I can't find videos to embed from youtube other than this glimpse into the recording process, but the whole album is at the bandcamp site here. These recordings (which I don't play on, for the record) are intense, emotional, and overwhelmingly beautiful. It was (is?) fronted by Mark Edwards of My Dad Is Dead and it is an AWESOME band. I was in this band briefly after the original guitarist Zeno Gill left. Secular Joy - Made For Better Things (2012). These are two excellent lo-fi fuzz-pop basement albums by my pal Michael. The Secret Intentions - Don't Fight It, Feel It (2001) and Love's Permutations (2002). The one on this album is a little more Ramonesy. They have a new incarnation, which is the one appearing in the video below. Freakin' excellent heart-on-its-sleeve indie-punk from a band fronted by my pal Lisa. Secret Crush Society - Baltimore Chapter (2005). My musical tastes are based in the indie rock of the early 90s. And no Bakesale! Not sure how that happened. I have a hard time believing that I only have two Sebadoh albums, too. The best track is the one they used as a theme for the opening credits. I wasn't that crazy about the anime or its soundtrack, but I somehow ended up with this. The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop Boxed Set (2002). They're not quite as fantastic as Tortoise, but that's a pretty high bar.
Excellent fake jazz outfit from the John McEntire wing of the Chicago mafia with Sam Prekop of Shrimp Boat out front. The Sea And Cake - The Fawn (1997) and Oui (2000). That said, these are excellent albums, and Pernice's songwriting chops are in great form. Joe Pernice's alt-country band is more of a mopey, Smith-influenced guitar pop band with country flourishes. Stream 'Level Anything' from 'The Freed Man' HERE.The Scud Mountain Boys - The Early Year: Pine Box/Dance The Night Away (1995) and Massachusetts (1996). It's an incredibly talented person spending a few hours singing songs with his tongue in his cheek.Īs such, there are no great songs here, just a few great ideas, and a lot of funny ones. 'Punch in the Nose', perhaps deliberately, nicks the chorus melody from Dinosaur Jr's 'Show Me The Way' and has Lou singing about how he's 'loo-oo-king for a punch in the nose". It's also one of the better ones here, Lou's voice straining toward something pretty beautiful but not quite reaching it, so screeching some noise over the top instead.
'True Hardcore' begins with the spoken words 'this is a complete rip off of every song I've ever done'. It's not all a trial, their bashing out of 'Yellow Submarine', Black Flag style, is pretty hilarious, and 'Lou Rap' is pretty self explanatory, and also worth a giggle. It gives the band a real depth, and puts meat on the bones of the story really rather well. Those who are casual Sebadoh fans could become big Sebadoh fans by buying this collection. Big Sebadoh fans probably already have the original tapes.
liberated) - for its own charms and as a historical document. They've remastered it, but it's not made one jot of difference - in terms of sound quality it's still diabolical.īut of course, there are two reasons you can enjoy 'The Freed Man' (so named because it came after Lou was sacked, or 'liberated' from the shackles of the unexplainably excellent Dinosaur Jr. Similar records? If you enjoyed Beck's 'One Foot In The Grave', Coxon's 'The Sky Is Too High' or your only problem with Scout Niblett is that she isn't basic or vulgar enough, you should own a copy of 'The Freed Man'. Then I might scratch myself, and by that time it'll be evening. I'm just going to sit around in my room with an acoustic guitar and try to play it really fast, because that's what they do on 'The Freed Man' and it doesn't sound pretty but at least it sounds real. I'm going to stay in bed until 2pm and even then I probably won't get dressed properly. Heck, this band can't be bothered to sing in key, play in time, make sure their guitars are in tune, and they sound pretty good. Perhaps it's because you listen to this in a lackadaisical frame of mind and you think, f**k it, I can't be bothered to do anything. Somehow, it's totally listenable, despite bordering on unlistenable the whole way through. And there's loads of it - fifty two sketchy tracks stretched over a whole 80 minutes (what with the new 'gems' added to the initial 'The Freed Man' tapes). It's noisy, it's initially off puttingly messy, it's actually a total shambles. The Freed Man is incredibly Lo-Fi stuff, and doesn't at all point towards Sebadoh being one of the most important bands of the grunge era, or Lou Barlow's gift with a melody, or way with a guitar solo.
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