The Decemberists

[cry_minarets458]

Originally Posted by zachyd

I absolutely adore The Hazards of Love. Its such a great album. I've been learning to play it straight through with my friend, just piano, guitar, and vocals. Its becoming a fun little project.

Much of it is rather tedious, IMO. Great record. It's grown on me a lot in the last few months

[cry_minarets458]

Hey everyone, new D's album out in January. Go to decemberists.com for a free download of their new single (?), I guess. Liking it alot!

[cry_minarets458]

Their new studio album, The King Is Dead, came out this past Tuesday. Great way to get back to a simpler Decemberists way of recording. The tour starts on Monday at the Beacon in NYC. This is quite potentially their last year of touring and studio work before they go on hiatus (though, Colin said hiatus was too strong or an incorrect word to use or something). Look it up!

[Benny003]

It's a great album. "This is Why We Fight" is by far my favorite track. I'm seeing them play in about 2 weeks. I'm really looking forward to it now that I've heard the new album.

[cry_minarets458]

I'm seeing their 3 shows in NYC. So pumped!

[Revolution36]

Just stumbled across these guys. Anyone point me in the right direction of where I should "start" in terms of which album to buy?

[Ascf33]

Probably the beginning.

The Crane Wife is probably their most accessible album but there are a shit ton of good songs on the albums before it. I'd start at the beginning.

[whygohome?]

I just heard a live version of "the wanting comes in waves/repaid". Holy shit I think i love this band

[Ascf33]

I really like the new album. Trumps Hazards of Love by miles.

[Beefsteak1138]

Ditto, and I liked Hazards.

Anyone listen to Tarkio (Colin's band before Decemberists)?

[Julia Roberts]

Got an email last week saying Jenny Conlee, Decemberists keyboardist/pianist/accordianista, has breast cancer. I have had the pleasure of meeting Jenny a couple times and she is a warm and engaging person. Pisses me off. Screw you, cancer. Stay away from my favorite people.

[Ghosts on TV]

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

Ditto, and I liked Hazards.

Anyone listen to Tarkio (Colin's band before Decemberists)?

THey come up on my pandora, but I didnt know thats who it was.

[Beefsteak1138]

Originally Posted by Ghosts on TV

THey come up on my pandora, but I didnt know thats who it was.

Yeah, that's how I found out about them. I haven't any of their stuff except for the one or two songs I heard on Pandora.

[cry_minarets458]

Tarkio's best song is probably Devil's Elbow or Save Yourself. Definitely look Save Yourself up, great song.

Anywho, new EP came out yesterday. It's actually really good. Much more decemberists-ish than their last album was.

[cry_minarets458]

Anyone going to see Colin Meloy on his solo tour? I'm heading to 3 of the first four shows...8 days to go til night 1!

[rubrink]

My wife and I are flying up to Chicago from DFW for that show. Super super pumped. First time I ever saw Colin was on his last solo tour (seen them a bunch since then)

One of my absolute top 3 favorite bands, along with DMB and the Hold Steady. Miss them, it's been too long.

[Julia Roberts]

Seeing Colin in Portland. The record he will be selling on this tour is Colin sings the Kinks.

Rumor is there will be a new Decemberists album in about a year. He might be playing some songs from it on the solo tour.

[cry_minarets458]

they've been in the studio working on some stuff but nothing definite from those sessions as the rest of the band sans colin went and supported the 2nd black prarie album. john moen said that the next album will be out late 2014, so I'm guessing he means November-December. fitting.

the kinks ep will be good; one track has surfaced on NPR.

I'll be front row center at NYC, 3rd row center in Philly, 8th row in DC. Never got to see him on a solo tour. I kick myself for not seeing him in 2006. Alas, I was lucky to see him at the Newport folk fest this past summer so I cannot wait to live through this upcoming week of music. the 3 new songs he played at the folk fest were awesome, and he said he wrote 2 of them the week prior to that show. so it'll be interesting. are the songs that he's writing currently going to stick around and make it to full band, or just be solo bits? last time he played new solo stuff, it became Hazards of Love and the king is dead. but before that, IE Wonder, remained a solo song that he only plays solo to this day.

Interesting few weeks ahead!

[rubrink]

I remember his solo shows being on the shorter side Nothing will beat those epic Hazards shows - full set of dramatic D's uber-pretention, followed by a fun-loving old school Decemberists set One of my absolute favorite live shows I've ever seen.

3 shows, so jealous. ;-)

[cry_minarets458]

yeah, anywhere from about 14-18 songs..will be interesting sets as he has so much material now..if I were him, i'd just go crazy and play like 30 songs a night. even the epics (crane wife suite, mariner's revenge, California one) are all much shorter since its just the guitar work. most of their songs are under 4 minutes

[rubrink]

Oh man, DYING to hear an acoustic full Crane Wife!

[cry_minarets458]

http://www.npr.org/event/music/20451...port-folk-2013

here's the folkfest performance I saw...soundboard of it near the end of the set. last 14 minutes or so.

[rubrink]

Oh no, I meant live ;-) I've watched the video of him doing it for a live show on NPR more than once ;-) But thanks...wish I could get that on CD

[rubrink]

Listening to it...just solid magic. One of my favorite songs by any band...CW1 is probably my favorite Decemberists song (but thats tough)

[cry_minarets458]

I see, I gotcha..yeah it was beautiful. I hope he plays it in NYC. i'd love to hear how intimate it sounds from the front row. it was awesome hearing it at the festival this summer solo, but i mean, festivals are open areas...it probably took away some of the awesomesauce. I heard it in NYC full band straight through (CW 1 & 2 > CW 3) and that was fucking intense.. the show opened with California one, had the whole CW suite, and then closed with mariner's revenge.. 3 of 5 epics in one show. it was nuts.

CALIFORNIA ONE
DOWN BY THE WATER
ROX IN THE BOX
CALAMITY SONG
RED RIGHT ANKLE
JANUARY HYMN
DON'T CARRY IT ALL
ALL ARISE
WON'T WANT FOR LOVE
THE CRANE WIFE 1
THE CRANE WIFE 2
THE CRANE WIFE 3
THE INFANTA
SIXTEEN MILITARY WIVES
THIS IS WHY WE FIGHT
--
THE CHIMBLEY SWEEP
THE MARINER'S REVENGE SONG
--
JUNE HYMN

[rubrink]

Oh man, nice set! First time I saw Colin he opened w/ California One. I cant wait for Chicago. I still have never heard the full CW suite live

http://www.ifc.com/videos/sxsw-2009-...the-crane-wife

Still remember this show. This was after I made my wife listen to them, and she fell in love (and she's not much of a music person...but she's now a major D's and Ben Folds fan). So she waited in line and got us tickets for this free show for SXSW. Was at a tiny little bar, probably 200 people there. Just a magically awesome live band

[rubrink]

I'm thinking of tweeting Colin and seeing if we can get any sort of meet and greet for traveling from Dallas ;-)

[cry_minarets458]

I met them all in NYC at an art gallery () and played on stage with them in Philly later that year. It was awesome.

[Ascf33]

We're going to see Colin in two weeks.

[rubrink]

Originally Posted by cry_minarets458

I met them all in NYC at an art gallery () and played on stage with them in Philly later that year. It was awesome.

Awesome! :-)