I had tickets to last night’s Olivia Tremor Control show at Bowery, but I was too tired to go (I know, lame — but you know you’ve done it too). Apparently Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum joined the band for “I Have Been Floated” and was in tears at the song’s end. Sounds like a great show. Maybe I’ll go tonight! Here are three minutes of jangly psychedelia from OTC’s epic Black Foliage. Animation Music Vol 1. I used to put it on mixtapes in college:
The Olivia Tremor Control – “A Peculiar Noise Called ‘Train Director’” (MP3 link expired)
Also: The Olivia Tremor Control – “Hideway” (MP3 link expired)
You really have to own the album, though.
UPDATE: “Medium-quality” video of Jeff & OTC at spin.com. (Thanks Caryn!)
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following the pixies lead…?
one of my favorite albums ever, that black foliage.
the badmintonstamps.com boys posted another track from black foliage album “california demise”.
the mangum appearance made my hair stand on end. he was indeed in tears, mostly because of the crazy waves of love flowing from the audience. it was like dylan had walked on stage! can’t wait to go again tonight.
Pretty weak story, there. I remember not going to a Yeah Yeah Yeahs show once. Wow, the lack of memories is overpowering.
california demise and hideway are two of my favorite songs. i haven’t listened to them in so long. thanks.
not sure what the big deal is considering a couple of years ago mangum was a touring member of the circulatory system which is basically OTC minus bill doss.
any Mangum appearance is news, says i. But gosh, “train director” is quite the Beatles song, am i right?
man…. who *was* at this show? not a single photo shows up on flickr when you search for “mangum” or “jeffmangum”… lame! i *know* hipsters have cameras!!
i’m going tonight i will def take pix, jeff or no jeff! there’s some pixx here http://prefixmag.typepad.com/prefixmag_blog/2005/08/lets_just_say_o.html#trackback
hey, i was about to post that!
what are the chances of getting an mp3 of “I have been floated”?
funny! i acutally have that u p now for a post i’m doing. http://www.littlepants.com/floated.mp3
thank you!
I was there, I told ppl to come man, ppl wouldn’t listen though. I’m not going tonight though, and he’ll probably come out and do King of Carrot Flowers or something.. Maybe I should go…
BadmintonStamps posted a review of the Wednesday night show. I’m not sure about the term “sloppy” in this context, but it sounds like it was a good show.
http://www.badmintonstamps.com
Wow, the second one sounds like a cross between Badfinger and Todd Rundgren, in a good way. They really fucking capture that production/fidelity/vintage perfectly. Very impressive, but they’ve always been the acme technicians of the Elephant 6 crowd.
Mangum lives in my neighborhood. I see him around now and then and want to say something, but I don’t know what. He seems like kind of a harmless but strange child. He dresses like a professional wood chopper.
Where do you live? I heard he lives Brooklyn.
but when’s he gonna play w/ the Star Room Boys,yo??