Ideal for this weather too.
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Not watched this in a long time
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Fucker I was just copying the link!
Love it so much, how is that 16 years ago
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Yeah. There are some records that are just great for a lunchtime blast when there’s a bit of sun out.
In Ghost Colours, the first Strokes record, bit of Beirut. Standard.
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Zach being 36 now feels simultaneously far too old and far too young
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Legit classics
- Gulag Orkestar
- Flying Club Cup
- Lon Gisland
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One of those bands I think one song was enough from - Elephant Gun is great, but I don’t need any other Beirut songs.
Rip Tide is the only album I’ve ever really listened to, mainly because it came out when I was working* in a record store.
The title track is pure fucking honey, tbf
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Probably the only modern band I was able to get my folks actually into over the last 20 years.
I loved these at the time, may have to bust the LPs out later. I still remember a couple of the tunes as the few things I can play on a ukulele.
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There are few better bits in songs than the really good bit in Elephant Gun, eh.
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will always remind me of that first xmas back home after one term of uni as a fresher
just a full month in a drunken haze seeing old friends, wonderful
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Weird how few of the pitchfork indie 00s bands were directly influenced by NMH/elephant 6 isn’t it. Basically just Beirut
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and in a year a year or sooooooo
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Do you not include Arcade Fire in Pitchfork Indie? They signed to Merge because of NMH…
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same here - I own a tenor uke and a rotary valve flugelhorn mostly from being into Beirut. Postcards from Italy is the one I mostly played on the uke.
Hardly ever play the flugel, but it is a nice weird thing to own. I can play brass, so it isn’t completely random to own it. I remember playing the riff from Nantes on it.
Zach on the rotary flugelhorn:
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Ah yeah of course
Those first two records are so evocative of a very different and distant life. Proper classic records.
At Rock en Seine in 2010 Beirut played a wonderful set in the sun and also joined Arcade Fire for their headline set on the last day. It absolutely pissed down to the point of power cuts on stage, so only got about 10 AF tracks. Then they all came back out and played an acoustic version of Wake Up in the most lashing rain, was a proper moment.
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