[Dusty]

Decided that I don’t wanna go in chronological order. Gotta keep y’all on your toes. Picked 2004 cuz it’s probably my single favorite live year for them. Early feels is insane. This year gives us three legendary all timers to choose from: Noah’s Ark, Other Music, and Lee’s Palace. Who will win? It’s all in your hands

[destiny]

This question is just cruel. How could you pick? I chose Paris 2004 cuz in my mind thats one of the most important ac boots ever. But bowery ballroom...

[foxtrot]

For me it has to be La Foundation Cartier. It is absolutely mind bending. Feels as ragged and intense rather than loving and vibrant. These early versions (Bees, Tikwid, White Antelope/Did You See The Words) are just totally different beasts. Even stuff like Purple Bottle and Loch Raven that are already pretty much fully formed hit quite different here.

[roopn]

Picked other music because I'm a sucker for sung tongs boots and this is basically more of that, with a completely unique tracklist.
Gotta be honest, feels era boots (and SJ era for that matter) are a blind spot for me. I've listened to a couple over the years but haven't really been grabbed by them and compelled to dive in deeply. I'll take on some picks from this thread and check em out

[roopn]

Is La Foundation Cartier the one with no geologist?

[LeadHat]

I feel like voting for Noah's Ark is wrong, but I have to... so damn beautiful + slowed down learning how to dive + those guitar tones + that "I want to take a walk with you" song they close with.... very special stuff.

[Dusty]

LeadHat wrote:

I feel like voting for Noah's Ark is wrong, but I have to... so damn beautiful + slowed down learning how to dive + those guitar tones + that "I want to take a walk with you" song they close with.... very special stuff.

Is your username a Brian Eno reference?

[LeadHat]

Dusty wrote:

Is your username a Brian Eno reference?

Sure is! Good catch

[speen]

roopn wrote:

Is La Foundation Cartier the one with no geologist?

yeah.

ive made at least one really long post on here about how i feel about La Fondation Cartier before so I wont do it again, but that show is feral, cosmic, fleshy, scary, beautiful. shattering. one of the very best.

[roopn]

hold the fuck up, 206 = ice cream factory?????????????

[Fovrodi]

Yes!

wrote:

Avey:
Ice cream factory was written for the second hcti set that we wrote for our 2002 tour. We played it three times i think. Once at tonic, and two times on tour. The tour attempts didnt end up going so well so it was just one of those songs we stopped playing. i guess by the time we got back we just didnt think about recording it. The same thing sort of happened when we turned it into 206. It just never felt right to us so we never recorded it.

Geologist:

just to be clear, ice cream factory (and the 206 version) don't exist in a b-side version or whatever you want to call it. like dave said they were never recorded so a few live versions are all that exist. a lot of people hear 206 and think it's one of our other drawn out slow jams from other records.

[roopn]

thank you for that! la foundation cartier is indeed an insane boot, I'll finish listening when I have more time

[destiny]

One of their most important boots and foundational to understanding them as a band. The super early and different Did u see the words, the fuckin feral purple bottle, it's lowkey just Feels through Ark-ish lens. That tikwid... fuck

[phodicae 2]

HCTI to Feels: most jam-packed era ever.

-Here comes the Indian songs
-Avey Split series
-Weird Warped era: Side D on Crack Box and La Foundation Cartier
-Panda bear together
-Panda bear Young Prayer
-Sung Tongs and everything related
-Panda Bear beginnings of Person Pitch
-Whatever Seeing Twinkles was
-Whatever Guadaloops was
-Probably some of Oddsac
-Shibuya's nest Panda and Deakin
-Prospect Hummer and all related
-Whatever Playpen was
-Beginnings of Pullhair Rubeye

in like 3 years

[roopn]

FEEL ON1NE!!! wrote:

One of their most important boots and foundational to understanding them as a band. The super early and different Did u see the words, the fuckin feral purple bottle, it's lowkey just Feels through Ark-ish lens. That tikwid... fuck

loch raven is stright up frightening with the intensity of avey's vocals through that effect.
something about this being a board recording makes it so much more intense. the lack of room sound makes it suffocating. I think being in the room at this show would have been actually quite a different experience to listening to this recording.
Also I love daffy duck on this. the version on feels always passes me by without making too much of an impact but this really works

[opposite field]

Despite knowing about it for years I'm listening to Noah's Ark for the first time, is the second song the basis of Good House?

[jfw7]

man there sure are some similar chords, especially listening to some of the non-studio versions

[opposite field]

jfw7 wrote:

man there sure are some similar chords, especially listening to some of the non-studio versions

Right? Glad I’m not completely crazy. I kind of doubt it’s actually where the song came from since it was so long ago but it’s cool to see the connection. Definitely makes me want to listen to some more Deakin live stuff.

[hunkswithguns]

Props to this thing (and y'all) for getting me into Lee's, La Fondation and Bowery. My mind's telling me I've heard them before but my spirit's hearing them for the first time. Love it.

[Fovrodi]

wrote:

We had a Japanese tour that Noah and Josh ended up going on. Or maybe it was even just one Japanese show, but I was just so freaked out and paranoid that I had to cornpill it. It was giving me just the worst feelings. But since then, I've done it so much that I don't... As Brian and I say lately, we just sort of have a Zen mentality about it. We do it so much that we kind of just go in and let go of control, which is kind of what we do with music so it works in that way. There's always will be difficult things about traveling and being around that many people, but you've gotta grin and bear it and get through it.

https://do512.com/p/strange-inquiry-wit ... collective

[captainlunatic]

La Fondation Cartier is so good