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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 02/28/2005 : 11:03:15
In our disc exchange (see: North American Mix Mixer), both Floop and King of Siam included a Beulah track. While I wasn't a huge fan (lyrically) of Popular Mechanics for Lovers, I absolutely fell in love with Me & Jesus Don't Talk Anymore.
Wanting to hear more, a friend burned me a CD of MP3s with all their albums. They're all pretty good, but Yoko is an exceptional album from start to finish. To be fair, my listening has been heavily weighted by the fact that M&J is on Yoko, but really, I think that if they had kept going, their next record would've been amazing.
Anyway, my friend that burnt me the CD says Yoko's his least favourite, so I wanted to hear what you guys think. If you haven't heard it, check it out! Especially if you like SMYT material like Manitoba and Coastline with lots of instrumentation. Combined with a more popish element (I suppose they're sort of Wilcoish).
Finally, thanks so much to both King of Siam & Floop for directing me to Beulah.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/08/2006 : 01:03:09
Everytime I read this thread I'm drunk. The problem is tonight's a Monday and I have to be at work in 5 hours...
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| floop |
Posted - 08/07/2006 : 17:44:36
stuff
http://aquariumdrunk.blogspot.com/2005/09/beulah-mp3s-peel-sessions-b-sides-etc.html
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| Newo |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 12:55:58
I would say we still excel at bashing though I'd imagine natural selection's mysterious ways would want to start giving us skulls resistant to radiation considering what we're using for bashing material this weather. And multicultural Europe? give the federal state a decade or so have everything to a nice creamy middle. There's even a Beethoven song for a national anthem, music to invade Poland by.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 11:49:23
quote:
Originally posted by Cult_Of_Frank
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I could be persuaded to debate it, just didn't feel up to big posts last night nor debate, was pretty tired and/or feeling the barley as it were. And I'm still not up to it this AM, but maybe later.
Rereading your question, I thought you were asking if Yoko Ono was involved in the record someway, but I think they, as Floop said, called it that because Yoko, well, read his post... :)
So you see I'm still too lethargic.
Yes, I was referring to that Yoko, so both you and floop were on that beam. And my regrettably unoriginal antidote to that particular lethargy is more barley and caffeine, especially caffeine, or is it "especially barley"? I forget. In any case, by the time you regain yourself I'll have entered my recuperative slumber, like the boa that swallowed the capybara. yuk yuk.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 11:23:57
quote:
Originally posted by floop
YOKO is in reference to Yoko Ono. i think partially as a joke, since Yoko broke up the beatles, and YOKO was their break-up album. i think Miles Kurowski is a fan too though..
erebus, i'll hook you up.
Thanks. I am curious.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 11:22:16
quote:
Originally posted by Newo
if natural selection is so natural how come it results in such high volumes of death when humans apply it?
er ...., because death is the selection part? at least when it intervenes between birth and procreation? all earthly forms of life arose sculpted via processes more subtractive than additive. humans stand upright with hardened skulls because we used to excel at bashing, at least before we endorsed wholesale pussification, an endorsement no doubt doomed to evolution's chasmic ashbin and that Islam has somehow managed to skirt. do the math, multicultural europe.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 11:08:31
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
Thank you for the characteristically disciplined answer CoF. Sorry about the lecture. You don't want to argue about stereotyping? I remember when this forum was fun and people argued a lot. Reminds me of that old Star Trek episode where Kirk and the Klingon leader discover that their emnity is fueling the evil entity. Or that New Generation two-parter where Picard infiltrates the band of archaeological plunderers that is seeking the pieces of an ancient Vulcan superweapon, only to discover that the weapon's waves destroy only those possessed by a will to aggression. "Don't be aggressive Cave Child", said Cave Momma: "You don't want to grow up with a frontal lobe, now do you?" "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" as Doe/Cervenka observed in 1983, back when political correctness was just beginning to replace intellectual honesty, back when hardcore lefties still believed in the First Amendment to the Constitution of United States of America, but shortly after those United States became the Great Satan, as labelled by the simple terrorist who has somehow (read "inevitably") ascended (if one stands on one's head) to the Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Spelling is gonna be hard today. Some of us were feeling our barley last night, and so today must console ourselves with what the professor of philosophy termed the "super-sobriety of the hangover", back when he was still a philosopher.
perfection could use an upgrade
I could be persuaded to debate it, just didn't feel up to big posts last night nor debate, was pretty tired and/or feeling the barley as it were. And I'm still not up to it this AM, but maybe later.
Rereading your question, I thought you were asking if Yoko Ono was involved in the record someway, but I think they, as Floop said, called it that because Yoko, well, read his post... :)
So you see I'm still too lethargic.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
| Newo |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 10:55:02
if natural selection is so natural how come it results in such high volumes of death when humans apply it?
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| floop |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 10:52:28
ps. good news for Beulah fans....
http://www.prefixmag.com/features/M/Miles-Kurosky/316
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| floop |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 10:14:45
YOKO is in reference to Yoko Ono. i think partially as a joke, since Yoko broke up the beatles, and YOKO was their break-up album. i think Miles Kurowski is a fan too though..
erebus, i'll hook you up.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| Erebus |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 09:06:42
Thank you for the characteristically disciplined answer CoF. Sorry about the lecture. You don't want to argue about stereotyping? I remember when this forum was fun and people argued a lot. Reminds me of that old Star Trek episode where Kirk and the Klingon leader discover that their emnity is fueling the evil entity. Or that New Generation two-parter where Picard infiltrates the band of archaeological plunderers that is seeking the pieces of an ancient Vulcan superweapon, only to discover that the weapon's waves destroy only those possessed by a will to aggression. "Don't be aggressive Cave Child", said Cave Momma: "You don't want to grow up with a frontal lobe, now do you?" "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" as Doe/Cervenka observed in 1983, back when political correctness was just beginning to replace intellectual honesty, back when hardcore lefties still believed in the First Amendment to the Constitution of United States of America, but shortly after those United States became the Great Satan, as labelled by the simple terrorist who has somehow (read "inevitably") ascended (if one stands on one's head) to the Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Spelling is gonna be hard today. Some of us were feeling our barley last night, and so today must console ourselves with what the professor of philosophy termed the "super-sobriety of the hangover", back when he was still a philosopher.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 05/21/2006 : 02:40:57
Thankfully no.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
| Erebus |
Posted - 05/20/2006 : 22:40:22
Don't worry floop: without the ability to stereotype, the species would have gone extinct LONG ago, assuming it could EVER have evolved in the first place, opinions of the ACLU and many Canadians notwithstanding. The brain IS an instrument of discrimination, first and last, love it or leave it, but, for many, one of those discriminations is somehow AGAINST the ability to discriminate. Go figure. Fortunately, natural selection, not the United Nations, will arbitrate, assuming we somehow manage to sidestep "ascension" to "higher" consciousness.
In lieu of ascent, I think I need to get me some of that Beulah-type stuff, but please, tell me "Yoko" doesn't mean "Yoko".
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| floop |
Posted - 05/20/2006 : 15:32:43
you're right. i shouldn't stereotype. i'm sure that, in fact, very few Canadians dislike the United States.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| KingOfSiam |
Posted - 05/20/2006 : 15:10:20
quote:
Originally posted by Cult_Of_Frank
Just like you love Bush?
Yeah, generalitizations are annoying and it's ironic you'd criticize someone for generalizing (I agree) in one sentence and do so yourself in the next.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 05/20/2006 : 15:07:06
Just like you love Bush?
Yeah, generalitizations are annoying and it's ironic you'd criticize someone for generalizing (I agree) in one sentence and do so yourself in the next.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
| floop |
Posted - 05/20/2006 : 13:54:18
finally got around to seeing this movie (most of it). it sucks when good bands break up because they can't make a living at what they do.
i love the part when they go to Canada and that Canadian fan invites them to his house and then starts lecturing them about American politics. gotta love Canadians
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:36:11
Yeah. That trailer struck a chord with me as well.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
| floop |
Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:18:54
aawwwwwwwww man. that makes me so sad watching that.
thanks Sir Rock. i'd heard about this, but never saw the trailer.
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| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:09:25
Beulah news. The DVD "A Good Band is Easy to Kill" has been announced for release on August 2nd. The trailer that was up, then was later taken down, is once again up, for any interested parties.
http://www.furtherdownfilms.com/beulahtrailer.html
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| KingOfSiam |
Posted - 03/30/2005 : 08:35:33
Floop is correct in saying that COAST is better than Yoko. I like both albums but nothing beats "Burned By The Sun" on Coast. It makes me want to go to the beach...I haven't seen the ocean in 13 months :( |
| n/a |
Posted - 03/21/2005 : 15:32:26
He will be mad when he reads this, but once adopted, it's forever...can't disadopt!
You're trying to
fool somebody, but you end up fooling yourself. |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 03/21/2005 : 12:35:01
Heh, I've been barking up that tree for two months and/or have sent him Yoko, but as far as I know, hasn't listened to it yet (aside from checking out Me & Jesus).
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| n/a |
Posted - 03/21/2005 : 12:23:32
quote:
Originally posted by floop
ps. cult, if you like Yoko so much, you should try to find the acoustic YOKO DEMO, which is almost better than the album. they sold like 1000 copies (i have one if you're desparate)
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee!
I found it!!! And floop, you're right, it's almost better than the album.
But I still think that The Coast is Never Clear is the best.
P.S. Urgent message to speedy m, have you listened Beulah yet?
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| floop |
Posted - 03/03/2005 : 11:08:01
it's not that i dislike YOKO. at all. it's just my least favorite among their 4 albums. i like it quite a bit actually. and like the downbeat element.. i especially like the acoustic demo version of it. it's fucking great.
i just think that with HEARTSTRINGS and COAST IS NEVER CLEAR they're doing what they do best. YOKO was sort of branching off in a new direction, and i think some of it is successful and some not.
but no, i like YOKO. i like everything by these guys..
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 03/03/2005 : 11:05:25
What don't you like about Yoko? Just that it's downbeat and not really representative, the music in general, or something else?
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| floop |
Posted - 03/03/2005 : 10:45:42
i think you might have been thinking of HANDSOME WESTERN STATES? that's probably got the least horns. that was their first album, which was essentially a demo recorded to 8 track cassette.
i'm glad you like YOKO, but as a big fan, i'd hate to see new people introduced to that album for their first taste. but that's just me..
those curious about Beulah, i strongly suggest starting with THE COAST IS NEVER CLEAR, then make your way elsewhere.. or don't listen to me
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 03/03/2005 : 08:38:28
Actually, I'm thinking I'll buy that one and Yoko. I had Coast and Heartstrings mixed up before (Heartstrings had more horns, so I guess I must have assumed that THAT would be your favourite, but didn't check which disc was playing). :)
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| floop |
Posted - 03/03/2005 : 08:29:03
buy THE COAST IS NEVER CLEAR first
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 03/03/2005 : 06:34:39
I'm ordering mine as soon as I find time to stop by my local record purveyor.
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| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 03/02/2005 : 22:23:31
i thought it was funny seeing this thread cause i bought this cd 2 weeks ago
The Truth Is Out There |
| floop |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 11:36:57
i went to the second to last one, which was sort of their "last" one since it was their last San Francisco show. their hometown.
great show
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| n/a |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 11:19:54
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Rockabye
Floop is never right. Admit nothing Rita. Nothing!
Are you honest when no one's looking? Can you summon honey from a telephone? They sat there with their hooks in the water and their mustaches caked with airplane glue.
You're right too SirRock...I know he doesn't deserves but I must say the truth.
Someone tell me why I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
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| Broken Face |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 10:36:34
i almost went to the last ever beulah show, which was in nyc, but i wasn't in town that week.
-Brian
If you move I shoots!
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| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 10:11:14
Floop is never right. Admit nothing Rita. Nothing!
Are you honest when no one's looking? Can you summon honey from a telephone? They sat there with their hooks in the water and their mustaches caked with airplane glue. |
