Don Cab almost brought me to tears today.

[curtisnt]

i was just sitting in the quiet lounge area at my university ( yes, it was about room temperature) and was catching up on some old threads on this god-send of a forum.

i read a post which linked me to "from the desk of elsewhere go appreciation thread" and someone made an interesting post about the linkage between Perforated Lines, From The Desk, and June is Finally Here. I thought this was an interesting post and decided to listen to all of WBNR from start to finish. emotions started rising (although i would never let the waterworks run in public ) during JIFH and as someone who has been listening to ALOT of Don Cab for quite some time, this reaction surprised me.

i'm not saying it was the linkage that emphasized the emotional uprising for me. alls i'm saying is i've never had a band affect me the way Don Caballero has, and i owe many of my profound self-discoveries and a major part of my development as a person (and musician) to this unbelievable band.

sorry if this was uninteresting and a waste of time to read, i just thought if i should tell anyone how fucking awesome don cab is it would be you guys


PS. this forum should be more active!

[skatingbasser]

I love it all but it always comes back to WBNR for me.

I put it on driving in the car one night and my lady actually said, "How can you have an emotional response to this? It isn't anything."

(sigh)

[skip]

WBNR is quite possibly my favorite record ever. So amazing.

[dalyzach]

Ya fuckin pussies.



Kidding!!! Yeah, "Room Temp Suite/Lounge" does it for me. "ICEMAN" as well.

[laundry]

I'm not ashamed to say music has moved me to tears on more than one occasion.
By the way...
there's new Don Cab tour dates up.

[hospitalcomedian]

seeing world class stuff live put a lot of things in perspective for me. not just that it's a much better album than i thought, but also that don cab are more than math rock. they're proper rock, the kind you be angry to. it might not be the healthiest emotion but there is a feeling of empowerment you get with it. it also shows up battles for being little more than dancey show-offs.

as for being moved to tears, the soft bulletin by the flaming lips and henryk gorecki's third symphony do it for me.

[esebeday]

WBNR was my first Don Cab record, and for the longest time it was my favorite. "In the absence of strong evidence..." floored me the first time I heard it and is probably still my favorite DC song. But yeh, JIFH gets the emotions going every so often.

Perhaps the single most moving piece of music I've heard is "Spiegel Im Spiegel", composed by Arvo Part. It's simple, with only piano and violin, but it's incredibly mournful.

[hospitalcomedian]

spiegel im spiegel really is an incredible piece of music. part is probably my favourite composer ever.

[dalyzach]

Nov 29, 2008 17:48:37 GMT hospitalcomedian said:

don cab are more than math rock. they're proper rock, the kind you be angry to.

You make an excellent point; one that I've been thinking about for a long time. A lot of so-called "math rock" bands get it wrong because they forget to "rock".

Don Cab rock hard because their roots are in Van Halen, "Red"-era King Crimson and the better moments of Kiss, all filtered through the punk rock ethos if not the punk rock negligence of musicianship, with records released on indie rock labels (until 2000 anyway) and shows played on the indie rock circuit.

Hella (whose music I very much enjoy!) ironically tip their hats to rockness by wearing Metallica t-shirts, referencing Guns & Roses in their song titles and by generally having a lackadaisical surfer brah attitude about things, but their music lies much further along the arty/abstract side of the spectrum than the "rawk" side. Also they listen to Primus.

[skatingbasser]

Dec 2, 2008 1:45:26 GMT dalyzach said:

Also they listen to Primus.

Zing!

[hospitalcomedian]

i fuckin' hate primus. they could probably make me cry but it would be due to some kind of noise torture.

[mhensh01]

For me it's "Haven't Lived Afro-Pop" that is, to me, as masterful a piece of music as I have ever heard. I hear something new every time I listen to it, and the shift into the final section of the song is incredibly inspiring to me as a musician. Even more amazing is seeing three people create this almost note-for-note live.

[2]

Yup, earnestness in music is a rare commodity, as is beauty.

[Don Caballero]

Arvo Pärt...C'mon guys.

[hospitalcomedian]

Dec 11, 2008 18:01:08 GMT Don Caballero said:

Arvo Pärt...C'mon guys.

i don't get ya. are you giving him a 'yes' or a 'no' or are you highlighting the fact tha we didn't use the dots over the 'a' in Part? i can't do that.