Yeah I did the tracklisting. If bandcamp picked didn't let you choose the tracklisting I'd have to use another website. The echo vocals are because I wanted those sections to be multi-tracked but didn't want to record another vocal so I just copied them and delayed them a second.

I play at a regular open mic night, so my friends that I know from there know some of my songs (because I play them in front of them) but that's about it. and sometimes when I'm drunk at parties I'll play songs but usually everyone goes into the other room. my parents like "Applepicking".

See, people don't like "Everytime I Hear Your Name" because it's too sad, but that's exactly what I want it to be - too sad. So if that people's main complaint then I think it was a success. In general I find it interesting you hear so many 60s vocalists in my singing... probably my biggest inspiration for singing in a lower voice to communicate sadness is Stephin Merritt from the Magnetic Fields. I think I also got a bit of inspiration from Tim Kasher (of The Good Life), he sings deep on a few of his songs too. I've always just wanted to write a sad drunken love songs album in the vein of The Good Life's "Album of the Year" or "Black Out", or Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism". Of course, my general understanding for chord progressions and melodies probably come from all the 60s music I listen to.

For the final question, I go through phases where I like different things that I've recorded... which is often why I end up recording something and not putting it on the internet until a year later. But my go-to one favorite recording of mine is "Persephone 2 & 3 (Children of Demeter)" by Black Hybrid Swan Fatigue.

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. California Girls
3. I Get Around

Somebody already used that joke.

I am glad Aegir agrees with me.

I actually skimmed the thread to make sure someone didn't post this, oh well! Exact same ranking, too!

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. California Girls
3. I Get Around

Do you like worms with alternate vocals. Yes.

I don't know why that song gets all the hype. I think it's my least favorite song on the album.

I didn't read this for ten pages and there's still nothing important ten pages later. Good thing I didn't read those ten pages.

I dunno if Gucci Mayne is a BB fan or not, but he recently mentioned them in an interview and referred to them as 'The Silver Surfers... Cause they're old and gray but still pimpin'' 

I think that's a compliment.

That has to be a compliment. It is also amazing. Foskett should have said that introducing them to the stage

Bri-ON will-sun!

this is my favorite live period of the band.

yeah I recorded the newly-uploaded album (Drinking of You) almost a year ago in a single night but never bothered uploading it until the other day. Most of the songs are already on my live album, Drunk on Stage.

and thank you, but both of them were totally my fault. Most of the songs on Drinking of You are about how I drink too much and how that affects my relationships.

Breathe in Leave Out is about how time and distance can be considered the same thing due to the rotation of the earth. If you travelled back in time to six months ago, you would be in space, because the earth is on the other side of the sun. Even two hours ago the earth was in a different place than it is now.

I think I'm generally a poor singer with limited range, though I tend to sing songs better the more I get used to them, and this demo was recorded shortly after I finished writing the song. I never specifically write a melody line for the vocal part so it takes me awhile to standardize exactly what I'm singing.

The other day I was searching through the basement and found my parents' (my dad's, most likely) copy of Electric Ladyland. When I put it on and listened to the first "song", it sounded so weird I was afraid it was warped! I had to put the needle to a random place in the middle of the record to make sure it wasn't.

The psychedelia of most psychedelic music is tame to me, but Electric Ladyland was one of the first things to make me turn my head.

Lololololololololol

You can't be on the internet without hearing about someone liking some new album. Instead of writing it off just from the band name or the genre or whatever, just take a listen. Maybe you'll hate it, maybe you'll like it. Just listen to a lot of things and see what clicks. Even dinosaur publications like rolling stone still review a number of albums from contemporary artists.

Why would you pay your publicist to liveblog the superbowl? Doesn't make much sense to me.

there was a class at my college that I always wanted to take called "Begin Swimming" which analyzed the psychological factors that would present someone from swimming, and on the last day of class you have to go in the pool. It's a prerequisite for any of the other swimming classes.

Foxygen is how you make a ripoff band work.

Explorer's Club just pisses me off to no end.

so what ever happened with that VDP/Skrillex collab?

Was this really going to happen?
EW!

It happened. VDP talked about it in an interview some time last year. I guess it just hasn't been released, and maybe won't be.

so what ever happened with that VDP/Skrillex collab?

right, I mean, Barnyard with backing vocals and no radio-demo overdub

Purely speculation, but I'm guessing there's going to be at least one unreleased Smile snippet on the box. Maybe Barnyard sans vocals or something. You know, to get the Smile people to buy the box just for one song.

I used to have it so when I got a call from the house phone, it would play "my folks when I wrote and told 'em what I was up to said that's not me"

4. drugs

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This group is about the worst "surf" themed group I have ever heard. They are a yuppie parody of the 1960s.

some people on this board may claim 'the audience dont agree with that!'

and dude, you can not even compare this to the fucking actual Beach Boys playing at Live Aid in '85.

Lame-surf bands like this always feel they have to have fake live videos where it's so obviously from the vocals that they're using a studio recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pVxsRgM_u8 - OC Beach Band, doesn't even bother to include audience noise. I'm pretty sure at least some of the audio for most of these is taken directly from Chris Farmer's "California Dreamin'" album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHF7IZSFbKU - witness the fascinating double-tracked live vocals of Papa Doo Run Run! interspersed with an obviously thrown in "come on, sing it" to make it SEEM like it's a live vocal. Should've double tracked that one too, eh?!

what the heck is hekember?

it's a play on 13/01/26; if you imagine it month date year, the thirteenth month has no name. december means ten (july and august were added later, so originally december was the 10th month). in the same way that deca is ten, hekdeca is eleven. so I named this fictional thirteenth month hekember. Hekember 1st, 2026.

makes sense to me, I don't know.

you guys are crazy. carli's songs are my favorite songs on bambu. it's not too late is amazing. what a great carl vocal.


also, this interviewer is a joke. carli was so generous with giving such great answers to such poorly worded questions.