Let me see...I'd have to say:

Not Crap

Good lord, not crap.

I'm not all that crazy about On Avery Island, as it hasn't seemed to age that well, but ...Aeroplane... is perfect as far as I'm concerned. This record occasionally makes me weepy. Man, it's good.


Faiz

kerble wrote:Good lord, not crap.

I'm not all that crazy about On Avery Island, as it hasn't seemed to age that well, but ...Aeroplane... is perfect as far as I'm concerned. This record occasionally makes me weepy. Man, it's good.


Faiz

Seconded.

Anybody ever dig up any articles on the recording details of Aeroplane? I love some of the sounds and I'd like to find out more about how they were achieved.

kerble wrote:On Avery Island, as it hasn't seemed to age that well

You must be referring to the production, right? For me, the songs on Avery were revalidated by the Live at Jittery Joe's album, which was recorded in between the two albums (with the ItAOtS lyrics not yet nailed down.)

If memory serves, I don't think you ever completely warmed up to Avery. Who really cares, though, when they rocked so hard live.

Tim

I really can't think of a record as perfect as 'In the Aeroplane'-completely original/creative, wonderful lyrics, great sounds, melodies, on and on...

I found a downloadable live set that has a lot of the songs from 'Aeroplane' in it, does anyone know if this is any good? I think it was on a site called EZ Tone or something...

not crap, aeroplane is simply amazing. I completely lose track of time and get overly engrossed in whatever I am doing at the moment when I listen to this album...

Dylan wrote:Anybody ever dig up any articles on the recording details of Aeroplane?

TapeOp #11 (winter 98-99) -- currently out of print.

They compiled issues 1-10 into a book and mention that a few articles from 11-14 were included. Can anyone varify if the NMH article was thrown in there?

Tim

Tim,
the NMH article is not in the book, seguro.

mooliachi,
there's a kid that's been archiving all of the out of print/live show things on his site:
http://www.everythingisfire.com
Often, the bandwidth is exceeded and you can't access the page, but keep trying.

This Kid has the Lounge Ax show in some sort of format. Haven't tried to get it, but it's a start.

Dylan,
There's a book coming out on the topic you doth spaketh of. The fine folks @ Continuum (the same that do the 33 1/3 series you were talking about in the Book Talk thread) will be releasing it in 2005. It is written by Kim Cooper.

A shameless self-promoting note:When we recorded w/Robert (Apples) in January (see my footer below for one of the songs) the compressor we used was the same one used on Aeroplane. Robert is a goofy sentimentalist and the compressor still had all this white greasepen on it that said "NMH" to mark the settings. Geeky.


Faiz

So not crap. The "On Avery Island" material sounds a lot better on the bootlegs from their last tour than on record. Jeremy Barnes was a fucking crazy drummer, with a Keith Moon like ability to ignore the hi-hat and make wildly flailing fills sound awesome.

Maybe with the many oncoming sings on the apocalypse (Jandek live, Slint reuniting) we'll get a new Jeff Magnum release?

ugh, not a fan.

CRAP