I don't remember how I came upon this guy's website, but I grabbed the two available songs off Cellar Door, and I thought they were both pretty decent. Nothing amazing but pretty decent, and I made it a point to come download and listen to the rest of the songs he had uploaded.
Amazingly enough you can download three FULL albums from his site... and not at shitty 64kps or anything. High quality mp3's. Including a version of his song "Time Travel Is Lonely" performed with Spoon. The following song, "I Miss the War" is really good too. I certainly haven't been involved in a war per se, but the lyrics (number 3) to this song describe the way I often feel about the monotony of modern life.
"I miss the war-time life,
anything could happen then:
around a corner, behind a door."
Which turned out to be the problem with the first full album I listened to. MGM Endings is a remix album of Cellar Door, and I was pretty excited to hear it. Especially given that I already dug the two tracks I had heard off Cellar Door. About halfway through, however, it struck me that MGM was a total downer of a record, and I didn't really like it at all.
The whole point of this wasn't to "review" John Vanderslice or talk shit on the MGM Endings record at all. I really do like the Insound record, the Mass Suicide record, and most of the samples I was afforded by his site.
The point... as it were... was just a musing... As I was listening to MGM, each song was somewhat of a let down. But I kept hoping that I'd like the next track. At what point, when listening to a record, do you realize that all the tracks are going to be similar enough so that, if you don't like what you've heard so far, you're not going to like what's left? It's annoying.
God this is a terrible post.
Check out Vanderslice tho... start with the Insound record. Or maybe Mass Suicide... just not MGM. Unless you're really sad.
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