Comments on: na: odds & ends

By: Nergal's Off Topic Bullshit

Nergal's Off Topic Bullshit — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:29 +0000

Comment 12 is spam AFAICT

By: ptolemyclark

ptolemyclark — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:49:03 +0000

I finally grabbed Nucular Animals–love it! Fits right in with some of my latest lo-fi faves of the past year: Prussia (“Dear Emily, Best Wishes, Molly” is on Emu and is incredible!), First Communion Afterparty (available at CDBaby, so hopefully will turn up on Emu soon so I can sing endless praises of them), and Suave as Hell (which will hopefully get a proper US release at some point)–all three of these ended up in my Top 15 of 2008. Turns out that NA are label mates of Desolation Wilderness, a band Alex dedicated a whole post about last month.

By: SaraDevil

SaraDevil — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:47:34 +0000

Ptolemy I did the same thing with Nucular Animals, but was less into Clairaudience somehow. What can I say, I like a vocal with my rock music.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:09:34 +0000

I will definitely check out those tracks, porieux – thanks for the heads-up!

By: ptolemyclark

ptolemyclark — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:58:53 +0000

I’m really digging both the Clairaudience and Nucular Aminals albums, or at least from the samples. I SFL’d both.

By: porieux

porieux — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:42:52 +0000

LOL! All those tracks except Speech Cobras are on Visions of Ghandi..my bad.
Anyway, yeah Speech Cobras is the track I recommend from that album.

By: porieux

porieux — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:41:07 +0000

Two Jedi Mind Tricks tracks to check out (from Violent By Design):

Animal Rap (feat. Kool G. Rap)

Speech Cobras (feat. Mr. Lif)

also honorable mention to

Tibetan Black Magicians (feat. Canibus)

I totally feel what you guys are saying but check these tracks.
You know Mr. Lif has it going on…

By: Nergal

Nergal — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:49:39 +0000

Hey this one may have passed people by too
http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Edge-103-9-Acoustic-Live-and-Rare-2008-MP3-Download/11336673.html
Including Acoustic Songs from Gogol Bordello, Cold War Kids and (yuck) The Gin Blossoms

By: joe

joe — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:27:14 +0000

jrn: yeah, i dunno about those dudes either. so many people swore by them, but i just can’t deal. give me blu & exile or johnson & jonson — or, hell, Nas or Jay-Z or early OutKast — any day over this.

i feel kinda the same about non-phixion. i remember really loving the future is now when it came out, but all of the offshoots were too stomach-churning for me.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:23:29 +0000

Loving The Nerve, who open with a cover of The Nazz, “Open My Eyes,” which in turn unapologetically channels early Who. Swap organ for 12-string Rickenbacker, and “House of David” begins with a melody almost exactly lifted from “If I Needed Someone”..which George Harrison wrote as a tip of the hat to The Byrds, whose entire early sound was a tip of the hat to George’s playing in The Beatles.

Needless to say, both Open My Eyes and If I Needed Someone spun off sounds of their own…and not just to The Nerves, who’ve simply done what you hear in those songs too: make clear-eyed, wide-eyed references to yet other references…each of them oddly fresh in their own ways. Not a whiff of cynicism in sight.

Recursive much? Yes, please. I’ll take two.