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Post by sisyphus on Feb 28, 2006 3:17:51 GMT -5
...or, if yours was not listed above:
Superwolf (with matt sweeny)
The Brave and the Bold (with Tortoise)
Get on Jolly
Get the Fuck on Jolly
Almost Heaven (with Rian Murphy)
More Revery
Ode Music
Western Music
Little Joya
Days in the Wake
Lost Blues and Other Music
Hope
Take Care
Of You
There is no-one
Slitch
Amalgamated Sons of Rest
Seafarers Music
Pebbles and Ripples
Summer in the Southeast
(is this all of them??)
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 28, 2006 16:01:12 GMT -5
I wouldn't pretend to have heard even half of the complete list, but I See A Darkness is head and shoulders above his other stuff that I've heard. It's actually just a perfect album to wallow in, but in a way that doesn't preclude some rueful and dark humour.
If anyone can direct me to something else by him just as morbid, stripped down and introspective then I'd be grateful.
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Post by Rit on Feb 28, 2006 16:56:02 GMT -5
i voted for Viva Last Blues, because it's got a clutch of his best songs, surrounded by some good songs, and it "rocks" as far as Oldham can be said to "rawk".
JLLM, Arise, Therefore is stripped down, relentlessly morose and highly suicide inducing, but it's no I See A Darkness, which has the good social graces to be winsomely melodic even as it courts the suicidal tendencies.
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Post by sisyphus on Feb 28, 2006 17:05:22 GMT -5
hrmm.... i don't think it really courts suicidal tendencies...so much as existential slippage into non-existence, and then rebirth embracing the light and the dark....
....if i could fuck a mountain, lord i would fuck a mountain...and i'd do it, with a woman, in the valley...
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Post by Rit on Feb 28, 2006 17:07:34 GMT -5
heh. that song just played! (the mountain song)... i'm playing Viva right now, actually
and i was being mildly tongue in cheek to JLLM. he understands. he's all about the ironic.
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Post by sisyphus on Feb 28, 2006 18:12:47 GMT -5
aha! pardone my missing of your sweet ironic drone.... i love that song! i've introduced many an oldham lover via that route. i can't seem to vote yet. and i'm still missing about 7 or so of his albums.  i'm so obsessed, i've got to eventually own every one... but it's impossible! i have some downloaded tracks from something that came out only on lp apparently? blue lotus feet. and i love that one too... he's so goddamn prolific! |
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Post by Rit on Feb 28, 2006 19:52:35 GMT -5
yeah, Blue Lotus Feet is pretty good. i like it's rambling shuffling ways.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 1, 2006 2:40:40 GMT -5
indeed. 'one with the birds' is my fav, of what i have from 'blue lotus feet.'
rambling shuffling ways...yes yes...
the best description i've been able to come up with for oldhams voice has something to do with the way its creamy rawness slips sideways....
sigh.
do you HAVE that lp?
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Mar 1, 2006 14:18:21 GMT -5
JLLM, Arise, Therefore is stripped down, relentlessly morose and highly suicide inducing I'm sick of playing party-pop bubble gum like Closer and Pornography. Sounds like this might be just the album to cheer me up. |
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i'm so obsessed, i've got to eventually own every one... but it's impossible!