From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #235 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, November 14 2007 Volume 10 : Number 235 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] Embarrasing live acts....(was Top 5) ["Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Embarrasing live acts....(was Top 5) > Some of you might find this next one controversial. I also recently went > to see Mano Chau, with a mate who persuaded me to have his spare ticket. > I thought they were appalling, but they seem to be very popular. > Kind of interesting to watch everyone going really mad to what to my ears > was the same song played over and over again. I felt much the same way watching Explosions In The Sky a couple of years ago. I've heard them on some free cd since and that track was ok, but live...welll I've just found what I wrote afterwards... I'd heard a lot of good things about Explosions In The Sky, but they were something of a disappointment to me. OK they veered towards the Mogwai-like territory I like a lot, but there was something too frilly about the pretty little guitars lines that went nowhere, and despite that sonic wall-of-sound there was something horribly proggy about it - especially the way the bassist stood, eyes closed and nodded sagely in time to the music. And as for one of the guitarists, rocking to and fro, whilst holding his guitar with one hand and seemingly conducting with the other - well I'm not a violent man, but here's a bloke who needed twatting if anyone ever did. And when, towards the end, the three front men all repeatedly pushed their guitars into the air (and back!) - in unison - well, it was all a bit Status Quo I'm afraid. The crowd loved them, though many of those who cheered rapturously at the end were the same folk who had so rudely talked through the bands quieter moments. As for me - well I don't think they're fit to lick the boots of, say, Caribou who used light and shade in their sound to such good effect in a recent gig in the same town. This was all too "it's like punk never happened" for me. I await EITS's Snow Goose concept album some time next year! K. np worlds of possibility - v/a (domino records) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:56:52 +0000 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Embarrasing live acts....(was Top 5) Keith A wrote: >> Some of you might find this next one controversial. I also recently >> went to see Mano Chau, with a mate who persuaded me to have his spare >> ticket. >> I thought they were appalling, but they seem to be very popular. >> Kind of interesting to watch everyone going really mad to what to my >> ears was the same song played over and over again. > > I felt much the same way watching Explosions In The Sky a couple of > years ago. This was all too "it's like punk never > happened" for me. I await EITS's Snow Goose concept album some time next > year! > I felt much the same also after seeing 65 Days of Static. This is the only gig I ever recall leaving before the encores were done, i'd had enough of their relentless noodlesome twaddle. I don't mind a bit of asburd pomp, Mew for example are veer into Yes/Trevor Horn territory at times but they also have a foot firmly in leftfield Pop. Battles also came precariously close to Jazz Fusion last time I saw them....they nibble at the coat of prog also but in much the same way Can did. Not a goblin or Elf in sight tho. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:21:26 -0500 From: rose_dan@colstate.edu Subject: [idealcopy] visit the museum of backward hats Man that RB3 is very good indeed. Simply love it. Came at a good time. Don't know how I would have made it through last week (student bomb threats, possible death by gun toting student, etc.)........... On a side note: wasn't there supposed to be a new He Said album? ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #235 ********************************