Band: Tar

[2207]

I'll sell you mine for €500,000.

[Luzwei]

I'll sell you mine for €500,000.

sure. it's a dead currency in couple of weeks anyway.

[2207]

I'll sell you mine for €500,000.

sure. it's a dead currency in couple of weeks anyway.

Okay, 12 Drachma it is.

[Luzwei]

I'll sell you mine for €500,000.

sure. it's a dead currency in couple of weeks anyway.

Okay, 12 Drachma it is.

I prefer martens. how about 12 martens?

[2207]

Metric Martins or Imperial Martins?

[Luzwei]

Metric Martins or Imperial Martins?

Natural units.

[Mr. Chimp]

I don't even remember what caused me to pick up Handsome. Probably saw the cover in a friend's record stack and liked the art. I had likely just discovered the concept of "EPs", so that fits somewhere.

Hadn't heard anything like it. "Seam" was probably the song that really hooked me, and I listened to it over and over. Sheets of sound, kind of swampy cool, really deliberate pacing and vocals. Very Good.

First AmRep purchase. Also, "Antlers" off of the DG&F comp got much rotation.

I was excited when Roundhouse came out and I liked it well enough, though the songs seemed a little straighter and the sounds a little cleaner, a little smoother.

Kind of fell off radar a bit. Knew Jackson had come out but didn't get it until after I saw them for the first time. Live, incredible. The first time I had ever experienced such force of sound. An automatic must see live from then on.

IMHO, Jackson is the album that best represented / captured that live force. It is unrelenting and compelling, with songs as boats and vocals as skipper navigating the sea. A force of nature.

Subsequent albums, I really like many of the songs but they seem to be more sonically tempered to more traditional guitar rock sounds. I first felt this way with Clincher which had songs that I really liked and remembered from seeing them live, but the heft seemed absent.

But man, like someone said earlier, those non-album tracks from that time are a must have. Antlers, Compaction, Deep Throw, Solution 8/Non-alignment Pact etc. A great release on its own, or with Handsome.

Who wants to start a Stickkarter campaign?

[Bill Swansea]

But man, like someone said earlier, those non-album tracks from that time are a must have. Antlers, Compaction, Deep Throw, Solution 8/Non-alignment Pact etc. A great release on its own, or with Handsome.

Who wants to start a Stickkarter campaign?

That someone was me. A Tar singles and compilation collection would probably beat Singles Going Steady or All Systems Go as my favourite compilation of all time. Imagine it:

Play to Win
Mel's
Static
Mumper
Same
Downtime
Seam
Mel's
Antlers
Hand
Flow Plow
Compaction
Viaduct Removal (Peel Session)
Ballad of a Storyteller (Peel Session)
Solution 8
Non-Alignment Pact
Deep Throw
Teetering
The In Crowd
Jawbox's Static

Yeah. Kickstarter. Right now. Clincher would probably fit on there too.

[Bernardo]

Could we slim that down to fit in a single 12"? Only non-album tracks there?

I'm in.

[Mr. Chimp]

Play to Win
Mel's
Static
Mumper
Same
Downtime
Seam
Mel's
Antlers
Hand
Flow Plow
Compaction
Viaduct Removal (Peel Session)
Ballad of a Storyteller (Peel Session)
Solution 8
Non-Alignment Pact
Deep Throw
Teetering
The In Crowd
Jawbox's Static

Sigh.

[Bernardo]

Couldn't we make this happen via PRF Records, ala singles club?

[Bill Swansea]

Seriously, let's contact Haze and Corey Rusk and make this happen.

(And the band members obviously, including one of the members who is on this board...)

[tallchris]

Would love to hear that potential singles comp if someone doesn't mind putting that together and putting it on Sendspace.

Fucking LOVE Jackson and "Barry White". Nothing else from Clincher or Toast has grabbed me as much as those jams, but really, really love those songs.

I kinda want to start a Tar cover band that plays Tar songs but rearranged to sound like AC/DC.

[Bill Swansea]

Would love to hear that potential singles comp if someone doesn't mind putting that together and putting it on Sendspace.

Give me a few days.

[Eugenius]

How come I have never heard the Peel Session?

I bet someone from Wales might have the wherewithall and gumption to post a copy of that somewhere moderately accessible....

[Bill Swansea]

Haha! Will do it tomorrow. Both songs are from the AmRep Peel Sessions album. Early versions of Jackson songs. Good stuff!

[Jodi S.]

So yeah.

That happened.

Let the petitioning for the reissue campaign begin!

[Luzwei]

I'm sure it sucked.

[Marsupialized]

Wow.

[Trey]

Say, that was pretty great. TAR.