#223

in his defense I guess that style of ‘pick a side’ music journalism was common then

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#224

I’ve given it a 7. I sort of liked it more than what I thought I would, considering it was a bit noisy. I can see how people would really like it if it clicked, as it’s probably feel nice and familiar.

#225

My hometown only had an MVC until I think 2003 when HMV opened, so I used to take the train to Southampton to buy records. I think I bought Spiderland the same day as Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada, or at least around the same time. Come on Die Young was about 3 months old by then, and I also bought Knock Knock by Smog (not post rock obv but for me, adjacent) and by that time had collected most of Billy Mahonie’s early 7"s from the monthly record fair in Southampton, so I think, at 15, I was primed for Spiderland. So weird to think that I used to do that, and in 2020, I’m now 10 years removed from the last time I bought a CD (Joanna Newsom’s ‘Have One on Me’)

I think also around that time was the amazing gig at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms with Appliance, Hovercraft and Add n to (x). NME at that time was all about promoting weird and wonderful things like these bands and it was only 3 years later they were falling head over heels drooling over the Vines and the Datsuns and that shit.

I remember not thinking it (Spiderland) was amazing, (especially if it was competing with that Godspeed EP) but I loved Breadcrumb Trail and Good Morning Captain. It has totally stood the test of time, and I would definitely list this in my top 30 of all time.

Slint have the best ‘album artwork quality’ percentage, at a solid 100% for me. Spiderland, Tweez and the EP (which is my favourite Slint release, and no this is not a bit) are all great in different ways.

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#226

Oh absolutely.

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#227

Spiderland and Laughing Stock are where it’s at. We have a lot to thank 1991 for.

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#228

I’ve never actually listened to Tweez for some reason.

#229

Tweez is good for what it is, but it’s place in history is in one huge fucking shadow compared to what came next. Would love to know if there’s anyone out there who really dug Tweez and then were eagerly anticipating Spiderland, rather then us all looking at the two albums with a lot of hindsight.

I’m trying to think of some similar examples of where a band only released two albums, where one overshadows the other like this, but nothing is coming to mind right now.

#230

I’m not even sure if Tweez had a proper release in the Uk until the 2005 reunion. I was working in MVC at the time, and I couldn’t believe we had some copies of it in the ‘new releases’ section (IE the bit at the beginning of the alphabet were we dumped new releases for bands that weren’t big enough to have their own header card). I used to keep track of sales on the crappy tills we had of sales, and I was the only person who bought it, but our branch closed down a few months later.

#231

Only 5,000 copies for initial release.

Have you still got it?

Worth a small fortune I’d imagine?

#232

Neutral milk hotel

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#233

Oh, maybe I wasn’t clear. I only have a copy of the 2005 re-release. Someone I knew in 1999 had a copy of Tweez, because I had a taped copy and this was before any of us knew about Napster and how to burn mp3s to Cds.

I do, however, have a copy of One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying by The God Machine, which was rare, or at least used to be (no idea how to track these things anymore). But it’s an ex library Cd so is probably worthless. I bought it for £1

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#234

Yes, my mistake, I meant Spiderland 1991.

#235

Haha that’s exactly who I was thinking about but couldn’t think of it.

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#236

Aidan Moffat

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#237

Spiderland. Hmm, I bought it in 1999 so I doubt it’s one of the original batch!

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#238

8/10

Scenes From The Second Storey 10/10

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#239

It’s patchy but decent, more of a messy noise rock album

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#240

Steve, these headphones are fucked up

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#241

It still doesn’t do anything for me, save for reminding me of one of the origins of things I love.

#242

Stop getting Slint wrong!!