telefunken wrote:did steve albini engineer this album or not? according to towerrecords.com he "produced" this record. obviously thats incorrect but im curious if he recorded it.

Brian Paulson. Who's been known to pop up around these parts.

For the record, he also did a beautiful job with Polvo's This Eclipse, which for my record-buying dollar, was their aesthetic peak. (No disrespect meant to Bob Weston, who did a beautiful job on a lot of their other stuff.)

Rotten Tanx wrote:(your cue to say SHE'S NOT AMERICAN SHE'S CANADIAN)

's all right. Canada's a suburb of the US, so it's like the same thing, but with no crime and more parking space. (That's sarcasm, just so yinz all know.)

well, according to these cats, that's a good example of what the word "irony" denotes. read everything they have to say here. i won't flinch if you come back saying "that website is wrong". it's my lazy-ass reference, though.

It's not wrong, but it says that under usage and not definition.

The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply “coincidental” or “improbable,”

It's not wrong, but it says that under usage and not definition.

waitasec... you're saying that i just posted a link to a definition of irony, trying to show that it means something, but actually the very link that i posted shows it to mean the exact opposite?!?! is that ironic or what!?

Like rain on your wedding day!

toomanyhelicopters wrote:

It's not wrong, but it says that under usage and not definition.

waitasec... you're saying that i just posted a link to a definition of irony, trying to show that it means something, but actually the very link that i posted shows it to mean the exact opposite?!?! is that ironic or what!?

Rotten Tanx wrote:Like rain on your wedding day!

Okay. Seriously.

Knock it off.

me and my sig other were discussing this song just yesterday.
she too says they are all coincidences, not irony.

telefunken wrote:
did steve albini engineer this album or not? according to towerrecords.com he "produced" this record. obviously thats incorrect but im curious if he recorded it.

Brian Pualson did Spiderland, I believe on Steve's advice or so the story goes.

Here is what else Brian has done...

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 904#APPEAR

alexdamon wrote:me and my sig other were discussing this song just yesterday.
she too says they are all coincidences, not irony.

Well, actually I would argue that most of those are not even coincidences* but instead they are just "bummers"**


* Coincidence: "Like, oh my god! We both showed up at the party totally wearing the same dress!"

** Bummer: Rain on your wedding day, bugs in yer booze, etc...

Yes. They are all, I believe without exception, simply bummers. There is nothing ironic about rain on your wedding day or paying money for a free ride.

I thought I'd vanquished this unruly demon from my tiny life. The last effin' place I expected it to re-surface was in this forum. How ironic. Or not, as the case may be.