Link please, Blake.

ha, someone was saying to me yesterday that they thought this would be really bad wankign music. IS THAT RIGHT, blake ?

...err why would you wank over a weird old bearded guy singing folk music anyway?

bad wanking music?

what the hell is good wanking music?

who wanks to music?

get out of my thread pops, ya freak!

I DIDNT SAY IT, someone said it to ME

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Rather bizarre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuaJo46Pjc

Here

haha, that's cool

good 'ol Neil Hamburger.

oh my god that video is hilarious!

"sounds more like something that'd come out on september 11th..." AHAHAHHAH

also on that you tube link is the vid for palace's "come in", which would have to rate as one of the most beautiful music videos ever

just heard this fucking mindblowing jeffrey lewis song bout (maybe) coming across will oldham on the subway. so so funny. so so genius

download at fluxblog

i think it's maybe the best thing i've ever heard EVER

in gmail :D

Will on Shromms!

man, caveh zahedi really pushes that hippie bullshit envelope all the way

i liked i am a sex addict but he's so over-the-top a lot of the time. he needs to realise that however passionate he is about life or whatever, he just sounds stupid mostly.

So the new album has been on the shelves at JB for 5 days now. Why did I not know this!!??!!??

i didn't see it yesterday.

are you sure it's the new one blake? not wilding in the west or something else?

nah, the new one is out. no press I've seen though.

weird. i gotta get it

who knows why but that video moved me to tears, in a good way :)

nice one mule. Hey the guy is an enigma..he has powers most of us can't comprehend.

My favourite thing about being a BPB fan is the sheer volume of great music he treats me to.

Yet another new release!

[Label: Spiritual Pajamas | Catalogue Number: SPIRITUAL004]

Hummingbird, Pt. 1 (4:31)
Tribulations (2:57)
Because Of Your Eyes (Band Version) (4:43)
Hummingbird, Pt. 2 (3:15)

I wish he'd left I See A Darkness alone, it seems so unnecessary for him to revisit (and potentially ruin) his old stuff. It's not like he's running out of ideas for new material.

It was ok - mind you, I really liked ''Greatest Palace Hits'' or whatever it was called. Many fans didn't like that album.

regarding the ep linked above:

''Is it safe to say that Will Oldham has rarely met a recording device he didn’t like? The man who goes by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy continues to document feverishly–and yet with fine discrimination–via a steady march through the canon of modern music: rock, country, gospel, keep on listing…

The great Leon Russell’s “Hummingbird” anchors this new 10 inch, and Bonny and his assembled cast of LA musicians render it an exercise in contrast. Using Russell’s famed Shelter Records soundboard for this one-off session–with its memories of Petty and Cale, and now owned by one Jonathan Wilson–Bonny introduces a pallet of musical soundscapes including the keys of “Farmer” Dave Scher, the porch-stomp grooves of Entrance Band rhythm section Paz and Derek and the claps of a thousand hands before letting the song “fly away” in a breeze of soulful psychedelia that stretches nearly twice the original’s length. Next up: a cover of the traditional “Tribulations,” with Cairo Gang mainman Emmett Kelly, in a purely Appalachian reflection on judgment and fear and all manner of Old Testament threat. Rounding out this powerful trio with a nod to Lightnin’ Hopkins and Michael Hurley, Bonny makes another run (this time all by his lonesome) at Merle Haggard’s “Because of Your Eyes”. This one lo-fi, wooly, and unscrubbed with that recorded-in-a-kitchen-near-a-bottle-of-whiskey sound which is often attempted but rarely nailed. Bonny hits it square.''

I wish he'd left I See A Darkness alone, it seems so unnecessary for him to revisit (and potentially ruin) his old stuff. It's not like he's running out of ideas for new material.

How would it ruin it? You can still listen to the old record. I reckon the new version is way better, I was never a fan of I See A Darkness (the album).

This Hummingbird EP is excellent. Because Of Your Eyes is a great song, I've been getting lots of $2 Merle Haggard records from a shop where no one knows who Merle Haggard is.

musicians re-record songs all the time, he's just fleshing out a different side of it...if anyone has the right to record the song again it's him! :) i'm suspecting bonnie needs a bit of the doyle brunson, he's really picked up his output recently (book, re-releases, new ep, touring) as well as a snide remark he made at the opera house (i know you all just came here to laugh at us, with your strong economy).

the U.S. dollar seems to be screwing over a lot of artists at the moment...

it was hardly snide...

and how could you not like I See A Darkness (the album)? Sacre Bleu!

snide in a jesting kind of way!

yes, delivered with a smile ;)

and how could you not like I See A Darkness (the album)? Sacre Bleu!

I'm just not in to the production / performance / singing. The songs themselves are excellent, all versions on Summer in the Southeast are so much better! (especially ''Death to Everyone'')

mule said 54 minutes ago:
musicians re-record songs all the time

Phil Elverum, case in point

Elvrum, rather.

-Arthurly Ah! i was quite far back, didn't see the smile. i suppose it's not snide at all then. ah well.

woolfat said 1 hour ago:
Elvrum, rather.

i think you were right the first time...

I feel the same way about Phil Elverum. When I like a song, hearing it changed up has almost never felt like an improvement, just sort of odd. I guess that's just me though.

I think the only re-record that Oldham has done which has possibly been better than the original was Agnes, Queen of Sorrow.

I like Elverum's re-record's better because they're not just more polished and upbeat versions like most of Oldham's.

Oh and the KING of recycling/re-recording is Jonathan Richman.

probably deserves its own thread this topic