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Red House Painters
Red House Painters


5.0
classic

Review

by thebhoy USER (96 Reviews)
September 4th, 2010 | 32 replies


Release Date: 1993 | Tracklist


The jaded lover is easy. Where hatred comes natural to the bitch and thus back. But damn the one who you still love, but can’t or never did have. What of those? The ones with songs named after them. The Katy Songs, the distressing and wicked in loveable tenure. And no matter the crenellated march, these meanders are of elision. Why are you like this? So simple the sounds and you may be here and in now or somewhere else or Down Through; wherever, whatever, no colloquialisms or meaningless chatter is just that. And landmarks that really mean nothing mean everything. So stupid, so cliche and shameful and no; glass on the pavement under my shoe I am not; I like to think, or I do the otherwise. Forget such Biblical implications, for this is not the end of the world– where are the four horsemen, or mushroom clouds or eviscerating disease? This is not that but who again gives a ***? It is to me and crumble and fire and twisted metal. Just instead the metal is more the thoughts of boardwalks and sunsets and lovers embrace but really its just smoked mirrors and this is a Funhouse slowed and dragging. These things twist and pull and all sit in viscera of what was once simply ore. These are just thoughts and not the real. The Funhouse plays such a soundtrack. Is a miserable waltz and if only you could take me out. Life then just becomes a serious of pathetic fallacies. Those overcast clouds, those spangled leaves, those minor chords and trinkling keys. Be it Brown Eyes or blue. These things mean nothing. These things mean nothing. These things mean nothing. We don’t have a Strawberry Hill and really I’m bruised internally and eternally. And Guy Maddin should’ve known the saddest music in the world to be right here all along. It was strums of guitar, and plucking of electric chords and taps of symbols and one lonely, broken voice that reaches for warmth while punching you in the kidney. It was a Rollercoaster after all.

*** you Mark Kozelek. *** you and your beautiful, sad music.



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joshuatree EMERITUS (5)
Mark Kozelek's magnum opus....

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Comments:Add a Comment 
thebhoy
September 4th 2010


4460 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

1. If you want a real review, just read Cam's. I don't give a fuck.

2. This is what I call creative therapy.

3. It worked.

AggravatedYeti
September 4th 2010


7683 Comments


oh is that so?
guess I need to hear this again.


robin
September 4th 2010


4596 Comments


miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiichaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

wheeeere areeeeeee yoooooooou....


now?

thebhoy
September 4th 2010


4460 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

ummm isn't that Down Colorful Hill?

robin
September 4th 2010


4596 Comments


=)

thebhoy
September 5th 2010


4460 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah but what about my semi-stream-of-consciousness prose?

Jethro42
September 5th 2010


18278 Comments


Would I love these guys?

Athom
Emeritus
September 5th 2010


17244 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

depends on how depressed you are

Observer
Emeritus
September 5th 2010


9403 Comments


skm's ghosts of the great highway > this, but mistress piano version may be one of the best things ever

mark kozelek is one of the greatest human beings to ever live

Jethro42
September 5th 2010


18278 Comments


depends on how depressed you are

oh, really


Athom
Emeritus
September 5th 2010


17244 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

give it a try, but it's very low key and understated music. it's quite beautiful but it takes a while to find out how much so.

Jethro42
September 5th 2010


18278 Comments


excellente

silverleaves
September 5th 2010


440 Comments


this was so enjoyable to read
gonna listen to this album soon

thebhoy
September 5th 2010


4460 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah this is pretty much the greatest thing ever if you're sad. Also Jared Ponton Mistress [Piano Version] is great but come now Katy Song is the greatest thing ever. It's my second favourite song of all time.

robin
September 5th 2010


4596 Comments


i personally love "things mean a lot". dumb catchy choice! but yeah i kind of prefer down colourful hill to this.

and i like your streamofconciousness keelan etc. ;)

thebhoy
September 5th 2010


4460 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I find DCH drags a bit, which is odd because it's like half the length of this. Also Take Me Out is pretty damn spectacular.

Romulus
September 5th 2010


9109 Comments


skm's ghosts of the great highway > this


it's so, so close though

Observer
Emeritus
September 5th 2010


9403 Comments


I like the young and almost innocent tone of Kozelek's voice here, and especially on Ocean Beach, too, but the album seems more like a collection of songs written at different times from each other, and that's always bothered me about it. Katy Song is really great though.

The best RHP songs for me are on Ocean Beach: "Moments" (1st half), "Drop" (omg, this song), and "San Geronimo". I know that that album isn't as popular here as this one, so hopefully some people will at least check those songs out.

Electric City
September 5th 2010


15756 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

katy song is amazing and bhoy, you should write reviews stoned out of your mind more often

Tits McGee
September 5th 2010


1874 Comments


dude this review is awesome (so is the album)



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