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hrotha

hrotha

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Libertine Seguros said:
Creepy and depressing in the Xiu Xiu way, or the Red House Painters way?
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I've only ever listened to a couple of Xiu Xiu songs, and nothing by Red House Painters, so I wouldn't know. But Carissa's Wierd are usually melancholic, sad, hurt and often bitter, rather than outright creepy - and always very beautiful. Judge by yourself!
 
Libertine Seguros

Libertine Seguros

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I wasn't necessarily meaning musically, but content-wise.

Xiu Xiu are generally more disturbed, full of moodswing outbursts, and some very open and detailed descriptions of mental health problems. The Red House Painters are full of melancholic stories, often to the point of being so personal and honest that it's frankly uncomfortable, especially earlier on in their career ("Katy Song", "Michael", "Mother", "Evil", "Medicine Bottle"). Another possible point of comparison would be Smog, which is full of melancholic stories, but often with a bitterness or a black humour, whether it be sarcastic (cf. "Dress Sexy At My Funeral"), or downright disturbing (such as when he makes a doll out of an ex's underwear in "All Your Women Things" or when he interrupts a very bleak, monotone, droning song about a Hannibal Lecter-esque female character in "Real Live Dress" to sing a few lines of "Baby Got Back" and you can almost see the sick smile on his face).

For me, the RHPs are one of the best bands of all time, but then I absolutely adore most "slowcore" bands like them, Codeine, Slint, Low...
 
krebs303

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I'm older than that. Think more The Monkees, Herman's Hermits and Paul Revere and the Raiders.:)
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
For me, the RHPs are one of the best bands of all time, but then I absolutely adore most "slowcore" bands like them, Codeine, Slint, Low...
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Ditto. Well, to be honest, I'm not all that thrilled about Codeine, although they've got their moments. I like the 'Barely Real' EP the most - songs like 'Realize' and 'Jr' are terrific, but overall they haven't really crawled under my skin.

Red House Painters and Low, though, rank among my top 5-10 bands. Is Slint considered slowcore? I've always thought of them more as an inspiration to post-rock (the Young Team-era Mogwai version) than to the slowcore movement. Well, it's kinda tough to distinguish between these overlapping genres, I suppose.

Here's five slowcore or whatever favorites:

Early Day Miners - Offshore
Spokane - Minor Careers
Songs: Ohia - Being In Love
Arab Strap - The Long Sea (unfortunately missing the last two minutes, but it's awesome anyway)
Sophia - The River Song (one of the best songs I've ever heard live)
 
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mortand said:
Ditto. Well, to be honest, I'm not all that thrilled about Codeine, although they've got their moments. I like the 'Barely Real' EP the most - songs like 'Realize' and 'Jr' are terrific, but overall they haven't really crawled under my skin.

Red House Painters and Low, though, rank among my top 5-10 bands. Is Slint considered slowcore? I've always thought of them more as an inspiration to post-rock (the Young Team-era Mogwai version) than to the slowcore movement. Well, it's kinda tough to distinguish between these overlapping genres, I suppose.

Here's five slowcore or whatever favorites:

Early Day Miners - Offshore
Spokane - Minor Careers
Songs: Ohia - Being In Love
Arab Strap - The Long Sea (unfortunately missing the last two minutes, but it's awesome anyway)
Sophia - The River Song (one of the best songs I've ever heard live)
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Tweez isn't slowcore in the slightest. Tweez is straight out of the Steve Albini playbook. But Spiderland? Well, yes, they were a huge influence on post-rock, but songs like Washer are definitely slowcore, you can see a lot of Slint in Codeine too, and Idaho to a lesser extent.

Arab Strap, yes, now there's a band I love... though I sometimes have trouble with the lyrics. And of course with Stuart Braithwaite on "New Birds" and with Aidan Moffatt on Mogwai's "R U Still In2 It?" you can see massive overlap between postrock and slowcore; most of Mogwai's vocal tracks would fit in the genre, songs like Cody especially. I'm also enjoying an Argentine band called Jaime Sin Tierra at the moment who have a bit of a slowcore tinge to them (and also a bit of a Radiohead influence):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3EDQ33GosU
 
krebs303

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Susan Westemeyer said:
And wasn't "Massachusetts" from the early period, too?

Susan

(Nice to know I'm not the only oldie here)
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Yes it was an early work.

I go back to Elvis. I can remember when he got drafted and stationed in Germany
 
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Susan Westemeyer said:
Remember seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show?

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yes. They were on the Jack Parr Show a few months before that. I remember standing in line to see a Hard Days Night.
 
L'arriviste

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Boeing said:
Can't stop listening to this Canadian band Black Mountain

and Cake's new album
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I was on Cake's website yesterday and I never noticed a "new" album on there, but of course I look again now and I find you're right (and I'm obviously blind)!

So is it as good as all the others? :)

Cake album titles always make me laugh. We've got:

Motorcade of Generosity
Fashion Nugget
Prolonging the Magic
Comfort Eagle
Pressure Chief

and now

Showroom of Compassion

How long now until they finally use "Suitcase of Courage"? :D
 
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