another sufjan thread, but this one is analog

[Throoper]

that's right, everybody, i received my vinyl copy of teh Illinoise! today. I am listening to it right now, but I'm a little worried about seminar tonight interfering. bah. But.  It's a double gatefold, and can I say? The art looks beautiful, even more suited to the format than that of Michigan. So, yeah. 48 to go til me and Maaik get a collection of two letter organized vinyl. Sigh.

[old kentucky shark]

if wolf eyes did a record for every state you'd all think it was a dumbass idea

plus they'd have it all finished in about a year and a half

[the living dead!]

has anyone ever recorded an album for every planet in the solar system? it seems like some 60's psych band would've done that, but who knows. seems like a pretty good idea to me.

[diesel_powered]

if wolf eyes did a record for every state you'd all think it was a dumbass idea

plus they'd have it all finished in about a year and a half

YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!

[Throoper]

so, another note on the album art: the front cover features balloons instead of superman, but the ballons are just a sticker placed on the cover. I believe I can see the faint outline of the Man of Steel behind the sticker, but it's affixed with a glue that doesn't peel away easily. So hm.

[popquizkid]

if wolf eyes did a record for every state you'd all think it was a dumbass idea

i think it's a great idea... i think the execution is horrid.  let's push the project onto david dondero instead.

[old kentucky shark]

i bet in fifteen years he's gonna try to say that seven swans was about a state

[old kentucky shark]

has anyone ever recorded an album for every planet in the solar system? it seems like some 60's psych band would've done that, but who knows. seems like a pretty good idea to me.

[RoyBiggins]

I bet if you asked Anton Newcombe that question, he'd claim that the albums he'd already released were about all of the planets.  He'd have the fifty states thing done sometime next month.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

i bet in fifteen years he's gonna try to say that seven swans was about a state

The state of JESUS.

[Andrew_TSKS]

so, another note on the album art: the front cover features balloons instead of superman, but the ballons are just a sticker placed on the cover. I believe I can see the faint outline of the Man of Steel behind the sticker, but it's affixed with a glue that doesn't peel away easily. So hm.

BUTCHER SHOP COVER! BUTCHER SHOP COVER!

[DCDave]

So what I wanna say is this.  

Fuck Wolf Eyes.

Lightning Bolt does 50 State albums.

[old kentucky shark]

Isn't the Merzbox 50 discs ?

[Andrew_TSKS]

it is indeed. oh boy! 50 hours of the sound of your television, tuned to a channel you don't get and turned all the way up!

[Maaik]

I totally want the Merzbox.  I love noise and I don't have nearly enough of it.

it is indeed. oh boy! 50 hours of the sound of your television, tuned to a channel you don't get and turned all the way up!

I try to keep scrambled porn turned down to a reasonable level.

[Andrew_TSKS]

you could do WAY better than merzbow though, dude.

[Maaik]

Okay, so here we start quantifying noise.  What's good noise?  I want it, you know it, let me have it.

[Andrew_TSKS]

see, i personally am prejudiced towards noise that has some variation to it, some rhythmic feel, because even if it's loud and harsh, if it's monotonous it sounds like white noise to me. so i'm really digging the magik markers right now, who are more like an improvisational thing with rock instruments than just straight-up harsh sound manipulation. i also recently discovered sightings, who vary from song to song from really noised-out punk to creepy ambient stuff to full-on feedback wall of sound insanity. it's strange. pretty much anything on load records is at least worth checking out, i'll tell you that much. i really don't know too much more though. i'm not all that well-informed. i just know i don't like merzbow.

[Maaik]

I'm down with both sides.  In some instances, I like the monotony.  When I was working front desk at a dorm during the summer, after exhausting all he terrible radio stations we could pick up, I just said fuck it and flipped it to AM and started tuning between the channels and found I could seriously listen to that for hours.  One afternoon, I found some noise that was this pulsating ring, like a big reverbed bell that was stuck on a loop.  I really wished the thing had a tape recorder on it.

[basophil]

i just know i don't like merzbow.

Just so you don't misinterpret me, I don't care one way or the other if you like Merzbow or not, so I'm not challenging you or trying to change your mind on him, but I point out in the interests of fairness that Merzbow doesn't have anything resembling an across-the-board sound.  "Music For Bondage Performance" and "Pulse Demon" are as stylistically different as, say, Belle & Sebastian and Boyracer.  Yeah, some of his stuff -- maybe even a lot -- is bad-monotonous ("Hard Lovin' Man" comes to mind, the only Merzbow CD I ever considered throwing away), but a good chunk actually approaches the sort of stuff you said you like from noise artists.

This is a perfectly valid criticism of a hell of a lot of noise artists, though.  I just think Merzbow makes too easy a target, and probably brings it upon himself by being so comically prolific.

[Lalitree]

I love that the Soofyan thread turned into a discussion about noise.

[elpollodiablo]

So what I wanna say is this.  

Fuck Wolf Eyes.

Awesome.