Should I feel bad that the Red Bell recording is going to replace the actual album for me? :-/
The live versions just give so much more attention to the instrumentals. They really pop, despite jabba being pretty quiet. On top of that, the vocals are so much more passionate and raw. The only thing missing are the harmonies.
Nah dude don't feel bad at all. As far as I'm concerned, the album versions aren't the "final" or "real" versions of the tracks. The last version of any song he played live if the "final" version. His and AC's records are just snapshots of a point in time.
^interesting idea/point but the only songs I've liked more live are Faces in the Crowd and Crosswords. The others feel more like alternate reality versions that don't change how much I like the songs much
Anyway came to say Warsaw Crosswords is best Crosswords. Love the way he sings on this one, kcrw and moma he was singing all pretty but Warsaw boot it almost sounds like he's mocking the songs
Glad to have all versions though, I can listen to the songs while I'm sick of the songs. Different details and such when I tire of one recording I just move to the next. Then come back to the album and I'm kosher.
God I need somenew music that makes me feel this compulsive
Edit: just to make my ramble ramblier, anyone see the Pygmalion video from youtube? Insanity as far as visuals are concerned and calculated emotional torpedo from the audio side... Had the end of selfish gene... Fucking ridiculously psychedelic and overwhelming. There has to be a version of this combo somewhere someday, there has to.
Edit 2: I'm freaking out about this. Feels like I'm tripping. I know if I had one of the ideas in the video I would be proud for a long time and yet it seems like barely a deal to Noah & co. Maybe that's the mark of genius. Though the thought of there not being a release (not on a website) of the music synced to the video is sacrilegious
Anyway came to say Warsaw Crosswords is best Crosswords. Love the way he sings on this one, kcrw and moma he was singing all pretty but Warsaw boot it almost sounds like he's mocking the songs
I've noticed this in some of the later period concerts! I remember that there was some discussion by Noah about Tomboy being loosely inspired by what more broad ideas about artistry and performance were present with Nirvana and sort of vanished since then.
It is like a way of making people in the audience smile and laugh and feel connected without it being that thing where the musicians are smiling the whole time sending a very one-note emotional veneer into audience members who notice.
When he sings this way it's like a soul smile or opening of wings, an honest smile or energy ripple of knowing in the voice that tickles and wakes up that part of our own! needless to say i love that it has been happening!
Anyway came to say Warsaw Crosswords is best Crosswords. Love the way he sings on this one, kcrw and moma he was singing all pretty but Warsaw boot it almost sounds like he's mocking the songs
I've noticed this in some of the later period concerts! I remember that there was some discussion by Noah about Tomboy being loosely inspired by what more broad ideas about artistry and performance were present with Nirvana and sort of vanished since then.
It is like a way of making people in the audience smile and laugh and feel connected without it being that thing where the musicians are smiling the whole time sending a very one-note emotional veneer into audience members who notice.
When he sings this way it's like a soul smile or opening of wings, an honest smile or energy ripple of knowing in the voice that tickles and wakes up that part of our own! needless to say i love that it has been happening!
I don't know about all that but it's definiyely evocative to a primal level. funny you mentioned Nirvana. I know he's cited them as an influence but I was listening to In Utero the other day and was struck by how some of the inflections matched Noah's on his live recording. I forgot he had mentioned them before
I really wish there wasn't that Red Bull "watermark" at the end of Boys Latin... Really my only complaint with this boot. This is the one that started it all for me, when I "accidentally" listened to it so I'm in love
Also Jabberwocky rules what are you talking about? The pronunciation is always malleable to suit the mood
this is fantastic - thanks for the rip! The Warsaw boot was the first time I ever listened to the Grim Reaper songs, back in July. Went for a walk on a warm afternoon for hours, getting completely lost in it. So many little details of the performance that stuck with me, like the descending voice in tropic. So glad this is out.
Seriously this Red Bull recording is so amazing omg omg
Could i please get a link to this? Thank you
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thanks for the single d/l jfw. here's the boot, split and tagged:
2014-05-18 Warsaw, Brooklyn, New York (Red Bull Stream)
1. Sequential Circuits
2. Crosswords
3. Jabberwocky
4. Boys Latin
5. Come To Your Senses
6. Tropic Of Cancer
7. Untying The Knot
8. Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker
9. Principe Real
10. Selfish Gene
11. [break]
12. Last Night At The Jetty
13. Scheherazade
14. Surfers Hymn https://www.mediafire.com/?38axnvy68g6qg7i
fuck I'm so happy that I bought the deluxe edition for my sis!
she always listens to it when a friend comes over and it rings through the whole house from the attic.
all and all, pretty sick deal for me
I got the litho, the t-shirt, and the downloads
edit: kind of makes me sad actually, that version of Selfish Gene/Nadir is so intense, to me that's the only song that didn't turn out the way it should have on the album. It lost some of the energy or urgency or something
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What's everyones Jabberwocky interpretations? The last two lines are super interesting but I'm not really forming anything coherent.
Thought it'd be interesting to hear seeing as it's super hyped...
Great interview phoned in here to Melbourne..... on a great show on the best independent radio anywhere.... nice long one too, starts 1.05.00 with a bit off Tomboy
So, while I am really happy with the album, I think the only thing I was disappointed about was the album translation of Selfish Gene. it's a really amazing song, my favorite from the boots, but the synth just kind of lost its.... bite, i guess. It's like it's less in your face and energetic. I miss that from the live version. Otherwise, it's a near perfect album
I can see how that interpretation could arise, but, in many ways it is all substantial; there is very little other music that sounds like this album if any.
it is an album where the sounds do create their own universe but in a way that doesn't subdue its own presence as sound itself. I've thought that about OK Computer before, that it is an album that's partially about how unusual sound is.
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