Or, more poignantly, Dark Carbs. You didn't even mention that one, probably because you deleted it straight way. |
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Thanks Future Boy!
Marc, I'd love to not make songs that you hate, but I am still trying to figure you out after all these years. ;) Anyway, Math Gel is indeed a throwaway, but it's hard to avoid them! I don't think it's nearly as bad as Your Key. |
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This album is fabulous. I like the sound of your voice. |
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Oh, I misinterpretted what you said to mean that you hadn't been using the pre-amp before. Well, I dunno, maybe you are using it better now, or it's something else, but there's definitely a big difference particularly in how your acoustic guitar sounds on this one.
So, now that I've listened to this album many times, I can share my opinion. Generally, I think it's a pretty so-so one. But at least consistently, so there aren't many moments when I hate the song (only Math Gel [please no more songs like this one!], Old Chair, and Your Key, and actually hate is far too strong for those, they're just crummy and kind of annoying, but still not painfully so, well, except Math Gel actually is). About half of them I think are pretty alright, though not songs that I'd ever be motivated to specifically want to listen to, but they're okay (Fake Mars, Up Ten, Hurt Bolt, Mute Disc, Food Shape, Wall Jump, Song Ask, and Soft Church; those last 2 I actually like a little more than the rest of the list). Then there are my favorites, which are first and definitely #1 Shithope, and then Turk Punch and Lawn Sky. Those, especially Shithope, I actually do look forward to hearing. And the rest just pass by without me really noticing. |
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Can't ... stop ... now ... must ... post ... MORE! |
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marc: Well, I've used it before, but I guess the lesson is to turn it up loud.
mr. fuel: really? How strange... |
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Oh, it's totally the pre-amp. You can't really make up for lack of it later by boosting the gain of the recording, it never really works, the preamp is very important. |
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Wow Tom... I think Examine Machines and Enrich might be my *least* favorite AAD. The only song I really like on there is Boarding School.
This is a popular weblog entry. |
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huh.. well, whenever I make an album I set up all the equipment and then just leave it like that for the whole thing. This is the same equipment I've used since AAD#15, but maybe I just got lucky setting up this time.
I am using my brother's nice mic (along with my SM-94) and a m-audio preamp. The preamp helps a lot because I don't need to make up for my weak sound card with VstDynamics so much. |
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Where did all of the fidelity come from? Is much better recorded than any of your previous albums.
So far I like a few of the songs a lot... |
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You should avoid using the English language anymore. |
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I liked this a lot. Thanks for all of the albombs tom7! |
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No, they're just all two words and two syllables (except you might consider "shithope" one word).
EME is my favorite AAD, so if this one competes, then it's been successful! |
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Just finished listening to the album for the first time.. I'll have to listen a few more times to figure out whether it's as good as Examine Machines and Enrich. What's the "obvious naming convention" used for it? Just using lyrics from each song for the title, or is there something more complex that I've missed? (e.g., anagrams?) |
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Yeah, Tom's right.
And I agree, "Live in Japan" was pretty awful aside from the first song.
But yeah, I thought The Glow Pt 2 was good, if a bit overhyped, but Mt. Eerie might be one of my favorite CDs of all time, and I've got well over 500... |
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I think he means that he likes Mt. Eerie the album better than The Glow. |
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Max: What do you mean when you say that you like Mt. Eerie better than The Microphones? Cuz Phil hasn't actually released any music as Mt. Eerie yet (there was the album titled "Mt. Eerie" but released as being by The Microphones, and that latest "Live In Japan" album was also released as being by The Microphones, because Phil didn't want his first Mt. Eerie album to be that one, which I can understand cuz it's way by far his crappiest record). So are you referring to either of those, or do you mean that Phil playing live mid-2003 and beyond has been your favorite compared to his records and previous live performances? I'm just curious (I'm pretty obsessed with The Microphones / Mt. Eerie).
My favorite albums by Phil are "The Glow, Pt. 2" and "Mt. Eerie" followed by "Song Islands" and then "It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water". |
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You think it's weird to like Mount Eerie best? I think I like Island Songs the best, followed by It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water. They are all, of course, good, though. |
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Uhhh.. well, it could be a transient DNS problem. If it keeps up that may be bad news for me... |
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Everything is perfectly reachable from here... |
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Hmmm, when I go to spacebar.pc.cs.cmu.edu and 128.2.194.11, I get "No site is configured at this address. Did you want to go to..." (which I assume is what's supposed to be there).
However, going to www.spacebar.org gives me an MSN "We can't find spacebar.org" Search page or alternatively a "The page cannot be displayed" page.
Maybe my ISP has blocked tom7.org for some reason :-P
In any case, I was able to grab AAD18 using various anonymous web proxies. |
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The same computer is doing DNS as is serving the web pages. Can you get to spacebar.pc.cs.cmu.edu? That's done by CMU. There's really nothing funny about my DNS setup; I'm on a static IP on a multi-homed network, and connectivity is usually good here. You can try a traceroute to 128.2.194.11, too.
tom7.com is on a totally different server. (tom7.org, on the other hand, is the same as spacebar.org). |
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