Blogcritics Comments on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Comment by Connie Phillips on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:09:01 EST

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Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:46:33 EST

like i could afford it. maybe you could give me a discount. i'll live in it and keep your insurance rates down, if you want. right after i power-dump into the toilet 4 floors up, i'll email eric.

Comment by Christopher Rose on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:28:34 EST

lol. Why don't you rent or buy it off me? Let me know if/when you get hooked up, I'm looking forward to seeing your work. And, when you're in, make sure you get signed up for the all new BC Forums too.

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:19:58 EST

ok, i'll talk to eric. no, i have no problem with you owning a villa just outside Antequera in the heartland of Southern Spain, no problem whatsoever. you fuck.

Comment by Christopher Rose on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:58:18 EST

Not me dude, send them to Eric Olsen direct. Oh, and it's one villa, the one I spent two years modernising. You got a problem with that? ;-)

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:48:47 EST

um... villa rentals?

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:47:56 EST

i'll email you with links.

Comment by Christopher Rose on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:43:01 EST

zinger: As far as I recall, that requirement has been relaxed almost entirely but writing samples may well be asked for. Eric O is the definitive source for this...

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:24:38 EST

pico, my writing, should it be published here, will be the most vulgar stuff in the music section.

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:23:29 EST

maybe i will write something. but i don't really have a blog for anything but putting up articles for a few friends to proof before i publish elsewhere... and i don't even do that too often. how strict is the "have a blog, write for us" rule these days?

Comment by Pico on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:19:20 EST

I'd love to see zing and Vern become writers here, too. At the least, I'm pretty sure they could come up with less vulgar metaphors to describe someone's singing.

Comment by Glen Boyd on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:10:19 EST

And while were on the subject of new writing blood for the music section, I've been trying to encourage Vern Halen (a frequent commenter) to try his hand. Very sharp lad who seems to know his stuff. -Glen

Comment by Glen Boyd on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:07:48 EST

Somebody just needs to invent a "logic-check" (works kinda like spellcheck) for the "fingerknife masturbators". Not to mention a "fact-check". -Glen P.S. I'm all for zing's mondo obscuro deal.

Comment by DJRadiohead on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:17:05 EST

Yes, yes, let's bring on the Obscure Column by Zingzing. We need one more sane voice to drown out the pooflingers and fingerknife masturbators.

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:03:07 EST

and why isn't zingzing writing music articles for bc?

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:55:44 EST

Zing,It's really not that obscure if you are pasionate about the genre. I mean, you point to alot of weirdo techno/synth stuff quite often. I can agree that Toad keeps me grounded in a way but Dream Theater has been doing that to me for years. Though, I think some high decibel levels can be good for the soul! Mark, I agree 100%... This article is/was totally about sneaking a peak into people's iPods/Mp3/CD/LP/Cassette/8-Track players and getting a piece of what moves them for that week and why. I love it!! And, I hope I can be apart of this every week because my taste runs the gamet...well you guys/gals already know that.

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:29:05 EST

oh, on what this column is "about": to me, the interesting thing to discover is...what have people been listening to that week and why. whether it's completely obscure to most (brian's metal, or me & pico's jazz weirdness), very popular and 'mundane' (nobody picked "Heart of Glass" but that might just happen now), or something that grates against the nerves of dj radiohead (lisa's Steely Dan)...is really beside the point. now if you'll excuse me, i've got to go dig out my copy of Parallel Lines

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:22:43 EST

mark, i'm sorry you feel that way. i think it's absolutely beautiful uh...it was a joke son! p.s. the "You're NoGood" piece is way cool

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:34:04 EST

i mean, bug?

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:31:21 EST

bitch.

Comment by El Bicho on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:27:52 EST

Terry Riley is irrelevant.

Comment by zingzing on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:18:21 EST

"I love the sort-of-related Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band album called All Night Flight from about the same time." actually, the song "you're nogood" was released on an album with a composition titled "poppy nogood" and riley was doing on of his "all night flights" the night that he was approached to make "you're nogood." mark, i'm sorry you feel that way. i think it's absolutely beautiful. and why didn't i know that the big guppy was behind the obscuro metal band? also, brian, your love of toad is the only thing that keeps you sane, i believe. too much metal (and i'm groovin' on some justin broadrick as we speak) can damage the senses. tom--obscure isn't the point. but, methinks, blatantly obvious isn't the point either. a balance should be struck between exposing the reader to something new and, i suppose, making sure the readers can get SOMETHING familiar out of it... even if i think it should be a relatively unknown track by a well-known artist... like a b-side or alternate version by the who, or something like that. you know? hmmph. maybe i'll just start up an obscuro column. obscuro meaning all process music! hahaha! (process music is so easy to write about...)

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:22:54 EST

this is all kinda funny because today, in an effort to not do work, i downloaded a software synthesizer that attempts to make sounds like the old analog synths from the Moog/Buchler era. i didn't succeed in anything brilliat, but i did make such a frightful noise at one point that i almost dropped my laptop on the ground.

Comment by Leslie Bohn on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:12:55 EST

Woah, Mark. I saw He's Masturbating with Finger Knives back in '85, and trust me, Terry Riley sounds nothing like them. HMFK's early stuff is awesome, BTW. In all seriousness, that "You're Nogood" track is great -- hypnotic and soulful, too. Radical, but right, that crazy Moog white-noise crescendo beginning. How many people probably never make it through that! I love the sort-of-related Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band album called All Night Flight from about the same time. It's excerpted from Terry Riley playing an all-night solo concert on soprano sax, organ and a double tape machine that loops and that he manipulates. It's like trance music, and way ahead of its time, to me.

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Listening Room February 19, 2007: Guster, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bowling for Soup, Autechre, Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Kweller, and Sly And The Family Stone

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:08:09 EST

*BTW* Thanks to DJR for the space, even if it was at the end*Sniff*... LOL, Atleast I got the Pic spot on this article... YaY!!