Verlaine // Television

[Mellsman]

I adore this record.

 

[version]

I'm listening to Dreamtime at the moment. Very nice.

 

[WashYourHands]

Remember them being criticized at the time by some on the scene for being "punk Grateful Dead", with all the long songs and guitar jams.

EDIT: should have tagged @WashYourHands here...

my older brother should be answering here, among his go to bands, not a group I have too much experience of beyond the usual

what stands is an ear for harmony with lead guitars uncommon beyond incongruent chapters in American music. To my judgemental ears the bass would gain much more hefty creativity if you had a Jack Casady or Jah Wobblw wibble merchant wandering all over certain octaves, rather than quite rigid lines I can play. That’s a taste thing as much as criticism

 

[version]

Patti Smith Remembers Tom Verlaine

“He possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.”

www.newyorker.com

 

[Corpsey]

Ah yes that famous child's gift of turning a drop of water into a poem that somehow begets music

 

[woops]

music that begets a poem that transforms a child's gift into a drop of water is also good

 

[Benny Bunter]

He's too big a loss to be relegated to a few posts in Choon of the Day, redux.

This is why we should start up a new campaign to get COTD shut down again, you could join in this time!

 

[version]

Benny's vendetta.

 

[Leo]

I'll never get the COTD hate. It's a place to post a tune you're currently enjoying, one that doesn't fit into an existing thread and isn't special enough to deserve its own. why is that concept so offensive?

 

[version]

I'll never get the COTD hate. It's a place to post a tune you're currently enjoying, one that doesn't fit into an existing thread and isn't special enough to deserve its own. why is that concept so offensive?

Yeah, I've heard loads of good stuff through those threads I doubt people would have bothered posting elsewhere.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Version just said it - you "relegate" potentially interesting topics to COTD. Why not just start a new thread? If it's not special enough enough, why bother posting it at all?

 

[version]

I don't think it's that a tune's not special enough, you just don't always have a thread worth of shit to say about it beyond it banging.

 

[Benny Bunter]

How do you know until you start it,?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Reviving old threads can be good too

 

[version]

How do you know until you start it,?

Because it's you making the thread. What do you want? A load of new threads with just a YouTube video and no text every time someone hears a tune they want to share?

 

[version]

Another thing about the COTD threads is you stumble across stuff you might not have bothered with had it been in a specific thread, e.g. someone's not that arsed about dancehall but hears a dancehall tune they like because it's in a mixed thread rather than a dedicated one they wouldn't open.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Because it's you making the thread. What do you want? A load of new threads with just a YouTube video and no text every time someone hears a tune they want to share?

You never know what might happen.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Another thing about the COTD threads is you stumble across stuff you might not have bothered with had it been in a specific thread, e.g. someone's not that arsed about dancehall but hears a dancehall tune they like because it's in a mixed thread rather than a dedicated one they wouldn't open.

Seems fairly unlikely you'd bother to even click on a dancehall tune, say, on the cotd thread if you weren't arsed about dancehall. At least I wouldn't, maybe just me.

 

[version]

Seems fairly unlikely you'd bother to even click on a dancehall tune, say, on the cotd thread if you weren't arsed about dancehall. At least I wouldn't, maybe just me.

I tend to listen to everything that gets posted in there, either as it's posted or wait for a few to build up then go through them all.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Well, you shouldn't