i want bass!

nice, someone uploaded a soundboard bootleg of the cocteau twins concert at the newport in columbus from 1985 which was featured in that youtube clip. hot diggity gott damnation, if the recording is half as hottttttt as the 3/4 profile shot of liz fraser doing her thang onstage was, then we's in for a fuck-treat of large proportions. NEATO MOSQUITO. i love the internet.

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ztt, one of the raddest (& still intriguing) record labels from the 80s, has been uploading tons of vintage-but-still-brand-new-to-most-of-the-world music videos to their youtube station.

radd3st by far is the stack of 808 state jointz, which illustrate how ahead of their game the group & the label were. which still rock the house & still get thine arsez moving & still make ya think. not content with merely moving arsez, 808 wuz/is the thinking mans' bit of dancefloor crumpet, or some shit.

808 State "Lift"

i want bass!

crimson plus peruvian shoegaze

finally listened to the King Crimson gig in chicago from august 2008, their first run with the addition of gavin harrison on drums. the lineup is very odd & it probably shouldn't have been so shocking that the mix of the show was mostly drums. two drummers! & gavin harrison is the double bass maestro so there's quite a bit of that for the first time in king crimson. i'm not sure how i feel about it, to be honest.

the setlist was entirely golden oldies, which were mostly merely adequate. adrian belew's voice sounded a bit rough in some spots.... but hearing 'sleepless' in the set for the first time in forever was interesting. also interesting that even though tony levin is the only bassist in the current lineup, and 'sleepless' was his iconic bass riff, it was mostly absent from the live version. hmmmmmm. 'three of a perfect pair' is always cool. 'neurotica' kind of half cool, half annoying, same with 'thela hun ginjeet.' didn't care for 'frame by frame' at ALL! 'indiscipline' was mostly pointless since the dynamics were kind of flattened out by either the nonstop drum solos or the 'powerful eq' setting on my car stereo, not sure which. but now i am curious to reinvestigate the band Porcupine Tree since gavin harrison is in king crimson.

ALSO:
random search on 'shoegaze' & this 2008 joint by Resplandor came up, produced by Robin Guthrie. a peruvian (it says here) shoegaze band that formed in early 1996. y'know, we should've all formed a peruvian shoegaze band in early 1996. anyway, Resplandor is nice but it's not instant/permachub like The Daysleepers was/were/is/always will be.

Here's another Resplandor track, live, with bigboy Guthrie sitting in (playing a Fender Jazzmaster guitar, very nice!).

tooth house and eau ate

TOP ALBUMS OF 2008
Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
The Daysleepers - Drowned in a Sea of Sound
Wedding Present - El Rey
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
The Cure - 4:13 Dream


TOP OLD ALBUM DISCOVERIES OF 2008
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Brown Beer
Wedding Present - discography
Wheat - Hope and Adams
Red House Painters - Old Ramon


TOP ALBUMS THAT SHOULDA SHOULDA BEEN IN 2008
Irreligion - Summer Exhumation EP
Devilcake - Halloween Binge live DVD/boxset
The Verdant Spiral - Organick
Drone Forest - mega:drone
Samarkand - live DVD/boxset

maybe next year, eh.