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| matto |
Posted - 06/13/2005 : 08:18:30
This site has a stream of some songs:
http://www.myspace.com/helloradiothesongsoftheymightbegiants
I couldn't discern if the FB tune is there.... I am dumb.
skinny puppy has a song called "cult" - does that count? |
| 35 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| 1965 |
Posted - 04/15/2006 : 00:29:44
Will be released on 11th July 2006.
(( I'm a Snake... cut in half 'cause I'm not the one you needed. )) |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 02/09/2006 : 10:32:41
It's like the "don't come close" by the ramones (on road to ruin): tough people can experiment the mellow brillantly. |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 02/09/2006 : 10:26:33
Yeah as the song "dog in the sand" is rocking hard in a mellow way |
| Carl |
Posted - 02/09/2006 : 06:29:58
I'm just checking out 'Crackerjack' now, nice sound. Nice to see Joey working with different artists, besides doing soundtrack work.
Grotesque, yeah, a real mellow Pixies album could be interesting, even though I generally like my Pixies with an edge. But then, as Frank says in the B-Sides sleeve notes (in reference general crowd reaction to Wave UK), "Sometimes mellow can be more rockin'." :)
 pas de dutchie! |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 02/09/2006 : 03:42:54
Interesting contribution of Santiago. A soft dreamy touch.
I'd love the pixies to make a really soft album. Softer than Bossanova.
"In bed with the pixies" |
| Apesy |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 19:35:01
quote:
Originally posted by Grotesque
"She's an angel" is great who's that?
Charles Douglas: http://www.indieonline.com/artist9.html
Joey Santiago is lead guitarist on his most recent album, Statecraft.
-=Apesy |
| VoVat |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 10:50:58
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mink car, well i haven't really given it much of a chance, due to my personal vendetta with the Johns.
Personal vendetta? What, did they dig up your garden or something?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 02/07/2006 : 13:21:10
Very rocky that sample.
"She's an angel" is great who's that?
Frank Black covering "Road Movie to Berlin" seems greatissimo. The best of all, as usual.
"Don't let start" funny eighties meat puppet sound
Docteur worm accoustic... hey it works!
End of the tour, the singer wants to sing too well. Like the new pop bands on Mtv.
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| Grotesque |
Posted - 02/07/2006 : 13:09:45
Sometimes as a fan you don't have to make any effort to appreciate an artist new sound. I liked honeycomb at the first listen.
But I hated Frank Black and the Catholics, and now I like it.
White Pepper first made me think to Oasis. Now it's allright.
But Mink Car ruined years of trying not to listen the pet shop boys, choosing the supermarket and the haircutters carefully!
Arghh... and then came that song "now it's so loud..." dontknowhat...
I think they wanted to do like Frank with Hang on to your ego: a disco move.
Yeah, it's quite close. But missed, oh so missed!!
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| silvereel |
Posted - 02/07/2006 : 12:13:15
white pepper is an excellent album, as is mink car (to a lesser extent). it's just like honeycomb, it seems that true fans of an artist are less willing to accept changes in a band's style. i hated white pepper at first, but it grew on me and now i love it. mink car, well i haven't really given it much of a chance, due to my personal vendetta with the Johns. but that is neither here nor there. |
| fbc |
Posted - 01/07/2006 : 06:45:36
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=15656884
Frank Black and Molly McGuire's song is 52 seconds into the sample. |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 12/06/2005 : 13:07:48
I think that one is allright but not very original. It got beck's "cool country" voice. Sounds like Odelay (the song). Perhaps I'm wrong because i've just heard it once. The general feeling of the album is "eltonjohnish". |
| vilainde |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 03:03:17
quote:
Originally posted by Grotesque
About the covers album, I hope it doesn't sound like "the great late daniel Johnston", where the covers are just a deny of Jonston music (except Tom Wait).
Really? I've been meaning to get it since it was released. How is Beck's cover of True Love Will Find You In The End? That's my fave DJ song, you know.
Denis
"You know what? You know what? You know what? Shut the fuck up!" |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 12/03/2005 : 05:09:46
About the covers album, I hope it doesn't sound like "the great late daniel Johnston", where the covers are just a deny of Jonston music (except Tom Wait). Personnality is the fuel of the music, not compressers, equalizers and reverbs. |
| fbc |
Posted - 12/03/2005 : 02:45:00
it's all freedom rock |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/02/2005 : 08:29:05
Mink Car is probably my least favorite of TMBG's studio albums, but it still sounds like TMBG. Really, though, artists like TMBG and Frank don't really seem to have very many limits on what kind of music they'll make.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 12:18:17
Oops, not talking about honeycomb there of course.
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| Grotesque |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 12:09:12
Ok, I admit I must have listened to white pepper a hundred time just to verify if it's so bad or not, so I must like it after all.
But it's not so lofi or weird anymore, it could be on a list along with Captain Beefheart's Bluejeans and Moonbeans or The Butthole Surfers Independant Worm Salloon. I just think weird music is not just an adolescent crisis consequence but a style in itself, that helps cut all the crappy big sound. Even the beatles where lofi: they did it all with at most a four track!
Well, it's far from Frank Black, sorry for mixing the subjects.
Frank Black, by the way, never made me that impression, and I don't understand people who found honeycomb sounding like anybody. I recognize hime in every second, wich is not the case with TMBG's Mink Car. The melodies are slower and weeker, no? Where is the adrenalin?
Just count the notes and you'll see (ho ho ho).
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| prozacrat |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 00:35:24
They're very polished albums. I think that's shocking to most TMBG fans. TMBG has always been very thorough in their song writing/recording, but their last two albums have just been very glossy. I'm still adjusting, but I love the albums just the same. And how could you not like White Pepper, Grotesque? I listened to it again this morning (I saw Ween last night for the first time and it blew my mind) and W.P. is a very solid album. As a musician, I can really appreciate where they pushed their sound to on WP, and then to Quebec. They also played a couple new songs last night, so I think the folks will be pleased with their new album when it comes out. This is a bit of a digression. Sorry.
http://www.prozacrat.com |
| Apesy |
Posted - 11/29/2005 : 10:37:23
I love The Spine.
But I love Mink Car, too...don't understand all the hate it receives.
-=Apesy |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 11/29/2005 : 10:04:04
Abour TMBG, is The Spine good?
Listening to Mink Car has been such a traumatic experience.
Even worse than Ween's White Pepper. |
| fbc |
Posted - 11/29/2005 : 06:27:06
nice one, tele-boy. No new news yet.
The latest update i've found is this:
"Two finished CDs were sent to the Johns for review around 12:40pm CST [14 Nov 2005] |
| telescopicboy |
Posted - 11/17/2005 : 11:54:19
Here's a URL for MM3's myspace page...
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=15656884&Mytoken=F602C98A-1554-149D-1A19653B0BD0676347131993 |
| fbc |
Posted - 11/14/2005 : 02:36:35
I can't find the MM3 page that was supposedly set up.
Vilainde, the only release date I know of is sometime in 2006. |
| Apesy |
Posted - 11/13/2005 : 17:45:13
So, has anyone found this new page containing samples of the whole album?
-=Apesy |
| VoVat |
Posted - 11/13/2005 : 11:51:48
quote:
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Originally posted by DrWorm
Awesome, can't wait to get a chance to check out some of thongs songs. I'm a huuuge fan.
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"Mister, would you please help my pony? / I think it's his lung"
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Edit: Those songs ^.^
I didn't THINK "The Thong Song" was by TMBG. :P
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| vilainde |
Posted - 11/13/2005 : 10:57:01
I'm lost. When is this supposed to be released?
Denis
"You know what? You know what? You know what? Shut the fuck up!" |
| DrWorm |
Posted - 11/12/2005 : 10:09:04
quote:
Originally posted by DrWorm
Awesome, can't wait to get a chance to check out some of thongs songs. I'm a huuuge fan.
 "Mister, would you please help my pony? / I think it's his lung"
Edit: Those songs ^.^
"Mister, would you please help my pony? / I think it's his lung" |
| DrWorm |
Posted - 11/12/2005 : 09:46:50
Awesome, can't wait to get a chance to check out some of thongs songs. I'm a huuuge fan.
"Mister, would you please help my pony? / I think it's his lung" |
| fbc |
Posted - 11/12/2005 : 05:07:14
I don't blame them.
I'd dedicate a whole album to this beauty.
Speedy Molly / Ahead of the now / She's better built that's how |
| Carl |
Posted - 11/11/2005 : 23:43:57
*wolf-whistle*, wow, she's a cutie! The Dubliners do a song called The Molly McGuires!
"I seem to have rejoined the cult of FB.Net!"
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| OldManInaCoffeeCan |
Posted - 11/10/2005 : 17:35:19
______________________________
"I'm more of a self-indulgent epic kind of guy." King Charles IV
"two separate albums released on the same day, thank you" |
| fbc |
Posted - 11/10/2005 : 10:59:40
man, would you wanna pull them out?
thought not.
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| OldManInaCoffeeCan |
Posted - 11/09/2005 : 18:40:40
Another "Heard/Saw it here First" for me, anyway
Thanks for the info matto
And Guitar Man, pictures are always a welcome sight
by the way, love those pants, they look like those Chinese Finger traps, you know those things that you put your opposing forefingers into each end and then you can't pull them out.
______________________________
"I'm more of a self-indulgent epic kind of guy." King Charles IV
"two separate albums released on the same day, thank you" |
| fbc |
Posted - 11/09/2005 : 16:34:52
quote:
http://www.thespores.com/news.shtml
Molly has recently collaborated on recordings with Frank Black....
The Frank Black session was with friend Bryan Brown on drums and was a cover song for a "They Might Be Giants" tribute record. The track is called "Road Movie to Berlin" and will be released sometime in 2006. Molly was called in to play bass on the song, but ended up singing the entire song with Frank as a duet. More info on that release coming soon.
And for those who want to see her,
i know i sure do:
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