Comments on: Excellent Calexico News

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:02:13 +0000

Well I was only half impressed with their latest, so perhaps they are starting to lose inspiration, but Beirut’s last was no better than pretty good, as far as I’m concerned. Some great tracks on it, but not a great overall album.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:56:04 +0000

Nope, sorry. Listened to this like 20 times & it’s doing fucking Geoff all for me. I tried to relax into it but it is far too bland. They’ve lost it, as far as I’m concerned, & so I stick by my Beirut point even moreso.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:24:36 +0000

Well?

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:23:44 +0000

No.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:49:10 +0000

That’s not answering my question, darling.

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:30:54 +0000

At least the chap wasny fucking line dancing. lets all feel the palpable relief and move on.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:32 +0000

A new Calexico album might be the best news I’ve had in ages. And I disagree somewhat, with the lost of you, in that their early electronicy stuff was little more that masterbation with a wah-wah peddle. They’re a funny bunch because I always find the more Mexican they get, the better they get. Put down the electric guitars and pick up a trumpet. In an early concert I remember they took a break and let the mariachi band they tour with play for a bit, the Mariachi’s were so brilliant that there was a palpable sense of disappointment when Calexico showed up back on stage. But that was before they were good.

There was a ‘too enthusiastic dancer’ at that concert too. Hmm, maybe he tours with them…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:19:52 +0000

I tend to favour the Graeme Souness approach to such problems – take his knees.

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:09:05 +0000

I think you’re all missing the point.

I mean, he wasn’t just swaying from side to side, or girating his hips a little bit – as the other (normal) members of the crowd were doing.

He was actually fucking pirouetting!
And it wasn’t off to the side either – it was right up front and centre, where I was already a bit pushed for space.
I tried to explain this to a member of the venue security staff in an effort to have him promptly ejected, but he seemed to share your inexplicable ambivalence to such behaviour.

I’m all for enjoying a show, I’m all for people expressing their enjoyment of a show through a combination of rhythmical body movements – but not when they’re actually spiralling into you!

Not when they’re flayling about as if to say “Look at me! Look at my moves! Sure, my wife still ended up leaving me, but those evening classes have finally started to pay off!”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:01:31 +0000

No. They never have a Calexico sucks, ever. Poodles, noodles or otherwise.