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Post by silence on Apr 30, 2020 10:53:10 GMT -5
It's something that is really difficult to brush off, and 'cruel' is exactly the word that sprang to mind over and over again. I guess that (to play devil's advocate) this book was to close a door, and in that particular case it's well and truly slammed. Gary put the Trees behind him a long time ago so hope this is just something to get angry about now and shrug off later. Yeah, it's been a long wait to publish! Review copy arrived in December and I submitted my bit in March. Exclusive thing is now up at the Grauniad, and it's an excellent read, much better than the terrible, terrible SEO baiting URL would suggest. Should be loads of reviews up tomorrow now. BTW - people with the book, how many chapters is it (excluding prologue/epilogue)? Strange question I know, but there's a reason
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Post by silence on Apr 29, 2020 6:34:56 GMT -5
All the more interesting as there's an embargo in place while someone (not the people who have posted so far) has the online exclusive (as yet exercised). We've had to delay ours so it's a tad annoying that others are OK to bypass it
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Post by silence on Mar 28, 2020 8:36:02 GMT -5
It has a provisional new date of June 20, although that's still very indefinite and probably highly unlikely, especially in the US where it's barely started to take hold. Would just make more sense to let the stores sell them online given that now more than ever they need supporting and that was the whole point of RSD in the first place...
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Post by silence on Mar 22, 2020 9:15:43 GMT -5
With RSD 2020 now being cancelled, hopefully this might be a little bit more of a worldwide mail order release?
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Post by silence on Mar 7, 2020 5:58:11 GMT -5
The page 39 I have (I believe the book's been revised since the version I have) is a bit rough at the top but mostly goes on about Donna Dresch, and is a real high point of the book - certainly when he talks about the band. There's much worse in there about Lee, and others. Shame they didn't post p.38 as well though, that one's rather sweet and puts a lot of what Mark & GL went through together in a strange sort of context. And he's really not the hero in his own story here, quite the opposite. There are heroes in there though.
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Post by silence on Oct 19, 2019 5:14:50 GMT -5
The Black Friday thing has been a US-only event for a few years and has the occasional gem (got the remixed In Utero a few years back), with some stock finding its way overseas. Not sure how he ended up on it, but he did a lot of these tribute things around this time (it's from about 1999 - CD is out of print but you can source it on Amazon/ebay for buttons usually) and with this one some of his friends/peers/neighbours were also involved, good words for a man with a good voice might also have been put in
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Post by silence on Oct 18, 2019 14:56:52 GMT -5
Charlie Cawood - Blurring into Motion Kronos Quartet - Sun Rings The Crow Soundtrack & still ploughing slowly through the Radiohead 18 Minidisc Hack thing
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Post by silence on Oct 18, 2019 14:51:54 GMT -5
The thing I find with record players is that stuff tends to sound better - not because of the "warmth" or anything else to do with the usual M&S "this is no ordinary record" schtik that tends to come with these things, but because most record players now are quite pricey, high-quality things so put out a better quality of sound that my phone does. The Analog thing is usually a bit of a misnomer as most reissues nowadays are cut from "best digital" sources as unless: a) Someone has kept the original tapes in pristine quality b) Someone has kept the original tapes at all c) It was recorded to tape in the first place it's going to be digital mastered to analog, which is nice but is only ever going to be as good as the thing that it's being lifted off (and in the hands of a properly-skilled mastering person, and there's not many of those left which is why they tend to be named if they do anything).
On the plus side, I kept all my LPs from the 80s & 90s so I don't have to fork out huge amounts of cash again (because that's what I was told to do when CDs came out and I was bullied into buying into the "better" format) on stuff I already own. And I broke my CD player 3 years ago & no longer have one in my car - which is a shame as CDs are nice, handy, lovely-sounding things to have and I do think they have advantages over vinyl, just as vinyl has advantages over CD and the different ways that they give artists different boundaries to play with.
Well, it appears that I am now drunk enough to give this new Lanegan album a spin and vanish again for another year or so.
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Post by silence on Oct 18, 2019 14:33:37 GMT -5
The Friday/Tuesday thing goes back to when charts mattered - releases would be the day after the format's charts were compiled to max out the first week's sales (Thursdays for UK, presumably Mondays for the US). Not very exciting and completely pointless now, but there you go. Album sales - especially vinyl ones - tend to go through the labels directly (or Bandcamp) now as it's largely the only way that the labels really profit. Vinyl is produced in such low numbers and there's still hardly any pressing plants that individual copies are really expensive to produce so buying direct maxes out what little profit remains Not listened to it yet (which feels weird as this is the first one since No Bells that I haven't reviewed so haven't had an advance copy), my LP arrived today so am working up the wine levels before giving it a spin (along with new Ed Harcourt thing, really looking forward to that one!) - have just taken off Joy Division's Closer to make room for this, feels nicely apt. Really good 5-page interview with Mark in this month's Mojo (Neil Young on the cover), goes into some really dark past places as well as having a bright present.
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Post by silence on Oct 3, 2018 13:04:52 GMT -5
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Post by silence on Sept 30, 2018 11:15:31 GMT -5
9th of November now.
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Post by silence on Aug 22, 2018 8:34:45 GMT -5
There's a huge article on this in this month's Mojo, Mark's contribution seems to be as songwriter rather than performer: Mark Lanegan has already contributed one called They Come At Night. "It's about the [2015] killings in Paris," she says, "a terrible business. I sang it at the Bataclan and they'd just wiped the blood off the walls Bit weird, as although she was indeed the first act back in the Bataclan, it was a full 12 months later. Anyway, here's the song as performed that night with Ed Harcourt, including an intro explaining how she wants to strangle Mark for writing such a bloody difficult song: Album's due out November 2, was recorded over 2 weeks in Jan 2018. There's no mention of They Come at Night being recorded in the article, just that a lot of the originally-planned stuff has fallen by the wayside.
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Post by silence on Jul 23, 2018 11:00:33 GMT -5
Nice 4 Star Mojo review - "Both parties in this collaboration have been firing off great records at will lately; here's another"
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Post by silence on Oct 5, 2017 12:31:18 GMT -5
Vinyl's arrived. And the two Weatherall tracks (at exactly 9.21 each which maybe should have got people asking), unless there's a very tiny yet fundamental shift in nuance I'm not getting, are 100% identical.
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Post by silence on Oct 2, 2017 16:01:53 GMT -5
Similar's one way of putting it, duplicated's probably another
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Post by silence on Sept 30, 2017 7:48:56 GMT -5
So has anyone received this? Not had mine and not seen any email notification that it's on the way or delayed.
Even weirder - the review I did omits one track because something was rather odd with the files I received, and I've read other reviews which seem to have had the same issue but which they seemingly haven't noticed. Am going through my copy again to make sure I'm not going mad...
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Post by silence on Sept 20, 2017 13:10:18 GMT -5
Seems like Mark's teamedup with Belgian Doomy types Amenra - clicky here for a minute and a half of loveliness. They have a new album, Mass VI, out in October. This may or may not be on it.
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Post by silence on Sept 17, 2017 11:11:22 GMT -5
Tenebrous Liar sadly no longer performing. Hope everyone's OK. due to unexpected tragic events, tenebrous LIAR are pulling out of the Mark Lanegan UK tour.
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Post by silence on Sept 15, 2017 9:42:20 GMT -5
Apropos of nothing, as usual
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Post by silence on Aug 30, 2017 16:58:32 GMT -5
I've heard him do this a few times, it's great live! Can't imagine him doing this with the remix of Death's Head Tattoo though, unless he's in an especially bad mood
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Post by silence on Aug 12, 2017 5:13:27 GMT -5
The Amazon date disparity/confusion is (as a guess) because it's maybe only being published in the US, and being shipped out to distributors elsewhere (which would also explain the non-PR over here, a bit of a shame to be honest), so depending on where Amazon are getting their stock (US publisher direct or outside distribution) depends on when the rest of us are likely to be seeing it. It's being sold at shows as well, so anyone who is still waiting when his gig roll around can just pick one up there instead. Barrett Martin's book & CD is shipping worldwide next week too! So you wait however long for an ex-Screaming Tree book, and two turn up at the same time
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Post by silence on Aug 12, 2017 4:25:08 GMT -5
I just kind of wish that the reissue market would maybe concentrate on doing more than just selling the same thing to the same people
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Post by silence on Aug 12, 2017 4:23:16 GMT -5
It would do - general reissue rule of thumb is that if there isn't any flag-waving about the remastering or sourcing, then "best available digital source" is the answer. No doubt this will sound nice and anyone who hasn't got it already will love it, but will pale against a pristine original from the original analogue because of the compromises that have to occur.
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Post by silence on Aug 10, 2017 11:46:08 GMT -5
Guessing it'll just be for wider distribution purposes as Newburys is North America only. Then again, there's been a Music on Vinyl version knocking about recently so it's probably just a case of it being cheaper to fling another one out on the cheap (ooh, hand-numbered! wow) than pay for the rights for something else, or - heaven forfend - invest in producing and promoting something new...
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Post by silence on Aug 9, 2017 4:28:09 GMT -5
This'll be the one Mark described as urine-coloured last night on Twitter.
Might need to lay off the Beroccas...
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