Bedhead What Fun Life Was Rar
This isn't right. I feel like I've just made the Now That's What I Call Bedhead!
May 03, 2009 This isn't right. I feel like I've just made the Now That's What I Call Bedhead! I've taken Matt and Bubba Kadane's meticulously crafted and.
Warcraft 2 no cd patch. I've taken Matt and Bubba Kadane's meticulously crafted and deliberately paced albums and plundered them for the 'hits.' Way to go me. Anyway, this is a collection of songs culled from the six albums of the Kadane brothers' two bands, Bedhead and The New Year. Their first band, Bedhead, started out as a slowcore outfit from Texas in the early '90's, with a sound that drew comparisons to Low and Galaxie 500.
Specifically, they had both the morphine drip tempos and hushed vocals of Low and the intricate (and occasionally explosive) guitar textures of Galaxie 500. Turned out to be a pretty magical combination. All three of the band's albums received heaps of critical praise, but, from what I gather, Bedhead never managed to gain much exposure beyond the college radio circuit.
In the 2000's, after Bedhead called it quits, the Kadanes roped in three fellow indie rock vets to form The New Year, which picked up right where Bedhead left off. The New Year have moved forward by dropping the alt-country and atmospheric post-rock leanings that helped to make Bedhead so enigmatic, and have instead bumped up the levels on Matt Kadane's vocals and created music that's become increasingly accessible and emotional, but not the least bit compromising. So back to feeling weird about this mix. I think this sense of defacing a great band in trying to honor it is something that will be inescapable with some of these Yahplay mixes. No getting around it.
One of the reasons I loved/love these two bands so much is that they clearly put so much thought into crafting proper albums. So, in that sense, it's impossible to give an accurate snapshot of the Kadanes' music in this type of format. Much like Chris did in his Galaxie 500 mix, I tended to go for the louder, more immediate songs from the Bedhead/The New Year catalog, which results in a trade-off. Some of the bad: 'The Newness Ends' can't possibly have the cathartic effect it does at the end of the New Year's debut, and some of the majesty that 'The Present' brings to Bedhead's most understated album, Transaction de Novo, is inevitably lost. The good: Jesus Christ, these guys have some amazing songs, and I think the best are included here.
What Fun Life Was
The Galaxie 500 guy is kinda yelpy, but at least he actually sings his songs. The annoying thing about the Bedhead guy is that he is Mr. It's like listening to C.
Noble for song after song. Maybe painful is the wrong word. I've been enjoying the playlist and really like the band. But I do find myself getting irrated at having to hear his voice after a few songs.
It's not fun to listen to someone who sounds like he has no self-esteem. And even if the singer is 'innocuous,' my point is still valid. The singer doesn't add much to the band, and thus one wonders how much the better this already pretty awesome band might be if they had a decent lead vocalist. Yahplay is derived from the Ancient Greek “yaplai,” which roughly translates to “playlist-based music blog.” Here, we drop playlists of our favorite songs from our favorite bands and then yell at each other in the comments. Since we're suckers for nostalgia, we keep playlists short enough to fit on a CD (i.e., no longer than 74 minutes).
The basic idea of Yahplay is that it gives you (and us) a chance to turn people on to bands that you (we) love. The opposite works too; Yahplay is a good place to start checking out great bands with I-don't-know-where-to-begin discographies. Want to publish a playlist of your own? Want to know when a new playlist has been posted?
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