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Postby brittle » Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:31 pm

Whip-poor-will came on shuffle during a mountain bike ride today.

it was sheer joy; weather was perfect, air was sweet with pine needles, i hadn't seen anybody for miles-- just an absolute ideal setting for that song. it was nice to know that these songs could make me happy again after enough time had passed since his death.

then the line about "all the folks up in heaven stop ringin your bells / some of us down here aren't doing very well" came up and i had to pull to the side of the trail because i couldn't see through the tears.
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Postby brittle » Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:37 pm

no i don't think so.
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Postby gold and glass » Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:03 pm

Yo Jason we miss you dogg
fuck you and your corporation
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Postby Uppercrust » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:46 pm

I just discovered this. Wow.

I am very sad to see my wonderful mare go, but I have lost interest in pleasure.
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Postby joymonger » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:24 pm

brittle wrote:Whip-poor-will came on shuffle during a mountain bike ride today.

it was sheer joy; weather was perfect, air was sweet with pine needles, i hadn't seen anybody for miles-- just an absolute ideal setting for that song. it was nice to know that these songs could make me happy again after enough time had passed since his death.

then the line about "all the folks up in heaven stop ringin your bells / some of us down here aren't doing very well" came up and i had to pull to the side of the trail because i couldn't see through the tears.

:) :cry: :)
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Postby abominog » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:03 pm

I stumbled upon some live Molina shows that had been upped to youtube recently. They were new to me, anyway.

This one's good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDQ8tL56HpA

Here's the uploader's page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9tVp ... 4pA/videos
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Postby Malcolm Money » Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:52 pm

coffee shop playing a lot of Songs: Ohia right now, good for getting work done
It's comforting to think that somewhere unfathomably far away incomprehensible beings are possibly having some kind of subjective experience of a world that possibly observes basically the same laws as our own
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Postby becky » Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:53 am

brittle wrote:Whip-poor-will came on shuffle during a mountain bike ride today.

it was sheer joy; weather was perfect, air was sweet with pine needles, i hadn't seen anybody for miles-- just an absolute ideal setting for that song. it was nice to know that these songs could make me happy again after enough time had passed since his death.

then the line about "all the folks up in heaven stop ringin your bells / some of us down here aren't doing very well" came up and i had to pull to the side of the trail because i couldn't see through the tears.


this post kicked off a molina binge for me.
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Postby Dead_Wizard » Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:55 am

Listened to a bunch of his stuff last night. There's a copy of the RSD box set at the shop down the street from me and I am feeling magnetically drawn to it, oy
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Postby blues » Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:52 pm

listening to the magnolia electric co :(

mama here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws
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Postby buzzard » Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:07 am

well I made the mistake of listening to the demo of Blue Chicago Moon in a wet, gray fog on my way to work goddamnit
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Postby Hieronymus Kush » Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:46 pm

buzzard wrote:well I made the mistake of listening to the demo of Blue Chicago Moon in a wet, gray fog on my way to work goddamnit


i'll help you try to beat the 2:47 pm blues
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Postby the ghost of levar burton » Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:19 pm

been thinking about this one a lot lately
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Postby DammitSteve » Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:31 pm

yeah Autumn Bird Songs is such a strong little collection
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Postby funkfunkfunk » Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:15 pm

rest in piss dawg(from the booze you drank that killed you :()

jockesh or jakesh in farsi means pimp and unlike american in farsi pimp is a big insult and commonly applied to scoundrels and bad people like bush jr and i dont know of a word for actual jocks i dont think its a thing in iran but also anyway i wanted to say i believe in nothing
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Postby Drinky » Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:20 pm

DammitSteve wrote:yeah Autumn Bird Songs is such a strong little collection


It is. Really gave me false hope. :cry:
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Postby vivian darko » Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:39 pm

PROBLEM ATTIC wrote:I see dear sweet Vivian, one of the boys of Lmao
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Postby ~*courteous sage*~ » Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:50 pm

I forgot to mention in here that this happened to me a couple of weeks back...

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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:23 am

woah


edit: hmm looks like I'm gonna listen to Didn't It Rain all the way through now
what an album. makes me want a mattress lined room in the house so I can moan along and not freak out the girlfriend.
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Postby lockheed » Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:53 am

very hard to keep it together whenever this is bumped
Nice day if it doesn't rain.
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Postby lockheed » Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:54 am

i can't believe y'all have me listening to blue chicago moon, i can't do this
Nice day if it doesn't rain.
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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:09 am

didn't it rain's lyrics are the type of thing you print out and stick on a wardrobe door and read for strength when you're feeling beat

No matter how dark the storm gets overhead
They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge
What about us when we're down here in it
We gotta watch our own backs
But if you do see that golden light
That it shines in its fiery eye
Go on and catch it while you can
Go on and catch it if you can
Let it course through you
And let it burn through you
If it's the light of truth
If it's the light of truth
If they think you got it they're going to beat it out of you
With work and debt whatever all else there is
You got to watch your own back
Try to see the light of goodness burning down the track
Through the blinding rain through the swaying wires
If I see you struggle I will not turn my back
I've seen a good man and a bad man down the same path
I've seen the light of truth keeping out of it and told them to watch their own backs
If I see you struggle and givin all that you got
I see you work all night burning your light to the last of its dim watts
I'm gonna help you how I can, if you see me struggle all night
And give me a hand cause I'm in need I'll call you friend indeed
But I'm going to watch my own back
Didn't it rain
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Postby gauchebag » Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:16 am

The real truth about it is there ain't no end to the desert I'll cross
I've really known that all along
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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:14 pm

been cranking Molina real loud any chance I get home alone the last few days

am I alone in thinking that Didn't It Rain was like a start of his best period and everything before that isn't close to as good as anything after

like the obvious thing is the way his voice became more mournful and memorable, but I feel like the songwriting seems more, uh, legendary and epic, or less generic, or something like that

basically feelin kinda guilty (not guilty.. more disappointed, perhaps?) that Lioness, Ghost Tropic, even Axxess and Ace aren't really gripping me at all

that's not necessarily such bad thing since his latter years were so prolific anyway withe Magnolia and Jason Molina solo albums, but I really wish I could love all the Molina but I don't see it happening

a comparison might be early Red House Painters to latter albums and following that Sun Kil Moon, and the similar shift in voice and approach that Koz undertook

sorry for the spitbally post but Molina isn't really someone you can just bring up in casual conversation at work to unload your thoughts about his back catalogue
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Postby worrywort » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:17 pm

yes, you're alone
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Postby Swelling Itching Brain » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:24 pm

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Postby prexy » Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:11 am



i just went to revisit this and the second comment got to me

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Postby antoine » Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:14 am

Np: didn't it rain
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Postby antoine » Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:15 am

Blue Chicago moon is insane good
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Postby JohnK » Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:15 am

Endless, endless, endless, endless, endless, endless
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