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Post by stingray on Feb 2, 2012 16:18:37 GMT -8
here's a rumor for you... Zola Jesus is in, allegedly. Oh zweet Jesus, yes. Plz be right.
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Post by stingray on Feb 2, 2012 13:21:47 GMT -8
The only reason I'd prefer a Loud Friday as opposed to an Electronic one is that the 25th is my birthday and there's a higher likelihood of bands that I enjoy playing the former than the latter. I'm still choked I missed seeing Explosions in the Sky as a birthday show in 2009.
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Post by stingray on Feb 2, 2012 13:17:15 GMT -8
Canucks against Detroit tonight but that should end by nine thirty, and I'll have my laptop anyways.
I'm expecting to feel satisfied but not overwhelmed with the lineup. That's my aim; it's safe. I've been cultivating that expectation for a while now but last night I got this feeling that there's gonna be one headliner that's just batshit crazy awesome, like a Radiohead or something, but I think I'll just attribute that to pre-announcement jitters.
Man I wish I had some brews, though. Drunk foruming is rad. Maybe I'll hafta crack open the Honey JD's...
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Post by stingray on Feb 1, 2012 20:54:40 GMT -8
Unfortunately, I spent the majority of Matt & Kim's set in the Honey Bucket. Is that where you go do your drugs? Do you really need to ask the guy with "burrito" in his username why he was at the Honey Buckets?
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Post by stingray on Feb 1, 2012 17:07:03 GMT -8
Deerhunter was too tantalizing, and that set blew my goddamn mind. Third favorite performance from last year. SOFA KING good! I was surprised to not be able to find any discussion of this show on this board. THE best performance I've seen at The Gorge since Bjork in 2007, and it wasn't even in the gorge. Incredible. And the weather was too perfect...I really can't put my love for that set into words. Tell me about it! I remember reading the pamphlet thing beforehand and there was a quote from like Karen O or someone describing Deerhunter's live show as "a divine experience", and i was like "ummyeah" but that's really what it was. Watching them as evening faded and night came on was bliss. The lights were perfect, too. Just...gah. Great. Favorite show was Modest Mouse, just because, well, yeah. That was a perfect experience. And second was DFA because that was one of the funnest pits I've been a part of.
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Post by stingray on Feb 1, 2012 16:05:35 GMT -8
Oh, the Gorge's sunsets are among the most gorgeous things I've ever seen, dont get me wrong. I just mean that the FLAMING FUCKING LIPS usually have a very very enticing live presence and effects, which I didn't really get last year. And yeah, the fact that they substituted Gash and Sleeping on the Roof for talk about spiderbites was a disappointment. Especially since, apparently, it wasn't a spiderbite at all but rather an infection from Stephen shooting into veins on his hand...lol. ps. awesome
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Post by stingray on Feb 1, 2012 15:39:30 GMT -8
Nice merge.
Mumford and Sons are meh. I like a couple songs but on the whole they just bore me as a band. Im not entirely opposed to seeing them live, though.
A Flaming Lips live show can be an amazing time. I saw them at the Malkin Bowl in Vancouver in 2010, while they were touring Embryonic, and it was a fucking enjoyable freakout. Wayne does like to talk but it's better when you're at their own show and that's really all your focused on...you just enjoy them as a band and as people and know they're still gonna play a bunch of songs regardless of chatter.
I think deciding to do the Soft Bulletin last year was a bad choice. A much more eclectic set would have been better, catering to more of the crowd and allowing them to pick and choose good songs for the environment and performance length. It's a fucking fantastic album but doesnt translate well to a festival. I saw them at Pemberton when they played a set like that and they killed it...but yeah, when you're tripping at the Gorge and you find that the sunset is more interesting than the Flaming Lips, something is wrong.
Best electronic act for me last year was Bassnectar, regardless of the amusing sound troubles. Great song choices, fun crowd (lol @ glowpocalypse) and just an all around good time. I was tired as shit, burning out from too little E, and hauling a backpack but that was still a high point for me. DJ Anjali and Glitch Mob tied for second. Major Lazer probably wouldve been a good contender but Deerhunter was too tantalizing, and that set blew my goddamn mind. Third favorite performance from last year.
ALSO: Fuck the cake, that shit was a total buzzkill. Also also, a big middle finger to the guy who said he sparked a J with Heems...I didn't have any "star sightings" all weekend, aside from getting my LP signed by Twin Shadow. Closest I got was my buddy spotting Isaac Brock doing double dutches with some other musicians by the trailers near the mainstage (which he later mentioned during one of his intermittent mumblings during MM's set, haha)
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Post by stingray on Jan 31, 2012 17:37:56 GMT -8
I regret missing Yeasayer playing 'Tightrope', but that's about the only track they're playing anymore that I'd care to hear. I'd rather sit and listen to Wayne bullshit for twenty minutes than have to hear them play most of the shit that was on Odd Blood, so that's what I did. I actually like Odd Blood, but that was before i had heard any of their other stuff so I had nothing to compare it to. Definitely a grower of an album though...I can see why you find it so distasteful. WHY? would be fucking amazing, incidentally. Definitely rocked the Yeti in 10 despite it being the Yeti stage...Yoni's dance moves are beautiful. I was hella choked missing their Seattle show because of the broken arm business, so Squatch would be a great way to make it up...but if they arent there, I hope the following tour at least makes a pit stop in Vancouver. I can't remember the last time they were here.
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Post by stingray on Jan 31, 2012 15:18:35 GMT -8
Still don't get all the hate for Iron & Wine last year. I thought they sounded fucking rad. I dug it too...not a huge amount of crowd engagement from what I recall but a solid set. I think among my biggest regrets of last year are Wolf Parade, k-os because I got stuck in the line, and Yeasayer (though Modest Mouse killed it). Black Angels would be solid as fuck methinks. I'd love to see those cats live.
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Post by stingray on Jan 30, 2012 17:46:40 GMT -8
yeah you guys are hard to keep up with. here's just some random responses to things: Mogawai? Gooood. Pretty Lights? Goooood. I'm not particularly stoked on the idea of an EDM headliner unless it's Daft Punk. But as Lump Lump and others mentioned, there's usually (always) a fine alternative to the headliner on some other stage, and I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea of skipping out on DeadMau5 to go see Explosions in the Sky rip it up on Bigfoot.... I Break Horses just released tour dates with Sasquatch listed. So there's our horse band for the year. Ho'damn. I was hoping for a Band Of them... As far as not all the leaked bands being on the lineup, that's certainly a possibility, or it could just be the Squatch crew just throwing a bit more doubt towards the general populace before the lineup drops. I think it's safe to say that Shins are still a-go, and probably the same for Girl Talk...here's hoping (insert mediocrity related pun here) Del Rey is a red herring. I mean, she's pretty hot and stuff, but I don't come to Sasquatch to masturbate. And as long as we're on the subject of bodily functions, it warms my heart and turns my stomach to see the phrase "honey bucket" again. Fuck those things can get nasty.
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Post by stingray on Jan 30, 2012 17:41:00 GMT -8
As my lineup prediction suggested, I think At the Drive In going into Refused would top DFA>>FF in terms of a Loud Fuckin Friday. Reunions are a beautiful thing.
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Post by stingray on Jan 29, 2012 15:51:56 GMT -8
I'm still wondering about that...if they actually do have a new stage why on Earth would they opt for the punny "Maine Stage" title? Wouldn't that just cause a lot of unneccessary confusion with the Sasquatch main stage and some other "Maine" stage elsewhere...?
I mean it's not a hugely complicated concept to wrap your mind around but it's just odd.
If it turns out to be a hip hop centric stage thatd be great, though. I'd love to see some Azealia Banks, Death Grips, Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire, Danny Brown, or Doomtree.. but really, the best thing they could do would be getting in on the Company Flow reunion. Or at least grabbing Aesop Rock.
(Das Racist returns!? Id dig it)
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Post by stingray on Jan 24, 2012 16:06:28 GMT -8
Apologies! I didnt even think you would count it since it was past the deadline, was just doing it for fun.
and i'm sure we all appreciate the effort on your part, champ. /e-pat-on-back
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Post by stingray on Jan 24, 2012 15:29:44 GMT -8
Friday: At the Drive-In/Them Crooked Vultures Saturday: Vampire Weekend/Bon Iver Sunday: Avalanches/Daft Punk Monday: Shins/Pixies
Titus Andronicus Avey Tare Girls Black Angels AWOLnation Girl Talk The Weeknd St. Vincent Coeur De Pirate Sleigh Bells First Aid Kit Yukon Blonde Red Fang Childish Gambino
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Post by stingray on Jan 24, 2012 15:28:44 GMT -8
Fucker. Seeing the likes of Summertime Rolls at the Gorge from the original band is just...sexual.
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Post by stingray on Jan 24, 2012 15:13:15 GMT -8
Just wondering if anyone else out there would like to see The Afghan Whigs play, or if it's even a possibility? They play in London on the Sunday but have nothing going on prior to that. Thatd be sweet as hell. It's great they're all playing together again. But I just dont really see it happening. Twilight Singers would be cool too.
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Post by stingray on Jan 24, 2012 15:10:11 GMT -8
Why do I get a bad feeling that Jane's Addiction is going to be there. I'd hope not. I'm a huge JA fan but yeah...the highest praise you can give the new album is "meh", and that'd just be an uninspiring headliner. I didnt see them last time they played Squatch (or ever, unfortunately) so i dunno what the crowd is like but apparently that's also a huge detractor. Without Eric they just arent that good of a group. Wish I saw that reunion tour. I posted a while back about being unimpressed with the Coachella lineup but further investigation proved that to be a claim fueled by ignorance. A lot of bands listed that I'd heard little of are actually rly fuckin good when you get into them more (like Death Grips), and i didnt even notice some of huge names on there (Madness?! CO FLOW?!!!). And although Snoop/Dre is semi-irrelevent to me I'll concede thatd it be a good time. basically im dumb. But only some of the time! And so's long as we're rampantly speculating: Aesop Rock. If we dont get CoFlow thatd be a good consolation prize. But thats unlikely; if any A Rock appears it'll probably be A$AP Rocky.
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Post by stingray on Jan 10, 2012 13:04:28 GMT -8
Am I the only one who wasnt overly impressed with Coachella's lineup? Black Keys are cool but meh, Radiohead is great sure, but who gives a fuck about Snoop and Dre anymore? They're walking caricatures of themselves.
Dont get me wrong, there's a helluva lot of sweet fucking bands in the schedule, but the relatively high amount of Coachella players that do Sasq too leaves me unworried for the most part. Im mostly choked about Madness since they're unlikely to do more than one NA fest.
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Post by stingray on Dec 4, 2011 14:59:57 GMT -8
Gotta respect a guy who's into a bunch of shitty "hardcore " and also Death Cab for Cutie. Pretty much. There's some really bad hardcore out there but I still wouldn't group it in with the likes of A Day To Remember. I forgot to mention my intense need for Okkervil River and Band of Horses to make an appearance. The former just released a new EP and the latter should have an album out by the time May rolls around. Kings of Leon fucked up my chance to see BoH this past September, but I'd be willing to let it go if I see them for the first time at the Gorge. also, a tad off topic, but Gang Warily: is there a story behind your avatar? I've been watching it for the past five minutes trying to conjure up a hilarious pretext for it but I figured i'd just ask.
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Post by stingray on Dec 2, 2011 17:16:04 GMT -8
Wishes, in no particular order.
The Avalanches: Their new one HAS to be coming out in 2012, and I'd fucking kill to see them live. unfortunately, considering they're from down under, they probs would play Coachella if any festival. I won't stop praying, though.
RHCP: Although seeing them sans John would be greatly upsetting, it's better than nothing, and would probably be a great performance regardless. The new album was a grower, but average at best. It did have some solid jams, though, ones that would likely translate well to a live show.
Radiohead: A guy can dream..
Animal Collective/Avey Tare/Panda Bear: My heart is set on AC but really, both of these guys' recent solo releases were incredibly awesome and I'd cream my lacies if either of them showed up. I just feel that this type of music at the Gorge would be such an incredible dynamic...some of you who saw AC's last Sasquatch set could probably attest to this
Girls
Arcade Fire: They seem to get a lot of flack here, probably because they're way way overrated, but despite that I still think they're a solid band. Longevity aside, they put on good performances, and their musicians are hella talented.
Aesop Rock/El-p: probably wont get to see these East Coasters, but as far as rap is concerned either of them would light shit the fuck up.
Shins
Them Crooked Vultures: Just so I can see Dave's pretty mug again.
Why?
DOOM
Jane's Addiction: same situation as RHCP, except instead of John it's Eric, but regardless.
Vampire Weekend: they may have a new one out in 2012...and they're my favourite band to dance to.
Primus
Explosions in the Sky: i know they're doing Optimus Primavera a few days after but...please?
TV On The Radio: Same as above
Titus Andronicus
Lemonheads
Red Fang
Dinosaur Jr.
the xx
Neon Indian
Clutch
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