Re: Quite a Statement / RE: (TV) OT: Luna & Dean Wareham

[William Ancell <thebilbicus@yahoo.co.uk>]

To all who haven't heard them, I heartily recommend "Luna Live" and "Rendezvous". 

Someone mentioned how Dean's book has fruity gossip about Quine/Sweet. It's been nearly a year now since I first heard Matthew Sweet's "In Reverse" and it still blows me away. It's a stunning record. I got the new one, "Sunshine Lies" and it's alright, but not great. 

Anyone here heard the Japanese-only album "Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu"? It has Richard on it. Pretty good in places, "The Ocean Inbetween" is a blazing tune and worth the hefty import price alone. 

Billy

On 29 Apr 2011, at 04:18, Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Anyway: I don't think Luna's recorded output is superior to Television's
>> and/or
>> the Velvet Underground. I think it's good but very inconsistent; I think
>> Wareham
>> had a more limited set of musical ideas than Verlaine or Reed/Cale and
>> stretched
>> out over 7 Luna albums it wears thin.
> 
> 
> For that very reason I guess I sometimes felt they were TOO consistent.
> Wareham was engagingly relaxed and playful, which was cool, but again, in
> most Galaxie 500 songs he sings like his very life depended on it-- listen
> to "Tugboat Captain", which I just assume is titled that because of Sterling
> Morrison, he just sounds like he's going to die on that one, which is why it
> feels like a good deal of a comedown from that intensity to deadpanning "Is
> there a doctor in the House of Pancakes?"  Similarly, he's obviously a much
> better player in Luna, and they have that great interplay, but it doesn't
> pack the visceral string-bending-for-dear-life punch of the primitive leads
> on something like "Fourth of July".
> 
> Of course this is all relative.  Amongst another group of people with less
> refined tastes I might be calling Luna one of the best guitar bands of the
> '90s, well ahead of any of the grunge clowns, and opining that they recorded
> the only version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" worth hearing.
> 
> -Rex
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