[Powderworks] THESE SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN YEARS - AN
OILSLIVE PROJECT
Kate Parker Adams
kate@dnki.net
Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:15:57 -0400
Like just about anything Oils, even the songs off Breathe are much better
played live. I've heard e-beat and common ground in concert and they go
over quite well.
On that note, I had Gravelrash going though my head last night (as well as
covering my right foot and shin ...) while returning from a 100 mile
coastal bike ride capped off by an hour of bodyboarding in lingering swells
from Isabel. I realized that I had Breathe in the car and dropped it in
the CD player (e-beat, gravelrash, underwater - NOT surf's up!).
I really think Breathe should have been an EP, although I doubt there could
be any consensus on which songs would be on it. Some of my tossaways are
another's favourite. Group-editing it down by five songs would make for an
interesting scrum ...
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A couple years ago I did find one good use for Breathe in its
entirety. When I heard Oils tickets were going on sale in early September,
2001, I decided that maybe I hadn't given that album a fair go. On
beautifully sunny early fall morning I dropped it in my pack to take to
work. I was working in another office that day, planning to play it when I
got back to my own. I ended up listening to it all the way through when I
returned - while curled into a fetal position around the subwoofer under my
desk - after a morning of internal hysteria and caring for and calming
those with likely or known losses when the planes came crashing down. I
biked home (good thing - highways shut, transit system down) with that most
post-apocolyptic Barest Degree running about my gray matter. Breathe's
muted yet desperate negative vibe with it's tinge of hope makes wonderful
world-coming-to-an-end thumb-sucking music, that's for sure.
At 04:01 PM 9/21/03 +0800, Jeff and Jane Scott wrote:
> > From: Beth Curran
> >
> > It just hit me......
> > Whichever one of you poor devils had to do Breathe deserves extra
> > commendation.
> > *snicker* - Beth
>
>
>
>Breathe was in fact the last one to be done. It looked like possibly being
>left out altogether as it was missing three songs (or at least that was the
>reason everyone gave!), so I did it for the sake of completing the set.
>
>But I have to say I did enjoy putting those tracks together just as much as
>any of my other contributions.
>
>
>jeff...
>
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