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Davey
02-20-2005, 09:30 PM
Anyone still doing comps around here? Guess most of us have gone kind of underground if we even do them anymore, but thought it might be fun to toss one out since it's been awhile. This one had a weird genesis that I was gonna talk some about, but now I'm thinking maybe that's not such a good idea. So...

It's just some new stuff that I've talked about recently and threatened to put on a comp, but most of it has influences that go way back. And a couple songs do go back a ways, at least to the late 80s with the Pixies opener from Surfer Rosa and the early 90s with Polly Jean. And the artwork goes way, way back...but that's another story. Something my mom dug up a few years ago :)

Anyway, I'll probably go ahead and mail out a couple copies but if it looks like something you'd like to spin, just let me know through here or the usual batchannel.


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Finch Platte
02-21-2005, 03:09 AM
Nice cover.

fp

Mike
02-21-2005, 03:14 AM
Your comps are always good to hear. Flaming Stars and the Hellslayers sound interesting.

I guess we all still make up comps but maybe don't pass them around as much as we used to. I never got around to doing a year end comp but I've got a couple I could sling your way in return, but I would need your address if you want to pm me.

You still got my address in York, UK?

ps Just picked up the new Doves released today but far too early to say if I like it or not yet.

Cheers
Mike

audiobill
02-21-2005, 07:44 AM
Hey, Dave.

Your comp looks v. good.. Can you believe it..........(true confessions), I still have to hear "Surfer Rosa". I know, I know,.............it's like breathing........I haven't breathed clean air, yet.

BTW., Your early paintings remind me of latter Klee and Kandisky.... eh??

Cheers,
Bill

Davey
02-21-2005, 07:52 AM
Your comps are always good to hear. Flaming Stars and the Hellslayers sound interesting.

I guess we all still make up comps but maybe don't pass them around as much as we used to. I never got around to doing a year end comp but I've got a couple I could sling your way in return, but I would need your address if you want to pm me.

You still got my address in York, UK?

ps Just picked up the new Doves released today but far too early to say if I like it or not yet.

Cheers
Mike
Thanks and yep, still got your addy. I was just telling someone else a little about the comp in a PM so should probably go ahead and mention here that there's 4 or maybe 5 sections on the comp and each moves into a somewhat different style, but most of it is pretty tuneful....I think. It does though start out kind of clanky and urgent in the first section as anyone familiar with the Pixies (or their Modest Mouseketeer followers) would know - and hence the title, but after that gets into more of a wandering groove with some alt-country-jangle-pop (with and without the jangle part), and then some dream-pop-drone-rock (with and without the droney part), and finishes off kind of slow and easy with some pseudo-ambient stuff. I doubt anyone but me would like the whole thing and it wasn't really designed to be a crowd pleaser, but it does have some good tunes. Like I said before, most of it's from the last couple years. The Flaming Stars tracks are both from their 2002 album, even though I do have the more recent one. Just seemed to fit better with my feel for the comp. The opening section was originally gonna make the Bone Machine connection between the Pixies and Tom Waits and be the start of a running connection between artists like I did once before on a birthday comp for RPM (since this is kind of my birthday comp), but in the end I decided to let Mark Lanegan make the Waits connection with that Amphetamine Blues track and let the songs flow where they flow. Polly Jean just kinda slipped inbetween since she also shared the mic with Lanegan on the other track. And I've always wanted to put Sheela-Na-Gig on a comp, but it has to be so severely compressed to get the volume up that it never sounds good. But I went ahead anyway this time and it does pump some, but who cares. Definitely not an audiophile experience. Most of the rest is less convoluted and has more of a defined path :)

Hey, new Doves! Ya know, I'm not really a huge fan and thought the last one was a bit disappointing, but they do have a nice sound. That Bloc Party debut sure has been getting a lot of attention and seems to be one of your biggest sellers too. I guess they're on the way to becoming this year's Franz Ferdinand, although apparently they stay a little closer to their Gang of Four roots. I almost ordered it from cd-wow a couple weeks ago because I have some 1 GBP discount codes which would bring it down to 7.75 GPB, but I think it's gonna be released her enext month and will probably be dirt cheap. Hope so anyway. Keep us posted on the Doves. Looking forward to hearing the new Andrew Bird the most right now after all the slobbering Sloshy's been doing.

Just spun your last comp a few days ago and wound up listening twice after you made mention of the Interpol song. Man, that's a nice collection! I'll PM you but my address is the same as it was (Costa Mesa).

Slosh
02-21-2005, 08:18 AM
Looking forward to hearing the new Andrew Bird the most right now after all the slobbering Sloshy's been doing.

Hey, you just helped me coin a new word of praise. Henceforth any piece of music that I find myself enjoying immensely will be known as slobberworthy!

And Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs is indeed slobberworthy, and as a whole :D (bottom heavy too)

Looking forward to your comp and hoping it's slobberworthy as well :)

Mike
02-21-2005, 08:20 AM
That Bloc Party debut sure has been getting a lot of attention and seems to be one of your biggest sellers too. I guess they're on the way to becoming this year's Franz Ferdinand, although apparently they stay a little closer to their Gang of Four roots.

I'll PM you but my address is the same as it was (Costa Mesa).

Bloc Party are on the hype trail big time at the moment tipped as 'the' hot band for 2005, funnily enough I've just been listening to some samples and it sounds ok. One review I read made reference to the Blur/Pixies sound which from the samples I heard sounded spot on. Another reviewer said it's like nothing he's ever heard before! The punchy prominent bassline they use reminds me of the latest Legends album who in turn remind me of Gang of Four, what goes around....

Kind of makes you laugh though the new Franz Ferdinand, this time last year I doubt anybody would have heard of Franz Ferdinand.

If you are still at Costa Mesa don't worry about a pm I've got your full address.

Cheers
Mike

newtrix1
02-21-2005, 08:26 AM
Anyway, I'll probably go ahead and mail out a couple copies but if it looks like something you'd like to spin, just let me know through here or the usual batchannel.




Haven't had one of you comps grace my mailbox in awhile, I'm at the same-ol-place. Tia.

-Jar-
02-21-2005, 09:14 AM
sure pal, I'd love one.

I'm at the same place..Boorski Manor in lovely Parma OH

-jar

Davey
02-21-2005, 10:03 AM
Hey, Dave.

Your comp looks v. good.. Can you believe it..........(true confessions), I still have to hear "Surfer Rosa". I know, I know,.............it's like breathing........I haven't breathed clean air, yet.

BTW., Your early paintings remind me of latter Klee and Kandisky.... eh??
Yeah, I've been doing a lot of Pixies listening lately after seeing them on Austin City Limits recently. Fun show. Loved the "Gigantic" encore. Kim was really smiling. You've probably at least heard that song from Surfer Rosa since it was one of their "big" hits. Might be my favorite Pixies album, or at least it is right now, so had to include that Bone Machine opener on the comp. I was musing just recently in a Tom Waits thread about the possible connection between the Black Francis song and the Waits album of that same name from a few years later. Guess they must be separate thoughts though since they seem to have different meanings, the Pixies version I think referring to the sexual center of a woman, whereas Waits' vision seems to be more about the human bones as percussion instruments as he even tagged his band of percussionists "The Boners" in the liner notes. Which does lead to a bit of an overlap in meaning since the Black Francis meaning can be extended from sex to dance, the shaking hips. And going back even further you have David Byrne singing about "the world moves on a woman's hips". Fun stuff, but kind of wandering now :)

This is a song to Carol

You were in the Japanese fast food
And I dropped off your Japanese lover
And you're going to the beach all day
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me

You're looking like you got some sun
Your blistered lips have got a kiss
that tastes a bit like everyone
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh

Your bone's got a little machine
You're the bone machine

Kandinsky, eh? Hehehe, that's actually colored tissue paper and some other odds and ends like string. Guess it would be called a collage, not a painting. My mom dug it out and had it mounted and framed and gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago. Starting to fade some so thought I would take a picture of it and enhance it a bit and keep it digitized. The "real" one has a different aspect ratio, but it skews and stretches without really changing my original undeveloped artistic vision :)

DLeeWebb
02-21-2005, 04:23 PM
Davey,
How does one get your "comp?" I am not familiar with the procedure... :confused:

Davey
02-21-2005, 04:48 PM
Davey,
How does one get your "comp?" I am not familiar with the procedure... :confused:
Hey Doug. Just PM me with your address or email it to davey at mailaka.net and I'll send you one. We used to do tons of these things and they were flying back and forth at a frantic pace for a couple years, but it has slowed way down now to just a trickle, and like I said in the post, most of us just send out a few copies to our close trading buddies nowadays. Kind of fun to announce one on occasion...but it can also be a little hard on the ego when no one responds. We call that the Elf Pee Syndrome*, but fortunately it isn't too contagious :)

*Elf Pee Syndrome (http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?p=23780#post23780)