Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition

Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, Ringo Deathstarr, Thrushes, Whirr, Bloody Knives, Soundpool, Voices, Tears Run Rings, Dead Leaf Echo, Fleeting Joys…

Really on the fence over whether to see JSBX. With fees, tix will prob be $30 each, which isn't horrific but after JAMC's $45, I'm less enthusiastic about dropping more than I usually spend.

atomicfront wrote:

killsaly wrote:
My point is I would rather watch the Reids (Screen Vinyl Image) over the Reids (JAMC). It doesnt matter what genre you put them in, or what style they played on what albums.  I have them all, and outside of a couple of tracks, when JAMC comes up on shuffle, I press skip.

Funny I saw Screen Vinyl Image open up for the Thrushes.  And I wouldn't conisder Screen Vinyl Image shoegazing but the Thrushes definetly are or were when I saw them back in 2009

Im pretty sure they self identify as shoegaze.


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I would defer to Jag though, the resident expert in shoegaze.

killsaly wrote:

atomicfront wrote:

killsaly wrote:
My point is I would rather watch the Reids (Screen Vinyl Image) over the Reids (JAMC). It doesnt matter what genre you put them in, or what style they played on what albums.  I have them all, and outside of a couple of tracks, when JAMC comes up on shuffle, I press skip.

Funny I saw Screen Vinyl Image open up for the Thrushes.  And I wouldn't conisder Screen Vinyl Image shoegazing but the Thrushes definetly are or were when I saw them back in 2009

Im pretty sure they self identify as shoegaze.


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I would defer to Jag though, the resident expert in shoegaze.

I thought of them as Psychedelic.  Perhaps that is why I like them better than the bands who are just classified as shoegaze.  They added  something better to it. 

u can buy them at the box office…I believe it is $22 + $1 charge.

Relaxer wrote:
Really on the fence over whether to see JSBX. With fees, tix will prob be $30 each, which isn't horrific but after JAMC's $45, I'm less enthusiastic about dropping more than I usually spend.

Okay, that helps a little.

I was following you (though I love both MBV and the JAMC) until The Fleeting Joys were thrown into the mix. They're little more than an MBV tribute band that doesn't play MBV originals which is not a knock on them at all. They are the closest sounding thing possible to MBV, though.

killsaly wrote:
Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, Ringo Deathstarr, Thrushes, Whirr, Bloody Knives, Soundpool, Voices, Tears Run Rings, Dead Leaf Echo, Fleeting Joys…

You should be OK if the 2007 tour is any indication. Coachella was more or less a "greatest hits" set.

Relaxer wrote:
JAMC better not show up thinking that what everyone wants is to hear Munki it its entirety.

For me, a greatest hits set would be all of Psychocandy and Darklands and that's it, no encore.

Relaxer wrote:
For me, a greatest hits set would be all of Psychocandy and Darklands and that's it, no encore.

Throw in Head On as the encore..


The Jesus and the Mary Chain is one of the greatest bands there has ever been… I can't wait.

The issue is will the Reid brothers make it to the 930? THe schedule looks brutal including I think four nights in a row before the night of the 930 show!!!!!!!

recent set lists:

1.Snakedriver 
2.Head On 
3.Far Gone and Out 
4.Between Planets 
5.Blues From a Gun 
6.Teenage Lust 
7.Sidewalking 
8.Cracking Up 
9.All Things Must Pass 
10.Some Candy Talking 
11.Happy When It Rains 
12.Halfway to Crazy 
13.Just Like Honey 
14.Reverence 
Encore:
15.The Hardest Walk 
16.Taste Of Cindy 
17.Never Understand

hmmmmm

I mean, You Trip Me Up was a damn single, how do they leave that off?
And I guess Something Wrong isn't a huge hit, but its the best song.
As is My Little Underground and In a Hole and Living End.
Look, I'll agree that Barbed Wire Kisses is their 3rd best album but come on, that's too much.

Relaxer wrote:
I mean, You Trip Me Up was a damn single, how do they leave that off?
And I guess Something Wrong isn't a huge hit, but its the best song.
As is My Little Underground and In a Hole and Living End.
Look, I'll agree that Barbed Wire Kisses is their 3rd best album but come on, that's too much.

so they should just play all singles? I think they had a ton of singles!!!!!!


Seeing how the set list has Just like honey, head on, and the hardest walk i'd be happy with it..

really i don't care what they play though… can't believe i'll finally get to see them live (assuming they make it.. i'm real worried about that…).. spinning the just like honey original US lp right now.. so so great….

On the topic of the healthcare act: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/06/29/just-a-humble-tradesman-trapped-in-a-world-he-never-made/

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On the topic of the healthcare act: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/06/29/just-a-humble-tradesman-trapped-in-a-world-he-never-made/

Still the wrong thread.  Why doesn't someone start a various random thoughts thread?

regarding the upcoming Swans tour:

"for some reason we are going to do this song (coward) on upcoming tours. we're rehearsing it, changing it (of course), and it's sounding good… also new material from new album will be played, as well as new as yet unrecorded material… no other old swans songs except coward."

That's fine with me. The new stuff holds up great live and you can't blame the guy for wanting to move on and focus on it almost exclusively.

I only got into them recently and still have only heard "My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky".  So, what other albums are must haves?

I'd start with White Light from the Mouth of Infinity and Love of Life.
Then Soundtracks for the Blind. Then work my way back through the 80's material.