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In Other Words, Fly

Dec 18, 2004 22:41

You know what I hate? When I'm looking to listen to a CD from some band, so I look at one, and I think, "This one is really familiar. Is there another one that I know less well?" I look at another and another, and it's the same. And since they released only three and then broke up, there will most likely never be any more.

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fennel December 19 2004, 20:46:09 UTC

Had similar thoughts provoked by the Doughty solo records that just got (re)released. Listening to enough of Doughty with just an acoustic guitar has made Soul Coughing songs sound different, though. That was a pleasant surprise.

rieux December 19 2004, 21:18:35 UTC

I guess I did the opposite. After determining that none of the Soul Coughing LPs would satisfy me, I listened to Hello and Made Especially for You followed by Skittish. I'm really very curious what his new album is going to sound like.

If you google "in other words fly", most of the hits are Nat King Cole.

fennel December 20 2004, 11:12:33 UTC

Have you heard the other Soul Coughing studio non-album stuff and/or Rockity Roll?

I'm curious about the new album, but I still feel a little burned from the mediocre live album (and the massive swindle of those Soul Coughing live releases, but there was some legal issue surrounding those which made me wonder if the band might not actually have had much control over them).

rieux December 20 2004, 11:30:23 UTC

Maybe[1] and nope. I've heard the 3 Soul Coughing LPs and 2 EPs, Skittish, and Smofe + Smang.

I haven't heard the live albums, but I almost always prefer studio recordings.

[1] I have some MP3s that I totally forgot about until just now. I don't remember listening to them, and I don't know how accurate the labels are, but these are the songs that claim to be not live: 16 Horses, 212, Adolpha-Zantziger, Blow My Only, Buddha Rhubarb Butter, I Got to Get Right with This, I'm Livin' on Babyfood, Lemon Lime, Marching to Euphoria, Murder of Lawyers, Rare Star Ball, The Brooklynites, The Bug, The Coffee Song, The Plane Scraped Its Belly on a Sooty Yellow Moon, Theme From Rachel's Sitcom, These Are the Reasons, Unmarked Helicopters

fennel December 20 2004, 11:50:42 UTC

Okay, yeah, the mp3s you listed are the ones I was talking about. Some of those are really great. That said, the only versions I've ever heard of "I Got To Get Right With This" were live (with low sound quality) and I would suspect yours might be the same.

And actually, I'm not positive what "The Coffee Song" is, but it rings a bell.

Not sure what I think of Rockity Roll yet. It doesn't feel half-assed, which was a relief, but nor did the songs make an impression, and it'll be a week or two before I get around to playing it again.

rieux December 20 2004, 12:09:51 UTC

I'll check it out, and if IGtGRwT isn't a poor recording, I'll send it to you. Maybe TCS is mislabeled, but I can send you that, too.

I haven't heard Rockity Roll just because I haven't gone to the trouble yet. I heard about it on Doughty's (excellent) blog.

fennel December 20 2004, 12:38:33 UTC

Yet another blog with a syndication feed that I hadn't thought of subscribing to! Thanks.

fennel December 20 2004, 11:53:40 UTC

By the way, I'm not trying to be difficult; if you haven't heard about it, Rockity Roll is a solo EP Doughty put out on his website last year that was reissued last week with Skittish and five or six bonus tracks. The new EP songs are mostly Doughty with beeping noises.

If you have heard about it, it is probably not unlike whatever you imagined about it that has caused you to not get around to acquiring it.

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