77 Wars

I just listened to all of the Shellac albums all the way through while packing boxes today. I’ve got to say that, for me, these records really pass the test of time. Before I put them on, I thought that maybe my current favorite album was “Excellent Italian Greyhound”, but after having listened to them all again it’s hard for me to say. I know that a lot of people aren’t the biggest fans of “At Action Park”, but I really enjoy it.

Anyways, I also listened to Boris’ “Rainbow” (The album they did with Kurihara) and it is far less awesome than I remember. I appreciate their style of being loose and heavy (not so much heavy in the sense of bordering on metal, but the bass and drums sound heavy)… but in the realm of psyche rock, I have to say I much prefer the tighter style of Dungen, who are so goddamned good at writing songs and generally rocking out.

There were some  Silver Jews records I was listening to as well, and I really loved and still love “American Water”, but I think my favorite album of theirs is currently “The Natural Bridge”. It just gets me. I really appreciate the words David Berman strings together and it’s so honky-tonkin fuckin good… Alright, well I’m about to listen to “Tanglewood Numbers” for the first time. I hadn’t purchased it yet and so I was about 2 or 3 albums behind, but I’ll be caught up soon! I’ll post my thoughts later, because that’s what we do now, instead of talking to each other and experiencing life, we blog and pretend that people actually give a flying shit what we talk about, when in reality no one does… and then we’re actually sad that no one ever reads this drivel…

I am excited that Shellac is gonna be in LA at the Echo next month and I got tickets to both shows!