Slowcore Appreciation Thread

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:28 pm

pianoforte wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:I have to add the unknown band called Idaho, check out their first lp Year After Year; here is a video for Skyscrape; //www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ek_8WZ-Oa4

I could tell within three seconds that I was going to like this track. I was right. Thanks!

High five! Check out everything you can find from them, they moved on with every lp but it's all quality. I played drums in a band called Buddha on the Moon that opened for them and the Red House Painters in '93 here in Houston. They were all kicking h, I think, and it added to the music most deffo!

bearhead · Post by **bearhead** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:16 pm

Torn n Frayed wrote:opened for Red House Painters in '93 here in Houston.

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:27 pm

bearhead wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:opened for Red House Painters in '93 here in Houston.

edit: I've just listened to some of Buddha On The Moon and I must say that you were in a really good band! I saw your video from the Munch Part Two VHS compilation:

Secondarily, I found your botm.router-rooter.com website via Google. It looks really nice. Did you build it, or do you happen to know what tools whomever built it used to do so?

(Sorry for going so wildly off-topic, but this is a rare opportunity! haha)

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:26 pm

http://mescalinedream.blogspot.com/sear ... l/slowcore

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:46 pm

pianoforte wrote:
bearhead wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:opened for Red House Painters in '93 here in Houston.

edit: I've just listened to some of Buddha On The Moon and I must say that you were in a really good band! I saw your video from the Munch Part Two VHS compilation:

Secondarily, I found your botm.router-rooter.com website via Google. It looks really nice. Did you build it, or do you happen to know what tools whomever built it used to do so?

(Sorry for going so wildly off-topic, but this is a rare opportunity! haha)

Well, I am still in a great band, called Drowner, sorta very early 90's shoegaze with a nails female singer. Full length lp coming out this year. I didn't build that site but will ask Hk, the main man in BotM about that for you. We also got to open for Catherine Wheel back then!

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:38 pm

pianoforte wrote:Secondarily, I found your botm.router-rooter.com website via Google. It looks really nice. Did you build it, or do you happen to know what tools whomever built it used to do so?

(Sorry for going so wildly off-topic, but this is a rare opportunity! haha)

Ok, I have an answer; That site was done pretty much all by hand-scripting HTML, with lots of image slicing and dicing on Photoshop. If I were to do that again, I'd be in a bit of a quandry, as while there are platforms out there for maintaining web content (and they're easy enough to set up and manage), trying to overlay that kind of custom look and feel onto Wordpress, Weebly, Drupal, etc. is something that'd take me a bit of a learning curve to conquer.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:25 pm

Slowcore? Really?

Are people just randomly picking genre names out of their ass these days?

"Why do they call it Slowcore?"
"Because.... you know, it's all... slow and stuff."
"Oooooh. Hey have you heard of Distortioncore?"
"No, why do they call it Distortioncore?"
"Because.... you know, it's all... all distorted and stuff."
"So we're basically just sticking our thumbs up our ass for these genre names?"
"Pretty much..."

All kidding aside:

Slowdive all the way.

Also check out Bethany Curve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_04xsiSLVA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zk0XrBFro

bearhead · Post by **bearhead** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:18 am

polar sky wrote:Slowcore? Really?

Are people just randomly picking genre names out of their ass these days?

"Why do they call it Slowcore?"
"Because.... you know, it's all... slow and stuff."
"Oooooh. Hey have you heard of Distortioncore?"
"No, why do they call it Distortioncore?"
"Because.... you know, it's all... all distorted and stuff."
"So we're basically just sticking our thumbs up our ass for these genre names?"
"Pretty much..."

All kidding aside:

Slowdive all the way.

Also check out Bethany Curve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_04xsiSLVA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zk0XrBFro

I don't really like the name, personally... But it's difficult to distinguish the sounds of these bands with anything else.

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Sat May 25, 2013 3:42 pm

So I downloaded some Galaxie 500 bootlegs from dimeadozen.org after seeing this. I'm listening to a 1989 performance at Glasgow Tech. It's really nice, except during "Decomposing Trees" there's some asshole in the crowd who shouts "My God! Get on with it!" a number of times. Some people just don't appreciate good music.

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Sat May 25, 2013 4:28 pm

polar sky wrote:Also check out Bethany Curve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_04xsiSLVA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zk0XrBFro

thanks, this is great. I'd actually never heard the term slowcore either, but I love most of the bands listed in here. Especially slowdive and bedhead.

jcnporter · Post by **jcnporter** » Sat May 25, 2013 4:41 pm

Not sure if Dakota Suite could be called slow core, but they've been compared to Red House Painters in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq66vYmnfk

WeHadNormality · Post by **WeHadNormality** » Sat May 25, 2013 4:56 pm

fujee wrote:Jesu!

Not really heard the term slowcore before but, what he said ^

jcnporter · Post by **jcnporter** » Sat May 25, 2013 4:59 pm

The live version of 'Over the Ocean' from Low's 'One More Reason to Forget' is what I want played at my funeral.

aged sea · Post by **aged sea** » Mon May 27, 2013 12:42 am

Could add Spiritualized to this.

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Mon May 27, 2013 12:59 am

I'm going to see spiritualized in July, I'm pretty damn excited.

GH · Post by GH » Mon May 27, 2013 1:46 am

I saw Spiritualized twice in the '90s and they were wonderful each time.

To think I didn't know back then that they were part of a genre that I've only just heard of.
:wink:

I'm real crap with genres, and sub-genres, and parent genres.
....And the ones with Happy before the genre, and the ones with Step after the genre, and the ones with Wave, Step, Creep, & Vapour amongst the genre.

All genres. I can't even think of which one I belong in.

As a matter of fact: aaaaaarrrgghhhBOOOM!
*runs away*

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:56 am

This is most pretteh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpctvH_cVN8

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:42 pm

Some new Buddha on the Moon, a cover of an Ultra Vivd Scene song called Staring at the Sun. Doing some more drumming for the band on some other covers by Caravan and Elliot Smith soon-ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... MTaeRWh0Yo

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:31 am

Torn n Frayed wrote:Some new Buddha on the Moon, a cover of an Ultra Vivd Scene song called Staring at the Sun. Doing some more drumming for the band on some other covers by Caravan and Elliot Smith soon-ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... MTaeRWh0Yo

nice!

on another note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTUVyqpojaI

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:54 am

pianoforte wrote:http://mescalinedream.blogspot.com/search/label/slowcore

Love blogs like this, thanks for the heads up!