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Stage name. Actual name is Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/international/22095/Jay-Reatard-dead.htm

Bummer.

Jeff Mangum (who no one has heard of since Neutral Milk Hotel's final album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea) has popped up into the music realm after years and years of total musical obscurity (with Aeroplane released about 12 years ago), contributing a cover song called 'Sign the Dotted Line' to a Chris Knox tribute album.

Reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel leader Jeff Mangum hasn't released any new music in forever, so any news of a new Mangum track is a big deal. In July, we reported that Mangum would show up on Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox, a tribute album dedicated to New Zealand indie forefather and stroke survivor Chris Knox. But when the tracklist for the New Zealand release of Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox came out last month, Mangum wasn't on it.

Well, good news: Mangum is on the U.S. version of the album, which is out now digitally via Merge. (Physical copies are due February 23.) Mangum covers "Sign the Dotted Line", a song by Knox's band Tall Dwarfs.

I'm not sure if there are any Mangum/Neutral Milk fans on the forums, but I just thought this was kind of interesting.
Discuss

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Hey there AGS people, how've you all been?
The lyrics below are products of my insomnia.
Will hopefully end up lyrics for songs in my indie folk band.
Comments and critiques would be lovely.
Thanks, Blake.

Untitled #1 (Clever title, am I right?)

There's a light in the carriage
Next door to the ivory house
With a lady who comes out at night
She stumbles and falls into the grass
That is glowing a peculiar red
And I sat in the fields
Playing sad, lonely chords
And she walked up to me with a spark in her eye
Singing songs of old mariners,
swallowed whole by the tide.

And hopefully I'll never be
Lonely again
And hopefully I'll never be
Lonely again

The sun is exploding
Hindsight is just loathing
Wrapped up in a sepia thread
And the pitch-black words
In your light-coloured letters
Your language elegant yet dark
Your mind is a machine,
with spiralling plates
The antichrist lives below me
A few floors
A screaming maid locked behind
a cellar door

And hopefully she'll never be
Worried again
And hopefully she'll never be
Worried again

Untitled #2 (even cleverererer)

Little blue flowers all dying inside of your heart
Cardboard cut-out images of the sun
I'm drowning in the lake outside your home
Little wooden caskets in a deserted field
Falling apart at the seams
The souls that escaped are now trapped in an eternal dream

You are lying awake late at night
Your hand on my chest, but it feels like a knife
My eyes are closed your eyes are wide open

Little old trees by the snow-covered mountains
Decaying all day until one day they're gone
And all we are left with is the ever-present dawn
Little white lies told in secret to lovers
Hanging on to every monotonous word
Until they realise that the concept of love is absurd

Your are lying awake late at night
Your hands over my eyes, for it is too bright
Until we awake we are no more than lifeless cadavers,
Slowly dying alone

My keyboardist also suggested either Bear Cave, Bearcave, Bear Caves or Bearcaves.
We've decided Magic Eyes isn't so good, nor is Pinball 1973.
So it's pretty much either Leaf House or Bear Cave/Bearcave/Bear Caves/Bearcaves.
Help us decide?

-Blake

Yeah, I don't really like Pinball 1973 myself. I'm definitely leaning towards either Leaf House or Magic Eyes.

[1. Leaf House]

Aloha AGS peeps.
So my psychedelic folk band has been happy to record under silly, nonsense names so far. But now we actually have a gig in a couple months, so need to settle on a somewhat cool name. We've come up with 3, but are utterly unable to decide on one. If you lovely chaps would be so kind as to comment on which one/s you like, that would be marvellous.

1. Leaf House
A song by the freak folk band Animal Collective, whom I consider a major influence.

2. Pinball, 1973
Taken from a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

3. Magic Eyes
Just a coolish name I came up with.

Thanks in advance

thanks jon_swe
and discordance, if you wanna hear the song i put it up here   >> http://www.myspace.com/leafhousemusic

check it out, thanks

http://rapidshare.com/files/297453087/01.mp3.html

Sort of went for a laid-back, trippy kind of feel (a la Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective etc.)
Recorded with an acoustic and then had echo/reverb added later digitally.
Comments / crits welcome.

--Blake

House on the hill where your dead dreamer sleeps.
The dawn hits the sky in a fiery good morning,
and sweet-sounding music rains through the floor.
The screaming lost children fall to their knees,
I am waiting with you on the mountain.
The clouds they are starting to lose their shape and I
Smile for every little thing that is happening.
The world is it coming to a bitter end,
and I know that the problem is neither me nor you.
Terrible sight to be caught in the street,
while the ten-foot tall blood-machines collect their hearts and
the eversweet music turns to a high-pitch screeching
It piereces my soul like a six-sided blade.

My eyes start to close and the world turns to black
I am standing, just barely and hopefully you are still there,
with you arm around me for support, else I'd probably fall.
Down into the jaws of the many-mouthéd beast,
and my lungs fill with gas, toxins and poisons,
and the familiar stench of death on my clothes,
the blood pouring from my chest as the battle continues,
but nobody's sure who is winning or even what we are all fighting for
I am praying the sun will explode and with it will take
This cruel, empty world and maybe then we will all get some rest by tomorrow.


Kind of envisioning this as an 'end-of-the-world-but-two-people-in-love-have-each-other-and-shit' sort of thing. If anyone has any comments or crits or whatever that'd be groovy.
Cheers : D

Hey guys, haven't posted in a while.
I wrote this a few days ago.
Crits appreciated.


You feel as if you're flying.
Your feet are only just barely touching the ground.
The gravel becomes smooth, wet even.
You try and make out individual faces,
but you eventually give up.

You realise the futility of everything.
You start to question what a human heart is.
A sick, sweet sound resonates through your head.
Your eyes close, maybe for a second, maybe for a week.
You wouldn't be able to tell either way.

Every now and then you'll see something that reminds you of humanity.
Most folks see something symbolic or religious or something.
Like a Jesus statue or something, you know?
Which is ironic, when you think about it.

You wake up in seven places, but not all at the same time.
Your left arm might be able to function, make a pot of coffee or something,
But your left foot?
Forget it, it's gone, won't be coming back for another couple hours.
The worst part is when you realise you're alone.

You fish around for a bottle of pills or a knife,
or a gun if you own one.
You put the pills to your mouth,
the knife to your arms,
the gun to your head.

At the last minute you pussy out.
Like you ever had the fucking guts anyway, you fucking piece of shit.
You scream, scream like the heavens themselves are listening.
They aren't.
There's no reply, no response of any kind.
Today's not the day you have a catharsis, man.
It never is.

It sounds like the soundtrack for a solemn, pivotal scene.

Heh, thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I went for.
In terms of the bass suggestion, I was thinking of adding a cello either four or eight bars in, gonna try it out when I work on it tomorrow =)

Thanks.
I used Guitar Pro 5.0

Hey, was messing around in some composition software today;
ended up with this.
Not really sure what much more I want to do with it, make it more interesting I suppose. Yeah. Anyway, crits appreciated. Thanks =)

We've decided to go with, you guys'll love this,

Guybrush Threepwood.

Thanks to absolutely everyone who posted suggestions; in particular monkey_05_06, your idea of Just A Guy and His Brushes was what sparked the idea.
Love.

Haha, thanks for all your contributions guys, they were great
I've decided to just go with my name;
currently tossing up between

Blake Gallagher And The Butterfly Collective
Blake Gallagher And The Killer Ponies
Blake Gallagher And A Thousand Confused Faces
Blake Gallagher And The Volcano
Blake Gallagher And Space Pirates In Love
Blake Gallagher And The People
Blake Gallagher And The Electric Kites

Which do you guys like? :]

So my band has started recording stuff and has played a couple gigs, nothing too big, and we've been mucking around with names, and we've basically come to the agreement of having a "Person and the People" type name, ala Echo And The Bunnymen, Pearl And The Puppets, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. I've been screwing around with ideas for a while and I think I'd like the first Person to be one word, and I'm utterly and completely unsure as to the 'and the People' part. I'd like the Person to be something rather, erm, 'cool'. Ancient Viking names accepted. If anyone has any ideas, chuck em this way.
Cheers,
-Blake.

Remember when *iiiiiiiiiiiii* was thirteen?   

Depeche Mode have released a new music vid for their new single 'Wrong', (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsXOcK9_Cw) off their soon-to-be released album Sounds of the Universe.
In my opinion the new track is fucking epic, nice and dark. Check it out, what does AGS think?

Christ.
This caused me to look through all my old posts as "Flukeblake"/"Flukezy" and the myriad of other ridiculous names.
Was I really that much of a dick? My rant on the age ban seems to suggest so...hmm.
I'd like to think that I've changed a lot since then.
...Someone back me up? Please? =|