best efforts at the time. I even bought the EPs and stuff that immediately followed, but I completely lost touch after that.

Other than that, if I wanted to listen to Gen-x psychedelia I’d listen to Circulatory System on one end or some kind or Brett Netson-adjacent project on the other.

Vickie saw them once at a Mexican restaurant in Missoula and said it was fantastic, but I think she was drunk.

I can see why it would hit people as being "interesting" or whatever.
It's sort of like MBV to me, in that I don't care about it, but I don't like the Flaming Lip and I sorta like MBV.
MBV is kinda indistinct for me musically, but:
a) it sounds neat sometimes, and
b) it's a clear vision driven by an inwardly directed aesthetic, which I respect and have more time for than stuff that just seems like fucking around..